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[blueayes]

Tywin Lannister looked at the document in front of him and smiled, it wasn't a smile filled with joy, nor was it one with any hint of malice, then if he did have good reason to have it.

No Tywin instead smiled as he saw what other would certainly not. In his hands, he held a set of peaches no one else had.

He felt his lips form a smile perhaps wider than anyone had seen before and remembered the events that had occurred just a few days prior.

A messenger had arrived saying that an island had mysteriously appeared out of thin air, Tywin nearly had the man executed for trying to make a fool out of him, however, he chose not to, considering he could see the islands from where he stood.

In reality, Tywin was hesitant to even call it an island, for they looked more like a mountain than anything else.

Not one to take unneeded risks, Tywin ordered for a small scout team to be sent in and investigate, the men didn't even last till sundown when they returned bringing word that there were several children dressed as knights living on the islands.

He had ordered the men not to attack, at least not until he gave the order after all mountains don't, just show up out of nowhere.

So for an entire day, his men observed and when they returned they spoke of several adults fortifying small towns making sure they could resist attacks. It wasn't long until a small boat left the island and made contact with him.

A fat man, wearing a white armor with a red cross painted on it, requested an audience with him, accompanying him were a young man dressed in a strange set of clothes all colored black, in fact, even the young man's hair was black as well as his eyes.

The other one was dressed in a dark blue armor, that was built more for receiving attacks rather than giving them, yet no matter the size or how thick the armor was, the man walked with no hint of it even bothering him.

The man spoke in a strange yet familiar way and offered a trade, as wells a peace treaty, a simple yet frustrating one.

No one enters the island unless escorted or else risk starting a war, the same went for the people of the island, they could not place their feet on Westeros land unless escorted.

Tywin smirked at this and simply said. Bring me something that can feed not one but several villages and I will accept your offer for trade, the rest we will have to work out."

Another day passed and a massive boar, nearly the size of Tywins own castle was pulled out of the island, moved by a raff made of tree trunks and presented to him.

The fat man's arrogant smile spoke volumes, the pig's body was cut and given hungry masses. There was no way Tywin would eat any of it, not until the meat was tested by someone else.

Still, the fat man had fulfilled his part and a trade deal was made a simple yet effective one. No one sold anything unless it was inspected and approved, as for the peace treaty, it was practically covered under the trade deal, so Tywin wrote it down and signed it, the fat man did the same and sighed his own name.

Now if somehow the little people found out that there was a lot of food, in that mountain and chose to swim to it, how could he and his men be to blame, after all, no one under his house or serving it had touched the mountain, unescorted. So if those people were sick and provoked a plague, that was their problem.

Still, Tywin Lannister smirked, the island was located in an area few ever went, not even patrols went in that area, that would change now, however it would take a while for people to know about the mountains so he had time to think of what to do.
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[Speech change Kirito]

The wind touched my hair as I ran and landed the finishing blow on a goblin that tried to escape, it had taken a little getting used to the sight of blood and knowing that monsters didn't just vanish anymore. Oddly enough the gold coins that always seemed to show up still appeared, floating just slightly above the monster corpse.

Aincrad had somehow been forced to land near the edge of a kingdom whose name I honestly can not remember at the moment.

It had been a surprise when the people on the first floor sent out a warning saying that they were being invaded, those few boys- girls and few adults held off the invasion for as long as they could, but when it was all said and done few of them could muster the courage to kill another person.

So little by little despite their best efforts, they were starting to lose the fight.

This changed when nearly all of the higher level players arrived to defend the first floor, the enemy turned out to be a closely gathered group of lizardmen and bandits that showed up from time to a time when a player moved freely within the floors.

However, none of them ever attacked any of the villages or towns before.

After dealing with the problem the higher level guilds made a decision that soon proved invaluable, the various towns and villages regardless of their size were to be fortified in case of any other attacks. It soon proved to be the correct decision when various dragons migrated from one of the bottom floors to those above.

Soon scouts sent word that a group of knights had been watching them fortify several of the villages near the edge of the flying castle.

Daizen the coin master of the Knight of the Blood, volunteered to act as the voice for the people and initiate the first contact, I was chosen to act as an attack dog if for no other reason that I could cut down or disarm anyone that tried to hurt them. A member of the Blue frontier was chosen for his nearly impenetrable defense, the man was a tank in the truest form.

The meeting went well and even with the Lord's no-nonsense character an agreement was made, we don't step on your land, you don't step on ours unless we both agree.

That had been nearly a week ago and in that time several things had been learned, one the N.P.C's were no longer unfeeling machines, no they acted as regular people simply trying to live their lives.

They laughed - cried and even held funerals when someone passed away, we also learned that we no longer had to fight most monsters, simply giving them a wide breath was enough for some of them to leave us alone.

Due to the fact that Aincrad didn't have any kings or real leaders besides the various mayors -farmers that owned their own land and the few building salesmen, most of the n.p.c's began to look to us for guidance and to help when things became difficult.

This fact only set in when the various guilds or by the very least a single player decided to live somewhere, the people would either hear about it and begin to live near the area the players were located.

