Three crows knight's hawk, hound and mistress. "Three crows" are also often implicated in the parliament of crows where three crows preside over a larger number of crows and sit in judgment over the fate of another crow. The verdict sometimes results in a crow being set upon by all the other crows. This behavior and their tendency to show up at battlefields and the scenes of murders may be explain the collective term for crows as being a 'murder of crows'. "Three crows" also refers to a tale of three crows (a father, mother and son crow) bothering the king. There
A Feast for Crows his manuscript for "A Feast for Crows" had hit 1527 completed pages but still remained unfinished, with "another hundred or so pages of roughs and incomplete chapters, as well as other chapters sketched out but entirely unwritten." As the size of the manuscript for 2000's "A Storm of Swords", his previous novel, had been a problem for publishers around the world at 1521 pages, Martin and his publishers had decided to split the narrative planned for "A Feast for Crows" into two books. Rather than divide the text in half chronologically, Martin opted to instead split the material by character