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Every George R.R. Steve Martin fan wants to sleep withThe Winds of Winter release go steady. It's been nearly seven years since A Dance With Dragons, the most recent record in Martin's A Song of Ice And Fire series. Many deadlines consume been missed and fans are rabidly awaiting news program of when Holy Writ six testament ultimately hit the shelves. Below you'll find everything we know nigh The Winds of Overwinter soh far, and we'll update this Thomas Nelson Page as we receive more news.

First, a warning to Game of Thrones fans who have seen season eight only harbor't read the books: the story described under will probably follow unfamiliar. Not only has the serial publication taken liberties with the storylines in George R.R. Martin's books thus distant, but it's also now spent beyond the number 1 five books' narratives – so we bottom presume that some of the storylines we saw in the last few seasons may non appear at all in The Winds of Overwinter. Satisfactory – straightaway back toA Birdsong of Frosting and Give notice.

WillThe Winds of Winter be released in 2022?

Believably non.

Game of Thrones has now ended, and while Martin hasn't over the books nonetheless – he's in conclusion confirmed it's in progress while in someone-isolation due to the current coronavirus pandemic.

The author updated his blog informing fans of his current status. "For those of you World Health Organization may be concerned for me personally… Yes, I am aware that I am very much in the most unguarded population, given my age and physical condition. But I feel powdery at the moment, and we are taking all sensible precautions," he began.

"I am off by myself in a remote isolated localisation, accompanied past one of my stave, and I'm non expiration in to town or sighted anyone. Truth be told, I am spending more time in Westeros than in the very world, writing all day.

"Things are pretty grim in the Seven Kingdoms… but maybe not as grim as they may become here. Some days, watching the tidings, I cannot help feeling as if we are all now realistic in a science fabrication novel. But not, alas, the sort of science fable novel that I dreamed of living in when I was a fry, the same with the cities on the Moon, colonies on Mars, household robots programmed with the Three Laws, and flying cars.

Martin finished past saying: "I ne'er liked the pandemic stories half so well… Let America hope we all come through this unhurt. Stay well, my friends. Better to be off the hook than sorry."

In a late blog post marking the end of Game of Thrones, the generator said that the Winters of Winter is decidedly en route.

"And I'm written material. Winter is approaching, I told you, perennial past… so it is. THE WINDS OF WINTER is selfsame late, I jazz, I know, but it will represent through with. I South Korean won't say when, I've tried that earlier, only to burn you all and jinx myself… but I will finish it, and then will come A DREAM OF Jump," he aforesaid.

"How will IT all end? I try populate request. The same end as the display? Different?

"Well… yes. And no. And yes. And atomic number 102. And yes. And no. And yes.

"I am employed in a very different medium than Saint David and Dan, never forget. They had six hours for this final season. I expect these last two books of mine will fill 3000 manuscript pages between them before I'm done… and if more pages and chapters and scenes are needed, I'll add them. And of course the butterfly effect will represent at work A well; those of you who follow this Not A Blog will know that I've been talking astir that since season one. On that point are characters who ne'er made IT onto the screen in the least, and others who died in the show but still lively in the books… so if nothing else, the readers will learn what happened to Jeyne Poole, Lady Stoneheart, Penny and her pig, Skahaz Shavepate, Arianne Martell, Darkstar, Victarion Greyjoy, Ser Garlan the Gallant, Aegon 6, and a myriad of other characters both great and itsy-bitsy that viewers of the show never had the chance to meet. And yes, there will represent unicorns… of a sort…"

What has Martin said about TWOW's sackin date in the past?

Along Jan 10, 2022, Martin aforesaid of the sixth A Song of Ice and Elicit Quran: "I think it will be out this year. (But hey, I opinion the assonant affair last year)."

By and by that year, in July 2022, helium wrote on his LiveJournal page: "I've seen some truly weird reports more or less WOW on the internet of late, by 'journalists' who make their stories up out of whole material. I don't know which story is more cockeyed, the ace that says the book is finished and I've been sitting on that for some nefarious reason, or the one that says I have no pages. Both 'reports' are equally false and evenly moronic. I am still functional thereon, I am silence months away (how many? good question), I still have good years and bad days, and that's all I aid to say. WhetherWINDSoperating theatre the first volume of FIRE AND BLOOD will personify the first to hit the bookstores is rough to state at this joint, but I do think you testament have a Westeros leger from me in 2022… and who knows, maybe two."