In a few occasions, some of them even went as far to say that the lands themselves belonged to one guild or another.

Still even as I whip the blood off my sword and look at the field that now glows red, with the blood of the goblin village, I could help but smile, Asuna was preparing a something special. It was a recipe she learned from a woman in one of the nearby villages.

Communication had become an absolute must and it didn't matter if you didn't like someone. If that person had valuable information that could save your teams life, you were expected to suck it up and speak to the person.

For this reason, guilds would send in their best and worst to go clear out monster strongholds or villages whenever they were found, if the monsters were weak then a loosely gathered group of people that had never worked together, this was meant to help the guilds gather experience and learn to be flexible, as well as helping build trust between them all.

However, if the monster was high enough level or its numbers were too great an execution team made up of the strongest players was sent in, people started calling the loosely made up group, as the Elite.

To put it simply there are people that reach the top of a game, then there are the people that stand clear above everyone else, the ones whose names everyone knows about. Yeah, those are the Elite.

Not all of them are guild or team leaders, some are in fact subordinates or even solo players that prefer to be left alone, whatever the case just having one in a mission made moral skyrocket.

I finally made it back home and even before I opened the door, I could hear Asuna humming to herself, no to call it humming was putting it lightly. The girl had a tendency to start singing without realizing it.

When I opened the door I found Yui, laying on her stomach joyfully coloring in some pictures from a coloring book she got, from who knows where.

"Launch will be ready in a few minutes!" Asuna said from the kitchen, so I decided to sit back and read about the events of the day.

Aincrad did have a newspaper and it was quickly becoming a growing business, with every village that was strengthened, came a new batch of information.

Looking recipes for those that wanted to try cooking something new -hot spots where monsters lived - someone had gained a special armor no one else had and so on.

In fact, several businesses had sprung up and each was growing at a rapid pace.

The fact that after a floor boss was defeated, it would later allow people to travel up and down the floors made trade between the levels, not only happen but grow rapidly.

Ice was traded from one of the frozen regions, for warn furs and heating materials, whether those materials were actual heaters -firewood or something else didn't matter. Water was traded with one of the desert regions for the diamonds they had and so on.

Of course, this was mostly visible in areas where large towns could be found, or most commonly in the few cities. Villages and small towns did trade with each other, but that was rare.

Of course, with everything good comes something bad and so it wasn't uncommon to find monsters that were normally found on higher floors now setting up their territories in lower ones.

This made a strange event happen, for when the floor bosses did slow people to pass, they didn't do the same for monsters, so the ones that did make it thru, were either the strongest or the lucky ones that managed to run away, while the others were killed off.

Water and other necessities weren't a problem as the flying castle's, plumbing still worked.

Still, despite all of this, people were starting to get used to their new lives. The higher floors still needed to be cleared, if not to be able to go back, if there was even a way to go back, but for the very least make sure that some overpowered monstrosity, leading lesser monsters in an outright kill everything fashion, never happened.

So as Asuna tap on my shoulder pointing to the table with pie, that smelled like it was made of freshly cooked meat, so rounded by several kinds of salads, I couldn't help but smile. Yeah, life was good.
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[Speech change. Tywin Lannister ]

Tywin looked at his work and was pleased with it, it was a simple thing but an effective one none the less. His work was composed of everything from what it would cost, to the number of men required and even to what people he could spare.

The plan was simple yet it worked for both the short term as well as the longterm depending on how things went

The little people at least the more useless ones would be gathered and taken to the area where the mountain had appeared, they were to settle and live in the area. This was not something they could say no to and if they did... No, they wouldn't say no, no matter what.

The group would be made of beggars- whores- sick- injured, those that never seemed to eat or bath for that matter and every criminal that was found. They would be those peoples problem soon enough.

The group may paint him as an incompetent leader, but a simple act that showed his forces were already stretched thin, helping suppress something or in a war, made such thoughts completely wrong, as things such as this were common things during wartime.

Should the newcomers help, by starting a trade, it would be a double-edged sword, for he could tax any imports and exports. Of course, they could do the same, but that was the beauty of it any attempts to help the sick and injured, had to be done on their side, for if they so much as repped on Lannister land, it would be considered an invasion.

An invasion that demanded retaliation, even if this invasion had been by a simple child.

The men he would sent out would be those that had visions of grandeur, weren't too trustworthy or simply wanted to prove themselves useful, no one that would be missed.

Yet Lannister land didn't hold that many people that fit the role, contrary to popular belief, Lannisters believe that keeping the slaves comfortable was a better than having a servant poison your food.

So he had to look elsewhere in order for this to spill over and cause a change, because from what his men reported the newcomers didn't even care about the mainland.

So he turned to kings landing and smirked, if there was a place so poisoned with humanities stupidity and greed, it was the place where the little people lived.

 

[ZFighter18]

Huh.

An SAO/Game of Thrones fic with a Log Horizon twist.

Nice

 

[Skychan]

I am concerned over your spelling. You really need to take another pass over things before you publish.

 

[Ingenaire]

"Launch will be ready in a few minutes!" Asuna said from the kitchen, so I decided to sit back and read about the events of the day.

