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

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TotallyNotEvil said:
The key there is that not only you get to fish for information, which is terribly important, but there is no limit to the level of the spells you cast.
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Certainly, you could throw a spell at someone or something and see what happens, how such reacts. But the people we interact with usually have an inkling of magical education and often enough, could identify the magic used outright. As for the latter.. What happened to wholesome, risk free research?

There are edge cases of say, tossing an unbound Miracle with one hand and a fireball with the other just to observe.. Which makes said spell good, worthy of being 7th level. But no more. It is just divination, in the end.
 
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Nickan said:
Certainly, you could throw a spell at someone or something and see what happens, how such reacts. But the people we interact on usually have an inkling of magical education and often enough, could identify the magic used outright. As for the latter.. What happened to wholesome, risk free research?

There are edge cases of say, tossing an unbound Miracle with one hand and a fireball with the other just to observe.. Which makes said spell good, worthy of being 7th level. But no more. It is just divination, in the end.
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Good luck running a divination on a Mindblanked opponent in the middle of battle.

Finding out things such as Spellbane, Spell Turning, Contingency and whatever other cute things that might ruin your day, for free, is amazing.
 
Still tied on Zherys.
Adhoc vote count started by Artemis1992 on Sep 8, 2019 at 12:11 AM, finished with 134 posts and 22 votes.
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I am not sure what you see arguing for, to be honest. Yes, the spell is good. It is also 1/day, 7th level and precludes other fancy shenanigans with a swift action. Would certainly love to have it for some scenarios but at the same time, would not ever pick it on a spontaneous caster. Too many other things.

Unless Mindblank/Greater Magic Aura, there are far better ways to gather information and even then, tossing out a Dispel + Another spell is still more efficient instead (unless they spellbane Dispel, but well, no one does so to dispelling metabreath I forget the name of.)
 
Also, funfact: if the estimates from before were accurate, it takes about 50,000 IM of capital invested to maintain one trading vessel on the books for Silver Serpent Enterprises.

So our first business has grown from cargo brokerage on a few rinky dinky ships in Braavos, to 60 affiliated trading vessels by the end of this current turn.

Nothing on Qarth's ridiculous 3,000 something affiliated ships, or even the Redwynes' 1,000 affiliated merchantmen, cogs, etc (not even counting warships).

On the other hand, our military fleet count is noteworthy. Larger than the Royal Fleet in canon and the Redwyne fleet combined.

We quite literally could invade Westeros via a naval invasion if we wanted to... that would be logistically an insane undertaking obviously so we're never going to do that, but in theory it's possible!

And in ASWaH at present, our naval presence in the Narrow Sea is crushingly strong. Like unseemly so. The addition of Braavos plus our own local naval forces makes our strength in the Narrow Sea bigger than the Royal Navy at it's very height (possibly only extending to canon numbers given the force sent at us was likely beleaguered from the Iron Isle invasion and supplemented further by Tywin's ships).

And Tywin had an expanding navy. Keyword being past tense. In fact I would dare to say that Dorne's navy is looking more intact... and it just barely exists now.

Oh, and when Robert said in council with his advisers that his ships don't "dare stick their noses out of the Blackwater", he meant that literally because we outnumber him by a factor of five at the very least, and that's just what we can pull from the local patrols.
 
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Excellent look at the future Imperium @Crake. I especially like how well you interwove Viserys' character development with the growth of his realm. The Viserys of a thousand years from now will have more in common with Mereth than this own nobles, and at the same time would treasure old friends and companions above all else, even such as Balerion which is effectively a pet and little else at this point.

Greatly looking forward to where you take this. :)
 
DragonParadox said:
Excellent look at the future Imperium @Crake. I especially like how well you interwove Viserys' character development with the growth of his realm. The Viserys of a thousand years from now will have more in common with Mereth than this own nobles, and at the same time would treasure old friends and companions above all else, even such as Balerion which is effectively a pet and little else at this point.

Greatly looking forward to where you take this. :)
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He views men over forty years old as children. Because to him they are. He, in political terms, changed their diapers, so he can't see them as anything else.

And there are quite a few at court around that age who have a bit of a complex because of it, less prevalent in those who had strong male authority figures of their own, in which case Viserys is more like a living icon than a Father To His Nation.

But the closest allegory I can think of, of a thousand year old reign Viserys, is something like Magnus the Pious--took especial attention to the Elector Count meetings in Dynasty of Dyanamic Alcoholism for how people generally react to him--terrified adoration.
 
Jack vile Ripper said:
@Crake, what happened to Ser Richard? I guess he went Immortal like the rest of us?
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If I have anything to say about it when it comes time to choose Path abilities, then yes.

In all seriousness, it's not seriously important to the story I'm writing and I probably won't elaborate beyond teasing hints. I honestly expect if Richard ever has kids we'll have more than one loyal Lonmouth blade at our back, and a thousand years is a long time.

