- Both the brainchild of guys named George
- Both took a long time coming out with the fourth book/film (to be released)
- Some fairly important characters do not appear in the fourth book/film (chronologically)
- A lot of really important backstory happened around the time the youngest generation was born, about 15-20 years before the first book/film (to be released)
- Key to this backstory was a love affair that tore the realm apart.
- A disproportionate number of characters have their hands maimed or amputated... including an arrogant swordsman whose fatal flaw is pride
- One character's hand loss is a major turning point in his character development
- A mentor figure nicknamed Ben dies/vanishes before he can do much mentoring
- In the first book/film (chronologically), there's a stoic decoy protagonist who gets killed off for real
- A major character's parentage is a major plot point
- A princess starts out on the run from the dominant power in the Verse.
- A protagonist's home is burned down
- Twincest!!!!
- The third book/film (chronologically) sees the main antagonist ascend to Magnificent Bastard-hood by orchestrating a coup d'etat of the other side from very, very far away.
- Said Magnificent Bastard is eventually brought down because he did something phenomenally stupid in front of a subordinate he'd underestimated
- At the end of the third book/film (chronologically), several characters are forced to go into hiding. One has to crawl through tunnels, a princess has to change her name, and her sibling is shipped off to be turned into a living weapon at a remote edge of the map.
And one from A Dance with Dragons...
- In the fifth film/book (chronologically), a guy we've been told was dead since the series began is revealed to still be alive.
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