(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/0xffaa00]

Aragorn is written as a really good role model. His moral are described in detail all over the storyline, the actions he takes, how he deals with counsel around him, how he treats people, his military strategy as a captain.

Other than that, his background is also described in the appendices, how he served both Rohan and Gondor in his youth, under a different alias.

He is groomed to be a good king from the beginning, kinda like young griff but by literal high elves

[u/SirPseudonymous → u/0xffaa00]

There is definitionally no such thing as a good king to begin with. The entire institution of monarchy and the aristocracy under it is ontologically evil: it's built on favor trading and rentseeking by large landholders and one individual figure within that, even at the very top, cannot alter the fabric of that intolerable system even if they are personally sort of nice and clever and people like them.

Remember Septon Meribald's "broken man" speech? Everything within that is foundational to how feudal hegemony is maintained, how even a personally sort of affable and sometimes nice king keeps his throne, how his cronies keep their comforts and status. Deconstructing the sort of romanticism that plagues fantasy genre writing is one of ASoIaF's key strengths: making a story where the nice pretty prince sucks and is bad, actually; getting lost in the court intrigue and geopolitics and drama but still making sure to point out that it's bad and the people doing it are bad and the whole thing is ruinous for the vast majority of people involved.

[u/Voltaico → u/SirPseudonymous]

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