We've survived hundreds of battles without losing a friend, but a lot can happen in that timeframe.
 
Crake said:
If I have anything to say about it when it comes time to choose Path abilities, then yes.

In all seriousness, it's not seriously important to the story I'm writing and I probably won't elaborate beyond teasing hints. I honestly expect if Richard ever has kids we'll have more than one loyal Lonmouth blade at our back, and a thousand years is a long time.

We've survived hundreds of battles without losing a friend, but a lot can happen in that timeframe.
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The only part I wasn't a super fan of was the soft implication that Ser Richard and Mereth aren't together.

I'm just going to believe they are so insanely duty bound they take separate holidays, the only way they can relax is if they know their partner is guarding Viserys.
 
Deliste said:
The only part I wasn't a super fan of was the soft implication that Ser Richard and Mereth aren't together.

I'm just going to believe they are so insanely duty bound they take separate holidays, the only way they can relax is if they know their partner is guarding Viserys.
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Even if they were together, this would be canon. It's a dirty job, but someone has to be there to do it. :V
 
Vote closed.

Edit: we actually have a tie on the character sheet. Schrodinger's Zherys?:confused:
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Sep 8, 2019 at 5:28 AM, finished with 147 posts and 22 votes.
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OK then incantifer it is, I don't really like to close things on narrow margins but this is not a big IC vote or anything and it has been up for quite a while. Plus keeping it up would tangle the voting forward.
 
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Interlude DXLXXXII: Stolen Spells and Timely Blows
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    • Stolen Spells and Timely Blows ​

    Twenty-Fifth Day of the Tenth Month 293 AC

    When Rina had first sworn herself into service of King Viserys and understood the sort of service that would be expected of her she had been concerned that she could not fight without the voices in the dark commanding her, that she would be overcome with fear or horror and be unable to use the knowledge and the power torn free of Their grasp. In truth fear was the easiest of all emotions to submerge in the cold currents of her soul. Her breathing slowed to a whisper, the flush of blood calmed, and she did not fear death for she knew there were far worse fates more deserving of terror.

    And so battle raged, Korizon taking to the air through tainted skies besides the elder dragons, spellfire and vitriol rained down from the upon the ships of the Brazen Throne even as dragon-slaying bolts arched in their wake. For a time it was all Rina could do to empower and ward them before they were overwhelmed, and heal the one among their number to whom the touch of the grave brought renewed vigor, but with every pass of the dragons, every curse by the Lady of Naath, the dragon-slayer weapons were silenced more and more, beyond the power of the mages on deck to mend. Rina turned her eyes to the battle below...

    A score of the crew upon the third ship were working with a purpose to erect some sort of arcane circle upon the deck just as the wyverns were came screaming in for their second pass. They would never live to see it done. Rina proclaimed upon them doom and watched as slaves compelled to fight were consumed by the frozen light she had conjured in their midst together with their captors.

    The guilt too Rina could bear. She had seen the scars upon the flanks of the peaceful leviathans of the Sea of Flame, and had heard the mournful songs that commemorated the lost, the scars that would not heal. Yet they were only the smallest part of the lives and souls the cruelty of the Brazen Throne had cost.

    Even as the Shaitan worm ships were racing closer under the battering of main efreeti launchers one of the last remaining intact masts tumbled down, Lady Samira had cast it down upon the heads of the trio of Efreeti sorcerers she had been dueling. There was no trace of the soft spoken scholar who had introduced her to Alyn left in her eyes as she floated above the battlefield upon a storm wind of her own conjuring. Lighting danced and thunder sang, drowning out the screams of the dying... and whatever words of sorcery were spoken on the decks below, but Rina did not need to hear to know that magic had been worked upon her. Suddenly she could feel the scorching heat of the wasteland, a dozen wards and more torn from her... no stolen. She could see them on the wind, a luminous mist being drawn somewhere in the chaotic decks below.

    Alas that she was not the only one to take note of the wards falling. Two balls of roiling flame roared into being from three different mages, or more likely three different wands. One was caught by an elemental near at hand, though Vee motioned desperately to banish the second the magic proved too strong... until the lady of the Djinn took note and with one motion she did not merely snuff out the fire but cast it back whence it came.

    Still gasping for breath in the fiery air and thankful her flight had not been stolen, Rina flew higher to reach the Djinn Archmage. "Where did that come from?" she asked urgently.

    "I did not see, child. Your enemy is rather skilled at sulking..." The answer trailed off as Amrelath swooped upon the fourth ship in the line, tearing all before him apart until the deck ran red with blood and the broken bodies of the slain rained overboard like twisted offerings. "I suspect he saw."

    But had he killed the mage, or just driven him away? Rina wondered as the worm ships at last struck the larger Efreeti ships, one of them outright capsizing from the blow. The battle may be in their favor, but it was not yet won.

    OOC: Next up will be the hunt for the mage. Rina does not know this but Amrelath did indeed destroy the second skull.
     
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