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Just vague allusions to a lot of the debt being owed to the (((iron bank))) who theoretically could have influenced events in Westeros but never did.

>The Lannisters are wealthy because they live in a big mountain made of gold
Wow so this is the power of GRRM’s understanding of economics

Lot of tax policy descriptions in his new book Fire and Blood. They even mention how the incompetent retards over at KL had to import a Pentoshi nigger to run the accounts, but in his attempt to fix things he ended up becoming the most hated dude in KL and eventually got his head caved in by a peasant horde that stumbled upon him in Fleas Bottom.

Yeah but the gold ran out three years ago. So think about that.

They're going to have some influence in TWOW, lending their support to the enemies of the iron throne.

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Its basically like modern day oil barons you mongoloid. The Saudis are a buncha desert dwelling savages but the royals are rich as fuck because of the oil on their lands. Similarly the Lannisters have a monopoly on the gold mines throughout tge centuries and are therefore extremely wealthy

The final book will be Bran's full tax policy

>gold ran out
>somehow this is kept a secret
>no miners talked
>no operators talked
>no nobles talked
>despite gossiping about every little thing that comes across their ear
>despite Varys and Littlefinger knowing precisely what was going on and having a history of using knowledge to improve their standing
>the whole Lannister government can be overthrown simply by alerting the Iron Bank to the fact that they're unable to pay them back and have to default
What a bad story.

>Showfag
The mines are functional and producing enough wealth to have Lannisters be the richest of the Great Houses, only matched by tge Tyrells because those niggers never participated in the war.

It’s fucking stupid that the Targaryens would allow that.

THE MORE SHE DRANK

Targaeryns didnt allow shit. They only arrived in Westeros 300 yrs before the show, Lannisters have been around for thousands of years before that. If they just started wiping out Great Families they would never win the loyalty of the other Houses and eventually end up getting overthrown.

It didn't run out in the books. The show says it ran out to.....well I don't know what the angle was there. Create a sense of tension? Like this guy says, if the Lannister gold mines ran out before the show even started, everyone would know about it.

Literally the entire plot of the series is that nothing can withstand attacks by multiple dragons. That’s the only way the conqueror Targaryen made conquest work. It makes no fucking sense they would have conquered everything but the gold mines.

Clearly this was an invention of dnd
It’s never mentioned in the books because it would be retarded
>Varys knows what had for breakfast two days ago
>but he doesn’t notice that Tywin’s supposedly extensive mines have all stopped producing gold even though thousands of people would know in the westerlands lol
Even if Tywin killed all the miners, people should’ve found out

Lord of the Cringe

The Fire and Blood book is 70% tax policies 10% dragons and 20% children dying.

Aegon didnt want to sack Westeros, he wanted to rule it and establish a dynasty. You cant establish a dynasty if the native Lords think you're a tyrant. The dragons may be invincible but the Targaeryns arent, hell Aegon 2 wae poisoned becaise he had earned many enemities during his time and his dragons did fuck all to stop it.

Robert
Robb
Joffrey
Tommen
Stannis
Renly

Did Fire and Blood really explain all their tax policies?

the reason winds of winter is taking so long is because he's really fleshing out how the tax system in both westeros and essos works

What's Bronn's tax policy?

>did a book about past-era targaryens explain anything about the current non-targs?

Fire and Blood is based on Targaeryns, and yes it talked a lot about their tax policies. Besides Robert the others had too short of a reign to establish any administrative policies or are outlawed and declared rebels against the throne

>hurr Tolkien was gud but overrated cuz the chosen perfect king won in the end and they don’t explain what happens to remaining orcs

>dogshit story ends with le philosopher god king, literally the chosen one and descended from other Kings most names Bran, taking power of the continent, giving the only sovereign portion to his sister to rule, and doesn’t explain anything about why the remaining 6 kingdoms, especially Dorne and the Iron Islands, decide to give into his rule. When the entire story is about every kingdom always desperately grabbing at power whenever they can. And when the iron islands have rebelled twice in the last 10 years, once against all the other kingdoms at once. And Dorne stayed independent for 150 more years than anyone else, against the full might of every other kingdom, and fucking dragons
Retarded

Its not canon you Tolkientard, you're literally quoting D&D fanfic to prove your point, kys

is there anything more hilarious than a seething tolkientard?

>Joffrey
Second book is all about Joffrey's tax policy through Tyrion's chapters.

I'll show you cringe.

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Oh yeah, that user forgot that grrm did write himself into a corner and is not able to clean up his own mess now. What a great author, that one.

That's where GRRM was going, even if they bungled it. Being mad isn't gonna change that nigga. PS: the show is canon in everyone's mind but yours. And its shit, because its source material is ultimately also shit

he didn’t mean it literally, he was making a point about making deep dives into the workings of a fictional world

>It makes no fucking sense they would have conquered everything but the gold mines.
They did conquer the gold mines. They conquered everything. They just set up a new system where the former kings of the seven kingdoms were now feudal lords who owed their allegiance to the Targaryens (those who refused, like the Gardeners, were killed and replaced). The Targaryens had their own personal lands in Dragonstone, the Crownlands, and the Stormlands (which was ruled by Aegon's half-brother) after the conquest.

Bran isn't a philosopher god king. He's not even Bran. He's a puppet of the Children of the Forest, part of their hivemind. That's why he has no emotions anymore and why he's linked in to their collective consciousness/memory. The ending isn't a perfect king, it's a foreign hivemind controlling humanity.

>he thinks D&D weren't going off the fat man's main points
Oh dear. Back to r/ASOIAF you go.

>he doesn't know

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>seething Tolkientards
Go back to jerking each other off about how great your elf fanfic is you faggots. GOT seasons 1-4 far outclass your childrens bedtime story tier movies and that will forever dwell in your malformed frontal lobes rent free

GRRM has confirmed that "Bran" (3ER/CotF) becomes king in the end.

