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

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I kinda want to open up all of them just for the POV potential to be honest. :p

Though to be honest I think only opening up Sorthoryos is a bad idea since most don't have what it takes to survive environment of even normal living things.
 
[X] The Old Rhoynar Lands
[X] The Sarnory Lands

[X] The Valyrian Borderlands and Sothoryos
-[X] Preference toward those who demonstrate martial capabilities which meet the standards of existing March lords and local warrior-nobility. If Houses are sending their inexperienced third sons expecting easy wealth and added prestige, be bluntly honest about what they should actually expect and suggest a more experienced scion who's had time to get acclimated to good equipment and experience dealing with at least some minor esoteric threats beforehand.
 
[X] The Old Rhoynar Lands
[X] The Sarnory Lands

[X] The Valyrian Borderlands and Sothoryos
-[X] Preference toward those who demonstrate martial capabilities which meet the standards of existing March lords and local warrior-nobility. If Houses are sending their inexperienced third sons expecting easy wealth and added prestige, be bluntly honest about what they should actually expect and suggest a more experienced scion who's had time to get acclimated to good equipment and experience dealing with at least some minor esoteric threats beforehand

DragonParadox said:
Bolton is very hard to read because he does not have many tells. To put this into perspective, you can be an expert decoder, if you have just three syllables in front of you there is no way you are getting the whole language.
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I doubt he has less than beings like elementals or devils. He is still human after all.
 
Crake said:
[X] The Old Rhoynar Lands
[X] The Sarnory Lands

[X] The Valyrian Borderlands and Sothoryos
-[X] Preference toward those who demonstrate martial capabilities which meet the standards of existing March lords and local warrior-nobility. If Houses are sending their inexperienced third sons expecting easy wealth and added prestige, be bluntly honest about what they should actually expect and suggest a more experienced scion who's had time to get acclimated to good equipment and experience dealing with at least some minor esoteric threats beforehand.
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Sure about Sothyros?
It's so far from home, not just with weird dangers, but also with totally different climatic conditions, flora and fauna.

Like, maybe it would be better to letter more adjusted people, like the snake-people or the creatures that inhabited the Fleshforge before we came spread out over that continent.
 
Acolyte said:
I doubt he has less than beings like elementals or devils. He is still human after all.
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We also can't get much from him because he rarely talks or takes the centerpoint in any conversation.

He very likely does not have the Bluff to lie to us, or fake a particular emotion, but if he just sits there, stone-faced and with few words, we simply don't have much to work from.
 
Artemis1992 said:
We also can't get much from him because he rarely talks or takes the centerpoint in any conversation.

He very likely does not have the Bluff to lie to us, or fake a particular emotion, but if he just sits there, stone-faced and with few words, we simply don't have much to work from.
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That's such a bitch move genuinely expected better from Bolton. Step up man.
 
DragonParadox said:
Managing Expectations ​

Twentieth Day of the Tenth Month 294 AC

Henrik the Younger, once maester Henrick, at times marveled at the sight outside his window. Oh, not at the enormous tree tall as a pillar of white and red piercing the sky, nor at the clouds being shepherded across the sky like placid sheep by a spirit some worshiped as a god. No, he marveled at the fate that had lead him to this city and this task after he had left Oldtown in haste, hands trembling in terror, hoping against hope that the new Seneschal of the Citadel would not follow him, that he would not have to speak to the madman who had destroyed the order.

With the benefit of hindsight, of course, he would be amazed if Qyburn even knew his name, much less carried a grudge against a man who had been a glorified secretary for Archmaester Prestan. What secrets did he know that other more senior members of his order who had seemingly vanished without a trace did not?

It had only been in the aftermath of his panicked flight that he realized his coin would not last him more than a month or two of decent living, after which he had but a scribe's meager skills to offer in taverns and alehouses to unlettered oafs. And that would likely have been his fate if he had not spotted a request for 'lettered folk, knowing both the Common Tongue and High Valyrain' literally nailed to the wall outside the inn he was staying in. From there it had been a winding but ever climbing road to realizing that as terrifying as the specter of the Dragon still loomed in his thoughts, the realm he was building was far from the tyrannical mageocracy rumor had painted it as.

