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[X] Azel
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Speaking of the Citadel. Have we begun work on research to pull off the chemical warfare plan? I mean after we wrap up Lys and Myr something tells me that the Maesters are going to try 'something' to at least slow us down.
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Man, the Maesters really did fuck the Targs over. I'm increasingly in favor of simply purging them, although burning the Citadel is a horrible idea.
I'd also like to use Speak With Dead on Daemon. Might as well see if he'd actually plot against us or otherwise stir up shit, or the Dance caused some character development.
Man, the Maesters really did fuck the Targs over. I'm increasingly in favor of simply purging them, although burning the Citadel is a horrible idea.
I'd also like to use Speak With Dead on Daemon. Might as well see if he'd actually plot against us or otherwise stir up shit, or the Dance caused some character development.
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Perhaps, but she'd have to work for it. We can keep an eye on her via divination, and if she intends to disobey us on this we can step in and put an end to it.
Vote closed.
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Really? I don't have trouble believing it. It's pretty clear that Rhaenyra was succumbing to the stupidity and madness that's so often plagued the Tagaryens. Paranoia, jealousy, a severe overestimation of exactly how much power and authority sitting on the Iron Throne gave you, all classic symptoms that show up again and again.
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The two things don't have to be mutually exclusive.
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Fair enough, I'm just applying Occams Razor to the issue and deconstructing Viserys logic here. He though that the Queen wouldn't have been crazy and stupid enough to write those letters, while I'm going "No, she totally would have."
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Odds are, it's a bit of both.
Rheanyra went wading into the deep end and her Grand Maester made sure to enhance the damage by some careful editing.
We really need to start researching some advanced nerve agents. All the simple stuff would damage the books...
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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*cough* memory-removing poison *cough*
Let them try do anything if they are but infants in mind.
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What's wrong with Cloudkill?
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Too small area and odd movement. We need to saturate entire buildings.
Update in beta.
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[] "If you wish to stay with Dalla, I will raise him on the eve of the reclamation, provided you will fly under my banner in turn. If you wish to join me now, I can raise him immediately, though a few days of waiting would not go amiss, since the royal menagerie might need a few days to get ready to care for a dragon of his size."
[] "If you wish to stay with Dalla, I will raise him on the eve of the reclamation, provided you will fly under my banner in turn. If you wish to join me now, I can raise him immediately, though a few days of waiting would not go amiss, since the royal menagerie might need a few days to get ready to care for a dragon of his size."
Part MMCDXXI: Of Oaths and Runes
Of Oaths and Runes
Twentieth Day of the Sixth Month 293 AC
You answer without haste, but also without hesitation: "If you wish to stay with Dalla, I will raise him on the eve of the reclamation, provided you will fly under my banner in turn. If you wish to join me now, I can raise him immediately, though a few days of waiting would not go amiss, since the royal menagerie might need a few days to get ready to care for a dragon of his size."
To this Nettles has no ready answer. Finally she replies: "You're just gonna bring my dragon back like it's snapping your fingers, trust me with it...?" The young woman shakes her head. "You're really not worried about what I'd do, are you?"
"The world has changed since the Dance," Dany interjects, still nibbling on one of the pieces of honey-sweated oat-bread with every appearance of enjoyment in an incongruous counterpoint to the gravity of her words. "Where you have seen magic's fall to dusk, now dawn is upon us all swift and fierce. Could my brother or I cast down a dragon such as Sheepstealer from the sky? Yes, and there are others likewise with the power and cunning to do so. Such mages are not so many that a dragon becomes akin to a knight's horse, but neither are there so few that only one dragonrider could counter another in the sky, like as not trading one life for another."
"That..." Nettles laughs, the sound a little unsteady though not without an undertone of relief. "That sounds better than the last time I stood before a throne and swore my oaths of fealty." The cadences of her speech shift to something practiced though long unused: "I, Nettles, born on Dragonstone, affirm anew oaths of fealty to the dragon banner, black and red its colors true."
A faint chill runs down your spine as you realize you are hearing an oath unspoken since the Dance of Dragons, one no one had thought to put to parchment, or mayhap it simply invoked such dark memories that it was willfully forgotten once fragile peace settled over the Seven Kingdoms.
"I, Viserys Targaryen, swear in turn to pay back loyalty with protection, valor with honor, and treachery with death," the words come to mind unbidden, carrying with them an echo of ringing steel.
"How did you know?" Nettles asks, bemused and a little suspicious.
"Would you believe a sword told me?" you ask with a smile willfully dispelling the somber mood.
"These days?" the young woman snorts. "Aye, it makes as much sense as bird-horses or wizards that live in trees."
