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

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Jack vile Ripper said:
Bah, semantics, she could be called whatever she wants to be. It's not like there's anyone to gainsay her, right?

(P.S. My Latin sucks worth a shit. So I can't actually give a right answer. Maybe she could be called Imperatrix, maybe she could just be called Queen, or maybe we could use the Yi-Tish naming scheme like 'Water-Daughter Crimson Resplendent Reaching the Heavens'.

Or she could just be 'Wisdom Lya' I guess...)
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Thanks for the in-depth and thought-provoking response!

Duesal said:
Definitely Empress, or short of that, Sage. She's far above a mere Wisdom.
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Although to play the devil's advocate, perhaps using an understated title demonstrates such Wisdom (that the title by literal definition ascribes) in practice?

All in all, I think we should ask her what she wants to be titled - or more importantly, what she would like her title to say about herself; so if her title is still insufficiently grandiose then we can find a suitable alternative together.
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Jack vile Ripper said:
I... seriously couldn't tell if you are genuine or just being sarcastic.

But, thank you?
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I assure you my appreciation is entirely sincere - I'm sorry that I didn't make that clearer.

Your answer had much more thought and effort put into it than I had put into the question, raising possibilities that I never would've otherwise conceived.

Even if concerning a relatively small and insignificant matter relative to the rest of the quest I wanted to thank you for the simple kindness of humouring my line for questioning and your competence in doing so.

Just engaging so well with my thoughts in conversation leaves me with a really warm and nice feeling, and its these little yet great things people like you do that can really make the difference to someone's day, even life - and I hope to express that sentiment to you. 🤗
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Aug 3, 2020 at 7:14 AM, finished with 44 posts and 11 votes.
  • [X] Sarnath
    -[X] You call upon the gathered might of the 3rd, 5th, 6th and 7th Legions, transported using your Demiplane, along with the already present 1st, 8th and 9th Legions. You do not want a host of that size at your back, and would prefer to destroy it before hunting down any stragglers.
    --[X] You will have more Celestial Brilliance banners (240 more) made by Dany and Malarys to give your entire army protection from swarms, darkness, other undead and fiends.
    ---[X] After organizing everyone already at Sallosh, you will obviously simply transport them and the other Legions from their present location to somewhere closer to the enemy army via your Demiplane gateways, preferentially with enough distance to form a battle plan at least a day in advance of any contact with them, unnatural storms or no. That shouldn't be too difficult, as it is hard to hide where you are keeping one of them.
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DragonParadox said:
Does anyone remember the update where Viserys first met a Myrkdreki dragon? I can't find it for some reason and I want to do the scouting from that dragon's PoV.
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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover In a world where magic has all but guttered to ashes, becoming the fare of charlatans, petty conjurers, and ragged illusionists, a mighty change is stirring. From small and fragile sparks a great blaze will be reborn and men will...
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Aug 3, 2020 at 7:14 AM, finished with 44 posts and 11 votes.
  • [X] Sarnath
    -[X] You call upon the gathered might of the 3rd, 5th, 6th and 7th Legions, transported using your Demiplane, along with the already present 1st, 8th and 9th Legions. You do not want a host of that size at your back, and would prefer to destroy it before hunting down any stragglers.
    --[X] You will have more Celestial Brilliance banners (240 more) made by Dany and Malarys to give your entire army protection from swarms, darkness, other undead and fiends.
    ---[X] After organizing everyone already at Sallosh, you will obviously simply transport them and the other Legions from their present location to somewhere closer to the enemy army via your Demiplane gateways, preferentially with enough distance to form a battle plan at least a day in advance of any contact with them, unnatural storms or no. That shouldn't be too difficult, as it is hard to hide where you are keeping one of them.
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Interlude DCCCLXII: Elder Death and Deeper Darkness
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    • Elder Death and Deeper Darkness ​

    Twenty-Third Day of the Second Month 294 AC

    Most mortal beings upon being made the object of direct divine displeasure would go out of their way to avoid engendering such attention again. Thankfully dragons were a breed apart and those such as Osryx even more so. Why fear the nights where your flesh is knit of it, why fear death when your bones sing of it? As he rode the night winds over the Plains of Sarnor away from the glittering camp of the legions the dragon found himself intrigued. What would it mean to devour the flesh of a withered god, to sup upon its blood? His 'father' would doubtless think him overbold, his 'mother' perhaps a touch too precocious, but in the end was it not the privilege of dragons to dream?

