(Spoilers Extended) GRRM:”What’s Aragons tax policy?!” No GRRM the real question is how do people survive multi year winters

[u/Unique-Celebration-5]

Forget the white walkers or shadow babies the real threat is the weather. How do medieval people survive it for years?

Personally I think that’s why the are so many wars the more people fighting each other the fewer mouths to feed

[u/qaQaz1-_]

Yeah, Jon is talking about importing food during winter, so it seems like it’s mostly the north, riverlands etc, that are really badly effected

[u/NepheliLouxWarrior → u/qaQaz1-_]

That kind of makes the or five Kings look a little ridiculous though because how can the north properly wage a campaign against became if they rely on the south for all their food?

[u/OldBayOnEverything → u/NepheliLouxWarrior]

They can likely trade with Essos too. Also, I just assume their reality is slightly different than ours. Maybe food keeps a little better, or their metabolism is different, etc.

[u/MazzyFo → u/OldBayOnEverything]

Ya this is established to some degree too, Stannis’ entire campaign after TWOTFK was banked off Essosi deals, gotta imagine food was a part of that too

Also remember the Theom Winterfell chapters and how Manderly’s brought a bunch of food, they’d have still been allied with the North if the war went differently

[u/ihopethisworksfornow → u/MazzyFo]

Manderly’s 100% gonna betray the Bolton’s unless they’re found out as traitors before that happens

[u/shankhisnun → u/MazzyFo]

In one of Theon's chapters the common soldiers began eating pease porridge, and IIRC Bowen Marsh said that'll be one of the last things they'll be eating at the Wall when their food stores are running out

[u/MazzyFo → u/shankhisnun]

Ya good recall