It forces strange bedfellows. The Northmen despise Wildlings, but if a Wildling chieftain has a chunk of dragonsteel ore, suddenly Jon Snow is negotiating with him. It might force the Night's Watch to ally with slavers from Essos if they have the knowledge. The quest for survival overrides centuries of cultural and moral boundaries. The fate of the kingdoms becomes tied to their ability to form utterly pragmatic, uncomfortable alliances they would have considered unthinkable in summer.
The existential dread it must cause for rulers... Knowing your people's survival depends on an object you can't create, only maybe find. Every day you're not searching feels like negligence. Every decision not related to acquiring it feels frivolous. The weight of that would crush some leaders into paralysis or reckless action. The mental health of the ruling class is a non-trivial factor in a kingdom's survival, and dragonsteel poisons that well with unbearable pressure.
I'm just sitting here waiting for someone to post a definitive quote from GRRM's notes or something. All this speculation is fun, but we're basically arguing over fictional metallurgy while the author sips his tea.
I always imagined dragonsteel as a catalyst for betrayal. In a desperate, frozen kingdom, what's to stop a trusted bannerman from murdering his lord to take the family's Valyrian steel sword for himself? We've seen how people act over dragonglass; a material ten times rarer would drive them mad. The quest for it could unravel alliances from within long before the Others even show up at the wall. Its influence might be less about slaying monsters and more about turning men into monsters first.
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