Stefan Sasse here. Still not getting around your revisionism on Daeron the Good. While I understand the arguments about the Dornish treaty and agree that this could have been handled better, I still think he rates rather well. He was a force for good throughout his life, even before taking over the ship of state. Without Daeron, Aegon IV would have wreaked much more damage, for one. He also appointed good people (Baelor, Hayford) to do what he couldn’t. And so on. Would like to hear your take.

Well, I think it comes down to my analogy to Jon Snow. As I said “For like Jon Snow, I think Daeron can be rightly criticized for having pushed for peace too fast and too hard, failing to build enough of a constituency behind his policy, and failing to pacify the hardliners who would lead a backlash against him.” Jon Snow as Lord Commander was also a force for good until his death, but that doesn’t mean his failure to sell his policy shouldn’t be counted against him.

Daeron had over a decade to sell the Dornish treaty and he failed, and there was a rebellion as a consequence. That has to be added to the ledger – compare the lives saved by the Treaty against the lives lost at Redgrass and beyond.