But in a situation he was in, in society he was purportedly living in, there is no way a betrayal of guest right and a massacre of erstwhile allies could have been justified.
Adding to this, the existence of house Clegane in and of itself is an absurdity, Tywin should have faced region wide rebellions by his vassals,
especially considering there's another equally prosperous but less disturbed house Lannister what? A lazy afternoon's ride from the Rock? and another two dozen cadet branches everywhere? The manner in which the Reynes and the Tarbeks were destroyed is shit the Assyrians got up too and there's a reason why those guys were habitually skinning babies alive and shit..the moment they let up on the terror, they'd have been swamped.
You don't do that then elevate a clan of gigantic, mentally unstable serial killers as your premier ranging force..
House Lannister should have been taken out by Stannis in book 2 it's the only realistic end to them.
I never read the books myself but the wiki entry seems fairly extensive.
The Dothraki people are a culture of nomadic warriors in Essos who range across the vast grasslands of the Dothraki sea in hordes known as khalasars. People of the Seven Kingdoms and the Free Cities also refer to the Dothraki as horselords.[1][2]
awoiaf.westeros.org
I can see certain i aspirations coming from certain groups but GRRM obviously changed things up... And added his own stuff as one should do... Being a fantasy author.
Honestly always thought the Dothraki were based more on the Comanche than the Mongols, right down to their irreverence and propensity to make atrocity in some kind of terrible in joke.
*ahem*
The Faith Militant in the show did literally not a single thing wrong and was well on it's way to transforming the setting into one more realistically medieval, which would have benefited everyone except the child eating lunatics.
The fact that the Faith Militant repeatedly seems to be one of the more constructive insurrectionist forces in Westeros and tends to have rather legitimate grievances every time they rise up, is one of the more amusingly realistic aspects of the story. Albeit, I doubt Martin meant for it to be that way.
You know what, I think GRRM kinda made the in-universe cultures really simplified AF....realistic my ass
The political intrigue, especially that of Varys and Little Finger..honestly really isn't that impressive compared to your average middle age court..to say nothing of the shit that went down in Italy, England, France and Spain during the Renaissance for which they often get compared too..erroneously.
Hell, Japan from the same period as well... The Ashikaga even out brutalized them with it not being uncommon for the Ashikaga Shoguns to boil priests alive when they were critical of the Bafuku...And then you get into the jolly fat man and his "I cucked everyone Scorpius style and emerged from the Warring States as Emperor in all but name"
Or the Julio-Cluadian dynasty..which..again..people compare Westeros under Bobby B too.
Toned things down?
What exactly did they do? Think really hard about what we see them do. Not "implications of stuff they said" not "logical conclusions of threats they made to their enemies" think about what we actually see them do.
They werent beating gays in the street, they were beating baby eating nobles in the street and saying "this is because you're gay" while leaving the smallfolk completely untouched.
The image could not have been clearer when they attacked the whorehouse: The whores they just pushed out of the way, the nobles and pimps (who, remember, own the whores like slaves and routinely sell/buy them to be butchered) they kicked the shit out of and ransacked.
Honestly? As far as fanatics go, that sparrow dude and his extremists are...not so extreme
I'm not even looking at it from a modern standpoint..the average medieval dude would look at them and marvel at their restraint and moderation when faced with the kind of gross ineptitude and cartoonish evil.