    Truth be told Osryx was quite glad to escape the glare of the golden banners, they did not harm him as they did the living dead, but it still itched behind his eyes to look at them. It is not as though the the camp needed him to guard it regardless. Though the land this close to the Sarne was flat as rice paper the King had managed to find a few mounds peeking out of the long grasses. They made excellent positions for artillery emplacements.

    Did they realize those were graves, the dragon wondered idly, graves from a time long before the Tall Men had come to these lands, and ones that had laid undisturbed even as the hand of death reached over the land? He could feel those sleeping below. They approved of the unmaking of the seed of Huzhor Amai.

    If men were not as blind to death beside them then they would never again be able to sleep, the dragon chuckled darkly to himself. Still, as amusing as it might be to keep that detail to himself the Hairy Men might object when the hosts of Sathar were brought close and the King would not take well to being blindsided. "Little cousin, seek the ear of the King and tell him the dead older than Sathar slumbers beneath the feet of the Legion."

    "You know I'm older than you, right?" Nizuss hissed, trying and failing to hide his annoyance.

    "But you are so very much smaller," Osryx replied innocently.

    Alas that he did not have long to ponder his cousin's amusement or whatever trickery or jest he might attempt in retaliation, entertaining as those were. He had an enemy army to find.

    You have discovered that the position you chose to muster at is the site of an ancient funerary complex of the Hairy Men. It seems quiet for now, perhaps even approving according to Osryx, but that may change.

    What do you do?

    [] Try to commune with the spirits
    -[] Write in with whom

    [] Move, given enough time you can make hills and the enemy does not look like it is in a hurry to attack

    [] Write in

    ***​

    Much of the enemy hosts, mostly the least of the dead with a handful of overseers, were encamped outside the walls of Sarnath proper under tattered banners that marked both the hosts of Gornath and ostensibly of House Alexi of Sarnath. A less keen eye might have missed the threads of darkness woven into the banners among the vast rows of the dead, a hundred thousand and more strong. Not so Osryx who noticed them and he knew the shadow magic staining them even at the height of midday. The darkness of some other realm could be raised here, making it so the living suffered with every breath even as they struggled to see through the veil of shadows.

    The too bright banners should be able to counter them if brought close, but as each would struggle against the other the rats would doubtless feed.

    What do you do about the banners?

    [] Try to sabotage them somehow before the battle begins
    -[] Write in

    [] Advance, there is only chaff before the walls and your mages should be more than skilled enough to remove the banners before the battle proper starts

    [] Try to goad the enemy into acting
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: All the legions have been moved as directed in the above plan without any issue, there did not seem much point in showing that happening on screen. You are near the enemy and it looks like Gornath and Sarnath are moving as one.
     
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    Elder Death and Deeper Darkness ​

    Twenty-First Third of the Second Month 294 AC

    Most mortal beings, upon being made the object of direct divine displeasure, would go out of their way to avoid engendering such attention again. Thankfully, dragons were a breed apart, and those such as Osryx even more so. Why fear the nights when your flesh is knit of it, why fear death when your bones sing of it? As he rode the night winds over the Planes of Sarnor away from the glittering camp of the legions, the dragon found himself intrigued. What would it mean to devour the flesh of a withered god, to sup upon its blood. His 'father' would doubtless think him overbold, his 'mother' perhaps a touch too precocious, but in the end was it not the privilege of dragons to dream?

    Truth be told, Osryx was quite glad to escape the glare of the golden banners. They did not harm him as they did the living dead, but it still itched behind his eyes to look at them. It was not as though the the camp needed him to guard it regardless. Though the land this close to the Sarne was flat as rice paper, the king had managed to find a few mounds peeking out of the long grasses. They made excellent artillery emplacements.

    Did they realize those were graves, the dragon wondered idly, graves from a time long before the Tall Men had come to these lands, graves that had laid undisturbed even as the hand of death reached over the land. He could feel those sleeping below. They approved of the unmaking of the seed of Huzhor Amai.

    If men were not as blind to death beside them, they would never again be able to sleep, the dragon chuckled darkly to himself. Still as amusing as it might be to keep that detail to himself, the Hairy Men might object when the hosts of Sathar were brought close and the king would not take well to being blindsided. "Little cousin, seek the ear of the king and tell him that dead older than Sathar slumber beneath the feet of the legion."