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Lunch.

The fact that after a floor boss was defeated, it would later allow people to travel up and down the floors made trade between the levels, not only happen but grow rapidly.

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This is really difficult to understand. Perhaps:
After a floor boss was defeated, people could travel between the floors. This allowed for trade between the cities, an industry which grew rapidly.
You are trying to fit too much into one sentence, and I had to read the original several times before I understood what you were saying.

for warn furs

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warm

This made a strange event happen, for when the floor bosses did slow people to pass, they didn't do the same for monsters, so the ones that did make it thru, were either the strongest or the lucky ones that managed to run away, while the others were killed off.

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You should split up this sentence.

So as Asuna tap on my shoulder pointing to the table with pie,

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tapped


I'm interested to see where you go with this, but I would strongly suggest having someone review your work before you post. I hope to see the next installment soon!

 

[blueayes]

The question was how to move the number of people needed.

Kings Landing was a place filled with vipers and rats each sneaking and watching for a chance to attack. There wouldn't be a move done by him that wouldn't catch someone else eye, but to think of something like that at the moment was both pointless and a waste of energy.

He had enough people to start a village, but not maintain one. There lied the problem, even if this new town-village or whatever it became in the future was meaningless, it nonetheless was an investment.

A short one, but an investment nonetheless.

Cow shit could be used a fertilizer, for crops that would eventually feed his people and more importantly himself.

Just like the cow shit, these people were a resource that useless on their own, yes, but when combined with something else, they were useful. That simple fact meant they could not simply be wasted.

But how to do it, he had the lowest of the low, in his domain and some would be thieves from here and there that got a little too bold for their own good. The minor lords had provided what they had and so on.

But he needed people that were both vulnerable and could be molded into obedience or teach others. For a moment Tywin felt a hint of doubt, but just as quickly ad the feeling came, it went away, things needed to be done and there was no place for doubts.

The elderly were a far cry from anything physically useful, but they knew how to work the lands and heard the animals and children were needed to secure the next generation. But anyone from the age of ten and up was already being used to keep the lands and so forth.

No, they needed to be younger, those that had mothers, needed to the sons and daughters of whores and people that wouldn't be missed.

"Its hard to believe, what one can miss when he concentrates only on his own land." Tywin thought to himself as he wrote down what kinds of people he would need.

For a moment he wondered if he needed to gather a few more men, if not young, than reaching their older years. But he discarded the thought, should he strengthen the new land far too much, then there was a risk of an insurrection springing up.

Admittedly the same could be said with the presence of the strangers, but he was confident his men could handle an attack by them. However, to have to fight an enemy from the outside, while putting one from within down.

Was not just foolish, it was profoundly stupid.

He himself had employed such a method once, so he knew the outcome that such an act of arrogance led to.

No, his men and the ones that would be gathered would have to do, women always gathered around men, when times became difficult. That was their nature and to deny it was beyond stupid, to deny it meant that woman's death or worse.

Still, Tywin felt his mind begin to turn yo other things. Primarily food and goods, whatever those goods were. His own master of the coin could provide his own insight, but with ought a true understanding of the newcomer's abilities, whatever insight the man could provide was minimal at best.

No, he knew he had to rely on what he knew so far, which was almost nothing, but what he did know was enough for now.

The fact that the fat man had come and offered peace and willingly traded such a beast just to secure it, mean that the newcomers had both the resources available to them, to squander such an abundant amount of food.

The fact that they had been seen fortifying their town, meant that there were indeed problems in that mountain. If he could make use of them, was something best left for the future.

In fact, all three men had worn suits of armor, that were each finely designed and shaped, which meant that there were both smiths and tailors in the mountain. The quality of the armors themselves suggested either an abundant amount of metals or that the men that had stood before him, were each members of important families.

Still, he needed to write a letter to the Knights of the blood, informing them that his people would be arriving to set up their new village, after all, that was the main reason his men had been there the day they first saw each other.

This was nothing more than an act so that the nauboring kingdom didn't consider this an act of aggression and act accordingly.

So as he wrote his letter he also wrote down anything that he could spare and had no use for. It would serve as the beginning of any future trade deals. Admittedly he was offering nothing, but it was a start.

 

[sdarian]

However, if the monster was high enough level or its numbers were too great an execution team made up of the strongest players was sent in, people started calling the loosely made up group, as the Elite.

To put it simply there are people that reach the top of a game, then there are the people that stand clear above everyone else, the ones whose names everyone knows about. Yeah, those are the Elite.

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These people already had a name. They are called Clearers. They don't need a new name that means the exact same thing.

Yui, laying on her stomach joyfully coming in some pictures

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Coloring.

Still, he needed to write a letter to the Knights of the blood, informing them that his people would be arriving to set up their new village, after all, that was the main reason his men had been there the day they first saw each other.

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Why does he need to tell them this? Where is this new village being set up?

The agreement between them was that NO ONE from the other land, in both directions, was allowed in without being accompanied by escorts.

Aincrad is a new island, which means it is surrounded by water on all sides.

