Guest Post at Tower of the Hand: The Blacks and Reds, Part II

stevenattewell Uncategorized March 1, 2015 1 Minute

Part II in my series on the Blackfyre Rebellions is up on Tower of the Hand. In this part, I try to reconstruct the course of the First Rebellion, explain Daemon I’s reign from a single coin, and try to explain what happened at Redgrass Field.

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Published March 1, 2015

Previous Post I haven’t read every essay you’ve done so perhaps you’ve addressed this already and I simply haven’t gotten to it, but were there any historical analogs to the mountain clans? In the sense that they seem to eschew some of the stereotypical “medieval lord” trappings moreso than any Northman in their ruggedness and less, for lack of a better word, “civilized” behavior, yet are still fiercely loyal to the Starks.

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