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Sansa is slowly killing Sweetrobin
Universal Sword Donor replied to Kierria's topic in General (ASoIaF)
No her POV shows that she knows exactly what is happening w the sweet sleep. -
Sansa is slowly killing Sweetrobin
Universal Sword Donor replied to Kierria's topic in General (ASoIaF)
I’ve already put my $.02 in here but her POV chapters make it quite clear that she’s fond of him but willing to do harmful things to him in the short term to protect LF and herself (since those go hand in hand for now). So she might do something that poisons him or or even kills him but it’s driven by self preservation vs any desire to kill the boy. -
astarkchoice reacted to a post in a topic: New Military Strength of the North/Jon Snow
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New Military Strength of the North/Jon Snow
Universal Sword Donor replied to YeniAy_Ottoman's topic in General (ASoIaF)
Ironically: The reason I am never specific about dates and distances is precisely so that people won't sit down and do this sort of thing. My suggestion would be to put away the ruler and the stopwatch, and just enjoy the story. https://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Chronology_and_Distances Edit: To be clear, I find it frustrating too because I want to know *all* the details about the world and don't particularly care if they don't make sense. -
Willam Stark reacted to a post in a topic: Was Daeron the Drunken knighted?
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Maybe all the lies and secrets are the point
Universal Sword Donor replied to Hippocras's topic in General (ASoIaF)
He's gone on record saying he usually drops info in three hints: one very subtle, one more obvious, and the last basically telling you what happened. The catspaw employer is usually the example I see given. -
The hairy bear reacted to a post in a topic: Was Daeron the Drunken knighted?
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Was Daeron the Drunken knighted?
Universal Sword Donor replied to James Steller's topic in General (ASoIaF)
If we believe Egg, then yes he was knighted. "I was supposed to squire for Daeron. He's my oldest brother. I learned everything I had to learn to be a good squire, but Daeron isn't a very good knight. He didn't want to ride in the tourney ... He's of an age where knighthood would be fairly common for nobility (see Waymar Royce, Tywin, Quentin, et al , let alone royalty, and his father clearly pushes for his sons to match Baelor's sons, of whom at least Valarr was a knight who rode as a champion in defense of the host. -
SeanF reacted to a post in a topic: Which character do you understand on a personal level?
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They can be. Scipio, Alexander, and others easily negated their effects with rather mundane strategies desensitizing the horses and animals or opening ranks to let the elephants charge through
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astarkchoice reacted to a post in a topic: The elephant in the room
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Right but they’d also marched like 10k km and hadn’t seen home in a decade (or whatever). Less about elephants — they didn’t a pretty good job of engaging them when they had to — and more about wanting to bang their wives and see their children
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It’s literally in Jon’s quote: “The plan would have required the Watch to yield back a large part of the Gift, but his uncle Benjen believed the Lord Commander could be won around ….” There’s no one else to yield the land back to except for the lords who it was seized from in the first place. We don’t know exactly which ones but we can imagine it’s the closest houses / clans: Umber, Flint, Norrey, Wull, Karstark (?) and / or another house that was completely moved off the gift and given land elsewhere.
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It is if it’s not the watch’s land, which is explicitly in the proposal
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That's not Ned's proposal. You're not wrong about it being far superior, but that's not ned's proposal and not many lords are going to want to bring a group* of "rapists, murderers and thieves" onto their land. * obviously there are more than a few bad apples as we see but that characterization isn't super accurate
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Other than grant the land -- meaning its no longer the NW's land -- to the lords, who obey WF, and pay their taxes to the NW, what other arrangements are possible?
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The entire premise of the proposal was that the lords pay their fees to the NW but are loyal to WF
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Northern Sword reacted to a post in a topic: the Gift
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astarkchoice reacted to a post in a topic: the Gift
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Hard to argue against this plan, given what we know of Quentyn's results and Oberyn's results.