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!

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.