(June 20, 2016 at 11:30 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:She's not the one that brings people back... it's R'hllor!(June 20, 2016 at 11:06 am)pocaracas Wrote: hmmmm I'm sad.... Ramsay is dead now...
Hmmm... Maybe the Red Woman can bring him back? It would be fun to have him walk around half-eaten...
(June 20, 2016 at 11:30 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(June 20, 2016 at 11:06 am)pocaracas Wrote: No more house of the flayed man... well... what on Earth (or whatever planet that is) was such a house doing second in line to rule the North?!
How does that happen?! How did all the northern lords ever allow that to become the status quo?
(I'm sure there's some lore about this out there... but I'm too lazy to go look for it)
I believe most of the houses of the North took heavy losses, backing Rob during the War of the Five Kings. Even if they were against Boltons being installed as Wardens of the North by the king - and many of them probably didn't care one way or another, judging by their reaction to Jon and Sansa's return - there was little they could do about it right away, especially with the winter coming.
They might have thought to rebel at some point, once they rebuilt their armies, but that's why Ramsey married Sansa, the last known Stark, so that their children had rightful claim to Winterfell, according to the laws and customs of the North. Once enough time passed - everyone would hopefully get used to the status quo. After all - having scumbag overlords seems to be par for the course in GOT universe.
Well... yes and no.
Who decided that the Boltons should be second in command, after the Starks?
How would the Starks, while Wardens of the North, allow such a vicious house to have so much power? So many men? so much wealth to control all those men?
Something messed up happened in the past, over there...
