A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
- Thread starter DragonParadox
- Start date
-
- Tags
- a song of ice and fire a sword without a hilt d&d 3.5 dungeons & dragons 100% high octane dragon fuel ave corvidae battle action dragon diplomacy best sister bureaucromancy delicious soul-stuff dragon dreams come true dragon ta'veren greatest uncle hubris is a coward's word in defiance of gods and men mammon's folly mutually assured mage's disjunction qm murderhobo top tier coatl
I don't have a stake in this. I think I may just be explaining this wrong. Step by step it is thus:
- Get fey to swear to lord
- Use Old Gods to tear out the landwards and change them
- Re-achor the wards to some nice stones
- Have local lords release fey
- The fey now free agents swear to the crown
Seeing as it is for the good cause of fewer Deep Ones and fiends in the Reach 100 Tier 1 Trees will do. 1600 HD total.
Last edited:
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
Oof.
Not enough at this very moment in the Larder, actually.
Gonna summon some random Fiends if we want to do this the "Day of Blood"-way.
- Location
- Germany
Wait. We need both the trees and micromanage every Lord in the Reach until they can get their private Fey armies going the moment we are not looking?
Fuck. No.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Whew, that's a lot. Way more than we can currently grow.
Not very lord in the Reach, just those who already made the pact with the Court of Stars and there are hardly enough fey in each fief to make an army, many of them do not even have any particular affinity to fighting.
Alternatively you can just have Lya keep poking the magic and hoping she comes up with a less convoluted alternative.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
And thus the core of every player-centric issue with the entire concept of Fey writ large, with this entire story-arc culminating in a absurdly fuckhuge bastard child between an escort mission and a fetch-quest ever conceived.
You are basically telling us to fetch 1000 Bear asses from 100 different unique mutant subspecies and glue it together into one Major Artifact Bear Ass.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
That'd be essentially brute-forcing the issue of a fuckhuge ongoing binding ritual to thousands and thousands of creatures.100 Tier-1 trees is an insane amount.
That's also supposed to be resistant to tampering, and not break up if someone torches one, five, or a dozen of the said trees.
The numbers are reasonable, and perhaps even a bit low for the matter at hand.
Last edited:
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Viserys: "Maelor, your mission, should you choose to accept it..."
Last edited:
- Location
- Germany
This one please. Either that or we double down on Godcrafting, lay the network in the Reach and blow our first Divine Salient on this.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
I'm in favor of continued research on the Fey/Reach issue. If Lya and her crew can learn this much in a month of effort, maybe another month or two will further their understanding of the underlying structure of the Fey workings such that we can unravel, circumvent, or outright usurp them with far less effort and resources invested.
The question them becomes, how should Lya's group proceed next? Confront the Fey of the Violet Veil, vacate the immediate area, send the Orphne Fey away, etc?
The question them becomes, how should Lya's group proceed next? Confront the Fey of the Violet Veil, vacate the immediate area, send the Orphne Fey away, etc?
Well yeah, but that is because the Court of Stars does not want you guys breaking their ritual. They did their best to make this thing resilient, this is not the fey being difficult because they are fey, this is a rival faction being skilled at what they do, which is land-bound ritual magic and pact magic.
- Location
- ?????????
Would the Crown be useful in any way for this situation?
- Location
- United States
I'm hopeful the Crown can act as a conduit against the Court of Stars.
Of course, if we're able to capture this Fey Lord who's hunting Lya right now, that might be a good start.
To put this into perspective this is what the ritualists of the Court of Stars did to make their landwards:
- Anchored it to living fey rather than inanimate altars or other objects that could be rededicated, even though it would have been much easier to use the latter
- Tied the whole thing to local lords so they would suffer if the wards were damaged o broken
- Tied it to the harvest rituals in many places so that the smallfolk who mostly live off farming would protect them as they do their very livelihoods
- Location
- ?????????
The idea of sending Eryines assassins to hunt down and kill every single fey involved in these deals is sounding more and more tempting by the minute
[X] Confront the fey of the Violet Veil
[X] Confront the fey of the Violet Veil
- Location
- florida
But think of how happy the old gods will be!100 Tier-1 trees is an insane amount.
We can also sacrifice magic items.
The write up made sense to me.
That leads to lords suffering enough that Melisandre would feel a twinge of disquiet over the whole thing. Lya would feel far more than a twinge over mass assassination of mostly peaceful fey by ritual.