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

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Well, Viserys sexual preferences can best be summed up as "the more exotic the better."

Artist: "So like... this?"

Viserys: "No, needs two more pairs of teats and a tail."
 
Crake said:
Well, Viserys sexual preferences can best be summed up as "the more exotic the better."

Artist: "So like... this?"

Viserys: "No, needs two more pairs of teats and a tail."
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*thinking*

Hmm, in Canon Varys remarked that there is a Fertility Goddess in the Summer Isles that has 6 teats.

Mayhaps we try to work with said Goddess for Potency Rituals? If anything else, to bolster our Lore?
 
Crake said:
Well, Viserys sexual preferences can best be summed up as "the more exotic the better."

Artist: "So like... this?"

Viserys: "No, needs two more pairs of teats and a tail."
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But in the bedroom all he wants is his librarian. ;)
Jack vile Ripper said:
*thinking*

Hmm, in Canon Varys remarked that there is a Fertility Goddess in the Summer Isles that has 6 teats.

Mayhaps we try to work with said Goddess for Potency Rituals? If anything else, to bolster our Lore?
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The Summer Islanders are supposed to have some of the greatest star maps in the world, along with being the only ones to fully explore the coast of Sothoryos. I've been wanting their maps for ages.
 
Duesal said:
The Summer Islanders are supposed to have some of the greatest star maps in the world, along with being the only ones to fully explore the coast of Sothoryos. I've been wanting their maps for ages.
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Just gotta put our stake in one of the Warrior Tribes out there and overwhelm the market with our Imported magical goods.

Swords with edges so sharp they hurt to look at, shining helmets that gives the user the power to see the future, arrows that will never miss their marks, or talismans to ward off bad spirits and luck.

And THIS time, there'll be NO cultural cleansing! I like my soon-to-be exotic neighbors to remain whom they are, thank you very much!
 
Jack vile Ripper said:
Just gotta put our stake in one of the Warrior Tribes out there and overwhelm the market with our Imported magical goods.

Swords with edges so sharp they hurt to look at, shining helmets that gives the user the power to see the future, arrows that will never miss their marks, or talismans to ward off bad spirits and luck.
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We've already made headway there. We've been trading steel to one of the princes, and we officially bought a bunch of land for one of our embassies. Eventually we'll get them to join the Imperium through economic incentives.
Jack vile Ripper said:
And THIS time, there'll be NO cultural cleansing! I like my soon-to-be exotic neighbors to remain whom they are, thank you very much!
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Obviously.
 
The fastest approach to winning the Summer Islands would be to pick a claimant to back, help them ritually annex every island by challenging every rival prince, and then annex him in turn and make him the governor.

Oh there'd be sedition, I'm sure, but we could smooth it over by pitting Princes against each other.
 
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Canon Omake: In The Mirror II
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    In any other city, seeing a house like this would have been odd. The windows were set with large panes of finest Myrish glass, which should have been worth a fortune in of themselves, but to the second sight, there was also the faint remnants of an enchantment that clung to them. Something that wasn't quite illusion and not quit evocation, though she couldn't decipher any more then that from the faint wisps that remained. It was frivolous in it's decadence to layer spell-craft on windows larger then the already opulent door of the house, making it hard to believe that this had never been the home of some noble or rich merchant, but a tavern of all things.

    Mind, the sight was also odd here in the Deep, yet for an entirely different reason. The glass was grimy and dusty, the house looking abandoned and as if no one had set foot in it for a while. In a city that had to raise new houses by magic each and every day to stem the tide of people wanting to live in it, the idea of a property being simply abandoned was more then odd. She had asked one of her minders about that in her first week, once she herself had noticed that the place stood out like a sore thumb. It seemed strange to her that they would hide one of theirs in a place so obviously odd, though the response she got was even more so.

