>the house with a flayed man as a banner turns out to be traitorous and evilBravo Martin
Why didn’t the starks just slaughter them at some point in history?I doubt the other houses of the north liked the boltons enough to care.
>>214210745It's nice to have a personal boogeyman to keep all the other minor houses in line. Bit like how the lannisters use house clegane in the current day. Also it wasn't always "starks = noble Boltons = evil". George actually goes to great lenghts to subvert the identity of both houses in the expanded histories (during targ times most starks are opportunistic assholes, most boltons and lannisters are pretty cool dudes) so it depended on the ruler... I think george also regrets making the starks such noble idiots in the main timeline.
>>214210745That's one of my biggest complaint about this. You can't have 2 noble houses, in close proximity to eachother by land, have on and off fights for several centuries.One of them would have genocided the other well before that.I think it would be better if the Boltons had been killed long ago, and the Starks had allowed one of Bolton's cadet branches rule Dreadfort, but under a different name and banner.After the betrayal, they change their banner back to the old one
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>>214210697Not that Starks are any better. Would trust a house whose sigil is a fucking wolf?
>>214213413wolves are considered noble animals retarded cuck
>>214213413Is there any other sigil worth trusting, you wretched woman?
>>214211031>I DID....LE SUBVERSION...DER OPPŐSEET OF ZE......EGGSPEKTATION!!!....YOU!!!.....YOU ARE SHŌKED YES??
>>214210745Just like the Lannisters had the Cleganes, the Starks had the Boltonsits useful to keep a house of cruel enforcers
>>214210697it's a variation of the saint andrew's cross