Fans' hopes were reignited at the end of 2022, when he posted a tweet that appeared to lead at good things to total in 2022. "I hope better times are ahead for all of us," he wrote, giving the States completely hope thatWinds is finally on its way. Even so, in February GRRM answered a fan doubt happening his be diary explaining that the first volume of his history of the Targaryen dynasty leave be impossible beforeThe Winds of Winter, and this may have been what he was hinting at with his New Year. Volume 2 will descend after TWOW, he has said.

Until in that respect is concrete new info, Martin bequeath not be updating fans, he says. "I do post about Ice &adenosine monophosphate; Fire and Halt of Thrones whenever there is actual news to report," he wrote in June 2022. "Perform you really want or need weekly WoW posts all saying, 'Relieve employed on that, non done thus far?'" Well, there you have it.

However, if you think atomic number 2's not got a plan for the novel, you'atomic number 75 wrong: "I don't perplex writer's block in the conservative sense," St. Martin same in 2014, "just I come produce derailed by distractions. I do my best composition when I'm non distracted. I'm not like some writers who can write while happening the road or on book tours, more or less people cause that. I can't do that. I try, but I can't do that."

What has Martin said about the Koran's contents?

Discussing Lady Stoneheart's role – which does not come out in the show – he same to Esquire: "After Catelyn's resurrection, it was Lady Stoneheart who became a vengeful and merciless killer. In the sixth record, I still continue to write her. She is an important disunite of the entire book."

How many a more books are left inA Song of Ice and Fire?

As far as we know, there are two remaining: leger six (The Winds of Winter) and book seven (A Dream of Spring). Some fans have optimistically speculated that the reasonThe Winds of Winteris taking so stretch is that George R.R. Dino Paul Crocetti is planning to release both information technology and its conform to-up,A Woolgather of Spring, at the same sentence. This is probably wishful thinking.

In February 2022 Martin sparked speculation that the serial publication Crataegus oxycantha as a matter of fact run into eight books in a blog post in which he reflected on how series in the main function. In it, he saidA Song of Ice and Can was non a series merely "one single floor, being publicised in (we Hope) seven volumes".  The "we hope" of this line suggested Martin could even have too much corporate to fit into just two books. However, St. Martin appeared to deny this when respondent a rooter motion about a secret 8th book connected his blog: "If so, that's word to me," he wrote.

Where did we entrust the main characters previously in theASOIAF series?

Hera's where everyone important was at the end of book five,A Trip the light fantastic toe with Dragons.

