Before Dawn

[Hiver]

The winds of the blizzard howled, and I beat my wings as the weather buffeted at me from the right.

The land beneath was dark, the forest barely visible through the whirling snow. It had slowly started to clear out. Less and less trees as they gave way for open spaces.

I could feel the heat of Alexis and her spell even through my armor, a thick furcloak pulled tight around her and she was hunched over, pressed as close to my armor as she could as protection against the wind and the cold, making it easier for her heating spell.

"How much longer!?" She yelled loudly, barely piercing the wind.

"Can't be much further." I answered with a spun illusion, throwing my voice to next to her ear to make myself heard. "I can see it."

And so I could. Far away by the horizon I could catch glimpses of white through the thick snow. White against white it stretched from left to right.

The Wall.

Resting on my wings, I let Ren and Sheila catch up. Looking to the side, I could see Rengosa adjusting her flight path, sliding up only twenty meters from my wing tip, looking in my direction in turn.

"How is she doing?" I asked with an illusion of sound next to her ear.

"Handling it, she is using a heat sphere." Ren answered back the same way. "We should have made camp, taken another day instead of pressing on."

"I know."

Damn it, I knew. But it was not much further, I thought we would make it before the storm hit.

"Race you?" Ren added with a draconic grin.

"...Oh you are so on."

With that, I beat my wings powerfully against the wind, pushing harder. Even so, the larger dragoness slowly started to pull ahead. Bigger wings, more power. The wind hit her harder, though, but not enough for it to matter.

Growling softly, I considered pulling on magic and weaving a spell to make myself stronger but decided against it.

That would be cheating.

Besides, Ren would notice and do the same and then I would just be falling behind again.

Instead, I beat my wings harder, anticipating the gusts of wind, trying to catch them with the downbeat of my wings to present a lower surface area when they hit.

Not that it actually mattered. Ren was just as good of a flyer and her size didn't matter more than her bigger and stronger wings.

To the right, there was a fortress built against the side of the the ice wall, but instead of setting course there, I started to pull up, following Ren into the air across the wall.

This thing was amazing.

Hundred of kilometers long, it stretched as far as I could see in both directions. Weaving a spell, I activated the magical sight, allowing me to see magic.

Bristling with magic, it shone with it. Shimmering just beneath the ice it almost shone like the sun. I had never seen anything like it. Not even the Nexus, and that was made up of thousands upon thousands of tons of floating stone rings powered by leylines.

This thing... it had to pull magic directly from multiple laylines unless it was powered by an outright god or something. And that would have to be a capital G god. No pansy-arse Greek bugger in a toga.

I'm talking Titans or even more powerful.

Following Ren, I canceled my magic sight as we pulled over the edge of the wall and I could only gasp as the sight that awaited on the other side.

The ground seemed like it was... moving. It was like looking at a ant hill.

Undead. Undead were swarming in the snow on the other side of the wall. So that's what it was keeping back.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck!

This was bad. This was worse than bad, this was...

This was worse than what I'd heard about the war against the Lich King.

"Oh god." Alexis breathed. "There are so many..."

"You can see them?" I asked, sparing her a quick glance before refocusing on the ground.

Alexis shook her head. "Not clearly. Just... a moving mass on the ground. Are they..."

"Undead. They are undead." I said and pulled up hard again, returning to the wall where several men were standing, staring at us.

Letting Rengosa and Sheila take the lead, we returned across the wall, diving down the other side and banking to the left towards the fortress.

Even so, I couldn't get what I just saw out of my mind.

No wonder we flew over supply trains moving in this direction on our way here. This was worse than I had ever considered. If it wasn't for this wall, they would have overrun this continent already, if not the entire planet.

Somehow, it kept them back, kept them from swarming up and over. Or around. It was the only explanation.

We slowly circled above the fortress, Castle Black. Torches were moving back and forth, men was running around, manning walls and getting ready in general.

