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

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Goldfish said:
/Googles wedding vows

/engages Plagiarization Engine

[X] "I, Viserys, take you, Lya, to be my beloved wife, to have and to hold you, to honor you, to treasure you, to be at your side in sorrow and in joy, in the good times, and in the bad, and to love and cherish you always. I promise you this from my heart, for all the days of my life. I take you as you are, loving who you are now and who you are yet to become. I promise to listen to you and learn from you, to support you and accept your support. I will laugh with you, cry with you, grow with you, and create with you. I will love you and have faith in your love for me, through all our years and all that life may bring us."
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Needs more laughing in the face of the natural order of the world and multiple references to the fact that neither of us intends to die.
 
@Goldfish Maybe I'm just reading too far into it, but those oaths seem pretty possessive when directly given from one party to the other instead of being asked as a sequence of questions by a third party. It might be a good idea to specifically outline each of them asking a question that prompts that response instead of having Viserys just sort of declaring it.
 
BronzeTongue said:
@Goldfish Maybe I'm just reading too far into it, but those oaths seem pretty possessive when directly given from one party to the other instead of being asked as a sequence of questions by a third party. It might be a good idea to specifically outline each of them asking a question that prompts that response instead of having Viserys just sort of declaring it.
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If you want to do that, I'll vote for your version. This really isn't my area of expertise.
 
BronzeTongue said:
@Goldfish Maybe I'm just reading too far into it, but those oaths seem pretty possessive when directly given from one party to the other instead of being asked as a sequence of questions by a third party. It might be a good idea to specifically outline each of them asking a question that prompts that response instead of having Viserys just sort of declaring it.
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This is a wedding, it's fairly normal for vows to be possessive. "You are mine and I am yours"

[X] Goldfish
 
Dragonparadox, by far this has been one of the favourite quests i have been reading and not only does it dwarfs all other entertaining quests but also is written perfectly and is being updated twice per day.
By far this may be one of the best quests so much that new readers could'nt comment on it as they have to read over 17000 pages to even reach the end to interact.Glad that i found this quest.😁👍
 
Ouranous said:
Dragonparadox, by far this has been one of the favourite quests i have been reading and not only does it dwarfs all other entertaining quests but also is written perfectly and is being updated twice per day.
By far this may be one of the best quests so much that new readers could'nt comment on it as they have to read over 17000 pages to even reach the end to interact.Glad that i found this quest.😁👍
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Thanks for the praise. I can't say I agree with this being perfect, or anything close to it but it is nice to hear just the same. Hope you will continue to enjoy it and vote if you have any ideas or suggestions. Always nice to see new faces around.
 
DragonParadox said:
Thanks for the praise. I can't say I agree with this being perfect, or anything close to it but it is nice to hear just the same. Hope you will continue to enjoy it and vote if you have any ideas or suggestions. Always nice to see new faces around.
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I mean it would have been even better with more competent enemy factions in the beginning but the new start from this first turn would make this better. I particularly enjoyed Valyria and the entire lyceos arc was exceptional.I feel we should go to valyria sooner.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jun 7, 2021 at 7:10 AM, finished with 26 posts and 10 votes.
  • [X] "I, Viserys, take you, Lya, to be my beloved wife, to have and to hold you, to honor you, to treasure you, to be at your side in sorrow and in joy, in the good times, and in the bad, and to love and cherish you always. I promise you this from my heart, for all the days of my life. I take you as you are, loving who you are now and who you are yet to become. I promise to listen to you and learn from you, to support you and accept your support. I will laugh with you, cry with you, grow with you, and create with you. I will love you and have faith in your love for me, through all our years and all that life may bring us."
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VISERYS: "I, Viserys, take you, Lya, to be my beloved wife, to have and to hold you, to honor you, to treasure you, to be at your side in sorrow and in joy, in the good times, and in the bad, and to love and cherish you always. I promise you this from my heart, for all the days of my life. I take you as you are, loving who you are now and who you are yet to become. I promise to listen to you and learn from you, to support you and accept your support. I will laugh with you, cry with you, grow with you, and create with you. I will love you and have faith in your love for me, through all our years and all that life may bring us."

