Floki of the Ironborn

We need way more context.

Do we know if Argilac knew that Aegon was already married? It seems like his marriage proposal was an act of desperation rather than a calculated move.

He's described as "grey-faced", so maybe people assume that means he's an old guy?

Touché

No, they'd be sworn to whoever controls the Rills, be they Dustin or Ryswell. Sorry, I confused my Flints for a second.

Fair enough, call me naive then. I guess I just assumed that the concept of time zones existed before we defined it. And yeah, fair play, it doesn't really change the story.

Assuming that Westeros is the size of South America, I would assume that there's got to be at least two different time zones at work. Then again, I don't know how Planetos works in relation to our world. Has GRRM ever shed light on that?

Well, it would be the Neck, and House Reed basically is Lord Paramount of that region already, in all but name. I'm sure Dustin and Ryswell will compete for overlordship of the Rills. As for other regions... Both the Stormlands and Reach will have to appoint a Lord Paramount of the Dornish Marches, since they each have half. I imagine Tarly would take that title in the Reach, while the Stormlands half would go to either House Caron or House Swann. I could probably come up with other examples, but it's late where I am.

No. The Lord Commander cannot leave the Wall.

"e-i"? "E-I"? Oh...

I mean, Leyton Hightower married his daughter off to some rando called Jon Cupps. It happens sometimes.

While I do think that Sweetrobin is Littlefinger's biological son, I don't think Arryn was examining the parenthood of his own son. He was absolutely looking into Robert's children. I agree that it's a funny thing to imagine, but I don't think it's anything but that; imagination.

I think it happened as Aurane Waters claimed. Sure, he's a slippery liar, but Loras' injuries play into the danger that Margaery Tyrell is in with the Faith, so I think GRRM can be trusted on this one.

That doesn't seem right to me either. There are tons of mercenary companies in Essos, and there always have been. The Stormbreakers, for one, and the Wolf Pack. Are you saying that all those men in the companies would have gone to the Wall without that option?

That makes me think that the Night's Watch was already under strength when they were down to 10,000 men. What I find very strange, though, is that there seem to be fewer and fewer people going to the Night's Watch post-Conquest. You'd think that it would be much easier for people to go north when the seven kingdoms aren't constantly warring with each other. I get that the North would value any additional recruits for the Wall, but allowing the transportation of prisoners across northern land feels like that could lead to some truly devious tricks in trying to conquer the North. Any one of the southern kingdoms could pull a Cersei and send a small army of men North under the guise of NW recruits, then infiltrate Winterfell instead, or something like that.