I think dawn was just named after the legendary sword, the whole tale of how it was forged tells me its likely the original was consumed to restore the dawn.
.. that or im just salty about losing Ashbringer in the next WoW patch.
 
Just to check, can we call them 'those undead blue skinned cousin fuckers up in the hiils' or will they guess that one too?
I was just going to call them the frigid bitchs and frozen bores.
Updated list. We haven't really put a dent in all the questions we intend to ask, and we ended up with more questions than we had before, but we did get a very nice bit of lore about the Dawn Age.

1. Genius Loci, Lich, & how to successfully sacrifice both. And also if the Old Gods would be willing to work in concert with Yss and the Merling King.
2. Get Dark Sister and that staff of Weirwood Bloodraven showed you in a vision, as well as learning how to use the staff and learning of all effects (and finding out if there's anything more to Dark Sister than being a sword of Valyrian Steel)

3. Learn the Day of Change ritual to sacrifice magic items to the Heart Trees.
4. Learn of the going-ons Beyond the Wall. Learn of the resurgence in magic among the Wildlings, of... other things.
5. Learn of the surviving Children and speak to them, and of course try to recruit them. You could probably get their numbers back up. (I mean, we're getting access to Limited Wish and have been given a green light by DP to grant fertility.) If the Children aren't completely determined to end their own species they should at least be interested. More than that you need a reliable druid of the Old Gods to help with the Genius Loci sacrifice. But you would, of course, welcome any and all Children of the Forest who decide to make the journey south with you.

6. Get a rundown of the politics Beyond the Wall, of the various Wildling Clans, of the giants (basically a groundwork for Viserys to get ready to start diplomancing). As for the giants, ask what species of giants they are.
7. Learn of all the supernatural dangerous that have been popping up, and how the locals have or haven't been dealing with them.
8. IC learn of the Others. Nevermind, you already know of the Others. You've known for years. IC learn of the Others' powers, motivations, hierarchies, society, weaknesses, etc. You've known beings of magic to be wholly immune to lesser mortal weapons. Would any of the weapons you currently have access to be enough to harm such creatures?

9. The Night's Watch obviously needs all the help it can get. Can't the Old Gods hand out blessings in preparation for the Long Night? Making Night's Watch men into Rangers, Druids, Bards, Barbarians and basically anything that will help them. This should be well within their abilities, yes? Also, ask about skinchangers, wargs, and those with greensight. This is well-known lore of the Children of the Forest and the First Men. What can you tell us of these and how may we wield them as a weapon against the Long Night?
10. Tiamat had an Aspect present on Prime Material, which we then defeated, but she was trying to awaken dragonlords that have slumbered since the day of the Doom. She successfully made away with two of the eight sleepers. We managed to kill the third, and recruit the fourth to help us fight Tiamat. The remaining sleepers were sealed away. Any advice on dealing with the Blackfyre now that we're entering the realm of existential crisis?
11. Tiamat once tempted us with the secret knowledge of the Great Other's weakness.
Have you any ideas on what that could have been?
13. We have received lore from beyond this world of how Prime Material came to be, and how the Singers first populated this world. The lore tells of how a serpent created by a fire god who coveted Prime Material betrayed her master to the Singers. After the powers that be banished the fire god to the void, the serpent convinced the Singers to make her a guardian of Prime Material, and they granted her divinity, and she grew great and terrible with many heads. Was this Tiamat? And did she go to war against the Old Gods? Proceed to learn of that war.
14. We have learned of a great catastrophe called the Sundering, and have reason to believe it was the fault of the Chromatic Dragons. Apparently it was so terrible that it severed Prime Material from the other planes. The Upper Planes supposedly suffered the most. The Fields of Elysium sundered, Mount Celestia crushed to rubble. What can you tell us of that?
15. When she became a cleric of Tiamat, Dany saw a vision of Chromatic Dragons battling the oddest... metal-colored dragons, and in my own dragon dreams I dreamed of a kobold with scales of gold in proto-Valyria who helped the early Valyrians overthrow their chromatic dragon overlords. In the dream when the kobold was asked of his god, he would only say that it was the god of the "Lost Dragons". And when we asked an Archon (of the celestial kind) who became our ally of these metal dragons, they told us the name "Bahamut". What do you know of the war between the two kinds of dragons, and why did the metal-colored dragons seemingly lose? What do you know of Bahamut?
16. Who is the Great Other and how did he come to be?
17. In the same vein of the last few questions, ask the Children of the Forest of their tales of the Dawn Age, the Heroic Age, the Long Night, and the Andal Invasion and record them in an empty book. Remember everything you don't record and resolve to write it down later at the earliest opportunity.

