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Jon being King of the North: on what basis could he claim the throne? The North isn’t overthrowing monarchy/aristocracy, after all, they still all want their castles and titles, they just want to ignore Ned’s legitimate daughter in favor of his illegitimate son. What happens when it comes out he’s a Targ?

Jon is King in the North on the same grounds that Robb became King in the North – through right of acclamation as opposed to right of inheritance (since Robb’s father was not King in the North before him). It should be noted, moreover, that King in the North != Lord of Winterfell. 

As for him being illegitimate, Lady Mormont spoke for the majority: “I don’t care if he’s a bastard. Ned Stark’s blood runs through his veins.”

Him being a Targ will be a complicating factor, but when the Targaryens land on Westeros with a giant army and three dragons, having a Targ in your corner might not be a bad thing. 

What is your personal opinion about the merits of Equal vs Male Preference primogeniture for the succession of royal houses in a medieval setting, whether in RL or ASOIAF? I am asking for a purely Political POV, not one influenced by your (hopefully) more modern view on Gender Equality. Thank You and Looking forward to your response. ***Asking the Dynamic Trio, i.e. SLAL, Steven Attewell and the Good Queen, the same Question.*** – RSAFan

My personal political POV is that monarchies should be abolished. 

Team Smallfolk 4 Life. 

I’m trying to figure out where Nunn’s Deep and the Pendric Hills are. After the Battle of Oxcross, Robb’s army splits up into smaller raiding forces to harry the Westerlands. Do you think that they kept their raiding focused on the top half of the Westerlands, hoping to draw Tywin west through the River rd instead of south via the Gold rd? If so, given that the Greatjon captured the Castamere, ND & PH mines, are they probably all in the northern WL, relatively near Castamere itself? Thoughts? TY

They’re not on any official maps, so I’ve been using Ser MountainGoat’s speculative map for Nunn’s Deep, et al:

And if you compare that to centers of mining as depicted in the (frankly not that great) maps from the WOIAF, it matches up pretty well:

It’s all in the north. And yeah, I think the plan was to let Tywin come in via the River Road as opposed to making him go by the Gold Road. If it was the latter, I would have put Lannisport under siege. 

Do the writers recognize the resonance and poetry of certain lines and imagery, or do they just realize that so far using the devices in the book result in better episodes, than when they create their own (sand snakes fighting Jaime and Bronn)?

boiledleather:

I’m not here for the “the writers are bad at this” interpretation, as is probably evident, and since there are plenty of show-only scenes that work beautifully the answer is obviously A as far as I’m concerned.

Isn’t there an undistributed middle there? That the writers are good at some things and bad at others? 

I have not been able to find any evidence from either the novels or the World of Ice and Fire that explicitly states that Kingsgrave, the seat of House Manwoody is in the Prince’s Pass. Why would the Fowlers want to share in the riches that flow into their coffers from the trade passing though their pass? – “so the Fowlers took for themselves the grandiose titles of Lords of Skyreach, Lords of the Wide Way, and Kings of Stone and Sky.”

It’s from the Lands of Ice and Fire. 

See that line of castles there? Going north to south, Nightstong, Tower of Joy, Kingsgrave, Skyreach. 

Is it unrealistic that no one has ever set about truly fortifying the Wide Way through the Red Mountains? IMO, the pass is geographically very similar to the real world Darial Gorge through the Caucasus Mountain Range (with the Boneway/Yronwood being a wholly different Derbent to the east). Hypothetically, as either a Dornish Prince or a Marcher/Stormlander King, how would you secure this pass?

The Wide Way is fortified: Skyreach of House Fowler and Kingsgrave of House Manwoody hold the pass for the Dornish, Nightsong of House Caron holds it for the Marcher lords.