Navarro
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Yeah, especially given that the religion he most evidently approves of has no tenets other than "do important things in your life in front of weirwood trees".
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ASOIAF/GOT The 'Realism' of the World of ASOIAF/GOT
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Yeah, especially given that the religion he most evidently approves of has no tenets other than "do important things in your life in front of weirwood trees".
Navarro
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I just remembered I wrote about some of the worldbuilding problems of Westeros before:
Worldbuilding problems – Westeros
POPULATION DENSITY Technology depends a lot on population density. Without enough people, there will not be enough concentration of resources for certain societal and thus technological development…military-fantasy.com
Not sure whether I already posted link here, but whatever. Important thing is, it relates to what you wrote about states. Basically, unified states have always depended on rivers: United States managed to stay united states thanks to the massive Missouri river basin, whereas Europe's fragmentation was also significantly related to geography - both in relation to ocean shores and to rivers and river basins.
I mean, Martin puts a humongous, very rich and prosperous city literally in the middle of a lifeless desert. And also has a society where only 1% of the males are allowed to marry, and everybody else gets castrated. Not to mention the army of shirtless eunuchs who are the world's most formidable fighting force ...
Theorically,city on desert could live from sea and merchants,problem is - what they could sell others ? sand ?
Castrating 99% of populations must lead to dying after few generations,unless they get new people.
And eunuchs as soldiers - GRM should use janissaries or rather mamluks as example,becouse there is reason why slaves many times was used as elite force,but eunuchs - never.
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