A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Every time we interact with Norvos I'm struck by the desire to feed the bearded god to Yss, or possibly the OG.
Not because I hate them or something (though they do have some fucked up policies), just because their god seems small enough that he could fit into one of our deities' mouths and we haven't sacrificed a god to anyone yet.
@DragonParadox any chance our knowledge religion is high enough to tell if big beard is bite sized or not?
Not because I hate them or something (though they do have some fucked up policies), just because their god seems small enough that he could fit into one of our deities' mouths and we haven't sacrificed a god to anyone yet.
@DragonParadox any chance our knowledge religion is high enough to tell if big beard is bite sized or not?
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I love this quest.
So does that mean you're on board with plan shave and a hair cut?I love this quest.
If he's too big for the gods I actually like to eat alone we could bring in R'hllor too I guess. He'd probably be interested in having a barbecue night with pantheon.
I'm of the position that as Imperator Viserys has people for that now.
Instead of eating an energy field larger than his head raw, like some kind of savage, he can pay one of his divine business partners to grill and season it for him first.
Broadly speaking no, a god that has been worshiped since the first days of humans in Essos and with the worship of a City State and its hinterlands cannot just be swallowed even by the likes of Yss and his vast hunger.
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- Germany
I only care about the size of the meal. If you want to cook and season it, then do so for all I care.I'm of the position that as Imperator Viserys has people for that now.
Instead of eating an energy field larger than his head raw, like some kind of savage, he can pay one of his divine business partners to grill and season it for him first.
The Drowned God is also still available.
Play nice? He better have a portfolio and the initial paperwork for applying to the Imperial pantheon filled out by the next time we're in town if he knows what's good for him.
As far as I'm concerned him being too big for Yss to swallow whole just means he's on the menu at the temple of unity at market price until further notice.
Do you mean the Merling King? Cause I thought we fed the drowned god to the future!Leviathan already.
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Not yet. What we did was we stole a huge energy field to be harvested by us later when the Imperial God is up and running. And even with that the Deep Ones still have the Drowned God.
[X] Focus on trade with the Lower City
Top down is nice and all, but I prefer the idea of owning their economy before poking their politics too hard.
We're positioned really well for taking over their external trade and using price manipulation to fuck with even their most protected markets.
Sure they'll try to stop us, but as DP pointed out when we were talking about trying to place trade sanctions on them out traders are a handful of silver away from being from Qohor instead.
Once we've created a dependency we'll have more leverage to work with in their internal politics.
Plus having our local power base centered around the more secular interests might be useful for ...reasons. Like if hypothetically the priests lost power from some sort of shocking tragedy or something.
Top down is nice and all, but I prefer the idea of owning their economy before poking their politics too hard.
We're positioned really well for taking over their external trade and using price manipulation to fuck with even their most protected markets.
Sure they'll try to stop us, but as DP pointed out when we were talking about trying to place trade sanctions on them out traders are a handful of silver away from being from Qohor instead.
Once we've created a dependency we'll have more leverage to work with in their internal politics.
Plus having our local power base centered around the more secular interests might be useful for ...reasons. Like if hypothetically the priests lost power from some sort of shocking tragedy or something.
enigma1995
Gentleman Beholder
[X] Focus on trade with the Lower City
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- Germany
I'm not seeing much of a reason to play the long game here. Norvos independence is over and everyone already knows it. We just need to get the rulers to also accept it.[X] Focus on trade with the Lower City
Top down is nice and all, but I prefer the idea of owning their economy before poking their politics too hard.
We're positioned really well for taking over their external trade and using price manipulation to fuck with even their most protected markets.
Sure they'll try to stop us, but as DP pointed out when we were talking about trying to place trade sanctions on them out traders are a handful of silver away from being from Qohor instead.
Once we've created a dependency we'll have more leverage to work with in their internal politics.
Plus having our local power base centered around the more secular interests might be useful for ...reasons. Like if hypothetically the priests lost power from some sort of shocking tragedy or something.
Yomshara
Seer of what was is or will be
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what are Beards domains other the law he seems like a warrior god what with all the Axes im just wondering if he can be fit into the pantheon
[X] Build connections among the aristocracy
Edit: nevermind war mysticism and courage he should fit in fine btw was there any plans with mother earth and father sky ?
[X] Build connections among the aristocracy
Edit: nevermind war mysticism and courage he should fit in fine btw was there any plans with mother earth and father sky ?