Better let them get ready for our arrival, it might make them less skittish. Good thinking, Sheila.

A couple of minutes later, Ren started to sink lower and I followed her through the air.

Sheila, it's all up to you now.





AN// And a pile of thanks to Grey Rook for betaing this part.

 

[Tisaku]

wanted to see the well.

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wall

of a demons back on Azeroth.

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some demons

"Is there anything else we can do for you, Master Atreus?" Karl of House Rosebark said as he stopped by the port leading out onto the streets. He was the leader of the King's Landing branch and had been recruited personally by Roger Halloway.

So he could be trusted... to a certain degree. But he was a local, the youngest son of one of the minor nobles, meaning that he had other loyalties as well. I did trust him to know better than to hand out Consortium secrets, however.

Simply because he knew exactly what kind of things we could do. I might not exactly like the mob mindset, but in this case having a big stick as well as paying people very well as a carrot was... useful.

Sometimes I just wish we could staff these places with servants of the Blue Dragonflight just for security. But possible leaks was worth not needing to deal with their worship every time I turned up.

Sheila nodded. "We have, thank you, Karl. We should be able to bring information back as soon as possible."

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-Missing scene fragment here?-

, a thick furcloak pulled tight

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[Pensive Rumination]

The ground seemed like it was... moving. It was like looking at a ant hill.

Undead. Undead were swarming in the snow on the other side of the wall. So that's what it was keeping back.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck!

This was bad. This was worse than bad, this was...

This was worse than what I'd heard about the war against the Lich King.

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...yeah, these guys don't need enchanted equipment and potions. I think at this stage they'd more be in the market for bombs and various other weapons of mass destruction.

 

[ShadeHawk]

I don't know the setting, but what animates the undead in GoT?

BTW. @Hiver, if Atregos wants to return to his Earth, one possibility is coming across another multi-plane / multi-universe / multi-dimensional setting with Earth (and usually characters from Earth) there. Those include, but are not limited to:

• Amber Chronicles setting (10+ books) by Roger Zelazny, assuming that he stumbles upon one of characters that know how to shadow-walk to Earth (Corwin, Merle, Luke,...)
• Spiral trilogy of novels by Michael Scott Rohan, probably somewhen before "Cloud Castles"... what's nice that Spiral is often used for moving cargo, avoiding blockades (but not only), and the main character works in trade firm "by day"
• worldwalkers in "The House Between the Worlds" novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley

I've included only those that lead to fantasy rather than SF words, and where character from Earth can freely return to it.

 

[Korkator]

I second Amber, at the very least; I don't think Hiver would write any of these suggestions to have Atreus' Earth, but something that most MTG fanfiction carefully and annoyingly avoids is worlds/planes that are already connected by something similar to Planeswalking. I mean, you'd expect that as the reach of Planeswalkers grew and they searched farther from familiar planes, the chances of them finding something reaching similar ways would increase steadily-- and indeed! We already see this in canon in the form of the Eldrazi finding Planeswalkers*, yet I haven't seen stories following up on that.

*The Logrus of Chaos and Pattern of Order would probably make for much nicer meetings, though. Also both of them would actively oppose things like Eldrazi encroaching on their own network of planes and plane-likes.

 

[Hiver]

I beat my wings hard against the powerful wind as my claws touched the snow-covered ground before I folded my wings, looking around.

Castle Black was not very impressive. For something built with no magic it was nice enough, I suppose, matching anything back on Earth from the same level of technology. Well, considering where it was built it was pretty impressive, but the castle in King's Landing put it to shame. But it was still a big structure.

But next to the magical wonder that was The Wall... yeah.

I kept a close eye on the soldiers manning the walls, however. Some of them had bows even if they were in the minority. Most were armed with swords or spears.

I trusted our armor to keep me and Ren safe long enough to get the magic going if needed to. Sheila was a bigger problem, but her robes were enchanted as well and she had her soul stone.

