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Martin drew most character inspiration from history (without directly translating historical figures) [26] and his own experiences, but also from the manners of his friends, acquaintances, and people of public interest. As of June 2016, a total of 11 chapters from The Winds of Winter had been either read publicly or published as a sample chapter. In an interview from early April 2015 Martin declared his intent to complete The Winds of Winter before the sixth season of the TV series began in 2016. The non-existent concept of adolescence in the Middle Ages served as a model for Daenerys' sexual activity at the age of 13 in the books.

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On January 2, 2016, Martin confirmed that the sixth volume would not be published before the start of the sixth season of the HBO series.In 2000, Martin planned to take 18 months to two years for each volume and projected the last of the planned six books to be released five or six years later. Shortly before the start of the seventh season of Game of Thrones in July 2017, Martin was asked about the differences and similarities between the storylines of the TV show and the books. 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.

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He does not intend to separate characters by geography again, as he was forced to do with A Feast for Crows because of the unpublishable length of that novel's original manuscript. The novels also allude to the incestuous practices in the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt to keep their bloodlines pure. In 2015, Martin said that he was not writing A Dream of Spring together with The Winds of Winter, [77] and in early 2016, he said he did not believe A Dream of Spring would be published before the last season of the HBO show. A social network game titled Game of Thrones Ascent (2013) by Disruptor Beam allows players to live the life of a noble during the series' period setting.

Putting Avalon aside, Martin finished this chapter in a few days and grew certain that it was part of a longer story. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has become, in many ways, the gold standard for modern epic fantasy. Martin intends to resolve these storylines "very early" in The Winds of Winter, saying "I'm going to open with the two big battles that I was building up to, the battle in the ice and the battle at Meereen—the battle of Slaver's Bay.