Kantor said:
You think so? He has a fairly powerful army and a red witch, as well as the support of the Night Watch. He will soon be allied with pretty much the entire North. Who would kill him? EDIT: He also has the Iron Bank of Braavos. People who can still claim the Lord Paramountcy of the North:
People left to fight: literally everyone in the entire North except for House Stark. House Manderly springs to mind, as well as House Reed and House Umber. The Karstarks are mostly traitors, unfortunately, but with the Lannisters in their current pitiful condition (Tywin dead, Kevan dead, Tyrion in Essos, Jaime either dead or far away, Cersei awaiting trial, Tommen is a child, Pycelle dead) and a Stark King in the North, I think most Northern lords would be willing to switch sides again. |
Well I was more thinking of the lack of food and warmth killing his army, which was never that big to begin with, and any assault on a fully manned Winterfell is going to be a tough task
So he can win the alliegance of the Northern houses, but most have been gutted have they not? The Manderlys are allied with him, but I can't remember where their knights are, but most of the Umbers will have died in the aftermath of the Red Wedding. My point is, all the people loyal to the Starks went with them when Robb raised the banners and went south. Which powerful Northern Lords have forces? It is probably just the Manderlys as the Reeds aren't very strong at all.
I feel his best chance of winning the North is with Rikkon, as he seems the only good candidate. Sansa is going to have to do very weird things with Littlefinger, Arya is going to do more weird assassin things and Bran can't walk...
I guess we shouldn't over analyse this, since as far as I can tell, there aren't really any large cities in the North, so it is kind of hard to see where all these people actually live/come from. Especially as if everything continued at this rate, the human race would just die, well certainly the Lords, since they spend all their time killing each other
