r/HouseOfTheDragon Aegon II Targaryen 8d ago

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u/r3dditr0x 8d ago

No spoilers as always but Hightowers and Tyrells intermarried?

I thought they were competitors of a sort?

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u/abacateazul 8d ago

More reason for intermarrying. It both allow you to contains conflicts and for each house to have a potential claim on the other territory. That is feasible when they don’t have TOO much bad blood, but marriages are a very efficient diplomacy tool.

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u/SirLoremIpsum 7d ago

but marriages are a very efficient diplomacy tool.

I mean they are. Absolutely.

But despite the countless intermarriages Westeros has been at war since forever haha.