Opening post by Felix · #1
My maester tells me I raise this too often. My maester is welcome to raise something better.
The question, put plainly: what the Others actually want, if they want anything. I think the plain answer is the true one, and everybody has talked themselves past it.
There is a version of this where the truth is dull — a bad decision, a bad winter, nobody's grand design — and I have never once heard anybody argue for it.
It matters less than the harvest, and I will still be arguing about it at midwinter.