Either that or I'm a tyrant's lackey who finds comfort in it. Henrik had read enough of history to know that was very much an option, but he did not let it bother him overmuch. If he had been bold and willing to gamble with his life, he would have taken on a knight's surcoat, not a maester's robes. Still, he had been surprised when he had been promoted to the rank of Adjunct Director of the new office of Land Management, an institution that would be handling more public wealth in the form of land grants than he could even really imagine. True, even among his peers the former maester had been well-known for his knowledge of heraldry and easy way with the highborn, yet he could not help but wonder if they knew he had ran from Oltdown, so he asked around, particularly of his new superior.

***​

The answer came the next day in the form of a raven knocking on the window of his apartment bearing the seal of the book and sword.

'You have passed the background check with no issue. Relocating from one city within the Imperium is of no concern to us or to His Majesty.' It took two stiff drinks to make his hands stop shaking, but by the third one he was toasting the wall, and any unseen watchers nearby. He had gotten the job, after all, more prestigious and better paying than anything he had ever had in his life. Without the weight of the chain around his neck, he could make a new life here, perhaps even start a family. A few years from now he might even tell the story of his flight as amusing after dinner conversation... or maybe a few decades. For now he had work to do, assessments to write on what criteria would be reasonable and useful to use for each marchland.

Office of Land Management: 80 (Success)

What border lands do you open for knightly land grants?

[] The Old Rhoynar Lands

[] The Sarnory Lands

[] The Valyrian Borders

[] Sothoryos

[] Write in

OOC: The more you open the more the nobility will like you, however if you open too many dangerous places and their children start dying in job lots that goodwill will turn sour fast.
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Made some additional edits to the chapter, DP.

Haha, if we open up Sothoryos, most of the new tenants will probably be dead within the year, but we might end up with Dinosaur-riding knights sooner than expected.
 
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[X] All of those lands except one, with the understanding that any fuckups will be sent to Sothoryos
-[X] Include a "dossier" of the dangers of Sothoryos consisting only of one page with the word "Everything."
 
[X] Crake

We should add that we will open up more in the future for dedicated explorers, and prospectors. However we should make a note how dangerous these places are.

I would like to go back to the post about pollution.
I think we can allow more development if we create an agency that monitors pollution levels and determines the carrying capacity for each type of development in the area.
What I mean is, we should allow the people of the imperium to create more furnaces, forges, etc., if the environment around them can withstand the impact. Lets do some research on this and have a session with Howland in the future negotiating lesser restrictions

I feel like the result of the vote before felt like a no and was a bit too hard on them to make such a strong reaction. We need to allow more development and industry too. The question is how much?
 
[X] The Old Rhoynar Lands
[X] The Sarnory Lands

[X] The Valyrian Borderlands and Sothoryos
-[X] Preference toward those who demonstrate martial capabilities which meet the standards of existing March lords and local warrior-nobility. If Houses are sending their inexperienced third sons expecting easy wealth and added prestige, be bluntly honest about what they should actually expect and suggest a more experienced scion who's had time to get acclimated to good equipment and experience dealing with at least some minor esoteric threats beforehand
 
quelthias said:
[X] Crake

We should add that we will open up more in the future for dedicated explorers, and prospectors. However we should make a note how dangerous these places are.

I would like to go back to the post about pollution.
I think we can allow more development if we create an agency that monitors pollution levels and determines the carrying capacity for each type of development in the area.
What I mean is, we should allow the people of the imperium to create more furnaces, forges, etc., if the environment around them can withstand the impact. Lets do some research on this and have a session with Howland in the future negotiating lesser restrictions

I feel like the result of the vote before felt like a no and was a bit too hard on them to make such a strong reaction. We need to allow more development and industry too. The question is how much?
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It should be noted that you guys do not really have the tools to monitor pollution right now other than the Mark I Eyeball. Technically a spell could be made to keep track of airborne contaminants, but right now no such thing exists.
 
DragonParadox said:
It should be noted that you guys do not really have the tools to monitor pollution right now other than the Mark I Eyeball. Technically a spell could be made to keep track of airborne contaminants, but right now no such thing exists.
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In that case eyeballs and plants will do. Create a development permit process. Have Softstrider and vee hire some druids/hedge mages and assistants to survey the land and determine how many forges can be safely built and what size. Perhaps changing the design as well (taller smokestacks) while affecting a larger area will be less harmful to the local area. Even if we don't have the tools yet we can still measure the immediate affects by talking to the plants and look at the macro affects on trees/shrubs.
 
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