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One thing bugging me about the dragon show and perhaps the biggest thing in the whole series that makes no sense is how did the Targaryen’s remain in charge for 129 years between the last dragon and Robert’s Rebellion. They didn’t heavily intermarry or have a lot of people related to them. They were basically aliens who lost their special ability. I would expect them to last like 6 months without dragons.
Are there any historical parallels? The Europeans to the new world were few for a time but maintained better technology and most likely 10-15 IQ points higher intelligence. The show gives no indication targs were smarter.
It seems to me that for all Martin's talk about what is Aragon's tax policy, he really didn't think very hard about the details of his world building. See the size of the kingdom, the height of the wall (the show halfed the book's described size and he thought it was too tall upon seeing it) and many others.
I suspect he liked William the Conqueror so stuck him in without including all the details that allowed William to actually secure authority.
I think he did think a lot about world building but there were either areas he forgot to tie up or couldn’t think of a way to tie things up. It’s not uncommon to have sci-fi to have holes that can not be completed.
Best I can come up with is the Targs without dragons would need to be rather poor. Where all the other houses would fight for the targs if another house tried to be king because the funds siphoned off by the royals was small and a new King would likely try and find ways to boost his income.
But overall 30 maybe 100 Targaryen blood people aren’t ruling a land without dragons. The British could rule India I assume because trade was very profitable for elites. The US ruled Afghanistan mostly with bribes (pre-invasion per capita income was $500/post invasion $1k). Not entirely sure how Britain was in with the Chinese but I’ve heard Heroin is a lot of fun. The Spanish actually fucked a lot the Aztec ruling class creating an elite and I assume had better weapons, money, and there was some religious prophecy. US, Argentina, and Australia didn’t have population centers. Ukraine is in this endless war because Poland got rich and is like 12x Ukrainian per capita income. Assad still had like 15% of the population his ethnicity pre-war and richer backers. The Jews who some say rule the world probably have average IQ a standard deviation above average and invented nukes and AI. Non of these seem to apply to what the Targs had when dragons died.
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