Part1. In your economic development plan for the north you have four city charters and two town charters. How much deference would the Starks/any other Paramount House need to show the King/Queen on the Iron Throne when drafting these? Do they need permission or like a royal decree or can they just go ahead with their own authority? Also immigration is a way you have identified to increase the population, is that just freefolk or would you look to the slums of KL/peasants in the rest of westeros

Part2. If you have cities settled with a majority of people as immigrants from other parts of Westeros how much pushback would you face w/r/t religious differences. I mean White Harbour is the only current city in the north and it is ruled by the only major northern house who follow the Seven?. Also you mention settling the gift (I assume as farmland) how would you reconcile the Umbers to ruling over people they have previously executed for coming over the wall?

Part3. With encouraging immigration – would you look to the free cities at all? Would it make any sense for the North to build its own sort of Citadel? Like a university of the North because it seems like the one in oldtown is heavily tied to the faith and like Knighthood is then closed to Northeners because they cannot take the vows? Like I understand that you can study without becoming a Maester but then you get a situation where the north’s only healers are people with fundamentally different

Part4. The north has healers with fundamentally different ideologies to the rulers/everyone else? You have mentioned you agree with/believe the theory that there is a dragon/dragon eggs in/underneath winterfell. If that is the case what are the chances of Winterfell still standing/the land not being a crater if the dragon/eggs awakens?

As I’ve discussed before, the precise authority level for charters is a bit unclear, since the major case of a town applying for one we have comes from the Crownlands where the liege lord would be the king anyway. So as with previous segments, if the Lord Paramount doesn’t have the authority, replace “I will issue charters” with “I will bribe/lobby the king until he issues charters.”

Religious differences are an issue – hence why you’d want to favor immigrants from those areas of the South that still worship the Old Gods, spread out immigrants so they aren’t in big enough numbers to form their own communities vs. assimilating, etc. And ironically, that’s one thing that might help integrate the wildlings – they’re First Men, they worship the Old Gods, so there’s less of an adjustement there.

The Citadel does not seem linked to the Faith – Northern Houses routinely use maesters, there are maesters who come from the Iron Islands and who likely follow the Drowned God, etc. So that’s not really an issue.

Regarding immigration – obviously, you want to encourage skilled craftsmen to immigrate. The issue is that the North probably isn’t as promising a destination as other places in Westeros, so you might not get much.