He started off mostly dying but still not fully gone. Then we fed him blood. Then we fed him that Pleasure Devil after we took all the grafts. Then we fed him the Mallor, after which he became a sleepy snek for a few months until we fed him the Mantis God Head and sanctified the temple.
But has he ever had a POV? Because if he hasn't you can't choose him.
 
But has he ever had a POV? Because if he hasn't you can't choose him.
Yes, he's had a POV.

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

A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover In a world where magic has all but guttered to ashes, becoming the fare of charlatans, petty conjurers, and ragged illusionists, a mighty change is stirring. From small and fragile sparks a great blaze will be reborn and men will...
 
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so back again from the past just to mention how satisfying the tree of the dawn age was like damn that's nice anyway back to binging i go
 
This typo feels like the internet's mentality in general.
Well mainly in the morning, the day after I got to bed way too late, but that's mainly cursing past me, I have no idea how Viserys do it though.

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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jan 23, 2020 at 3:36 PM, finished with 69 posts and 9 votes.

  • [X] As a signatory and the one who brokered the Concordant of Stone and Sky, a ruler who has arranged alliances with realms across the Infinite Spheres and made trade connections far and wide, and an avowed foe of those who seek ruin upon all life and reason, who seeks to gain allies who themselves have pledged to fight back such as the Lords of Madness. That you are a dragon has only entered into the calculus of politics when it best suited you. That it happens to be most of the time is a coincidence. That time is not right now.
    [X] Both as a Dragon King from the Garden of the Elements and a signatory of the Concordant of Stone and Sky
 
Imagine the bizarre potential an Inquisition team could have nowadays. An Imperial Fury, a Spyglass Archon, an Imperium Mage, an Imperial Mimic, an Orphne Court Fey, maybe a pseudodragon or a Mind Dragon if they get bored, etc.

EDIT: Of course a team of nothing but Mimics is the best of them all.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jan 23, 2020 at 3:36 PM, finished with 69 posts and 9 votes.

  • [X] As a signatory and the one who brokered the Concordant of Stone and Sky, a ruler who has arranged alliances with realms across the Infinite Spheres and made trade connections far and wide, and an avowed foe of those who seek ruin upon all life and reason, who seeks to gain allies who themselves have pledged to fight back such as the Lords of Madness. That you are a dragon has only entered into the calculus of politics when it best suited you. That it happens to be most of the time is a coincidence. That time is not right now.
    [X] Both as a Dragon King from the Garden of the Elements and a signatory of the Concordant of Stone and Sky
 
Part MMMCCCVII: A Realm By Fire Seeded
A Realm By Fire Seeded

Ninth Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC

The Emirate of Kelasi is a place long lost to the realm of its birth, a place of fire floating in the deepest of seas. Pumice in every color lies strewn among the trade currents, from grey so dark it is almost black, to soft cream to pale stone shot through with shimmering bands of green and blue where the palaces of the highborn and rich rest. As in most of the marid domains the latter categories are often one and the same, there is no stigma for buying a title outright with coin, though the costs are high enough that new noble Houses are not lightly founded.

Beyond the souks, markets and the towers sheathed in gleaming nacre is the Heart of Kela, greatest of the fragments fallen here during the Sundering of the Spheres and the only one that remembers the place of its forging. It too burns orange between the fissures, casting a forge-fire light over the whole of the realm like the stillborn star of Galzerai's domain, but where that had been tumultuous and untamed, its face forever cracking and reforming with rivers of flame, this had been channeled through the work of arcane marks and cunning enchantment to feed the forges bellow.

Upon the island's crest, like a crown upon a burning brow, rests the palace of Emir Ramsin, though perhaps fortress might fit the name more than palace. The high towers and arching bridges at its heart remind one of Vialesk under its crystal dome, but all around it are walls of native pumice shot through with veins of adamantine and wards that draw upon the fires below, a shield against any army that might threaten the realm, or any of the dragon lords common to these waters, though they would make a poor weapon indeed against you.

After some thought you choose remain in human form so as not to raise any suspicions before you even come before the throne of the emir, presenting instead to the officer asking for your business in the realm documents from Vialesk and Mardja. While the wheels of state may not turn quite as swiftly as they may have done when presented with the physical reality of a dragon's form, the testified fact that you brokered the Concordant of Sky and Stone is enough to make them turn swiftly enough.

