Two questions: are the Lannisters of Andal or First Men descent? They’re old but they also have an Andal-sounding last name, as well as blonde hair. Another one: are the smallfolk in the south of more Andal or first men blood?

Well, there’s the whole legend about Lann the Clever being an “adventurer from the east,” but even then the Lannisters would have the blood of House Casterly…

But to answer your question: the male line of the First Men Lannisters failed with Gerold III, but since Joffrey Lannister ne Lydden married Gerold’s daughter, it’s not like the Andal Lannisters don’t have First Men blood in them. Although it is interesting that since the time of Damon, the Lannisters have tended to have issue with houses of Andal descent: Braxes, Kyndalls, Marbrands, Leffords, etc…

Would the North Lords and the Vale Lords even obey to Lady Paramount Sansa and Lord Paramount Harry to go to war to put Littlefinger out of all of people on the Iron Throne, though?

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To go to war against the Lannisters? Yes.

The LF on the throne thing woul dhappen later.

I believe that you said… somewhere… once that the master plan would be for the Young Falcon, Harry Arryn, to win the Iron Throne via right of conquest. Then when everything settles down Littlefinger cuckolds him with Sansa, and once the child of this most creepy of unions is born, Littlefinger has Harry bumped off and Sansa rules as Dowager Queen Regent until “Harrys” son is of age to take the throne himself?

Yeah pretty much.

Show wise, do you think there are any living people North of the Wall at this point?

On the show? No.

Would the North Lords and the Vale Lords even obey to Lady Paramount Sansa and Lord Paramount Harry to go to war to put Littlefinger out of all of people on the Iron Throne, though?

To go to war against the Lannisters? Yes.

The LF on the throne thing would happen later.

Right after Robb executes Rickard Karstark, Jeyne is talking to Catelyn. Jeyne tells her about how Robb spends the whole morning writing a letter only to end up burning it. Have you got any idea/theory as to what the letter might have said or who it was too?

You’ll have to wait for my essay on Cat III.

Do you think Petyr’s long-term plan or ambition is to marry Sansa to have children with her and to be the lord of a great castle? (Winterfell, Riverrun, the Vale)

No. I think Petyr’s plan is to have Harry marry Sansa, pull together the North, the Riverlands, and the Vale, and then try to take the Iron Throne.

who are the three queens LF mentioned to Sansa in the Vale?

Not sure. Could be any combination of Cersei, Margaery, Daenaerys, and Sansa, depending on LF’s plans and how good his sources in King’s Landing, Dorne, or Essos are.

hi maester steven, i’m currently reading you CBC analysis (which are amazing, btw, i have learned a lot about history and politics thanks to them) and in eddard ix you mention the possibility of ned dying in the fight with jaime and some possible scenarios due to this, but what do you think will happen to arya and sansa in this ‘what if’?

Thanks!

Probably bad things, since they’d likely be stuck in the capitol.

If Theon had turned up not in a gold-bought cloak, but in Jamie Lannister’s Golden armour claiming to have bested the Kingslayer in Whispering wood, could Balon have reluctantly been bought aboard an alliance with the North?

No, Balon had already made the call before Theon showed up.

was a lot of a manorial court’s work just adjudicating conflicts over whether one neighbor stole another’s goat, or shifted a boundary stone a few inches over

That was part of it, but a lot of the manorial court’s work was in organizing agricultural labor (what fields were to be fallow and what sown in which crops, and so on) and the payment of rents, taxes, and labor, which feeds back into the organizing labor b/c usually the way that the lord’s lands are to be farmed would set the pattern for the peasants.

See, the thing about medieval agriculture is that even though the land was carved up into little individual strips to which each family had leases and rights, it was farmed collectively.