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 Manuclear Bomb.

And welcome to the 188th episode of the Nauticast titled Kingslayers, an analysis of a

Storm of Swords, Jamie 5, in which Jamie finally tells Brieen the full story of how he became

the Kingslayer, right before their dinner date with Ruth Bolton, who's getting ready to kill

his own king. And hey, a bunch of people think Brian killed Renley, so it's just Kingslayers

all the way down in this chapter, nothing but Kingslay, so it's just Kingslayers all the way down in

this chapter. Nothing but Kingslayers. Oops, all Kingslayers. We just had Christmas, and there's a

myth of three kings involved with that, so we can probably tie it in pretty accurately to the

calendar. Got to have one for each. It's just math. So our spoiler warning, as always,

prepare to be spoiled for all the published books,

the five novels, the three Duncan Egg novellas, histories, interviews, wins of winter sample

chapters, as well as Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, the TV shows, anything

and everything.

Our question this episode comes from Lord Jake, Assistant to the Hand of the King.

Jamie claims Ned wouldn't have believed him regarding the heiress and wildfire plot.

My question is, is that actually true?

Yeah, Jamie being Jamie, I'm not surprised he would convince himself of that, but assuming he could

get some therapy, if only.

Do you think he could come to realize that Ned, who was well aware of how far gone

heiress was, might have listened?

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