The alliance? For us, oh -- over one hundred years, and about thirty after The Young Dragon's conquest. The first Daenerys wasn't her ancestor -- maybe the sister of an ancestor. The rest of us from Westeros are not of Valyrian blood, and so you don't see some of those names much outside of the Targaryen family, unless someone wanted to flatter them.
The one here is the last of them -- the last Targaryen.
[A skeptical expression crosses his face at that one: he intends that she won't be the last, but neither of them can be sure of the future.
He moves on to explain some particulars of his homeland, and the look on his face falls away, leaving only one that's normal in a serious conversation.]
The North doesn't produce much. Wool, wood, plenty of deer and wolves to hunt, but sometimes the land doesn't yield much... and winters can be hard, if they stretch on three or four years or more. We don't have gold mines like they do in the south, or lush farms like in the Reach -- which is quite far south.
Winterfell... my home [he inclines his head here, remembering his dream]... is relatively central in the North, but it's still 500 leagues from the capitol, and there's not much north of it that's of any interest to southrons... mountains, forests, bare fields, little villages, the seats of a few smaller Houses. The Wall is 200 leagues north of Winterfell. I suppose most of them don't think of it at all. Or if they do, they think it's not worth thinking about, that it's only there to keep out wildling raiders.
Still, I've seen lords from the south who once mocked the Watch go grey at the sight of what we really stood against.
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The one here is the last of them -- the last Targaryen.
[A skeptical expression crosses his face at that one: he intends that she won't be the last, but neither of them can be sure of the future.
He moves on to explain some particulars of his homeland, and the look on his face falls away, leaving only one that's normal in a serious conversation.]
The North doesn't produce much. Wool, wood, plenty of deer and wolves to hunt, but sometimes the land doesn't yield much... and winters can be hard, if they stretch on three or four years or more. We don't have gold mines like they do in the south, or lush farms like in the Reach -- which is quite far south.
Winterfell... my home [he inclines his head here, remembering his dream]... is relatively central in the North, but it's still 500 leagues from the capitol, and there's not much north of it that's of any interest to southrons... mountains, forests, bare fields, little villages, the seats of a few smaller Houses. The Wall is 200 leagues north of Winterfell. I suppose most of them don't think of it at all. Or if they do, they think it's not worth thinking about, that it's only there to keep out wildling raiders.
Still, I've seen lords from the south who once mocked the Watch go grey at the sight of what we really stood against.