Chapter 46 is out!
Added 2023-01-28 22:15:00 +0000 UTC
Comments
I love that the cat turned out to be a lion! Perfect!
Myou Moorlord
2023-02-04 13:42:55 +0000 UTCThis is a really good point. From a demographic standpoint, if you have say one million people in the North, half are women, and while there are women warriors, most are in fact not fighters. So make that at most 550 000 that would be able to fight. Now you have to exclude all the kids below say 15, and older men, say over 50, not being able to fight, if the average lifespan is around 60, which is normal for the age they live in, that would make it that only people 15-50 can fight. That would mean that only 320 000 people can even be considered to fight. Now you have to exclude everyone that must stay back to protect the people, so at least half, but more like two thirds.. Let's make it half. That's around 160 000 people who could technically be in the army. And this is completely excluding you need blacksmiths, cooks, and many farmers to still do their jobs. In a normal society, with sick, not fit for fighting, and so on, probably only a tenth could actually be used in an army. So like 16 000 fighting men, on a million of the total population. That would be 1.6% of the population. And the numbers above are honestly the best case, like in the middle ages people fighting until 50 really wasn't realistic. Historically, say the Romans at their most, had a few hundred thousand people in the army, which at the time was 0.5%. Also, these numbers include peasants with barely anything to their name. Now when they said the King beyond the wall having hundred of thousands of people... they included all the people who weren't really fighters. It was less of an army and more a mass of people migrating with their fighters. So having a few dozen man at arms for smaller lords is completely normal. Replacing them is somewhat easy, it just took a bit time, but having more wasn't really possible.
Dull Pen
2023-01-29 14:12:00 +0000 UTCTerrible !!! A week for a cliffhanger. You got me though. I thought Jon would be the one catching her. On the edge of my seat
IrishxButter
2023-01-29 06:14:08 +0000 UTCTing indeed! Can't wait to see the next chapter.
Eric Lachance
2023-01-29 03:21:57 +0000 UTCthe chapter was amazing
Simonki
2023-01-29 02:34:13 +0000 UTCI'm not sure where you're getting your numbers, but they're slightly off. I just want to point out that for the North to be able to mobilise around 45 000 troops total(the full mobilisation numbers according to the wiki), the North's population would be around 4 million(if not more, because of the large amount of land and the feudal inefficiency). Traditionally, a country/kingdom could only employ a little more than 1% of its total population as an army. So, the North is not demographically devastated. It is greatly lacking in trained men-at-arms now, but those can be replaced with sufficient time. The North is based on Scotland, and is ten times the size. Scotland had around half a million population in the fourteenth century, so reasonable estimates of the Northern population are anywhere from 3 million upwards. So even if we estimate a reasonable death toll in the North being 100k, (damage from the ironborn, all the dead in war, harsh weather, etc etc), there would be still plenty of people left.
Gladiusx
2023-01-29 02:27:14 +0000 UTCJon really messed up going after the targaryens instead of staying to deal with the white walkers first. So many of his experienced bannermen are dead, not to mention the thousands of northmen dead now. Combined with all the men dead in the war of five kings and against the boltons and id be suprised if enough men are alive in the north to replenish the population. Guess everyone is getting 3 wives after this.
LordApathy
2023-01-29 02:01:47 +0000 UTCnoooo anothee cliffyy
Corlys
2023-01-29 00:33:40 +0000 UTCBuh gawd that’ Jon Stark’s music!
Rick Malone
2023-01-28 23:48:16 +0000 UTC