18. Tell us of the gods of elder days. For example, the great serpent Yss now resides in our island. What were the gods from his time? In a quest he gave us to find something deep within Sothoryos, the path there takes us past the remnants of a spider god's temple. Who is that god?
19. Learn of how Bloodraven grew into his own magic before magic went through its great rebirth.
20. Inquire if he knows anything of Valyrian lore, or dragonlore. You've come into possession of a dragon's egg and you're preparing to start hatching it, and you'd like to avoid a Summerhall incident.
21. As a followup, ask if he knows what caused Summerhall.
22. What Targaryen heirlooms does Bloodraven know of, be they in Dragonstone, Summerhall, or the Red Keep? Just as the lands Beyond the Wall have the Builder's Anchor, are there any magics in the ancestral Targaryen holdings?
23. Ask if he knows anything of the properties of dragonsteel. You've come into possession of a considerable amount of it over the course of your efforts to keep the world from being overrun, and you have some vague notions of the properties and forging/reforging methods through echoes of memory in your blood and through observation and experience, but it's a far thing from actual mastery of the subject. Perhaps in his long years Bloodraven has learned something you have not? (Known: Valyrian Steel is heated in dragonbreath and quenched in fiendsblood, and also the blood of lots and lots of slaves. It can only be reforged in blood. It is smoky grey-black in color. It always holds its edge. It corrodes at all other metals. It has a special affinity for fire enchantments, and with armor it can be used to shrug lesser spells off. Great spikes of Valyrian Steel were used to harness the power of the Fourteen Fires.).
24. Ask about the "Shadow of the Wall" you heard about from Vellamo the Selkie.
25. How on earth was the Builder's Anchor built? What did it cost? How long will it last? Is there anything we need to do to make sure it's not destroyed by the Others? ... Is it bound to the Wall?
26. Ask about locations of great magical power, essentially places that we could loot/restore or use in some way to power the Old Gods.
27. Ask about Casterly Rock. From what you've learned there appears to be a strong connection with the Plane of Earth in the depths of the castle. What does Bloodraven know?
28. What secrets went into building Runestone, Winterfell, Storm's End, and the Wall?
29. Talk to him about your recent truce with the Deep Ones and your battle with Devils in White Harbor, and also about how the Devils attempted to assassinate Renly Baratheon during your parlay with the man, which would have forever tarnished your image had you succeeded.
30. Further elaborate on the Renly situation in general, on what Renly is, and on what agreements you've come to with him and what you resolve to do.
31. Now that it's safe to do so, ask about the Wildfire in King's Landing. How unstable is it? How do we move it? Could the Old Gods move it with a potent enough sacrifice? Where does Wildfire originate and how is it made? We know that Aerys brought the Alchemist's guild from Volantis, but what about before that?
32. What does Bloodraven know of the "Deceiver"? What does he know of the Doom? You've had this vision of the Doom: What exactly did you see? The connection with Wildfire is... concerning.
33. Why exactly did the dragons just get smaller and die out? It's been whispered that the Dragonpit is cursed. Is there any truth to that? It was built on the ashes of the Sept of Remembrance, and you've recently learned that the gods are all real...
34. Waymar Royce's younger sister, Ysilla Royce, has in her eagerness to reunite with her exiled brother and her ignorance of the danger, bargained away a favor to one of the clansmen who then took that as payment in exchange for passing a message to us through the Heart Trees. Since the message came through the Heart Trees, you've no doubt that Bloodraven is aware of the situation in some fashion. Bring up the subject and make it clear that if Bloodraven's pawn uses her favor over Ysilla to force her into an unacceptable situation you will not tolerate it, and neither will Waymar.
35. What plans are in place for the Starks? They alone of all the Lord Paramounts still worship the Old Gods, and earlier Bloodraven gave us a prophecy that if we aided them in their time of greatest need they would be loyal to us in gratitude.
36. Dany has seen the hand of the Old Gods upon the youngest Stark girl. What's going on there?
37. Jon Snow's mother, Lyanna Stark, lingers to see her son safe. She's not quite as mad as a ghost should be, but she's very irrational and seems insistent on blaming us for the sins of Rhaegar and Aerys, and wishes for us to stay away from our nephew. Obviously we disagree with her desires. Any advice?
38. Tell us how to train druids. Better yet, help us do it. For example, we've two young girls--Reva and Liset--who can already hear the voices of the Old Gods. Could you train them as druids? Could you send one of the Singers to help us train Druids in preparation for the coming Long Night?
39. We have seen two example of First Man wards through the dreamlands, first in Runestone and next in Winterfell. Can you tell us all known effects of these wards and what magics it would take to build wards of our own?
40. I'm sure you've noticed by now, but we have our own demiplane. This demiplane has a dracolich bound within it, serving as some sort of power source for the wards. Unfortunately it does not like being bound and has made the transport of the demiplane difficult. Can you help us find the phylactery so we can get rid of it?
41. Fish for information that Bloodraven has been gathering on the various supernatural going-ons in Westeros. He told us that his vision is clouded in Essos where the "Ifequevron" dwell (see if he'll tell us anything more about them), but that should not be the case for Westeros itself. This is our chance to learn of current events in a way that completely surpasses mere rumor and hearsay.
42. Bloodraven might not be able to see in Essos due to there being no Heart Trees that have grown there in an age, but he can see in Westeros. What great secrets and important does he know that he can share with us? Just as Ned Stark has the secret of Jon Snow not being his bastard son, but in truth being his nephew, what secrets are there in Westeros that would bring the Seven Kingdoms to its knees? What of Houses Lannister and Baratheon?
43. Ask if there is any truth to the legend of the Baratheons being descended from the Storm God through Elenie Stormborn's marriage to Durran Godsgrief. How might such a bloodline manifest? Has it manifested anywhere among the Baratheons or their bastards?
44. Regarding the Seven, they have not been complacent. While in Dorne we learned of a Cleric of the Seven running around and healing people and the like:

