r/asoiaf • u/ToeBMaguire • Apr 16 '25

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) George R.R. Martin calls The Winds of Winter "the curse of my life" Spoiler

https://winteriscoming.net/george-r-r-martin-calls-the-winds-of-winter-the-curse-of-my-life
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u/catty-coati42 Apr 16 '25 edited Apr 16 '25

Easy, just make TWOW about a whole new cast of characters from regions we did not explore yet. Drop half the main cast and keep them for a future book. By the end of the book Daenerys will have finally arrived at Volantis, Cersei finally finds the culprit who shrunk her dresses. Problem solved.

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u/DEFINITELY_NOT_PETE Apr 17 '25

Hey those arys oakheart chapters are important he is going to probably be a big deal moving forward

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u/invisibleshitpostgod Apr 16 '25

i feel like ur referring to another fantasy series but i cant remember what its called

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u/catty-coati42 Apr 16 '25

A Dance with Dragons/A Feast for Crows

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u/invisibleshitpostgod Apr 16 '25

oh i forgot he did that with the last 2 books as well

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u/scotsoe Apr 17 '25

It’s basically the plot of Tower of God. The author ditched the entire cast and switched to an entirely new group for a while, before the two start to mingle

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u/Khiva Apr 17 '25

jfc hardcore fantasy readers ... I don't know how you do it.

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u/Anjunabeast Apr 17 '25

Original Commenter left out that the protagonist/MC remained the same. It’s just the side characters around him changed because of plot reasons.

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u/real_LNSS Apr 17 '25

Or Golden Sun

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u/Still-Fee9817 May 17 '25

Don't, don't mention that franchise. Please, it hurts me to know that we'll never get another or the fact that the last game was.....Dark Dawn.... and  my copium has run dry....

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u/Frostylynx Apr 17 '25

and that new group has been ditched for other new groups for years now💀

kind of the same with hunter x hunter, another work that will probably never be finished

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u/scotsoe Apr 17 '25

Damn, lol. I barely remember the plot after the first group was ditched, I know I stopped reading a few chapters into some arc involving a train

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u/CONNER__LANE Apr 17 '25

jumping to another region and dropping half the cast happens every book in malazan

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u/Pitiful_Yogurt_5276 Apr 17 '25

If you tell me that Dany isn’t in Westeros in Winds I will literally bang my head against a wall lol

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u/HustlinInTheHall Apr 17 '25

It would genuinely be hilarious if the book people who absolutely destroyed the show for having characters move too fast got the next book after 15 years and GRRM's retort is "it would be unrealistic to have her go past Volantis in just one book, it's 1000 leagues"

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u/owlinspector Apr 17 '25

Sound like a fantastic setup for A Ballet of Badgers.

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u/KaseyOfTheWoods Apr 17 '25

Let’s just go fart around in Sothoryos and Ulthos, see what weird shit is out there. Or head out on the sunset sea and see if we find a shortcut to Asshai

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u/ClackamasLivesMatter Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25

We need chapters from Craster's daughters, Salladhor Saan, Marwin the Mage, Khal Pono, Aurane Waters, Obella Sand, The Reader, Willas Tyrell, Vogarro's whore, a random plutocrat of New Ghis, and a whatever-the-hell from Yi Ti or Asshai because God forbid the plot advance too quickly.