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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover

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One Autumn Leaf said:
The fourth? I know two.The is Lys and Sorceror's Deep. Wait is the Flesh Forge tree giant also?
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The Tree of Lys, which is as big as a Giant Redwood IRL, then the Tree of the Dawn Age in Sorcerer's Deep which is one-thousand feet tall, and the Flesh Forge Tree which IIRC should be as big as the Tree of Lys since functionally it had the same sacrifice. It's just shaped like a giant jungle tree rather than a normal Weirwood Heart Tree.
 
[X] Duesal

This is a nice first step for followers of Old Gods and Seven, and maybe even the gods themselves will come to at least tolerate each other. They have to see sense in working together against common enemies such as Winter.
 
Massgamer said:
This is a nice first step for followers of Old Gods and Seven, and maybe even the gods themselves will come to at least tolerate each other. They have to see sense in working together against common enemies such as Winter.
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As long as the Seven have a blood magic hate boner and the Old Gods have their hate boner it aint coming to pass. At best they will work together temporarily and then go back to hating one another.

Edit: We would be the thing stopping the fighting.
 
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[x] Duesal

Love it, it's nice and thematic. Also a big yes on more item sacrifices, now-a-days we're looting so much crap from the Efreeti.
One Autumn Leaf said:
As long as the Seven have a blood magic hate boner and the Old Gods have their hate boner it aint coming to pass. At best they will work together temporarily and then go back to hating one another.
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Temporary things have a way of becoming permanent if they last long enough. We just need to prevent open war until one of the incoming apocalypses really gets going, and the problem should fix itself.

If the Others delay, then it'll probably be war to the knife, but let's hope they don't catch on to that.
 
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Could someone remind me do the Djinn or Shaitan have a designation for magic items so cursed it would cost more to uncurse them than the base is worth? Because we should have enough trust with both to become that service by now right? Even if it is just giving them to their specialists. We could literally pay them for the service.

[x] Duesal
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
As long as the Seven have a blood magic hate boner and the Old Gods have their hate boner it aint coming to pass. At best they will work together temporarily and then go back to hating one another.

Edit: We would be the thing stopping the fighting.
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God's can change. It's usually a process of centuries, but they can be convinced. Lied to. Shown the error of their ways and even feel empathy for lesser beings.

[X] Duesal

Though Yss and the old gods aren't big on empathy to be fair :V
 
065tdsa said:
Temporary things have a way of becoming permanent if they last long enough. We just need to prevent open war until one of our apocalypses really gets going, and the problem should fix itself.
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Gods have long memories. The Old Gods still remember. It has been 4000 years. Unless you think that the apocalypse will last longer than that I sincerely doubt they will forget.
 
065tdsa said:
Depends on whether the Void proper takes the field. If they do, they'll probably do something that makes cutting down weirwoods look like a minor breach of protocol.
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Yeah or they could see that and have the grudge be paid back and they could decide after all is said and done to collect their due. We don't want to wait till after the apocalypse because fighting ones own allies after the end of the world is generally frowned upon. But so is breaking ones word.
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
Gods have long memories. The Old Gods still remember. It has been 4000 years. Unless you think that the apocalypse will last longer than that I sincerely doubt they will forget.
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The Old Gods' rage will lessen once the Seven are humbled.

What we're doing right now is definitely part of humbling the Seven. We're planting Weirwoods in their holy land. They will not be pleased.
 
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Ah, neat. We haven't seen a Soft Strider interlude in a while.
 
Duesal said:
The Old Gods' rage will lessen once the Seven are humbled.

What we're doing right now is definitely part of humbling the Seven. We're planting Weirwoods in their holy land. They will not be pleased.
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I know but ideally I would like to have the humbling done before the fucking apocalypse. I genuinely do not want to have to collect dues after we beat the Void.

Edit: I would rather not rely on the Void being a jackass to change minds here.
 
Duesal said:
The Tree of Lys, which is as big as a Giant Redwood IRL, then the Tree of the Dawn Age in Sorcerer's Deep which is one-thousand feet tall, and the Flesh Forge Tree which IIRC should be as big as the Tree of Lys since functionally it had the same sacrifice. It's just shaped like a giant jungle tree rather than a normal Weirwood Heart Tree.
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Not going to lie. My sense of scale in regards to this quest is real wonky. Dragon king ball too hard. :cool:
 
Duesal said:
The Old Gods' rage will lessen once the Seven are humbled.

What we're doing right now is definitely part of humbling the Seven. We're planting Weirwoods in their holy land. They will not be pleased.
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To be exact, what we're doing is major belief manipulation, to gods who actually depend solely on that. They are going to be mad as hell. Not as mad as the Fae would have been over blatant story manipulation, but just about.
 
