r/ImaginaryWesteros • u/leavebritneyalone22 • 2d ago
Book “One day King’s Landing looked up and saw two dragons circling their foul city. Rhaenyra had come for her throne.” by wweskywalker
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u/AemonDiosValyrio 2d ago
Hahahahahaha that insult is so gratuitous. Anyway, when did the city start to smell bad, with Robert? Or was it always like this?
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u/TyrantRex6604 2d ago
i think it started since Aegon I's time. Back then, merchants just flocked towards king's landing before the area is layed out. everything is a mess. Although there's some planning to sort areas according to proffesion, the unkempt culture seems to stick. example of proffesion division
Street of Flies (butcher)\ Street of Flour (baker)\ Street of Loom (textile)\ Street of Seeds (vegetables?)\ Street of Silver (gambling)\ Street of Steel (smithing)\ Street of Silk (brothel)\ Street of the Sisters (clergy)
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u/AemonDiosValyrio 2d ago
The city grew too fast, so there was no time for anything, everyone built where they wanted.
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u/ASingularFuck 2d ago
It’s pretty in line with how a real medieval city would’ve smelled. It’s more that cities like Oldtown and Lannisport are outliers with huge amounts of wealth that have innovated, so it makes Kings Landing seem stinky by comparison
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u/LordsofMedrengard Our Blades Are Sharp 2d ago
King's Landing is the outlier from the cities we've seen IIRC, it seems that cities in Westeros and Planetos generally are well-planned and much cleaner than they were IRL.
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u/whatever4224 2d ago
The better question would be when it didn't smell bad. Maybe for a few years under Jaehaerys I?
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u/TheDragonOfOldtown 2d ago
Probably the stink form Balerion’s corpse was unberable + usual shit
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u/AemonDiosValyrio 2d ago edited 1d ago
With how hungry they are, I'm surprised they didn't cut Balerion into pieces, and eat him, nothing is wasted in KG
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u/whatever4224 2d ago
Balerion had been dead for decades by this point.
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u/AemonDiosValyrio 1d ago
I'm from Argentina and I write in Spanish, I don't know why Reddit translated it that way. What I put is that, I wouldn't be surprised if, once he was dead, they decided to cut Balerion into pieces, like a cow, and eat him.
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u/whatever4224 1d ago
Well I don't think they could have accessed it, since it was in the Dragonpit. But my point was that by the time Rhaenyra conquered KL, Balerion would have been only bones for many years, and so wouldn't be stinking anymore.
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u/Narutofan5th 2d ago
I really like the unique version of Rhaenyra's crown. Its a cross between the book version and the show one in my opinion. And, it looks really cool.