There is no land for the village to be built on unless it's on Tywin's land, or inside of Aincrad. They are not allowed on Aincrad, so nothing is being built there. And he doesn't have to tell them that he's building a new village on his own land as they don't care.

Edit: Also, you forgot the threadmarks.

 

[blueayes]

(Speech change Asuna)

She found herself happily humming herself as she cleaned out the small house, people would call it a cottage, her family as well as herself, called it home.

A month had passed surprisingly quickly, there really wasn't anything to note, no real particular news about anything really, the players had settled in their new ways of life, whatever they may have been. It helped that nearly all of the players were teens and adults any children amongst them were few and far between.

Asuna for her part was happy living her life as both a mother and a wife, sure sometimes she had to go and fight in the frontlines, but for the most part, she was happy to leave the life of a clearer behind. Even if many considered her as one of the elite, those that stand so high up that many admire them.

Yet as she put her potato bread in the oven, she found herself staring at how strange it was for her to have a working stove and oven, some of the modern luxuries had arrived with them and they were gods gift to all of the players.

The scouts informed the guild leaders about the people in the mainland and how they were beginning to build their villages, a small trade had begun between the people in Aircrad and the Lannister kingdom, it was small but it was useful considering that for all the luxuries the castle had, the one thing it didn't was olive oil.

It's funny how the smallest things can be missed and as strange as it seemed olive oil was heavenly sought-after because it was both medicinal and was a good ingredient for food.

She listened to the children outside chasing after one another, joyfully enjoying their lives. Her own adopted daughter was taking a nap at the moment, she looked so small and frail when she slept like this.

The day the world changes Kirito and herself were planning to search for any information about her parents or guardians, but then the world changed and there was no sign of anyone looking for her. In the end, they chose to simply raise her as their own.

Asuna took in the calm nature of the day and enjoyed it, it was a far cry from the days of her wondering if she would die fighting a floor boss and looking as a leader to the Knights of the Blood, it wasn't anywhere nearthe the life she lived before as Asuna the student and daughter that studied constantly.

No, life was calm and simple now, she turned to look at the kitchen table and carefully picked up a teacup, seeing it contents still hot, she carefully took a drink from it.

Life was good, it was calm. Asuna could feel herself smile at this, yet she knew it couldn't, it wouldn't last.

They had arrived in the medieval era, a time where everyone was expanding and going to war for one reason or another. It was in this time both before and sometime after that the stories of heroes, dragons, giant and whatever else there was, was recorded.

Still, for the moment life was good and she would enjoy her newly made family.

Asuna read the paper Kirito insists on reading every morning and afternoon, she noticed that several people were starting to open new businesses like carpeting and as strange as it seemed there was even someone trying to build an airplane, that particular person was looking for engineers.

She found an article saying that several schools were being set up so that the younger generation could learn what the elder generation knew, instinctively Asuna turned to look at her daughters sleeping form.

The girl would need to go to school, but those were few and far between, yes there were some already set up, but just getting there was an issue on its own, then there was the issue of how competent the teacher was...

No this was a huge step, Kirito and her would need to talk about this and move on from there.

A scream caught her attention and as she looked out the window, she noticed several rough looking men chasing after the children and their mothers.

Asuna had heard about the sudden appearance of pirates showing up, some beloved they came from somewhere outside the castle, others thought that maybe they were one of those troublesome n.p.c's, that had gained sentience.

Still, everyone agreed on one thing, for a regular person the pirate were dangerous, but for a player, they were nothing more than children with sticks they found.

That was how little a threat they were.

Asuna waved her hand and called for her menu, she moved to her storage area and drew her rapier.

She turned to look at her daughters sleeping form kissed her on her forehead and headed out to deal with the headache that was growing.

The only thing anyone saw, be they the ones running from the pirates or the pirates themselves was nothing more than a flash of light, as the pirates were sent flying, tossed into their boat and sent downstream straight into the area where the water dragons tend to hang out.

Asuna for her part simply returned to her house and noticed that the potato bread was done, as she took it out of the oven Yui woke up, letting out a soft yawn and Asuna smiled at her daughter's innocent look.

Yes she would enjoy this time of peace

 

[flashburn]

More updates if possible

 

[sdarian]

ruff

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Rough.

called for her help screen,

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Menu, or inventory - not help screen.

So there are now pirate mobs being spawned throughout Aincrad? They can't be pirates from GoT, as Asuna and Kirito's house is on the 22nd floor, so regular pirates wouldn't be able to get up that high on their own - much less carry their boat with them.

 

[blueayes]

So there are now pirate mobs being spawned throughout Aincrad? They can't be pirates from GoT, as Asuna and Kirito's house is on the 22nd floor, so regular pirates wouldn't be able to get up that high on their own - much less carry their boat with them.

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No just the one's that already existed in Aincrad, that hole everyone being able to move around, jump-started the age of exploration in there.

 

[blueayes]

Asuna waited for the sun to begin to set, she kept the meal warm for Kirito and read a book she had acquired, she smiled as each word written on the sheets of paper grasped her in their tone, each exclamation mark made her raze the voice in her head and she imagined how exciting the things in the story were.

