Hello and welcome to the Nauticast podcast, the one true 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 Mennu, also known as Manu, also known as Manucleur bomb.

And welcome to the 187th episode of the Nauticast titled The King's Justice, Part 2, an analysis of a storm of swords Davos 4, in which Davos gets a promotion to hand of the king, a job he absolutely does not want. Right now, Ned Stark is looking down from heaven like, been there, buddy, or maybe looking up from the Crips I'm not sure how it works

oh do we even know where Ned's looking on this from that's true his bones are lost at this

point he's looking on this from the neck or maybe Barbara Dustin has him wherever Ned is

he feels for you Davos he's been there so our spoiler warning as always prepare to be spoiled

for all published books the five novels the three Duncan egg, histories, interviews, the Winds of Winter sample chapters, as well as Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, the TV shows. Anything and everything. Our question for this episode comes from Lady Ken of House Motown, goddess of Sips and Wine, who asks, doesn't it seem ah that Aris II doesn't have a lot of rumored bastards?

Theories about the Lannister Brew decide, and knowing that he may not have spent much time on

Dragonstone, it used to be a big deal to create and be Dragon Seed.

We know that he was virile, lusty, and not constrained by his marital vows, so why no bastards?

Also, bonus question.

What is the point of the Black Pearls?

There has to be some future intention by George for them to keep coming up on the page,

especially since the current Black Pearl's power seems to have been shown in the Mercy

Winds of Winter Chapter.

Thanks.

And yeah, in terms of Eris II and Fothering Bastards. Yeah, there is one main rumor about that, but it's not in

universe. It's among the fans, and those rumors have flown over the years. Yeah, are you talking about

the Lannisters? No, all Tywin's kids are clearly his. All of them, all of them, clearly, and I think

this has been litigated on this podcast before, but Tyrion as a Targaryen

is a very popular theory. I'm going to actually plant my flag as a Jamie Searcy as Aris

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