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A Play of Blood and Shot (ASOIAF NG)

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Alright, I need to know who distinguished himself in the war both for the post-war order and filling out the Kingsguard.
 
So, how many people do i have in all, does the 5000 legionaire + fleet forces still apply and hmmm.... about nine great guilds and nine great houses plus three temples sounds about right for the city council?


@Velasco , @Ceslas ?
 
It'd make sense to have Laketown have formally become Neo-Sarnor by now, given the amount of effort they were putting in there and their relatively low population.
 
That reminds me....how old is Byron's bride now?

Also how does one do all the physical attributes thing for parents?
 
Sailor Midgard said:
Velasco, errrrr...do i have to assume i have 2 millions 250 000 people somewhere?
Because , well, even with a maritime economy, that is how many farmers and fishermen you need to feed 300000 people.
On Earth.
Not on this world with its weird seasons.
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Sailor Midgard said:
So, how many people do i have in all, does the 5000 legionaire + fleet forces still apply and hmmm.... about nine great guilds and nine great houses plus three temples sounds about right for the city council?

@Velasco , @Ceslas ?
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Similar to GRMM we don't work with concrete, exact numbers - it's simply impossible, and given the setting, a lot of finer details don't exactly hold up to scientific scrutiny.
Trying to imagine and keep track of census numbers and then trying to calculate military capability from a percentage of that presents a whole host of problems.

Now, what I can tell you: Tyrosh is one of the smaller Free Cities, but that's still puts it on fairly equal footing with King's Landing. So we're talking in the hundreds of thousands, not millions or tens of thousands. It doesn't feel any significant bite during winter, being so far south, but autumn is a real bitch, with how the storms and difficult seas cut into their trade income and make, well, everything harder. I imagine the city's architecture would be adapted, as much as the setting allows, for such storms to hit and hit hard. Peace with Westeros and Essos both is essential for your economy, and only control of the full Disputed Lands is enough to emancipate you from that level of co-dependence: unfortunately, the same is also true for Myr and Lys, hence why you all fight over the land so much. The creation of Myrwater and the Sanctuary are welcomed in the sense that they have stabilised the Disputed Lands and made it easier for you to cultivate and invest in the part you do own...but the Tyroshi also hate them for nixing any hope they have of uniting the Disputed Lands in Tyroshi hands. That is to say, your mainland territory is worth more than it has in a long, long time...but the same is true for Myr's, and Myrwater's, etc. So you prosper, and you envy. Since the birth of the Freehold it has become more popular for the Free Cities to use and develop their own military instead of using sellswords....but resistance to using citizenry in the meat grinder of war is high, and you'd have a lot of freedmen, foreigners, conscripted orphans and wastrels, and even city-owned and Archon-owned slaves in those 5000 Legionnaires, a force which comprises your City Watch and island garrisons both.

I leave the number of guilds up to you, but looking up something like medieval London or Florence is a good reference point. Nine is as sound a number as any, but you'd probably boast of more than just three temples - between Trios, R'hollor, the Cult of Starry Wisdom, the Weeping Lady of Lys, Bakkalon, the Hooded Wayfarer, the Lion of Night...perhaps nine is a sound number too.​
 
Velasco said:
Similar to GRMM we don't work with concrete, exact numbers - it's simply impossible, and given the setting, a lot of finer details don't exactly hold up to scientific scrutiny.
Trying to imagine and keep track of census numbers and then trying to calculate military capability from a percentage of that presents a whole host of problems.

Now, what I can tell you: Tyrosh is one of the smaller Free Cities, but that's still puts it on fairly equal footing with King's Landing. So we're talking in the hundreds of thousands, not millions or tens of thousands. It doesn't feel any significant bite during winter, being so far south, but autumn is a real bitch, with how the storms and difficult seas cut into their trade income and make, well, everything harder. I imagine the city's architecture would be adapted, as much as the setting allows, for such storms to hit and hit hard. Peace with Westeros and Essos both is essential for your economy, and only control of the full Disputed Lands is enough to emancipate you from that level of co-dependence: unfortunately, the same is also true for Myr and Lys, hence why you all fight over the land so much. The creation of Myrwater and the Sanctuary are welcomed in the sense that they have stabilised the Disputed Lands and made it easier for you to cultivate and invest in the part you do own...but the Tyroshi also hate them for nixing any hope they have of uniting the Disputed Lands in Tyroshi hands. That is to say, your mainland territory is worth more than it has in a long, long time...but the same is true for Myr's, and Myrwater's, etc. So you prosper, and you envy. Since the birth of the Freehold it has become more popular for the Free Cities to use and develop their own military instead of using sellswords....but resistance to using citizenry in the meat grinder of war is high, and you'd have a lot of freedmen, foreigners, conscripted orphans and wastrels, and even city-owned and Archon-owned slaves in those 5000 Legionnaires, a force which comprises your City Watch and island garrisons both.

I leave the number of guilds up to you, but looking up something like medieval London or Florence is a good reference point. Nine is as sound a number as any, but you'd probably boast of more than just three temples - between Trios, R'hollor, the Cult of Starry Wisdom, the Weeping Lady of Lys, Bakkalon, the Hooded Wayfarer, the Lion of Night...perhaps nine is a sound number too.​
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Thank you...cult of Starry Wisdom? REALLY? Ia! Ia!
 
Velasco said:
Yep - it's popular with sailors.

Church of Starry Wisdom
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Okay.
Now how in blazes do I get the Nyarlathotep worshippers out of my city council?

But i am now thinking of an outer concil of 36 and an inner council of nine.....
Nine priests, nine Great Houses and 18 Guildmasters, who elect an Inner council of nine, who elect the Archon, customarily from the Noble Houses.
It may sound complex, but Venice had a worse system....
 
ByzantineCaesar said:
Alright, I need to know who distinguished himself in the war both for the post-war order and filling out the Kingsguard.
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Well I got no clue for that, I can give you help on one thing.

For the Cadet Branches you might as well include House Sandstorm of Rosby and House Bloodtyde of Duskendale (Yes the Darklyns are dead). Well, the Bloodtydes are descended from the Targs but if you consider the Velaryon descended Deathrattles a cadet branch then their fellow Valyrian cadet branch Sandstorm should also apply.

Also it hurt seeing the Lord Commander of both the Kingsguard and Red Cloaks (technically the Talons fell under Lord Commander of the Watch's control but everyone knew they were basically run by the Arryns). ... Poor Kaesoran. Out of all the ways to die, that was the worse. Burned alive by someone you trusted.
 
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