When I get time, I will be writing a series of posts on fan casting characters from various fantasy novels or manga. Starting point will be Aegon Targaryen / Young Griff from A Song of Ice and Fire. Descriptions << “Duck!” came a shout. “Haldon!” Tyrion craned his head to one side, and saw a … More Fan Casting: Aegon Targaryen VI / Young Griff (A Song of Ice and Fire)
It is a common belief (or at least that is my impression) that Aegon VI Targaryen / Young Griff will not be a good ruler because he lacks experience, while Daenerys will be a good ruler because she will have experienced Mereen. But that is a far more complex question, and it might be possible … More Aegon Targaryen as a ruler – case of Matthias Corvinus
POPULATION DENSITY Technology depends a lot on population density. Without enough people, there will not be enough concentration of resources for certain societal and thus technological developments. And in Westeros, that is a problem. Seven Kingdoms have 40 million people at maybe 3 600 000 square miles. If North is removed, that is some 1,2 … More Worldbuilding problems – Westeros
Basically… …she has dragons. Yes, that is the main reason. There are others – her idealism and impatience screaming “I am about to get disappointed and become a tyrant”, her dreaming about throne in Westeros while piling up responsibilities in Essos, her conquering a city and then leaving it with new government and absolutely no … More Why I dislike Daenerys
Daenerys gives herself the mission to civilize the Slaver’s Bay. But Martin shows at least somewhat correctly what happens when different groups, different cultures, meet: strife, conflict and bloodshed. Good intentions are not enough; in fact, idealism often makes the situation worse because it leads to inability to account for reality. And in her mission, … More Issue of Slaver’s Bay
Army size As noted in my “Military Organization of Seven Kingdoms” post, “at Agincourt in 1415., English field 6 000 – 9 000 trops, while the French field 14 000 – 15 000 professional soldiers and some 10 000 armed servants (so cca 25 000). French defeat was enough to cripple military capability of France, … More Population of Westeros
Aegon Targaryen – Igor Nigmatullin Cersei Lannister – Nicole Kidman Davos Seaworth – Stephen Merchant Garlan Tyrell – Eion Macken Gendry Waters – Aaron Tylor Johnson Jon Connington – Damian Lewis Jon Snow – Kyle Allen Loras Tyrell – Douglas Booth Margaery Tyrell – Sarah Bolger Peter Steele – Sandor Clegane Renly Baratheon – Giulio … More A Song of Ice and Fire Character Lookalikes
Nomadic victories are often attributed to simplistic factors: superior numbers of combatants, incompetence of nomads’ enemies, or innate advantages of nomadic societies over sedentary counterparts. Nomads are portrayed as living in the saddle, “natural warriors inured since birth to riding and archery in the harsh climate of the steppe” – yet nomadic armies in fact … More Fantasy Army: Dothraki, Part 4: Combat Performance
Aside from tactics and organization, superior technology was in fact crucial for successes of nomadic armies against their sedentary opponents. Scythians and later Mongols used lamellar armor at the time when their opponents used mail. It was the Mongols who introduced cannons to the Islamic world and may have introduced them to Europe as well. … More Fantasy Army: Dothraki, Part 3: Weapons and Equipment
Nomadic battle tactics generally favored deception, feigned retreats and ambushes. In combat, nomads such as Huns would form army into several units of irregular size with a separate force in reserve, ready to spring an ambush. Huns Hunnic tactics were based on their hunting tactics, which were based around mounted archery. They would attack the … More Fantasy Army: Dothraki, Part 2: Tactics
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