Viserys called it a starting point. Teen Spirit said that it's going to cause debate between Viserys and Qoren. That all sounds very much like this is going to be (at least part of) what Viserys enters the negotiations with, if not necessarily what comes out of them.
I'm sorry, Lord Strong, our (potential) husband is too busy with his duties as the Prince of Dorne to command the City Watch
As I have said before, it is not completely ludicrous. After all, if you follow that logic through, that he has to be in Dorne, that means we would have to be, too, and thread consensus was against that last time it came up.Anyway, I was rereading, and stumbled across a great bit in hindsight:
I'm sorry, Lord Strong, our (potential) husband is too busy with his duties as the Prince of Dorne to command the City Watch
Does it, really? We have a dragon. I'm not sure about the exact travel times, but if going all the way to the Vale with a message takes just half a day, then we can, in fact, go back and forth (with him or without) and stay in touch quite easily, even if he spends the majority of his time in Sunspear and we in KL. Marriage doesn't have to mean being joined at the hip.
The problem I see comes from needing to have Ser Tarly with us when we are in both Dorne and Kingslanding since he's supposed to protect us meaning we'd need to put him on our dragon or travel by ship which is much slower.
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Well, someone has managed (or will have managed? never been clear on the timeline) to put a four-headed beast on a dragon, and Syrax is rather large for her age, so I'm sure we can figure this out as well. I don't think they'll end up living in any one place permanently tbh, at the very least they should be familiar with both KL and Sunspear, and with both the royal and the Dornish courts. I'd be entirely fine with, like. Flying them over to their dad for half of every year or something like that. Maybe less if the balance swings more our way, or if the presumed heir to Dorne gets a different upbringing to their siblings.
There is a bit in Fire and Blood that the route from KL to Oldtown on dragonback took three days/two stops for the night.
I see, thanks for the info. That said, we are measuring time in months and having ~4-6 meaningful interactions every quarter of a year, so a commute a few days long shouldn't be a major strain either. Certainly beats what a typical dragon-less marriage between people who have important duties in geographically distant places would deal with...
Well, not to put too fine point on it, but while that absolutely is more than enough to stay in touch, the central issue of a political marriage is creating and raising a family. For which there are, uh, physical limiting conditions.
Also, iirc, Dorne is significantly more pleasant in Winter, and Crownlands in Summer. While those last years and would be inconvenient to base visitations on, I'd bet that little winters are the slow season in KL, and little summers in SS.
Sorry but as a Resident of Arizona, Snowbird triggers something with in me and I am now picturing Syrax being flown absolutely recklessly.
I didn't know what that means, so I looked it up and
Qoren the Sunbird sounds intensely adorable and also like a pun
That is a normal part of a marriage, yes. But if you have that as part of the marriage agreement, Viserys is more likely to push against something like Qoren mandating all your kids outside of the Heir to the Iron Throne squire for or are fostered by Dornish Nobles.
Ah yes. Me. My squire. And my squire's 70000 pound fire-breathing lizard.
Ser Tarly has truly done so much for the cause!
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Article: III. 1. In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
III. 2. Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
XII. 17. Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.
XII. 18. No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.
XII. 21. A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
XII. 22. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact.
I dont know if this you proposing a plan or merely copying a someone else plan but this is on portuguese, please put it in English.
