HOTD vs History: Murdering Family for Power
History of Westeros (Game of Thrones)
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The Most Famous Fratricide Example of All Time
Fratricide is so much a part of our own world history and everything that it pops up in children's cartoons as like the thing that kicks it all off. The Ottoman Empire legalized fratricide to make things less bloody. Mehmed III executed 19 of his brothers and half brothers when he came upon the throne. And then Ahmed I, and 150 years after that, then did ban Fratricide.
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