I'm sure an old lord at the edge of his deathbed ridden with pestilence would be duly grateful for a round of healing.
Really? You want to reduce a King/Emperor Aenar to someone that makes house calls to provide a bit of healing for folks? That's degrading as hell. No amount of gain is worth it when we will have other ways to get what we want. We're going to be a sorcerous foreigner that is a Blackfyre grandson of Maelys the monstrous. We're going to be a conquering king who in chapter 1 had thoughts of total power and breaking the LPs and Wardens of Westeros. We're going to be more of a villain than a beloved hero/king. Act like it I say.
Although it's best for us to base knowledge on it, healing can come as a form of sacrifice as well.
Yes, we don't know everything to know about magic...only Maz knows but it's safe to assume that healing will do jack shit shit regarding dragons. Play it safe rather than hope for something that nothing backs up.
"Scuse me, but I may have overlooked a few things. What in the ever-loving earth is the One Power?
Magic System of Wheel of Time which this story is a crossover with. Way way way better than ASOIAF magic.
Do we know if thats going to be a thing in this quest? Did Maz say something on Discord? Though given how absurd One Power is, it kind of obsoletes much of ASOIAF magics. And based on past experience, also kill the quest.
Dragon (Ta'veren; Max Learning, ???)
Hmm. I wonder what that ??? could be
An unseen fire sparks in your chest, for an ephemeral moment, you sense the whisper of something immense, profound. Molten earth, glacial sheets rampage. Fades away. A blazing fire just out of sight. A shadow upon your mind. It fades as one might forget a dream.
Think this might be a sign of the One Power? Either way, it should be a thing though I imagine that without any teachers it will take quite some time to get decent with it.
What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of fire and healing? A phoenix probably. A creature of fire that rises from death. Healing magic alone wouldn't do the job, but healing and fire when used on a dragon? Might not be so crazy after all.
Sure, there could be unexpected synergies but I don't think fire and healing would have decent synergy. Not with ASOIAF magic.
Depends on how blatantly we use blood magic. If we were reasonably covert about it and didn't start mass sacrificing people for their blood, we could probably avoid the worst of it. And assuming that we want to make any alliances, we would have to do that anyway.
Sooner or later rumors would get out. Heck, I don't even want to hide that Aenar is a magic user for long. We went with a sorcerer of immense talent...having him hide that is no fun. Time to make magic great again in Westeros. Drag them kicking and screaming to a new glorious age of magic.
Doran was just an example. That being said, it could be useful even for Doran. Getting him to like us personally would still be useful, and also make him more effective due to not being so crippled.
There are other ways to make Doran personally liking us than having to heal him. Sure, healing could get us that but so can plenty of other things. Hell, healing may not even get us to be liked by Doran. People can be complex and while healing him wold improve his life so much...he doesn't have to like us at all.
True, but it greatly increases the chances of it. Even OP wouldn't help if they die far away.
Sure, it would increase the chances of saving someone if we are able to get to them and if it is within our ability in the first place. But I see it as one of those benefits where you don't even know if it will be useful.
We need to be an acceptable king
But Aenar isn't going to be an acceptable king. He's going to be an absolute emperor that breaks the power structure of Westeros.
Glamour alone wouldn't give this to us though. To actually replace a person would require extensive training and high quality information to be able to fake it. Faceless men and glamour is a known thing, so simply looking and sounding like someone wouldn't be enough. You also need the skill in intrigue to fake the personality of the target sufficiently enough, that they have no reason to suspect anything is wrong. The faceless men train hard. They don't just rely on magic.
Glamour also works best when no one knows we have it. Once someone inevitably figures it out even once, the effectiveness will be reduced significantly. If you know your opponent can change appearance, you would take steps to counter that. Distrust of appearance alone. Secret security codes to verify identity. And so on. It's a magic we would have to use with great care, and in limited quantities.
Healing however becomes more useful, the better known we become with it.
Replacing someone with glamor is indeed a terrible use of it. It's much more preferable to use glamor on our men and have them discreetly go around killing people.
