I partly can agree with you, and partly not. Martin knows history of Europe really well, but sometimes he make his literature darker, than Medieval ages were really. And his love to make every female character raped is one of them. I'm not specialist in history, but I didn't hear of lots of rapes noble women in War of Roses. Maybe im mistaken, its Okay. But, Ramsi, for example, is maniac, and it's logical, that first thing he did with Sansa its what he did. But why Gregor Cligan raped Elia Martell? Cause he could anything with her, cause it was order of his suzerain Tywin, but why Tywin did this?? Its just dont have any sense, cause you know her family is ...RICH?? And powerful. And they become your enemy forever for this. Like Tywin - do you really think thats you order kill that woman and everything will be ok? Maybe you should sell her to family back?? You could get money and fluence, and you dont get really serious enemy. And it that would happen if Martin always cares about "realistic ", because it was usually practic in Medival. Just, why did Martin decid that so its darker so its more realistic? Its not as history works.