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    "King Baelor is here. He wishes to see you, my prince.”

    Maekar immediately straightens, taking his feet off the desk. Yet another thing Baelor hadn’t failed to remind him of during the time they spent together in the Red Keep after his near death at Ashford. He sat incorrectly, spoke in a manner demeaning to his position, his children were spoiled and undisciplined like wild horses, and he was unfit to fulfill the role of his hand. 

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    Baelor survives the mace's blow unscathed, except he despises Maekar now.

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    03 Aug 2026

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    The northern maesters assured them it would be but a brief and mild winter.

    But still the dreams persisted.

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    In which winter comes to Summerhall, and so does Dunk.

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    18 Jul 2026

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    “Perhaps the seeds of madness are sown in the womb.”

    Not for Aerion, no. Nor for Egg. But Daeron had always known. Since he was small, he saw the tapestries upon the walls burn above his cradle, and he knew. Drink or delirium, it did not matter. One way or another, his visions would be the death of him.

    He had not reckoned he would have to suffer more than one.

    The gods want something from Daeron. They must, to have devised so exceptional a hell. For why else would they have him live these days over and over?

    If they have chosen Daeron to change the future, they have chosen the wrong man. Daeron is not a hero. He never has been.

     

     

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    18 Jul 2026

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    Xue Yang, age 12, makes his way to the Burial Mounds and demands to be taken on as the Yiling Laozu's disciple. Some things change. Some things don't.

    Features dysfunctional found family, Xue Yang Shenanigans of varying severity, and somewhat less tragedy.

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    12 Jul 2026

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    “Dragons are all kind. And stupid,” Visenya whispered on dark evenings, when the twilight clung to the windows and the candles began to blink wearily. Her voice was like the crackle of old parchment, like wind seeping through stone cracks. Little Aemma, having rubbed her reddened eyelids with her fist once again, would freeze on her lap. “But only when they are little. Very little,” — and then bitterness seeped into her voice, thick as dragon’s blood. “They are fools for not seeing it.”

    Her ghostly palm — cool as an underground spring, almost weightless, as if woven from moon dust — glided over Aemma’s hair, soothing, stroking, hiding the pain. And in Visenya’s eyes, a fire blazed. Not the kind that warms. The kind that destroys.

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    Aemond Targaryen was born a girl with an unusual gift — the ability to see the dead. In such a strange world, she is helped to find her way by Visenya Targaryen, the first wife of Aegon the Conqueror.

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    03 Jul 2026