"Jon Snow crushed everyone that supported the flayed man banner. If King Robb's will has truly reached the North, he would have no problem uniting the rest beneath him," Patrek reasoned. "And we might starve here in the Riverlands anyway – after Tywin started torching the fields and burning and pillaging the villages, we have scarcely reaped a single proper harvest. Between the brigands, raiders, floods, and war, few smallfolk dare to return to the fields. The braver ones were killed by the Mountain and his scum long ago. Seaguard's larders can barely last for more than a year, if not for fishing. Aegon would bleed whatever little is left from the Riverlands dry in his campaign west."