Hello and welcome to Bend the Knee, a Song of Ice and Fire podcast.

I am Sir Matt, and it's just me today.

Jimmy and I are supposed to record this week, and then while out here in the Pacific Northwest,

we're having like torrential downpours and storms.

And so our recording day for this week which is normally

Wednesdays I was out without internet for like 24 hours so we weren't able to do so

I'm just gonna be doing a quick theory here today and then we will be back to do a

the following chapter so I wanted to talk a little bit about Ashara Dane. Now, this is a

character that I've done some theories on a little bit more recently about like Septu Lomor and just

talking about her because her story itself is quite interesting when you break it down and look at

it because I think we'd get so caught up in the, well, maybe she's

a little more, maybe she's this, but a lot of it, it just doesn't, to me, it's always made more

sense that something has to happen to her. That, I think that's just the reasoning, right?

Is that the story we're given just makes no sense whatsoever.

So, like, let's just start with her backstory.

We know that she's the lady in waiting to Princess Elia Martel.

And then we see her at the tourney at Harenhall, where she danced with the Knight of the Kingsguard,

Prince Obrin Martel, Lord John Connington.

And afterwards, Brandon Stark approaches her on behalf of his younger brother, Edard, and Ashara dances with him as well.

According to Illyria Dane, Ashera's younger sister, Asheran and Edard fell in love at Heronhall.

Sir Barrison Selmy of the Kingsguard was also in love with her, although he never told her.

Barrison, we know, recalls that had he won

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