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 big round number here, 250th episode of the Nauticast, titled Blood on the Sand,

an analysis of The Queen Maker in a Feast for Crows, in which our newest POV, Ariane Martel,

gets close, so close to fulfilling Maggie's prophecy by crowning Marcella.

I would say better luck next time, but I don't know if that applies.

I think Ariant's conspiracy is going to need a new public face for their candidate.

Oh, that's mean.

Oh, poor Marcella.

She really can't catch a break.

So our spoiler warning is always prepared 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 this is where we usually answer one, usually just one question from one of our

patrons, one of our sworn sword and higher tier patrons, one of the benefits they get in our

Patreon is they get to ask us questions that we answer here at the top of our regular Song

of Ice and Fire episodes. But since this is such a big round number, 250 whole episodes here,

we wanted to do something special. So we announced a wide open AMA for anyone, any one of our patrons of any tier, but also anyone who listens could send in questions that we would answer a bunch of here on the 250th episode. We asked and you answered. You sent in so many great questions via email, via Twitter, via Instagram, via the Patreon itself. Thank you so much for sending in so many great questions on via email, via Twitter, via Instagram, via the

Patreon itself.

Thank you so much for sending in so many great questions.

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