[quote=@Gowi]
GM question: Will we be following canon when we start or will you be letting the story take its course as an AU as we go on?
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Any events that don't end up altered by the characters themselves will proceed as canon dictates. I'm not going to go actively out of my way to give characters the opportunity to disrupt the events as laid out by the story, because I'm far worse at figuring out the ripple-effect of things than GRRM, but if something does happen I'll try to keep it going on the fly.

I anticipate that our characters won't quite be important enough in the eyes of people like Tywin Lannister or Robb Stark to make any huge difference.