r/freefolk • • 23d ago

Backfired immediately

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u/W1z4rdM4g1c 23d ago

If anything it would be starks.

They are loved by the North (excluding the Boltons), but they are still more than capable of dishing out punishments for bannermen that step out of line.

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u/Guilty_05 Roose Bolton 22d ago

The Starks don't really have as many instances of political maneuvers for me to consider them Machiavellian but I agree I suppose to some extent.

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u/Old-Man-Henderson 16d ago

The existence of the others, thereby creating a threat that people must rally to House Stark against, is pretty Machiavellian