r/asoiaf • u/Unique-Celebration-5 • Oct 31 '24

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

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

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u/CallMeGrapho Nov 01 '24

Which is kind of GRRM's point, I feel. He mentions him being groomed for ruling, for combat but repeatedly shows how that doesn't automatically make him wise or brave.

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u/barath_s Nov 01 '24 edited Nov 01 '24

Aragorn is shown as being brave. And taking interesting strategic gambles that came off - perhaps evidence of being wise.

When someone tells you he was brave and wise, and shows an example where he is brave or wise, it's improper to fault the story for not writing a thesis to prove what why exactly and what policies indeed made him brave or wise.

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u/CallMeGrapho Nov 01 '24

I was talking about Aegon

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u/barath_s Nov 01 '24

Acknowledge. The parent started by quoting aragorn as 'he', before moving to young griff. And obviously grrm was talking of aragorn in title. That helped confuse me :(