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 Bomb.

And welcome to the 208th episode of the Nauticast titled Dressing Dark, an analysis

of a storm of swords, Sansa 5, in which Sansa finally, finally escapes the Lannisters, thanks to her

shining chivalric benefactor, Peter Baylish? No, that can't be right. He's a better hero than

Gregor Clegane, the Bloody Mummers, and I think that's about it.

He got over that bar very deep, deep underground. Good for him.

Our spoiler warning, as always, prepared to be spoiled for all five Asong of Ice and Fire novels,

the three Duncan egg novellas, histories, interviews, 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 our patron and friend Lowe, who asks, I've been thinking a bit about Baylor the

Blessed recently. What's your guys take on him? Extreme zealot, mentally ill, secret third thing.

For instance, him locking his sisters in the maiden vault, supposedly it was so they

wouldn't tempt him, but I know Girls Con Cannon have speculated that it might also have

been to neutralize them politically.

I thought that would be a good question for this episode, because we talked about Baylor

the Blessed a little bit when he came up in the conversation between Tyrion and Oberyn in the

recent Sansa chapter about that kind of era of Targaryen

King. So, yeah, what's what's your take on on Baylor the first? I'm kind of inclined to go with the

Girls Gone Canon take. I do think that like just looking at our own world's history, a lot of times

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