Reading was one of the few pastimes people had now, not that anyone complained about it, the truth was no one really had time to reed books and if by some miracle someone did reinvent the television, the sad truth was there would barely be any time for it.

Aincrad needed to be mapped out and every monster needed to logged, every plant needed to be marked before anyone could truly live a carefree life. It was for this reason that many players were either helping set up villages, rebuilding towns or even simply living on their own far from people, like herself and her new family.

The door opened slowly and as she Asuna looked at who it was she saw Kirito standing in the entrance with a strained smile. Yui ran up to him and Kirito liked her up, as he smiled at his daughter's actions, his strained appearance having vanished like if it hadn't ever been there to begin with.

Asuna went to the oven and took out today's lunch, using a pair of oven mitts she carried the tray to the dinner table and placed it in the center of the table, she cut up the potato bread in a triangle shape for each of them and asked her husband about what had happened.

Kirito took one bit and smiles at the flavor of the bread, he swallowed slowly before he began to talk.

"The Guild and team leaders all gathered alongside the few solo players still around and everyone voted to have the higher floors colonized if there is no way of going back home. The problem is, that because of the way Aincrad works only the strongest players can live in the higher floors."

"You know because even the weakest monsters on those floors can be miny bosses on the bottom floors. So everyone agreed that as time goes by everyone should be made to go up the castle, well mountain now so that when the time comes anyone can live wherever they want and not die because they were to weak to simply live there." Kirito said before taking another bite and drinking a glass died with ice cold water.

"They're also wondering if we should invite the nearby lord into Aincrad as a show of our good nature and to try and strengthen any thoughts of an alliance, that and send out a warning," Krito said as he told her about what had happened during the meeting

Even as he ate Asuna could see that something was bothering Kirito, like if he wanted to tell her but knew that if he did he would end up only worrying her.

Asuna simply stretched out her hand and held onto her husbands, when Kirito looked at her she could tell he was really worried.

"...A few days ago the leader of the Army went missing, a floor boss showed up yesterday and delivered the Guild Leader to his team. From what both the monster and the Army leaders accounts of the events, members of the army tried to have him killed."

"Officially the Army is now severely compromised, some members are being interrogated, others are in the run and some have already been killed." Kirito told her, as he tightened his grip on her hand.

Asuna could only turn and look at Yui who was just happily eating now, completely unaware of her parent's worry.

Neither of them said anything after that and as it started to get dark they both prepared themselves for bed, Asuna prepared several ingredients for the next day's meals, while Kirito simply sharpened his swords and looked at any jobs people had opened.

That night neither of them slept, as they both imagined what else could change as time passed in this new world.

(Speech change Tywin Lannister.)

 

[blueayes]

Tywin Lannister sat quietly, it had been an interesting month, the new town was coming along nicely and from what both the minor taxation of the people and the letters from both the newly appointed charges of the lands, as well as his spies things, would only get better.

It almost made him hesitate filling the place with the worst of humanity and in fact, he just might not do so if things continue as they are, after all, one had to protect his investment.

From what his scouts/spies told him, the people of the mysterious mountain had absolutely no care for the mainland. After all, why would they?

Everything that the scouts/spies reported suggested an abundance of food and resources just ready for the taking, Tywin was almost tempted to order his men to begging taking things from the island/mountain, however, he knew better than to start an indecent and start a fight with an enemy he didn't fully understand.

No, the swine would have to do it and from what Tywin had seen in his life, they will eventually do the deed.

Still, each letter came with other a drawing or a description of the various creatures that lived in that mountain/island, snakes the size of ships, griffins that flew in the skies, blizzards that walked on two legs and used both armor and swords like if they were men.

From time to time, his men would circle the mountain/island on small boats and they noted that all over the mountain/island there had been a constant fortification and construction of the various city and town walls.

Each varied in design and even material, but all shared one thing in common, they were strengthened on the top and on the bottom, like if they were expecting an attack by something enormous, the bottom was fortified in order to defend from a more conventional enemy.

The people on the island/mountain made no attempts to hide the fact that they were building several ships and in fact, did so openly but to have what his men called, rock giants move heavy material around, was preposterous. No, no it wasn't, Tywin corrected himself if you have something use it, otherwise, why have such as thing at all.

So far trade was going well, hed almost call it exceptional, several things were in fact traded for one another, wool for silk or better said silks, it was only until now that Tywin learned that there were various kinds of silks, each with is unick amount of strength.

Meat was traded for salt... It was for this reason that the people in the town hadn't bothered attacking the island/mountain, there was enough meat to feed a family of twelve for a month and this came every time salt was traded.

However what impressed him the most was what he gained from his trade of olive oil, both in information and in earnings. Either the people on the island/mountain were too stupid to realize he overcharged them for something that was quite common, or they simply didn't care for they wanted something they didn't have.

Four coins for every bottle of olive oil, normally it would be one silver coin or thirty copper, nowhere in the document signed did it specify the ripe of coin they would be paying with, this went for both sides. The people of the mountain/island paid four gold coins for every bottle and even acted as if they been undercharged.

The amount of gold that must be in those lands.

