Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-4708902-20160915194638/@comment-28895263-20160917044629

The Lords of the North backed the bastard Jon Snow for King, over the trueborn Sansa Stark as Queen. The northerners remain patralineal.

Jon has reasons beyond reward to elevate his own loyalists to Lordship. He can't trust surviving Umbers and Karstarks. He needs battle-proven men, who were ready to die for him, as the Lords of Karhold and The Last Hearth. Davos, maybe some second son of a House in the Vale. Tormund? He's loyal, but would make a lousy Lord.

Dividing up the spoils of war could make an interesting subplot. It's complicated by the fact that the captured castles and lands represent far more wealth than Houses Mormont and Hornwood have. But would Lyanna Mormont leave Bear Island for The Last Hearth? I think not. Would this more valuable holding go to a lesser Mormont Lord? That also does not make sense. Likewise, for House Hornwood. These prizes are too valuable to go to a second son.

Davos is older, but who is to say that he could not father children? Certainly age didn't stop Walder Frey.

Such a rich and complicated world. It's hard to wait for Season 7, or "Winds".