A Dance with Dragons
Novel by George R. R. MartinWikipedia
59
MENTIONS
24
EPISODES
11
PODCASTS
Search complete. 59 mentions across 24 episodes found for "A Dance with Dragons".
Sep 10, 2026
RobertHOST
And a maester from the Sunset Lands opened a body for me and showed me all the secrets that hide beneath the skin.
RobertHOST
That maester, if you were wondering, was Marwyn the Mage, who we finally meet through Sam's eyes at the end of A Dance with Dragons.
RobertHOST
So Mirri learned healing magics from all over the world.
RobertHOST
She studied hard and then returned to her town to put what she had learned to good use.
LeeHOST
They've already got, like, a minute-and-a-half teaser of this thing that looks like completely ready-to-go footage.
LeeHOST
And by the way, it is not like a lot of, like, um, [smacks lips] like at the end of A Dance with Dragons.
LeeHOST
Uh, if you buy the trade paperback now, it's like, "Here's a chapter of Winds of Winter." But it's just the beginning chapter.
LeeHOST
It's not that type of thing.
speaker_2HOST
But we must examine the deeper psychological reality of Tyrion in the books.
speaker_2HOST
Because right now, at the end of A Dance with Dragons, he hasn't even met Daenerys yet.
speaker_1HOST
That's a huge point.
speaker_2HOST
And more importantly, book Tyrion is in a drastically different mental state than show Tyrion was at this point.
10 MINS LATER
speaker_1HOST
And we have to start with Jon Snow, the physics of resurrection, and the ultimate wasted potential of a mystery box.
speaker_2HOST
This is a huge point of contention.
speaker_2HOST
At the end of A Dance with Dragons, Jon Snow, the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, is betrayed and stabbed to death in a mutiny.
speaker_2HOST
To
RobertHOST
It's almost exactly what Walder will do to Robb Stark, many northern lords and many of his fellow river lords almost 90 years later, though this time he might not get away with it.
RobertHOST
As of the end of A Dance with Dragons, they are deeply embroiled in northern politics, marrying into the mainline of House Bolton and joining the war against Stannis, but even their allies don't like them, and are conspiring to end their influence in the north, if not their lives.
RobertHOST
Their gains in power have been checked by great losses in blood.
RobertHOST
Far more Freys have died since the Red Wedding than before.
Lady GwynhyfvarHOST
We first covered Dany way back in 2015 in a single episode that skipped many of her chapters as we tried to cram everything into a two-hour slot.
Lady GwynhyfvarHOST
However, today we're going to begin a fresh analysis in the form of a trilogy of episodes, the first, here and now, covering her arc in A Game of Thrones, then the second, covering Clash and Storm, with the final installment covering her chapters in A Dance with Dragons.
Lady GwynhyfvarHOST
We think Dany is a wonderful character who deserves a full Radio Westeros in-depth treatment, and we're delighted to be back with her.
YolkboyHOST
And in today's analysis, we'll begin with a very quick look at Targaryen history and the background of Dany's ancestors before exploring Dany's past before the books begin.
9 MINS LATER
YolkboyHOST
In Dani's first chapter, it says, That was when they lived in Braavos, in the big house with the red door.
YolkboyHOST
Dani had her own room there, with a lemon tree outside her window.
YolkboyHOST
And we learn later in A Dance with Dragons that during the stay at the house with the Red Door, Sir Willem Darry had arranged a secret marriage pact between Viserys and Arianne Martell when the two came of age, in exchange for Dornish spears supporting Viserys' return to the throne.
YolkboyHOST
Rhaegar's wife had been Elia Martell, so in addition to sharing an ancestor some five or so generations back, the two houses had shared trauma, with good reason to try and overthrow Robert.
RobertHOST
The other example we have is with Kevin.
RobertHOST
When speaking to Kevin, having shot him with a crossbow in the epilogue to A Dance With Dragons, Varys appears his usual self – slippers, powdered hands and so on – but his voice seemed lower, as if the higher-pitched voice was the disguise he usually used, but didn't need to in that moment.
RobertHOST
He was actually more masculine than his public profile.
RobertHOST
So the context clues for when Varys is alone actually don't suggest that he is secretly a woman.
Gemma BeckettGUEST
I was actually having a chat with Grey about this earlier on and A lot of the hounds' visions, that specific vision that he saw, are pretty much lifted almost word for word in some places from a vision that Melisandre has in the books.
QuinnHOST
From A Dance of Dragons.
Gemma BeckettGUEST
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Gemma BeckettGUEST
So it feels that for some reason they've decided to give that to the hound.
RobertHOST
But the start of overt hostilities happened a little later.
RobertHOST
Jamie gets the Blackwood side of things from young Hoster Blackwood in A Dance with Dragons.
RobertHOST
He asks, how did all this begin between Blackwood and Bracken? Is it written down? It is my lord, the boy said, but some of the histories were penned by their maesters and some by ours, centuries after the events that they purport to chronicle.
RobertHOST
It goes back to the Age of Heroes.
6 MINS LATER
RobertHOST
Bringing the story up to date, the Brackens and Blackwoods of course find themselves on opposing sides in the War of the Five Kings, with at the present moment the Brackens having the upper hand.
RobertHOST
The Blackwoods have been forced to cede some land to the Brackens and so on, though Lord Titus Blackwood is very clear that though he doesn't mind people thinking he bent the knee to the King, he would never bend the knee to the Brackens.
RobertHOST
Jaime's first chapter in A Dance with Dragons, where this takes place, is actually a low-key favourite of mine.
RobertHOST
It almost feels like Jaime is going through the motions as he meets one lord after the other.
HarmatHOST
And my name's Harmet, and my pronouns are Hershey, like the chocolate.
NavHOST
And this, for the final time, is a Dance with Dragons epilogue.
NavHOST
In this chapter, we get an epic epilogue.
NavHOST
🎵 welcome to the podcast everyone so harmit who died in these chapters can i ask you a
1 HR 30 MINS LATER
NavHOST
you know the one that started it all so maybe it deserves the third spot and i love like i love i i have very fond memories of the experience of reading it
HarmatHOST
right yeah and then i
NavHOST
don't i will be honest i don't remember clash of like the experience of reading clash of kings as well so i can't remember if i enjoyed clash of kings more than i enjoy to dance with dragons But I think I'll maybe put Dance with Dragons fourth just because it has some of the best, like, I love the Theon arc.
NavHOST
I love this epilogue.
QuinnHOST
When Shireen Baratheon was a little girl, Stannis Baratheon used all his resources, but all they did was stop the spread of greyscale.
QuinnHOST
In A Dance with Dragons, when the free woman, Val, sees Shireen, she understands immediately that Shireen must die.
QuinnHOST
In the books, Shireen is a ticking time bomb.
QuinnHOST
It is implied that the disease, though dormant, will eventually flare up again and that could mean bad things for the people in Westeros that come into contact with her.
14 more episodes mention A Dance with Dragons.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.