r/freefolk • u/Adxxl • 13h ago
Subvert Expectations HOW TF BRONN GOT HIGHGARDEN?!!
I will never shut up about it out of all the stupid things done in the last season him.HIM? WINNING getting highgarden and being master of coins while having no education on how fu*king loans works...bs
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u/TalentVector 12h ago
The funniest part is Tyrion, the smartest guy in Westeros, nodding along like: "Yes, the guy who threatened to crossbow me is definitely the best choice to manage our treasury." The writing in season 8 was truly a joke.
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u/frostfofjdjsiksndjd 11h ago
Yeah this would be like breaking bad Mike becoming head of the Mexican cartel because Gus said so
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u/Josos_Cook 10h ago
It makes perfect sense when you realize notBran is trying to sabotage Westeros. Sam didn't even graduate college and he's grand maester, Tyrion was convicted by the gods of killing his nephew plus killed his dad and girlfriend and gets to be hand.
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u/TheUncouthPanini 11h ago
He'll be a great and respected Lord of Highgarden for the 2 minutes it takes for a Hightower, Redwyne or some other notable house of the Reach to poison his wine.
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u/LewisRyan 12h ago
He knows exactly how loans works, he loans someone money, then he kills them and takes it back, along with extras
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u/saatoday1 13h ago
I mean it’s crazy but at the same time Janos Slynt got Harrenhal and a seat on the council, and that was written into the first book by GRRM.
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u/TheLastCleverName 12h ago
Yeah but that was ordered by idiots in the book, and it was decried as a ridiculous decision by smarter characters and the whole court in general. One of Tyrion's first moves was stripping Slynt of those positions, which makes it even more stupid that he's the one who put Bronn there. In fact, the Bronn thing is even worse. Harrenhal at least has a history of being passed between houses and people think it's cursed - Highgarden is the capital of The Reach. It's been the seat of the ruling great house forever, and there are multiple houses who would make claims before some random guy gets put in there.
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u/redditingtonviking 11h ago
I like the theory that Littlefinger manipulated Joffrey to give Slynt Harrenhal knowing that he’d lose it fairly quickly, as that would free it up for him later.
Why Littlefinger would want it isn’t entirely clear yet, but it’s notable that he tricked Tywin into giving it to him despite the fact that Lysa Arryn would have accepted him regardless.
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u/TheLastCleverName 10h ago
I guess that although he has no intention of living there, the title 'Lord of a very well known castle' is just part of the social climb. Even if it's not necessary to get Lysa's hand, he gets the clout, plus he doesn't have to worry about actually staffing or maintaining the place so he's free to go about his antics.
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u/tirkman 8h ago
Yeah it was definitely about the clout for littlefinger. Littlefinger wasn’t “good enough” to marry a Tully growing up, so being lord of harrenhal is on paper a giant resume booster for him that changes that
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u/TheLastCleverName 8h ago
Yeah, even though Lysa would've taken him regardless, the various lords of the vale who were trying to charm her would've been miffed at a lesser noble shagging his way to the top. Losing to the Lord of Harrenhal is way easier to swallow and makes it easier for Littlefinger to deal with them moving forwards.
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u/coastal_mage Of the night 8h ago
Heck, the books make it pretty clear that Littlefinger has no intention to keep the castle any longer than he needs to. But he still does need it as of Dance
"Ah, and what a castle it is. Cavernous halls and ruined towers, ghosts and draughts, ruinous to heat, impossible to garrison... and there's that small matter of a curse."
- Alayne I, AFFC
My guess is that he'll trade it in for a more comfortable seat in the Riverlands once Aegon wraps up the second Conquest, and the Great Council confirming his kingship is concluded (at Harrenhal of course, where else?)
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u/Adxxl 12h ago
That's understandable and makes sense since people believe harrenhal is cursed and those who hold it die in horrible ways and besides it was given to him (both seat and harenhal) by queen cersei and the document was signed by joffrey..Cersei pushed for it not because he was good at doing those Jobs but because he was loyal to cersei and that mattered more to her.I suggest reading affc and that will clear up why janos got a seat but with bronn it's pure stupidity since tyrion gives him highgarden(which is not his to give) and he is appointed master of coins by bran (who knows the past so he should know about bronn's incapibilty of being fit for master of coin)
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u/Shankar_0 Never trust a Tulley! 12h ago
He really didn't, though.
That entire thing was a ruse to purge the small council of Circe's informant. He never actually took possession of anything.
Harrenhall had always been a white elephant anyway. The cost to renovate and maintain the place was astronomical. You'd have to already be a major house with a huge bank account to even consider it.
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u/Stuck_in_my_TV 9h ago
No one controlled Harrenhal in the first place, it has no other lord vassals, and the people granting it knew he wouldn’t last long.
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u/Top_Conference_477 12h ago
We don’t read books here. We don’t even watch shows. We put them on in the background and then go on Reddit
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u/romantequilla 8h ago
Everyone assumes that Bronn gets assassinated, but the more realistic outcome is that he sells off his name to the highest bidder, (Hightower or Redwyne most likely) and marries into their house. Bronn has no family name and doesn't care about about his legacy, so he would be extremely easy to bribe.
If it was Dorne, then yeah...
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u/Ill-Organization-719 11h ago
Highgarden didn't exist and he didn't go anywhere. He walked off the screen and stopped existing.
Everyone knew they were about to vanish and no one cared what happened or who did what.
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u/Key_Consequence_5040 7h ago
It’s as if the Tyrell’s had no other relatives who would have assumed lordship after Maces death and protested a former sellsword ruling their rich fertile lands.
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u/antipodal22 8h ago
I might wonder if it's a bribe to keep him silent about everything that went on while Tyrion was hand.
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u/ZerpMeizter 12h ago
A masterclass in bad writing and pure stupidity. Bronn getting Highgarden is peak D&D logic. The Twins made way more sense than Highgarden.