LYA, fondly, aside: "Of course his wedding vows are a speech! He's incorrigible!"
 
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Interlude MCCI: When Vows are Spoken
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    • When Vows are Spoken ​

    Twenty-Fifth Day of the Eighth Month 294 AC

    Ser Richard Lonmouth was not a man much given to sentiment. Indeed, he rather suspected there were quite a few people in the Imperium who suspected him of having no more feelings than a Herald or the Harbinger, an instrument of Imperial will and no more than that. Yet as he listened to the words spoken by what was to his reckoning the most powerful man in the world, the knight could not help the tightness in his chest, the urge to blink perhaps a once or twice more than might be expected.

    "I, Viserys, take you, Lya, to be my beloved wife, to have and to hold you, to honor you, to treasure you, to be at your side in sorrow and in joy, in the good times, and in the bad, and to love and cherish you always. I promise you this from my heart, for all the days of my life. I take you as you are, loving who you are now and who you are yet to become. I promise to listen to you and learn from you, to support you and accept your support. I will laugh with you, cry with you, grow with you, and create with you. I will love you and have faith in your love for me, through all our years and all that life may bring us."

    It was a proclamation clear but soft, spoken not for the crowd but for just one other person standing before him. He had come a long way from that day in the broken tower five years ago, and not all of that had been on the path to the crown. The knight had never really felt like a father to the boy who neither needed nor wanted one by the time he realized what sort of man King Aerys had been, but perhaps beneath the reflexive deference that had grown into something altogether more familiar, he could be counted a brother made in blood and fire, and he was glad indeed to see the day had finally come when he would wed the girl he had courted for so long.

    ***​

    "I, Lya, take you, Viserys, as my husband, companion upon the road of life, be it easy or hard, pledging to give what aid of magic and counsel, or will and understanding. All these things and more I give to you freely, and freely will I accept thine vow and pledge. Let us step boldly then upon the path before us, knowing that each of us may lean upon the other at need."

    To Tyene's ear there was still something a little unpolished about the words of her friend, something you might be able to say betrayed a life lived mostly without the expectations of the nobility, although it may have simply been that she did not polish her words with sorcery quite as much as the rest of them. It was hard to tell sometimes, so common had such blessings grown in the budding court, but mostly she was just glad to be able to hear these words and be here to witness them... and gladder still the moment was unshadowed for her.

    In the quiet midnight hours, she had wondered if when the pledges were said and the ceremony complete she might feel some spark of jealousy, some regret for what might have been had the world been different and the choices all of them made years ago other than what they were. She felt nothing of the sort.

    Intellectually, she knew she might have loved Viserys, but it was with the distant understanding one might consider 'I might have been a decent archer if I had kept to those lessons with Nym'. It was not real and never would be, and her heart beat to a tune wholly different.

    She laced her fingers through Waymar's as she watched first the radiant bride and groom, then the watchers behind them. Her eyes fell of Arianne and the young man beside her, looking at once proud and a little lost, as though he could not quite believe he was here with her cousin. It would be so much fun to tease them now that Viserys had gone and proved once and for all that it was acceptable for a high noble to marry a mage... Granted, Denys Trainer would be a lot easier to tease than Ari, but the challenge was what made the latter endeavor worthwhile.

    "In the eyes of Gods and men, we take each other as husband and wife," Lya and Viserys completed the ceremony speaking in unison. Originally they would have placed the crowns on each other's heads as they did so, but the symbolism might have been troublesome given that Viserys was already crowned so they had gone with both of them entering in full regalia, which was in its own way more honest as well.

    Neither of them had been made ruler in some grand ceremony, they had simply grown into it almost out of sight.

    What next?

    [] Turn action
    -[] Write in which

    [] Parting interlude
    -[] Write in PoV

    [] Write in

    OOC: I could not think of what more so say about the exact moment the vows were spoken from the inside, so I went with a bit of an outside PoV. Hopefully it works.
     
