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Although fantasy comes from an imaginative realm, Martin sees an honest necessity to reflect the real world where people, even beloved people, sometimes die ugly deaths.Each chapter is told from a limited third-person perspective, drawn from a group of characters that grows from nine in the first novel to 31 by the fifth. And she too takes Mina to task for being so consumed by winning this film competition that she forgets about friendships and feelings.

Nevertheless, there were general concerns about whether Martin would be able to stay ahead of the show. Season two begins with them on a train to Cambodia 14 months later, still blissfully ensconced in the honeymoon phase.Martin experienced some harsh winters when living in Dubuque a few years in the 1970s, and suspects these winters had an influence on his writing; "I think a lot of the stuff in A Game of Thrones, the snow and ice and freezing, comes from my memories of Dubuque". The story follows her year-long conflict with the region's city states, in which she aims to consolidate power, disrupt the Essosi slave trade, and gather support for her ambitions to reclaim Westeros. Martin wanted to set this story five years after A Storm of Swords so that the younger characters could grow older and the dragons grow larger. At the beginning of A Game of Thrones, 15 years have passed since Robert's rebellion, with a nine-year-long summer coming to an end.