Isle Of Faces

It's a mic check!  The Isle needs to check equipment, location, and whether I can remember how the hell you use Audacity. The way to do that? A sporcle spectacular! Need a laugh? Come join me as I struggle to remember who's who, what's what, and where's where (plus plenty more) Come along, have a go, and most importantly let me know how the audio sounds (also how you are, if you fancy)

It's a mic check! Why? Cos these aren't decent mics we're using. The Isle needs to check equipment, location, and whether I can remember how the hell you use Audacity. The way to do that? A sporcle spectacular! Need a laugh? Come join me as I struggle to remember who's blonde, who's who in the Night's Watch (which I just typed out as Nightwatch if you need a clue how much I've forgotten), and who...

It is true. After much gib-gab and mucking about, I actually managed to get back in front of a mic and talk some bollocks. And what bollocks it was! There's mumbling, stumbling, and more than a fair share of crumbling (in terms of ASOIAF knowledge, not spines...so far) In case you forgot: These episodes are based around the Quiz website sporcle and their ASOIAF category. I click on the random butt...

The time has come. After a big ole gap, and delays to delays, surgeries and royal deaths and road bumps galore...your Isle has returned. And it wants answers.   Answers to questions such as:   - Where will Daenerys and Drogon fly to next?   - What will Daenerys' reaction to the Battle of Fire be?   - Will Stannis' burning of Shireen be 'successful'?   - What eldritch/otherworldly creatures could f...

Trivia and shouting both return to the Isle of Faces in equal measure as we return for some Sporcle Spectacular and the third iteration of an attempt to Forge the Five.   And THIS TIME, I actually got the video to work (supposedly), so if you fancy watching along on my screen to see some cool maps and better focus your consternation at whatever I got wrong, you can head over to our Patreon to do s...

Here we are again, back for more sporcle fun to fill in the little break here on the Isle  (There may also be some brief exclamations over the NBA finals and the Olympics. I cannot confirm. Definitely not)   This time, there's Storm of Swords characters (where you will definitely be screaming some of the simpler answers I forget), there's Free Cities talk, Night's Watch trivia, which kings died wh...

This time round we ask and answer another ten questions for THREE WHOLE HOURS. How did we do it? With plenty of help from you fine folk. Emily and I make up our own Westerosi newspaper headlines, discuss the future of the far south, tick off a list, and laugh a whole bunch!     Specifically, today's questions are:   -  Name a Westerosi headline we could see in Winds  -  What will be the big 'pull...

Today I go head-to-head against ASOIAF sporcle. Using the trusty ole 'random' button, I try to beat the average score for four quizzes in a row. Finish below the average? Back to the beginning! No prisoners are taken in a Sporcle Spectacular. So get ready to shout out loads of clearly obvious answers that I forget in my haste to forge. That will include a good many Houses, place names, character m...

Thus, the journey is complete! We return to the beginning as we head back to the Battle of Fire and a Meereen on the edge! This time it's through the eyes of everyone's favourite delusional moron: Victarion! And this time he's a moron with a plan. Two in fact. One for battle, one for something altogether more...fiery. And flappy.  Aboard the Iron Victory we muse about realistic battle expectations...

Emily and I are back for another 10 questions, and it's our biggest episodes yet. We've got secret plots, we've got hoped-for vengeance, the crumbling of the Wall (or not), and dead (or not) POVs!   Specifically, today's questions include: - What will happen in the Winds prologue? - Will the Wall be down by the end of the book? - What will be the difference between book and show for Hodor and Shir...

Back to the snow, back to the war, back to the north! Finally, after so long we return to our search for answers in the camp of Stannis Baratheon. How will his army survive? How will the battle for Winterfell continue? What was the aftermath of Theon appearing out of the snow at the end of Dance? Finally, we get answers via our wall/chain-mounted Theon cam. On The Theon Hour this week we see Stann...

Welcome back to game time! After a long ole gap from this type of episode we continue welcoming Emily to the Isle by having some fun with the gigantic quiz sight known as Sporcle! Our mission this time round?  Be given an opening sentence from A Storm of Swords and then guess which POV it belongs to! Simple, you say? Well, you just wait. Or better yet, have a go yourself and tell us how you did as...

