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 225th episode of the Nauticast titled

Electioneering, an analysis of a Storm of Swords, Samuel 5, in which Sam the Slayer manipulates

the two major party candidates into stepping aside for a third party better than both of them.

Sadly, this is a fantasy story. And sadly, that third party isn't Doloreside.

That's really would be the happy ending here. We could wrap up the series right now, be done in three

books if the true Azora High would step forth to claim his destiny. Our spoiler warning is always,

prepare to be spoiled for all five A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the three Duncanin' 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.

Our question this week comes from our patron Shrike, who asks,

Sam is obviously going to see and do a lot in Old Town, but what do you see as

his personal character are going forward? Thanks. And that's a good question. What do you think,

Reni? What do you see as like the dramatic stakes for Sam going forward? Yeah, that's a really good

question because I think from like a D&D class aspect, we expect him to become like a maister and maybe he's someone who chronicles

a song of ice and fire in the long run those are all very popular theories um but what's in it for sam

uh you know is he going to you know throw john snow on his shoulders and carry the ring to mount doom

um you know a lot of it has to do with like does sam make it back to the wall because that's basically where we know sam that know, a lot of it has to do with like, does Sam make it back to the wall?

Because that's basically where we know Sam.

That's where a lot of his relationships that aren't his father that kind of matter to him

are.

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