Rough rule of thumb: thirty acres per family. 

So how big do you want the country?

opinions-about-tiaras:

racefortheironthrone:

Oh, this is a fun one.

• The Gentlemen Bastard series by Scott Lynch would be really fun. 

• I’d love to see Sapkowksi’s Witcher novels given a high budget, especially after the CD Projekt Red adaptations. 

• Tad Williams’ Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series could be cool if they can cut down on Williams’ penchant for characters going slightly mad down in cave systems.

• The Rivers of London urban fantasy by Ben Aaronovitch if they’re doing a joint BBC operation would be good.

• Ken Liu’s The Grace of Kings would be an interesting departure from the often monochromatic quasi-Medieval European settings.

• I’d love someone to do a Conan the Barbarian vignette series, if they can nail the tone of the Dark Horse adaptations.

I remain somewhat surprised the Peter Grant novels haven’t gotten adapted to the screen by the BBC yet. It capitalizes on urban fantasy, which remains hot these days, it’s unrelentingly British but also based on a property with moderate international appeal (important to the Beeb these days in many ways) and the nature of the magic in it is such that it can be handled on the cheap and still look good.

And that’s above and beyond them just being good stories.

Dunno either, especially as the project started as a spec script for a Torchwood-like magical police show, and the author has a background in British TV. 

No. That’s cool.

Oh, this is a fun one.

• The Gentlemen Bastard series by Scott Lynch would be really fun. 

• I’d love to see Sapkowksi’s Witcher novels given a high budget, especially after the CD Projekt Red adaptations. 

• Tad Williams’ Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series could be cool if they can cut down on Williams’ penchant for characters going slightly mad down in cave systems.

• The Rivers of London urban fantasy by Ben Aaronovitch if they’re doing a joint BBC operation would be good.

• Ken Liu’s The Grace of Kings would be an interesting departure from the often monochromatic quasi-Medieval European settings.

• I’d love someone to do a Conan the Barbarian vignette series, if they can nail the tone of the Dark Horse adaptations.

Depends on the time period that Lannister armies are supposed to be from, I suppose. With the advent of bastard feudalism, uniforms became more…uniform as more and more soldiers started wearing livery. 

goodqueenaly:

racefortheironthrone:

A Parcel of Rogues in a Nation: On the Great Councils, Part II

Seemingly for the first time in recorded history, lords from all over Westeros had gathered together. The greatest Targaryen king in history had summoned them together to provide a peaceful mechanism for deciding the succession of the Iron Throne. And thanks to the fecklessness of Viserys I, their work would make a peace that would last only 28 years.
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An excellent conclusion to @racefortheironthrone’s discussions on the Great Councils of Westeros. It is quite nice indeed to point out that, despite her very clear flaws, Alicent was sane enough to recognize that a Great Council was a reasonable, even necessary, option in the escalating bloodshed of the Dance (although she was doubtless confident that Aegon II would emerge on top).

I’m very curious – although we’ll have to wait some years to find out, of course – what Bloodraven’s motivations behind calling the Great Council of 233 AC were. If Bloodraven wanted to be in firm control of the state again, then baby Maegor would have seemed the most obvious candidate for him to back, and a Great Council unnecessary; not only did the little prince have the clearest blood claim as the most senior male-line descendant of Maekar I, but as an infant Maegor would be subject to a regency for the better part of 16 years – a role which Bloodraven might have smoothly assumed to fill. It’s possible, if not indeed probable, that the palpable hatred toward Aerion warned Bloodraven that supporting his, Aerion’s, son as king would isolate him politically and perhaps lead to his ouster from power – but if that’s the case, what was Bloodraven’s plan? Whom did Bloodraven want to seat on the Iron Throne? There’s too little information to know at this point, though future Tales of Dunk and Egg and Fire and Blood Volume 2 will doubtless explain this further.

Excellent questions! 

TBH, I think Bloodraven did it because he knew that if he didn’t, the same dynamic that had happened when Aerys I was king would re-emerge, where discontent with the king’s inability to live up to the knightly standard or fulfill the social contract amplified Bloodraven’s own negative publicity through the old “evil councilor” meme, and gave additional strength to the Blackfyre cause.

After all, Blackfyre sympathies must have been strong enough to fear their influence on a Great Council, what with Haegon’s murder still unanswered.  

Paging

@poorquentyn​…

I think yes, I think the Horn is going to be blown from the top of the HIgh Tower, because you’re supposed to be able to see the Wall from the top, which might indicate a magical line-of-sight thing.

Glad you liked it! I’m working on Dorne right now, actually.

I mean, they gave a Watsonian explanation, but it was that the history of the Stormlands is confusing, boring, and fragmentary. Which isn’t very compelling, tbh. 

If it was appeasing Robert, you’d think that it would be the longest history, full of heroic details of his ancestors’ victories…