re: Game of Thrones S5E7 - "The Gift" Book Readers Thread - Spoilers!!

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Exactly. Your children are the product of incest with your brother, Jamie Lannister. You give a strict religious cult near unlimited vigilante power to clean up the evils prevalent throughout King's Landing. Meanwhile you have been screwing your Uncle's son, Lancel, and manipulate him in a plot to kill your husband, the king, Robert Baratheon. Lancel then seeks redemption and joins said cult. What could possibly go wrong?

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Thus Tywin, Kevan and Varys collective judgment that, while smart (for a woman), she is not nearly as clever as she thinks she is. And LF is starting to run wild because there is a vacuum - no Tywin, no Varys (at least out and about - for the moment), so he is, by an order of magnitude, the most cunning man in Westeros in anything like a position of power.

That's what Stannis' team is missing - some cunning - they've made do with magic, prophecy, stubborness and unfiltered loyalty - but at the end of the day, they're going to have to get their own cunning strategist or they're going to be playing for 3rd.