Alexis had whatever bullshit magic Ajani had taught her. She was really good at the whole protective magic thing.

We had had practice duels in the past and while I could dispel her shields and protections, I had never been able to break one with brute force.

Even so, I kept an eye out.

Ren lowered herself a bit further, raising a front leg to give Sheila a place to put her foot as she climbed down onto the ground, smoothing out her cloak and robes.

I followed her lead, allowing Alexis to climb down as well to join her while the welcoming committee approached through the whirling snow.

The lead was an older man, short graying hair, a scar down his right cheek, wearing the black armor of the Night's Watch as well as a thick fur cloak, similar to Alexis's and Sheila's. If anything, his seemed even thicker and heavier.

Stopping a couple of meters from Sheila, he rested his hand on the hilt of his sword. "Identify yourself, dragon rider." he demanded after a couple of seconds.

Sheila reached up and pushed her hood back. "I am Sheila Fel of the Azure Consortium."

"Fel?"

She nodded. "Indeed. The Azure Consortium is here to offer trade."

"Azure Consortium. I have heard of you. Strange magics and mysteries." He said, looking warily at me and Ren. "Rumors of dragons. It seems there are others than the Targaryens that have them now. I am Allister Thorne, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch."

Sheila bowed slightly. "A pleasure, Lord Commander. May I introduce Alexis Castle, my companion. And Rengosa and Atregos."

As Alexis bowed, I shifted my wings and settled down in the snow with a yawn. I'm so glad I worked translation rings into the design of the armor or Ren and I wouldn't be able to understand a word they said.

Lord Commander Thorne nodded. "May I offer you accommodations? You must be tired after your journey." he finally offered.

"Thank you, that would be much appreciated." Sheila answered with a smile. "It has been a long ride."

"...I'm afraid we have no accommodations for your mounts. They would frighten the horses to death."

Alexis nodded. "They are fine where they are, Lord Commander. They don't mind the cold. They ate on the way here, but some water would be appreciated."

And such a nice meal it was too. That was one tasty buck.

"Yes, of course. The men will see to it."

As Sheila and Alexis followed the soldiers into the main building, Ren moved closer and settled down next to my side, shuffling her wings again before she murmured in draconic: "I do not like them leaving our sight like this, even if it is according to plan."

"We can trust them to take care of themselves." I answered back softly in the same language. "If there is trouble, we would notice. Mostly by Sheila setting everything on fire and from a demonic maniac running around with a large axe."

Ren snorted in amusement and settled down with her head across my front legs. Giving one of her horns a nip, I settled down as well, weaving a scrying spell. It was a more advanced one, allowing me to analyze the magic in the environment.

It was... impressive.

I wasn't just seeing the magic in The Wall, I was feeling it. It was buzzing like a powerline. But now when I was looking closer, I could notice fluctuations.

The Wall was not perfect.

It had flaws, imperfections. Waves of energy slowly flowing through it, reinforcing, repairing. One part of it that I assumed was repelling undead. But as powerful it was, it was not perfect.

The waves of energy moved slowly back and forth along the wall. If the pattern was consistent, at times there would be blank spots. Spots where the enchantment would weaken to almost nothing for days at a time.

"Whoever did this was good." I murmured softly to Ren. "Very, very good and incredibly powerful. I don't know who could have done something like this... Malygos might have. Perhaps a couple of the Flight Leaders working together. But it's not perfect. If I needed to, I think I could dismantle the enchantment."

It had weak spots, where the waves of energy intersected. It wouldn't take that much, relatively speaking, to cause an interference pattern that would resonate along the entire wall.

...Relatively little in this case being a full-blown magic ritual and crystals stored to the brim with power. I just didn't have the pure Oomph needed to do it on my own even to break it at a weak spot... not without draining myself dry and possibly causing The Wall to detonate. But I could see how it could be done, even if I doubted that anyone but possibly Kalecgos could do it on his own.