And recently in the Stormlands we met a young Brienne of Tarth who was blessed by the Warrior, a budding paladin. With Brienne in particular we would prefer to slowly turn her away from the Seven, to both take away a powerful follower of the Seven and so we don't have to fight the poor girl. For the others, that's up in the air since we don't know them, but we would see turning them also away from the Seven as a good alternative. The question is thus: how many other clerics and paladins of the Seven are there? And where are they? Which of them will give us the greatest problems?
45. What does Bloodraven know of the nature of the Seven themselves? Not the corrupt and decadent Faith in King's Landing and Oldtown, not the zealous preachers in backwater hamlets, but the actual gods.
46. Along those lines, apparently a shipment of tainted grain poisoned hundreds in Dorne, and we traced the crime back to someone from the Faith in Oldtown. What can you tell us of the schemes of the Faith?
47. Speak on Zherys, Bennero, the Mysterium, and the Red Priests. Speak of the slumbering Land Wyrm under Volantis, and the echo of the dead god Meraxes... and the rumors of the blessings of Meraxes during Volantis' campaign up the Rhoyne. Ask for any insights and advice.
48. Ask about the gods of Old Valyria, what their domains were, what they demanded of their followers, etc.
49. Speak of Oberyn Martell's daring campaign to raid the ruined cities of the Rhoyne for lost magics. Ask what dangers he might have to expect depending on which cities he's raiding, so you can later pass said information to Oberyn via Whispering Brazier.
50. Ask of the past Kings Beyond the Wall and anyone of the sort building their power in present day. Ask of any Free Folk Bloodraven knows of whom you could recruit and train and equip as a monster-slayer to serve while you are otherwise occupied (wandering hero style). Also ask what his plans are for the Free Folk and the Night's Watch so you can avoid messing them up with your interference.
51. Ask of the giants gathering in great numbers at the Fist of the First Men.
52. Ask of the great Bear Spirit that has been troubling the Crab Men and the Night's Watch both. Is it related to the Old Gods? It seemed to be intimately familiar with the coming Long Night.
53. Ask of the "Winterborne" and what monsters have become Other-Touched aside from the Peryton you battled. To be clear, this is asking for a comprehensive list of what we're going to be going up against.
54. What was the Great Fire that the First Men claimed to be fleeing from when they fled the east? Was it dragons? The Fire God we asked of? Tiamat?
55. What was the weapon the Children forged from the spark of the Fire from the East?
56. What do you know about Dawn, the sword forged of starmetal, wielded by House Dayne? What special properties is it known to have? What legends do you know of the Sword of the Morning?
57. What do you know of the flaming sword Lightbringer and Azor Ahai, the man the Red Priests claim drove back the Long Night? What do you know of the Last Hero? Were Azor Ahai and the Last Hero the same person?
58. What do you know of the great Empire of the Dawn in the far east? It is said that the Long Night started there as well due to corruption and evil, and the empire fell and shattered into many smaller kingdoms. What do the Children know of this?
59. What were the great Giant's Towers built for and why? Are there any left aside from the Giant's Lance, and if so what could be found there? How were such towers built in the first place?
60. Do the Giants of the North still possess any of these lost arts? Is this how they were able to help build the Wall?
61. What is the Song? How does it work? What does it take for one to learn to be a Singer? Can one learn to be a Singer? What powers do the Singers have? Does the Song still slumber or has it awoken alongside magic?
62. Ask Bloodraven to help complete the Fine Sealskin Map of the Lands Beyond the Wall, marking tribes and ruins and especially magical activity like particularly haunted ruins or sealed away magical artifacts that he wouldn't mind us recovering or that he would prefer that we recover before anyone or anything else manages to.
63. Of the ruins Beyond the Wall, ask Bloodraven to give a list of ruins that could be explored by beginner adventurers, then a list that could be explored by slightly more powerful adventurers, and lastly the places that can only be safely explored by someone of our own power. Ask for the same information of any places south of the Wall.
64. Resurrect Rhaella, and ask if we can come to Bloodraven to resurrect Elia and Rhaenys as well (and inquire about what that would cost and what chance we would have with bringing Rhaenys back).

