No examples of prices were given in the prequel novellas about the Dance of the Dragons. The numerical cost of one horse dropped from 3. The era of peace and prosperity before the Dance lasted far longer than that, an 80 year long golden age of peace and prosperity under the Targaryen kings Jaehaerys I and Viserys I.
The civil war began in autumn, after Viserys I died, and winter began in the middle of the conflict. Keeping to the supply and demand trends observed at the end of Robert's reign, it is possible that the number value of prices at the start of the Dance of the Dragons was even lower i. The main takeaways from these figures, in short, are that just before the outbreak of the War of the Five Kings the price of everyday commodities such as a loaf of bread was around three Copper Pennies, and a knight's horse was worth about one Gold Dragon.
Massive inflation takes place during the course of the War of the Five Kings, however, so relative prices during most of the TV series would rise drastically higher. In the Seven Kingdoms, there is no particular cultural or religious rule against moneylending. Indeed, the Faith of the Seven has been known to lend money to the kingship.
Thus, by the time of King Robert Baratheon, the crown owes a vast amount of accrued debt which was lent to it, mostly by House Lannister, the wealthiest noble landholders on the continent. Robert Baratheon's massive public debts, largely the result of his own inept financial leadership, total approximately six million Gold Dragons.
This debt is roughly divided between three million owed to House Lannister, two million owed to the Iron Bank of Braavos, and one million owed to the Faith of the Seven. A point made in the books is that the crown of Seven Kingdoms actually was not in debt immediately after Robert's Rebellion. While there had been some war debts King's Landing had to be extensively repaired after its sack, etc.
Tywin Lannister even remarks that the gross income of the crown has increased to something on the order of ten times what it was under the Mad King, due to various improvements in administration and an improving economy during the long summer years. Thus it is all the more shocking to Eddard Stark when he is informed that the crown is 6 million Gold Dragons in debt, highlighting just how much Robert Baratheon was beggaring the realm with his many expensive jousts.
Indeed, Tyrion Lannister is skeptical that even Robert's expensive tournaments and overall bad management could have produced such massive debts given the strong gross income levels, leading him to suspect that Littlefinger has been embezzling massive amounts of money from the treasury.
The Tourney of the Hand, for example, cost , Gold Dragons in prize money, and is presented as a very large tournament even by Robert's standards. Robert has been king for 15 years in the novels, and 6 million divided by 15 is , - meaning that Robert would have to have held a massive tournament on the scale of the Tourney of the Hand every three months for 15 years to spend that much money.
Tyrion realizes these numbers are implausible, as Robert simply didn't hold that many large tournaments. Each of the independent "Seven Kingdoms" minted their own different local currencies until they were all united by Aegon I Targaryen in the War of Conquest three hundred years before the War of the Five Kings. Little has been mentioned so far of pre-Conquest currency, but the Kingdom of the Reach minted gold coins known as "Hands", featuring the hand-sigil of House Gardener on one side and the face of the king whose reign they were minted in on the other side.
Surprisingly, quite a few Hand coins remain in circulation, even though new ones ceased being minted three hundred years ago. A gold Hand coin is only roughly half the value of a Gold Dragon coin. However, gold Hands are also roughly the same size, weight, and shape as a Gold Dragon, which may lead the unwary to confuse them.
Olenna Tyrell keeps a chest of old gold Hands in her carriage, and uses them when she needs to pay toll-takers on the road whom she feels have been rude or insulting, in order to dupe them into taking only half of what they request. Dorne wasn't even conquered by the Targaryens, and only entered the realm through peaceful marriage-alliance one hundred years ago, thus it is probable that their own local currency may be even more prevalent than the Kingdom of the Reach's three hundred year old currency.
In the early months of the War of the Five Kings , after Robb Stark is declared King in the North , the idea is suggested that the new Kingdom of the North and Riverlands should mint its own coinage. When Prince Bran Stark is holding a harvest feast at Winterfell attended by several Northern lords, Lord Wyman of House Manderly proposes that he will fund the creation of new mints to produce coinage for Robb's kingdom as House Manderly controls White Harbor , the North's only city and port, and is therefore fairly wealthy due to its maritime commerce.
Soon afterwards, however, the ironborn betray the Starks and attack the western coasts of the North, seizing Winterfell itself, thus the plan to make their own coinage is apparently put on hold to deal with the more immediate threat. The plans to make their own Northern coinage were rendered moot with the death of Robb Stark and destruction of his army at the Red Wedding. The proposed mints apparently never began production, as there is no mention of new Northern currency in the books.
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During the fifth and last Blackfyre rebellion, known as the War of the Ninepenny Kings , the Golden Company formed one of the core parts of the Blackfyres' forces in the Stepstones , but they were defeated by the young Brynden Tully and Barristan Selmy. As a result of the battle outcome, Mace Tyrell has a very low opinion about the Golden Company, claiming that they always fail, and that the realm is well rid of those fools. At the time of the War of the Five Kings, the Golden Company is the largest and best disciplined sellsword company in the Free Cities, functioning as an elite private army; they are not seamen, though.
Their forces consist of 10, men: 1, cavalry, 1, archers, and 8, infantry, as well as 2, horses and at least two dozen war elephants. About 50 of their archers are Summer Islanders , considered the best archers in the known world, armed with large and incredibly strong bows made of Goldenheart wood. As a large private army, they function under their own command structure of officers and serjeants. By the time of the novels, their commanders include:. The company is composed mostly of Westerosi exiles, and sons of exiles.
Many of the core members are descended from the hundreds of Blackfyre supporters who fled across the Narrow Sea at the end of the First Blackfyre Rebellion. Over the past century their ranks were joined by other men who ended up on the losing side of rebellions in Westeros, who fled to the Free Cities to nurse dreams of reconquest rather than face execution or exile to the Night's Watch.
The Golden Company is first mentioned in the fourth novel. It is repeatedly rumored that the company has broken its contract with Myr ; as strange as it sounds, despite the company's reputation, it turns to be correct, but no one knows for sure the reason.
The small council receives questionable reports that Stannis has hired them, and intends to bring them across the Narrow Sea. Cersei dismisses that as nonsense for a change, she is correct , because Stannis does not have enough money to hire the company, and they are sailing to Volantis - the opposite way.
The Golden Company becomes actively involved in the plotline during the fifth novel. An envoy from Yunkai is sent to hire them for the campaign against Daenerys , offering twice what Myr was paying them.
Although he does not intend to accept the offer, the commander Harry Strickland tells the envoy evasively he'll consider it, thinking that a blunt refusal would make his men think he has lost his mind. At Volantis, Jorah Mormont tells Tyrion about rumors that some exiled lord has hired the Golden Company to win back his lands for him. Tyrion comments humorously these are bad news, for he meant to hire the Golden Company himself, to win Casterly Rock.
In " A Dance with Dragons ", the Golden Company sails to Westeros, but under totally different circumstances than in the show; it is not hired by the ironborn or the Lannisters, but by Jon Connington , on behalf of the presumed-dead Aegon Targaryen , the son of Rhaegar and Elia who has the strongest claim to the Iron Throne.
The fleet of the company consists of great cogs which carry the elephants. After passing Lys , a storm scatters the fleet; as a result, less than half the company arrives at Westeros among them archers , with only three of the elephants and horses. Soon Connington receives reports that the Volantene put Marq Mandrake and close to men ashore on Estermont. Thus more than 4, men of the company are still missing. It is unknown whether the cogs with the rest of the elephants sank or were delayed only.
Harry Strickland is quite upset at the absence of the elephants, thinking that they should wait till the rest of the company, the horses and the elephants arrive.
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