[quote=@LordLinguinie]
I think making it our own will be the best, because if we just follow what we know happened in the books then there will be no surprises.
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Of course there will be surprises. But we can set up scenes based on events that occur in the book. We are obviously writing a story separate from what George R. R. Martin has written. The story we write is what Martin did not write. That is where the surprises are hidden. Imagination based on a canon story line is a perfect setting.