All of the women involved die in childbirth, which is inherently gendered. Moreover, some or all of these conceptions (depending on the theory under discussion) lacked consent, which is also gendered. 

Whereas all three of the fathers die deaths that are not gendered at all. 

That’s the disparity.  

It takes 3:1 to win on a standard battlefield assault. Castles add an enormous defensive multiplier, which is why the average garrison was usually tiny (100 men or less). As a result, if you look at a lot of famous sieges, the garrisons were usually incredibly outnumbered by the attackers.

If I were Robert Baratheon, Jaime Lannister would be going to the Wall to go be a ranger, while suggesting to Tywin that if Tywin remains in my favor at some point down the line I might give him a royal pardon. 

Blount, Trant, and Moore would be out. They’re all disloyal, incompetent, and evil. Greenfield and Oakheart have flaws, but they’re neither of them actively evil people. So unless I have a better pick, I’d probably keep them. 

The key to the rest (keep in mind, we’re definitely keeping Ser Barristan, so we’ve got six slots to work with) is combining regional diversity with competence and loyalty:

• From the Riverlands: the Blackfish is a good pick – honors House Tully, he’s an excellent soldier and solid adviser, unlikely to inherit and wouldn’t mind the celibacy. 
• From the Stormlands, I’d go with either Ser Rolland Storm (to honor the Carons) or Ser Bonifer Hasty (religious, wouldn’t mind the celibacy). 
• From the Vale: Lyn Corbray might have the fighting chops but is completely untrustworthy, so Robar Royce or

  Mychel Redfort instead. 

I’m surprised that you’re having trouble, given how much naval history there is out there. It may be that you need to refine your search a bit to get better results. Which period and/or navy were you interested in?

Because Robert Baratheon was bad at appointments. 

Blackfish only kept 200 men because he was trying to stretch out his supplies as long as humanly possible, trusting that the huge defensive multiplier that the castle would give would allow him to repulse any assaults on Riverrun while the larger army outside starved. 

The rest were released, with some no doubt joining the BWB and others going to their homes. 

In terms of how many men House Tully has by itself…we don’t have precise figures, which is a bit of a pain. But my rough estimate – dividing the numbers of Riverlanders present at the Fords by three for the three commanders, would be about 3,500. 

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I suppose it depends what you mean by redemption. I don’t think Jaime’s getting a happy ending where he becomes a better person and lives a good life. 

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I’ve honestly read stuff like this so often in the last few weeks that I want to puke all over my screen, put it in an envelope, and mail it to those of you who keep perpetuating this stupid idea. Really? That’s Jaime’s arc? He’s gonna commit murder/suicide? I can accept meta like that from teenage Cersei-stans but not from actual adults who’ve allegedly actually read these books.

Jaime may very well be the valonqar, but I’ll eat the damn books myself if that’s the end of his story. His weirwood dream very much foreshadows a leading role in the battle against the Others. Supplemental material like AWoIaF’s Lion of Night/Maiden Made of Light sure as hell make me believe that he (and Brienne) are destined for more than an end by Lady Stoneheart and a bloodbath in King’s Landing.

Just because Jaime probably isn’t going to get a happy ending doesn’t mean he’s going to get a stupid and blatantly out of character ending like this romantical murder/suicide bullshit.

Each to their own, but…

1. Maggy’s prophecy states pretty damn clearly that Jaime, the ironically unforseen valonqar, is going to kill Cersei. 
2. Brienne’s character arc has been all about her desperately trying to live up to the chivalric ideal specifically as someone’s bodyguard and falling short due to no fault of her own (the shadow assassin killing Renly, Catelyn sending her away prior to the Red Wedding). Her dying to save Jaime completes that arc.
3. Cersei’s arc is definitely heading toward wildfire bomb in King’s Landing, whether it’s the Chekov’s stashes under the city, Cersei’s trial run with the Tower of the Hand, etc. 
4. Jaime’s foundational act as a character is that when Aerys tried to burn King’s Landing, Jaime murdered him. If Cersei’s arc completes, Jaime really only has one way to go.

And as Cersei says over and over again in AFFC and ADWD, “We will leave this world together, as we once came into it.”

We have no idea which coast the lost fleet was on, though. 

In the event that the North had won the Worthless War and conquered the Vale, I think the Mountain Clansmen would have seen a substantial reversal of fortunes. Keep in mind, the Worthless War came pretty soon after the Andal conquest of the Vale, so the North might well have confiscated the lands of the conquerors and returned at least some of them to the mountain clans who had been dispossessed. 

I suppose it depends what you mean by redemption. I don’t think Jaime’s getting a happy ending where he becomes a better person and lives a good life. 

I think his run-in ends with Brienne dying to save him, then coming back to find that Cersei is responsible for the death of their last child and has/is going to use wildfire on King’s Landing, making his dishonor worthless, and then is going to murder her and commit suicide. 

To me, that’s a tragic arc, not a redemption arc.