Vote tally - A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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[X] Plan New World Order
-[X] "It is comforting in these trying times to view the world as one is used to. To look at the past to understand the future. Yet it is unwise to be blinded by these spectres."
-[X] "You see me as a lord of pirates and brigands, for that is what a realm of the Stepstones is supposed to be. You call me slaver in deed if not word, for that is what the ambitious of Valyrian descend are supposed to be."
-[X] "As for those magisters in the free cities? They lie to themselves. It is comforting to think the days of glory are returning to them, that they will see the rise of a realm forged in their image. But those are lies all the same."
-[X] "It is not the far away hand of a distant lord that they have begun to feel under my rule, but the watchful gaze of one that takes ill to their corruption and petty squabbles. Not the privilege 'earned' by thrir heritage that I gave them, instead having Braavosi hands wield the quills that guise my realm. And their vaunted blood has mingled with that of common murderers and rapists on the headsmans axe, as befitting of their shared crimes."
-[X] "So tell me then, what reassurance could I even give you, when you see my realm npt for what it is, but what 'common wisdom' tells you it's supposed to be?"
-[X] Offer him the usual trip to SD, so that he can see 'the downtrodden slaves in all but name' and 'Valyria reborn'.
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[X] "Rather than speculate on my non-existent heirs, whose potential character remains unknown to even the gods, I would instead focus on matters of importance now."
-[X] "I asked to meet with you, Admiral Paenyl, for one simple reason; I saw continued value in allowing you to live. Let's not mince words. You are a member of a conspiracy that has set itself against my interests, one which has gone so far as to send an assassin, a Sorrowful Man, to slay one of my representatives in Myr."
--[X] "That act was not merely foolish, but outright criminal. Attempted murder by proxy, despite keeping your hands clean of spilled blood, seems no less unsavory to my sensibilities than those crimes you accuse my subjects of committing."
---[X] "Would you care to justify your actions, to defend them in some manner that does not brand you as a hypocrite?"
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[X] "What heirs? I turned myself into a Dragon. Rest assured that I can turn myself into a younger one at need. And my Companions can return my soul to my healed flesh at need should I suffer the inconvenience of death."
- [X] Use Alter Fortune if needed.
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[x] "There is one throne only to which I have a claim by right of blood and it is a far more recent claim than Old Valyria. My realm I took by conquest, not the colour of my hair, and I rule by right of performing the duties of a ruler. I provide good governance where there was bad governance or none at all. I give laws, I follow those laws and the First of those laws I learned growing up here in Braavos. The tyranny of Old Valyria is a shadow to be overcome, those who would be the heirs of that Tyranny are the enemies of my realm.
-[x] "I cannot speak of the character of heirs yet to be conceived. I will leave them robust laws and traditions and a realm that thrives because liberty thrives. I will teach them all I can. What ruler can say more?"
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[X] "Would you rather have me become a butcher, slaughtering children for the sins of their ancestors ? Would you rather I tear down all vestige of civilisation because their moral failures are not your own ? I have seen and lived in the slums of the Hidden City, should I condemn all Braavosi because some children there live more poorly than many slaves did in Lys ? Are they anymore free because their chains are not of metal ?"
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