More Kickstarter fulfillment stuff, probably do the essay on the Great Councils next.
Author: stevenattewell
What made you think Varys and Illyrio are ex-lovers?
Discussed here.
You mentioned fosterage works just as well as marriage. Would it make sense for a person who was fostered with another family to later marry someone from that family? Or would that be considered wasteful, since a bond was already established?
It’s not unknown, a sort of belt-and-braces approach to building an alliance that builds on the idea that such a marriage might be more successful if the two betrothed actually knew and hopefully liked one another rather than being total strangers.
DLC – is there any pre asoiaf male characters that have been fleshed out better as compared to DLC which made DLC a sexist narrative? Could you give a couple of examples? I didn’t get to read the books in depth and couldn’t quite remember any fleshed out pre asoiaf characters other than RT.
If we’re talking about only pre-ASOIAF characters (i.e, not Robert Baratheon, Ned Stark, Hoster Tully, Tywin Lannister, or Jon Arryn although he’s something of a corner case)…
Steffon Baratheon we learn a lot more about in WOIAF, as is the case with Aerys II Targaryen. Rickard and Brandon Stark we learn more about in ADWD and somewhat more in WOIAF, Rhaegar Targaryen we learn a lot more about in WOIAF and somewhat more in ACOK, etc.
For what reasons would a king refuse to grant a town a charter to become a city?
Could be for many reasons: they don’t want to lose the revenue, they think it would cause another city to lose business, they think charters disturb the social order, they didn’t think the town gave them nice enough bribes, etc.
Politics of the Seven Kingdoms: The Stormlands (Part II)
Politics of the Seven Kingdoms: The Stormlands (Part II)
credit to ser other-in-law The Andals in the Stormlands Earlier, I discussed some of my frustration with the historical sections of the Stormlands chapter. In this section, we get to some of my biggest pet peeves with this section of the WOIAF – namely, that its account of the Andal Invasion of the Stormlands doesn’t really pass muster, especially when viewed in comparison to the other Seven…
why did rickard betroth lyanna to robert instead of to one of the vale heirs, and further solidify the north-riverlands-vale alliance? isn’t trying to bring southern kingdoms like the stormlands into the arrangement too much for just one generation of political maneuvering?
The Riverlands and Vale are both southern/southron kingdoms, so that’s fully in keeping with what his plans seem to have been. Four kingdoms represent a majority, after all.
As for why not the Vale heirs, fosterage works just as well as marriage alliances.
Are Beric Dondarrion and Edric Dayne still the lords of their lands?They both became outlaws&enemies of the current power holding the throne,so couldn’t the crown give their lands to the next in line/somebody else? Dondarrion’s death is is not official at the moment(the other deaths make it seem like another false report). Who rules Blackhaven?Did anybody outside of the BWB even know where the LordofStarfall was&if he was even alive? Don’t his relatives&subjects in Dorne wonder about their lord
Depends very much on the facts on the ground. As events have shown, the writ of King’s Landing doesn’t exactly run to Dorne, let alone the Marches, especially now that Aegon’s army is on the verge of taking Storm’s End.
For example, on paper, Phillip Foote is the Lord of Nightsong, but he rather pointedly is staying in King’s Landing and hasn’t been able to lay his hands on its lands, incomes, or castle.
Why do you think Loras squired for Renly? Was Jon Arryn involved or was it a move made by Renly himself?
No, I don’t think Renly would have made any such moves, given that he would have been quite a young man when Loras began squiring for him, probably about 15 or so.
Rather, I think it was probably a move by Jon Arryn – it gives the Tyrells a carefully-measured bit of royal favor (a third son for a third son), while giving the Baratheons a hostage for their good behavior.
Before the introduction of modern communications such as radio, how would a naval commander go about coordinating his fleet’s movements in battle?
Flags!
While flags and other signals have been used throughout history, beginning in the 17th century there was a movement to standardize their use and link individual flags to letters and numbers, so that extensive messages as well as standard signals could be sent.
The way it usually worked is that you’d have a lookout on the crow’s nest of each ship who would look out for the signals of other ships and shout or run the message down to the deck, and then some of the crew manning the ropes who would send up particular sequences of flags when ordered to. While each ship could obviously send and receive information on its own, generally the rule was that the flagship (and yes, that’s where the name comes from) would initiate orders and then ships would re-broadcast that message out to the rest of the fleet, and then other ships would send back updates, warnings, requests, etc. to the flagship.
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