When the Targaryens took Dorne and kept it, they took it another way... a marriage alliance, with the first Daenerys and a Dornish prince. Not the Daenerys who's here now.
[He doesn't understand the word κλέος as it's said to him, but as it's explained, he absorbs it, nods, and considers it before speaking again.]
Not in the North, though there are heroes. The southrons have their knightly virtues, winning glory in tournaments and battle and such, but there are few tournaments or knights in the North, because so few follow the Seven. When Northmen fight, we want to win and to live.
Most Northern boys seem to want to be heroes of some sort when they're boys, but it's a childish thing. I did, because I'm a bastard. There was small glory to be found in the Night's Watch, as it happened, yet the Watch is necessary to the safety of the Realm. Most have forgotten that.
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[He doesn't understand the word κλέος as it's said to him, but as it's explained, he absorbs it, nods, and considers it before speaking again.]
Not in the North, though there are heroes. The southrons have their knightly virtues, winning glory in tournaments and battle and such, but there are few tournaments or knights in the North, because so few follow the Seven. When Northmen fight, we want to win and to live.
Most Northern boys seem to want to be heroes of some sort when they're boys, but it's a childish thing. I did, because I'm a bastard. There was small glory to be found in the Night's Watch, as it happened, yet the Watch is necessary to the safety of the Realm. Most have forgotten that.