You are a sane Targaryen Monarch, how do you improve the Kingdom?

[TimJames]

You are a Targaryen Monarch sitting on the Iron Throne. You rule the seven kingdoms, and the entire continent has to do what you say because you have the dragon and therefore you make the rules.

Fortunately, despite generations of brother-sister inbreeding the gene for insanity for some reason skipped you.

How would you improve the kingdom?

Oh, remember that you are a King, not a Maester. While you can encourage technological discoveries, you can not yourself invent new technologies.

[The silver dragon]

improving a shity kingdom like westeros is a tall order, well here i go.

1.) reorganization

invite all nobility in 7 kingdoms, for the biggest most extravagant tourney/feast. And during the festivities, i would murder all of them in one fell swoop, and abolish feudalism due to its lack of effectiveness.

make a more centralized government (with each village electing a mayor who governs said village who will in turn elect a governor of that region{ who you may unelect if you don't like him}

, invent the draft for the royal army (that requires 1 in every 6 people learn how to wield a weapon and must join the army in case of war who are trained by veteran soldiers who are tasked with recruiting and garrisoning castles who i dub the grey wardens guild who answer to the crown.)

go to old town go and the citadel and kill any maester that's been for more than eight months (that should stop any dam conspiracy)

2.) education and advancement

Order the pyromancers to go though the books and split the pyromancers into two groups, those with a passion for magical arts i will form them into the mages guild who aid the crown, and make advancements in the field of magic, and those for those who don't have a affinity towards magic i make them scribes,

who go out and teach and educate villagers (this is mostly but not entirely about pr and brain washing the citizens, while their young into how important the dynasty is and white washing history to make the targaryens seem like saints, although there will be some good old fashioned education mixed in there).

make a standardized test someone must go though to be invited to court (like in china) and if they are quite competent maybe even become the apart of the small counsel.

every two year's i would sponsor a massive sci fair and ideas or theory's that i find well thought out i will fund the person who came up with them.

3.) justice and order

I will make a Federal court of law that judges and punishes criminals be they smallfolk, grey wardens or mages (but not those of royal blood and the king can overrule any court judgement if he finds it hurts the kings peace). Make a rangers guild ( like from the ranger apprentice series but a lot more of them) who are sent to guard villages from and to kill any bandits and outlaws who break the kings peace who answer to the grey wardens.

I would also make a branch of assassins who are funded and sworn to serve the crown ( perhaps there could even be a blood ritual ensuring their loyalty if the mages guild makes some progress) by killing of traitors before any situation brakes out in war. have some kids and be safe in the knowledge that i will forever be know as Rhaegon "the reformer" or maybe Rhaegon "the red dragon"

so want do what do you guys think? was i another maegor for killing all those nobles (in my defense feudalism had probably ruined far more lives than the ones i killed{like ever time the Bracken's and the Blackwoods go at it} and it was the only way to do get rid of it with out a massive war in which thousands of lives would be lost) or Jaehaerys (for all the reforms)?

i mean any change to the current system is probably a major improvement.

[Ser Cold Fingers]

See Aegon V...add real dragons.

(and less Summerhall)

[TimJames]

You'd also have to kill all of the noble's wives, children, and relatives. Plus undoubtably some would simply not go to the meeting and would probably run away when they learned about what happened to their colleagues. While they would flee to Essos, on the way out they would still tell all the little folk how the evil king murdered thousands of people. Plus, I'm sure that if the peasants were under a kind or generous lord than this news would piss some people off. If that didn't, than the Maester massacre would.

All in all, someone's facing a revolution. Remember, even Tsar Nicholas II had loyalists, so I'm sure that some littlefolk would support the nobility in this situation.

[Ramsay Gimp]

This thread will be less fun than the other one...

[Ser Charles of Rosehaven]

Who are Tarygaryens?

I would chanfe my last name to Targaryen and that by itself will make the world better

[The silver dragon]

You'd also have to kill all of the noble's wives, children, and relatives. Plus undoubtably some would simply not go to the meeting and would probably run away when they learned about what happened to their colleagues. While they would flee to Essos, on the way out they would still tell all the little folk how the evil king murdered thousands of people. Plus, I'm sure that if the peasants were under a kind or generous lord than this news would piss some people off. If that didn't, than the Maester massacre would.

All in all, someone's facing a revolution. Remember, even Tsar Nicholas II had loyalists, so I'm sure that some littlefolk would support the nobility in this situation.

some but as the you said i have a dragon, any Resistance would be unorganized and scattered easy picking for my dragon (a revolution that will almost certainly fail as most of the lords if not all will be dead, meaning that it will lack a rallying point). i never said it would be bloodless.

and anything they may say will be undone with immense brainwashing and propaganda,

and the Tsar was a king not a noble,Ivan the Terrible brutalized nobility, and the common people still loved him.

[JaimetheConciliator]

Pacify any faith-based rebellions instead of crushing them.

Offer to defend any vanquished foe as long as they're content with giving you the power to defend them, and never challenge you in a court (of justice, or god).

