My bad, thing is, I think that armour has to cover EVERYTHING, like you have to be covered in steel or metal everywhere. Though I admit aside from weight, there are flexibility issues and chances of being cooked alive by the sun in your own armour.
Elephants are retardo tough, there's a good if sad video on youtube that gives you an idea just how tough. This poor bastard is walking about the bush with gangrene because he stepped on a mine or something and it blew half his foot off. The infection was so pronounced you could tell it had been weeks. A dude shows up with what looks like a Holland and Holld and the elephant seems him, senses he doesn't mean harm and just sorta lines up to let the guy put him out of his misery.
Or Elephants (Because they're actually smart as hell) Will routinely walk up to park rangers with bullet wounds in their heads and shoulders and ask for medical attention, with it being clear the poor fuckers have been walking around with a GSW for days/weeks.
Shit, newborn babies who get lost or abandoned in Asia or Africa are routinely rescued with their little tiny feet eight shades of fucked up or with third degree burns because assholes throw molotov cocktails at them to get them scared of their farms (This is retarded, keep bees..any no elephant or Rino or Hyena clan for that matter will go anywhere near your land. the Noise bees make is absolute torture for their ears. Plus honey is pretty profitable in Africa as its used for a shitload of different things besides food). And are tough enough that once you get a bottle in the little bastards, a few shots of penicillin and someone to play with they generally recover in a matter of days to weeks (Elephants can literally go into organ failure from depression or anxiety. PTSD would kill Stark War mammoths more than the enemy
).
They don't need a lot of armor, their bodies are stupid tough. Mammoths have all of that, times two, plus fur.
It might even be dangerous to armor them beyond the bare minimum because they might overheat.
Naw what Giants and their mammoths likely need is enough space to safely settle, eat and fuck and probably a bit of stimulation. Pretty sure the Umbars would end up having the best relationship with them outside of the Starks because the Umbars seem crazy enough to actually go out and party with the giants.
The reason why war elephants were so rare outside of certain Empires was due to how expensive they were to maintain...And how fucking messy an elephants psychology is. They routinely get Rambo style PTSD attacks from less reputable circus acts, the impression I get is the bond between Rider and war elephant must have been absolute. Because they're incredibly intelligent, dynamic and hold grudges like you wouldn't believe.
Interestingly enough, there's also evidence they pass down things to their children the way Crows and humans do. As there's an entire breed of discarded war elephants. Either in china or Malaysia where their "division" was abandoned two thousand years ago. But even now they show an enormous amount of trust and friendliness with tourists and the rangers. To the point where they'll come out of the brush to hang out with their favorite wardens for lunch.
If giant's mammoths are anything like that...a side breed for labor and maybe logistics if they can crossbreed with imported elephants would be a huge boon to the North.
I have to bet the original Umbers were less Part-Giant and more Giant-Hunters, the Giant with chains on it showed them capturing Giants to be used as slave labor and trophies
You're probably right. The truck is getting them to not be shitheads to their Giants and mammoths this time around...
A pimp who had the luck of having connections with a mentally disturbed woman and got to build from there. If it weren't for Lysa at all, I can bet the guy'd take a LONG time to even become a successful merchant, let alone a pimp.
I feel compelled to defend Luciano here too...the guy was genuinely so ridiculous, he's the only real life historical figure the FBI calls a "Master Criminal". Fuckers had no real world comparison to him, so they just up and called him a supervillain.
He also commanded the absolute loyalty of fuckers like Albert Anastasia, a man so sadistic and sociopathic he made Roose Bolton look like a reasonable noble. Supposedly the shit he did was so god awful even the FBI profilers who go after the worse humanity has to offer have nightmares and depression and anxiety issues after reading the transcripts of the shit he did.
He had a guy like Dutch Schultz who was famous for melting snitches in industrial acid while they were still alive, using STD riddled tampons to smear into the open wounds of his enemies and a dozen other awful shit that's up with the worst Gregor Clegane did...utterly
terrified of him.
But yeah...Baelish is basically a diet Soda version of Lucky and there's no way he'd stick around..He'd hide in the South..making as much money as he can off the carnage..keep himself in KL all the while funneling immense amounts of embezzled and earned wealth into Essos..so he can get the fuck outta Dodge the moment he has enough breahtingh room.
Then "Prince Aegon" dies rather inconveniently along the way or turns out to lack that much skill and charisma to do much.
Might even get eaten by a dragon he tries taming
Maybe, or the Targaryen and Blackfyre lines are unified by Deanarys and Aegon?
I can see politics becoming a problem there, they'd still expect rewards, hell some Lords or second/third/fourth/fifth sons and bastards may have their eyes on the Night Watch's castles and claim that the Watch is worthless as an institution and they should be given ownership of all those castles
Same for the Gift(New & Old)
Exterminating The ice Fairies...may mean everything it meant in the show.
Westeros now has..a Canada to go explore, tame and settle. one where..immense quantities of precious metal have gone untouched...for tens of millennia.
It'll be the Alaskan gold rush...But with swords instead of colt's
Not to mention the usual logistics, gonna need lots of whores and alcohol, even if they do know they have to face Ice Demons
How would their armies adjust tactics though? I think they'd know the whole "Wights can/will keep moving even with their legs blown off and have unlimited stamina as well and can gang up on people with large numbers" and that's just those which were once human
Fire smoke zombie, Dragon Glass melt ice fairy?
Neato...BRING OUT THE WILDFIRE! A lot of the problems, the fairies exploited which lead to the victiories that ruined humanity ten thousand years ago..Ain't present now.
It's still going to be absolutely awful..but, people are way more organized. Possess means of delivering inordinate amounts of fire to the front and have Dragons.