If you had to rewrite the WOIAF in order to make the given histories reflect the description of the Andal Conquest in the main series, how would you do it? Like you mentioned in the History of the Stormlands that it would work to have the Durrandons replaced by an Andal dynasty, but who would that dynasty be and how do you project it happening?

As I said in the piece on the Stormlands, my idea would be that the Durrandons would be “Andalized” – a puppet king would be forced to marry the daughter of an Andal warlord who would rule in the king’s name until the king’s son, who would very definitely be raised in the Faith of the Seven and speaking the Andal language, would take over and cement the new order of things.

This would mean that the Andals would have truly conquered the Vale, the Riverlands, the Stormlands, the Iron Islands (sort of), and Dorne (at least in parts), while being assimilated into the more functional states of the Westerlands and the Reach. This would leave the North as the lone kingdom that never fell or intermarried into the Andals.