Hello and welcome to the NatacCast 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 191 episode of the Nauticast titled Breaking Borders, an analysis of a storm of swords,

Brand 3, and John 5, in which the Stark Boys finally cross paths and go home together.

Ah, well, at least John's going home, or that's what he tells himself to get over being shot by his girlfriend.

And to think this might be a best case scenario for John abandoning the wildlings.

This could have gone much, much worse.

That's the really sad part of these chapters.

And yes, chapters plural, we're combining these two chapters, Brand 3 and John 5 for this episode.

Since they happen around the same place and around the same time,

thought it only made sense to do the two of them together.

So our spoiler warning, as we always say,

prepare to be spoiled for all published books,

the five novels, the three Duncan Egg novellas,

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 this episode comes from one of our patrons, David, who asks, if Rob didn't have to marry Jane, or afraid, who would have been the

best match for him slash who would have been the most fun to see him with? So what do you think of that,

Manu? Who should Rob have married if fate didn't demand otherwise? So in terms of that first half, who is the best match for him?

I think one that even the story kind of tells us would be Marjorie Tyrell.

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