    "You know I'm older than you, right?" Nizuss hissed, trying and failing to hide his anoyance.

    "But you are so very much smaller," Osryx replied innocently.

    Alas, he did not have long to ponder his cousin's amusement or whatever trickery or jest he might attempt in retaliation, entertaining as those were. He had an enemy army to find.

    You have discovered that the position you chose to muster is the site of an ancient funerary complex of the Hairy Men. It seems quiet for now, perhaps even approving according to Osryx, but that may change.

    What do you do?

    [] Try to commune with the spirits
    -[] Write in with whom

    [] Move, given enough time you can make hills and the enemy does not look like it is in a hurry to attack

    [] Write in

    ***​

    Much of the enemy hosts, mostly the least of the dead with a leveling of overseers, were encamped outside the walls of Sarnath proper under tattered banners that marked both the hosts of Gornath and ostensibly of House Alexi of Sarnath. A less keen eye might have missed the threads of darkness woven into the banners among the vast rows of dead, a hundred thousand and more strong. Not so Osryx, who noticed them and he knew the shadow magic staining them even at the height of mid day. The darkness of some other realm could be raised here making it so the living suffered with every breath even as they struggled to see through the pal of shadows.

    The too bright banners should be able to counter them if brought close, but as each would struggle against the other the rats would doubtless feed.

    What do you do about the banners?

    [] Try to sabotage them somehow before the battle begins
    -[] Write in

    [] Advance there is only chaff before the walls and your mages should be more than skilled enough to remove the banners before the battle proper starts

    [] Try to goad the enemy into acting
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: All the legions have been moved as the above plan without any issue, there did not seem much point in showing that happening on screen. You are near the enemy and it looks like Gornath and Sarnath are moving as one. Not yet edited.
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    Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.

    Highlighted the date. Not sure if it should be 21st or 23rd.
     
    Duesal said:
    Definitely sabotaging that. We don't want to lose half our Legion to fucking rat swarms.
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    We have 55 servitors with us able to use Sunburst 1/day, not to mention those among our Companions who can use it, too. Among its various effects, Sunburat Dispels darkness effects of 8th level and lower. Damning Darkness is only 4th level.

    Just those 55 Sunbursts can cover a battle front 8,800 feet long, Dispelling the banners while inflicting high damage to every Undead in the area.
     
    Goldfish said:
    We have 55 servitors with us able to use Sunburst 1/day, not to mention those among our Companions who can use it, too. Among its various effects, Sunburat Dispels darkness effects of 8th level and lower. Damning Darkness is only 4th level.

    Just those 55 Sunbursts can cover a battle front 8,800 feet long, Dispelling the banners while inflicting high damage to every Undead in the area.
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    Viserys: *Has everyone dispel the Damning Darkness*
    The Undead: "Okay, Zoomer".
    *Proceed to activate the banners again*

    Jokes aside, don't forget they have powers of both God and Anime Divine Fart-Cloud and Void on their side.
    We better be thorough.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    What do you do about the banners?

    [] Try to sabotage them somehow before the battle begins
    -[] Write in

    [] Advance there is only chaff before the walls and your mages should be more than skilled enough to remove the banners before the battle proper starts

    [] Try to goad the enemy into acting
    -[] Write in
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    The reason why this strategy doesn't work and the enemy must advance to meet us is because we outrange them significantly enough to impress urgency to close with our forces. We can bombard wherever the darkness banners are until they burn up from over half a kilometer away with reasonable accuracy, or saturation bombardment from further than that and instead say FUCK ALL THE DARKNESS IN THIS GENERAL DIRECTION.

    I say do that until they get the picture and advance at our host. And in the meantime, when they close with our forces, we can use a higher grade Light spell like we used against that spell the Other champion cast. That should overpower their darkness banners, @DragonParadox?
     
    [X] Try to commune with the spirits
    -[X] Dany and Queen Naamaru

    [X] You will have your plant servitors ready to drop carefully coordinated Sunburst spells where the banners are present after they enemy comes into range of your army. You will goad them into advancing via long-range bombardment, specifically attempting to destroy banners long before they get there with the forty some aircraft-mounted steam cannons at your disposal.
    -[X] Whatever doesn't get dispelled by Sunbursts, you will use the strongest darkness dispelling magic at your disposal to eliminate that which remains.
     
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