A New Secret About GRRM’s Original Game of Thrones Story Has Been Revealed

In 2015, a letter containing George R.R. Martin’s authentic 1993 pitch to his writer for his A Song of Ice and Fire sequence leaked on the web. Well, most of it—there was one paragraph on the finish that had been redacted with black marker, adopted by the phrases, “But that’s the second book…” Now, followers have deciphered­ (principally) what was typed beneath these traces, and it’s one hell of a shock… and perhaps a spoiler.

If you’ve seen the letter (noticed through Winter Is Coming, however you possibly can check it out here) or are simply up in your GRRM lore, you’ll recall that his authentic plan for A Song of Ice and Fire was as a trilogy. The first guide, A Game of Thrones, was going to be concerning the conflict between the Starks and the Lannisters, adopted by Daenerys’ invasion of Westeros in A Dance With Dragons, and concluded in The Winds of Winter the place the Others (a.okay.a. White Walkers) would make their assault. The letter principally detailed the various, many occasions that had been speculated to be in Thrones, which had been wildly totally different than within the completed novel, together with:

• After Ned and Robb Stark’s deaths, Tyrion was going to steer a Lannister military to burn Winterfell to the bottom. Catelyn was going to fleed with Bran and Arya to the Night’s Watch for cover, however Jon Snow was going to have to show them away (no households allowed), forcing her to transcend the Wall and search assist from the Wilding chief Mance Rayder. Then she was going to be killed by the Others.
• Sansa was going to be pregnant with Joffrey’s baby, and facet with the Lannisters towards the Stark household. Tyrion finally poisoned Joffrey as a result of he sucked, however then Jaime was going to homicide everybody else within the line of succession till he sat on the Iron Throne and would body Tyrion.
• Tyrion would then have joined Bran and Arya, and fallen in love with the latter. Arya, in the meantime, would have been in love with Jon Snow, who she believed to be her half-brother. Not good on both depend.

Again, that’s all in simply the primary guide! And, utilizing a captivating course of I don’t perceive however you can read about here, followers have uncovered most of what Martin wrote concerning the second guide in that redacted passage:

“By the end of A Game of Thrones (the first novel)……………onto the Iron Throne with a bit……………premature death, Bran sits free. Yet his seat is hardly a comfortable one. In the North, Jon Snow is his bitter enemy. Beyond the Narrow Sea, Storm Daenerys prepares her invasion. And on the far side of the Wall, the Others are watching with cold dead eyes and gathering their strength.”

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That certain as hell seems like Bran Stark was going to finish up on the Iron Throne by the tip of A Game of Thrones, presumably with Tyrion’s assist, which is wild. It looks like an completely arbitrary improvement—simply as arbitrary because it felt when Tyrion nominated him to be the brand new Lord of the Seven Kingdoms in the finale of the Game of Thrones TV sequence. This begs the query—did the present make its determination primarily based on this authentic define? Is Bran’s ascension nonetheless a part of the creator’s plan for A Song of Ice and Fire? Or has Martin modified his thoughts, whether or not due to how the story has massively developed since he made the unique pitch or due to how the TV sequence finale was obtained?

These are all nice questions that can be presumably be answered when Martin’s publishes The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring, hopefully inside our lifetimes.

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