Bloodraven is going to kill us.
 
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As long as they are set up for a proper apocalypse I'm willing to leave them their gravitas and actually call them the Others.
Desire to fight them might play into that...
 
As long as they are set up for a proper apocalypse I'm willing to leave them their gravitas and actually call them the Others.
Desire to fight them might play into that...

It's kinda like Voldemort getting the taboo going? It's not a question of gravitas, or of respect, just a plain bad idea.

Also, I thought that the priest of the great others that want existence to end that we brought back - I thought her patrons were involved in this apoclypse. Apparently they're seperate?
 
Either Burny was a lot more influential/powerful back then, and he essentially had an Empire of LE Fire Clerics subjugating Essos, or the Great Fire is talking about the Dragons and how they rose and began an empire through subjugating the Valyrians.
Why not both? I might be mixing up fan stories but wasn't one of the Valyrian gods tossed out for being an asshole? Maybe burny tried a coup and started up a major war?
 
28. What secrets went into building Runestone, Winterfell, Storm's End, and the Wall?

Should also ask about:

  • Red keep (Myrcella stumbled upon a Warlock granting being.)
  • Dragonstone (what did those pesky lions steal, does anything remain.)
  • Blackwoods Heart Tree and why it is... leafless.
@ Rhaella, how about leaving her and ser Richard with Aemon if we have time enough for further encounters.

@ Darksister, Jon Snow or Rhaella could wield it maybe. Or we just never use it in a fight but walk around with it while wielding the weirwood staff.
 
