Isle Of Faces

The end begins in truth this week, and we welcome it with another 3-hour-plus corker for you all. Specifically, this week is Feast week as we wave goodbye to all four POVs amidst chapters full of horror, fanaticism, and cliffhangers a-plenty. Fires are lit up in the snowy north as Asha watches the burning of living humans before a huge surprise comes out of the storm. Victarion has his own atrocio...

This week, a breather. By which I mean we come in at just under three hours! The end of the Dance keeps coming as we hit double Meereen, have double returns, and one hell of a big event in the North. Today we start large as Jon Snow opens the Wall and allows the wildlings to finally enter the Seven Kingdoms, Barristan Selmy watches the political fallout in terms of Meereen vs Yunkai, Quentyn Marte...

How do you follow up the longest ever episode? By making the second longest ever episodes I guess! Yes it seems the end of Dance is really going to put us through our paces as the Isle has another three and a half hours of boogie time. And how to follow the big events of last week? By filling in the hole with new POVS! Here on welcome week we say hello to Cersei live from the penitentiary, we offi...

It's here! THE RECORD-BREAKER! Yes it is the longest-ever episode on the Isle of Faces with nearly FOUR HOURS of content for you to consume. And why so much chin-wagging? Because we've come to a major part of the book where we have not one but two of the biggest moments in the entire series going back-to-back! With no offense to Daenerys learning lessons of betrayal and teaching ones of dragons, o...

Absolutely everything is crumbling inside Winterfell and we LOVE IT. Theon witnesses the collapse of the Bolton alliance via several mysterious murders while having his own breakthroughs. Meanwhile, outside Meereen Tyrion copes surprisingly well with his new life as a slave. At Castle Black it's time for a wedding that binds both sides of the Wall. And far more interestingly, JAIME'S BACK. For one...

It's a very special reunion day here on the Isle. Firstly we get just our second Asha chapter as true winter lands and scatters all Stannis's royal plans to the winds. In Meereen the grand moment arrives for Quentyn as his long journey ends in front of Daenerys Targaryen, herself just hours from her second, dreaded wedding. Up at Winterfell Jon welcomes (kind of) Selyse Baratheon and her contingen...

The United Kingdom is back in its third lockdown. We need to do this one properly. This is a short, simple message from myself begging my fellow countrymen (and all those across the world) to stay home wherever possible and do this lockdown PROPERLY.  We've been given another chance, let's not waste this one too. You can save lives, it's within your power, so do it.

YOUR ISLE RETURNETH! Yes we are back for another year of Scrapping and Scrolling as we dive right back into the Dance with another four classic chapters. This week we hit the sunshine hard as we return for our one and only trip to Dorne to set up the future plots of Doran, Arianne, and the Sand Snakes; Jon sends off his last hope of gaining the wildlings while putting Bowen Marsh and his cronies i...

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 ab...

We return to our four chapter format today. Know how I know? Because we have what might be our longest ever episode at over THREE HOURS! What's the reason for that? Is it Daenerys having to rethink strategy when she learns of Astapor's fate? Is it our sickly episode of At Home with the Boltons? Is it even Tyrion's next voyage upon the waves, now with a very significant new companion? Yes, it is th...

It's another three chapter week as we hit Volantis for the longest outing of the book. Tyrion starts a new part of his journey (again) and Jorah gets owned by the Widow (ha!). Back in Westeros Jon is having a rough time in the training yard, a harder time reading letters, and the hardest time with his Ghostie, and then we forget all about that as we reach one of the very best chapters in ASOIAF: D...

Welcome to a brand new era of the Dance! For one day only we abandon the mighty triforce to focus on not one but TWO brand new POVs, with a second chapter for a fella we've only just met. Against a backdrop of establishing what's coming to Meereen in the second act we see Tyrion's suggestions come to fruition in the Golden Company as the fate of the world is changed, we see how brutal battle can b...

Somehow, the episodes just keep getting longer and the chapters just keep getting important....er. This week on Scraps and Scrolls we have two highs of ultimate leadership, self-sacrifice, King & Queenship, and the ultimate importance of duty above all else. But to offset that we also have two terrible, horrible, lowest of the lows in settings that could hardly be more different in Moat Cailin and...

