Because Cersei is bad at improvisation.
Author: stevenattewell
Where will be set the red wedding 2 in Twow? Hippy news year
How did Stannis find out that Renly was conspiring with the Tyrells to have Robert and Margaery wed? Not even the Lannistrs seemed aware.
Well, Cersei was always extremely passive as a conspirator.
However, we know that Robert was informed about Margaery, and he was always surrounded by Lannister squires, and we know that Varys and Illyrio knew, and we know that Pycelle knew.
So odds are that Cersei might well have known.
“I can testify from my own experiences here: chainmail feels way heavier than it actually is, because the metal is hanging down off you from every point. By contrast, plate armor that’s been properly fitted is distributing the weight across your entire body.” “hanging down off you from every point” sounds exactly like “distributed across your entire body.” I’ve never understood this. Platemail doesn’t touch you at every point, so the force is concentrated where it does touch. Isn’t that worse?
“Hanging down off you from every point” is the complete opposite of “distributed across your entire body,” so I haven’t explained myself clearly.
For me, wearing chainmail was like having literal chains hanging off me, all down my arms, my shoulders, my head (I was wearing a chain coif), my hips, my legs, pulling all the way down to the ground. Moving around felt like trying to walk underwater, or what I imagine it would be like to walk on a planet with heavier gravity.
By contrast, when you’re wearing plate armor, it doesn’t feel nearly as heavy because a lot of that weight is getting spread sideways instead of hanging straight down, so you’re carrying more of it across bigger muscles like your back and it’s not fighting your movements nearly as much. It’s not weightless, but it’s something that’s been designed to allow you to move as freely as possible while still being protected as much as possible.
Think of it as the difference between carrying a whole bunch of weights loose in a sack versus those same weights that have been carefully packed into a fancy frame backpack so that the weight’s distributed really evenly.
The True History of the Blackfyre Rebellion
After many, many weeks of working and reworking, I’m pleased to announce that my play is done! I’ve wanted for a while to write a play in the style of Shakespeare’s histories about the First Blackfyre Rebellion, and (many thanks to @warsofasoiaf, @poorquentyn, and @racefortheironthrone, who gave great feedback), I’ve finally done it!
The idea of the play (as you’ll read in the wonderful intro @warsofasoiaf wrote for me) is that this was written during the reign of Maekar I, by a Westerosi, for Westerosi. Of course, like Shakespeare’s own works, it’s biased and choosy with the history. There are definitely invented scenes and characters (partly to fill in the gaps of our knowledge on the First Blackfyre Rebellion, and partly to follow that tradition of “history” plays not exactly being, well, always correct in their history).
I really hope you guys like it. I’ve worked hard to make something for the fandom to enjoy, and I definitely wanted to share it first with you here. Read it, tell me what you think, hell, perform it!
Much love and happy (almost) New Year!
– Nina
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Happy holidays everyone! I’m running a bit behind on work due to FedEx delays, but I’ve finished grading so I’m full steam ahead on Westerlands Part III (currently up to 2700 words) and Jaime II (1 page handwritten). So in the mean-time, I have a few bits and pieces I’ve written since my enforced silence was over. My picks for Westerosi Cadfael-like stories. What do courtiers do all day? Anon…
Given the prevalence of Thin Places in ASOIAF, could his visit to Valyria have changed Euron on a metaphysical level in a manner similar to witnessing the Inverse Fire in “The Second Apocalypse”, exposing his “soul” to absolute eldritch horror in a way that exacerbated his god delusion and depravity? Or could it have been witnessing Beyond the Curtain of Light for him?
What a very interesting question. I wonder what @poorquentyn thinks…
Certainly, both events influenced him in some fashion – as we can see from his “maybe we all can fly” speech and the Forsaken’s revelations about his experiences in Valyria.
However, I would caution against overly-investing culpability for his “depravity” in the supernatural. As we learn from the Forsaken, from a very young age, Euron had hit on the idea that “nothing is true, everything is permitted” and had tested his ideas in horrific fashion.
So I think Euron chose his path of free will. The supernatural is simply a lever for him to move the world.
Would selling two slaves have done much to put a dent in Jorah Mormont’s lordly debts?
Not much. Which makes him immoral and dumb.
What makes you think varys and illyrio may have been lovers? From my maybe faulty memory varyd was cut before he met illyrio.
I’m not sure how explicit to be here, and I’m definitely not ready to give strangers the birds and the bees talk…
I think the only way for me to reply is to say that you are being anatomically unimaginative.
What is a dark side of bravoos? A lot of people think very well of this city but nothing is perfect
Inequality and political privilege on the one hand, and poverty on the other.
And a certain amount of street violence from the bravos that speaks to a culture in which life can be very expensive and death very cheap indeed.
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