Anonymous
10/31/2025, 7:17:42 PM
No.24844628
>>24843848
>It was a way to make your personal guard composed solely of people whom you trusted
Sure, but the way GRRM sets it up, pretty nobody would want to be in the Kings Guard.
> no lands and titles = understandable
> no marriage and heirs = understandable
> no sex = yeah, nah
> no apparent income = no thanks
> live in a tiny prison cell = fuck that
> be a noble but serve like a peasant = fuck that also
Now if the Kings Guard were something like a Joints Chiefs of Staff with political power and a place on the Small Council, who traveled around Westeros with a retinue carrying out the king's orders and commanded his military forces and lived in luxury, with each having a nice apartment in the Red Keep and were allowed to keep a mistress, then ok but otherwise, you're better off serving some lesser noble lord.
>It was a way to make your personal guard composed solely of people whom you trusted
Sure, but the way GRRM sets it up, pretty nobody would want to be in the Kings Guard.
> no lands and titles = understandable
> no marriage and heirs = understandable
> no sex = yeah, nah
> no apparent income = no thanks
> live in a tiny prison cell = fuck that
> be a noble but serve like a peasant = fuck that also
Now if the Kings Guard were something like a Joints Chiefs of Staff with political power and a place on the Small Council, who traveled around Westeros with a retinue carrying out the king's orders and commanded his military forces and lived in luxury, with each having a nice apartment in the Red Keep and were allowed to keep a mistress, then ok but otherwise, you're better off serving some lesser noble lord.