>fake news
He confirmed nothing besides the fact that the ending will be bitter sweet. Bran being king was D&D fanfic and GRRM has been actively distancing himself from thise 2 kikes since season 7 on account of them driving the show into the ground

>hurr Tolkien was gud but overrated cuz the chosen perfect king won in the end and they don’t explain what happens to remaining orcs
He adores Tolkien and thinks the story is perfect, he just was trying to make a point about how his work differs.

Omg YAS Kang! PREACH!!! LOTR is for babies and GOT is for real men like ourselves!! It has SEX and BETRAYAL!!!

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wow GRRM cocksuckers literally SEETHING. Booth the books and adaptation movies are all time classics. Game of Thrones after season 8 is literally a bad joke, meme, entire world is laughing at it. GRRM is also a joke, he is a coward, when books gettin more popular he is terrified by the possibility of ending this books, the other thing is that he lacks the talent to finish what he started.

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The question should be what DOESNT he eat.

>The North somehow survives despite being a barren wasteland
>Iron Islands survive off stealing
>Westerlands has gold
>The Reach and Riverlands have farmlands
>Eyrie and Stormlands???
>Dorne survives in the desert with wine?
>Entire continent of Essos = slaves

Wow what magnificent economies a brilliant mind like grrm can make in over 25 years and over 5 huge novels

The Iron Islands are literally based on Scandinavians you brainlet. As for the rest the economy is clearly mentioned in the books but Im not gomna waste my efforts on a retard like you

"Based on" in the sense that GRRM saw a drawing of a viking once.

They're all fuckhuge and all of them have good farmlands within. The only one that's iffy is the Iron Isles

It's a mix of Scandinavians and Scots and a Cthulu cult

>but Tolkien does not ask the question
>what was the nature of the sexual dynamic between the siblings of the royal family and how much air time is dediated to their incest sex scenes
Its like he has no grasp on history

Haha brutal

Fat fuck

None of his cultures have direct counterparts, "Scadinavian" poster was retarded

>>Eyrie and Stormlands???
The Eyrie and the Stormlands both have farmlands, in AGOT they explicitly describe how fertile the Vale of Arryn is.
>Dorne survives in the desert with wine?
Dorne isn't all desert, just most of it, there is farmland around rivers like the Greenblood. They also have the lowest population of any of the Seven Kingdoms.
>Entire continent of Essos = slaves
For most of human history, every continent=slaves. It's still widely practiced in Africa and Asia.

What the fuck is that shit? Tyrion was never friendly with Cersei.

Why do people consider Tolkien the father of sword and sorcery anyway? There were plenty of authors before him who did everything he did in terms of establish the genre, Robert E. Howard with Conan for example.
Is it just typical Britbong bullshit where they claim they invented shit?

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>islands off the coast of mainlands
>strong navy focus civilization
>major portiin of of income is from reaving and stealing women ad children, taking them for slaves or selling them off
>"no direct connection"

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What kind of retard thinks Tolkien wrote sword and sorcery? Where did you get that from?

>Scandinavia is an island

This thread

You're probably one of them dumb niggers that think that they were all called vikings

The

>Vikings had no income outside of pillaging

Is MatPat tier retarded, you're also leaving out how stormy and barren it mostly is and their extreme independence streak (i.e. Ireland) and wherever the hell their religion and thralldom come from

Stay in denial
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>islands off the coast of mainlands
Ah yes, the islands of Sweden and Norway

>Bran isn't a philosopher god king. He's not even Bran. He's a puppet of the Children of the Forest, part of their hivemind. That's why he has no emotions anymore and why he's linked in to their collective consciousness/memory. The ending isn't a perfect king, it's a foreign hivemind controlling humanity.

Good point, Preston.

Never said they had no income besides reaving, just a major portion of their income was due to the pillaging they carried out along European coasts

the state of showfags

What was their monetary policy.

>ctrl-F
>sword and sor
>only results are your post and mine

Huh

good bait

>quoting a failing gossip column tier website infamous for its incorrect/exagerrated/twisted information

The implication is that such behavior would complicate trade relations so that the Iron islands would have to be largely self sufficient. It just doesnt seem a very viable or sustainable economic strategy.

It's a literal interview with Bran's actor where he confirms that Hodor and King Cripple were the only two things GRRM told D&D

>Stalls the fuck out of Winds of Winter while GOT is still happening.

>Announces a definite release date days after finale.

Fuck this fat hack. I hope he gets a massive stroke and ends up a vegetable.

If anyone here has actually read anything on medieval taxes you'd know it was the most convoluted fucking shit with exceptions, extra duties, tolls, fines, tariffs, sale tax, income tax and it was different for every city and village in between. Feudal society was a fucking mess because the only thing you knew what was going on was in between you and the guy just below or above you.

I hope for your sake that GRRM never finished those books. You might go suicidal when you can't stay in denial anymore

They do. Which is why Iron Islands are poor as fuck, even more so than the North. They were a major power when Harren the Black held Harrenhal in the Riverlands but during current events they are probably the weakest/poorest of the kingdoms and almost immediately end up losing any territory they conquored diring the War of Five Kings

It'll almost certainly play out differently in the books and pretty sure by the end there wont even be a king of Westeros. The actor said that because he was forced to do so by D&D in order to damage control the backlash from the fans and offset the criticisms by claiming it came staright from GRRM

Can we all agree that this is true sword and sorcery kino?

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>definite

...You mean him making an offhand crack about NZ being allowed to chain him up if it's not done by 2020?

What? Why he just fucking say every controversial thing was given by DnD then?

Gold in the cringe Olympics

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Seething Eurocuck

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Dorne grows lemons and shit mate