>Winter can last for a generation
As in everywhere, all over the world?
For a fucking GENERATION?
Just a year's worth of global winter would be enough to wipe out most plant and animal life, especially if there was literally no place to migrate that wasn't experiencing freezing temperatures.
This is just asinine. A world like this wouldn't even be able to create life in the first place.
Shhh don't ruin fatsos " realism "
>entire army is mounted
>having the ability to feed that many horses in a land full of winter
>Stannis having many pikes and spears
>not forming a quick schiltrom to turn the all cavalry army into a shish kebab
D&D are hacks and know nothing about medieval warfare or upkeep
I dont recall the books ever mentioning winters lasting that long
like there were apparently horrible winters long ago that would last like up to a decade, and that it caused horrible suffering and broke down society and everything.
a whole generation is even more outrageous
>What is fantasy
It's like if you complain about orcs in LORT
The books mentions children who are born in winter and die without ever seeing the sun.
How is a year defined in westeros?
>no place to migrate that wasn't experiencing freezing temperatures.
but that's wrong. Texas doesn't experience the same harshness of winter that Minnesota does you retard. Same would apply to this world.
Because they die early. Infant mortality was pretty high in the middle ages.
They use the positions of the stars.
Most children are unkillable in Westeros
Plant and animal life adjusts to these extreme conditions because it's a fictional universe that doesn't always follow the rules of our own :)
However, you're right - much of the local flora and fauna die off with these extreme seasonal cycles, as do the humans living through them. It's pretty clearly stated in the books that winter brings death. Old inhabitants/"Kings of Winter" are described as really grim, dark individuals.
im not sure if the rest of the planet gets the long winters or if its just westeros
I'm pretty sure that they it made reference to the fact that winter did last for a generation, they say multiple times that winter is long as fuck and a lot of adults die without ever experiencing summer.
"Winter" refers to a colder season but there are are still temperate areas.
The books go into how the Reach is called "the land of no winters" because winter rarely hits them severely to effect crop output. The North itself relies on farming from The Neck during winters, which is not particularly badly effected.
Really only how the wildlings survive should be called into question
why do you think they've been stuck in the middle ages for 8 thousand years? each generation there's a near-extinction event that resets all scientific progress
Seems like hunkering through a "generation-long winter" would be as simple as refugees just pouring into the Reach or going across the Narrow Sea and chilling at Essos for a few decades.
It's amazing Westeros is anything other than sparsely populated at all.
Didn't Old Nan say she's seen two winters or something?
Winter isn't as harsh in every part of Westeros.
no that was just one winter, the long winter, that lasted a generation. it was the last huge battle with the others and i think the one where the nights king (book) was created
> wouldn't even be able to create life
What about our world and the ice age?
That's even more dramatic and yet organisms still survived.
part of the reason the sparrows start clogging up kings landing in the book isnt because they're a crazy religious cult but because the war of five kings justed up their grain supplies for winter
yes it is.
it is the beginning of winter and there are icicles hanging from the rooftops and windowledges of kingslanding.
D and D got it wrong
essos on the other hand I believe they don't experience harsh winters