Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

In this episode, good ol' Maester Luwin reassures Bran and Rickon that their creepy nightmares about their dad being dead are meaningless...and of course, he is proven 100% right. Since when do dreams *mean* things?!

This week, we:

-Discuss the different directions George considered going with books four and five

-Set up the struggle that will dominate Bran's storyline in the next book: the secular v. the magical, the Stark in Winterfell v. the Winged Wolf

-Dig into the layers of political and personal history down in the Winterfell crypts

-Pay tribute to the Ned Stark shaped hole inside Bran, Rickon, and his own tomb

-Ponder where the Children of the Forest went and what they did after the Andals arrived per Luwin's story...

Next week: AGOT, Sansa VI with new guest Michal Shick of Hypable, Nice Jewish Fangirls, and Vassals of Kingsgrave!

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