Still, griffins, lizardmen, giants made of stone, creatures that have enough meat to feed entire towns, perhaps it was time that he began to look into the stories of the past and prepare some form of defense, for if in any of those stories a grain of truth lies, then he will not be caught unprotected.

Still as Tywin looked at the letter in front of him he felt as if he was playing now playing a game between a rat and a cat. One would normally say a mouse and a cat, but where a mouse would run a rat would fight back and even drive the cat of, the question was who was he, was he the cat or was he the rat.

The letter's contents were but a simple invitation to the mountain/island, the intentions were clear, they were written on the letter, we wish to strengthen relations.

Normally this invitation would have been considered far too quickly and Tywin would have been on guard, but fro what he could gather this was nothing more than a show of strength. It was their way of saying, we can defend ourselves if you ever try to invade.

Tywin sat quietly and wondered who would he take with him, he needed someone young, strongman were required and even a girl or two just in case. He allowed a small smile to form, this small group would be people he knew he could use and were useful in more ways than one.

He took out a piece of paper and dipped his pen in ink and wrote a letter informing the people of the mountain/island that he accepted their invitation.

 

[blueayes]

First thing was first, negotiations and holds of power were good and all but if he acted too quickly then he could, no he would be marked as a traitor to the crown, so he wrote down the events as they had occurred and placed what his men had found.

He would order some of his more talented servants to copy the drawings his men had sent and when it was all done he would send it to Kings Landing for them to later argue about. This was just to show he was informing them of what was going on, there would be suspicion and whispers of betrail and wat to but the important thing remained, he had informed them long before any true form of relations had begun.

If the crown perceived the newcomers as a threat who was he to stop them from protecting the realm, yet if relations went well go would be the main divider between the other kingdoms and the island/mountain. There were many dangers with this act, but the rewards outnumbered the risks involved.

Still, there were many things to take into account, no doubt lords would have their own thoughts and seems, greasy merchants would want whatever wealth was there and the masters would no doubt want to keep whatever secrets were there, under the pretext of how the information had to be protected.

He would need the hound for this, granted his brother was far more capable in battle but the man's beast like nature made it difficult to negotiate anything peacefully, several women would be needed to satisfy both his men and the host of the negotiations, one or two lesser houses and maybe someone blood related to be of use for him..

So many things to prepare for, many he was aware of and many he was not. Yet a smile almost formed on his face as he realized that by the time Kings Landing acted he would have already been trading with the newcomers for a while, like or not relations had already begun.

(Character change Walder Fray )

He sat there watching as the man walked in, the clean white armor that was joined by a red cross on the man's breastplate and a red cape that was only colored in the inside, while the outside remains completely white. He noticed all of this including the man's posture, behind the man was another.

He wore a gray simple armor, it was simple and direct to the point, if protected all of the right areas and left little for an attack to hurt the man inside, but while the man in white wore his armor elegantly, this one wore his as another set of clothes.

Their forms couldn't be any different under the dark shadows of his home, with every touch the light of the flames only made the men look so different from one another that it seemed as if he was looking at a statue carved from rock and another carved in wood both by highly skilled hands.

The men offered a slight trade nothing major simple fruits and vegetables, in exchange for gold and information. He agreed, of course, it wasn't his fault if more than half of the maps were outdated and even if more than a couple of names were of people that were already dead, it was their fault for not being specific in their form of payment.

Still, a deal was a deal and he would mostly honer it.

So with a wave of his hand, one of his men gave the men their do and in turn, several cartridges could be heard moving their loads. Both men bowed and left, good be had no patience for fools who thought they deserved more than the time, he had ready given them.

The loud sound of thunder echoed thru his house, rain had begun to fall. Too bad he had already done what the men had asked, so they would receive no help from him, so if they lost what information they had, well that was their problem.

(Kings Landing)

The small council had gathered none of the men had any form of smiles or pleasantries, no today was entirely different Tywin Lannister wasn't a man that had a joking bone in him, so his letters of strange creatures and magical islands could only be true, that or the man had gone insane.

Unfortunately, the king had gone off to get his old friend and war brother to a point him his new hand, so any form of investigation would have to be small. If what Tywin said was true then one had to assume that the people of that strange land were already doing their own form of espionage and information gathering.

Not only that there was a possibility of something far more dangerous living in that island, Dragons, should dragons be found living there then the consequences would be disastrous. Still, they could send no more than one or two people and if by some miracle they weren't affected by some sort of magic, then they would be too late to stop any form of solidification between those strangers and the Lanisters.

The only thing they could do right now was wait until the king returned.

 

[Skychan]

It's nice to see the updates. Though you may wish to proofread once more. Mainly for a few typo's. I really enjoy the bits with Tywin and his plans for creating ties the most. They are the part that feels the most engaging to me, and where I feel the story has the most promise.

 

[blueayes]

(Elsewhere)

A crow flew in the sky, it flew all-night until it was unable to flap its wings it's three red eyes ever watchful looked to its surroundings as it searched for a place to land. However, it soon found that landing on a tree or on anything for that matter would be nearly impossible.

