It felt like it half-killed me to get it ready for you. But it is HERE and it is A MONSTER. Welcome, to the longest-ever episode of the Isle of Faces!! And why the incredible length? Because today we have not one but two of the most important chapters of the entire book and two of the major tentpoles of the series. We begin in a deep dark cave with deep dark secrets as Brandon Stark awakens his abilities even at the cost of his friends and we discover the true, awesome power of the weirwood trees. Yes, we're headed back in time. Smaller in scale though no less enjoyable is Jon Snow going on his own nostalgia trip as he heads back to the weirwood grove to make friends with a giant, Daenerys gets her own key leadership moment among the Astapori before betrayal is revealed to her, and then that scale mounts right back up again as Theon returns us to our first love...Winterfell, in a chapter rife with mystery, memory, and above all...pain.

Our amazing chapters today are:

- Bran III

- Jon VII

- Daenerys VI

- Theon IV/ The Prince of Winterfell

So hop aboard the Isle for a chit-chat about... well what don't we talk about today? There are discussions on Bran's torture of Hodor, what might have happened to Meera Reed, and the thousands of possibilities opened up to us via the weirwood. There is Jon sending yet more friends away but also showing off his leadership in the field. There is Daenerys finally succumbing to the need for something good for once and her mini-victories against the terrible Meereenese wedding customs. And there is just about everything in Winterfell. The importance of the godswood, what Mance is upto, Theon's place as a Stark, Winterfell's failed purpose, and above all a very, very difficult talk on the tragedy of Jeyne Poole complete with some extremely loud cursing about the man who put her there.

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