1. Somewhere in the Neck.
2. Why would Maege et al. tell Marsh or the Boltons? No.
3. No it didn’t play a role in Jon’s assassination. Jon did that himself just fine.
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Why didn’t the rest of westeros take till the Andal invasion to adopt iron if they were exposed to it through the ironborn conquerers
Because pirates generally don’t go in for tech transfer.
Evening! Reading ACoK at the moment and something popped up that I thought to ask you about: Is it somewhat unrealistic that Night’s Watch recruiter’s travel alone? Yoren takes something like thirty criminals (and I imagine some volunteers) from King’s Landing so they could easily overpower him. There’s no mark made on people meant for the wall that we know of, and they do not yet wear black garments so it seems it would be quite easy to just escape and get away with it. Thoughts?
Yoren didn’t go alone tho – he hired sellswords to guard the convoy. And keep in mind, a lot of the 30 are kids.
On the subject of corn, do you think there’s any significance to Mormont’s raven saying “corn” frequently? Since the raven is likely being skinchanged by Bloodraven, might it be a warning of the coming long winter and resulting starvation?
I think it’s that ravens like to eat corn.
Except the Council that took the Throne from baby Maegor for his uncle Aegon is both a rejection of Andal law AND male only inheritance. The Great Council are not precedential only situational, of course, if they can screw over a woman that is only a bonus.
You can set a precedent more than once…
Was there a meaningful difference between european understanding of “corn” and “cereals”? Because I’ve been reading a book of primary sources from the conquest of mexico, and I’ve been noticing that one of the main accounts (a spaniard in Cortes expedition) refers to a broad array of Nahua agricultural crops as “cereals” when he’s not referring to specifics, where he uses the Nahuatl name.
Nope. Just grain crops that people make food with.
In your opinion, did the 1st Great Council’s ruling count as a legal precedent that males would get preferment over female heirs to the Iron Throne, or was it a ruling restricted to the specific context in which the council was called? Laenor’s young age & that fact that he rode a young dragon as compared to the adult Viserys who rode Balerion counted against him. Doesn’t this indicate that the Council ruled on the very specific case put in front of them. & not on the general question ?
According to WOIAF:
“In the eyes of many, the Great Council of 101 AC thereby established an iron precedent on matters of succession: regardless of seniority, the Iron Throne of Westeros could not pass to a woman, nor through a woman to her male descendents.”
Could the Blackfish hitting Hoster Tully’s pyre, a small, moving target, from several hundred metres away be a Chekhov’s Gun? Edmure is currently headed for Casterly Rock, escorted by 400 heavily armed men. The BwB would probably have trouble defeating them in a pitched battle, unless they were to be ambushed at a choke point by a group of highly skilled archers…
Mayhaps.
Overall, I think the issue is that the 400 men are going to be going through mountain passes, which means they are strung out in a line and vulnerable to ambush from above.
So think its possible for Garth the Greenhand to be one of the first human greenseers and the Children used him to manipulate the invaders into signing the pact on the isle of Faces? (Hope this doesn’t sound as bad as some of the other theories that you have been getting lately.)
Your theory doesn’t sound crazy at all to me…
While the clothing might suggest a link to the Green Men of the Isle of Faces, the fact that Garth Greenhand didn’t get along with the children suggests otherwise.
My crazy theory: I think Garth was a First Man shaman/king who had access to a different kind of magic than the Children, more of a flora/wood-bender to the Children’s fauna/earth/water-bending. Hence why he was considered a god.
I remember there being a mention of corn in ACOK in one of Arya’s chapters. Is this actual corn with GRRM being anachronistic, or is it something else? I have the vaguest memory of the mention of corn in medieval britain in a couples sources I once read but its fuzzy.
Before the introduction of maize to Europe, “corn” was a generic term for all cereal crops. Hence the Corn Laws, which affected wheat, barley, rye, as well as actual corn.
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