We hit the quarterish mark of Dance by returning to our normal four chapter slate, and we've got our big three mixed with a fan fave today. War comes to Meereen from every angle at the same time war grows in the north, and it's just a little bit influenced by Jon Snow. Things get real creepy- and real important- on the Rhoyne and the Shy Maid, while Davos Seaworth steps into the Mermen's Court arm...

You think the Dance episodes have been monsters so far? You've seen nothing yet! On today's FIVE chapter episode we have one of the most incredible runs in all ASOIAF in terms of major events. Today we have the locking away of dragons, the reveal that Theon Greyjoy lives, Bran meeting Bloodraven, Tyrion working out he sails besides a king AND we get more Davos. They do get much more important than...

It's double trouble as we get our first dual chapters from a POV. Join Jon waving goodbye to friends and making himself feel better with Longclaw. Watch Tyrion embark on a new and even more important part of his journey. Forget the first two entirely because DAVOS IS BACK. Where is he? What's he doing? Who cares? DAVOS IS BACK! Then end as we began, back on the Wall for a brand new fire show from...

We started Dance off with a monster episode, so why change the format? Today, over the course of nearly three hours, the Isle and its Green Folk are introduced to grown-up Jon and his many responsibilities. Stannis leans over a map and broods, Melisandre says some something freaky. It's all new! To keep with that freshness Bran and company are struggling to get somewhere, and their wondering about...

THE ISLE OF FACES RETURNS! Come one, come all, back to our beloved Isle after a long layoff. Yes, Valar Rereadis has restarted and we've finally come to the final book of our grand project.  Come for the friendship, stay for the most evil chapter of them all. Make no mistake, Dance starts as it means to go on.  In today's monster episode we blend future warnings of Bran and Jon in with our very fi...

How's the break treating you all? Need refreshing about Dance before we get there? Can't quite remember who's supposed to be ruling or where that person was sailing? There's dragons right? Yes. Both physically and thematically? Sure. Wait, run it by me again, are we talking about Jon? No, Aegon. Aemon? No, Young Griff. The lost lord guy? No. Look, let's cut our losses. Probably best choice is to h...

Yes it's finally here! After a long ole wait, the patron-only episode, in which I read the Storm's End chapter from my Great Castles of Westeros book, will begin it's rollout today.  Have a listen to this quick-as-lightning announcement for some more details, and perhaps we'll see a few of you over on the Isle to join our wonderful community! To join up and receive the episode, just have a look he...

WE DID IT! Light the fireworks and ring the bells, here we wave goodbye to an absolutely fantastic, perfectly singular book in our series. There really is nothing quite like Feast. No surprise it requires our biggest episode EVER. Today I discuss the brilliance of its anti-war message, the joy of focusing on the people rather than the titles, and that's all with trying to not comment too much on t...

We are reaching the endzone, and it shows in today's monster episode. We begin with heading back to Riverrun and saying hi to Brynden, Edmure, and Jaime's dark side. Cersei completely outdoes him as she practices her baseball swing with a lute. Then we get back to the goodbyes as we rejoin the Dornish plot atop the Spear Tower before sliding back down from the Eyrie to the ground below as the plan...

I could talk about us reaching double figures, about saying goodbye to Arya as she says goodbye to sight (and Dareon). There's much to say about Brienne celebrating the celebrated death of Loras. The funeral of Aemon Targaryen is tempting as a topic, but if I'm honest none of them matter. Not when we have Brienne IV, the 'no chance, no choice' chapter. AKA THE chapter of ASOIAF   Today's chapters...

Does Jaime want a Brienne sandwich or a Cersei sandwich? My friends, put your hands together. Yes the three biggest characters of the book unite for today's episode where Jaime hunts down Lancel in Darry, Brienne finds a living ghost on the beautiful Quiet Isle, Cersei SOMEHOW gets even worse than usual with Taena & Falyse, before Jaime meets Daven and Genna Lannister and we finally return to Rive...

You might think only three chapters would mean less to talk about. And you'd be wrong. Today we reach MAJOR plot turning points for three different povs and for three different areas of Westeros. Jaime leaves King's Landing to bring justice to the Riverlands as Mr Goldenhand. Cersei meets the infamous High Sparrow and makes the decision that is easily her worst yet, essentially kicking off her own...