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

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Azel said:
That requires enumerating our possessions as if they were different distinct entities though, when all they are is parts of the Imperium.
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I honestly like the line the most and its for that exact reason. It hammers in the fact that there is one and shall only be One Imperium and Imperator
 
Azel said:
That requires enumerating our possessions as if they were different distinct entities though, when all they are is parts of the Imperium.
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Those titles are generally rather bland, anyway. The cool titles are the ones I want to keep, and you get those by wrecking high-CR foes, reshaping the landscape, and/or doing the kind of stunts that earn you Mythic Ranks. Please tell me we won't be entirely giving up on that sort of "unofficial" title?
Being able to whip out a few next time we meet with the Sultana would be great. A bunch of her titles are of that sort, so it should be fine.
 
TalonofAnathrax said:
Those titles are generally rather bland, anyway. The cool titles are the ones I want to keep, and you get those by wrecking high-CR foes, reshaping the landscape, and/or doing the kind of stunts that earn you Mythic Ranks. Please tell me we won't be entirely giving up on that sort of "unofficial" title?
Being able to whip out a few next time we meet with the Sultana would be great. A bunch of her titles are of that sort, so it should be fine.
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Those titles are different and I absolutely don't intend to drop them. I'm only talking about this "Archon of Tyrosh, Archon of Lys, Duke of Dragonstone, Protector of the Tench, Saint of the Matjes Sellers" stuff. Enumerating every bit of dirt you own just feels needy to me. Enumerating the gods you teabagged radiates sovereignty though.
 
Azel said:
That requires enumerating our possessions as if they were different distinct entities though, when all they are is parts of the Imperium.
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Azel said:
Those titles are different and I absolutely don't intend to drop them. I'm only talking about this "Archon of Tyrosh, Archon of Lys, Duke of Dragonstone, Protector of the Tench, Saint of the Matjes Sellers" stuff. Enumerating every bit of dirt you own just feels needy to me. Enumerating the gods you teabagged radiates sovereignty though.
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Oh, those I don't care about. I only cared about the awesome titles like @TalonofAnathrax was talking about.
 
I am pretty fond of the Emperor of Red Talons that Dusk Dancer dubbed us with. Now that title sounds badass.
 
Duesal said:
I am pretty fond of the Emperor of Red Talons that Dusk Dancer dubbed us with. Now that title sounds badass.
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It's a bit embarassing to get your ass kicked by just "the kid that no one picked for their team in gym throne" who "leaned over and whispered in lords ears don't come to school next week to raise their banners for him".
 
[X] Azel

If we wants to name the Imperium after us but not Targaryen maybe use directly Viserys, with something like 'The Viseryan Imperium'.
 
[X] Azel

Watch as in several millenia, the Imperium will just be colloquially recognised as "The Empire".
 
OK things look pretty settled.

