lol how on earth did you think that House Velaryon was "only a small part of what was going on" when they are a huge and predominant part of the series. You think faggot woke writers would pick some minor house with no involvement to DEI it up? The entire story involves them. The dance of dragons is the story of the the dying of the dragons but it is also the story of the downfall of House Velaryon.
Of all the changes to the book, character assassinations and outright heresy, my biggest pet peeve right now is that these woketard liberals don't know where food comes from. They think it comes from the Grocery store I guess.
Here's a map. Ignore the north half, the fucking north is huge but also cold af. It's scotland.
Turn your eyes to the south. Notice the only green areas of the map. One is the Reach, the other is the crownlands (the land surrounding King's landing). See how they are right next to each other?? This is where food comes from. Notice how there is no massive bodies of water that would require food to be shipped by boat?
We spent 5 fucking seasons in Game of Thrones establishing this. From Season 2 when the Reach/Tyrells were first introduced, from Lady Olena explaining to Tywin how many tens of thousands of head of sheep, goat, cows they were delivering to the city, to the tonnage of grains? all the way to season 7 when Jaime and Bronn had laid siege to highgarden and forced the reach to give up their harvests to feed King's landing through what was thought to be a 10 year winter?
A lot of food is also grown in the riverlands but since they are fighting/declared for Rhaenyra that's pretty much a wash.
See that tiny little rock island in the middle of the bay called Dragonstone? Yeah they aren't growing any food there. They live by fishing and trade.
The food riots start when Rhaenyra takes over King's landing and loses access the reach.