Alden Rothack

Well that makes sense because they are in the southern half and control large territories, they should be very powerful houses

The North is Scotland except for Skagos which is Norway the Iron Islands are the Kingdom of Orkney and the Isles the Reach is France except for the Arbour which is Venice Riverlands is Germany The Vale is Switzerland and Belgium Stormlands is Wales Dorne is Spain and Portugal Westerlands is England

I wish Martin had given us even as much about population as he did about army numbers, the North takes 2 or 3 times as long to gather its full strength as the southron kingdoms because its as large as the next three largest kingdoms combined we can't know how many men they can field unless we know how many men they have to recruit from and we don't, what we have are some educated guesses at best.

There were likely quite a few minor unnamed houses on the New Gift given how big it is, the plan itself is quite odd, the watch is 'giving up' the land to new lords but its getting the taxes from those lords as though the land was still theirs, which is not how it works anywhere else.

how do you figure that, they are paying the watch for the land not winterfell

Given how few of them there are I have my doubts it would rise the numbers of scum all that much If they are paying their taxes to the Watch for land granting them by the watch then its theirs whether they take their orders from Winterfell or not

Indeed and there are several ways to arrange that

Since the Watch elects its Lord we cannot presume thats true of the Watch and the lands it controls its very possible that new lords can be made for the gift simply by the lord commander agreeing to it

which is Ned being short sighted and stubborn, the north managed but it did decline, the areas to be resettled are near the size of some of the southron kingdoms after all.

Yes to all of them if they haven't been done already

the problem with the freys is that 1% of them is an actual number with multiple people in it

Ned absolutely should have asked for a number of things in exchange for remaining loyal to Robert even before Jon Arryns death, he should have asked for a lot more in exchange for becoming hand, of course knowing what to ask for would actually require Ned to think intelligently about the problem, which he absolutely can but doesn't want to.

I have no issues with the amount, even without being robbed or overcharged its very possible to lose any amount of money very quickly, free anything for everyone all night is absolutely a thing that some people do, even people who should know better (which includes Robert but not the archer)

not as far as I know they are in my opinion examples of wild excess, not necessarily implausible but at the same time not useful as metrics of what normal things cost, after all while you can buy bottles of wine costing a million pounds, most even very rich people don't do it all the time.

Definitely, the Starks should have asked for it back during the Dance

Corly is rich but not an idiot, he knows that more than that isn't needed Bronn works for Tyrion, its very possible that Bronn is spending a lot of gold but not overspending lavishly like a fool, if you want to spend a hundred or even a thousand times what something is actually worth they will let you if you can prove you have the money. there were for example hookers who charged thousands a night even in the middle ages.

Most of that is going to be stark land

Yes, it is very much possible for Anguy to blow that much in that amount of time Robert was not being merely lavish, he was being extremely over lavish even by the standards of even very very rich people like the Lannisters.

given that a dragon is worth over two hundred stags its very unlikely to be smaller than the stag

the coins suggest so by their relation to each other so absent other information we may take the fact as given thats not a problem with the currency, the prizes being a hundred times too high is entirely consistent with Robert massively overspending

if only minor houses are on it then its Stark land

Yeah, the starks were able to give up enough land to establish and maintain garrisons of 10k on the wall and still have enough left to conquer the rest of the north with. at that time the Starks would have been the strongest house in westeros by far

I suspect most of the previous Freys would be horified at what the house has become

No kidding, the old gift alone is the size of ireland and reasonably frtile since we know growing crops is possible even further north, a reestablished watch could probably push a good ways north of the wall too, possibly all the way to Then territory and set up regular trade with the people there hells under those circumstances the Watch could be stronger than the ironborn.

That was the case for some real kings, peace is a terrible thing for a warrior king