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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jan 29, 2021 at 9:23 AM, finished with 61 posts and 20 votes.
  • [X] Plan Showmanship
    -[X] Preparation:
    --[X] Have the main axis through SD from the harbor to the Imperial Palace prepared for a parade.
    --[X] That includes food, drink and souvernier stalls along the route and ample seating.
    --[X] The mobile Mirror Vision mirror we keep in reserve is installed on the Great Bazaar for maximum viewership.
    --[X] Make new figurines and prepare to have them distributed before and after the parade.
    --[X] Load the bomb bays of all Wyverns that take part int he parade with colored paper (confetti, which should be an entirely new concept).
    --[X] Have a small group of every Legion (about 100 soldiers in total, with 20 of those mounted) brought to SD.
    --[X] Bring all lords to SD at least one day before and arrange that everyone has a horse and a banner with their houses sigil.
    -[X] Parade:
    --[X] The day starts with the delegations of the Legion marching in parade formation to the palace.
    --[X] After the Legion come the Knights Griffon, the Harbinger with a few Heralds and delegates of the two Darkenbeast companies.
    --[X] Then come the dragonriders, led by Varys on Balerion, followed by a small delegation of Archons and Erinyes.
    --[X] Last part of the aerial group will be our sentient dragons, separated from the Valyrian dragons by the Archon and Erinyes group to make the distinction more obvious.
    --[X] Next comes a small group of Praetori accompanied by Warstriders for the Palace Guard, while the remainder of the Palace Guard secures the Great Plaza at the palace.
    --[X] Now come the lords of Westeros and Essos, ranked roughly by imperial favour, each one riding on a horse while a standard bearer walks along and holds their banner aloft.
    ---[X] Leading are Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne; Ferrengo Antario, Sealord of Braavos; and Zherys, Archon of Volantis.
    ---[X] Make sure that Walder Frey is placed significantly before Hoster Tully, and Roose Bolton before Ned Stark.
    --[X] After the lords are through an area, the parade route is opened so that the population can start using the streets again.
    --[X] During the whole procession, the Wyverns will make fly-bys in formation, dropping confetti ocassionally.
    --[X] When the lords are on the last stretch of the parade going from the Temple of Unity to the Imperial Palace, the capital vessels of the Imperial Airforce will raise from the waters of the harbor, the Dauntless taking the lead, followed by the three Moonchaser-class vessels and the two Gladius-class vessels.
    --[X] They will slowly fly towards the Imperial Palace and take position above it while the Wyverns and Manticores show off some figure flying.
    --[X] Once the respective parts of the parade arrive at the Imperial Palace, the military units will stand in formation on the Great Plaza flanking the way to the main doors, while the lords will dismount and be ushered into the palace.
    -[X] Coronation:
    --[X] The lords will be ushered into the throne room, filling the floor reserved for the petitioners.
    --[X] The balconies will be filled by their kin, attendants, the Imperial Council and the highest ranking officials (Alinor, Garin, Malarys, Taena and their entourages), with left-over space going to influential families from Westeros and Essos.
    --[X] While the lords still filter in, Viserys will stand at the foot of the stairs leading to the throne, flanked by Lya, Dany and Richard.
    --[X] Once all are inside, that small group will begin ascending to the throne.
    --[X] Dany, Lya and Richard will stop shortly before reaching the dais on which the throne stand, taking up formation as if guarding Viserys, while he climbs on.
    --[X] Viserys stands before the throne, gives a speech, crowns himself as Imperator Viserys, the realm itself simply called Imperium Sempiternum (Eternal Empire), eschewing any other titles as they are now beneath him.
    --[X] One by one, the lords step forward to swear their allegiance, followed by the leaders of the military doing the same.
    --[X] Once all is done, Viserys will give another speech, thanking the lords of their allegiance and gifts, then ordering the pacification of the western provinces, to start on the next day.
    [X] Azel but Targaryen Empire for the name
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Interlude CMXCII: From the Sunrise Lands
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    • From the Sunrise Lands ​

    Twenty-Fifth Day of the Fourth Month 294 AC

    Above the Narrow Sea, Military Perimeter

    Wyvern pilots newly arrived from the hell of the War of Two Flames were not the sort inclined to assign innocent explanations to strange occurrences, two months of battling the ever-tricksome fey had taught them that lesson, but even they were startled into brief immobility to see what looked to be a herd of sky-horse, some black as storm clouds, some pink as the first rays of dawn, some white as driven snow ride across the sky from the northeast.

    The party atop it was small, no more than five figures in flowing robes adorned with amber and jade and bearing with them an unmistakable air of arcane power that only those who had by one method or another mastered the higher cycles of magic could hold. That aloof air took something of a bend when a squadron of Wyverns surrounded them on the approach to the capital calling for identification and commanding that they land away from the city

    The young woman robed in orange and red who was least startled by the interjection replied with as much dignity as one shouting of a metal ship with its weapons ready "I am Pol Ning, sister of the Son of Heaven, Pol Qo, Emperor of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti. I come in peace bearing words and gifts for your dragon king. I offer deep apologies for the thoughtlessness of coming unheralded thus, but we know little of your ways or courtosies, much less of what manner of guards might greet us here."