"Can you improve it?" Ren whispered back and I sighed.

"...I do not think so." I finally admitted and canceled my spell. "I can see the problems, but I don't think I could make it any better even if I had the power. It is such a massive enchantment that this is the best way to do it."

The worrying thing was that during the weakened spots just after the waves of power passed, it could be possible for the undead to climb and cross it.

I suppose that was what the Night's Guard was for. Even so, this was bad. Because that was a ton of undead on the other side of that wall. And not just humans either, I had seen giants.

Enchanted armor and weapons would be of great use to them. So would golems. It wouldn't take much to make some basic, voice-commanded golems. Simple iron and stone and a couple of gems would be enough. Potions, of course.

I wond-

Some movement caused me to open my eyes fully to look at a group of terrified members of the Night's Watch approaching, carrying what looked like a pair of barrels filled with water while looking ready to run away if either of us moved.

We were not that scary, were we?





AN//One big thanks to Grey Rook for betaing this section.

 

[Simonbob]

 

[Hiver]

As I won't be here at normal time tomorrow, next part is ready for betaing.

 

[esotericist]

As I won't be here at normal time tomorrow, next part is ready for betaing.

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Did you already get someone, or do you still need someone to look over it?

 

[Hiver]

A sound pulled me awake and I opened my eyes before shaking the layer of snow off myself with a yawn. Ren didn't wake me, she took the latest watch so I wasn't worried.

The sight however made me tilt my head in question. A guy in armor was standing maybe ten meters across from Alexis, his sword drawn. He wasn't dressed like somebody in the Watch.

Members of the Watch was standing all around, watching. Sheila was standing on a raised pathway, leaning against the railing, seemingly bored.

Yawning again, I raised my head, watching with interest. What in the world?

Shifting to look to the side, I gave Ren a curious look.

Ren shifted her wings in a bit of a shrug and whispered in draconic, "Some sort of duel. I believe the male insulted Alexis somehow."

Oh. Yeah. Well that would do it.

Yawning again, I settled down with my head on my front legs, watching idly. Just a challenge. Then again, challenge implied the outcome was somehow in question.

Somebody was about to have a bad day.


With a yell, he stepped forward, swinging his sword towards her. Alexis didn't even bother drawing her sword. She slipped to the side of the swipe, ducking over the next one, dancing around him with a small grin.

"Come on, big boy? I thought you said something about 'handling me'? Show me what you got then!"

Ah. So that was the deal.

What a moron. He knew she flew in on a dragon and knew who she worked for? Well, as far as he knew anyway.

He spun around and brought his sword up in a powerful chop with a yell.

Alexis turned her head slightly in my direction and I felt magic flow across me. It would be easy to disrupt but I trusted her so I allowed the spell to complete.

Her eyes lit up with a faint white light and she stepped forward, reaching up to catch the sword by the hilt.

It was like he hit a steel wall and got caught in a vice. Crying out, He tugged hard twice but nothing happened. Her arm didn't even shake.

She simply put her other hand on his chest plate and pushed quickly forward, causing the guy in the armor to fly backwards into a tumble, letting go of his sword.

The light in her eyes faded away and the spell on me went with the light.

Purring in amusement, I raised my head to regard the guy in the armor as he struggled to get back onto his feet.

That was a nice trick. She used the spell to copy my strength and durability. While she was under the power of the spell, she would have been as strong and tough as a dragon.

Very nice spell.

Alexis gave his sword a test swing and then tossed it over to him, "Cheap crap. Go play with your toys somewhere else," she said, before turning her back and starting towards the stairs to join Sheila.

Bending down, he picked his sword up and let out a yell, charging her.

Growling, I got up, but Ren's wing sliding across my back stopped me from interfering. I shot her a annoyed look before I settled down again.

A challenge was one thing. Attacking one of my friends from behind was another.

I didn't need to bother. Alexis avoided his attack and backhanded him hard enough to send him to the side as her eyes flashed with white mana, his sword going flying, spinning through the air to clatter onto the stone covered ground.

