Opening post by Ser Roland Crakehall · #1
Ha. Allow me a moment of unhelpful accuracy. My maester tells me I raise this too often. My maester is welcome to raise something better.
Strip the songs away and it comes to this: whether the prince that was promised is a person or a story people needed. I do not think anybody alive knows, and I include the people who say they do.
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.
You may laugh. The sentiment stands.