    By the visitors had landed at Westheaven the news had reached a member of the diplomatic corps and set that worthy was already sweating buckets and cursing up a small storm to go with it. He would have preferred the attack the pilots had suspected to an envoy from an emperor the realm did not formally recognize, much less one who had some sort of Scholarum contacts. At least they did not seem to mind answering questions from the legion, that was something as far as shows of good faith went still the note before him remained stubbornly opaque.

    Former rebels who had been taken into Imperial service, the brief message from the Inquisition with the air of 'need to know' heavy about it read.

    Nothing for it then. Even he would have to send word to the keep to come and fetch their new... guests, for whatever one did with envoys from rebels of a friendly but not allied realm.

    Pol Ning has arrived with an escort, bearing well wishes and gifts for your coronation. What do you do?

    [] Accept them
    -[] In full, the conflicts of Yi Ti are none of your concern
    -[] As honored guests, but refuse to recognize the Orange's Emperor's royal ambitions

    [] Reject them

    [] Write in

    OOC: Edits done to take into account that your divinations would have seen a teleport beforehand.
     
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    • DragonParadox said:
    From the Sunrise Lands ​

    Twenty-Fifth Day of the Fifth Month 294 AC

    It was a mark of how strange Sorcerer's Deep could be that onlookers did not initially pay much mind to the man garbed in strands of many colored silk, shell blue and rose pink that shimmered and shifted in the dawn light like a fairy's wings. That the man's features marked him as heralding from far off Yi Ti was barely worth noting. Uncommon yes, but hardly more so than the silver-furred Little Valyrians stuttering along the high road with the newest issue of the Imperial Times or the flickering gold of Lantern Archons congregating around the temple of the Weeper...

    It was only when the man started carefully assembling what looked like an arc of colored paper, twisted and twined masterfully into shape, the whole edifice taller than his own six and a half feet, that people started to take note. The man did not heed their questions, continuing his strange craft, strand by strand and twist by twist. When one of the Singers who had been delivering packs of wild herbs and mushrooms to the Silver Pitcher Inn just down the road from the baths drew close, he heard the unmistakable cadences of spellcraft, though he knew not this particular tongue of the Latecomers.

    That was enough to draw more pointed questions. It was enough to draw alarm, but before the nearest lawman could be summoned, the mage completed his spell, an invocation of the swift traveling wind kami, those who loved the high airs over the sea. The arc, the gate, glowed sea green and shimmering silver by turn, and from its depths emerged a procession which had first stepped into the gate in far off Trader Town.

    "Halt and be recognized!" the grey haired lawman called out, gasping slightly. It couldn't be a cultist. Cultists worked in the shadows to bring down the Empire and all right thinking souls, they didn't just spin magic in the middle of the street.

    The young woman robed in orange and red who had passed through the gate first turned to the gate maker and asked something sharply before raising a hand to show she was unarmed, for whatever use that made when taking about mages. "I am Pol Ning, sister of the Son of Heaven, Pol Qo, Emperor of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti. I come bearing words and gifts for your dragon king. I offer deep apologies for the thoughtlessness of the Opener of Ways."

    By the time news got to a member of the diplomatic corps, that worthy was already sweating buckets and cursing up a small storm to go with it. He would have preferred a demonic invasion over an envoy from an emperor the realm did not formally recognize, much less one who had some sort of Scholarum contacts.

    Former rebels who had been taken into Imperial service, the brief note from the Inquisition with the air of 'need to know' heavy about it read.

    Nothing for it then. Even he would have to send word to the keep to come and fetch their new... guests, for whatever one did with envoys from rebels of a friendly but not allied realm.

    Pol Ning has arrived with an escort, bearing well wishes and gifts for your coronation. What do you do?

    [] Accept them
    -[] In full, the conflicts of Yi Ti are none of your concern
    -[] As honored guests, but refuse to recognize the Orange's Emperor's royal ambitions

    [] Reject them

    [] Write in

    OOC: You guys were wondering what Ning was doing once her betrothed died...
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    Made some additional edits to the chapter, DP.
     
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