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Wow very insightful video, can you make a video on how hot dragonfire is? #Balerion #Vhagar #Vermithor

I think you may be wrong about the amount of people. The 45,000 men include peasants, only 2% may be men-at-arms but the commoners join the fight too. The population of the riverlands is probably less than 2.25 million.

Pimican can be made to last for 3 to 5 years without any modern storage techniques (i.e. vacuum sealing). In a frozen environment that could be stretched into 10 years easily. It's just dried meat, fat, and salt. Honey could also be used to store vegetables for a very long time. Grain in a frozen environment will also keep almost indefinitely provided you can keep it dry.

I’m from New England, I’m all set thanjs

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There are harbours, u idiot , unless its war seage, u can trade with other countries for higher prices

I can see lords letting the soldiers loot after the battlefield or distributing the items of the defeated with the idea of “we don’t have coins at the moment but you can have this helmet and sword to replace/cover the cost we owe you.”

Rural Minnesota is pretty close to the lands of always winter…. Well, in the winter anyway

*Reads title* bold of you to assume I wouldn't use my knowledge here to start a cult to serve me and Tzeentch my way through to the iron throne.

I think you underestimate one thing... having that dog in you

When properly frozen and sheltered from the elements and animals , food can remain nutritious basically indefinitely even though it quickly becomes tasteless and bland. Sausages or bread made from a sack of flour that has been buried in snow for 5 years wouldn't taste great but would still nourish the body and prevent starvation. Survival foods like pemmican and hardtack biscuits can last years even at room temperature.

I think it would be even worse. 2000 cal is the average for a people in modern rich countries where a lot is done by machines. In medieval times, you would need much more energy for everyday tasks. I think you can easily double all your numbers.

George didn't think about it.

Going home is less expensive because everyone is dead

Loved the video.... but also... this is a very south african sounding accent.

Would be a knight at the Reach, but I hate bugs, so since I hate cold I would never go to North, and I hate other peasants so KL is not an option either.. so ... I guess I just starve to death xD

If Westeros was going to survive they would really need crops and wild plants that have adapted to the Winters. Like a super potato that grows completely fine in Winter, i mean how else would the North survive at all? They can’t be hunting constantly to sustain a population up there. The wildlings could definitely do that, if they had a way to move around effectively to follow the food- but even just the North would need a native crop to feed its people. The other Kingdoms would be so screwed unless the whole continent besides Dorne had things that grew in winter. Winters are completely random to their length, so…the peasants would rebel almost immediately or just die. George really needs an explanation lolll. We have ice wights and ice spiders, so some sort of fantasy crops wouldn’t hurt the world lmaooo could even like…have some sort of medieval greenhouse or something…idk westeros would literally not exist otherwise they had a way to keep the peasants from freezing and starving lmao. The rich would either have no peasants, or no one would subscribe to their Feudalistic lives and would have at least went to a Nomadic hunting life, like the real life natives to the Arctic- such as the Inuit and Sámi, or they move to the Coast to live off Fish and seals, and what ever other source of food they could scrounge

My personal theory is that the Westerosi winter is like a short magical ice age, or the whole climate in Westeros is actually magical ice age with warm (summer) and cold (winter) oscillations. This way you get the magical several years long summers and winters, but there's still a natural season cycle. This means that during the magical winter there's still a warm period of natural summer (albeit shorter and less warm than during magical summer) that allows some form of agriculture and survival of the feudal agricultural society. Also you would expect Westerosi society being quite adapted for this phenomenon (not that it's all that apparent from the books), so stuff like great granaries packed with years of summer harvest should be a thing, maybe combined with the adoption/cultivation of crops suitable for harsher climate and long term storage. In places like the North, you would expect population being partially/seasonally nomadic and focused more on husbandry than farming.

These numbers are super bloated.

