Opening post by Ser Emmon Bracken · #1
Half the hall has an opinion here and the other half pretends not to. I would rather hear from both.
Strip the songs away and it comes to this: whether the prince that was promised is a person or a story people needed. My maester has a theory. My maester has fourteen theories.
Ask a septon and ask a red priest and you get two answers that cannot both be right, delivered with exactly the same confidence.
I expect to die not knowing, and I have made my peace with it.