One day, I find it hard to write that story because it's intimidating. Gotta get my sciency mumbo jumbo more coherent.

What I don't understand is the lack of sympathy that people hold for her, what she does is absolutely stupid, but from an emotional standpoint it's entirely understandable.

The thing is that the Velaryon's mercantile traditions were limited to them and a limited number of other houses like the Graftons etc... And those were often looked down upon despite their riches because they didn't have a particular reputation for martial pursuits. The issue here is that the Velaryons rose to prominence through both marriage and actual trade (Corlys voyages made him as rich as the Lannisters after all), and as time moved on a lot of other houses swept up in the 'new' wave, acting as merchants and traders (at least in this story), so that's how the factions function here I guess.

No, BEST way is to short all the sh$tty stocks and use the new profit to invest heavily in those that survive

Well, you have to remember that Corlys legitimized two other bastards as Velaryons when he could have just taken one of his cousins as heirs, Addam and Alyn Velaryon are a thing, Rhaenys doesn't like bastards and see them as the others do, but it very obvious to us that Corlys does not approach the concept of bastardry as others do.

Because that's what Corlys was like, he's well traveled and very experienced, and he knows that blood doesn't matter, that what truly matters is the name, as long as they're dragon riders I don't think he cares what they are.

The theory is that the Long Night doesn't just allude to the white walker, but to all sorts of magical menaces all over the world, so Long Night comes = White walkers + dragons + whatever is in Yi-ti + whatever is in Sorothyros

Catelyn's depiction in fanfiction if much too overestimating her hate for Jon, she certainly doesn't like him, but all she does is ignore him instead of actively working against him. The only thing she'll vehemently refuse is to make him Robb's heir(which she did in the books)

Good name

I don't think that's quite right, can you give me the link ?

That's not really THAT impressive, I mean it's great sure, but you can find a LOT of people with the same achievements. There are 8 years old people in college nowadays.

No, the closest thing Dorne had to a city was planky town, which was basically a large town.

That's just wrong, Laena just claimed it since it was free.

not rly? Just not really keen on writing it for now.

I'm talking about the Targaryen's monopoly on dragons, the thing is that at the onset of the dance the royal house was at a very precarious position dragon wise, there were several male members of the family but not enough females, that means that there's going to be a lot more people with dragons with ties to outside families, then there's the Velaryons, who establish a very dangerous precedent allowing a person without the last name Targaryen to claim dragons, it means that if the royal family wants to create alliance through marriage they're forced to use male members, further isolating them politically. Plus as dragons multiply the likelyhood of a random dragonseed to claim one and just run with it becomes higher and higher as time goes on. The Targaryens may be at the height of their powers before the civil war, but their source of power was in jeopardy, the dance put an end to that (even at great loss to the royal family)

I'd like to think that the conquest of dorne and the evasion of the dance should have actual consequences, I'll increasingly focus on those changes, alongside the developments brought about the MC's existance. I will just say this, not all consequences are actually good, the dance -as catastrophic as it was- actually fixed a lot of issues

dude, the advantage is that you have to get TRAUMATISED for a powerup, doesn't matter what power you're giving me, I ain't doing that.

No they don't, I ain't gonna suffer for no power up man.

No, the idea that if a woman marries into another house then her sons and daughters would be dragonriders that aren't Valyrian. Again, the Velaryons exist, so any family that marries a female targaryen will have the right to argue for dragons through her sons. That was a huge blunder from Jaehaerys, he should have forbidden Corlys' children from claiming/birthing dragons, and crippled their house if they did so, assuring their monopolies. Now the Targaryend are forced to marry their females into the family.

I actually like comments that tell me what to do, not that I'll listen to them, of course. But even though things are pretty streched out in my mind for this fic from time to time someone gives me an idea that I'll implement, like Baelon helpin his in laws get a navy.