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

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So, Euron is basically Anti-Viserys. Powerful, have a large crew, makes lots of sacrifices for power, have deals with extremely powerful polities/gods, yet he's a parasite while we build things up.
 
Goldfish said:
Shadow Tor is arguably living a pretty nice life, all things considered. He's serving a much better lord, is growing steadily more powerful much more quickly than is typical for a Rakshasa, and he has been gifted a prince's ransom in enchanted gear.

Of course, he's only...sorta Tor-ish, but that's better than being completely nonexistent.
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It's a damn shame the original Tor made himself unrecruitable. I would have loved a Serpentfolk Sorcerer of the Seventh Circle.

Riz'Neth and Svitran will simply have to fill the gap.

By the way @DragonParadox, has Svitran made any progress? IIRC he was a level 6 cleric of Yss. Have recent feedings and a boost in worshipers translated into more clerical power?
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
He has a fucking angel slave? How strong is this guy again?
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The scale of power for Angels is actually pretty wide. A Dapsara, for example, is only CR 4.

Of course, assuming Euron is in the 18+ level range for whatever magic-wielding class he has, he could have access to the type of magic necessary to enslave something much further up that scale than a lowly Dapsara.
 
Duesal said:
It's a damn shame the original Tor made himself unrecruitable. I would have loved a Serpentfolk Sorcerer of the Seventh Circle.

Riz'Neth and Svitran will simply have to fill the gap.

By the way @DragonParadox, has Svitran made any progress? IIRC he was a level 6 cleric of Yss. Have recent feedings and a boost in worshipers translated into more clerical power?
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Riz'Neth does a pretty damned good job of filling that gap. Double spellcasting actions are amazing, and once he reaches the level necessary to cast 7th level spells and has a chance to learn Arcane Spellsurge, well, that'll just be beautiful.
 
Duesal said:
It's a damn shame the original Tor made himself unrecruitable. I would have loved a Serpentfolk Sorcerer of the Seventh Circle.

Riz'Neth and Svitran will simply have to fill the gap.

By the way @DragonParadox, has Svitran made any progress? IIRC he was a level 6 cleric of Yss. Have recent feedings and a boost in worshipers translated into more clerical power?
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The power of the god does not directly level clerics, but yes Svitran is due for a level soon.
 
DragonParadox said:
Stealth and Sanctity ​

Eighteenth Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC

One look at the Tree of Storm's End makes it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt why this of all Heart Trees cannot share a keep with a temple of Father Sky. Carved upon it is a woman with fine almost ethereal features, her long hair caught in in a whirlwind, upon her face a look of love and longing, Elenei. Only an artist's imagining of her of course, the tree is not old enough to hearken back to the Age of Heroes. Still, it is far older than Aegon's realm, perhaps enough to to have seen the first Andal longships crest the waves upon those bloody mornings of the world before the line of Durran slowly abandoned the secret gods of the deep woods for the sept at the keep's foot.

The air ripples behind you to reveal Vee, already looking the tree up and down with a considering eye accompanied by Ceria Storm, looking considerably more uncertain than usual under her mask of composure and Ysilla Royce who seems to have invited herself from the faintly challenging expression she gives you. Truth be told you had almost forgotten that her patron was the storm, though her power was not as close to a priest as even Ceria's.

Over the next hour Vee enacts the ritual to unbind the Heart Tree from the earth it had grown in, the magic of it everything you had expected from your friend's working, slow and subtle, coaxing the tangled roots apart as one might the move a wary beast to approach and heed. There is no pomp to it, no ceremony, it is not even uttered in the tongue of the First Men, but instead in Vee's native Low Valyrian. Doubtlessly if you asked her why that is she would look at you strangely and say it is because the words were more familiar, but you can see the symbol of it also. A new thing for the Old Gods to bear witness to, and unlike the guard against flame one that is not restrained to the darkest of moments, though this ritual must be performed in secret under the eyes of none but a fascinated Maester Cressen, Davos Seaworth looking like he is not quite sure what he is supposed to be doing here and of course the Lord of Storm's end himself who would never allow such a change to his ancestral keep to take place without overlooking it first hand.

As the magic nears its peak you consider where you might replant the Heart Tree, for it is hardly an alter of stone or gold to be stored in some dark corner before another place can be found. The first place that comes to mind, likely from your earlier conversation, is broken Heaven, but you dismiss it almost as quickly. The power of the Old Gods might be able to take root in that blighted soil, but there are far too many wandering the wastes who would take pleasure in defiling holy things. It will take protections far more formidable than even New Lys'os before you would dare to transplant a Heart Tree there.

That leaves other places too distant and remote that no one would recognize the face upon the pale wood, the realm of Earth or the farthest east. Your delegation to Yi Ti had negotiated a place for a Heart Tree if you wish to take it, the worship of the Old Gods having apparently been one of the most convenient shows of 'civilized behavior' to the local elites. Beyond that Dany points out that you could make a virtue of necessity and make the tree one dedicated to illusion and misdirection, not far at all from the Singer's fey roots.

