Editing Talk:Gendry (section)

==Moved Page==
Yeah, just Gendry makes more sense to me. So I moved it. A redirect will still be located at the Gendry Waters page.  Thanks! [[User:Jediphilb|Jediphilb]]

:Just as a clarification for casual readers, let me say that there is a reason for that.  Most people agree that in Westeros [[Bastardy#Surnames|bastards do not usually have surnames unless they are believed to have a highborn parent]].  [[Smallfolk]], including bastards of smallfolk by both sides, simply don't usually have surnames at all.  Both of [[Edric Storm]]'s parents are acknowledged as members of noble houses, so he gets a bastard surname despite being denied membership to either house.  Apparently [[Mya Stone]]'s mother (so far unrevealed) is part of the Vale's nobility as well, or perhaps she was given a surname because her filiation is well-known even if not officially acknowledged.  All of the other known or suspected bastards of Robert Baratheon are clandestine to some extent, including Gendry. Robert himself makes little secret of his having bastards (in the TV series he mentions it rather casually to Ser Barristan during the boar hunt, actually bragging of having at least one offspring in each of the Seven Kingdoms and advising doing the same for others), yet it is clear that Edric is very much the exception in being fully acknowledged.  There is considerable evidence in the book series that bastards are generally perceived as somewhat inconvenient and generally expected to know their place and not be too apparent.  They may be legitimized when politically convenient (as discussed a couple of times, as first evident by the discussion of [[Larence Snow]] in ACOK), but for the most part they should know their place and let legitimate firstborns run the show.  Succession and proper inheritance are big deals in Westeros and bastards are expected to stay out of them. While a very few people know that Gendry has a highborn father, that is by no means public knowledge, so he does not get to be known as a Waters. [[User:LuisDantas|LuisDantas]] ([[User talk:LuisDantas|talk]]) 04:56, 23 April 2015 (CDT)