Yep. Until we pacify Westeros, conquer Qohor, and probably diplomance the rest of Sarnor and the Summer Islands, Yi Ti in general isn't our concern unless we get reports of the Bloodstone Emperor moving in force or something.
even this is optional. As @egoo has repeatedly mentioned, we are running out of adventure locations for level ~9-10 PCs, and Yi Ti could present some heretofore unforeseen ones for both loot and XP.
Not entirely true. There are a lot of barrows to hunt down and burn out in Westeros, and even on the off chance that's fixed, Sothoryos is a neverending source of adventure. So many ruins to loot, beasts to kill, etc etc.
Even then, I'd vastly prefer to have our people do some useful work in Sarnor, Slavers Bay, the Summer Isles, Sothoryos or... basically any place where we are either looking to annex or to colonize.
Renly's Skedadlle Squad added to the turnplan.
Big true.
That was my point? Westeros has 8,000+ years of barrows we need to burn out. That's going to keep adventurers busy for a very long time.
"Don't be stupid, stupid. Burn that corpse."
Shush, that's only prevalent trait in larvae egoo's. We grow out of it quickly, and don't usually infest things at the stage.
Same here, I never understood it. You'd think a culture that survived an explicitly undead apocalypse would have the ultimate taboo against burials or catacombs or what have you.
Good enough?
Add 5 squads of Praetori (45 total) and we are good.
You know how it goes: Survive the Cryozombie Apocalypse, 20 or 30 years go by without a resurgence, people start relaxing their terror-puckered buttholes, a few more years go by and most of the original survivors have been replaced by their spoiled, entitled children who didn't have to battle Wights barefoot in the snow on the way to school each day (uphill both ways, of course), and all of a sudden it seems like a great idea to start burying their dead again, likely in defiance of the monsters they heard of in the childhood stories their parents told them.
Permanent addition too, or just for now while we are establishing the place?
Permanently. As in, they stay there until specifically pulled for other duties.
There is nothing to understand there. There is simply no IC reason for it. Burial rites are tied deeply to religious beliefs and usually completely dominated by them in absence of strong outside motivators such as disease, famine, cramped conditions, etc. Now look at how fleshed out the Red Faith and the Faith of the Seven are in canon. Pretty much not at all.
Only the no-name ones.
Good Lord. I've ALWAYS done that stuff, it's worse than I thought.
That's a Watsonian justification for a Doylist fuck-up though.
As @Duesal would say: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
1. I just wanted to point out that, while your argument is sensible, it's technically a tangent to what I was talking about.
Also just pointing out that, surprisingly, readers of fantasy aren't people with predominantly nerdy interests, outside of surface level interest. Meaning I guess people would associate Game of Thrones and George's other novels as "fantasy-adjacent", since there are obviously good settings out there that don't require angry rants every few pages once something else poorly researched or thought out comes up.