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Originally Posted by alex20823
The point is the maester's are not troubled with the problems in Westeros. They only note events and facts and debate on things being or not.
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Originally Posted by ChrisV
Nitting it up a bit here, but each castle has a maester, rather than each House. If the castle changes hands by whatever means, the maester is supposed to continue to serve the new lord.
These statements appear at first glance to be in opposition but they're actually both true. I'd slightly amend alex's take to "the maesters
at the Citadel are not trouble with the problems in Westeros." As Chris points out, they do go out into the world and deal with "the problems in Westeros" on a daily basis, one would think that mindset would make its way back to the Citadel in some fashion.