Hello and welcome to a very special not a Cast podcast, the podcast that usually goes through

a song of ice and fire, one chapter a week, but not here. I'm your host Emmett, better known as

Poor Quentin. My co-host, Jeff, better known as Brendan Beefish, is taking a couple months off

the podcast for work. Soon as he's back, which we expect it's going to be around late July, early August.

We will be resuming the regular weekly podcast with a Storm of Swords.

Until then, I'll be putting out weekly episodes with rotating guest hosts on a variety of topics,

as well as audio and text posts of my own.

And I'm very happy to welcome my guest for this episode, Rohan.

Thanks so much for coming on. Thank you for having me. I'm not at all, like, used to being in this type of,

I guess, commute, like world. I'm very used to. So having, like, with Lowe's episode that you just

recently had, I'm really glad to have more like queer voices included.

And even though this isn't necessarily a queer analysis episode,

that's always where I'm coming from.

So it's really great to have that included in kind of the discourse, capital D.

Well, thanks for saying so.

Yeah, absolutely.

A great time with Lowe and absolutely.

You know, I love the dude's rock atmosphere with me.

And Jeff is always a great time with Lowe and absolutely you know I love the the dude's rock atmosphere with me and Jeff is always a great time but it's it's important I think to bring everybody to the party

so we're going to be talking today about I think one of both of one of our favorite characters

for both of us in the Song of Ice and Fire melissandra of Ashai but before we get into the specifics

I just wanted to start by asking how did you first get into a song of ice and fire?

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