Shaking my head, I sighed.

Well, couldn't argue he didn't deserve that. That wouldn't kill him, but if that spray of teeth was an indicator, it was at least a broken jaw if not a broken neck.

Idiot. Why did he think that would have been more effective than his last attack?

Sheila started to make her way over to Alexis and down the stairs, the Lord Commander... Thorne... followed along. He sighed and shook his head as he regarded the knocked out guy before motioning for his men to help him before continuing after Sheila.

"I do wish you had not done that, as impressive as that was. He is the representative of House Bolton."

"Then he shouldn't have tried to grab my chest." Alexis responded as they reached us.

Sheila shook her head and put her hand on my head, "Okay there, Atregos?"

Raising my head, I have her a quick lick across the face before she pull out of range. Sheila grinned and pushed my muzzle to the face, "Stop that!" she laughed and then walked over to Rengosa, successfully dodging her lick before turning to Lord Commander Thorne who kept his distance from us, "Perhaps we should start discussing business?"

Thorne nodded, "Perhaps we should head back inside? Business is better discussed over wine and a warm fire than out in the cold."

I wove a small illusion by Sheilas ear, "Go see what they are interested in. Perhaps golems?" I spell whispered.

Sheila raised a eyebrow at me and then nodded, turning to him, "We should. Alexis?"

Alexis hmmed and then shook her head, "I want to see the top of the wall if that's possible?"

Thorne nodded, "We will find someone to escort you, Lady Castle." he said before he grinned, the scar on his cheek distorting, "If we can find someone brave enough to approach you."

That caused Ren to purr in amusement and get up, stretching like a two ton cat before settling down again. To his credit, Thorne didn't back away when she moved.

I did my best not to show I understood what they said. But that was pretty funny. As Sheila and Alexis headed off in different reactions, I started to weave a spell to start snooping through Castle Black.

I didn't last night as quite frankly, I had been too tired. Now, Let's see if they have something nice hidden away. Because if there was somewhere there would be one of those very rare magical items on this world, it would be here.



AN// Many thanks to esotericist for betaing this section.

 

[vendoban]

Well...Bolton won't be happy. I forget, where in the timeline is this? After red wedding?

 

[esotericist]

I didn't last night as quite frankly, I had been too tired. Now, Let's see if they have something nice hidden away. Because if there was somewhere there would be one of those very rare magical items on this world, it would be here.

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Now I'm wondering what might possibly be hidden INSIDE the ice.

inb4 atregos yoinks wall enchantment power supply

 

[Mr Zoat]

Unless she just crippled Ramsay Snow, in which case he might make use of it.

 

[esotericist]

Unless she just crippled Ramsay Snow, in which case he might make use of it.

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While that's a very pleasing thought, the above doesn't really fit Ramsay to me. One, I'm not convinced he would randomly grope a woman he hadn't gotten a better measure of. He's a psychopath, but from what I've seen of him, he's cautious. Two, I think he would have given Lexi a somewhat better run.

I mean, okay, she would have won ultimately, but I think it would have prolonged a bit more.

 

[Gindjurra]

I suppose that was what the Night's Guard was for.

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Typo. It's Watch, not Guard.

 

[Nashk]

Typo. It's Watch, not Guard.

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Eh, it might just be Atregos misremembering their name. He isn't from this plane after all.

 

[Pensive Rumination]

Doesn't Magic the Gathering also include 'Walls' as summonable 'creatures'?

There's an awfully nice one right there...

 

[Hiver]

Snorting I annoyance, I opened my eyes again.

Nothing. No magical items. Seriously, the most magical place I had seen on this entire world and it didn't even have an enchanted knife. No obviously magical books. The closest thing I found to magic was a couple of Valyrian Steel weapons.

"Nothing?" Ren asked softly in draconic, her head resting next to mine.

