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 your other host, Manu, also known as Manucleur Bond.

And welcome to the 2002nd episode of the Nauticast titled The One True Hand,

an analysis of a storm of swords, Davos 5, in which Davos argues against burning a child at the

stake and takes in the news that the world is ending up at the wall. Average workday on Dragonstone,

more or less. Don't worry, Davos. Eventually we'll be talking about burning a child to stop the world from ending up at the

wall.

That's what I call synergy.

You know, Liz Lemon, the wall is the ultimate example of vertical integration, if you think

about it.

Our spoiler warning is always prepared to be spoiled for all five novels, the three Duncan

egg novellas, histories, interviews, the Wins of Winter Sample chapters, as well as Game of Thrones, and House of the Dragon, the TV shows. Anything and everything.

Question for this episode comes my patron Darius, who asks, will we ever see Mastor Pylos again?

And that's a good question. He's a tertiary character, obviously, but as we're going to talk about, he's really, he stands out in this chapter, in the next

Tapos chapter.

And from what we know, I don't think he went with Stannis to the wall.

I assume he's still on Dragonstone.

So what do you think?

Do you think he'll ever come up again or his purpose served?

Yeah, very simply, boy, I hope so.

I was really charmed with Pylos prepping for this episode. He had a lot of wisdom and he had a

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