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A Song Of Ice And Fire

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It seems like incredibly bad politics and even worse from a moral standpoint..

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've just always thought it a bit of a classless act from Tywin. They sent the man's bones back, but not the house ancestral sword.

Your comment is likely right, it's just never sat well with me and I'd be interested to know how it went down across the rest of the realm. Even in war I figured the great houses would have kept a modicum of respect for one another, or maybe I'm just naive.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

i think it was a way of showing that for all his savvy, Tywin could still have a political blind spot based entirely on avarice for something