Thunderbolts. Lightning. Very very...well you know the rest.   Actually, there's no thunderbolts or lightning in this chapter but there may as well be as we enter perhaps the darkest chapter in all ASOIAF. Down in the depths of shadow we reunite with Aeron as he undergoes...quite a bit. Ancient trauma, physical torture, questions that you think bend the mind until the visions kick in and show you...

Emily and myself return for another ten questions blazing across the entire spectrum of The Winds of Winter! We've got sword names, we've got early exits, we've got the Vale, Stoneheart, and horny Tywin?? No thanks.   Specifically, today's questions include: - Unseen locations we finally visit - Who is the next fan favourite (the Nimble Dick award) - The most difficult to predict storyline - What...

Today we come upon one of the most most wonderfully written chapters of well. As enchanting as it is chilling. As thrilling as it expansive. Finally, after far too long away, we return to Arya as she takes on her latest role. While we see her live the life of Mercy and prepare for a big performance we also learn even more about Braavos and the life of the smallfolk. We wonder who her next target m...

Dorne? We don't need no stinking Dorne. Today we're going back to the Stormlands! In our second trip to Arianne land we get back to a long-forgotten kingdom, visit the Weeping Town, go caving, make contact with the Golden Company, re-meet Haldon Halfmaester and learn PLENTY about the next steps of Jon Con & Aegon. That, plus the fact they don't have any dragons. Uh oh.   As Arianne continues her d...

Welcome to the 2nd century here on the Isle. Today we travel all the way back for long-awaited Dorne to chat about an even more awaited Arianne. Yes we return to southern and central Westeros to focus on one of the biggest storylines in Winds: the return of dragons to Westeros. This time we do it in the framework of Arianne stepping away from her home, into the limelight, to ascertain the truth ab...

Well, here we are my fellow green chums. For the hundredth time, we step upon the Isle. Wowsers. But there'll have to be time for mind-blowing later. For now we kick off not only our new 100Qs series but we welcome new part-time co-host Emily of the Eyrie for the very first time. After some explaining, thanking, and introducing, Emily and I go through the first ten of our hundred Winds questions,...

Returned from our break and ready for a new era comes this, the 99th episode of THE ISLE OF FACES. After long last, we return to our dearest Sansa. In our longest Winds preview chapter yet we are back in a Vale on the edge. Winter is held at bay for now, but we are switching the bloody sands of Meereen for the deepest court intrigues of the Valemen. Sansa Stark, now oceans deep in the persona of A...

DAWN SHINES UPON OUR ISLE It is a new era on the Isle of Faces podcast. Today I expand on the big three announcements about our future. Where we are going, what we're doing, who we are doing it with. There are big, big projects in the works, and you can find out all about them right here on this quick Big Three Announcement episode   Within, you will find information on: - The identity of the bran...

On this, our big announcement day, we are also visiting the Winds preview chapters once more. We are sticking in Slaver's Bay for more Battle of Fire talk as Barristan Selmy first prepares for the coming battle, especially in the care of his young trainees and his own tactics, but we finally, finally, get to see the start of the battle.   In Barristan II the forces of Meereen roar out of the city...

The Isle of Faces is BACK! We return with a look through to the uncertain futures, the promises of plots and dramas and stories still to come, the drip feed on which we sustain ourselves as we look to the horizon. I refer of course to the pre-released The Winds of Winter preview chapters. And today we start with a bang.  Not only our biggest character with a preview chapter, but two of them! (Well...

Hello! Welcome back. Kinda. Before we actually get there, there's choices to be made. Where do you want the Isle of Faces to go next? What do you want covering? What do you NOT want covering? Now is the time to have your voice heard. Tune into this quick episode to hear a whole bunch of options. Once you've done that you can find the ISLE OF FACES google form where you can let your opinions be hea...

Well chums, we did it. Somehow, someway, we have come to the grand finale of this reread project, and what a time it's been! How do we note such an occasion? With a 5 hour podcast last week, and a 4.5 hour one this time. We're going out with a bang!!   Before we do the mushy stuff three chapters still remain. In them, Barristan Selmy takes control of a city while planning a war. He says goodbye to...

FIVE HOURS! Five hours long! It is the biggest episode of the Isle of Faces EVER! BY MILES!! This is what the end of ADWD does to us, for today we have four of the final chapters of the books, three goodbyes to major POVS, and more big moments than you would believe. In fact, we may well have the biggest in all ASOIAF. Tyrion Lannister prepares for battle while also planning on how to turn the war...