The many strange beasts in this land refused to let it enter their territories and more than once it was forced to flee for its life, only escaping when another creature forced its pursuer to retreat, thankfully the creatures in this strange island didn't see the crow as a threat and most of them were happy to ignore it, that is unless it tried to land, it was only then that they took offense to its existence.

Finally, after hours it fell out of sheer exhaustion, a single branch was what save it from falling to its death, still, the crow looked around as it expected an attack to come, yet none did. However had the crow been able to it three eyes would have widened at the sight it was met with.

A river ran red with blood, its edges, floating above the tears and beneath were the bloated forms of Fishman, Kraken's and various sea creatures. The land itself was no different as many corpses of creatures the crow had never seen before littered the ground.

Yet for all intended purposes the crow felt its instincts scream danger, little by little an iry silence began to settle and the crow soon found that it could hear its own heartbeat, its instinct creamed for it to fly, however, it found that it was too tired to do so.

So the only thing the crow could do was lay low and hope nothing noticed its presence. Soon a figure floated past had the crow not been as old and as wise as it was, it would have failed to notice that the fire only slightly floated off the ground, as it appeared to be walking.

The creature wore a red robe that had a hood that covered its face and the creatures glove covered hands made it seem frightening from afar, yet any person that looked at it would have been driven by a feeling of curiosity to it.

"Infection detected." The creature said, as it drew a with from an unknown place.

The crow felt the temperature drop and the cold wind blow, soon a figure covered in ice stood on the strange land, its blue almost crystal-like eyes took in its surrounding, however, it's time was cut short as the red hooded figure cut through the White walker in an instant, it never had a chance.

Yet where the white walker would have nor may turned into snow at the moment of its death, it instead broke into pieces and only its head remained intact. The crow watched as the creature liked up the white walkers head and placed it on a collar it wore on its neck.

The crow watched in complete fear the creature had no head, in fact, it didn't have a body at all, the heads of fishmen, white walkers, children of the forest, water dragons and all sorts of beasts hung from the creatures neck. Yet they were not dead, the heads all cried in lain and their expressions showed a pain far greater than any mortal would ever be able of understanding.

The crow watched as the head of the white walker, used all its strength to attempt to we or die, only for it to finally fail in exhaustion the last thing the crow would see before it flew into the air with strength it did not know it had, was the sheer look of desperation of the white walker as the creatures hood cover it.

(Character change Myrcella Lannister)

Her heart pounded as she held the letter in her hands, a mixture of fear and excitement flowed thru her, to think that her grandfather would personally call to her. The only thing the letter said was, I have need of you, don't ask questions.

Her father and mother had gone north, they left alongside her two uncles for some sort of diplomatic mission, so she was left entirely alone. Her older brother had gone with them and her younger brother, was still out in his studies.

The servants hurriedly ran about they lacked various dresses for her to wear, several footwear and perfumes all that were meant o bring out her youth and beauty. A guard was being picked for her to travel with and with them several of her most trusted servants.

She knew her grandfather was a frightening man, but when one looked closer, they would notice that he did, in fact, care about the people around him. Granted that a person would have to look so closely that a fly may seem equal to a giant, in order for them to look past his hard exterior, but who cared about the details.

Oh, how her head spun as she wondered about why he of all people had called her " Had he found a handsome man for her to we'd? Did he just want to catch up? Or was it possible he had no he could have actually missed her?"

Had the Septa seen her, the woman would have surely made her stool her foolish actions, fo4tuanally for her the woman was out doing whatever she usually did when she was on her own, so Myrcella was free to twirl as she walked.

We not really, it was too embarrassing to twirl at her age, but she did have a smile on her face and an extra hop in her steppes, everyone else was off in adventures doing their own thing and she had been left behind now it was her turn to go in her own adventure, there was just one problem.

What would she give her grandfather when she saw him.?

 

[blueayes]

(Tywin Lannister)

He felt the light of the sun on his skin as he watched the many ships currently docked in his port, all things considered, he would probably never need them, at least not anytime soon, but it was best to be prepared. The day was calm and painfully so, it was the kind of day that one looked to the skies and wondered if any time had passed at all.

He didn't like it.

Times like these only came when something less favorable was coming, word had reached him that the Kings Hand had recently perished and the king was out getting a replacement.

Normally had these been other time he would have felt somewhat insulted and yet he didn't. Tywin allowed his mind to wonder even as he looked at every ship and listened to the captains explaining what needed to be repaired and why, for a man such as himself such an act was simple.

Granted he didn't have his mind firmly placed on the task currently at hand, but he didn't need it, so he was able to enjoy himself. Trade had been going well, so well in fact that he had allowed such things that weren't truly needed to be bought from the island.

Sandals- hammers shovels and so on, things that weren't really needed for his smiths could make such things themselves, but he wanted to see just how well the objects from the island held in comparison to his own. The result would be something he would keep to himself, at least until his smiths could figure out just how every hammer from the island outlasted the ones from his own lands.

The shovels, on the other hand, failed miserably as the wood they had as a handle would break easily when a rock fell on it, as for the sandals, well those were well received by both the men and the woman, so much so that he allowed for the merchants to place several orders in order to acquire more.

