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The way they’re doing it now isn’t half bad – namely hostages and marriages. Because the wildlings respect kinship even if they don’t respect law.
I’d use religion more, since there’s a shared foundation there. Maybe even sponsor the teaching of the Old Tongue as a way to build a shared Northern identity.
Who is this Yara you speak of?
In the distance, half a dozen of southron longships were racing back toward the Mander. Let them go, Victarion thought, let them tell the tale. Once a man had turned his tail and run from battle he ceased to be a man.
Isn’t it a bit hypocritical for Victarion to think that given he did the same thing at Fair Isle when he turned his tail and fled when he saw the battle was lost?
It’s hugely hypocritical. Because Victarion is an enormous hypocrite. Because the “Old Way” is riddled with hypocrisy.
They’d just murdered the Lord Paramount and his heir without trial. The North is not going to listen to a damn thing they have to say.
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Ned wasn’t his Hand at the time when that happened – he had resigned.
And yes, Robert would have cared. He was never much into governance per se, but ask Balon Greyjoy about how much he cared about challenges to his rule.
If it was just Dondarrion and some smallfolk, maybe Robert doesn’t care. But Dondarrion carrying Robert’s own banner makes it personal – Tywin is openly attacking him, disrespecting him, challenging him. Robert HAS to respond or it will become public knowledge that anyone can attack the king’s men and get away with it, and at that point you might as well abdicate.
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Dorne entered the 7 Kingdoms on her terms but paid for it through 100 years of intermittent warfare, massive damage to its infrastructure, civilian deaths, etc.
Should they have just capitulated peacefully like the Starks & Tyrells? Was it all worth it?
At the end of the day, that’s really only a question the Dornish themselves can answer. And historically, it seems that the majority of the population of Dorne said yes, because they were the ones who kept fighting when the political elite wanted to give up.
Should Dorne and the North have a slightly different alphabet/linguistic system compared to the rest of Westeros due to Rhyonish/First Men influence?
If we’re going to start with the idea that all of Westeros speaks the Common Tongue as their primary language as GRRM does, then there’s a limit to how much variation there should be.
A different alphabet? That really depends. The Old Tongue of the North had a runic script but was primarily an oral tradition, so in a scenario in which the Old Tongue survives, I’d imagine it would be transliterated into Andal script. Given that the Rhoynar were a more technologically advanced and literate culture than the First Men, I would expect a Rhoynish script to survive if the Martells hadn’t banned the Rhoynish language.
A different linguistic system? Well, given that the Andals had been in Dorne for thousands of years when the Rhoynar arrived and then there was an intense period of intermarriage and cultural borrowing, I would expect the emergence of a creole language that combined lexicons and grammars from the two language, with perhaps the elite learning “proper” Andal or Rhoynar or both (depending on the House’s heritage or their desire for political advancement at Sunspear). Given that the North avoided Andal invasion altogether, I would expect bilingualism to be the more likely scenario, with Andal becoming the language of trade and diplomacy, spoken by merchants, sailors, the nobility, and more common in the White Harbor area due to the transplantation of the Manderlys, but as a secondary language, with the Old Tongue as the primary language and the only language of the vast majority of the population in the interior.
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