Decide that it's ok to marry your sister. Decide that it's not ok for a powerful guy to fuck any engaged chick he feels like just because he's powerful.

Build the Westerosi version of one of the wonders of the ancient world.

Take a Blackwood and a Bracken in each hand and smack their foreheads together until you hear a KUN.

[The silver dragon]

Pacify any faith-based rebellions instead of crushing them.

Offer to defend any vanquished foe as long as they're content with giving you the power to defend them, and never challenge you in a court (of justice, or god).

Decide that it's ok to marry your sister. Decide that it's not ok for a powerful guy to fuck any engaged chick he feels like just because he's powerful.

Build the Westerosi version of one of the wonders of the ancient world.

Take a Blackwood and a Bracken in each hand and smack their foreheads together until you hear a KUN.

so basically become jaehaersy, is what your saying.

[TimJames]

some but but as the you said i have a dragon, any Resistance would be unorganized and scattered easy picking for my dragon (a revolution that will almost certainly fail as most of the lords if not all will be dead, meaning that it will lack a rallying point). i never said it would be bloodless.

Even a dragon rider needs to sleep sometimes. And La Resistance could spend a decade and a half pooling money to hire a faceless man.

[The silver dragon]

Even a dragon rider needs to sleep sometimes. And La Resistance could spend a decade and a half pooling money to hire a faceless man.

the rank, status and impotence of the person affects the price.

we see waif a rich guy, he only pays one third of his wealth for the price of death,

while for Robert to Hire a faceless man it would be the cost of an army.

the chances that they will ever be able to get enough money is quite slim.

instead of a decade we are looking at 20-30 at least.

at that point i should have produced a heir, and my reforms should have been completed.

and i say bring on the assassins, let's see how they deal with my blood magic assassins (probably ruthlessly and effectively, but i man can dream :bawl: )

[Liz Stark-Targaryen]

Premise of the thread implies that all Targ monarchs are/were insane.

Flawed premise.

As for what any good monarch should do to improve Westeros, we already have some great Targaryen kings as examples. Jaehaerys I was the best during the Dragon Age, and Daeron II was the best after the dragons were all gone.

[Dorian Martell]

You are a Targaryen Monarch sitting on the Iron Throne. You rule the seven kingdoms, and the entire continent has to do what you say because you have the dragon and therefore you make the rules.

Fortunately, despite generations of brother-sister inbreeding the gene for insanity for some reason skipped you.

How would you improve the kingdom?

Oh, remember that you are a King, not a Maester. While you can encourage technological discoveries, you can not yourself invent new technologies.

Very simple. as long as Tywin is hand the realm is just and prospers. I would Have Tywin as hand and then I can go back to banging my sisters and whoever else I fancy.

[John Doe]

Convert to the ord of light and burn all the septs.

[The silver dragon]

Premise of the thread implies that all Targ monarchs are/were insane.

:agree:

Flawed premise.

As for what any good monarch should do to improve Westeros, we already have some great Targaryen kings as examples. Jaehaerys I was the best during the Dragon Age, and Daeron II was the best after the dragons were all gone.

that whole targs are mad thing is probably anti-targ propaganda that the citadel spread and Robert encouraged.

the fact of the matter is that all of valyria practiced incest, and yet they ruled most of the know world. and others have suggested that madness is a trait specific to the targs, now this can't be true in a cutthroat political atmosphere of the freehold with the dragonlord family's vying for domination over the freehold.

[John Doe]

the fact of the matter is that all of valyria practiced incest, and yet they ruled most of the know world.

Hiter ruled germany. Ruling something doesn't imply you're not mad.

[The silver dragon]

Hiter ruled germany. Ruling something doesn't imply you're not mad.

and hitler was forcefully dethroned, hitler was one of the reasons why the Germans lost the war.

but the freehold lasted for thousands and prospered, an impossible act if all dragonlords were mad. in all the books we know of what like 5 targs who were mad.

(one of which may have been faking it{rhaegal}, the other was probably driven to it due to shity circumstance{viserys}). so that's three mad targs compared to the dozens we have seen. that does imply that by large they were not mad.

[John Doe]

and hitler was forcefully dethroned, hitler was one of the reasons why the Germans lost the war.

but the freehold lasted for thousands and prospered, an impossible act if all dragonlords were mad. in all the books we know of what like 5 targs who were mad.

(one of which may have been faking it{rhaegal}, the other was probably driven to it due to shity circumstance{viserys}). so that's three mad targs compared to the dozens we have seen. that does imply that by large they were not mad.

hitler didnt have a autowin button called dragons.Of course they wouldn't all be mad, but many Targs might have been.

[The silver dragon]

hitler didnt have a autowin button called dragons.Of course they wouldn't all be mad, but many Targs might have been.

would have been fucked over in the complex game of politics back in valyria, if that were the case.

[Hardtack]

would have been fucked over in the complex game of politics back in valyria, if that were the case.

In the land of inbreed dragon scalies, everyone's a little bit mad.