Welcome to POLITICO’s Westeros Playbook, the must-read guide to what’s happening on the continent
and welcome to POLITICO’s Westeros Playbook, the must-read guide to what’s happening on the continent. As the battle for the Iron Throne heats up, we’ll deliver your briefing on what's driving the week.As the bells rang out across King’s Landing, mothers hid behind shuttered windows and held their children close, Cersei’s kingsguard dropped their swords in surrender, a quiet fell. The city had fallen. The people were ready to welcome a new queen.
of entrenched power that crushes those at the bottom of society. But now we see the truth: Dany isn’t going to break the wheel; she *is* the wheel.The words of House Targaryen are, famously, “Fire and blood.” More than just a motto, Queen Daenerys made it a promise, leading a mass slaughter at King’s Landing. And while the rubble is still clearing, early reports suggest untold thousands were killed.
— which would certainly draw the support of Lady Sansa of Winterfell and her backers in the Vale of Arryn. Such a move would place the Seven Kingdoms in a familiar spot: facing the prospect of a military uprising from the lords of the North and the Vale against the rule of a crazed Targaryen, as they did during Robert’s Rebellion.As military analysts note, any challenge to Dany’s claim will face a formidable test in the dragon Drogon, particularly after the demise of Jon’s own dragon, Rhaegal.
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