    For one, she actually got one. She had quickly learned that people with crow masks and Book and Sword brooches were much better at asking questions then answering them, so that was a pleasant surprise, even if the tale of the house itself was nothing all that interesting. The former owner of the tavern had apparently been breaking quite a few laws and wound up dead in some plot. Which resulted in the place becoming owned by the Inquistion after a few steps in between. However, when that became public knowledge, all former patrons began avoiding the tavern like a plague house and so it was shut down until they could either find a use for it or decided to sell it. And they found a use, which was rather close to being a plague house too.

    When she first had come here, she had not used the front door, instead being dropped right into the dusty main room by magic. It all had gone so fast, leaving her no chance at all to find her balance in the storm of events that her bargain caused. When she looked back at it, that seemed rather deliberate. Why else the haste? Why show her what she saw then? They had tried to cow her and as much as she hated to admit it even in the privacy of her thoughts, it had worked. In the first week, she barely dared to leave her room, always worrying what the tiniest misstep might cost her.

    It had not gotten much better since then. Sure, she had found the courage to leave her house now, but she was still afraid. Still watching for the watchers. Still doubting and second-guessing every step she made. It did not help that they truly seemed to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time, always being there to catch her when she made a mistake. It probably was a mistake that she had come here. There was no good reason for Neira to be here at all. Neira should have bought some food on the market, returned home to her small but nice rooms, cooked dinner for herself and then went to bed like a good little peasant girl. In her opinion though, Neira could go and rot in a ditch.

    And maybe she would. There was no telling how they would react to her being here. There was no telling how the monster was going to take it either, but she had nowhere else to go and nobody else to talk to. And for some reason, it didn't nearly bother her as much as it should that she would talk with whatever the kind of creature that laired her was called. She had come out unscathed once and so did others. Her heart was still heavy when she knocked on the door. It was not fear, no matter how much a small part of her mind was telling her she should be afraid. No. It was dread at the faint bit of kinship she felt with the other woman, though she couldn't recognize the feeling as such.

    As the door began to slowly open, she plastered a pleasant smile on Neira's face, hiding her thoughts and feelings with practiced ease. Opposite her stood a middle aged man in a healers garb, clearly surprised to have someone knock on the door. "Good evening. May I help you with something?"

    She calmly made half a step forward, putting her foot on the threshold. The healer seemed annoyed by it, but she wouldn't be turned away now. If someone was here at all, then so was the lady of the house. And that meant she would get the answer to the question tumbling through her mind. Just one more moment. One more chat as the peasant girl. "Good evening good sir," she said while nodding deeply in an approximation of a bow. "I was wondering if the Lady Marita had a moment of time for me?"



    AN: A bit of transition mostly, but that felt like a good moment to cut that particular scene.
     
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    Azel said:
    For one, she actually got one. She had quickly learned that people with crow masks and Book and Sword brooches were much better at asking questions then answering them, so that was a pleasant surprise, even if the tale of the house itself was nothing all that interesting. The former owner of the tavern had apparently been breaking quite a few laws and wound up dead in some plot. Which resulted in the place becoming owned by the Inquistion after a few steps in between. However, when that became public knowledge, all former patrons began avoiding the tavern like a plague house and so it was shut down until they could either find a use for it or decided to sell it. And they found a use, which was rather close to being a plague house too.
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    Azel said:
    She calmly made half a step forward, putting her foot on the threshold. The healer seemed annoyed by it, but she wouldn't be turned away now. If someone was here at all, then so was the lady of the house. And that meant she would get the answer to the question tumbling through her mind. Just one more moment. One more chat as the peasant girl. "Good evening good sir," she said while nodding deeply in an approximation of a bow. "I was wondering if the Lady Marita had a moment of time for me?"
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    It's good to see the Flesh Forgers operating like proper businessmen and setting up different locations for clients. Not everyone can make the trek to Gogossos on a whim.
     
    Duesal said:
    It's good to see the Flesh Forgers operating like proper businessmen and setting up different locations for clients. Not everyone can make the trek to Gogossos on a whim.
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    It was part of Elaheh's recruitment price actually. A properly equipped workshop in SD.

    Though so far, she is mostly doing healing work. Fixing physical birth defects, mutations and the like. Things that Regenerate can't repair.
     
