Table Of ContentA Feast For Dragons (v0.9)
by George R. R. Martin
combined by JAHLUV
April, 10 2012
So, the action of A Feast for Crows mostly concentrates on
King’s
Landing and Cersei and Jaime and their ilk, dispatching Tyrion and Jon and
Daenarys to what became A Dance with Dragons. This (imho) was a mistake
that made the reading of A Feast for Crows something of a grind. Martin has
said
it was a bitch to write. George? It was also a bitch to read, my friend. He has
said the other option available to him was to take all of the characters half
way – to which, of course, the obvious response is: isn’t that what you’d been
doing in all of the books previous? And what did he mean by ‘half way’ really?
There are apparently to be seven books in the Song of Ice & Fire series, so
each book moves the action along somewhat without any real sense of the
finishing line. A reordering of both A Feast for Crows and A Dance with
Dragons
(as will inevitably happen with the TV show) makes for a better read – and so I
did it. If you’re ploughing through A Feast for Crows now, I’d treat yourself
to a chapter from A Dance with Dragons every two or three chapters – provided
you don’t exceed the 500 page mark, or so, on A Dance with Dragons, you’ll
enjoy A Feast for Crows more, believe me). -from
here
AFFC & ADWD
Combined Chapters Order
AFFC
02: The Prophet
ADWD 01: Prologue
AFFC 01: Prologue
AFFC 12: The Kraken's Daughter
ADWD 03: Daenerys 1
AFFC 19: The Iron Captain
AFFC 20: The Drowned Man
ADWD 04: Jon 1
AFFC 04: Cersei 1
AFFC 08: Cersei 2
AFFC 09: Jaime 1
ADWD 05: Bran 1
AFFC 03: The Captain Of Guards
AFFC 05: Brienne 1
ADWD 13: Reek 1
AFFC 10: Brienne 2
AFFC 14: The Soiled Knight
ADWD 10: Davos 1
AFFC 22: The Queenmaker
AFFC 15: Brienne 3
ADWD 16: Davos 2
AFFC 13: Cersei 3
ADWD 20: Davos 3
AFFC 17: Jaime 2
AFFC 18: Cersei 4
ADWD 02: Tyrion 1
AFFC 07: Arya 1
ADWD 21: Reek 2
AFFC 21: Brienne 4
ADWD 06: Tyrion 2
AFFC 25: Cersei 5
AFFC 25: Cersei 5
ADWD 09: Tyrion 3
AFFC 41: The Princess In The Tower
ADWD 07: The Merchant's Man
AFFC 29: Cersei 6
ADWD 12: Daenerys 2
AFFC 30: The Reaver
ADWD 14: Bran 2
AFFC 28: Jaime 3
AFFC 33: Cersei 7
ADWD 15: Tyrion 4
AFFC 26: Brienne 5
AFFC 11: Sansa 1
ADWD 17: Daenerys 3
AFFC 31: Jaime 4
ADWD 19: Tyrion 5
AFFC 32: Brienne 6
AFFC 06: Samwell 1
ADWD 08: Jon 2
AFFC 38: Brienne 7
ADWD 11: Jon 3
ADWD 18: Jon 4
AFFC 34: Jaime 5
ADWD 22: Jon 5
AFFC 39: Jaime 6
ADWD 23: Tyrion 6
AFFC 16: Samwell 2
ADWD 24: Daenerys 4
AFFC 43: Brienne 8
ADWD 25: The Lost Lord
AFFC 24: Alayne 1
ADWD 26: The Windblown
AFFC 37: Cersei 8
ADWD 27: The Wayward Bride
ADWD 28: Tyrion 7
AFFC 40: Cersei 9
ADWD 29: Jon 6
AFFC 44: Cersei 10
ADWD 30: Davos 4
AFFC 42: Alayne 2
AFFC 42: Alayne 2
ADWD 31: Daenerys 5
AFFC 45: Jaime 7
ADWD 32: Melisandre
ADWD 33: Reek 3
AFFC 23: Arya 2
ADWD 34: Tyrion 8
AFFC 27: Samwell 3
ADWD 35: Bran 3
AFFC 36: Samwell 4
ADWD 36: Jon 7
AFFC 46: Samwell 5
ADWD 37: Daenerys 6
AFFC 35: Cat Of The Canals
ADWD 39: The Watcher
ADWD 40: Jon 8
ADWD 41: Tyrion 9
ADWD 42: The Turncloak
ADWD 43: The King's Prize
ADWD 44: Daenerys 7
ADWD 45: Jon 9
ADWD 46: The Blind Girl
ADWD 47: A Ghost In Winterfell
ADWD 48: Tyrion 10
ADWD 62: The Griffin Reborn
ADWD 49: Jaime
ADWD 50: Jon 10
ADWD 51: Daenerys 8
ADWD 52: Theon
ADWD 53: Daenerys 9
ADWD 54: Jon 11
ADWD 55: Cersei 1
ADWD 56: The Queensguard
ADWD 57: The Iron Suitor
ADWD 58: Tyrion 11
ADWD 59: Jon 12
ADWD 60: The Discarded Knight
ADWD 61: The Spurned Suitor
ADWD 63: The Sacrifice
ADWD 64: Victarion
