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Originally Posted by Fish
I'm wondering how the **** a fact that important to the rulers of Westeros gets lost in a book? All those grumpy maesters with all those books, and that little piece of info was just sitting there undiscovered, only to be found by goofy ass Gilly?
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"Trying to be sensible" answer - The Maesters have been overwhelmed by the needs of producing new Maesters for the Seven Kingdoms since the time of Robert's Rebellion that they haven't had time to properly read and transcribe all the histories written to that point, and that nugget of info fell through the cracks (still doesn't explain why the original old fart Maester that transcribed it didn't scream to the rafters that a Targaryen and a Stark had married and produced an offspring, but I digress).
"Honest answer" - The writers for the show appear lazy because they don't have enough time to tell the story properly.