CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
If Martin bothers to continue to write anything in the setting..Big guy seems kinda gassed out.
Guy’s busy working on Elden Ring now
If Martin bothers to continue to write anything in the setting..Big guy seems kinda gassed out.
Honestly I expect if Bran is king Westeros will so fucked up there won’t be any opposition for a thousand years or more.
Opposition to him?
I agree, so long as he remains alive...And his successors share his ambitions or something..Yeah.
Or do you mean an all seeing being like that would intergenerationally cripple free will?
Most people probably won’t decide to go that far Beyond-The-Wall to find out whom the real master of everything is
I mean in Dream of Spring, Westeros will be a fucked up post apocalyptic hellscape.Opposition to him?
I agree, so long as he remains alive...And his successors share his ambitions or something..Yeah.
Or do you mean an all seeing being like that would intergenerationally cripple free will?
Assuming he went beyond the wall, as opposed to simply becoming the next Master of Whispers or someshit...Granted, sans a wyrwood tree, he'd probably be unable to possess people.
I don’t think the Children of the Forest were ever the masters of the Weirwood
Otherwise they would never have lost to the First Men
I mean in Dream of Spring, Westeros will be a fucked up post apocalyptic hellscape.
Who is left to oppose the avatar of the old gods and heir of Brynden Rivers?
They probably weren't....the impression I get is that something primordial called Westeros home before anything else did. Including the trees themselves
This has got a lot of good information.
With regards to the ending of the show, and some of the Holy Shit moments.
Stannis burning Shireen is pretty much confirmed unabashedly. Not Mel or Selyse doing it.
Bran being King is also pretty much a done deal.
Some of the other show events are debatable.
Sure fine. I’ll continue it if anyone is interested.
I didn't recall that they rode down the river in barges, guess it's been too long. That said... that's even worse than I thought.On the Tyrell’s, they didn’t march? They rode down the river in Barges.
Combined Renly has an army of 100K. Only around a fourth to a third of that is actually Storm men. The rest are Reachmen. Mace Tyrell through marriage alliances does have that kind of authority. And armies of that size did exist. Just not in Europe. The reach however is unified mostly under Tyrell leadership.
Westeros is a unified continent and has been for 300 years. This means larger population growth and more resources for the support of larger armies.
So they marched their 100,000 man army... further than the original estimate I gave and without even the advantage of roads at all, and then started floating downriver. They still need tens of thousands of tons of supplies to do that, more than my original estimate given that now they're marching across wilderness instead of on a road and then have floaty-time as well. My original point stands.“Lord Tywin turned his host at once, joined up with Matthis Rowan and Randyll Tarly near the headwaters of the Blackwater, and made a forced march to Tumbler’s Falls, where he found Mace Tyrell and two of his sons waiting with a huge host and a fleet of barges. They floated down the river, disembarked half a day’s ride from the city, and took Stannis in the rear.”
I think that’s Catelyn I of ASOS.
LF had already laid the groundwork for the Lannister-Tyrell alliance.
They left their infantry behind. The barges were already built. Tywin’s army marched after Edmure stymied him at the Stone Mill.So they marched their 100,000 man army... further than the original estimate I gave and without even the advantage of roads at all, and then started floating downriver. They still need tens of thousands of tons of supplies to do that, more than my original estimate given that now they're marching across wilderness instead of on a road and then have floaty-time as well. My original point stands.
So they "dispensed" with their baggage train to travel several hundred miles, apparently without eating or feeding their horses over the quarter-year that would take, given that's the baggage train's job. They then found some barges pre-built that were just laying around with nobody using them (mail order logistics ho!) which was really fortunate since the baggage train's secondary job is hauling around the carpenters and smiths they'd need to build barges in the first place. Definitely amazing luck there. And again, fits what I've said with how they seem to have modern-era style supply depots somehow since they tend to move massive armies that should need massive supplies around yet the things they need are always at hand and they rarely suffer logistics issues.They left their infantry behind. The barges were already built. Tywin’s army marched after Edmure stymied him at the Stone Mill.
They probably dispensed with most of the baggage train. Given the urgency of the situation.