SeanF

That’s fair, I think. Religious personnel/buildings should be off-limits in general, unless the religion in question is seen as disgusting.

Tarly is a disgusting man. Had he been alive in WW2, he’d have ordered the summary execution of female Soviet POW’s.

The last is combined with the Freys, Boltons, Slynt being the good guys.

24 -48 hours is basically the norm for a sack (sacks that lasted days, with a view to maximising slaughter, were unusual), Even Stannis wouldn’t stop a sack. Stannis might choose to kill captives, but once he’s agreed to spare them, it becomes a matter of kingly honour to treat them fairly, as with Asha, or the spearwives.

Some people are obsessed with incest, and take it to far greater lengths than the books do. Baelish perving on his own daughter, Rhaella becoming the lover to her own son, are paraphiliac fantasies.

Sansa is actually the daughter of Catelyn and Baelish.

Re, transportation, there’s an item on Bret Devereaux’s blog that’s relevant. Even in this day and age, long distance transport by sea is vastly cheaper and easier than long distance transport by land or air. For the cost of transporting a truck load of goods by lorry, across the USA, you can transport the same quantity of goods by ship, to any destination in the world. In this world, without petrol-driven vehicles, no railways or refrigerators, no air transport other than dragon, ships are the only means to transport people and military supplies over long distances. It’s why the marching routes of armies are predictable. They need the sea, or a navigable river, on the route of march.

I think you need to cut characters some slack, for the world they live in. Nobody is a liberal or a democrat. If the Ghiscari masters were portrayed as being like Cicero to Tiro, or Caesar to Posca, you might think, slavery is wrong, but these are not terrible people. But, in the text, they’re portrayed as cruel, savage, depraved, devoid of grace and culture, people who murder, rape, torture, for their own profit and their own amusement.

By the standards of 1810, when he did it, the action was a war crime (like much of what the French did, in Spain).

“Living boards.” A tactic adopted also, by the cultured intellectual, Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet, during the Peninsular War.

I expect that when the Volantenes revolt, there'll be plenty of ships. Together with any remaining vessels from those blockading the city.

I think it’s highly likely that Dany will have sappers/engineers. Companies like The Windblown will have siege specialists. I’d say also there’s big problem with Westerosi castles, compared to their medieval European counterparts. They aren’t constructed to hold and dominate territory. They’re huge prestige building projects, designed to show off the wealth and power of their owners. Real castles were as much offensive as defensive. You used them to control the territory within half a day’s ride, as well as providing a refuge from attackers. Given how the Riverlands is the cockpit of Westeros, without natural frontiers, there ought to be a network of fortifications to guard its borders, like those that were built to protect Normandy. Casterly Rock, Storms End, the Eyrie, are seemingly impregnable, but you don’t need to take them to control territory. A relatively small army can just bottle up the defenders.

Another hated theory. Catelyn abused Jon. And, Catelyn is to blame for TWOT5K.

A friend explained it to me. They fly the Stars and Bars, and absolutely refuse to accept their ancestors were in the wrong, and it spills over into discussions about slavery in fiction.

I think I know who you mean. I get sick of people trying to excuse/exonerate/justify chattel slavery, because it’s their culture/way of life/economy.

Hence, the past popularity of the theory that Dany was the offspring of Rhaegar and Rhaella.

The “evidence” is that she shares a bed sometimes, with Missandei, and kisses her. it’s an epic failure of reading comprehension.

The 163 slave children were actually crucified by Daario.

Daenerys is a paedo/raped Irri is Kelsey Hayes/Apple Martini logic.

In medieval Europe, violating sanctuary would be seen as a very serious war crime/crime against God, so it should be seen as such, here. Unless of course, it’s a religion you see as false or heretical.

Laying hands on the king is like attacking God. In-universe, it seems that the punishment inflicted on the Darklins was seen as fair.

Killing someone who surrenders at discretion would be no war crime in this world. But, if you agree to spare someone’s life, in return for their surrendering, that would definitely be perfidious, especially if that prisoner is highborn. For Robb, Karstark had gone rogue, murdered Robb’s own soldiers, and made his king a liar in the eyes of the world, by murdering highborn prisoners. WRT torture, few dispute that it is a legitimate practice. It’s torturing for fun that would be considered immoral.

What most of these crimes have in common is perfidy. Breach of guest-right would, in addition, be seen as crime against the gods.

“Daenerys the Mad Queen”, because: a) it’s a lazy argument, that displays little knowledge of mental illness, b) it confuses mental illness with being of bad character.

I doubt if it’s considered a war crime, per se. There seems an expectation that lords will resort to arms, on occasion, to resolve disputes with each other.