Quote Originally Posted by remydat View Post
Yeah not buying it. A Northman sits on the throne. Kinda of bullshit to say Bran has the best story but yet not good enough to convince his own people and sister to follow him.

Why any Kingdom would accept the rule of someone rejected by his own kin is beyond me.
It doesn’t matter. The Northerners consider themselves a completely different country from the rest of Westeros.

The wars in the North were over whether the Stark’s or Bolton’s were kings. Then you had the South where you had Kings like the Lannisters fighting the Gardner’s in the Reach and Riverlands Lotds fighting the Ironborn and Stormlands. They were warring king’s of the same race fighting for dominion over a continent.

Then Argon came and said he wanted everything and he lumped the North in as part of that even though they rarely tried to acknowledge the southerners. And pretty much everyone whose ever held power knew the North was different. Cersei in season 1 told Joffrey it was foolish to try to dominate the North as it was too big and too far to be held. Then in Winter it’s a completely separate game and you’ll freeze out there like it’s Siberia.

It’s not the same, even with a Northerner on the throne they don’t want to be connected to the other houses same affairs in the South that they have nothing to do with. The Southerners were reliant on the Tyrell’s for crops, the Lannisters for trade and gold, the Riverlands for routes, etc. The North exists independently and can ignore the South forever if they want. Aegon was the only reason they got connected. It to dragons to drag them into a union with the Andals.

The rest of them are FAR more reliant on each other and if they don’t have one unified King they will be back to warring over everything I mentioned earlier. It benefits an interconnected area to have one king who can settle disputes with war.