Hahaha, good point. :)

Yeah, if this is anyway accurate, I'm totally going to avoid The Bastard Executioner like the plague.

I can assure you that you were not the only one. :)

I agree, and besides, it's history, or at least history-adjacent. Some folks are going to know the broad strokes of what's ahead for some of the characters just through common knowledge.

I will admit that I expected 'and I shall take what is mine!' to be followed by 'by fire and blood!'

My favourite bit (storytelling wise) was the death of the king while Uhtred and Ravn talked.

Good summary. I thought Uhtred was based on Uhtred the Bold, though? Or at least BC was inspired by him?

I thought that the Red Wedding was based on that time when the Campbells in Scotland were slightly less than ideally hospitable to their guests, the MacDonalds. But I could be wrong.