You and Lya are in due time escorted to the place, through guarded gates and under the gaze of watchful towers, until you come at last to a garden though not quite of the sort you had seen in Vialesk. You see here coral and sea urchins, yes, but also strange pale worms that with heads like blood-red lilies that drink in the fumes from the forges below.


Amidst this odd garden, which Lya's fingers twitch to pluck and study, Emir Ramsin sits enthroned upon a throne bedecked in adamantine and rubies, his beard white as sea foam and eyes brighter than any of the gems sown into his robes. "I have heard many rumors of late of the Garden's gates opening, but little from those who have seen the truth of it with their own eyes. It seems that fate has delivered upon me an unexpected gift..." and one he does not trust, you catch in spire of the skill with which the emir guards his tone and face. "Speak then and be recognized, oh lord of distant realms."

How do you greet Emir Ramsin and deliver the message you have been tasked with carrying?

[] Sympathetically, for his children prisoners of a relentless foe

[] In a neutral manner, you are merely doing a small service that it might hopefully aid in peace, or at least a ceasefire so that more might turn their attention to common foes in the depths

[] Write in


OOC: A short update again, but it's the nature of the break points around here, there are a lot of decisions to be taken.
 
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My SparkNotes on this. Not neutral, but not overly sympathetic to the point of casting Galzerai as the villain. We are interested in brokering a peace for the valid reasoning that war between the Emirates and Dragon Dominions will allow cracks to form in any coalition against the Lords of Madness, if war breaks out people will be nervous, too nervous to devote to a campaign against them when it is direly needed.

That is our stake. Not some underhanded ploy to weaken Kelasi, or to empower the Dominions. But to secure mutual prosperity and trust.
 
[X] While we are sympathetic, we only allow a small glimmer of that to show through as we share Galzerai's news. We merely wish to foster greater cooperation and communication between the powers of the Endless Sea, to perhaps prevent unnecessary conflict and bloodshed in the face of resurgent Deep One activities which are likely the prelude to another invasion, not to take one side or another.
 
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@Goldfish, the whole conflict between Galzerai and Kelasi is honestly a secondary concern for us. Yes, ideally it'd be great if we work in a ceasefire somehow, but frankly that's not going to happen unless we set aside time for the fetch quest to find the anvil, and we don't have time for that. Both Galzerai and Kelasi are understandably way too invested in this conflict to let it go (Galzerai losing the crown jewel of his hoard, Kelasi losing the royal children).

We're only here to see if they're ready to slaughter more Deep Ones, and we just happened to have a message from Galzerai in the meantime.

EDIT: To explain further, the "peacemakers" part is the one that gets us too involved in this. This isn't our fight.
 
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@Goldfish, the whole conflict between Galzerai and Kelasi is honestly a secondary concern for us. Yes, ideally it'd be great if we work in a ceasefire somehow, but frankly that's not going to happen unless we set aside time for the fetch quest to find the anvil, and we don't have time for that. Both Galzerai and Kelasi are understandably way too invested in this conflict to let it go (Galzerai losing the crown jewel of his hoard, Kelasi losing the royal children).

We're only here to see if they're ready to slaughter more Deep Ones, and we just happened to have a message from Galzerai in the meantime.

EDIT: To explain further, the "peacemakers" part is the one that gets us too involved in this. This isn't our fight.
I don't think the language would have gotten us overly involved, as we've actively pronounced our desire for peace and cooperation among the various factions, but it wasn't much trouble to change the wording.

That better?
 
I don't think the language would have gotten us overly involved, as we've actively pronounced our desire for peace and cooperation among the various factions, but it wasn't much trouble to change the wording.

That better?
Yes, thank you.
Tell him about the Dragon you slew with company who fell to madness and was twisted in form and mind. We will never know what drove her to the lengths she took, but we know that hardly anyone is beyond being saved from their own folly if they had been given the mere opportunity in the first place. "
Point of order, Fearex the Brainstealer Dragon isn't dead, she's being kept as experiment fodder to figure out how to make Psions in the Flesh Forge.
 
Wow. Our brief introduction is as long as an entire update. I know that we love speeches IC, but is now really the time?
DP can use as much or as little of it as he needs, depending on how the Emir reacts. Viserys might not be able to get three sentences out past sharing the news of his daughter's descent into Wishcraft abuse.

I think it's better to have more than less in this case.
 
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