Where do you replant the Tree of Storm's End?

[] Somewhere on the Plane of Earth
-[] Write in

[] Yin where your envoys have secured guarded hallowed ground

[] Make it a Tree of Illusion and plant it somewhere else
-[] Write in effects and sacrifices

[] Write in

OOC: Planar rumors interlude, next you guys have not gotten any news of the Upper Planes in quite a while though you did pay for it.
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I didn't even think about Ysilla, but she is a good addition to this event, DP.

I'm not sure of the exact timeline, but she awakened as a Witch with the Storm Patron a fairly good while ago, I think? Did she come into her magic before Ceria? If so, empowering Ysilla as a Witch might be Stormy's first significant act as a deity since the return of magic.
 
Duesal said:
Out of curiosity, what gear has he currently got?
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Huh, I dunno. Did we ever get a sheet for Riz'neth?

We've never crafted him anything specifically, so he's probably mostly a blank canvas. I can get a list together and add it to the crafting schedule when I get back to my computer.
 
ryuan said:
So, Euron is basically Anti-Viserys. Powerful, have a large crew, makes lots of sacrifices for power, have deals with extremely powerful polities/gods, yet he's a parasite while we build things up.
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Also, he had to learn magic from Bloodraven, whereas Brynden didn't have to teach us anything. Just... tell us as much of the truth as we could handle, and shield us from the rest.

So when we meet him, we can really say "I'm you, but better."
 
Crake said:
Also, he had to learn magic from Bloodraven, whereas Brynden didn't have to teach us anything. Just... tell us as much of the truth as we could handle, and shield us from the rest.

So when we meet him, we can really say "I'm you, but better."
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Bloodraven has done a lot for us though. Gave us depression at some point but hey that wasn't his fault. We quite literally asked for it.
 
Goldfish said:
Huh, I dunno. Did we ever get a sheet for Riz'neth?

We've never crafted him anything specifically, so he's probably mostly a blank canvas. I can get a list together and add it to the crafting schedule when I get back to my computer.
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I've asked DP if he could make the sheet over the last few months but he probably didn't have time.

If we're making something for Riz'Neth is there anything in particular that would benefit a multi-headed mage?
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
Bloodraven has done a lot for us though. Gave us depression at some point but hey that wasn't his fault. We quite literally asked for it.
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Yes, but mostly on an emotional level. We sort of did the heavy lifting on most everything else.

Edit: Admittedly, he has recently stepped up his game with helping us on the intrigue side of things, and interrogating Varys counts for that too.
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
I imagine that was more fun than work for Bloodraven. His hateboner for Blackfyre related things are legendary. At least from what I remember.
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You're not entirely wrong there honestly, but Brynden saw Daemon and all the Blackfyres after him as more like tools than anything else, it was always Bittersteel and thus men like him who manipulated Daemon's descendants that were the real threat. Maelys was a monster but no one would willingly serve him for very long, or else those who would are inherently unreliable, and also hardly anyone who grew up in Essos had it in them to risk everything for a kingdom they never lived in and for a king who never ruled anything except maybe an army.

To Brynden, destroying the Golden Company is more like pissing on the grave of Bittersteel. He doesn't really think about Daemon anymore now that he's dead and gone.
 
Duesal said:
I've asked DP if he could make the sheet over the last few months but he probably didn't have time.

If we're making something for Riz'Neth is there anything in particular that would benefit a multi-headed mage?
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Depends on how his item slots are distributed. If he has multiple head, neck, eye, etc., slots, two Earrings of Arcane Acuity would be a cheap way to give him more uses of cheap short duration True Seeing. A Circlet of Rapid Casting for each head would work really well with his ability to abuse the action economy.
 
Azel said:
It's a Monadic Deva actually.
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Holy fuck...well, when you have no morals or inhibitions and access to upper tier magic, lots of crazy, messed up shit is possible.

Is it outright enslaved through magic or was it bound as part of a Summoning or Calling spell?
 
Azel said:
Yeah, Euron is kind of a case study why certain kinds of people should not have access to high-level magic.
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The really impressive thing is that he doesn't seem to have made enemies beyond his power yet.

The canon version, for all his talents, seemed like the impulsive sort who would sooner or later bite of more than he can chew.

Nirvana may be a shadow if its former self, but even the remains should be able to crush him, as certainly as the Legion of Heaven's Shore would beat us.
 
At least he is in Nirvana. As long as he stays his ass there we will have no problem...until we hear about him and decide to have a couple problems.
 
Artemis1992 said:
The really impressive thing is that he doesn't seem to have made enemies beyond his power yet.

The canon version, for all his talents, seemed like the impulsive sort who would sooner or later bite of more than he can chew.

Nirvana may be a shadow if its former self, but even the remains should be able to crush him, as certainly as the Legion of Heaven's Shore would beat us.
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It's probably less that and more that he has no attachments he can't take with him, so whenever someone he can't beat is pissed off he just ups stakes and vanishes.
 
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