I wouldn’t be surprised if the author saw the negative reaction, realized he was going to do roughly the same thing, and decided to just get circling the runway and churning out endless edgy side projects instead of coming up with something else.
See my comment above, the ending of the books will be significantly different due to the cutting of Euron Greyjoy, Victorian Greyjoy, Young Griff and other pivotal characters that will affect the world in world historical ways. They completely removed the foreshadowed plot of Euron Greyjoy summoning a meteor into the earth and causing another long night, possibly becoming the vessel for an old god or demon of some kind. They also completely botched the white walker plotline explaining their creation and eventual destruction, which requires Brann to realize his ancestors were evil and right the wrongs of history by letting the white walkers back into their home in the weirwood trees and relinquishing human control of the weirwood hivemind network.
Azor Ahai / the prince that was promised is Euron Greyjoy who brought about the original long night and will be bringing the upcoming one as well. Azor Ahai is evil.
The Night’s King, who is a fabled evil king of legends, is Jon Snow. Jon will be resurrected as Night’s King and lead the White Walkers back into their homeland of the weirwood network (they are tree spirits driven out of the weirwoods and given physical form via blood sacrifice, mostly babies).
So the twist will be the prophecy is true but the opposite of how we have been interpreting it. Azor Ahai is actually the bad guy and Night’s King will end the long night and lead the others to peaceful justice and to return to their home)
I wouldn’t be surprised if the author saw the negative reaction, realized he was going to do roughly the same thing, and decided to just get circling the runway and churning out endless edgy side projects instead of coming up with something else.
See my comment above, the ending of the books will be significantly different due to the cutting of Euron Greyjoy, Victorian Greyjoy, Young Griff and other pivotal characters that will affect the world in world historical ways. They completely removed the foreshadowed plot of Euron Greyjoy summoning a meteor into the earth and causing another long night, possibly becoming the vessel for an old god or demon of some kind. They also completely botched the white walker plotline explaining their creation and eventual destruction, which requires Brann to realize his ancestors were evil and right the wrongs of history by letting the white walkers back into their home in the weirwood trees and relinquishing human control of the weirwood hivemind network.
Azor Ahai / the prince that was promised is Euron Greyjoy who brought about the original long night and will be bringing the upcoming one as well. Azor Ahai is evil.
The Night’s King, who is a fabled evil king of legends, is Jon Snow. Jon will be resurrected as Night’s King and lead the White Walkers back into their homeland of the weirwood network (they are tree spirits driven out of the weirwoods and given physical form via blood sacrifice, mostly babies).
So the twist will be the prophecy is true but the opposite of how we have been interpreting it. Azor Ahai is actually the bad guy and Night’s King will end the long night and lead the others to peaceful justice and to return to their home)