James Sinclair’s maps of Westeros from the American edition of A Storm of Swords. However, this would require every storyline put in motion at the start of A Game of Thrones to either climax, end or reach a natural end point before the end of the third volume. Everyone would be older and some lengthy “training montages” for characters like Bran, Jon, Daenerys and Arya could be elegantly sidestepped. Martin realised that it should be possible to “plateau” the story at the end of the third book and then pick up the action five years later. His original plan had been for years to pass in each volume so the characters would grow up, but by the end of A Storm of Swords only around 18-24 months had passed since the start of the series. Subsequently he realised that he’d made these characters too young. When he started writing the series he had a large number of very young characters, ranging from 3-year-old Rickon Stark to 14-year-old Jon Snow. The cover of the French edition of A Storm of Swords, art by the mighty Marc Simonetti.Īs he began work on the third volume, Martin was suddenly struck by an idea.
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