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Game of Thrones and Late Medieval Politics
Tides of History
How Does Legitimacy Work in This World?
"There's a whole bunch of actual sort of canony answers, but there's an editorializing that does come through," she says. "If you're up that high, you probably got a leg up." There are blood claims involved and the idea of merit playing into your claim to rule. The argument that kind of emerges over the course of the show is that you have to do all of those things. You can't just be, you can't just have the right name or rise by your own merit.
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