"Food could be imported from other regions." Are you gonna haul it hundreds of miles through 8 feet of snow? And that's just the south. Imagine trying to get food to Winterfell through blizzards and 20 foot snow drifts?

i think u found ur audience

The most interesting thing about logistics of the medieval time period is how little nobles understood hunger. In the art of war Sun tzu went to great lengths to get the idea of hunger which of course a young emperor has literally never experienced into his head. Its so important it could make or break a campaign

W o W

Probably because its not real, and thus would never have the occasion to do so.

Fredrick the great did something similar

With winters like that I'd imagine Northerners would develop a tradition of cannibalism. 💀

If he is basing firewood needed in colder climates, and uses Skandinavía as a comparison, there would be a lot more than 5 in a household. Often there would be 3 generatons living together and often 5-10 children. So 5 ina household is a far cry from that...

How do Giants exist? Is there a giant history?

Winters and summers have seasons too though. There are false springs, ect.

It's winter mate, the world is your fridge, I doubt the food will spoil while frozen and you forgoten about the dairy an eggs as well 😅

We would also probably get some local infection which we are not immune to and die immediately 😂

Hey man, cannabalism exists. Just sayin.

I get the feeling during long winters Dorne actually has ideal conditions for farming and if the winter lasts long enough it becomes a green land.

2000 calories is wrong go for 1400

Might go play some frostpunk after this.

Noobs talk about tactics and “pros”talk about logistics. A real professional juggles between the two while trying not to die from dysentery while at the same time messages close confidants so that political rivals won’t frame them. Oh and overseeing punishments and other stuff.

Considering that Siberian tribes don’t die off like this annually I think there’s something wrong with the math.

Old Nan said during the Long Night mothers would smother their newborns to keep them from starving to death. In House of Dragons over 2000 old northern warriors volunteer to go south to fight with winter coming. A death in battle was preferable to dying shivering in their beds and being a burden on their family during the winter.

This makes me wonder, what stops all the lords from taking over Dorne and just using it as a snowbird getaway?

The size of the riverlands is also important, it's like 170 million acres total, even if only 10% of the land is arable, which in the "river" lands seems unlikely, that still would be enough land to feed the population. Love the video btw

In our world, we get things like 536 or the 1816 year without summer. I'm not sure what kind of society would exist in a place where the winters happen every decade and are worse than 536. I'm pretty sure there could be settled humans in the south. But I wonder if most of Westeros would be made up of low density nomadic tribes, rather than complex agrarian societies.

Ha jokes on you I'm Dornish.

*_"TONIGHT'S FORECAST A FREEZE IS COMING!"_*

You forgot about cannibalism bro that's a BIIIIG factor!

3:28 is that a challenge? Bet.

Can't believe you forgot about the cheese. THE CHEESE

Westeros seems to exist in comparison to real history in a very amalgamous time period. Their political organization is almost quasifeudal yet their technologies and developed areas of knowledge are more similar to the Renaissance. At the beginning of the medieval period Britain had 100,000 acres of developed farmland. Little Alabama sized, Dark Ages Britain. Weteros according to Martin is the size of South America and according to IRL geography experts who've reviewed the maps it would actually bigger. These broad, rich fertile kingdoms with at least Renaissance levels of tech (minus any gunpowder) have only a small handfull of proper cities and almost no smaller towns. Mostly just castle towns and villages. Why? Probably cause most of the population are dispersed across farming huge swathes of agricultural lands to feed those few population centers.

Loved the video but I have to be the "well actually" guy here. Dunk didn't just find Ser Arlan dead one day. The old man had Dunk squiring for him since Dunk was like 6. So your journey should begin with getting a new foster Dad who raises you, trains you and dies before getting around to knighting you.

Try heating a house or castle without isolation. The trees in Westeros would problably die because of winter beeing to long anyway. There is a reason that there are no trees in the arctic. But warming up the living spaces over a couple of years will kill every last tree without them beeing able to grow back. Like in real life in iceland.

The depiction of the golden dragon's value in the show is completely out of whack saddly, not sure why. The most eggregious exemple is Davos bribing 2 golden cloaks 15 gold dragons EACH while pretending to be a small time smuggler, said gold cloak implying it was the standard price for such low stake bribery.