"Nothing interesting. No real magic other than the wall. It's possible I missed some lesser magical items, the background interference of The Wall might keep me from being able to see them. But nothing I can find." I explained and shifted a bit closer to her. "Anything on your end?"

"Sheila is discussing enchantment of their equipment. Swords, specifically." Ren murmured softly. "Fire enchantments. Apparently the undead here are vulnerable to fire."

Most things were.

Sheila was wearing a special necklace for this, allowing it to be used to to target with scrying spells if you knew how, allowing Ren and me to view the negotiations. It also allowed us to whisper suggestions and such.

It was great for this kind of work even if it was not the most practical thing for long range communication. For one thing, it took quite a lot of focus to keep the spell going and the range was less than a kilometer.

Usually it was used for spying. Smuggle something into the room you wanted to look at and then use the spell. But it worked very well for this as well.

"Several thousand." I sighed and then shifted to look around. There was sword practice going on at the other side of the couryard but everyone gave us quite a lot of space.

"At least we won't need to enchant the swords." Ren chuckled softly and shifted, putting her head across my frontlegs when my head rose out of the way.

Oh stars, that would have been a nightmare.

Instead we could enchant small medallions to attach to the hilt of the sword to give the effect. Not as effective, but they could be done quickly, would last perhaps a decade without recharging and even more importantly, they were easy to transport and enchant.

Even so, thousands of them would be a nightmare. There simply was no way to automate enchanting. At least I had not found one yet.

Well, I could always conscript some drakes to do it. Most of them needed the practice anyway. No, really... some of them were barely better than apprentice-level at it.

Human-level apprentices. They were Blue Dragons for crying out loud, you would think they would at the very least be at the level of Adept at everything involving magic.

I had known about magic for less than ten years. Some of these dragons were over fifty! And they were worse than I was and not just at enchanting, either. Some of them were even worse spellcasters now that I had mostly worked my speed up!

Settling down again, I looked around with a small yawn before sniffing at the air. Mmm... somewhere, somebody was cooking something. Smelled good as well.

...Damn, now I'm hungry. I only ate two days ago! I could go at least another two before I needed to eat. Then again, I did fly a rather long way.

Ignoring that, I lowered my head to rest it on top of Ren's helmet.

"They are on the subject of Golems." Ren relayed. "Lord Commander Thorne seems dubious. Sheila is offering a demonstration later."

"Hope their blacksmiths are up for it." I grumbled. We were actually carrying a pair of Golem Cores. Made from Dwemer Metal and a power crystal they could, with some very light enchanting work to let it know what it could control and how it was shaped, basically make a golem of most things of the right size. It still needed joints and stuff, though, unless you enchanted the rest to be able to bend and such.

Still, it was very adaptable, a good blacksmith could knock something working together in maybe half a day or so. It just needed a basic metal skeleton to put it on.

Or you could take a suit of full plate armor, stick a core in it, do maybe ten minutes of enchanting work, give it a sword and you would have a cheap golem able to guard an area until destroyed or until it ran out of juice after a week or so.

...Or rather, never right here, as it also pulled magical energy from the environment. There was so much in the wall that it would never run out. So that was nice.

Now that I considered it, it would also keep the medallions for the swords from running out either.

"Any idea how they could pay for any of this?" I asked, turning my head and looking up at the lift slowly lowering from the top of the wall.

Ren snorted. "Not as of yet. Probably gold if they have it." she said and shifted to the side, stretching out.

Ugh.

Gold was useless.

Yes, it was easily enchanted but it was too heavy and soft. It allowed us to buy other, more useful things, but it was such a fucking pain to transport between worlds. So heavy. Useful for trinkets and enchanted jewelry but not much else.

"See if she could get a copy of their library, at least. Or at the very least get gems instead." I groaned in annoyance. Fucking gold... why couldn't humans value some stuff that was easier to carry? "If not, we should exchange the gold for gems before we leave this world. Or simply reinvest it here."

