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Quick Analysis of Fire and Blood Excerpt

Quick Analysis of Fire and Blood Excerpt

Big news for fans of ASOIAF lore: GRRM has released an excerpt from the upcoming Fire & Blood Volume I, which covers Queen Alysanne’s visit to the North.

There’s some really interesting new material here, which I think bodes well for Fire & Blood as a valuable addition to the broader corpus of lore about the world of ice and fire.

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If you were writing a series of Cadfael-type Mysteries set early in the reign of Jaehaerys the First (think Dunk & Egg in Septon’s robes) then what area of the Seven Kingdoms & what aspects of the period do you think would make for the most interesting focus?

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Great question!  

  • I would definitely recommend the Bracken/Blackwood feud and the disputed lands between their two castles as a good place for a murder mystery that can tie in to Jaehaerys’ mediation of the feud.
  • the North or the Wall during Jaehaerys and Alysanne’s progress and the handing-over of the New Gift.
  • Oldtown during the negotiations between the High Septon and Septon Barth over the disarmament of the Faith Militant.
  • the Inn at the Crossroads during a royal inspection of the Kingsroad.
  • the Great Tourney of 98 AC would be a great backdrop.
  • Aemon’s death and the Second Quarrel.
  • the Great Council of 101 AC and the Lannister gold.