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https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/War_of_the_Ninepenny_Kings Given how this Blackfyre Rebellion was an invasion rather than a chance to murder one another and take each other's lands, I can understand the lack of effort Though, I don't think that Septon Meribald ended up fighting on...

Say, in the books, just how often do they actually make use of barely trained and barely equipped Smallfolk who become "Broken Men"? Either the Lord who got Septon Meribald was a fucking asshole who enjoyed trying to see waves of hobos kill each other, or they were just that desperate for...

I remember seeing a fic once on AltHisto Genghis Khan's army was ISOT'd to the Planetos and he spent a good portion of the time angrily lecturing the Dothraki about "rebows" like some Drill Sergeant

How does it involve their religion though, exactly? I mean which Deities were involved to somehow make them think their intellectual pursuits were holy? Apollo who was credited with a bunch of stuff like music? In-Hindsight, I think even ancient Witch-Doctors may have known far more about...

Wait, really? I could understand the first because they were likely involved in studying human bodies due to doing embalming But the latter?

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/world-of-asoiaf-meets-danerige.879540/ There's this fic, though the comment section last I checked was full of guys bashing christianity Even while there were scenes like a priest actually being more accepting of bastards whom a hypocritical...

Fair, though I tend to think newer discoveries regarding history are found

Even if that author is decades or even a century or more dead? Because I got stuff from a guy called Rollins on Amazon for basically free

From beginning to end. I want history books on the oldest civilisations, like Mesopotamia and Egypt

Say, know any serious history books or youtube channels I can read that are NOT abridged versions of history?

How much of actual history did GRRM read? Supposedly this was all based on the War of The Roses

When I think about it, the only real difference is who owns which lands. The majority of the Westeros Nobility, even when educated, in my opinion are a bunch of dumb brutes who almost all dislike "counting coppers" and maybe rather severely disinterested in artistic and intellectual pursuits

@Firebat I forget, large eras of peace allow for say, an increase in being able to do non-militaristic ventures Though odds are no new technologies popped up during those years before and after the conquest Without war, you have to compete with infrastructure That said, I think some other...

Supposedly they’ve been mining Casterly Rock for multiple millenia and House Casterly might have already been pretty old by the time it became House Lannister So odds are the idea of it “running out” is pretty unlikely Though, I question just how far deep within it they’ve already ventured...

Honestly, by the end of the day, I don’t think the Targaryens did much If it’s only the rulers who’ve changed and not their policies, then I don’t think they really do much except keep people from doing wars against one another with the threat of a bigger army or dragon coming in A King is a...

Honestly, I can’t help but think most of the time that the money the nobility have can’t possibly have come from taxing the Smallfolk or enterprising traders

It seems to me that relations are mostly between the "Free Cities" and Westeros, with also the Meereneese and the Ghiscari's pseudo-successor states Other than that, I think places like Yi-Ti are really really really far off for relations' sake. Not sure about the Free Cities' relations with...

And supposedly these Houses are thousands of years old

I just thought of something Why exactly is it that the First Men didn't have any Knight-equivalents? I mean I'm pretty sure they have cavalry and a thing for fighting on horseback, but why no knights? Or Cataphractii or Samurai TBH, I don't know much about a lot of pre-industrial cultures...

Given how the Tyrells only became very important around 300 years before canon when they essentially betrayed the Gardeners And seem to have a bigger extended-family than a number of the other Lord Paramount Houses, I'm not counting Oberyn's many bastards, it's slightly damning of those who are...