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<blockquote data-quote="Brudewollen" data-source="post: 476003" data-attributes="member: 2274">ASoIaFAvarice is correct, though he spelled Aerys wrong <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> .Someone got it mostly right about Magister Illyrio (Illyrio Mopatis is his full name).&nbsp; Illyrio was a super wealthy merchant of the Free Cities and presumably a Magister is also some sort of official title of that place, though this is never said expressly.&nbsp; I always reconed it was sort of like the powerful merchants of Venice who were often accorded various titles and positions of power and prominence in that city state's government.&nbsp; But Magister Illyrio did not work for the Targaryans, Baratheons or anyone else, at least not on the surface.&nbsp; There are a lot of theories about Illyrio and a lot of very subtle clues throughout the books that he may have deeper plans and purpose, but what that could be is very murky at this point in the series.&nbsp; One scene, I won't say which, might suggest that he and Varys are in kahoots...but this is left intentionally very unclear.According to Amazon.com, A Feast for Crows (book 4) is slated to come out in April, as was stated, but from what I understand Martin still has not delivered the manuscript, and typically it takes quite a while for a book to go through the editing process - though for a book as big as this will surely be, they will no doubt work overtime to get it done ASAP.&nbsp; The series has become a full fledged phenomenon with the third book.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brudewollen, post: 476003, member: 2274"] [b]ASoIaF[/b] Avarice is correct, though he spelled Aerys wrong :p . Someone got it mostly right about Magister Illyrio (Illyrio Mopatis is his full name). Illyrio was a super wealthy merchant of the Free Cities and presumably a Magister is also some sort of official title of that place, though this is never said expressly. I always reconed it was sort of like the powerful merchants of Venice who were often accorded various titles and positions of power and prominence in that city state's government. But Magister Illyrio did not work for the Targaryans, Baratheons or anyone else, at least not on the surface. There are a lot of theories about Illyrio and a lot of very subtle clues throughout the books that he may have deeper plans and purpose, but what that could be is very murky at this point in the series. One scene, I won't say which, might suggest that he and Varys are in kahoots...but this is left intentionally very unclear. According to Amazon.com, A Feast for Crows (book 4) is slated to come out in April, as was stated, but from what I understand Martin still has not delivered the manuscript, and typically it takes quite a while for a book to go through the editing process - though for a book as big as this will surely be, they will no doubt work overtime to get it done ASAP. The series has become a full fledged phenomenon with the third book. [/QUOTE]

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