Well, yes. The pregnancy and birth would certainly prevent Catelyn from being as mobile as she is. Likewise, having a son of the House of Stark alive in the South would definitely change the plot – the “deaths” of Bran and Rickon wouldn’t be as consequential in terms of feudal politics, it would probably change the second siege of Riverrun significantly, etc.
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Isn’t plate armor made to fit very tightly to the wearer? If Euron stalked the ruins of Valyria looking for some VS armor wouldn’t the chances of it fitting him be so low that we can assume his armor in The Forsaken is a glamour?
It was indeed scale armor:
Well, Euron’s armor isn’t plate mail. If I remember correctly, it was described as scale armor, and that could mean many things. Unfortunately, Aeron takes one look and has other things on his mind, rather than giving us a description of the exact style of Euron’s new raiment. I’ve always envisioned it in the form of the lorica squamata, but that’s because old Valyria is supposed to have this Roman Empire vibe to it.
Thanks for the question, Anon.
SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King
“Euron Crow’s Eye stood upon the deck of Silence clad in a suit of black-scaled armor like nothing Aeron had ever seen before. Dark as smoke it was, but Euron wore it as easy as if it was the thinnest silk. The scales were edged in red gold that gleamed and shimmered when he moved. Patterns could be seen within the metal. “
And unlike plate armor, scale armor is relatively easy to re-size: because it consists of little scales that are sewn or attached to an underlying garment and then to one another. If you have the time and enough scales, going up or down sizes is simply a matter of removing the scales from the underlying garment, adjusting or replacing the garment, and then replacing the scales – subtracting scales if you’re going down a size and adding them if you’re going up a size.
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Hey folks! Catelyn II is coming along nicely – up to 3,000 words – and will probably be up sometime this week. After that comes Politics of the Reach Part IV, which is looking like the final part of that particular essay. My hope is that the Stormlands, as a rather short (and dull) chapter in WOIAF, will go more quickly… In the meantime, what do we have on the Tumblrs? Is the wife of a king…
Did Jon ”steal” Val in Storm of Swords so by free folk customs are they actually married?
Why didn’t Stannis take Val with him when he left Castle Black considering he was planning on her marrying any one of his northern supporters?
Because Stannis was engaging in a highly risky winter-time march into a war zone. You don’t risk a valuable hostage in those circumstances, so he left her behind in a well-guarded castle.
What was the Thing That Came in the Night?
What’s Qyburn’s endgame? Is he just an opportunist who saw a chance to get in Cersei’s good books and advance the cause of science in the process, or is he up to something else?
Say Aerys dies before Harrenhal? What would be the consequences of a sitting king doing what Rhaegar did? Could he pull off the abduction?
How well did that work out for Maegor?
Rhaegar might have been able to handle the situation without touching off a fullscale war, tho. Like, when Brandon shows up shouting for him to come out and die, he probably doesn’t have Brandon imprisoned, lure Brandon’s dad there under false pretenses, have them both burned alive, and then demand Jon Arryn send him more folks to burn.
Not saying its all happy endings and roses for hypothetical King Rhaegar, but Aegon the Unworthy did a ton of gross shit to ladies and never provoked a fullscale rebellion, and Rhaegar seems more competent than Aegon IV in a lot of ways.
I’m sure he’d handle the situation better than Aerys did.
But what happens when Brandon and Brandon’s dad show up and say “you can’t take the daughters of Lords Paramount, give Lyanna back” and Rhaegar says in open court, “I can’t, I need her to fulfill an ancient prophecy, because I am the father of the messiah and the world’s about to end”?
Say Aerys dies before Harrenhal? What would be the consequences of a sitting king doing what Rhaegar did? Could he pull off the abduction?
How well did that work out for Maegor?
If eddard is succesfull in making stannis king, would stannis create a council without him or any northman as littlefinger says ? But who would be a better advisor than eddard ? What small council could stannis have ? Many thanks
Yes, because Stannis resented Eddard for being named Hand after Jon Arryn instead of Stannis himself.
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