Chris Ryan

it didn't matter to me.

Like, for all I knew, this was happening, like, adjacent to Game of Thrones itself.

And it really did give a sense of, like, depth and width to the entire kind of fictional universe that he has built out.

But tell me a little bit about, Joey, you can start, like, what we need to know about, like, when this is in relation to the first season of Game of Thrones and, like, what's going on in the world at this time.

Sort of a spoiler for House of the Dragon.

The Blackfyre Rebellion.

Which was also rumored to have been a spinoff at some point, right?

They might.

I'm going to, you know what?

It's like legacy maintenance.

Yeah, exactly.

I was going to ask, there's a plumber line that's kind of a throwaway where he says something like, this is the Reach, not the Riverlands.

Mm-hmm.

What's he saying?

Is he like, this is Philly, not New York?

Like, what is, kind of?

They also love to marry within.

And in the novellas, is Duncan conversant in that stuff?

Does it come up?

Oh, okay.