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Fire & Blood Volume I: Prince into King, the Ascension of Jaehaerys I

Fire & Blood Volume I: Prince into King, the Ascension of Jaehaerys I

Fire & Blood Vol. I does not stint for material on Jaehaerys I – no less than eight chapters, almost three hundred pages, focus on his reign – which means that it is not going to be possible to cover this monarch in one chapter. And since almost all of this is new material, I’m going to go chapter-by-chapter.

Which is not much of a sacrifice, because this is the strongest material in the book,…

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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.