ADWD 64: Victarion
ADWD 65: The Ugly Little Girl
ADWD 66: Cersei 2
ADWD 67: Tyrion 12
ADWD 69: The Dragontamer
ADWD 68: The Kingbreaker
ADWD 70: Jon 13
ADWD 71: The Queen's Hand
ADWD 72: Daenerys 10
ADWD 73: Epilogue
The Winds of Winter (due – oh, 2016?) and all subsequent
books will unravel with all characters therein. This is a very
good thing. All the extra book stuff like ,"Title page",
"Contents",
"Appendix". "About the Author" etc I placed at the end of the EPUB mostly
because I got bored and didn't want to spend any more time organizing.
The Prophet
The prophet was drowning men on Great Wyk when they came
to tell him that the king was dead.
It was a bleak, cold morning, and the sea was as leaden as the
sky. The first three men had offered their lives to the Drowned
God fearlessly, but the fourth was weak in faith and began to
struggle as his lungs cried out for air. Standing waist-deep in
the surf, Aeron seized the naked boy by the shoulders and
pushed his head back down as he tried to snatch a breath.
“Have courage,” he said. “We came from the sea, and to the sea we must return.
Open your mouth and drink deep of god’s blessing. Fill your lungs with water,
that you may die and be reborn. It does no good to fight.”
Either the boy could not hear him with his head beneath the
waves, or else his faith had utterly deserted him. He began to
kick and thrash so wildly that Aeron had to call for help. Four
of his drowned men waded out to seize the wretch and hold
him underwater. “Lord God who drowned for us,” the priest
prayed, in a voice as deep as the sea, “let Emmond your
servant be reborn from the sea, as you were. Bless him with
salt, bless him with stone, bless him with steel.”
Finally, it was done. No more air was bubbling from his mouth,
and all the strength had gone out of his limbs. Facedown in the
shallow sea floated Emmond, pale and cold and peaceful.
That was when the Damphair realized that three horsemen had
joined his drowned men on the pebbled shore. Aeron knew the
Sparr, a hatchet-faced old man with watery eyes whose
quavery voice was law on this part of Great Wyk. His son
Steffarion accompanied him, with another youth whose dark
red fur-lined cloak was pinned at the shoulder with an ornate
brooch that showed the black-and-gold warhorn of the
Goodbrothers. One of Gorold’s sons, the priest decided at a
glance. Three tall sons had been born to Goodbrother’s wife
late in life, after a dozen daughters, and it was said that no
man could tell one son from the others. Aeron Damphair did
not deign to try. Whether this be Greydon or Gormond or Gran,
the priest had no time for him.
He growled a brusque command, and his drowned men seized
the dead boy by his arms and legs to carry him above the
tideline. The priest followed, naked but for a sealskin clout that
covered his private parts.
Goosefleshed and dripping, he splashed back onto land, across cold wet sand and
sea-scoured pebbles. One of his drowned men handed him a robe of heavy
roughspun dyed in mottled greens and blues and greys, the colors of the sea and
the Drowned God. Aeron donned the robe and pulled his hair free. Black and
wet, that hair; no blade had touched it since the sea had raised him up. It draped
his shoulders like a ragged, ropy cloak, and fell down past his waist. Aeron wove
strands of seaweed through it, and through his tangled, uncut beard.
His drowned men formed a circle around the dead boy,
praying. Norjen worked his arms whilst Rus knelt astride him,
