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Moving up. Upward mobility.
Universal Sword Donor replied to James Fenimore Cooper XXII's topic in General (ASoIaF)
Being in the night's watch basically guarantees lack of upward mobility. Even if you're LC, you're still tied to the wall, no wife, no lands, and no real possessions. Fake stature in a quasi military organization limited to the coldest part of the country isn't a reward. We see the absolute lack of respect for the NW in both POV and public conversation. The Citadel or faith will absolutely let people join for free -- though traveling to Oldtown would indeed cost money -- but it's not going to be easy. And the citadel literally provides education and training, as in that's it whole purpose. Wandering septons don't need to be able to read and are clearly a level up from the average peasant. We see the city watched expanded in peacetime and in warfare in Westeros. Again might not be easy but it's a sight better than freezing and poor and without respect in the far north. -
Moving up. Upward mobility.
Universal Sword Donor replied to James Fenimore Cooper XXII's topic in General (ASoIaF)
Man you're breaking hearts over here with this advice -
Darkstar is a pale imitation of Oberyn Martell, Doran's brother. Arianne even makes the direct comparison betwixt the two in her chapters. Doran goes on at length to Arianne and the sand snakes about him and oberyn working together like the snake and the grass. He very would understand Darkstar in your scenario. He might very well fear what he represents, but for sure he understands the kind of man DS is.
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Fireball: "FUUUUUUU.... why why didn't anyone tell me this?"
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Martell-Tyrell-Conspiracy (pro-Targaryen)?
Universal Sword Donor replied to SansaTakingUpNeedle's topic in General (ASoIaF)
Yeah that's definitely not the way to keep vassals happy -
How was Cersei so influential on Robert?
Universal Sword Donor replied to EggBlue's topic in General (ASoIaF)
This coupled with a general indifference to governance. There's also the debt aspect. There's a "non canon" line where Robert references being half a kingdom in debt to Cersei's father which is illuminating. However Jaime probably said it best: "A man can bear most anything, if he must," Jaime told his son. I have smelled a man roasting, as King Aerys cooked him in his own armor. "The world is full of horrors, Tommen. You can fight them, or laugh at them, or look without seeing . . . go away inside." And we know which one Robert would dearly love to choose and which one he actually resorts to. -
The southern armies have the unenviable task of trying to march on MC, which we know is generally unassailable from the south. To do a naval invasion, you'd need to expose your shores and possibly hinterlands to enemies. The Vale was able seize the wolf's den but eventually lost. We know there's really nothing of value on the west coast, and no one had made the effort to invade the north near White Harbor after its founding and before the Conquest. The crusades were called in part to relieve the suffering of local christians in the old byzantine provinces. There's no real equivalent in Westeros since the first men weren't displacing and lording over Andals in the north. Tacking on that the High Septon is thousands of miles away, and it doesn't seem like a real productive way to engage a far off, isolationist nation.
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It was obviously a phantom of the opera mask.
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Will Jaime become a "True Knight", or the Smiling Knight?
Universal Sword Donor replied to Egged's topic in General (ASoIaF)
If he were motivated by pride and self love, he would probably want to remove the vast caches of wildfire from the city in which he currently lives and serves the new king, as self love is hard to do while burning to death because someone fell through a floor or a shelf rotted. -
There's nothing to substantiate that. If he never intended to let the wedding happen, why did he: Let Stevron go west with Robb and the cavalry, where he died Send 3k Frey infantry with Roose south, where many were killed and 4 Frey sons captured. Ransom the Freys at Harrenhal with gold If Walder didn't intend to let Robb marry a Frey and was intent on betraying him from the get go, he sacrificed a lot of family to do so, quite unnecessarily.
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Highgarden's briar maze defence
Universal Sword Donor replied to Falcon2909's topic in General (ASoIaF)
They will burn it long before the use it as cover OR they will use the exterior edges as cover just long enough to light it on fire, either of which still affects the structural integrity of the stone, brick, or wooden buildings nearby. Wind is finicky, so there's a solid chance that the besieging army wouldn't even come near the maze in the first place or in small numbers. In short, again, basically nothing about briar maze makes it easier for a defender to actually defend Highgarden and almost makes it easier for the attacking force.