#historicrealmeity

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The list is long, and many are the legends, for there is scarce a noble house in all the Reach that does not boast of descent from one of Garth Greenhand's countless children. Even the heroes of other lands and kingdoms are sometimes numbered amongst the offspring of the Greenhand.

Garth Greenhand’s daughters (requested by @historicrealmeity)

[lady-arryn]

“I am no fit man to be a King’s Hand.” “There is no man fitter.”

@historicrealmeity requested: asoiaf + favourite bropt

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People talking/thinking about Oberyn Martell and Ellaria Sand (requested by @historicrealmeity)

[eleanoroliphant]

historicrealmeity said: Mi fa paura quanto sono d'accordo con ogni singola parola. 

<3 davvero qualcuno lo celebra troppo ma troppi lo stroncano senza motivo. non bisogna compararlo a hbo, bisogna compararlo a, chessò, victoria. a cose della tv pubblica.

benjenranger said: wow, im certainly gonna watch it now! and what a surprise, i would never suspect that Italia dont base history education on renaissance :0 

it’s strange isn’t it? we’re growing up thinking that the past 200 years stem from a vacuum. we do study the renaissance but - at least i’m speaking from my own experience - not that much, not as much as we should. not in history anyway. and then educational television largely ignores it.

[eleanoroliphant]

historicrealmeity said: Non ci posso credere che non abbiano fatto riconciliare Cosimo e Marco Bello

VERO?? scandaloso. povero marco.

[poldarkmmmuses]

What do you make of the whole Hugh Armitage debacle?

Hi there... yeah. You know, I’m still emotionally exhausted from series 2 to go into too much detail about my thoughts around Hugh. I hate to do this, but I’m going to give you a link to a post where I broke down my feelings about the characters and their actions in the book Four Swans. Now, apparently, I wasn’t clear enough the first time for some folks to comprehend my disappointment in Demelza’s decision-making. But here’s the short version:

Hugh Armitage: Not an idiot. A sociopath. 

Demelza: MASSIVE disappointment she didn’t pay attention to what her instincts were telling her. An equal partner in the adulterous behavior she engaged in and should be held fully accountable for her decision making. Idiot. Human.

Ross: Why he didn’t take Hugh out to Hendrawna cliffs and toss him over is beyond me, because he saw what was happening and did nothing to stop it. Was it residual guilt over what had happened with Elizabeth? I’ve no effing idea. And why the hell didn’t he tell her about his conversation with Elizabeth in the graveyard? Oh. Right. Idiot. Human.

That said, we have a parallel to consider as well. I’ve always said one of the reasons why I dislike the character of Elizabeth so much is that she would actively pursue the husband of the woman who saved her family’s life at such a tremendous cost. We have the same situation here with Hugh: he’s willfully pursuing the affections of the wife of the man who saved HIS life. At least Elizabeth had the history of her first love for Ross as “justification” for her decision making. With Hugh? I consider him a predator. 

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With his father's death in 172 AC, Aegon, the Fourth of his Name, came at last to the throne that he had coveted as a boy. He had been comely in his youth, skilled with lance and sword, a man who loved to hunt and hawk and dance. He was the brightest prince at court in his generation and was admired for his wit. But he had one great flaw: he could not rule himself. His lusts, his gluttony, his desires—they all controlled him utterly. Seated upon the Iron Throne, his misrule began with small acts of pleasure, but in time his appetites knew no bounds, and his corruption led to acts that haunted the realm for generations. "Aenys was weak and Maegor was cruel," Kaeth writes, "and Aegon II was grasping, but no king before or after would practice so much willful misrule."

Aegon was not called the Unworthy without cause (requested by @historicrealmeity)