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Valar Rereadis: The Sworn Sword - Part 2

History of Westeros (Game of Thrones)

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The Unreliable Narrator

It's possible Martin didn't have this timeline hashed out at the time he wrote this, you know, it is possible. But since we can attribute it to a narrator who's already established is unreliable, that seems to work better for me than just blaming it on the author. I really like the idea of an unreliable narrator. They're not necessarily being dishonest. They just might not know the truth of it or have a bias or whatever else. That's like all any book of history you read. Like literally anything is subject to these restrictions or these mistakes. Human error creeps into every single thing. The fact that he's a landed knight and not a lord means no maester,

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