Author: stevenattewell

Do you think Euron will try to join the Others after attacking Oldtown? And what do you think the setting is like really, really north in the lands of the Others? Its not as fascinating if its just ice and rocks i think, could they have some sort of forts and palaces?

1. Maybe, or maybe once he finds his apostheosis at his version of Orthanc, Euron finds his end as well. I don’t think the process of becoming a god is going to do wonders for his mind any more than it did for Jason Wyngarde.

2. The Heart of Winter will be very, very cold, but I woudln’t be surprised if there aren’t weird cyclopean structures made of Ice. Unseelie Faerieland.  

Jumping off of what someone else was asking, who among eligible ladies of Westeros would have been a reasonable and beneficial choice to marry Theon off to? And how would this have changed the plotline if Robb had decided to have that marriage take place instead of sending Theon as an envoy to his crazy father?

If it was Ned doing it, probably a daughter of a Northern House to keep Theon doubly loyal, although maybe not the Starks themselves. 

If you were asked to create a character who would then be employed to fill one (or more) of the Gaps left in the History of the Seven Kingdoms then what sort of character would they be and what would they have done to earn a place in History? (Please & Thank You!).

@warsofasoiaf​ set the bar real high on this one, so I had to have a bit of a think about it. 

The character I would create was formerly known as Septon Lewys, before that Lewys Flowers the Bastard of the Hightower, who would become in rapid succession Most Devout Lewys and then the High Septon known to history as “the High Spider” and to his enemies “that cunning bastard.”

An adroit political manipulator who mastered the Great Game through a dazzling series of alliances and betrayals, a diplomat who brought all of the Kings south of the Neck together for the “Great Council of Eternal Peace” (the only time in recorded history where the monarchs of the South would meet in one place), a holy man who spent his reign in armor or Dornish silks rather than the vestments of his office, the most corrupt and debauched High Septon in history but also a brilliant theologian who ended the schism of the Black Sept, a man who aimed at nothing less than the unification of Westeros and yet lived to see all his work undone. 

But you’ll have to wait until later for the full story.

would you be dissapointed or happy if it turns out that the nights king is actually someone who will play a major part in the last two books, and martin has just been bullshitting us about him not appearing?

Disappointed. 

While he’s not great at making his deadlines, GRRM’s been very good at being honest with his audience, and carefully parsing his statements when people ask him questions he doesn’t want to answer directly. I think this goes hand-in-hand with his pledge not to change his mind if people guess something ahead of time; you need to respect the fiction, as Griffin McElroy would put it. 

Thanks again! Since the Others already have a cold, dark world without what we “would call life” in the lands they come from, why do you think they feel compelled to kill warm blooded life where they go? Could they mean to rule as a sort of living dark gods on the remains of the world when they bring the Long Night?

Well, from Old Nan’s stories, they *hate* warm-blooded life. That suggests a form of animus. 

Also, see here.