Hello and welcome to our guest, podcast, the one true chapter by chapter podcast that usually goes through a song of ice and fire one chapter week.

But not here? Oh no, not here. I'm my host, Jeff, better known as Brent B. Fish. And I'm your other host Emmett, better known as Poor Quentin.

And welcome to our 27th Patreon-only episode titled Sunflowered, an analysis of Renly Barathean,

in which we analyze our fate.

Did you write these fucking words?

Our favorite character in the Song of Ice and Fire, King Renly, first and only of his name.

Those, at least four of the five words are true there.

We could stop the episode right here.

I've accomplished everything I wanted to by making you say that.

No, since we've been having so much fun with these Stormsend chapters with Catalan in the main cast,

going through a clash of kings, and that's all about, about of course Renley's rise and fall in large part.

We wanted to kind of put a capstone on that and have our Patreon episode this month be

about Renly Barathean as a character.

We've done episodes covering Robert and Stanis' brothers as characters, so we thought it only

fair. We try to be scrupulously fair here in the Nauticast and cover all three Barathean

brothers with their own episodes.

So now it's Renly Stern.

If you subscribe to our Patreon, you'll be getting at least one of these episodes a month

if you subscribe for only $5 a month or more.

Our intent in doing these special Patreon episodes is to broaden out from our usual chapter-by-chapter focus and talk about

some of the topics that interest us more broadly. So here you'll hear about a backstory analysis,

predictions for the wins of winter, or in this case, a discussion of a major secondary character.

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