In Westeros both the Riverlands and The Reach are explicitly described as fertile breadbaskets, though, and should without trouble have been able to support King's Landing. Also, the whole continent only has like three proper cities, doesn't it?
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Five. Oldtown enjoys a degree of political independence, the other four are subjects of their respective kingdoms.
aug 31, 2025, 10:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Kings's landing, Highgarden, Sunspear, and Oldtown, which if the fifth one?]
aug 31, 2025, 10:13 pm • 1 0 • view
White Harbor in the North, held by the Manderlys.
aug 31, 2025, 10:14 pm • 1 0 • view
It doesn't appear in the TV series so most people aren't even aware it exists lol
aug 31, 2025, 10:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Right, I knew I was forgetting a northern harbour town. Wasn't actually aware they just skipped that one completely in the series
aug 31, 2025, 10:19 pm • 2 0 • view
They gave the entire Frey revenge plot to Arya, so there's just no reason to go there.
aug 31, 2025, 10:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Just one of the many capital c Choices they made for the series
aug 31, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Only two, AFAIK. What's the third, do you reckon?
aug 31, 2025, 10:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Five, even. These + White Harbour bsky.app/profile/attu...
aug 31, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Highgarden is a castle. White Harbour and Sunspear are small towns.
aug 31, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Sunspear is described as pretty substantial, isn't it? Highgarden I can't actually remember how it's described apart from large gardens, so there you are probably correct. I would personally say that White Harbour is large enough to count, but that's really up to your definition, I suppose.
aug 31, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
That seems fair. Possibly Sunspear is the third, though I've had the impression that it's all that large.
aug 31, 2025, 10:29 pm • 0 0 • view
The wiki calls it "no more than a queer, dusty town." Make of that what you will.
aug 31, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view
The fact, though, that the entire continent, despite 2 very fertile large regions, only has like 3-4 cities, and not even that many towns apart from those, remains a weird piece of world building. Not as big a crime as the history of the setting, though, but still weird.
aug 31, 2025, 10:33 pm • 2 0 • view
You'd expect the third city to be around Highgarden, since that's the centre of the most fertile region. Maybe there is a city there, though the wiki doesn't seem aware of it.
aug 31, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view