ZavellDragar
I am NOT Gregarious
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1. Just a thought but I could see "my legacy is everything" Tywin trying to marry Lancel with Myrcella, keeping his mainline Lannister descendants ruling the Rock while still having gods-blessed Lancel as his heir.
2. Is it actually Viserys and Daenerys?
but I took no chances, and, after removing the beast's claws, hoisted it upon my horse's back, mounted myself and rode out of there,
I jumped off my saddle and removed the lion's carcass from the back of my horse and showed it to them,
I'd like to second this.A story where everything always goes right is not as interesting as a story where the character encounters challenges that must be overcome. He didn't have to work very hard to get anything. He convinced a bunch of nobles to give up tons of authority and power automatically without even rolling diplomacy for it. He killed that lion from far away without any real risk to his health or safety. It's not a bad story but a story where he was in a life or death battle after being ambushed up close by the lion would be better than one where he snipes it from across a ravine.
I'll rewrite that part, and the lion.I'd like to second this.
Especially due to the fact that Tywin is not an absolute ruler, and he can't really force any of his bannermen to switch over to a new army combination.
Which by itself should be silly. Tywin himself should have seen the shortcoming of the system when applied to his realm- they still have many well equipped and trained knights, so the pike and bow formations should be formed to support the existing core of knights. Rather than trying to force all knights to become horsemen.
At the very least, at 4,5k men and only 2 such forces to support it wouldn't be that much of a drain on the kingdom. These numbers certainly aren't that much bigger than the forces you'd see fielded by some of noble lords in eastern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.I'll have to note something really important.
Standing armies are something very rare because it is extremely expensive. You need to keep the army fed. You need to keep them occupied, because thousands of men in the same place with nothing to do will end up causing fights and riots amongst themselves. And at the same time all those working hands are missing from the fields and causing your income to be lower.
That's why a lot of people use sellswords. They're expensive but you only need to pay them once instead of keeping them on retainer.
Someone as rich as Tywin could hold a standing army of a few thousand men, maybe up to 10 thousand if he's got them acting as garrisons and scouts in times of peace. But any higher number is absurd.
Besides, creating a large standing army when there's no visible threat on the horizon is not an easy feat. His bannermen would think he's paranoid and wasteful while the surrounding kingdoms would be concerned, or even threatened.
He hoisted a full grown lion on his horse? Then mounted it himself too?
I don't think you quite appreciate how fucking large lions are.
Again. A lion's carcass wouldn't just be hidden on a horse. It'd be too freaking big.