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One Autumn Leaf said:
I know but ideally I would like to have the humbling done before the fucking apocalypse. I genuinely do not want to have to collect dues after we beat the Void.

Edit: I would rather not rely on the Void being a jackass to change minds here.
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The Seven will be dealt with way before the apocalypse, rest assured.
Angelazreal1 said:
Not going to lie. My sense of scale in regards to this quest is real wonky. Dragon king ball too hard. :cool:
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It certainly doesn't help that GRRM didn't have a good sense of scale either. :V I'm not sure how true this is, but there's a story circulating that he visited the set of Game of Thrones in the first season and complained that the Wall was way too big... when it was like half as tall as what it was supposed to be and they were going to greenscreen the rest.
 
Duesal said:
It certainly doesn't help that GRRM didn't have a good sense of scale either. :V I'm not sure how true this is, but there's a story circulating that he visited the set of Game of Thrones in the first season and complained that the Wall was way too big... when it was like half as tall as what it was supposed to be and they were going to greenscreen the rest.
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It is a 700ft tall 300 mile long wall. How big is it supposed to be if not absolutely massive.
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
It is a 700ft tall 300 mile long wall. How big is it supposed to be if not absolutely massive.
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It's tall enough that you can't even reliably shoot people when you're standing on top of it.

That said, it works better in this D&D crossover with magic and monsters.

Hell, it would even work in canon ASOIAF if they bother to show the Giant Ice Spiders.
 
Duesal said:
It's tall enough that you can't even reliably shoot people when you're standing on top of it.

That said, it works better in this D&D crossover with magic and monsters.

Hell, it would even work in canon ASOIAF if they bother to show the Giant Ice Spiders.
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Oh yeah shooting spiders that climb the side of the Wall. That sounds absolutely terrifying. You are dangling and looking down held on by some rope and beneath you are Giant Spiders. Fuck that. I am out.
 
Duesal said:
It reminds me of Skyrim. They might not have been the strongest monsters, but hell if they weren't fucking terrifying.
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Especially when they snuck up on you.

Ever read the in game book about harvesting their venom? At the end it shows a graphic depiction of how that will always eventually end....
 
OK vote closed. We are going to see the trees on screen next month, for now back to the intrigue in the Crownlands.
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Sep 26, 2019 at 2:31 PM, finished with 36 posts and 11 votes.
  • [X] The Seven Trees of Andalos
    -[X] Tree of the Father
    --[X] "A fatherly lord's face, stern and commanding."
    --[X] CL 20 Hallow Effect
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 1: Abadar's Truthtelling
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 2: Break Enchantment
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 3: Tongues
    -[X] Tree of the Mother
    --[X] "A noblewoman's face, kind and merciful."
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 1: Heart's Ease
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 2: Panacea —> People are healed, and afterwards they are expected to help tend to the godswood for a month as payment.
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 3: Safe Clearing
    -[X] Tree of the Warrior
    --[X] "A knight's face, unyielding and dutiful."
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 1: Greater Magic Weapon
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 2: Heart of Earth
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 3: Magic Vestment
    -[X] Tree of the Maiden
    --[X] "A maiden's face, comely and innocent."
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 1: Panacea —> People are healed, and afterwards they are expected to help tend to the godswood for a month as payment.
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 2: Positive Energy Aura —> Constantly heals 2 HP per round for the living and causes 2 HP damage to undead.
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 3: Magic Circle Against Evil —> All individuals in range receive the benefits of Protection from Evil.
    -[X] Tree of the Smith
    --[X] "A craftsman's face, eyes sparkling with ingenuity."
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 1: Crafter's Fortune
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 2: Sacred Fox's Cunning —> Boost to skill and ability checks, boost to all learning.
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 3: Keep Watch —> Gain no fatigue but gain the benefit of a full night of rest.
    -[X] Tree of the Crone
    --[X] "A crone's face, her knowing gaze seeming to pin people in place."
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 1: Divine Insight
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 2: Owl's Wisdom
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 3: True Seeing
    -[X] Tree of the Stranger
    --[X] "An unassuming face, yet one that feels eerily unfamiliar."
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 1: Death Ward
    ---[X] Secondary Effect 2: Exorcism
    -[X] Sacrifices
    --[X] Use Fire Giant Greatswords and Fullplates for Day of Change(CL 5 each, four needed per tree, twenty-eight total if none of the sacrifices fail)
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There's a real risk that the next update will be weird then. Imagine things in reader mode : the last update ends with a question which is never answered, but is alluded to in 20 pages.
 
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