The Winds of Winter

The Winds of Winter is the sixth novel in the award-winning epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. It takes place after the concurrent fourth and fifth books in the series, A Feast for Crows (2005) and A Dance with Dragons (2011).

Characters

By June 2010, Martin had finished four chapters for The Winds of Winter, from the viewpoints of Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, and Arianne Martell.^[1] In July 2010, he added that an Aeron Greyjoy chapter had been moved from Dance with Dragons to Winds of Winter, and reported that now over 100 pages had been written for the book.^[2]

Martin has also stated that the character split occurring in A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons will end with The Winds of Winter.^[3] He went on to say that the characters introduced in the preceding two books would be the last point-of-view characters added to the series (aside from one-off prologue and epilogue characters).^[3]

In December 2011, Martin posted a chapter from Winds of Winter from the viewpoint of Theon Greyjoy and his interactions with Stannis Baratheon as they are camped in the snow on his march to Winterfell. He added that another sample chapter would be included at the end of the paperback version of A Dance with Dragons when released in July 2012.

Earlier on 2011, Martin read at WorldCon an Arianne chapter, where we see her heading for Griffin's Roost to see the young boy who is calling himself Aegon, the son of Rhaegar and Elia Martell whom everyone had thought had persished by the end of Robert's Rebellion. By the end of the chapter we learn that Aegon and his hired sellswords have captured Storm's End from the Tyrells.^[4][5]

References

External links

• Official website of author George R. R. Martin