Ren nodded. "Agreed."

Only thing worse than gold was coins. Those were fucking useless on a different Plane. Sometimes only used in a single country on a Plane.

Coins were such a pain in the arse as you always needed to exchange them for something else.

"Hey, you two." Alexis said as she walked over. "Anything going on?" she asked softly as she stopped by us.

"Sheila is negotiating." I answered quietly, not bothering with an illusion. Nobody was close enough to hear it. "Sadly, nothing of interest in the fortress they can use to trade, other than the information in their library. See anything?"

My fellow Planeswalker sighed. "The weather and light is better today, I could actually see the ground. Atregos, it's horrendous. I have never seen anything like it. Zombies, scratching to get at the wall all along it as far as I can see."

"You wish to help them." Ren stated quietly, shifting a bit closer. Alexis frowned and reached out to put her hand on Ren's nose.

"Yes. But I don't know what could be done. There are... thousands. Tens... hundreds of thousands. You would need nukes or something."

I tilted my head in thought. "Perhaps there is something that can be done: we could import some Asuran gear. They have some very impressive magical ranged weaponry. But we would need to hire operators as well, I don't think anyone here has the skills to use them." before I raised an eyeridge. "Even if we did manage to find Earth, I doubt we would be able to get our claws on nukes. Even with magic, those tend to be rather heavily guarded."

Not to mention neither of us knew how to actually activate one. They needed codes or something, right?

Power source wouldn't be a problem, The Wall could provide that. Operators, on the other hand... we would need to hire some Asurans and bring them here. That was a problem.

Well, the Wall seemed to be holding. Enchanted gear and golems would help a lot as it was, it would likely needed to be enough.



AN// And a big pile of thanks to Grey Rook for betaing this section.

 

[Baughn]

I'm glad he isn't underestimating Earth, at least.

But it's a pity about the lack of nukes. Hmm, well in principle they should be able to make them; gun-style devices aren't that complicated, and Azeroth ought to be able to centrifuge uranium. Then again, GoT with nukes...

Maybe not.

 

[Tisaku]

gun-style devices aren't that complicated

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Yep. The biggest problem is getting enough fissile mass of a high enough purity in one place(or rather in two very carefully separated places) to make the thing work. You're looking at acres of plants for any kind of real large scale operation. Then again, the US did manage to put together nuclear artillery shells.(crazy bastards, the lot of them)

 

[Ryune]

Then again, the US did manage to put together nuclear artillery shells.(crazy bastards, the lot of them)

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Is this feeling pride? Also, the Davy Crockett.

More seriously, do they have access to a napalm equivalent? One would think setting up a rail platform on top of the wall and just raining fire down on them would be super effective.

 

[ShadeHawk]

More seriously, do they have access to a napalm equivalent? One would think setting up a rail platform on top of the wall and just raining fire down on them would be super effective.

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Or Greek fire, though that was rather for naval warfare... and the composition was state secret of Byzantine empire, and is nowadays unknown. Also, doesn't this setting have "wildfire", or was it different series?

 

[Nashk]

Or Greek fire, though that was rather for naval warfare... and the composition was state secret of Byzantine empire, and is nowadays unknown. Also, doesn't this setting have "wildfire", or was it different series?

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They do have access to a substance similar to Greek fire called wildfire.

It burns so intensely that not even water puts it out, you have to use sand.

Although I prefer it's more common name of Pyromancer's piss.

 

[Lirana]

They do have access to a substance similar to Greek fire called wildfire.

It burns so intensely that not even water puts it out, you have to use sand.

Although I prefer it's more common name of Pyromancer's piss.

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As I recall, they have lots of Wildfire just sitting around in Kings Landing too.

 

[Nashk]

As I recall, they have lots of Wildfire just sitting around in Kings Landing too.

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It's been a long time since I read the book, but they do. If memory serves its leftover from when the mad king tried to burn the place down. Or something like that.