Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
Yes, Viserys' train of thought indicated it would require a dedicated action, like Amrelath.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Yes, Viserys' train of thought indicated it would require a dedicated action, like Amrelath.
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- France
I do wonder what he's doing now. Is he just sitting around in that tower hoping we won't forget about him?
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
I think we brought him back and secreted him away for now, Viserys' train of thought also indicated that it wouldn't be too difficult to hide him considering we've hidden a Dracolich before, among other things that go bump in the night.
Paradosi
Myrddin
- Location
- VV Cephei
How does Viserys feel knowing his city has now just grown incrementally larger than either Gulltown or White Harbor, two of only five cities in Westeros?
Perhaps not Gulltown, as some estimates put it at around 60k or thereabouts. Unless by incrementally larger you mean how quickly SD has grown, and in that case, I'd say we've even got Braavos and Volantis beat.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
Perhaps not Gulltown, as some estimates put it at around 60k or thereabouts. Unless by incrementally larger you mean how quickly SD has grown, and in that case, I'd say we've even got Braavos and Volantis beat.
The former, and yeah, I realized that White Harbor was estimated to be around 50K, and thus Gulltown was probably bigger (though how much I am dubious about, the Vale isn't regarded as being thinly populated whereas the North certainly is (possibly just for its relative size, though either way it is woefully underutilized and exploited), but I wouldn't imagine their city to be much larger than Gulltown either. With that said with it being on the southern coast of the Vale, it probably had enough opportunity for people to be drawn in by trade and stuff.
It's probably 60-80K, I would be baffled if it was more than that.
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- United States
Huh. I wonder what his impression of us would be. I had him in the Lannister camp as his house fit the turncloak MO like a glove, but they are sworn to Dragonstone and I imagine he might be hesitant to tango with us for a second time.
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Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
His impression, if you've penned him as Lannister flunky (or at least trying to ingratiate his way up the social ladder) is that he finds actually picking a fight with Viserys the height of stupidity. He has had a chance to vaguely estimate where our power was when the Royal Fleet came (we took a few people with us and forced them into surrender. Without their Marid (who fled) we could have safely dropped fireballs on them, sunk the fleet, or scattered them in fear for their lives.
Now if you assume that it is common knowledge that Viserys has grown several orders of magnitude more powerful in his arcane arts, if he even gives that stuff much thought (he is Westerosi) other than fear and superstition... which isn't a given.
Then he would probably be straddling the line a bit between "sucking up to the Lannisters" and "trying to become a fixture at court". It's probably safe to assume someone who ransomed most of his enemies who came to wreck his fief back when it wasn't so well defended that he'd spare people just trying to score points with the local despot. "Everyone does it", Westerosi lords think.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
What're you going to do with the MaA? Probably don't need all 20,000 not explicitly serving as a garrison to do that. I guess -4,000 for a garrison in Tolos, Mantarys, Lys and Myr, but still. That x2 training time modifier (400 per center) ain't no joke.
Edit: I guess starting with the Levies first actually makes sense, since the MaA can actually fight decently right now, and turning "useless pig farmers with spears" into STEEL SPINED MOTHERFUCKERS is a better use of the facilities.
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- ?????????
The one who used a firebolt staff at Tyrosh and one shot a demon
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- United States
Drawing a blank here...
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- France
Oh, the guy in my Omake?
That dude certainly wasn't Valyrian!
He's got Valyrian blood (like half of Lys), but he was born in a free city or something. Honestly he's just a grouchy old geezer who didn't lose his ambition when he lost his teeth.
He probably fought in Lys again and is pissed he didn't gain a level. But as long as he isn't dead, there's still hope! Scholarum education doesn't hide the possibility of a second youth through divine blessings or high-level spells, of course.
Someday he'll manage it, I'm sure!
Well, either that or I'll have to write a Fullmetal Scholarum update where he picks the "mage to gears" ritual we offered.
EDIT: And he didn't use a firebolt staff. He cast a level 1 spell and rolled high for damage, basically
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
We need to fully man our new fortress built on the edge of Old Valyria somewhat near Mantarys. It's large enough to hold far more men than we initially staffed it with.
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- Goose Land
Did you know that canonically, Braaovs has the best Navy of the Free Cities and Volantis has the best Army of the Free Cities? And that in ASwoaH, Braavos has the easiest access to reliable nonhuman allies while Volantis has the most robust magic user assets?
Sure is a shame that no one had a chance to try to bind the two together to take us on before we subverted them.
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- United States
Yep, that's why I was so excited.
Everyone watching from the outside is going to be gobsmacked. I would not be surprised if there is a furious debate among the other Free Cities and possibly beyond on whether or not to just surrender to us.
- Location
- Brazil
We are exporting those for the 3rd, right? Not local stock?
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- United States
The reason I was pushing so hard to subvert Qohor is that if we got that city to swear to us at the same time Volantis and Braavos did, I would fully expect Norvos and Lorath to voluntarily bend the knee, especially if we make it clear how Myr got a much better deal than Lys did.Yep, that's why I was so excited.
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- Germany
A mixture of this and wanting the MAA for garrisons.
Already done this turn. Lyceos got 1,000 Men-At-Arms as a garrison. Which means the fortress is at capacity and we have enough people to patrol the road towards Mantarys.
Yes.
I'm not sure what you mean with that statement. We are setting up new facilities for training in Tolos this month to train them locally, though most of the recruits will come from western Essos.
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- United States
Great. I was wondering if I was going to have to update that.
Also, overdue for commenting due to being busy today:
All of my yes. CR 10 Dragon Constructs that double as symbols of the Imperium as well as blunt power when necessary. I love these things.
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- Germany
If by "better deal" you mean that we didn't accidentally murder most of the ruling class and installed a loyal puppet who will oppress the shit out of the place for us... then yes. Myr got a better a deal.
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- United States
I think Qohor might need a bit more work. What we saw did not look optimistic. We'll probably end up having to root out hundreds of cultists, just like Tyrosh, so having them surrender voluntarily seems hopeful to say the least.
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- Brazil
I want those far-away legions to come from our super-loyal freed slaves, this early into our rule.
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- United States
That's the point. We'd manually subvert them, because unlike Lorath and Norvos it probably won't willingly swear fealty. While with Qohor standing defiant the others will possibly form a coalition against us.
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Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
Lorath has closer ties to Braavos than Norvos (or else it's probably slanted in Braavos' favor) vis a vis policy on slavery. Norvos also has an antagonistic relationship with Qohor, and thus far the only rumor we've picked out of the mire about them is consistent "ignore the outside, problems don't manifest if you don't look at them".
Qohor is a problem though. Many variables making it look like it's about to develop into a trash fire. No idea about Norvos, we haven't invested any time looking in on it.