Always painful to confront,

but amazing So in A Game of Thrones, Catlin, who's a Tully from the Riverlands, quote, Catlin knew them all, the Blackwoods and the Brackens, ever enemies whose quarrels her father was obliged to settle. So from the very first mention, they're mentioned as quarrels them, a long standing feud. Yes, these two ancient houses, kings during the age of heroes, hate

tracing back across history. This is the thing that people, like Damon, will tell us later, like, I don't really know anything about these guys, can you fill me in? But

pretty rare, most people know, I've got some notes, but Damon. Damon should definitely know. I've got some notes. Damon, get head on the dragon scrolls and read like literally about anyone else and anything else in the kingdom. Tough one for Damon there. I want to shout out, there's so much Brackett and Blackwood lore and we'll get to like a little bit of it today. Yeah. But I want to shout out our pals over on the History of Westeros podcast. Yes. A 'Shayah, Aziz, and Sean did a tremendous pre -season bracket in Blackwood, like, you know, their pods are like several hours long, who could possibly relate? Not us. But they did a whole pod on like tracing the bracket in Blackwoods through all of A Song of Ice and Fire and everything that George has written. It was

really, really fun. So I really recommend it. Sensational stuff. Sensational stuff. This was a fun payoff for that thrill we all felt when we saw them in the trailer. It's like, this was good. This was cool. It was great. I love this. So this idea of this feud between these two houses, the way that this connected to the larger themes of this episode and the larger themes of this point in Targaryen history, history of more broadly, human nature, the themes of the dance, et cetera. This question of how did it start, is it too late? We're gonna hit this in a few scenes across the episode because intentionally it comes up. We hear it later. Our guy, your guy and mine. Hopefully everyone's guy. Sir Simon Strong. Yeah. We'll voice this to Daemon when he asks this very odd question. Oh well, the answer to that is lost in Sin begets sin begets sin. This is part of the Reneis Reneira conversation that's in our next scene and we'll talk about more soon. This is at the heart of the conversation between Allison and Reneira. This it's too late. Parting. Parting over the idea that nothing can be done because you can't even trace back the root cause. How could you hope to fix it?