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@Atri: I like your plan, but I urge you to modify it a bit according to my plan (see above). Particularly, I suggest getting rid of these terms:
-[X] If, after a year, no Lannister attacks happen upon our territories, then Lannister men can be ransomed back. Tywin goes last.
-[X] As long as Cersei's line are on the throne, the North and all territories under its rule don't acknowledge the King of the Iron Throne as their sovereign.
And adding these:
-[X] Exchange of prisoners to take place halfway between our army and King's Landing, with Robb bringing as large an escort as he wants.
-[X] If they want Tywin, Tyrion, any of the others, etc. that is to be agreed upon with further negotiations once we're back with our army.
-[X] We won't execute any of the hostages who haven't committed obvious crimes until further negotiation (so we can't execute Tyrion, for example, but we can execute Gregor).
There's no reason to set explicit terms on negotiations when Tywin is really the one who is supposed to be doing the negotiating, and they technically can't make any binding agreements without him. Tywin goes last could especially be a dealbreaker. And there are no reasons to set terms for our fealty - we haven't sworn anything yet, so we don't have to disavow ourselves, but explicitly saying in the negotiations we won't swear fealty is basically telling them they need to give up two of the Seven Kingdoms, which no sane ruler would ever do.
-[X] If, after a year, no Lannister attacks happen upon our territories, then Lannister men can be ransomed back. Tywin goes last.
-[X] As long as Cersei's line are on the throne, the North and all territories under its rule don't acknowledge the King of the Iron Throne as their sovereign.
And adding these:
-[X] Exchange of prisoners to take place halfway between our army and King's Landing, with Robb bringing as large an escort as he wants.
-[X] If they want Tywin, Tyrion, any of the others, etc. that is to be agreed upon with further negotiations once we're back with our army.
-[X] We won't execute any of the hostages who haven't committed obvious crimes until further negotiation (so we can't execute Tyrion, for example, but we can execute Gregor).
There's no reason to set explicit terms on negotiations when Tywin is really the one who is supposed to be doing the negotiating, and they technically can't make any binding agreements without him. Tywin goes last could especially be a dealbreaker. And there are no reasons to set terms for our fealty - we haven't sworn anything yet, so we don't have to disavow ourselves, but explicitly saying in the negotiations we won't swear fealty is basically telling them they need to give up two of the Seven Kingdoms, which no sane ruler would ever do.
