Hey, two questions: why aren’t you writing about the Crownlands in your Politics of the Seven Kingdoms? Also, how did you manage to write A Laboratory of Politics without TWOIAF and asearchoficeandfire? (to check the backstory and all that… I don’t think it existed in 2014?) Really love your work!

julianlapostat:

racefortheironthrone:

1. I find the Crownlands rather boring, sorry. Also, as far as the Politics of the Seven Kingdoms goes, there is no chapter on the Crownlands, so it only appears as a bit player in other stories. 

2. Hah! The answer is: extremely laboriously. I still had A Wiki of Ice and Fire and the app, which gave me hints of where to look, but mostly what I did was use the search function on my e-book copies of ASOIAF and look for every single mention of each of the Free Cities and compile lists of page numbers and then type out quotes manually. 

I wonder about that?

Because there’s potentially interesting material on the Crownlands, namely the city of King’s Landing itself. It’s the one city whose smallfolk we know a great deal about, and overall, it’s a double with the Riverlands which is a region which we mainly know through its smallfolk at least in ASOIAF. We have a strong grasp of the politics of the Kingslander smallfolk as well, their hatred and dislike for Tywin, the revolt of the Antler Men and so on. Let’s not forget that the two major Smallfolk POV in the entire series are Kingslanders (Ser Duncan and Ser Davos).

And of course the Crownlands includes Duskendale and that was the site of the only known charter uprising. And AFFC has a good deal of politics with the Merryweathers and Brienne’s visit to Duskendale…

Sure, I get that, but the bulk of Politics of the Seven Kingdoms is about covering the pre-Aegon political development of the Seven Kingdoms, so…