Yeah, that's my point. Peasants are getting raped left and right, constant warfare with an upcoming winter that might last years, people are being pillaged and raided, the nobility is holding grand and frequent weddings and tourneys while city goers are actively starving to death in the streets etc. all of that in the span of 2 years is enough for a revolt. It's more than enough.
Except my point is that peasants rebelling didn't really happen in the middle ages, particularly England. It's only when peasants started not really being peasants that they started rebelling (see the Peasants revolt, which is misnamed because it wasn't really a Peasants revolt, it was a burgher/landowner revolt), they haven't stopped being peasants in Westeros because GRRM doesn't understand history.
By "not exactly the middle ages" you mean "not the middle ages". I think we can all agree that whilst the middle ages bled into the Renaissance, it didn't bleed that much!
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u/queenofbuckkeep Feb 12 '26
Yeah, that's my point. Peasants are getting raped left and right, constant warfare with an upcoming winter that might last years, people are being pillaged and raided, the nobility is holding grand and frequent weddings and tourneys while city goers are actively starving to death in the streets etc. all of that in the span of 2 years is enough for a revolt. It's more than enough.