@gummyuy In one of the novellas Dunk reflects that if Sir Arlan never took him to squire he’d probably have hanged or been sent to the Wall so he’s kinda jus normal Dunk never given the opportunities to better himself or rise above his station
@zaryaismywife Love the enthusiasm and fuck yeah but just a heads up Dan Jones kind of sucks ass, he has some Bad takes about about the 1381 Risings and is also kinda homophobic when it comes to talking about some pretty incontestably gay Plantagenet kings like Edward II and Richard II
@sansacinema Black dye is actually pretty hard to make, especially in the Middle Ages and especially considering the wildlings don’t have dye vats just like. Normally
@lordvictor Also the medieval conception of color was pretty different from what ours is. The idea of primary colors didn’t exist, for them red, white, and black were the “primary” colors, and medieval purple itself ranged from true purple to red, like with the marriage charter of Theophanu
@lordvictor It was literally illegal lol, certain dyers dyed certain colors and there’s a court case from Germany where a guy was dyeing really high quality green was sued by his competition for having yellow dye on his property because he was a blue dyer and he lost