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Interlude next because one just popped into my head
- Location
- Texas
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- He/Him
[X] Build connections among the aristocracy
Interlude MLXXXVIII: Lessons of Loss
Lessons of Loss
Fourteenth Day of the Eighth Month 294 AC
The training court of the old keep had borne witness to the sparring of champions and sorcerers, dragons in the flesh of man and fey weaving fel illusions, but it had also seen quite a few ordinary legionaries and odds were it would see many more of the former than the latter. Still there were still a few 'high folk' as the word went around who from habit preferred it to the fine sale of the palace. For one it was more private win or lose for those minded to keep their skills secret.
Generally however the reaction to being bested by a disturbingly cheerful young woman with glowing ghost axes who could flicker like a thing of mist and fractal shadows herself was not to curse quietly under her breath. Shara Rogare had come to a rather humbling realization over the last few years that no matter how fast you were with a dagger a magician always had the upper hand from having the skill to kick reality in the shins until if cried uncle and coughed up.
It had not been that much of a problem in the field until now, His Majesty's Inquisition had plenty of spell-weavers to call on and even better enchanters for whatever you might want to throw at his foes, from wand to launcher filled with death.
Yet as she touched the hilt of the shadow blade wrought long ago in far off Yi Ti, she could feel the old warrior's annoyance with her like a cloud of unseen smoke. "You must do better girl, much better. A poorer warrior she is and one without discipline."
Much ink had been spilled over the perils of ensouled weapons, mostly recounting their bloodlust, their obsessive desires that cared not for the frailties of their bearer's flesh. A lot less had been said about one of them just plain being an asshole. She slammed the dagger home and turned to Asha. "Sorry I can't go again. It's just... fuck! Now I have to get used to fighting a whole new sort of magic and my damn dagger is arguing with me because I'm not living up to his standards of murder... and now it's huffy because I called it murder."
"You know you could always toss the damn thing back into the armory to rot in the dark." The Duchess of the Iron Islands was not usually one for soft words, but what little softness she had she saved for kith as much as what remained of her kin. "Like what's it giving you? See in the dark and better aim? Poor bargain that I can do all that..." She cut herself off, misreading the thoughtful look on Shara's face. "I'm not helping am I?"
"No, I mean yes, I mean... uh... I'm thinking about something," came Shara's not very coherent response, though to be fair her thoughts were not very coherent. She had heard that some people when confronted with a major decision just took it with no second-guessing, lucky bastards. She was not so fortunate, while able to act quickly in the face of urgent need the same could not be said of times when she was just looking down a fork in the road and weighing intangible risks for unknown rewards.
Wall alright getting gutter by some Deep One monstrosity, or being turned to cinders by conjured magic wasn't that intangible, but the odds were rather hard to parse out and she hated gambling as much as her late father had liked it. She took calculated risks damn it...
Like climbing in that fucking tree had been calculated? The voice of memory taunted her. There was a part of her that still smarted that the best thing to have ever happened in her life was owed to being caught up a tree like a child stealing apples and that was what it came back to in the end. The dragon blood ran thin in Shara, she had checked, and she did not fancy her odds learning magic much higher, but if the flesh-smiths were handing out mind magic in a box... or a tub of goo as the case likely was, well she could go for that.
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A few discrete meetings and classified readings later Shara was feeling a good bit less buoyed. You had to learn how to be the sort of mind mage they were training in Gogossos, just like you learned arcane magic. Still she put down her name for when they wold figure out something like Asha's mist step and ghost axes.
OOC: Just to be clear she is not going to retrain now, she would be a awful psison, but Shara is looking to expand on her less that stellar abilities for a level 10 character. She does not think of it in those terms obviously, but sh gets fighting skill quite well. Not yet edited.
Mostly because the nobility are responsible for a significant amount of the anti-R'hllorist stuff that's been going on in the city, and I don't think the rebels we've been working with will want to let bygones be bygones.
However small their group actually is, they will have huge sympathetic audience to tell their story to, which will make connections with the Norvosi nobility political dead weight as soon as we have control of the city.
This is not to say that we should let the red faith do whatever it wants to them, but I think handling the situation will be easier if we minimize our political entanglements with the existing power structure.
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- Reno Nv
[X] Build connections among the aristocracy
Get the nobles on our side, and we can get the rest of the city to change to.
Get the nobles on our side, and we can get the rest of the city to change to.
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- Germany
I think the Dagger was teaching martial initiation?
That would propably be better than a touch of psionics, but everything is better than a pure non-magic rogue (or Shadow Thief).
That would propably be better than a touch of psionics, but everything is better than a pure non-magic rogue (or Shadow Thief).
It turns out they are rather incompatible character wise. While it is not enough to spark off an ego contest the dagger still does not think she had earned his teachings.