Notes on the Future

I do not intend to develop a sequel to this adaptation, but I know who the characters would likely be.

The winters of Westeros are forgotten within a generation as the world continues to heat. Although the Storm Lands and the Vale are still occupied, much of the southern population migrated to the formerly underpopulated Kingdom of the North. By contrast, the people of Dorne have sailed away to Sothoryos.

Bran - Maintaining his vigil in a rebuilt Red Keep, King Bran for years sought to ward off, with Drogon's aid, attacks from dead sailors, and others, from beneath the sea. Sam remains steadfastly by his side. As the tale opens, Drogon is injured, King's Landing is destroyed, and Bran is taken to Storm's End, the last great bastion in the South. Bran alone is aware that, not long after the last war, Drogon laid two dragon eggs out beyond Ashhai, where they are coveted by both the Warlocks and the Priesthood of the Red God. Bran is best placed to find them and sets off as the dragon recovers.

Quaithe - Once known as Ashara Dayne, the old witch of Qarth may hold the key to the location of the eggs.

Tyrion - The Grand Old Man of Westerosi politics, Tyrion is charged with maintaining a powerful military force in the South, even as most of the population has abandoned it. He is sent to negotiate peace in the north, so armies are available to fight where most needed for the greater good. On that mission, he makes a discovery in the Iron Islands.

Victaria - With the collapse of the old ways, Victaria has overseen a revolution of industry in the Iron Island, inspired by ancient books that she had retrieved from the north, which could change the course of the war. However, she has to contend with a rapidly changing society of newly wealthy refugees seeking political power.

Sansa - The Ruler of Highgarden now holds court at the Last Hearth, with the lands of the "Gift" as her realm. She has never married, but has taken young Snow Tarly as her protégé. Zealots of "the Seven" are intolerant of the beliefs of the First Men of the North. Sansa is forced to act against the Andals she rules, while dealing with wars North and South.

Rickon - The Lord of Winterfell has a young family, and the story is best told from their new perspectives. He considers himself Bran's most loyal servant, and sees finding the dragon eggs as a priority. However, like Sansa, he is caught up in events to the north. His eldest son and heir, Brandon, has recently been killed fighting for his uncle in the south. He is at odds with his second son, Eddard, who agrees with his mother, Alys, that the wars in the north are the greater priority. Consequently, Rickon relies on his youngest son, the somewhat dimwitted Jon, to take on the mission of finding the dragon eggs. Ignored is his idealistic daughter, Robyn, whose socially dangerous affection for Sansa's protégé, Snow, seems unrequited.

Bronn - Now a warlord beyond the largely disappeared Wall, Bronn settled people of the Westerlands by displacing Wildlings, taking advantage of southern weapons and tactics. His ambitious daughter, Anne, attempts to woo Eddard Stark to her father's cause against the wildlings.

Tormund - His people displaced by invaders who cannot be defeated on the battlefield, the venerable fighter, Tormund Giantsbane, is called to lead a guerilla war of survival.

Podrick - Sent north to enforce peace, Ser Podrick's communication with Bran is cut off. He takes on young Robyn Stark as his protégé.

Aegon/Jon - Based in Bravos, the leader of the Night's Watch has spent a generation defeating the "Free Cities" and liberating their slave populations in Daenerys' name. He is a living legend, and only now faces his greatest challenge, the conquest of Volantis. He carries not only guilt for Daenerys, but sadness over failure to raise Arianne's child, who he has not seen in over a decade. As he prepares to set siege to Volantis, an army from the Bay of Dragons arrives on the horizon, led by the warlord, Daario Naharis.

Kinvara - Long a great prophet amongst Red Priests, she has been shaken as her prophecies, while repeatedly vindicated, suggest to her that the Red God is not mankind's benevolent savior as she preaches. She doubts its omnipotence, as it is unaware that the sacred dagger that it's acolytes seek is actually in her possession.

Arya – Faced with her younger self condemned to death for killing Meryn Trant without permission of the Faceless Men, her elder self, disguised beneath the face of Jaqen H'ghar's twin, consumed the poison instead. However, unbeknownst to the Faceless Men, she used the doubling technique of the Warlocks to save her life. Her subsequent whereabouts are unknown.

Tyton Pyke - As the only child of Cersei Lannister with the warlock's apprentice, Euron Greyjoy, he was ultimately raised a ward of Victaria Greyjoy, ruler of the Iron Islands. His mother having died in childbirth, clasping her brother's golden hand to her neck, this young man grew up unaware of his heritage until he meets his uncle, Tyrion Lannister. A mysterious female stranger provides clues to both of them that far to the north, at the top of the world, lies escape from this doomed world, and that Tyton is destined to conquer a new one beyond.

Visenya Martel - The only child of Arianne Martell, she is also the child of the legendary Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, who, at King Bran's command, was permitted to father children. Despite Aegon/Jon Snow's denials of being the son of Prince Rhaegar, Arianne, having also studied with the Warlocks, believed that the Lord Commander was her half-brother, seeking him to father as close to a full-blooded Targaryen as possible. Years later, Arianne became convinced that Jon was the fruit of Robert Baratheon's rape of Lyanna Stark, which led her father, Rhaegar, to steal Lyanna away for her protection, so Robert might never claim the fruit of his dishonor. In the years since, the young Princess Visenya Martell has been raised in Sothoryos, where Grey Worm is building her empire. Her mother actively seeks, for Visenya's consort, the one other child of Targaryen blood. Unbeknownst to them, Grey Worm secretly holds allegiance to that other child.

Rhaenor Targaryen - With his angelic appearance slowly giving way to a greyscale-like condition, the posthumous child of Queen Daenerys was born with dragon wings. Prince Rhaenor was raised in Volantis' temple of the Lord of Light, and red priests told him of the Lord Commander, who murdered his mother as she ascended her throne, and his daughter, Rhaenor's half-sister, pretender of Sothoryos, who contests his royal claim.

"The seeds of war are oft planted in times of peace." – George R.R. Martin