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In the words of the great, mostly dead philosopher 2Pac, if I were Garland.........I don't give a fuck. *breaks into 90s Gangsta Rap*
To be honest, from my own viewpoint on the outside of this, Gris isn't going to be liked by his own people, Dorne, the Reach, and in turn, maybe even Rhaenyra as a result of that influence, a bit of Rule 5 coming into play here- it might be a situation he can't do. He'd be a great maester, but as a Lord, he's seen as mad, or extremely easy to manipulate...which could just be his sister anyway for day-to-day affairs. A Lord isn't the priority for intervention, it's only an alliance of military, political and other uses that Garland wants, not Gris...so if he can, he will get rid of him, forcibly or with some mercy, and actually, is very likely to be the latter. This isn't the end of you playing if it were to occur- actually, it means that other characters around Gris suddenly become far more important, far more manipulative, and dare we speak the word, the most outrightly shitty act of Kinslaying can begin to unravel themselves as Gris is seen as incompetent at running a Kingdom. There is a lot on the plate- it's just realizing that Gris is already in the deep shit for being who he is, and from an external perspective, it'd be difficult to climb out of that without outright giving into the Red God or sucking it and seeing. Garland WILL be in deep shit when, not if, he makes an error, and knowing that this is GoT, he is going to, and someone is going to take his head.
Garland will want an equivalent that actually has a gregarious and proactive lord, to match his own nature if he wants to not worry about measly revolts. It's terrifying shit, but to be honest, it's to be expected. Garland doesn't care for knowledge, anyway, he cares for being a chivalrous motherfucker, women, falcons*, wine, tourneys, and his work as a Lord Hand and being a fucking husk inbetween all these to run his own Kingdom. An ally is there not for knowledge, in his view- he wants a Kingdom that loyally follows the Crown, HIS instated crown, and even if Gris did say yes, is Garland going to want to constantly fight rebellions indirectly supported by Dorne, rather than the Crakehalls?
*It hasn't been shown a lot, but due to Garland being a fucking husk in writing letters to people, he hasn't done any falconry in the Rosewood. Tangent here- I hope the Rosewood is a nice way of explaining why there's a wood about the quarter of the size of the Kingswood outside the eastern side of Highgarden.
Also, I just realized on that death list, Garland's dignity is on there. I fucking ROFL'd.
EDIT:
From my knowledge, technology doesn't really move on a lot in the Seven Kingdoms. I've set it that the Tyrell Retinues are an idea basically directly pinched from the Mid to Late Medieval Era, something like Henry V or Henry VI would have had in their armies, alongside vassal forces. The trade, and the whole idea of The Reach in this time, all of it, is like what Southern France would have looked like in that sort of period of the mid 1300s/early 1400s, it's becoming a real powerhouse, it's taking on a hell of a lot of progress but actually, the tech for gunpowder, and all the associated Renaissance, is just simply not there. There's no Ancient texts to kick it off, for a start, and if there was any tech progresses, I would imagine it is very, very slow compared to our world. This is Westeros after all- and there is a tad more focus on the mysteries, such as raising people from the dead, and so on and so on.
In the words of the great, mostly dead philosopher 2Pac, if I were Garland.........I don't give a fuck. *breaks into 90s Gangsta Rap*
To be honest, from my own viewpoint on the outside of this, Gris isn't going to be liked by his own people, Dorne, the Reach, and in turn, maybe even Rhaenyra as a result of that influence, a bit of Rule 5 coming into play here- it might be a situation he can't do. He'd be a great maester, but as a Lord, he's seen as mad, or extremely easy to manipulate...which could just be his sister anyway for day-to-day affairs. A Lord isn't the priority for intervention, it's only an alliance of military, political and other uses that Garland wants, not Gris...so if he can, he will get rid of him, forcibly or with some mercy, and actually, is very likely to be the latter. This isn't the end of you playing if it were to occur- actually, it means that other characters around Gris suddenly become far more important, far more manipulative, and dare we speak the word, the most outrightly shitty act of Kinslaying can begin to unravel themselves as Gris is seen as incompetent at running a Kingdom. There is a lot on the plate- it's just realizing that Gris is already in the deep shit for being who he is, and from an external perspective, it'd be difficult to climb out of that without outright giving into the Red God or sucking it and seeing. Garland WILL be in deep shit when, not if, he makes an error, and knowing that this is GoT, he is going to, and someone is going to take his head.
Garland will want an equivalent that actually has a gregarious and proactive lord, to match his own nature if he wants to not worry about measly revolts. It's terrifying shit, but to be honest, it's to be expected. Garland doesn't care for knowledge, anyway, he cares for being a chivalrous motherfucker, women, falcons*, wine, tourneys, and his work as a Lord Hand and being a fucking husk inbetween all these to run his own Kingdom. An ally is there not for knowledge, in his view- he wants a Kingdom that loyally follows the Crown, HIS instated crown, and even if Gris did say yes, is Garland going to want to constantly fight rebellions indirectly supported by Dorne, rather than the Crakehalls?
*It hasn't been shown a lot, but due to Garland being a fucking husk in writing letters to people, he hasn't done any falconry in the Rosewood. Tangent here- I hope the Rosewood is a nice way of explaining why there's a wood about the quarter of the size of the Kingswood outside the eastern side of Highgarden.
Also, I just realized on that death list, Garland's dignity is on there. I fucking ROFL'd.
EDIT:
From my knowledge, technology doesn't really move on a lot in the Seven Kingdoms. I've set it that the Tyrell Retinues are an idea basically directly pinched from the Mid to Late Medieval Era, something like Henry V or Henry VI would have had in their armies, alongside vassal forces. The trade, and the whole idea of The Reach in this time, all of it, is like what Southern France would have looked like in that sort of period of the mid 1300s/early 1400s, it's becoming a real powerhouse, it's taking on a hell of a lot of progress but actually, the tech for gunpowder, and all the associated Renaissance, is just simply not there. There's no Ancient texts to kick it off, for a start, and if there was any tech progresses, I would imagine it is very, very slow compared to our world. This is Westeros after all- and there is a tad more focus on the mysteries, such as raising people from the dead, and so on and so on.
