Stannis probably thought so, too, when it was the flagship of the Royal Navy of Westeros.
Wealth by Level, a common D&D metric to determine the approximate wealth a character should have at any given level of experience.
Looking at things through this lens, look at the crafters Planetos has produced that are high level enchanters. I think there's a scattering of them in every single faction, enough to probably equal ours put together (as in, at least one native to Planetos who is a high level crafter in each significant supernatural faction that isn't under our aegis already). But we've got several of them under one banner, and the ironic part is none of them joined because we could literally smash that budget bottleneck like a Fabergé egg, except Qyburn I guess but he's weird like that, but for a bunch of disparate and unrelated reasons.
Welcome aboard! I've noticed you getting closer and closer to the current posts and figured you would finish soon.
Viserys has given so many speeches, a speech of his is now a significant enough event to warrant milestone xp for scrub mages.
We are, we were going to toss them to Yss.
It was just an oversight, the plan is still on.
Yeah, they can easily handle most of our strategic and infrastructure crafting. A lot of our really useful stuff is low level, but leveraged for maximum benefit.
It's not quite the same, but we recently buffed a kid with so much social enhancement magic, that combined with a Telepathic peptalk, we accidentally turned him into a 3rd level Beguiler.
Yeah, they can easily handle most of our strategic and infrastructure crafting. A lot of our really useful stuff is low level, but leveraged for maximum benefit.
It's not quite the same, but we recently buffed a kid with so much social enhancement magic, that combined with a Telepathic peptalk, we accidentally turned him into a 3rd level Beguiler.
Be careful when buffing a child. It might lead to power. Or don't. Facilitation of a Hero's journey is also part of good hero's journeys.
One day in the near future, every 13 year old child across the Imperium will gather before their local MirrorVision to partake in the annual 'Awakening Speech', a once in a lifetime opportunity to receive a blessing of power from the Dragon King, to cast off the shackles of the mundane and embrace their destiny.
A good national holiday! Day of Heroes. A day to celebrate HEROES OF THE IMPERIUM and simultaneously generate publicity for new ones who have just gotten into the swing of the whole being famous thing, and even fit in a nice speech about how everyone out there contributing to society is a hero to their people. What would be one pointless platitude from anybody else sounds completely sincere and moving coming from Viserys.
I like this idea, but why limit it to 13 year olds and only 13 year olds? I could see requiring everyone to be at least 13 years old to partake, but not the limitation to only them.
Maybe one which occurs on the 12th day of the 9th month, the same day in which Viserys's magic awakened when he was just 13 years old?
No joke. I think it would be a really neat national holiday. It should be limited to one attempt not because others can't attend, but the metaphysical impact should be lost on multiple viewings. Watch it every year if you want, but don't expect different results. Nothing should stop someone from seeing it later, but I don't think it would be as special if you could watch the speech 30 times and finally awaken to magic when your in your 50s or something along those lines.
In this hypothetical future, one with Awakening Day or whatever it's called, those teens Awakened by Viserys' speech wouldn't be expected to start adventuring. It would be more like earning a scholarship to a prestigious university, one where you can learn to break reality on a whim. While education will be free to all of our citizens, not all institutions will be created equally due to resource allocation and population density, so a ticket straight to Sorcerer's Deep and the Shadow Tower, along with a guaranteed full caster class (as opposed to potentially being relegated to a mere Adept, Mage-Smith, or Hedge Mage) would be a pretty sweet deal for a farm kid from Golden Fields or the hinterlands of the Imperium.
Just got reminded from my ritual perusals of old updates. You should craft some gear for Nettles next month. And we need a basic starter kit for a fighter, made for what's his name--that's right, Justin Massey. I think I reminded you earlier. That guy's gonna throw himself into some dangerous situations, I have a feeling.
We crafted gear for Nettles last month, IIRC, it just hasn't been added to her sheet yet. I'll check my sheets when I get back to my computer.
