Great Essay! It always irked me as to why Harren bothered about creating a 20 acre Godswood inside Harrenhal. He wasn’t a follower of the Old Gods & he certainly didn’t give a damn about the sentiments of any Old God worshiping subjects. He had cut down stands of ancient Weirwood to make roofbeams. So why create the Godswood now ? Any thoughts?

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Thanks!

You raise a good point. Honestly, I think it was kind of a nouveau riche status symbol thing: important castles on the mainland all have godswoods, so Harren wanted one. 

And because it was Harren, it would have to be the greatest, biggest, classiest, YOOGEist, godswood in Westeros, and the Riverlanders would pay for it. 

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