Radio Westeros, episode 64, in conjunction with history of Westeros, the Dance of the Dragons, Part 4.

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Six thousand of the Queen's men formed up to Face Lord High Tower in the field

under the command of Sir Garibord-gray. They fought bravely for a time, but a withering reign of arrows from Lord Orman's

archers thinned their ranks, and a thunderous charge by his heavy horse broke them, sending the survivors

running back toward the town walls.

There Red Rob Rivers and his Bowman stood covering the retreat with their own longbows.

When most of the survivors were safe inside the gates, Roddy the ruin and his winter wolves

salad forth from a postern gate, screaming their terrifying northern war cries as they swept around the left flank of the

attackers.

In the chaos that ensued, the North men fought their way through ten times their own number to where Lord Ormond

Hightower sat his war horse beneath King Agon's Golden Dragon and the banners of Old Town and the High Tower.

As the singers tell it, Lord Roderick was bloody from head to heel as he came on with splintered shield and cracked helm,

yet so drunk with battle that he did not even seem to feel his wounds.

We ended our last episode with Serse's famous You Win or Die, line, spoken to Ned Stark.

But here in the Dance of the Dragons Dragons the Winter's Wolves show us a different attitude.

To them it's more a case of you win and you die or you win when you die,

as long as it's in battle with dead foes about, that is.

Roddy the ruin is Lord of Barroton, but he shares the sentiment, as all Northerners do, of their

leech lord. Winter is coming. From them there is an acceptance of the inevitability

of death paired with the willpower to see it through on one's own terms in battle with

dead foes about that is there is indeed no middle ground when

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