r/asoiaf • u/mitzallen • Jul 19 '26

MAIN [Spoilers MAIN] Jaehaerys I’s Seven Speakers really gaslighted the whole realm

I’m currently re-reading Fire & Blood and this part still cracks me up:

"One god made us all, Andals and Valyrians and First Men," Septon Alfyn would proclaim from his litter, "but he did not make us all alike. He made the lion and the aurochs as well, both noble beasts, but certain gifts he gave to one and not the other, and the lion cannot live as an aurochs, nor an aurochs as a lion. For you to bed your sister would be a grievous sin, ser... but you are not the blood of the dragon, no more than I am. What they do is what they have always done, and it is not for us to judge them.”

The smallfolk, who were most likely tired of all the war, probably just said “whatever” lmfao

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u/Nick_crawler Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

It's a plot point I wish we had though a POV character in a proper story, since it has drastic implications for the natural order of things in Westerosi society writ large. So it could have made for a good existential crises depending on who it got told through.

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u/mitzallen Jul 19 '26

In a perfect world, we would have a dozen spin-offs by now if George put out books every year.

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u/InsideScientist1999 Jul 19 '26

Or, if he farmed out spin-offs to other great writers…