Should also ask about:

  • Red keep (Myrcella stumbled upon a Warlock granting being.)
  • Dragonstone (what did those pesky lions steal, does anything remain.)
  • Blackwoods Heart Tree and why it is... leafless.
@ Rhaella, how about leaving her and ser Richard with Aemon if we have time enough for further encounters.

@ Darksister, Jon Snow or Rhaella could wield it maybe. Or we just never use it in a fight but walk around with it while wielding the weirwood staff.
We really are that nephew you know the one you love to death but dread speaking to and having visiting.
 
Should also ask about:

  • Red keep (Myrcella stumbled upon a Warlock granting being.)
  • Dragonstone (what did those pesky lions steal, does anything remain.)
  • Blackwoods Heart Tree and why it is... leafless.
@ Rhaella, how about leaving her and ser Richard with Aemon if we have time enough for further encounters.

@ Darksister, Jon Snow or Rhaella could wield it maybe. Or we just never use it in a fight but walk around with it while wielding the weirwood staff.

I want the staff for Viserys. And we'd be better off grabbing someone else to leave with Rhaella if we go back up. Garin would be my first thought.
 
Part MDCXXV: Songs of the Flame
Songs of the Flame

Eighteenth Day of the Twelfth Month 292 AC

The night is restless, filled with strange starts and heavy silences, yet nothing stirs beyond the light of the campfire. After some cajoling Soft Strider had agreed to take on the spell of tongues herself, though she wryly tells you that speaking the tongues of men is akin to swinging from branch to branch with a basket of rocks on her head

A little after midnight a single snowy white owl ghosts over your camp. "A herald, but one unknowing," your guide soothes your worries. "Not all who loves the cold are tool of the Darkness in the North. Even winter has its place in the workings of the world were it not paired with ancient malice."

"Do they fear fire?" Dany asks, looking into the crackling flames as though to divine an answer.

"The least of them do, those whom the ice holds and keeps, but of those who are ice, born of coldest bitterest north, common flame will not serve yet..." A flash of a smile that for an instant reminds you of Glyra. "The earth holds many secrets to its breast." So saying she reveals a dagger with a grip of carved bone and the blade of gleaming dragonglass. "Fire spun to stone that even deepest ice must fear its edge. Alas that it is no common thing..."

You laugh, and upon seeing the curiosity in gold silted eyes you explain, "My thanks for the first bit of pure good tidings since we crossed the Wall. There is a place I can reach with sorcery where dragonglass is as common stone, entire wastelands are carpeted with its dust."

"Guard well that path then, Singer of Flame," Soft Strider says, eyes wide in surprise.

"Why do you call me that?" you ask in turn. "I fear that I've little skill in such things."

"More precisely you could not carry a song in a bucket," Dany jests.

For some reason your small guide seems to find that expression very amusing. For the first time you hear her laugh in earnest, the sound bright and brief like a glimpse of the sun through the clouds.

"The Song is the the world and its shaping, not with tools but with the will of a mind that dreams true... magic." She says the last word with faint puzzlement, as though not quite believing you would use something so brief for the concept.

For a short while there is silence, then Ser Richard speaks: "What about the giants? Are they trying to dream up some great stone tower at the Fist of the First men?" You suspect he is imagining you somehow ending up in the bad graces of an army of magic-wielding giants and is preparing for the worst.

"Nothing so grand, those days are done," Soft Strider answers. "The giants gather for they have felt the coming Night and wish to choose one among them to go to the Wall and treat with men and be allowed south."

"There will be a small army of giants heading to the Wall soon?" you ask worried.

"Giants are not men, they are not hasty..." She smiles a little. "Even your word for being too quick is too quick." With a shake of the head she finishes. "It will take them years to decide upon their envoy, for he must be brave and cunning both."

"They are scared of the Watch?" Ser Richard asks.

"The Wall," comes the answer, a little hesitantly. "It is a place of ill omen for them." Soft Strider raises one clawed hand. "I do not know why, our songs do not tell of it. Now, you have asked many questions of what was and what is, and in the doing you have made me curious of who you are travelers from the south who bear the raven's blood and sing with a tongue of fire?"

[] Write in answer

OOC: No encounter, so here's some more exposition and a chance to make a friend.
 
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