Adjusting for GRRM’s usual exagerration, but there is a long, long scholarship about historical conflicts between settled peoples and horse peoples from Morocco to China, so I think he’s building on a well-established setup.
Were there any real world counterparts for the Lhazarene, a pacifist shepherding people constantly preyed on by steppe raiders? why hasn’t the Lhazarene discarded pacifism & taken up arms to defend themselves from the Dothraki? Or failing that, why haven’t they attempted a mass migration ? And failing that as well, how have they managed to survive till date, given the Dothraki seem to treat them as a living-breathing buffet of slaves & archery targets ?
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