As promised in our video review of A Dance with Dragons, Linda and I recorded a few videos discussing various topics we thought interesting and worth talking about from George R.R. Martin’s latest entry into the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. Today we’re releasing the first set—I recalled only rather belatedly that I had 15 minutes, not 10 minutes, per video, so this first bunch is split in two—on the topic of… well, see for yourself. But note: there are definitely spoilers.

For further discussion of these and many other topics, we highly recommend the forum, and have begun work to expand the Citadel’s Frequently Asked Questions and Prophecies sections to cover the novel, with work soon about to go under way on the Concordance.