Why do the Ironborn tolerate Euron’s and past king’s attempts at killing off the Drowned Men? Given the Ironborn history of religious violence, wouldn’t such a move be perceived as negative by the vast majority of Ironborn? I understand that in the larger picture that the Drowned clergy need to be removed, but the Ironborn are too ignorant to know that, with the priests validating their whole “steal from others and the lowest Ironborn is better than the highest greenlander” way of life.

Because the problem is that when your religion lionizes violence and theft, it’s hard to argue against violence and theft turned against the priesthood. Clearly the Drowned God favored the strong…

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