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  1. Public Bookmark 35

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    There are so many phrases and words used in the ASOIAF universe that we would not intuitively use in everyday life. It's hard to keep track! So I decided to start making this "Instead of this - say this" guide for avoiding anachronisms. Comment below any phrases/replacements that YOU'VE noticed!

    Note: Vocabulary used in the final two seasons of Game of Thrones does not count as canon/era-appropriate language... you know why.

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    03 Sep 2026

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    Arya was annoying and boyish and an embarrassment half the time, and Sansa had twice confessed in the sept that she wished she had a different sister, someone sweet and trusting and girlish, but seeing her alive now, Sansa had never loved her more.

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    30 Aug 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 55

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    "Have you ever slain a man, nephew?" his uncle had asked him, that last time they had spoken.

    Reaching down, he splayed a hand over Daeron's cup and slid it across the table. That was unkind of him, Daeron would reflect later. It was the only cup he’d managed to sneak past his father.

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    “Perhaps the seeds of madness are sown in the womb.”

    Not for Aerion, no. Nor for Egg. But Daeron had always known. Since he was small, he saw the tapestries upon the walls burn above his cradle, and he knew. Drink or delirium, it did not matter. One way or another, his visions would be the death of him.

    He had not reckoned he would have to suffer more than one.

    The gods want something from Daeron. They must, to have devised so exceptional a hell. For why else would they have him live these days over and over?

    If they have chosen Daeron to change the future, they have chosen the wrong man. Daeron is not a hero. He never has been.

     

     

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    Before the Trial of Seven, Prince Daeron Targaryen dreams true and places himself between fate and the man it sought.

    Baelor lives.

    The realm is changed.

    And a prince awakens with no memory of the sacrifice that saved them all.

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    27 Aug 2026