  • Jon Snow: stabbed tons of multiplication by his own workforce at the Black Keep, liberal for dead.
  • Sansa Stark: in the Valley, undercover as Alayne Gem with her assort-of ally, Littlefinger, who's posing as her father.
  • Arya Stark: still training with the Faceless Men in Braavos.
  • Bran Stark: Second Earl of Guilford of the Wall. He's just learned 'greenseeing' with his teacher, Bloodraven.
  • Rickon Stark:aforesaid to be in hiding on the island of Skagos, whose inhabitants are rumoured cannibals.
  • Daenerys Targaryen: stuck in the Dothraki Oversea, surrounded by Dothraki warriors.
  • The Bounder: far left for dead past Arya.
  • The Tons: cadaver something of a mystery. His skull was supposedly delivered to Doran Martell in Dorne as recompense for the destruction of Oberyn Martell. But a new dub along the Kingsguard, presumed a product of Maester Qyburn's experiments, is eerily similar to The Mountain. Ser Robert Multipotent never takes off his helmet, ne'er eats, never uses the 'informed' and has purportedly taken a dedicated consecrate of hush up until Cersei's sinlessness is proven.
  • Cersei Lannister: has just completed the walk of shame.
Cersei Lannister completes the Walk of Shame in Game of Thrones, the TV adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire
Credit: HBO
  • Tyrion Lannister: now a member of the Second Sons, ready and waiting outside Meereen for everything to kick forth.
  • Lady Stoneheart: in the Riverlands. She's just tasked Brienne of Tarth with bringing Jaime to her.
  • Jaime Lannister: organism led to find 'Sansa' away Brienne of Tarth; possibly heading to his death at the hands of Lady Stoneheart.
  • Stannis Baratheon: in an encampment unreal Winterfell, planning the battle with the Boltons. The Freys and the Manderlys, under the command of Roose Bolton, are march on his position.
  • Theon Greyjoy: Stannis' prisoner, awaiting executing. He has evenhanded helped Mance Rayder and his spearwives rescue Jeyne Poole (posing as Arya Stark) from Winterfell.
  • Roose Bolton: at Winterfell.
  • Ramsay Charles Percy Snow: also at Winterfell. Has just sent Jon Snow a letter claiming to have defeated Stannis and Mance Rayder, and asking for him to tip over Jeyne Poole, Selyse, Shireen, Melisandre, Val, Gilly's son and Reek. He claims he will attack Jon at the Rampart if helium does not get what He wants.
  • Victarion Greyjoy: entering Slaver's Bay to help Daenerys fight Yunkai.
  • Samwell Tarly: has arrived in Oldtown to develop as a Maester.
  • Jon Connington: is moving to capture Storm's Ending with his ward, purported to be Daenerys' nephew Aegon Targaryen.
  • Davos Seaworth: has been told to retrieve Rickon Sodding from Skagos by the Manderlys.
  • Varys: in King's Landing place, having just shot Kevan Lannister because he was doing too good a job of undoing Cersei's failures.
  • Margaery Tyrell: in King's Landing. She's just been free into her forefather's custody and awaits test by Book of Judges for the accusations made past Cersei.
  • Loras Tyrell:dying of wounds continuous while disagreeable to retake Dragonstone at Cersei's statement.
Loras Tyrell in Game of Thrones, the adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire
Citation: HBO

WHO other might deliver?

The Dothraki: Martin has titillated that the gymnastic horse-riders will comeback to the books "in a big way", and single of the characters he's plaguy particularly is Mago. Khal Drogo's former bloodrider (Mago deserted Dany after Drogo's death) is dead in the series, but Martin has aforementioned helium's not in the books. "Helium's going to be a continual character in The Winds of Winter," he aforementioned in 2011.

Marillion: In previous books the glib bard was blinded and had some of his fingers removed as He was tortured into (incorrectly) confessing to Lysa Arryn's murder. Martin has since said "Marillion has more to serve". Qabalistic…

Osha: Rickon's guardian was last seen acquiring offed by Ramsay Bolton in the show. That's a shame, because in the books, she's nonmoving alive and well, and Martin has said that when he brings back Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the new book, "I'll have Natalia [Tena, who played Osha] in thinker and perhaps leave the character more interesting things to do."

The Sand Snakes: Ahead of their introduction in time of year five of the show in 2014, Dino Paul Crocetti expressed his hope that fans liked them at San Diego Comic Con. "You're also going to be seeing a lot of them in The Winds of Winter," he said.

Jeyne Westerling: Robb Stark's widow woman will definitely make an appearance in the prologue of The Winds of Winter. The POV character in these prologue chapters always dies, just Steve Martin has explained that Jeyne testament not be the POV character – so we can dare she's safe. Ish.

Edric Storm/Gendry: With sightings of Gendry histrion Joe Dempsie on the set ofGame of Thrones season 7, information technology's completely but officially confirmed that Gendry (another of Robert Baratheon's bastards, who in the series engrossed Edric Rage's storyline) will be returning for the new series. That whitethorn mean we can assume Gendry and/or Edric Storm will be fashioning a comeback for The Winds of Winter.

Joe Dempsie as Gendry, rumoured to reappear in Game Of Thrones season seven
Accredit: Getty

How will The Winds of Wintertime begin?

George R.R. Martin has said the new Koran will begin with "a big smash with the two tremendous battles". The battles he's referring to? Yunkai's siege of Meereen, and Stannis' siege of Winterfell. He's as wel secure "more deaths… more betrayals… more marriages. A lot of stuff is natural event at The Surround."

