Did every move that the Ironmen made have to be paid in blood? Could she do anything to salvage this farce anymore? How many would have to die for nought just because they didn't want to be beholden to a Greenlander who would most probably leave them to their own devices as long as they did not reave in Westeros? Why did they have to cling to the Old Ways with such fervour when it brought nothing but enemies? The glory days when the Ironborn could rule the Sunset Sea from the Arbour to the Frozen Shore were long gone, left behind in the bloody pages of history.