The eldest Tarly daughter, Brenna, is selected to become a maid-in-waiting to the Lady of Highgarden (herself the eldest daughter of the Lord of House Oakheart), where fair Brenna is part of a clique of upper tier noble girls who are the subject of social affairs up there and all of whom are prized as suitable wives for the Reach lords and their heirs. After they marry and have three children in rapid succession (the line of House Tarly is secure!). In time, their oldest son, Rollyn, is annointed as a knight and betrothed to a nice Hightower girl, Leyla they in time will become Lord and Lady of Horn Hill and continue to live in privilege. These people never change their own sheets, do their own laundry, cook their own meals or dump out their own privies. Once or twice a season, the whole family is summoned for lavish banquets and thrilling tourneys at Highgarden. Lady Rowyna brought her childhood septa, Septa Hortensia, with her from her home castle to train her daughters. The boys have personal tutelage from a maester and are trained in arms by the master-at-arms. The all live in a warm, well-appointed rooms in Horn Hill. This family lives well, they have fine clothes and a stable of horses for their personal use. Brendick and Rowyna have four kids, two sons and two daughters. They may all be family, but at some point, you stop being noble for all intents and purposes.Ĭonsider hypothetical Lord Brendick Tarly and his wife Rowyna, oldest daughter of Lord Rolland of House Rowan. The further out from the main core of the family you become (second and/or third cousins - children of the old lord's siblings, for example), you are just as likely to be made a member of the houseguard if you are a male, or a woman who comes into the main family apartments to come trim the nails and brush the hair of the lord's wife and daughters. that stuff only gets handed down to only a few members of each generation. Where do all these people go? Why isn't there a malthusian population growth of lords and running out of lordships to give them?īecause it is the trappings of nobility - dowries, fine armor, horses, apartments in the main family keep, etc. And of course Walder Frey is in a class of his own. This doesn't even take into account exceptions such as Leyton Hightower who has like. Starks are just Ned and his kids, Boltons are just Roose and his bastard, Arryns are just Jon and his son, and so on. You'd think there'd be hundreds of starks running about, at the very least.īut- inexplicably- by the time AGOT rolls around, all the major houses are practically extinct. Especially since these families have been going on for 1000s of years. No doubt, you'd have some dying of childhood diseases, some dying in battle, some becoming maesters or septons or going off to the wall.īut that still leaves an awful lot of kids unaccounted for. Where do all these kids go? There can be only one Lord of winterfell. In the next generation 5 become 15, and so on. I was just thinking, since the women of westeros don't have any birth control, what stops an explosive population growth from taking place?įor example, Catelyn and Ned Stark have 5 children.
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