Opening post by Lord Beric Cerwyn · #1
Every few years somebody swears they have the answer to this, and every few years it turns out they had a story instead.
The question, put plainly: whether the old gods are listening. My maester has a theory. My maester has fourteen theories.
There is a version of this where the truth is dull — a bad decision, a bad winter, nobody's grand design — and I have never once heard anybody argue for it.
Say I am wrong, if you think so. Somebody usually does.