1/7/2024 0 Comments Die young game![]() ![]() “They said, ‘But what if we had been bad people? Did you think about that?’ They couldn’t understand why I would leave my home and take chances staying with them. “In fact, they were way more concerned about my own lack of fear in coming to them than anything else,” she went on. “I can’t see how this relates to Burgundy,” I’d said. ![]() It doesn’t even occur to them that they could respond.” Neighboring tribes come and slaughter them and rape their women, and the Pawong don’t know to defend themselves or retaliate. “There’s this tribe somewhere in South Asia, the Pawong, if I remember it right, and they don’t understand war or even conflict at all. “It’s always fear with you.” He’d closed his eyes at this point, which was something that he did whenever he planned a sentence more than four words long. “It’s just that I get bored there during the day. “What is it now? Is it the thought of getting on a train full of strangers that frightens you? Or is it seeing an old man on the verge of death?” (Glauber’s father had cancer.) We’d just had an argument about a four-day weekend: Glauber wanted to go visit his parents in Burgundy, I wanted to stay in Paris. All other characters are younger than 50.What he’d told me about the Pawong, though, on the night we broke up had been meant not as edifying trivia but as an insult, I think, even though I hadn’t taken it that way-as I said, I take nothing personally. Wyman Manderly is aged between 58 and 61. Jon Arryn died aged 78 or 80, though if he wasn't poisoned, maybe he would have lived until 90s, like Walder Frey. Jeor Mormont died aged 69, probably he lived that long, and was still in considerably good state for his age, also thanks to The Wall, same as maester Aemon. Maester Aemon died aged 102 (lived that long only thanks to the power of The Wall). Though those three are using magic to prolong their life, so their longevity is unnatural. ![]() Shiera Seastar/Quaithe, her age is between 116 and 122. The Ghost of High Heart (I suspect, that she is Rohanne Webber-Lannister, so she's 114 or 115 years old in 300). There's not that many really old characters in there. So their life duration wasn't that short, compared with real world in Medieval age, or compared with people from other great Houses in ASOIAF. Out of 11 Targaryens, that you listed, 7 lived past 45, and only 1 died before reaching 30. In Medieval ages reaching 40s was already an achievement. At age 21, life expectancy was an additional 43 years (total age 64).Įarly modern England - 33-40. Late medieval English peerage - 30 years. So what are your opinions? Inbreeding? Magic? Highly stressful lifestyles? Or simply poor planning from Martin who included too many Kings in too short a time? Meanwhile characters like Tywin and Jon Arryn are in their sixties and seventies respectively and seem fine. This is really low life expectancy and while this is supposed to be the middle ages, they were royalty and lived in better conditions than the average joe. The only example of a Targaryen we have of living a really long life is maester Aemon. For instance Jaehaerys I age does not justify his condition and his father was basically a wreck before he hit forty. Some of those I included died of obvious reasons or diseases like Aegon IV, or Daeron II but I included them because they can be seen as part of a pattern of poor health. I excluded those who died violent or accidental deaths. Aegon died at 64, Aenys at 36, Jaehaerys at 69, Viserys at 52, Aegon at 36, Baelor at 27, Viserys at 50, Aegon at 49, Daeron at 56, Aerys at 49 and Jaehaerys at 38. I've been looking at Targaryen lifespans and they seem rather on the short side. ![]()
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