Vote tally - A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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[X] Duchess Asha Greyjoy, Captain of the IMS Hunter's Moon
-[X] Asha budgeted for over a year as a successful chain-breaker and accomplished sailor, eventually earning her own commission and captaincy through her own hard-wrung efforts.
-[X] She recognizes the need for her people to change, that the 'stupidity' tax on expected behavior from the Ironborn is simultaneously unsustainable and self-perpetuating. Only by serious efforts to integrate it with the wider realm, through trade and diplomacy, will its people fundamentally become better than reavers and brigands in the night. That their unquestioned skill at sail can be put towards better ends, such as slaying the numerous monsters crawling and slithering out of the tide. The same boldness which has been accursed in Westeros for thousands of years might instead be looked upon with respect and not scorn.
-[X] She will never be a conventional noblewoman like many a lady of the Reach but then the empire that King Viserys is building is bigger than one kingdom, it is a whole world of diverse cultures who could stand to learn things from each other. To scorn or tarnish the name and word of another without letting their actions and deeds testify to their character does no one any credit.
-[X] Asha is of course determined to build House Greyjoy into a powerful ally of House Redwyne and has all of the concrete information necessary (cue the ledgers and portfolios of some of the people who could greatly ease setting up new industries in the Iron Islands, as well as raw numbers like the amount of acreage in farmland that could be set up for cash crops and vineyards, forests and grains, all using rich volcanic soil and magic). That's all less relevant and not the focus of Asha's efforts, rather portraying a character of a serious, determined and mature woman would be.
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