DExit

Dorne knows maternall rule, theon is heir to the SC,Shireen is heir indeed, the both girls who are thought of as Stark/not (jeyne suppossed to be arya and alayne= sansa) are married because of their claim, Ramsey and Tyrion where able to claim wf because of their wives, not to say a woman would never rule north of dorne, you named lady Mormont, but in reality Rams and Tyrion would be claiming the rights of their sons once they where born. As to Cersei: she is regent for her sons, she reigns trough them, this goes also in the Casterly rock fashion, tommen is lord of Casterly rock although to young to claim it. Alys comes after Harrion and not before, btw harrion dead would make the magnar lord of karhold, trough alys, yes, but still. Dany taking two husbands would be frowned upon, would start rebellions from her lords, and afterwards of her own sons against their halfbrother kings, just awesome! Dany needs the help of westerosi to gain the throne if she ever leaves meereen, you are staking too much hope on unsullied, sellswords and savages. I almost forgot the dragons, but I'm counting the citadel to take them out, maybe poison or something.

It's probably also that all the officers are free men, there are no slaves of high standing, so there are no slaves the other slaves could look up to and accept commands from. I thought of it, and being a soldier-slave or a pit fighter, the men would have high standards of honor, they are probably proud of what they do and who they are, when there are not so much free men, there is probably a hyrarchy among slaves, and fighters would be the number one in that case. Having thus proven myself wrong about the whole "slave fighters, could that even work " thing. I'm coming to wonder, are the ones at the top of the slave piramide going to give up their top postition of something? Probably for the fighters living standards are higher than of those who are rowing the ships and doing dirty work in volantis, who is to say that the living conditions of the fighters are going to improve when they are free men?

Actually remeber mamluks from when they started fighting in the last part of christian/crusader activity in the holy lands, I'll certainly look after them, but I'm also sure that the Ottomans had regular forces apart from slaves, I think mamluks and janissars were elites or something? The mix in volantis is more likely to have a succesfull explosion.

In that case it will be alot more simple for the slaves to go over to Dany. My main question is, how does Volantis excist if workers and fighters are slaves? The only known comparrison to men in history, where there were as many slaves as in essos, is the Roman Empire, but they always had free Romans in the army to do the fighting and supressing slave-revolts.

The slaves are rowing the ships, but I assume there are fighters on board who arn't slaves- this far east and in Dany's storyline I'm never entirely sure btw. Again assuming the slaves doing the hard work of rowing the galleys. the amount of food she would need to carry her army, possibly a Khalshar, and the slaves to westeros is immense, this seems a problem to me.

It's posssible for a male Targ to wed multiple wives, although I'm unsure it was still in custom after the conquest. If dany was to wed two men, no single man in westeros would follow her, because all the important people are men, need I say more, it would be called unnatural and evil or something. Aegon can wed Arrianne and Dany, but then, whose child should inherit the throne? Marriage alliances are made to make a family bond between mighty houses, so if Dany's child will inherit the throne, Dorne gains absolutly nothing. I don't see Dany allowing a second women in her marriage btw...

Is it now? The Quentyn-companions will tell Doran the truth: Quent being spurned etcetera, Dany had nothing to do with his death but it were her dragons... But how he was treated by the members of Dany's court- the likes of Daario won't impress Doran btw- and how she favord a local over him, I don't think Doran is going to like all that.

It will force the dragons into submission, otherwise it's useless, but they probably won't like it and will continue to be very agressive.

Tywin married his cousin if I'm right? In westeros and in medieval Europe, the royalty was always related, so wedding a close relative was not a big problem. Somehow, I don't see Dany coming to central-Westeros ever, but if she does Doran will do something against her, most likely not open war, but something more subtle, maybe send in a sandsnake? Hire a faceless man? Tinking again, he will probably not rage, but weep, maybe the news of quentin's death kills him...

Why? Doran would just name that false and fight on to make his daughter a queen. Stannis wrote every lord in westeros, but still, most people believe Tommen to be the real deal or they just don't care. Doran has no other options than Aegon, he hates the lannisters, Stannis is far away and once he hears how Dany welcomed his son and how Quentin burned alive because Dany favored a local nobleman above a prince of Dorne, well how do you think he'll react: he was plotting for years to avenge his siter, he will rage for his son.

The Tyrells are primary their own men. Sure, there was a battle at Ashford, but Tarly had defeated Robert before Mace even got there. So while the starks, tullys and arryns join the rebellion and become a threath to the Crown, Mace is besieging storm's end with the bigger part of his army- unsure at this point btw, were any Tyrell bannermen present at the Trident?- that is not the path of a down the bone-loyalist! Such a man whould have left a small force in the stormlands to make sure Stannis doesn't become a thread and take the rest of his army to KL. They are just going to wait and see how everything turns out... and then join the winning side.

Don't underestimate Gregor, the way he is mentioned when Robb makes plans to recapture the North does not suggest he is incompetent, "that man is always ill news" he managed to defeat the withe harbor knights and other man-at-arms at the crossroads. To me this seems his men are more like a small army than only a band of rapists. Back on topic: that he is ignorant of the surroundings of Meereen is not dumb. That he remains ignorant is dumb although it probably doesn't matter.

True, but the Dothraki sea is no detail, he must have had maps of sorts, and if those only included sea and coast, he could easily have asked the first time he caught a local. It isn't hard: "Could you perchance tell me anything about the location I am heading to? Do you have a decent map of that area?" But no, when people tell what they see as the truth he kills them because he doesn't like that version of the truth...

In one chapter there was mention of the Dothraki sea and Vic thought it was a sea, this reminds me of a certain show in which people were asked to point out on a map where they were staying at hollidays- in this case Spain- and then pointed out Greece or Turkey: DUMB AS A STUMP! I mean, sure knowledge was harder to come by as compared with today, but a military commander having only the slightest clue to where he is taking his troops, c'mon!