Hello, and welcome to the NataCast 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.

I'm your other host, Manu, also known as Manuclear Bomb.

And welcome to the 220th episode of the Nauticast titled True Kings, an analysis of a storm of swords, John 10, in which John Snow and the rest of the night's watch are saved at the last minute by the arrival of a fiery messianic monarch.

No, not, Danny, the other one. What's his name?

Young Griff?

That's it. That's the one. So, as always, our spoiler warning,

prepare to be spoiled for all five A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the three Duncan Egg novellas,

any histories, any interviews, any wins of winter sample chapters, as well as Game of Thrones

and House of the Dragon, the TV shows. Anything and everything. So we usually answer a question

at the top of our Aswaffe episodes that anyone in our

sworn sort or higher tier can ask us. You can check that out at our Patreon. patreon.com slash

not a cast ASO-I-A-F. Go ahead and send in your questions for if you're on the sworn sort or higher

tier. But we want to take a little time at the top of this episode to talk about a friend of ours that we lost recently, Stephen Adewel.

If you're familiar with the Song of Ice and Fire fandom with essays and blogs and podcasts about this story, you're probably familiar with Stephen Adewel.

If you're not, he was a history professor.

He lived in New York.

He was outside the world of Westrose. He was a great activist and union organizer and professor and author. He wore many hats. He was a very accomplished man, very fierce advocate for the causes he believed in. Really inspiring man in life and work across the board. Within our little world, he was the inspiration for many people.

He was the source of a lot of great work and a lot of great discussion to be had about this series.

He ran the blog Race for the Iron Throne, his WordPress blog, where he went chapter right chapter through a song of ice and fire, which might sound familiar.

He's been doing that for quite some time, and he was not only a very well-educated man, well-read in terms of

politics and history, which would inform his analysis of the series, but he was also just a

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