For a Watsonian view of the ask about the Others’ timing, do you think that in the same manner that a lot of concentrated suffering creates a Thin Place or concentrated power creates a Hinge, the critical mass of world wide disunity might have helped create favorable circumstances for their return? And/or the return of magic? Like the maesters’ motivation to get rid of magic suggests it’s opposed to order, and as tensions build beneath stasis & stagnation, magic begins to leak back in?