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    • DragonParadox said:
    When Vows are Spoken ​

    Twenty-Fifth Day of the Eighth Month 294 AC

    Ser Richard Lonmouth was not a man much given to sentiment. Indeed, he rather suspected there were quite a few people in the Imperium who suspected him of having no more feelings than a Herald or the Harbinger, an instrument of Imperial will and no more than that. Yet as he listened to the words spoken by what was to his reckoning the most powerful man in the world, the knight could not help the tightness in his chest, the urge to blink perhaps a once or twice more than might be expected.

    "I, Viserys, take you, Lya, to be my beloved wife, to have and to hold you, to honor you, to treasure you, to be at your side in sorrow and in joy, in the good times, and in the bad, and to love and cherish you always. I promise you this from my heart, for all the days of my life. I take you as you are, loving who you are now and who you are yet to become. I promise to listen to you and learn from you, to support you and accept your support. I will laugh with you, cry with you, grow with you, and create with you. I will love you and have faith in your love for me, through all our years and all that life may bring us."

    It was a proclamation clear but soft, spoken not for the crowd but for just one other person standing before him. He had come a long way from that day in the broken tower five years ago, and not all of that had been on the path to the crown. The knight had never really felt like a father to the boy who neither needed nor wanted one by the time he realized what sort of man King Aerys had been, but perhaps beneath the reflexive deference that had grown into something altogether more familiar, he could be counted a brother made in blood and fire, and he was glad indeed to see the day had finally come when he would wed the girl he had courted for so long.

    ***​

    "I, Lya, take you, Viserys, as my husband, companion upon the road of life, be it easy or hard, pledging to give what aid of magic and counsel, or will and understanding. All these things and more I give to you freely, and freely will I accept thine vow and pledge. Let us step boldly then upon the path before us, knowing that each of us may lean upon the other at need."

    To Tyene's ear there was still something a little unpolished about the words of her friend, something you might be able to say betrayed a life lived mostly without the expectations of the nobility, although it may have simply been that she did not polish her words with sorcery quite as much as the rest of them. It was hard to tell sometimes, so common had such blessings grown in the budding court, but mostly she was just glad to be able to hear these words and be here to witness them... and gladder still the moment was unshadowed for her.

    In the quiet midnight hours, she had wondered if when the pledges were said and the ceremony complete she might feel some spark of jealousy, some regret for what might have been had the world been different and the choices all of them made years ago other than what they were. She felt nothing of the sort.

    Intellectually, she knew she might have loved Viserys, but it was with the distant understanding one might consider 'I might have been a decent archer if I had kept to those lessons with Nym'. It was not real and never would be, and her heart beat to a tune wholly different.

    She laced her fingers through Waymar's as she watched first the radiant bride and groom, then the watchers behind them. Her eyes fell of Arianne and the young man beside her, looking at once proud and a little lost, as he he could not quite believe he was here with her cousin. It would be so much fun to tease them now that Viserys had gone and proved once and for all that it was acceptable for a high noble to marry a mage... Granted, Denys Trainer would be a lot easier to tease than Ari, but the challenge was what made the latter endeavor worthwhile.

    "In the eyes of Gods and men, we take each other as husband and wife," Lya and Viserys completed the ceremony speaking in unison. Originally they would have placed the crowns on each other's heads as they did so, but the symbolism might have been troublesome given that Viserys was already crowned so they had gone with both of them entering in full regalia, which was in its own way more honest as well.

    Neither of them had been made ruler in some grand ceremony, they had simply grown into it almost out of sight.

    What next?

    [] Turn action
    -[] Write in which

    [] Parting interlude
    -[] Write in PoV

    [] Write in

    OOC: I could not think of what more so say about the exact moment the vows were spoken from the inside, so I went with a bit of an outside PoV. Hopefully it works.
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    Made some additional edits to the chapter, DP.

    That was nice. 🤓
     
    [X] Interlude from the POV of Lya's snooty 'friend' who grew up with her in the temple (assuming she attended the wedding)
     
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