Hello, and welcome to the Nataicast 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 Manuclear Bomb.

And welcome to the 249th episode of the Nauticast titled Tall Tales, an analysis of

Brienne 4, A Feast for Crows, in which Brienne follows Nimble Dick Crab into the wild

before reuniting with some old friends, let's say.

Well, in honor of Emmy Award winning Andor, she has friends everywhere.

This does feel kind of like a mid-season and-or episode, doesn't it?

Like one that's really rich but also is just kind of connective tissue.

Yes, exactly.

Between the bigger ones.

Your ideal mid-season episode on Brian's one-season arc of television.

So our spoiler warning is always prepared to be spoiled for all five A Song of Ice and Fire novels,

the three Dunkin' 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, or more of a comment for this episode, comes from our patron The Lickrish Kid, on one of our recent patron-only episodes going over what we expect to happen next for all the northern characters in a Song of Ice and Fire. Everyone up there in the North besides the Starks, pretty much everybody else in terms of the supporting cast, that's up right now for all of our patrons, and The Lickrish Kid left to comment on one of those episodes.

It's been a while since I've read the book, but I remember Barbary saying Ned's bones were still

pinned up in the neck, and she had men on the watch to keep them from coming north.

And I only just realized this possibly means she unintentionally is keeping Rob's Will slash Palin-Reed

slash Mage Mormont and Gilbert Clover penned up as well.

Funny little detail that her grievance is so strong it's straight up stopping the story from moving forward.

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