Given that a noticeable portion of the Citadel’s budget comes from Oldtown taxes, how do you envision the relationship between the Maesters and the Hightowers? Do the latter get to use maesters-in-training as city administrators as you’ve suggested? Might there be a quid pro quo where the Archmaesters send Lord Leyton word if they get wind of conspiracies against him? Or is it more of a business promotion situation where just having the Citadel around generates positive economic externalities?

No, I think the Maesters’ neutrality is too important to the system for anything quite as blatant as that. More subtle forms of information-sharing, perhaps.

But yes, I think the Maesters in the Citadel are obliged to provide administrative and other services on demand for the Hightower. 

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