Hello, and welcome to the NataCast podcast, the one through chapter-by-chapter podcast going

through a song of ice and fire. I'm one of your hosts Emmett, also known as Poor Quentin.

And I'm your other host, Manu, also known as Manuuclear Bomb. And welcome to the 179th episode of the Nauticast titled

The Bell Ringers, an analysis of a storm of swords, Arya 5, in which Arya and her companions

arrive at Stony Sept and meet a bunch of interesting people, none of whom are Barak Dandarian

and Thoris of Mir. Manu, when are we going to get to the fireworks factory?

Oh, we got to meet Pucci first. Pucci the hound. Every time Barrick's not on screen, everyone else

should be standing around going, where's barrack? That's me. That's me right now. I'm asking where's

barrack. Our spoiler warning, as always, all published books, five novels, the three Duncan Egg de Vellas, histories, interviews,

the Winds of Winter Sample Chapters, as well as sometimes Game of Thrones the TV show,

and House of the Dragon. I suppose I should add now to our spoiler warning, anything and everything.

So we're going to start this episode off with a question. That's something we often do.

We take questions from any one of our $10 and above patrons, Sworn Sword, Tier, and

above patrons, can send in a question to be asked at the start of an episode. And this question

comes from our patron, Sir Will, of the Anarchos Syndiclist Commune. I watched the history

of Westeros interview with George that came out last week, which was great. Indeed it was.

And I was somewhat surprised by his answer around 41 minutes in

to the question about parallel lives. Ashea asked if he consciously writes the historical

characters in Fire and Blood with characters in the main series in mind. I wouldn't expect him to

say, yes, you caught me, Amund one eye is Targary and Uran. But he almost seemed to dismiss it

out of hand. I, like many others,

tried to glean what we could from Fire and Blood to Theory Craft what could be applicable to the

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