Blackfyre apologists infuriate me. It’s basically rebelling and usurpation because some marcher Lords were unhappy with peace with Dorne, ambitious secondary houses(Like House Reyne), and because Daeron II was a bookish king who filled his court with scholars not warriors.
Daemon Blackfyre and his supporters got far more mercy than they ever deserved.
I want to punch Ser Eustace Osgrey and Bittersteel if I ever have the chance
If you remember Ser Eustance Osgrey’s speech, he doesn’t talk at all about Dornish hurting smallfolk or innocent people dying, he cares more about some twisted sense of honor
Honestly TBF this sort of comes with the Deliberate Values Dissonance of the setting and the fact that in the end it’s mostly the nobility who matter, everybody else is a non-person
What would have the Blackfyre’s done for Westeros? Hell, what would or could the later Blackfyre Rebellions do FOR Westeros? Did any of them even have any revolutionary plans for political reform?
Nope. None at all. They just wanted to replace who’s ontop. Frankly, the fact that they went off to work for Slavers, makes it so that the Golden Company sounds scary if they ever have take over Westeros, they might institute and allow slavery
@AndrewJTalon
Say, I know you’re not continuing Greyjoy Allegro, but did the Golden Company ever continue thinking as to what to do regarding Westeros? Because last I remember, they declared for Egg only to start despairing after reading all the stuff in the Westerosi Newspapers
I don’t think many even thought of “What can we do to attract local houses when odds are the entirety of Westeros will be busy doing all this “industrialization” and we’ll just be seen as crazy warlords with nothing to offer”