A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Angels.
It's why I wanted to take angel form as an 8th level spell.
Sweet, sweet cold immunity.
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Just give him the ability to create updated javelins.
He has more than enough goodies already. He can prepare Holy Ice if need be.
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Wait, seriously?
*checks*
I'll be damned.
In addition to whatever we manage to steal from Lucan and the Seven, I want several powerful angel minions for the Long Night.
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So immunity to cold is covered. Any celestials immune to necrotic damage? That will be the second most common damage type
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That's what I am doing? +1 holy frost javelins basically?
I want to include holy ice because the SLAs I picked sucked, and didn't really for that well?
This would be ONE extra and the maneuvers for the upgrades there.
Winning vote
[] Pose as a wealthy but pious Westerosi wool merchant and commission a full set of the finest illuminated holy texts and scriptures of the Faith of the Seven. Say you intend to build a sept in the Crownlands.
[] Pose as a wealthy but pious Westerosi wool merchant and commission a full set of the finest illuminated holy texts and scriptures of the Faith of the Seven. Say you intend to build a sept in the Crownlands.
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Part MMDCCCV: Of Loyalty Afar and Treachery Close at Hand
Of Loyalty Afar and Treachery Close at Hand
Ninth Day of the Ninth Month 293 AC
"You want to buy the books of the Faith, illuminated by the finest scribes, to mark the occasion of irrevocably splintering the unity of the godsworn?" Dany sounds amused on hearing your plans, not without cause to be fair. There is a certain incongruity to it.
"As these are hopefully the last days of a truly united canon, it seems like the perfect time to do so to serve as a watermark for all the divergences to come," you defend your position gamely.
"I believe the word you are looking for is 'heresy'," she snorts.
From the slight relaxing of her posture you suspect Leto finds the byplay entertaining, though certainly not enough to show it upon her face or let it interfere with the smooth fulfillment of her duties. "Do you require my services, my lord?"
"No need, take a bit of time to yourself. You have spent enough time trailing foes through the streets," you offer, careful not to make the words sound like a dismissal.
The Erinyes commander looks startled, but not displeased. "Things have not been particularly unpleasant. The Drow have been tolerable given their origins." High praise from her, perhaps you should look into trusting the two assassins with weightier missions.
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The second time you enter the Starry Sept it is under the guise of a merchant sweating under the weight of silver thread and a mink collar, passing by the Smith's Door rather than the Great Gates where the faithful pass to worship. The nervous young septon waiting by the door almost trips over himself when he hears why you had come, and that sets the tone of the whole meeting. An order such as the one you are making is far from uncommon in nature, though the scope of it is far greater than usual. Just to be sure the trail will not be followed, you mention in conversation that you had just inherited a fortune from a far less pious brother and wish to make amends for his ways by raising a new sept in the Crownlands.
"We do not have to pay for the sins of our kin, my son," the elderly septon in charge of the scriptorium admonishes you. "Lords and kings may say so, but that is pride and vanity. We all carry our own burden under the gaze of the Seven."
The purser standing next to him twitches, fearing you will change your mind.
As much to spare his heart as to finish your business quickly you hand over the coin, all in Westerosi Golden Dragons, and then wait to receive your books.
"What is the world coming to?" the old man sighs, more to himself than to you. "A Conclave of the Faith without the blessing of the High Septon, without the involvement of the King. Mark my words this all started with the Rebellion. An ungodly deed to kill a king, worse to slay the little prince and his sister. The Seven's punishment for allowing a whoremonger on the throne..."
Of all the places to find sympathy for your House. "It might not be the wisest thing to speak of such things aloud," you point out gently.
"Bah, let them drag out an old scribe onto the street in irons, see how well that does them," he scoffs.
You leave the sept books in hand, bemused but oddly cheered by the whole affair. It is good to know there are those even among the most faithful who would welcome a restoration, no matter how uncommon the breed.
Lost 1,500 IM
Gained Illuminated Collected Works of the Faith of the Seven
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Sadly your good mood does not last long, for you return to the inn to find a visibly perturbed Lynesse speaking with Dany and your mother. "Your Grace... thank, well, the Old Gods I suppose. I do not imagine the Seven would have anything good to say about your presence here." You do not like how brittle her laugh is.
"What's wrong?" you ask urgently. You had thought her safe in her brother's care until the time came to return to the Deep.