    You might be overstating the competence of our Inquisition.

    Most people working there are of significantly lower level than our Miss Mindcontrol here and likely less skilled too.
     
    Azel said:
    It was part of Elaheh's recruitment price actually. A properly equipped workshop in SD.

    Though so far, she is mostly doing healing work. Fixing physical birth defects, mutations and the like. Things that Regenerate can't repair.
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    So someone born without a hand for example (which I think regenerate can do fuck all for) could commission a new functional hand?
     
    Artemis1992 said:
    You might be overstating the competence of our Inquisition.

    Most people working there are of significantly lower level than our Miss Mindcontrol here and likely less skilled too.
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    It's all about focus and area of expertise. If her skill points aren't invested in Spot or Listen and her watchers are using Hide, Move Silently, Disguise, and Ribbons of Disguise, she really wouldn't have much chance of picking them out.

    With a Ribbon, there might only need to be a single watcher. They could easily make it seem like there are multiple agents keeping an eye on her.
     
    Duesal said:
    So someone born without a hand for example (which I think regenerate can do fuck all for) could commission a new functional hand?
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    Yep. You come in, Elaheh takes a few samples and a week or two later you get a follow up appointment where she implants you the shiny new hand she had grown in Gogossos.
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    It's all about focus and area of expertise. If her skill points aren't invested in Spot or Listen and her watchers are using Hide, Move Silently, Disguise, and Ribbons of Disguise, she really wouldn't have much chance of picking them out.

    With a Ribbon, there might only need to be a single watcher. They could easily make it seem like there are multiple agents keeping an eye on her.
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    Mind. They are cheating with Divination. A lot. Hence her experience of people showing up just in the right moment.

    Someone with mind-control abilities warrants some more advanced scrutiny.
     
    Goldfish said:
    It's all about focus and area of expertise. If her skill points aren't invested in Spot or Listen and her watchers are using Hide, Move Silently, Disguise, and Ribbons of Disguise, she really wouldn't have much chance of picking them out.

    With a Ribbon, there might only need to be a single watcher. They could easily make it seem like there are multiple agents keeping an eye on her.
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    If she is an enchanter with access to the Witch List, she can propably self-buff to a significant degree even outside her area of expertise.

    But the Divination-cheating is fair, not like she would dare to fool that for now. (And unlike our Upasunda she doesn't have it build-in)
     
    Azel said:
    Yep. You come in, Elaheh takes a few samples and a week or two later you get a follow up appointment where she implants you the shiny new hand she had grown in Gogossos.
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    God damn. I wish we had that sort of service IRL. Every time you bust a limb you could grow a new one.

    That said Elaheh needs better advertising. People should be treating this like the miracle shop it is rather than like the plague.
     
    Duesal said:
    God damn. I wish we had that sort of service IRL. Every time you bust a limb you could grow a new one.

    That said Elaheh needs better advertising. People should be treating this like the miracle shop it is rather than like the plague.
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    Main problem is that Elaheh is only one day of the week in SD, what with Gogossos being rather far away. Her shop is mostly a secret tip right now and the place where healers send those hopeless cases.
     
    Hard to imagine we have any hopeless cases when we have a few archmages moonlighting there.
     
    @Azel One thing that I don't get--which is patently stupid, mind you, since we know that you can't suppress use of magic as it is an intrinsic part of your being, so channeling its use toward productive ends is a better way to avoid remission into old habits and the Inquisition of all things would be aware of this since its resident experts were taught the same thing--the "peasant girl" thing should be more "former peasant girl, middling mage of means who journeyed to SD to make their fortune".

    Because they are skilled and powerful magically it is an even more impractical disguise. Why would we actively antagonize her? While she did do something similar to Teora from Dorne, the situations are different largely because we could not easily cover up Teora, but we outright gave Lady Voland a new identity. It could have been anything she would have found bearable. It should have been anything she found bearable. She was given her introduction by people with high social skills, not just our resident mad doctors, her interactions with them should have been minimal specifically because she was already bad enough influence herself to start with.
     
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