Hello, my fellow historians, a simple pair of sentences from Young Griff in the Lost

Lord chapter will help get us started today.

Flowers is a bastard name.

You are from the Reach.

And that explains it.

We'd like to thank you for coming today.

We appreciate- I'm just kidding.

He's speaking of Sir Franklin Flowers, who has a profile in this episode.

But the entire Aegon slash Young Griff plot is directly and or thematically related

to the Black Fire stories, which is a story about bastards.

And the central supporters of the Black Fire cause was the Reach, even though Damon Black

Fire himself was not from the Reach.

A lot of his key supporters were such as Fireball.

And though Franklin and though rather Jon Snow is not a Flowers, Bastardy is a central

aspect for the plot of one of the most important characters.

I mean, Jon is one of the most important characters.

And so this is true, even if it turns out he's technically not a Bastard at all.

Like if he turns out to be Jon Targaryen or whatever he goes by later, whatever his name

actually is, even if it turns out to be Jon Snow, regardless, he's been treated like

a Bastard.

And that's what really matters to us here.

As much as we're honing in on people whose name is Flowers, we're really about the treatment

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