#1 Winter is Coming
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:10 am
So I'm reading TV Tropes and I find Song of Fire and Ice reference on an article on how writers can screw up scale. One of the complaints is that considering the North is fucking huge, Rob Stark's manpower is a little light. This is answered by:
Winter is coming bitches!GRRM has also commented on some of these issues outside of the series. He explained at a con that Robb Stark only collected together between one-third and one-half of the North's military forces before going south. He simply didn't have time to wait for the full armies to assemble. He also indicated this untapped manpower would play a role later in the series.