- Since maesters are pretty much the only ones with formal medical training in Westeros, it makes sense to me that highborn folks would want some of them on hand to keep people from dying.
- Maesters aren’t physically bound to a castle – we have lots of cases of maesters who travel. Maester Kennet, serving at Winterfell, did archaelogical digs at Long Lake; Maester Wyllis traveled to Hardhome to research the wildlings; Maester Pol traveled to Qohor to research the secrets of Qohoric steel; and so on.
- It’s not impossible that a great lord might have more than one maester (Stannis has two at Dragonstone, for example).
Hi I have a question about maesters. Robert was said to have sent “his own maester to treat Barristan Selmy” after he was injured at the trident. Do maesters typically accompany men to battles? And even so if maesters are bound by to serve specific castles rather than people how did Robert have his own maester? Wouldn’t his maester have been Cressen who was in Storm’s End during the Siege?
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