Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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In Eddard IV of A Game of Thrones book, of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, Ned arrives at King's Landing as The Hand of The King. He quickly learns that Robert Baratheon is an absent king, that the kingdom is in debt and that there is no governing policy. All those and more are pre-cursors to the civil war that is about to break out by the end of this book. We analyze the warning signs according to academic research and then move on to dissect Ned.

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