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Today in A Dance with Dragons, I’M DONE! I’M FINALLY DONE! Also, everything gets terrible again, so about average.

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Theon takes a leap of faith, Jon makes some risky decisions, and Dany leaves the building as we careen towards something resembling a conclusion in A Dance with Dragons.

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Today in A Dance with Dragons, Arya and Jaime are back! Plus, things start to come together thematically.

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Today in A Dance with Dragons, we’ve caught up with A Feast for Crows! YAAAY!

And that’s all that happened!

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Subplots lead to more subplots and even more traveling in today’s update of A Dance with Dragons.

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Today in A Dance with Dragons, stuff very slowly starts to happen. Plus, we get a new perspective character and hear from a couple of old ones.

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Today in A Dance with Dragons, Dany makes all the enemies, Jon Snow continues to shoot himself in the foot, and we find out something incredibly important about Tyrion’s boat buddy, Young Griff.

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Today in A Dance with Dragons, DAVOS IS BACK! YYAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY! Oh, Theon’s back too, I guess. Also, more from Jon, Tyrion, Dany, and Bran.

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As A Dance of Dragons begins, we have to backtrack several months and several chapters worth of development in order to get everyone on the same page. Hopefully, this won’t last too long.

Who Are You?: Tropes vs. Identity in A Song of Ice and Fire

Who, who, who, who? In the A Song of Ice and Fire series, one of the main themes that gets thrown around is identity. Lineage is meticulously kept and who your parents are determines pretty much your entire life. Then there are the numerous stories of brave heroes and beautiful damsels that knights and maidens have to live up to. George R.R. Martin likes to do is play around with classic fantasy tropes, especially those concerning characters. The righteous king, the evil queen, the lost hero, etc., are all present and accounted for, but in the hands of Martin, are a bit more complicated. Today, we’re going to take a look at just some of the characters that fight with their identities and what can happen because of it.