(Spoilers Extended) The Mega-Prologue revealed at last!

Thanks to the recent visit of u/gsteff to Cushing Library and checking the AFfC manuscripts, we can finally lay a standing mystery to rest.

A Feast For Crows was supposed to start with a Mega-Prologue (200-250 pages consisting of a dozen chapters) at one point during the writing (around 2002-2003 to be precise). In the below thread, I explained the process and covered all the evidences I could find on the subject:

https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/921hg9/spoilers\_extended\_excavating\_the\_megaprologue/

One of the mysteries that we could not resolve was the conflicting reports about the number of chapters in the Mega-Prologue. Just before it was discarded, the Mega-Prologue contained 5 Dornish and 7 Ironborn chapters but another report claimed that it was 7 Dornish and 5 Ironborn chapters.

u/gsteff provided the chapter list belonging to the AFfC manuscript dated to 2004 June

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSQJj1MMr--OsVmCUiIEyWV7jwoBDnFTbA5-1sVbDcZTjUYmKmmuN0ruPApPUEdo98EglqhiKHKRNYJ/pubhtml#

Thanks to this, we can tell which version was true and The Mega-Prologue was something like:

1. Areo I (The Captain of the Guards)

2. Arys I (The Soiled Knight)

3. Arianne I (The Queenmaker)

4. Arianne II (The Princess in the Tower)

5. Arys II (partially written)

6. Aeron I (The Prophet)

7. Asha I (The Kraken’s Daughter)

8. Victarion I (The Iron Captain)

9. Aeron II (The Drowned Man)

10.Victarion II (The King’s Brother=The Reaver)

11.Asha II (partially written)

12.Aeron II (partially written)

As some of you might have heard before, Arys did not die in the early versions of the Queenmaker plot and it seems GRRM already had a second chapter in store for him. This partially written Arys II chapter was the fifth Dornish chapter in the Mega-Prologue. The only other Dornish chapter in the chapter list is the second Areo chapter which was unwritten at the time. So, there can't really be 7 Dornish chapters in the Mega-Prologue. This unwritten Areo chapter might be The Watcher from ADwD.

As for the ironborn, there were 7 chapters in the Mega-Prologue. 5 of them were already in the 2003 draft, with the change that The Reaver was named The King’s Brother. In the 2004 draft, there were 2 partially written chapters belonging to Asha and Aeron. The Aeron chapter is most probably The Forsaken without any significant change. And the Asha chapter is likely to be The Wayward Bride.