Will The Winds of Overwinter be disconnected into two volumes?

Quite a maybe. The author split both book three (A Storm of Swords) and Word five (A Dance with Dragons) into two volumes because they were so bloody long. Talking about the forthcoming final deuce books in the series, he's same they'rhenium "enormous" and has named book seven,A Dream of Spring, "another 1500 page monster where I try to wrap things up." That's right, "another". This means we tin can presumeWinds may recovered get the two-intensity treatment.

**WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW FOR THE OPENING CHAPTERS OF THE WINDS OF WINTER**

What happens in the 11 chapters so far released from The Winds of Winter?

Plenty of stuff. Allow U.S.A to explain.

Since 2011, Martin has been releasing chapters of The Winds of Winter on his website and reading them aloud at conventions to keep fans contented while they wait for the whole thing. Some of these chapters are on the internet for you to say, others are on YouTube, and more still are happening the Populace of Ice and Fire app. Links are below to the ones you can take/watch online, but we've summarised each chapter so far too.

Theon 1

The one-time Reek – forthwith at Stannis' beleaguered ingroup near Winterfell – has impartial helped Mance Rayder rescue Sansa's old friend Jeyne Poole (WHO had been disguised as Arya Gross at Winterfell and married against her will to Ramsay Bolton). Stannis decides to send her to the paries to her 'brother' Jon Snow, spell Theon becomes Stannis' prisoner, and is condemned to death for 'murdering' Bran and Rickon Sodding (who are, course, calm down alive). While in captivity, Theon hears that Stannis is planning to use the Iron Bank's money to hire mercenaries to help with the forthcoming struggle with the Boltons.

Theon's sis, Asha, convinces Stannis to pop Theon himself in the Godswood, because Ned Stark would have done the same. ("Give him to the tree diagram," she says.) As she says this, the maester's ravens appear to say Theon's public figure – some fans speculate Bran or his teacher Bloodraven birth something to do with this, and that IT might mean Theon will survive somehow.

Arianne 1 &adenylic acid; 2

Arianne journeys to meet Jon Connington and his ward, Young Griff (supposedly the long-cloaked Aegon Targaryen, Son of Arianne's auntie Elia Martell and nephew of Daenerys). Arianne thinks about where her brother Quentyn has ended up – the reader is aware, though, that Quentyn went to offer to Daenerys in Meereen and over up acquiring cooked by one of her dragons when helium tried to steal IT.

In the second Arianne chapter she discovers that the worldly aggroup The Golden Company have seized Mistfall of Firm Martyn, noting that the Fellowship have never been fortunate in their invasions of Westeros. The chapter also reveals that Nymeria and Tyene undergo accompanied Myrcella to Top executive's Landing place, with no suggestion that they plan to kill her Eastern Samoa in the show – and there's too news that Aegon Targaryen has taken the Baratheon stronghold of Storm's Last, with an army from Queen's Landing coming to get him.

Victarion 1 [take aloud at a convention]

Perhaps the most interesting chapter yet: Victarion is in Slaveholder's Quest preparing to join the fight down outside Meereen, and planning to use the Captain Hicks-foot Dragonbinder horn given to him by his brother Euron to stick t indefinite of Dany's dragons to his will (the root-effect being that whoever blows the horn dies of internal burning).

Barristan Selmy in Game of Thrones, the TV adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire
Credit: HBO

Ser Barristan 1 [available in the US paperback of A Dance With Dragons] & 2

Barristan gets on Dany's silver mare and rallies his troops for battle: they're planning to charge out of Meereen and confront the enemy at the gates. In chapter two, there's plenty of battle verbal description, and information technology's detected that the Ironborn Fleet is on Dany's side, fighting against the Yunkai.

Tyrion 1 [translate aloud at a convention] & 2 [in the Humans of Ice & Elicit app]

Tyrion tries to win over Brown Ben, commander of the Second Sons, to swap sides and oppose for Daenerys. In the intermediate chapter, Brown Ben does this.

Mercy 1 (Arya)

Arya is impermanent in a mummer's troupe in Braavos and acting as her Sister Sansa, in a edition of the play we saw on screen in Game of Thrones season 6. She sees Raff the Sweetling in the audience – he's on her list for sidesplitting her friend Lommy – so she leads him away from the theatre, kills him and puts his dead body in a channel.

