Three days at most and only because the teleportation saves her a bit of time relative to chain plane shift.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Three days at most and only because the teleportation saves her a bit of time relative to chain plane shift.
Goldfish
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With our crafters available, that's enough time for a few specialized pieces for Aife and her entourage.
I'll write it up when I build her character sheet.
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Viserys to literally everyone he gets along with: "It's dangerous to go alone, here take this."
At last!
Ugh ... I got to this ... it was painful to the very end, and MUCH LACK of the result. But I hope it will be better further.
@DragonParadox there is one question that I must ask. What does the "deal" on the part of Lucan include? Does he no longer kill mages who refuse to accept the Seven? Will he stop hunting for Blood Raven agents? He will not mind Faith Militant? Or did we just refuse to act against him for being a cool guy, and can he calmly continue to do what he did before ???
And thanks to everyone for their support, I honestly did not expect it.
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Part MMMDLXXIV: More than a Mystery
More than a Mystery
Second Day of the Second Month 294 AC
Even if you were to close your eyes and stuff your ears with wax you could still feel the weight of the Herald like the warmth of the summer sun on your skin. This is not a being who would profit from the aid of triton warriors nor any mortals she would have to guard and protect in the freezing waters, but there are a few, a handful really, of the mightiest flesh-forged beings who might aid Aife in her journey. Sea serpents and dragon turtles... perhaps even the gilded ones whose scales might reflect her light.
"I offer swift passage to the chill waters and aid from those begotten in the Forge in the Lands of the Sun." The Old Tongue has no word for Sothoryos and it feels like an imposition upon a formal offer to drop a Valyrian word in, but the herald clearly understands your mind as she nods along. "I ask only for a short while more for my mage smiths to craft what wards and protections haste allows..."
"Three days, passage by your sorcery gains me that much time," she interjects.
"Three days," you confirm. "Beyond that know that Sorcerer's Deep will ever be a safe heaven for the Children of the Merling King. Should those in the north need a new home..."
"Then you would see them gathered onto your realm as with the others," the many finned head nods again, veils flickering before its expression. "Before I depart to those far waters there is another debt that must be paid..." she turns back towards the narrow sea cave and breathes out a wave of light, bright as the sun yet gentle upon the eye that newborn could behold them.
No simple spell this, you know, but an act of the divine, a creche for creatures of living waters. It would take more work you know, carving and forging, prayer and song, but a seed has been laid and before this moonturn is out it will sprout into what you asked. The Ferryman might guard the dead, but He has some power at least over the beginnings of things and this is one such moment.
No sooner do you leave the caves that you reach out upon that ethereal thread that binds you to the false seeming of the Spider, to Bloodraven, with news.
"Good fortune on your nameday, Your Grace, may you find success and joy in your path," the distant voice rings in your mind. A year ago he would not have said the words, he would have meant them you are certain, but he would not have availed himself to the familiarity. That knowlege is a comfort all its own beyond the ancient knowlege and unbending will he brings to your cause.
"And to you also, my lord, good fortune," you reply.
"As long as you do not wish it to me on my nameday, I dread keeping track of those," he replies, a shiver of amusement passing through the magic before a more serious tone is settled upon. "What news?"
"They are moving, in the Shivering Sea, though they will not do so unopposed for long..." you begin, recounting all that Aife had told you since her birth as well as an impression of the powers the herald and her company might be able to bring to mind.
"A distraction then perhaps," the Last Greenseer muses. "Good, I can use this. You might have a few more Free Folk to host soon if the wind blows aright." He pauses a moment. "Frozen Shore folk, no more than a few hundred at most, but they will likely be rough around the edges."
It's not hard to guess what he means given the tales of those tribes from other Free Folk. "Serpent-kin eat their own dead too. As long as they keep it to the rites of their own people with assent given beforehand there is no trouble to be had."
"Ahh... sometimes I regret that I cannot see the city you have raised more closely, Your Grace." There is a thread of genuine wistfulness to his words.
"You shall," you reply firmly in parting. "Once all these games are done, you shall."
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OOC: I could not really end the nameday without a few words from the closest thing Viserys has to a father figure and the triton roll gave me the perfect reason.
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He had actually stopped killing mages who did not accept the Seven quite early in his career. As for Bloodraven's agents, well they did more killing of Chosen than the reverse, but yet there is peace there.
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[X] Move on to planning the attack on Sarnor
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[X] Move on to planning the attack on Sarnor
Thank!
Who killed more is a matter of professionalism, and it's clear that nobody can equalize the Blood Raven here. So Faith Militant is still on the agenda.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
Lucan don't do that, he used to do things like that, but Lucan has actually taken a swing towards good, he used to be lawful Neutral doing whatever the Father commanded, but his experiences changed him and made him lawful good, the problem with him is no longer him being a Seven fanatic, it's that he refuse to accept lesser evils for the greater good.
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Brynden will at least be able to rumble around Sorcerer's Deep in his Varys guise short-term, yeah?
The Faith Militant was never really Lucan's first choice, his wants virtuous feudal rule.
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Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.
He could, but he's busy most of the times right now and it would be awkward for 'Varys' to be in SD too often.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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I mostly meant after the Reconquest.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
There is though, if they eat their own dead, they can't be recycled in the Fungus Forge, even a 1HD body, is worth much more than its worth in meat, and the Free folk as stalwart old god worshippers, are people we can be sure are okay, with being sent to the Fungus Forge after death, we must put a stop to these cannibalistic traditions, they threaten our bottomline.