"I think..." she takes a deep breath. "I think Septon Alyn at the Hightower is conspiring against Baelor. Even though I was there in disguise and he knew me for nothing but a poor knight's sister, he asked me a great many leading questions, suspecting that my arrival had something to do with some change of heart on his part. I played the fool of course, and he was forced to leave empty-handed. I asked Baelor about it, but he told me not to worry." Lynesse shakes her head angrily. "Like I'm some silly little girl."
"What did you do then?" Dany prompts to get her back on track.
"I asked my goodsister Rhonda if Baelor had been acting differently over the last few days for the septon to be suspicious of. She said he had, that he had expressed doubts about certain interpretations of the Seven-Pointed-Star. Say what you will about Alyn, he is no fool. If Baelor gave any hint of those doubts in front of him he would have been suspicious, though that is not the worst of it. I had Malora help me look into the matter further. She found that one utter fool of a footman revealed that he was carrying a letter to Septon Kyle. I think Alyn believes my brother has thrown his lot in with the Tyrells..."
"That is hardly a disaster," your mother points out reasonably. "Lord Tyrell is your brother's overlord and goodbrother. Aligning with him would have been expected in many quarters." She tilts her head in askance. "What are you not telling us? You can tell us, no one is going to be angry with you."
You nod in silent agreement to the sentiment. Lynesse had already proven more adept at the games of intrigue than you would ever have given her credit for. It would take a great deal to make you angry with her.
"Septon Alyn had been spending a great deal of time with my second eldest brother, Ser Garth." The words are barely a whisper, as though she cannot bear to speak the implication of treachery fully aloud. "Alyn would not have dared..." Her voice trembles. "I'm afraid he has support from some other source. The High Septon or the Lannisters, that we could handle, but if it is that lunatic Lucan. I don't want my brother to get hurt, Your Grace, either of my brothers."
"Where is Ser Garth now?" Ser Richard asks, quick to the heart of the matter.
"Out of town, he has gone to inspect some vineyards," Lynesse says miserably.
Giving him deniability for anything that might happen in Oldtown, no one needs to speak the obvious implication aloud.
"Baelor might resent it if you meddle too closely in these matters since he will not wish to seem to have lost control of his own household, but I decided it would be better to see him angry at me and alive rather than risk losing him as I already did father." Only then as silent tears begin to fall along Lynesse' pale cheeks do you realize she is still mourning her father, his death having perhaps seemed too distant to be real when she was on Bear Island or Sorcerer's Deep .
No wonder she had been so quick to do everything in her power to ensure she lost no one else in her family.
What do you do?
[] Go to Ser Baelor with your suspicions, you should be skillful enough to smooth over any anger or embarrassment
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[] Fly to the Hightower and have a brief chat with the septon, modifying his memory afterwards
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[] Write in
OOC: These were the interesting rolls I was talking about a few updates ago. There was always a decent chance that Lord Hightower would let something slip after having the entire foundations of his faith shaken, but what followed after that was a roller coaster of intrigue with Lynesse as the break-out star (though to be fair she does have very good social stats).
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I'm glad she discerned precisely why I wanted this. This not only gives us every bit of intel on the Faith of the Seven we could hope for, at least in terms of scripture, we get the highest quality of illuminated texts available as a momento of the fracturing of the Faith of the Seven.
At last! It is ours!
Ohh, maybe we can get the Planetar to sign these.
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If it isn't the man's brother waiting in the wing, there'll be someone. I was genuinely shocked not a single Hightower showed up for our tourney, families that large always have dissenters.
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Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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"Lynesse. You get all the headpats. Later. First, we have work to do."
"W-we Your Grace?"
"The reward for a job well done is more work."
*horrifying realization* "Is this how he gets everyone?"
"""""Yes."""""
"I think I want to go back to Myr now--"
"TOO LATE!"
"AIYEEEE--" Pop.
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@DragonParadox, after the Faith of the Seven is fractured, will each faction come up with their own holy scripture and their own version of The Seven-Pointed Star?
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Lovely people these septons. Shame about the gods.
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It's what you think, but also more.I know where this is going.
I want to write one of the versions. Specifically the Imperium version, headquartered in Sorcerer's Deep.
Many will, though some denominations may be content with just and administrative split, since many of the administrative aspects of the Faith are not codified in the Seven-Pointed Star.
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What a wonderful opportunity.
Viserys: "I will expect your bear asses to be delivered by the end of the week."
I think this was brought up like twenty pages back and DP said that he was being saved.
The one in the stormlands? He has not been freed yet.
egoo
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Yes, we did forget.
I brought that up and added that to MAs even.
We've done nothing on that since.