Hi good sir, amazing work, thank you for all the good reads. Question: Do you expect anything out of Edric Dayne or Dawn? Or are those references/presences just GRRM keeping that young magic-sword-loving fan inside of some us fed and happy?

Sort of? I think this is one of those things that got hammered by the cutting of the five-year-gap, because that would give time for Edric to grow up, inherit the sword, and be somewhere else.

But instead I think there’s going to be something around Darkstar trying to steal the sword and being hunted down by Balon Swann, Areo Hotah, and Obara, and the revelation of R+L=J and the truth of what happened between Ned and Ashara.