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 the material by character and location, resulting in "two novels taking place simultaneously" with different casts of characters. "A Feast for Crows" was published months later, and the concurrent novel "A Dance with Dragons" was released on July 12, 2011. Martin also noted that the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series would now likely total seven novels. "A Feast for Crows" was the first novel in the series to debut at number one on "The New York Times" Best Seller list, a feat among fantasy writers only previously achieved by Robert Jordan and Neil Gaiman. In 2006 the novel