A Targaryen of the last hundred years.
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Do you think the Hightower has sole monopoly over the citadel? What if Sarella Sand with her knowledge gained from the Citadel begins a dornish version?
Depends what you mean by sole monopoly. The Hightowers are patrons of the Citadel, but they don’t control the Citadel, because the Citadel’s neutrality is key to its success.
As to breakaway Citadels, I think the issue is that the main Citadel wouldn’t work with them or anyone who employed them, so there’s real downsides involved.
What’s your opinion on Rhaegar? Was he a fool, arrogant or a tragic figure?
See here.
Do you think Bloodraven actually killed a thousand children in his search for the next Greenseer, or were the thousand other dreamers impaled upon their points meant to be more metaphorical?
I don’t think he killed them himself, but he does bear partial culpability.
Shouldn’t the Valyrian dragonriding families have preferred dragonbone bows to valyrian steel swords, given that fighting on dragonback should lead to a preference for long range weapons? What are they going to attack with the sword, the dragon?
Other dragonriders.
RE: Sif. Kevin Feige implied that Loki (masquerading as Odin) might have exiled her so she wouldn’t uncover his disguise.
Yeah, that wouldn’t surprise me.
No more Tales of Honest Thomas Rhymer?
Working on ‘em, there’s a long list of stuff I need to write.
So I had a thought on the Disputed Lands and slave labor. It seems weird to me that there are so many slaves proportionally in the Free Cities, so there has to be some kind of demand for them somewhere like a need for manual labor to farm large amounts, like the reason African slaves were brought to the Americas. This might be the real reason why the disputed lands are so fertile/how the Free Cities support such large populations. I just wanted to know if you thought that a plausible head cannon
You raise a good point. Slavery of the intense proportions seen in the Free Cities was only seen historically in single-export plantation economies. And yet, the Free Cities’ economies are overhwelmingly focused on commerce, finance, and the production of high value-added manufactured goods.
So vast latifundia in the Disputed Lands would provide at least a partial explanation for why you see such unusually high levels of slavery in the Free Cities. Not a complete explanation, but better than what we have now.
In Thor Ragnarok. What happened to Sif?
I’m going to guess she was on Earth when it happened.
Do you think that the later Targaryens are aware that “the blood of the dragon” phrase might be more than just metaphorical? How do you think Dany would react?
1. No.
2. Badly.
… huh, really, Steven?
The Targaryens have had their fair share of mystics and dabblers in the higher mysteries, and have been friends with same. It seems not just possible, but highly likely that the possibility of literal dragon blood flowing through their veins was discussed between, say, Jaehaerys and Septon Barth, or Aerys I and Bloodraven, or even between Rhaegar and Aemon. I mean, we can puzzle it out, and we have access to far fewer in-universe resources than they would have.
And I’m… not sure why you think Dany would react badly? She’s the self-styled Mother of Dragons already. The notion that her family line has the blood of those noble creatures pumping through their hearts seems like it should meet with her approval; I bet she’d go “A lot of my life makes a lot more sense now.”
1. Depends who one defines as a later Targaryen, I suppose.
2. I think it’s one thing feeling a sense of spiritual kinship and another knowing that you are not fully human.
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