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DC Has Fired Eddie Berganza

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DC Entertainment has fired editor Eddie Berganza after assault and harassment again was raised. Buzzfeed released a detailed article covering the multiple incidents by Berganza which included harassment and assault. Numerous articles concerning the incidents have been written for years without ramifications or result until this weekend when it became more high profile. Berganza joined DC Comics…

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i have a feudalism question. Youve said before that some lands belong to kings directly whereas others are owned by other nobles who pay tribute in taxes/military service to the king. But doesnt technically the whole realm belong to the king? Isn’t that the whole “sovereign ruler” schtick ?

It’s kind of complicated. The thing is that, in feudalism, almost no one actually owns anything outright in the sense that we think about it; rather property is distributed in various leases and use-rights and tenancies, all the way up and all the way down 

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And while in our 21st century capitalist mindset leases, use-rights, and tenancies sound like precarious second-class statuses that fall fall short of true ownership, that wasn’t the case in medieval societies. These statuses were backed up by tradition, law, and the willingness of very touchy mounted soldiers to go to war to uphold them against infringement from on high. Thus, even if something was de jure “owned” by the king, once noblemen felt that they had a right to inherit the fiefdom, de facto it became owned by those noblemen (save in the case of felony).

Would you say that the reason the three Kingsguard at the Tower of Joy wouldn’t surrender is that they believed that the infant they were guarding the was the king? How much of the sorry state of the Kingsguard in the main story can be laid at their feet due to their gallant, but ultimately pointless sacrifice?

I think so. And a fair bit, although you can’t absolve Robert of the responsibility for making some really poor choices due to inattention. 

Re: Bloodraven’s dead Greenseers: If it is supposed to be literal, and Bloodraven’s partial fault, then shouldn’t we see some evidence, demographically? Every Greenseer we know of is of high birth (BR himself, Brandon, Jojen, possibly Euron), and they’re generally from specific bloodlines (at least, not pure Andal). Shouldn’t we see a higher rate of unexplained deaths of young people in these groups? A few more lines ending than normally happens? Or perhaps we are seeing that?

There’s plenty of greenseers and wargs outside of high birth – you have the Green Men on the Isle of Faces, you have all of the wildling skinchangers (Orell, Varamyr, Haggon, Borroq, Briar, Grisella, etc.), there’s the Children of the Forest greenseers, there’s the Ghost of High Heart, and so on.

But in general, I think the reason that you don’t see evidence of the dead dreamers is that in a society with a high rate of child mortality, children who just die in their sleep aren’t unexpected, and if it’s a thousand across ~fifty years spread across an entire continent, it would be very hard to see the pattern. 

While I can’t see the FeastDance stories for anyone except possibly the Starklings working with a five year gap, might it have worked to have started where FeastDance ended? That is, Jon’s just been stabbed, Dany’s just rejoined the Dothraki, Tyrion’s just escaped slavery near Meereen, etc? Or would this require too much exposition and cause other problems (Stannis taking 5 years to get to Winterfell, Jaime spending 5 years in the Riverlands, the Others sitting on their asses for 5 years)?

I think that would have run into the same problem as the five-year gap originally ran into, namely that the narrative gets bogged down by characters expositing what had happened during the five-year gap.