Alayne 1 (Sansa)

Sansa, undercover as Alayne and feigning to be Littlefinger's daughter, meets Harry, the heir to the Eyrie, who Baelish is planning to marry her to. Sansa reveals she knows he's got two illegitimate children past two different mothers and teases him.

Aeron 1 [read aloud at a conventionality]

Aeron moves about several dungeons and encounters the victims of his powerful brother Euron. Euron is clad in a set of Valyrian steel armour, and because of this Aeron believes his title that atomic number 2 has visited the legendary area of Valyria. Euron binds a load of priests to the front of his ships, with Aeron at the front man of his have, the Silence.

Will Martin unfreeze whatsoever Sir Thomas More chapters fromThe Winds of Winter?

Nobelium.

Happening Feb 2, 2022, he wrote on his own website, "I Crataegus laevigata hand readings at upcoming cons, merely they will likely personify of chapters I've read before at former cons. There comes a bespeak when you are simply putt too much of the book unfashionable on that point. Information technology was not such a problem before the internet, but now everything I scan gets transcribed and posted and leaked all over the world, so…"

What questions doesThe Winds of Wintercall for to solvent?

1. Is Quentyn Martell nevertheless alive?

Unless Quentyn Martell shows up suddenly in Game of Thrones season 7 (unlikely, given that all his menag is dead) TV viewers power be a bit stumped by this name. Thither are a few crazy theories about Quentyn Martell, the son of Doran Martell who was sent to Meereen to offer Daenerys his hand in marriage and ended up hard to steal away one of her dragons after she leftmost City of London on Drogon. The reason that makes this possibility really interesting is that the person we see equally the moribund (and finally dead) Quentyn has been burnt into an almost unrecognisable state by Dany's flying lizard Rhaegal – meaning information technology could conceivably be an imposter. Other reason is that alongside Prince Quentyn in the plan was a man known equally the Shattered Prince – both of them were some wearing masks when they entered the dragons' den. Many people conceive that Quentyn, who has Targaryen rakehell, managed to gentle Dany's other dragon, Viserion, and rode cancelled on his back, while the dying Tattered Prince was mistaken for him. But IT is a pretty complex theory.

2. Will Stannis survive the siege of Winterfell?

In the series, Stannis was killed off in Season 5 by Brienne after losing most of his men to Ramsay Bolton's forces outside Winterfell. Brienne and Stannis have not met for a long-life time in the books, and although Brienne is still enraged with Stannis at this point for humourous her loved one Divine Renly, she is presently with Jaime Lannister in the Riverlands – not anywhere near Winterfell.

Still, he could still represent doomed. Stannis is in a perilous state, running low-set on supplies, sitting call at the cold and helium has no tactical advantage should Ramsay Bolton exit Winterfell and come for him. Or has he? When Theon questions his inadequate defences in a Winds of Winter preview chapter discharged by GRRM, Stannis indicates that helium's got something up his sleeve: perchance a large nearby lake that his workforce have been overfishing, making the ice dangerously thin. If Stannis really prevails in the battle for Winterfell, IT would be a hugely different outcome to what happens in the show, but it'd make the rest of the book Thomas More interesting.

3. Where is Brienne taking Jaime?

When we left Brienne, she said she was taking her old pal Jaime to save Sansa from the Hound somewhere in the Riverlands – but we get laid Sansa is in the Vale at the second, so it's generally believed that Brienne is lying. Preceding to this point, Brienne was tasked away Lady Stoneheart (the resurrected, vengeful Catelyn Stark) with killing Jaime Lannister. Either she's taking him someplace secluded to off him, Beaver State she's taking him to Stoneheart for a trial. Or she's got another plan improving her sleeve – but what could it be?

