If Princeps was good enough for Augustus…
Author: stevenattewell
So what’s Uncle Benjen up to Beyond the Wall? White Walker ethnography?
In hiding or a prisoner, waiting for Jon Snow to arrive.
Are the Lannisters okay with the Bo,tons accepting the Karstarks back into the fold or are they not aware of it?
They would care why?
Hello, question about Westerosi currency originated by the show (but does not require watching it). In the last episode Davos offers 30 golden dragons to bribe two guards to ignore his boat. The scene is framed as if he is giving them a nice but not astronomical sum, but am I correct to think that amount of money is actually kind of a fortune in Westeros, worth more than any cargo a smuggler could carry on a small boat?
Well, we can’t necessarily use the dragon in the books, we need to use the show’s numbers to determine how valuable this is, so my knowledge is limited to what I’ve seen. As far as gold is concerned, Brienne had an attempted ransom for 300 gold dragons which Jaime remarks is a pretty hefty one. Tyrion pays 20 dragons to each dwarf to make up for their public humiliation. Conversely, bread costs a few coppers, and cheap prostitutes are referred to as ‘five-copper,’ whether or not that is actually the price, that’s shown to be cheap. 100 stags is considered a healthy bounty for the Hound, so we have some idea that dragons are not commoner fare.
With that, 30 dragons between two guards seems like a rather immense sum, because only nobles are throwing around double digits of gold dragons. Unfortunately, I do not watch the show, but I believe this question would tickle @racefortheironthrone‘s fancy.
Thanks for the question, Anon.
SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King
Yeah, they goofed on this: 30 gold is about ten average annual incomes for a member of the smallfolk.
Who is that picture of? Also, do you think that Robb’s men paid the Westerlands back in kind for what they did to the Riverlands (raid vs chevauchée)? Were they targeting the nobles assets or going after the smallfolk’s holding as well? – Thank You, RSAfan.
That’s William Tecumseh Sherman.
Robb’s strategy in the Westerlands relied on using a mobile all cavalry force right? But what about their supply train? He had thousands of troops with him.
You don’t need a supply train if you live off the land…
Do you think Varys knows anything about the coming of the Others? If he has any of his ‘birds’ at the Wall, he should know, or not?
No. Varys is entirely focused on the game of thrones. I don’t know if he’ll be alive long enough to hear that the Wall has come down and that the Army of the Dead is on the march, but that’s almost a different “Age of Man” from the one he understands and operates in.
I have to believe that Varys’ hatred for the supernatural will have to come into play at some point. That speech he gave to Tyrion about how he became a eunuch was too lengthy and too well-executed to just be a character beat without any kind of payoff.
Good point. Maybe he ignores a warning or a prophecy, or maybe he gets into some personal thing with Marwyn?
What do you think will ‘the Reader’s role be? He points out the impending retaliations for the raids. Looking at Euron, he sees red flags, but he is also the only one who dared to directly question Euron’s claims in front of everyone.
I’m going to guess a survivor who washes up on the shore and helps Sam figure out what happened.
Hi, I was reading your analysis of AGOT CATELYN VIII, and you mention how Robb could have double back after taking out Jaime and go for Tywin; so if that had happen, would Stannis and Renly get their sh#t together sooner and rush to take KL? or would Stannis still go for SE first? And what would Baelish do now that there is no way the lanisters are winning?
Well, I wrote about this at the time, but…I don’t know about Renly but Stannis might, since he wouldn’t have to be worried about Stannis coming down from Harrenhal to recapture King’s Landing.
And LF…probably would go with Renly to try to worm his way into the coalition and split it up so the war keeps going.
Who does actually control the wolfswood, Starks or Glovers? We know that Starks regularly hunt there, so do you think they have some exclusive rights, or do you think that it is split?
Well, keep in mind that since the Glovers are masterly rather than lordly, the Starks have all kinds of rights and jurisdictions over the wolfswood that they would not have it was otherwise. So that might be the reason the Starks have the use of the wolfswood.
Or it could be written into the feudal contract itself, that the Starks get to hunt in the woods. Feudal contracts were full of that stuff, with rents being paid in pheasants and horses and so on.
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