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  1. The common language is another good example of bad worldbuilding. The fact that a wildling and a dornishman could communicate with each other without any kind of problem does not make sense
  2. It was a month ago, not days, my bad. Still, he's not made much progress this year https://streamable.com/vgir65
  3. Dorne is a desert almost the size of Spain, my own country. I would say there's a good chance it's both the least populous and the least populated.
  4. Martin himself has said a few days ago that he has 1100 pages written, which is the same amount he mentioned in October of last year (https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/17wync0/spoilers_extended_grrm_mentions_winds_in_a/) He isn't writing much these days, no matter how badly we would want him to. He's also mentioned they are working on a lot of spin-offs with HBO. He seems to be far more focused on TV now than books. We have to be realists, if we actually get Winds that will be an achievement in itself
  5. That argument doesn't make sense. The Dornishmen cannot stand a prolonged war against the Seven Kingdoms. They can fight back as long as they want, but in the end they'll end up losing. Doran Martell himself said they are the least populated of the Seven Kingdoms. They don't have the numbers. But with Nymor and Aegon, we are talking about events that happened 300 years before the main series. When there where dragons
  6. George is 75 years old. Sadly he doesn't have the time to expand the series beyond the two planned books. In the last 18 years, he's released only two books. And now it's been more than 12 years since ADWD came out. 3000 pages is more than enough to finish the series, at least a third of the POV characters in Winds shouldn't be alive by the end of the book.
  7. I would say the Westerlands probably has a similar population to the Vale and Stormlands combined. So probably like 4-8 stormlanders, 6-10 men from the Vale, and 10-15 men from the Westerlands.
  8. I believe Martin intends to leave that question unanswered. It's one of those open theories that don't actually have a real answer, it's just a plot device. But if it has a real answer, IMO, the only sensible possibility for Nymor's letter is that the Dornishmen found out a way to wipe out the dragons for good, probably some magic secret from before the Doom (or maybe something actually related to the causes of the Doom). Some dark blood magic or poison or whatever. It's the only threat that would have stopped Aegon, the possibility of losing all the dragons and the eggs. Nymor offered him a deal, my kingdom and the freedom of my people in exchange for peace. You can have your Seven Kingdoms controlled by your dragons, but leave Dorne alone. Or we all die. Some sort of Mutual Assured Destruction, like with nukes. Maybe it's related to how the dragons eventually died out during Aegon III's reign. Maybe it's related to the Citadel and the Dornishmen somehow knew before them, they knew how to put an end to the dragons but they never did it. And it happened anyway 120 years later. I've always found strange that Aegon burned the letter and then flew to Dragonstone straight away. That's the key. There was some knowledge in Dragonstone, some dragonlore written down in an ancient Valyrian book, and Aegon needed to verify if it was true. And it was.
  9. Yes, they could have. But they don't. That's the bad worldbuilding. I would have been fine with some secret magic potion making them fearless and obedient and strong, but they don't use any of that. They are castrated at 5, forced to kill a puppy, and then somehow grow to be muscular agressive warriors that's don't get fat. And that's not how castration works in males
  10. Sure, but that's the magic part. Unsullied couldn't have grown into muscular adult males. Men who are castrated at a young age never develop a muscular build, they can't. They tend to be tall, but have very weak muscles (and get eventually quite fat), and aren't nearly as agressive as the average men because they lack testosterone They wouldn't be good warriors by any means, let alone the best and most disciplined in the world.
  11. The time jump was quite necessary between ASOS and AFFC. Maybe not a 5 year jump as he intended (IIRC it was 5 years, unless I'm mistaken), but 2-3 years would have been nice. Martin f*cked up there IMO. All the main characters are just too young at the end of ADWD. Jon is 17, Dany 16, Sansa 13, Arya 11...they are just kids. They should be a little older.
  12. The Unsullied are by far the worst worldbuilding Martin ever did. In general Essos is far worse in terms of realism than Westeros, but the Unsullied take the prize. Eunuchs castrated while being kids would never develop to be fierce warriors.
  13. Dorne is the least populated of the Seven Kingdoms, said by Doran Martell himself in AFFC. So that would be wrong, as you put both the Iron Islands and the Stormnlands behind them. I've always assumed Martin intended the Seven Kingdoms to have a similar population to the Roman Empire / High Middle Ages. At least that's what I gathered from the number of troops raised, pretty similar to the legions and auxiliaries (although larger than any army ever assembled in Europe during the Middle Ages). I would assume: -The North: between 6 and 10 million -The Vale: between 6 and 10 -The Riverlands: between 4 and 8 -The Westerlands: between 10 and 15 -The Crownlands: between 2 and 4 -The Reach: between 15 and 25 -The Iron Islands: between 3 and 5 -The Stormlands: between 4 and 8 -Dorne: between 2 and 4 So, 50 to 85 million people, more or less. No way of knowing exactly, but those numbers seem about right
  14. Agreed. It's completely ilogical that Dorne remained an independent Kingdom for more than 200 years, specially when the Targs had dragons. It doesn't make any kind of sense
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