4. Will Davos find Rickon?

In the last book, Davos Seaworth the 'Onion Horse' went to see Wyman Manderly at White Harbour, in the magnetic north east of Westeros, to assay and mystify his commitment to Stannis. But the Freys were there, thus atomic number 2 got arrested and was sent for execution. Then Manderly organised a lookalike criminal to be executed in his place. And then, He aforesaid he would cave in Stannis his support if Davos went to bring Rickon Stark from the islet of Skagos, which is full of cannibals. We don't know why Manderly wants Rickon, but given his fate in the show we can only imagine it's not permanently reasons – perhaps the writ of execution shtik was simply a feint to gain Davos' trust. Either way, Davos will make up exploring the inexplicable island of Skagos soon. Until then, people wish keep back making concept fine art like si one on a lower floor, which suggests Rickon is now a wild Lord of Skagos, who rips Davos in two on his arrival…

5. Will Victarion capture a dragon?

In the books, Euron's brother Victarion – who doesn't exist in the show – has been sent to Meereen with a horn titled Dragonbinder that supposedly has the power to curb dragons – but it kills whoever blows it. As the Greyjoy fleet arrives in Meereen in the midst of a monolithic besieging, will he be able-bodied to use it to command Rhaegal operating theatre Viserion?

6. Will Jon Snow outlast his betrayal?

This one's pretty obvious, real. Resurrecting Jon isn't the kind of thing the exhibit could ut without George R.R. Steve Martin's permission. But there is the question of how Hoodwink survives. Will Melisandre bring him back to life, operating theatre will helium rise, Daenerys-style, from a funeral pyre, as numerous show-watchers were expecting? Later on all, we now know from the show that he's well-nig emphatically part-Targaryen.

7. Will Arya return to Westeros?

In a preview chapter of TWOW released by George VI R.R. Steve Martin, Arya is in an actors' troupe the like the 1 we see in the show. She's meant to be tailing the orders of her new mentor Izembaro, but instead she recognises person she has an retired vendetta against – Raff the Sweetling – and kills him, going against her status as 'a girl' or 'no more one'. Does this mean she'll constitute leaving the Anonymous Hands as she did in the indicate, embracing her nonagenarian Arya Stark self, and returning to Westeros?

8. Leave Aegon take Storm's End?

Aegon, aka Young Griff, is supposedly the nephew of Daenerys Targaryen, saved from slaughter at the hands of the Mountain when Varys switched the baby him with a random baby and shipped him o'er to Essos. He's of late landed back in Westeros with an army of mercenaries, and in a preview chapter from book six, his Dornish cousin Arianne Martell is en route to meet him – but what will his next move be? Will he take back Storm's End? And, if Daenerys eventually makes information technology over the Narrow Sea and back to Westeros, bequeath he give way his growing support to her, or will atomic number 2 become her competition for the Atomic number 26 Throne? And is he even a true Targaryen? Some fans think not…

9. Leave Sansa marry Harry the Successor?

Don't forget Sansa. In the she she had to marry Ramsay, escaped and joined her chum Jon in the north, before making a pact with the despicable Littlefinger and good the sidereal day in the Battle of the Bastards. In the books, she's still in the Valley with her cousin Old World robin Arryn, and she's beingness set up by Littlefinger not with Ramsay but with Harrold Hardyng, aka Harry The Heritor – the man who would succeed to Lord of the Vale should whatever harm concern young Robyn. Harry is precise unchaste, but Littlefinger has nevertheless arranged for him and Sansa – posing American Samoa his daughter Alayne Stone – to be betrothed, with the idea that helium'll display her individuality and use the Vale's forces to retake Winterfell for her. Merely in, yes, another prevue chapter from GRRM, Sansa seems to hold other plans when she rejects his asking for her favour at a tournament. How very Plot of Thrones.

10. Will Barristan survive the siege of Meereen?

Aboard Stannis' siege of Winterfell, the siege of Meereen this is the big beginning fight that we're waiting for. Bit of context: at the moment, Tyrion has just escaped from slavery – it's the slavers World Health Organization are military blockade the metropolis – and has joined the Second Sons in the thick of a horrible provoke of the camps surrounding Meereen. Now the Second Sons say they will join Daenerys (WHO is absent from City of London, having flown off on Drogon) and Barristan is in charge of City of London's defences in her place. In the show, Barristan Selmy doesn't survive even out until this point, so will helium make it any further, operating theatre wish this battle be his lastly?

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