Vote tally - A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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[X] "The Iron Islands may not be a lucrative trading partner in the present, but it has the potential to become one in the near future. This is especially true if a few forward thinking individuals are willing to invest in it now, when the islands are poor and their allies few in number."
-[X] "Iron can of course be extracted from the islands' plentiful ore deposits. More organized and sophisticated mining operations, ones overseen by professional engineers and properly equipped workers, will yield far greater results than haphazard scrabbling currently undertaken by thralls or serfs."
--[X] "The same techniques and magic which allow the lands surrounding Sorcerer's Deep to grow bountiful crops can also be applied to the Iron Islands, even those which do not at first glance appear conducive to agriculture."
---[X] "And lastly there are sea-based goods that could be exploited, with the right tools and techniques. Pearls, for one thing, perhaps sea slugs, fish farms most certainly, and whaling would be something the hearty peoples of the islands could partake in, if they were funded. The Lords have never exploited such things as they were all ways one might become too profitable."
-[X] With a serious expression you explain that you suspect that people on these isles were manipulated, directly with powers of the mind, outright corrupting effects from bilestone, as well as indirectly through the jealousy or spite of their neighbors. While reavers grumbled and harrumphed in the Isles for years about Lord Harlaws more peaceful tendencies, he was still an Ironman who commanded respect through the weight of his lineage, and had only thrown himself full force into trade when he decided the reaving culture was madness perpetrated by monsters.
--[X] "I don't suspect they want our sympathy much less pity, but our business they would sooner take, and better for it." Mention that Lord Harlaw might be interested in the art of wine-making and have Lord Baelor point Lord Paxter his way, another betrothal in that direction might not go amiss.
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