***
As you return to Sorcerer's Deep you leave your newest retainer in the competent, though somewhat bemused, care of your mother. For all that separates them there is much that binds them together, from the place of their birth to stepping from Death's shadow into a world transformed, and so you nod in subtle and confident thanks to your mother as she ushers the younger woman away.
Not long after you return to your study, wishing to keep ahead of next month's wave of parchment, you hear a familiar knock on the door, firm and quick, the handle already clicking open before you can even call out to enter. A beaming Lya sweeps into the room and proudly announces: "I'm done... with the runes I mean, and it changes... everything!"
"Everything is a rather large concept, isn't it?" you tease, earning yourself a halfhearted push back into your seat.
"Bah, I just spent the last eight days making precise measurements and exacting translations. If I'm not allowed a bit of hyperbole then you're not allowed to make speeches anymore," she proclaims dramatically.
Raising your hands in playful surrender you hurriedly reply: "I would never dare to meddle, love, but I am curious—what did you find?"
On hearing her answer you must admit that she has every right to be excited. In their most fundamental nature runes allow one to create vastly more powerful enchantments at less effort and cost to the creator by anchoring themselves in the 'shared tale' of a place or object, something Dany recognizes as being akin to dream-shaping. However, where calling upon the Dream through will alone is a wild wellspring of power that only the most skilled dare to invoke, the Runes of the First Men carry one more all-encompassing aspect: they serve as a language so utterly complex and exacting that it allows no ambiguity, no cracks and fissures in the meaning of the spells, making runic objects or wards more resistant to both any purposeful attack and the slow march of ages.
Lya gains Runecraft III (Bonus Feat)
An enchanter possessing this feat can shape magic in accordance to the ancient traditions of the First Men, allowing them to use any one of the following abilities.
Legend-wrought: May reduce the cost of any enchantment process (or group of such processes) so long as they align with the zeitgeist associated with the base object (example: a famed explorer's ship taking to the sky, a mighty fortress gaining walls impossible to scale, etc). The reduction in cost depends on the scale of the legend ranging from 10%-50%. This bonus stacks with and is added after any other cost-reducing feats.
Elder Roots: May at the cost of doubling the price of an enchantment or group of enchantments (inducing but not limited to wards, traps, and lineage blessings) make the magic far more resilient, echoing back upon the world from the Dreamlands. This means that any dispel checks made against it are rolled twice, choosing the lowest result. The spell may endure for millennia of waning magic and has a 20% chance to continue to function even in an anti-magic effect. (May be improved with use and study)
First Tongue: Offers a significant boost to researching new magical effects at the cost of longer research times.
Legend-wrought: May reduce the cost of any enchantment process (or group of such processes) so long as they align with the zeitgeist associated with the base object (example: a famed explorer's ship taking to the sky, a mighty fortress gaining walls impossible to scale, etc). The reduction in cost depends on the scale of the legend ranging from 10%-50%. This bonus stacks with and is added after any other cost-reducing feats.
Elder Roots: May at the cost of doubling the price of an enchantment or group of enchantments (inducing but not limited to wards, traps, and lineage blessings) make the magic far more resilient, echoing back upon the world from the Dreamlands. This means that any dispel checks made against it are rolled twice, choosing the lowest result. The spell may endure for millennia of waning magic and has a 20% chance to continue to function even in an anti-magic effect. (May be improved with use and study)
First Tongue: Offers a significant boost to researching new magical effects at the cost of longer research times.
What do you do next?
[] Write in minor action
OOC: The reason the feat is called Runecraft III right of the bat is because the means by which you got the lore circumvented the apprentice and journeyman levels.
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Hard to say if that would help as Cloudkill is rather particular about how it moves.
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This was everything I hoped for. Elder Roots is wonderfully OP. Our wards are going to be insane.
And Legend-wrought is something we'll absolutely exploit.
Goldfish
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Mulitple Cloud Kill spells combined with a carefully directed Control Winds spell, and generous use of Smokesticks spread throughout the Citadel's campus in order to herd the Maesters into the prepared kill zones could do the trick.
A Blade Barrier in the right place could accomplish similar results, though the mess would probably be quite gory.
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Wait, there's room for improvement on Elder Roots? Holy shit!
We absolutely should by the way. Antimatic Field + naturally massive strength is a problem.
@DragonParadox how does Elder Roots interact with Dysjunction? 20% chance to resist?
We absolutely should by the way. Antimatic Field + naturally massive strength is a problem.
@DragonParadox how does Elder Roots interact with Dysjunction? 20% chance to resist?
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It's probably simpler to just kill them all one by one wearing Mind Blanks. Divine when the main Maesters are all in the tower, sneak in using high-level magic (and excellent preparations)and then do a decapitation strike.
Slaughtering the lesser Maesters can be done easily enough after all.