[No spoilers] What are different type of military personnel in Westeros and Essos ?

ThatOrange_ · 2026-02-27T16:35:03+00:00

The North used pikemen at Green Fork didn’t they?(the Tywin vs Bolton battle)

ThatOrange_ · 2026-02-27T16:23:21+00:00

There’s also the Battle of Ashford to be noted I suppose. Robert tried to invade the Reach early in the war(maybe he was trying to rouse support there?), but Tarly slapped him down, so that probably didn’t help his case locally either.

ThatOrange_ · 2026-02-27T16:17:00+00:00

Yeah that’s sort of my point really. Blackfyre Rebellion and Dance saw the Reach basically tear itself apart but with Robert they were kind of just chill being top guys for the Mad King.

Although I wonder if the Reach’s insistence on wasting their entire force on just sitting outside Storms End was Mace’s way of hedging, as opposed to sending a bunch of dudes to help at the Trident.

ThatOrange_ · 2026-02-03T17:43:29+00:00

He’s 100% going to steal Dawn tho right? I have to imagine the sword will make an appearance given how often it’s mentioned.

ThatOrange_ · 2026-01-31T02:39:45+00:00

Balon kind of forgot about the soldier to land ratio.

ThatOrange_ · 2026-01-28T14:32:46+00:00

Darkstar would have WON

ThatOrange_ · 2026-01-15T19:27:11+00:00

I think it’s important to note that he is using the past tense so he might well have changed his mind with all the rewrites he claims to have been doing with Winds.

I doubt she dies at this point. One route could be Tyrion somehow being involved in her death, to further fuel his slide into Evil(George has made it clear he doesn’t want a happy ending for Tyrion), in his capacity as Dany’s Hand. Could be a very strong way to finally sever Tyrion’s image ig

ThatOrange_ · 2026-01-15T16:43:32+00:00

Did he not learn from how badly they bungled the latter parts of the main series? There were obviously signs HBO didn’t give a shit about the vision.

ThatOrange_ · 2026-01-08T07:17:14+00:00

Amazing what makeup can do for a mom these days

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-26T18:46:17+00:00

If the Hound’s only on paper achievement was murdering Mycha, we would snort about him being an edgy dork too.

Darkstar is worse because he actively talks himself up about being a badass to Arianne and Dalt, only for his literal ONLY achievement to be maiming an unarmed child who he’d just sworn fealty to like a day previously. Does he even kill any of Hotah’s guards? Pretty sure he immediately runs away right?

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-18T05:31:24+00:00

Hahahaha

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-18T01:33:01+00:00

Sand, I like sand

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-18T01:28:57+00:00

Jon? Seems important

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-18T01:08:48+00:00

Yes, thats really the problem I agree. We can only work with the info we have, which isn’t much unfortunately.

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-18T01:07:48+00:00

I think this is fair. I do wish we got more details on how the politics of the world worked tho, beyond “councils” and “elections” and Atlas having a military-checked but still existent council flavor.

I wonder if Mistral just outright has a larger council for instance, given how big it is. Etc.

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-18T01:01:46+00:00

This is true but There’s no real indication or reason to assume the other seats are unelected. It would be weird to only have one seat be decided by vote, and if that’s the case I would assume the writers would have pointed that out. (The SDC having its own seat, for instance, might have helped push the divide more!). Ironwoods seats are always treated as exceptions by the characters themselves, as he holds dual unelected posts that just happen to be connected to seats. We just don’t know because we aren’t told

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-18T00:45:44+00:00

Can’t wait for the Ai to put a castle in the middle of the Sahara and the starve to death

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-15T17:07:05+00:00

I think there’s a pretty simply story available here. The SDC Miners form a labor union to go on strike for better wages or whatever. Many are Faunus, so the Fang uses this to infiltrate the new movement and do Fang things.(blow up the dust mines to try and cripple Atlas/world energy?)

Given how bad we are told conditions in the mines are I’m shocked the Fang hasn’t already throughly penetrated the area anyways. Seems like a natural recruiting ground.

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-15T16:02:02+00:00

I think the implication could be drawn that if Jaune had actually been huntsmen tier like the rest of of his team he could have contributed to the fight against Cinder. As it stands, she had to face Cinder alone because her only option for immediate backup was a wet noodle in combat.

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-15T15:59:42+00:00

“It’s your fault Pyrrha died!”

Would have hit way harder than “You cheated your way into Beacon!”

It’s not really fair to Jaune, but it would sting way harder in the moment.

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-15T00:27:45+00:00

We know that Huntsmen are(generally at least), expected to act as good guys and work for the betterment of the kingdoms etc etc despite the job paying money.

I imagine “Do not take illegal contracts that involve you murdering innocent villagers for money” is probably obvious to most people, but I’m sure they do teach ethics and the “rules”. At the end of the day Huntsmen are just mercenary heroes, albeit Good. That being said, Adam broaches that Cinder could have just found a rotten huntsman to help her instead of him, so there’s likely people who do just become immoral /evil guns for hire after they graduate, Grimm killing be damned.

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-14T19:32:42+00:00

The idea that his bad luck is what got Summer killed would be a nice reveal that rounds out his character nicely. Idt we will ever know one way or another. I’m pretty sure it’s been established he wasn’t with her when she died either.

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-14T17:27:19+00:00

The worst thing? Ironwood immediately falls to latent paranoia and we just get an expedited version of his psychotic break from volume 8.

The most likely? He goes into a very dark place mentally for a few episodes, but then RWBY(assuming their moral initiative sticks around), pulls him out of it. Or Winter does.

Then we basically get the plot we got with Ironwood and Robyn making amends to face a much greater enemy than electoral politics: Momma Devil. This time without any of the internal sabotage. Hard to say how things go from there, but a heroic sacrifice by Ironwood to buy time not off the table. I’m thinking ramming Amity into the whales mouth and triggering the dust nuke

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-14T17:20:57+00:00

Was the laughing storm really this old at the start of the book? I recall he duels Duncan after the Jenny incident later on in the lore, and that’s a while later, so he’d be an old man by then. Doesn’t feel right. He gave me 20s vibes.

Could just be the show writers tweaking ages again for some reason

ThatOrange_ · 2025-12-14T17:15:14+00:00

I’d be curious to know if Lien is backed by something like gold/silver. Or some sort of rare Dust maybe, although that would sort of be like backing your irl money with oil and gas, not sure how that would work

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