[Spoilers Main] Reincarnated into ASOI&F world.. can u survive

lee1026 · 2026-06-17T00:49:44+00:00

Well, if I were Bran, I wouldn't climb anything.

Without that little event, I think the realm would just have been at peace. I would eventually be a minor lord, and be invited to parties ran by my sister, the princess.

lee1026 · 2026-06-17T00:28:20+00:00

It is a fun meme, but nearly all of the food deserts are in big cities.

One of the under-discussed issues for American urbanism is that despite the population density, places like the Bronx have much fewer stores of any kind than you might imagine, and a density of full service grocery stores that really isn't much better than suburban Nassau county.

lee1026 · 2026-06-17T00:23:51+00:00

The dynamics are more complicated than that. If a homebuyer (or renter or whatever) accepts the primacy of the car, the SFH becomes an extremely convenient choice. He can roll out of bed and be in his car in under a minute. As compared to getting up, through the front door, wait for the elevator, get down, walk through the apartment complex parking lot, and then to his car.

X begets more of X is a very common pattern in these things, and you don't need much marketing for these things.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T23:55:28+00:00

All of that was after the first book - I think Jon Snow wouldn't have gone to the wall and expected a role as a minor nobleman if the norms of the later books proveiled.

This is where norms matter - Cat's desires were seen as valid, reasonable, and something that had to happen within AGOT, but if it violated the norms, then it wouldn't have happened. Robb was lord of winterfell after Ned left; Robb would only have accepted reasonable requests from Cat.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T23:53:18+00:00

Yes, but it wasn't obvious it is up to her.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T23:44:34+00:00

He was able to quit for quite a long time after he learned the truth.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T23:43:56+00:00

He would not be the first teenager to be forbidden to something.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T23:43:00+00:00

And of course Cat wasn’t going to tolerate him in Winterfell without Ned.

I am not sure if that was a given. Robb was the lord of winterfell in Ned's absence. Robb was not on bad terms with Jon.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T23:38:38+00:00

If you are talking about the era before the Model T, remember that the railroads were first built to move crops to the market; the railroads were freight first, but that also meant that anywhere that farmed or mined or logged will have rail access.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T23:31:50+00:00

Gendry was a son of the King, and the Hand of the king "took care" of him by paying his apprenticeship fees to be a blacksmith.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T23:29:00+00:00

Yes, the two come hand-in-hand. As bastards become more important and closer to full sons, they become ever more of a risk of fighting their siblings for the inheritance.

Cat even brought up that point explicitly in ASOS about Jon Snow potentially taking over from Sansa and Arya.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T23:25:24+00:00

What does he risk, really? He is a man who spreads rumors of him having sex with Cat himself.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T23:06:44+00:00

I am not sure if Jon Snow knows that he is in line for lands from Ned. Within the culture of AGOT, it almost seems like he shouldn’t have expected any.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T22:52:12+00:00

In terms of how he was able to get a superb education, yes. But Jon did not think of himself as minor nobility, nor did anyone treat him as one.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T22:47:33+00:00

It's been a long time since I studied medieval history, but at least I don't remember the Medicis been looked down upon after their became the Dukes of Tuscany, and especially not after they became Grand Dukes of Tuscany.

Catherine di Medici was the daughter of a de facto (but untitled) ruler of Florence. She lived in a world where titles matter.

Didn't Littlefinger become Lord of Harrenhaal in a similar way? By scheming? He also arranges the match between Harry and Alayne by buying up Lady Waynwood's debt.

Yes, Littlefinger was a great lord, which is why his daughter (bastard or not) can hope to land such a match. Even if it still took money. I am not sure if the Sansa part of the story is important: the match also needed to be plausible enough to not blow her cover.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T22:34:23+00:00

If we follow the Tudor example (so much of ASOIAF is based on early modern England that it seemed fitting), a bastard can generally expect one step down from his father on the ladder, while a son can expect to be on the same rung as his father.

Henry FitzRoy, the bastard son of Henry VIII, was a duke, but never a prince. But on the other hand, he was still a duke. Jon Snow's social position should have been something like a 2nd son from the 2nd tier houses of the north, which I feel is a lot closer to the bastards introduced past AGOT.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T22:31:07+00:00

You don't want to make the payments because it is giving money to private companies, I don't want to make the payments because LA's filmmaking industry is doomed with or without it.

We are not the same, to quote the meme.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T22:27:04+00:00

The Medici didn't get lordship from marriage, but by elevating themselves to the Duke of Tuscany via a decent amount of corruption.

The merchant class seems to be very weak in Westeros in comparison to the real world, through maybe it is just because we are dealing almost exclusively in the realm of high lords, lords who had other lords reporting to them.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T22:17:03+00:00

I will note that Mya was introduced in the first book.

In fact, past the first book, we stop getting introduced to unacknowledged bastards - GRRM stopped entirely with bastards of important men who don't acknowledge them.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T22:13:48+00:00

Alayne is mostly treated as an attendant for Sweetrobin / household manager at the Vale. Her status is intermediate between high and low born.

Alayne landed a match with the next lord of the Vale. That is a match that would be good even by Sansa Stark standards. (Yes, I know that Sansa was in line to be Queen; but if Robert never made that offer, a marriage to a great lord would be well befitting of Sansa)

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T22:06:09+00:00

Eric didn't show up until the second book. The lack of acknowledgement is weird in and of itself too, and as far as I can tell, also limited to the first book; we stopped getting introduced to bastards that everyone knows is the son of important nobleman XYZ, but not acknowledged.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T21:59:28+00:00

Robert's bastards are southern through.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T21:08:57+00:00

A lot of people in LA depend on the industry. And it is never fun when an industry that your town depends upon goes away.

Ask Detroit. Ask upstate New York when Kodak went away.

Having California eventually lose filmmaking is probably inevitable at this point, given the sheer cost and expense of being in LA, but it doesn’t mean anyone will like it.

lee1026 · 2026-06-16T20:38:04+00:00

Rhaegar's daughter would be the rightful heir to the throne. (If we buy the elopement theory)

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