Tywin walked over a piece of wood that had been placed for him to walk from one ship to another and continue with his work, unhindered by pointless things. Still, he continued with his thoughts, his aunt and uncle would accompany him alongside his granddaughter.

The girl was sheltered but did as she was told, unlike her mother Tywin knew that if he told the girl to jump, she would continue to do it, until she fell from exhaustion. It was for this reason that he called for her, her loyalty was unquestionable and her youthful appearance was enough to woo any man.

That and the girls overly cheerful nature made many lower their guards around her. The rest of his companions, if one wanted to call it that would be made of only a few servants and somewhat lords of the newly settled area.

Still, it was quite odd for the lords and king of the mountain to not insist on either coming to his lands or he himself going to theirs. Their reasoning was simple but none the less effective, they had to make sure that everything that needed to be taken care of was taken care of.

Tywin himself was no different and it was for this reason that he continued to do things that absolutely bored him. Still, doing things like this made one's mind active and Tywin found himself wondering what else he could trade with.

Jewelry, animal furs from lands not native from his own, which would allow him to add an additional tax considering the time, manpower and sheer resources for them to be acquired. With a single gesture, Tywin made the many captains understand that he was pleased with what he saw, before turning around and leaving.

The journey home was quiet and uneventful yet when he arrived he found a significant amount of people had gathered, several knights, a few servants and even some carriages filled with was no doubt useless materials and amongst them was his granddaughter.

Where the light of the sun touched it became dark so much so that it even seemed as if it was a shadow instead of light and yet the girl's bright smile, golden hair and eyes that seemed to radiate joy made the shadows none existent.

How she reminded him of his deceased wife, but Tywin know that he couldn't afford to be soft. No, he had made that mistake once when he failed to stop his father in all his foolish acts and again when he failed his wife all those years ago.

No tywin wouldn't allow himself to be weak, but none the less he allowed himself to smile as he looked at his granddaughter, the radiant golden light the girl gave off seemed to somehow brighten as their eyes met.

Howling had it been since someone was actually happy to see him, it had been years and now he had yo hurt the one person they still felt that way. Unfortunately, this would have happened anyway, Myrcellas birth as a noble lady, assured she would be wed to a complete stranger, in order to strengthen relations.

This was no different, some would say that Tywin was playing a game of sorts, for they knew that if anything ever happened to the girl, then he would match with his entire army and wipe out the entirety of the kingdoms and lands responsible for it.

The kingdom for fling the act and the surrounding lands for allowing it. So if the girl happens to catch the eye of a lord or a prince in a nearby land where he could keep her safe then so be it, after all the island was only a short swim away.

 

[Skychan]

Looks like Autocorrupt has been at work on your new post. But other than that I enjoyed it. I am amused by the oddities of SAO based goods. I figure their steel is probably better, though there seems to be some left over durability issues. As for sandals... just well designed perhaps?

In any case I'm more excited than ever for the fun sillyness of this upcoming mission.

 

[blueayes]

The warm smile the girl had seemed to somehow become actual warmth as she embraced Tywin in a tight hug, twin for his part didn't move, he had no right to.

The light footsteps of a servant walking up to them, made Tywin look in her direction, a woman was holding the fur of a large bear, something to help keep him warm during these cold days.

"Come, we have a lot to talk about." Tywin said to Myrcella, before he began to walk into his castle, however, the girl refused to let go and everyone beneath them, was able to see the girl clinging onto him.

He didn't hate these things, no one ever spoke about them outside his territories, even within them the little people were hesitant to do so. The smirks of the people demonstrated their barely restrained laughter, normally he would put them in their place, but he had walked amongst them so many times, that he understood that these weren't smiles of them laughing at him, but more of joy.

Joy of what Tywin didn't know, no he did, his granddaughter had come and with her, all of the warmth she brought with her.

Yes, he would tolerate them, those smiles, these little people should acknowledge Myrcellas exist and as something superior to them.

As they finally reached the main entrance to the castle tywin waved his right hand dismissing the servants, they left thought saying any words. Soon it was just him and the girl.

"Let go." Tyson ordered the girl and she did exactly what he told her.

"We will soon head out and begin negotiations with a nearby island. You are to company me, whether you are of any need or not will depend on how things go." Tywin told his granddaughter and the girls smile vanished, as she began to understand the situation.

The light within her eyes seemed to dim and Tywin felt for the slightest of moments the feeling of regret, he could force a lower house to wed the stranger and gain influence over them that way, but nobles in higher standing would more often than not, see the lower houses, as little more than peasants.

Not to mention that the fact that if a lower house was swayed to betray him and join with the islanders he would have to deal with a rebellion from within and an invasion from without. No, that could not be tolerated, right now he was the ruler of these lands and the one responsible for the lives of everyone in them.

Whether those lives were the lowest of peasants or the highest houses didn't matter, it was up to him to keep them safe. Even if that meant hurting, the few people that he still cared for. He wasn't her grandfather at the moment and he had to do what was needed.

"As things stand you have nothing else to do, quite frankly I would prefer for you to be studying and preparing yourself for the duties of a lady, but as of right now you are needed." He told the girl, while trying to ease her worry.

Soon a pair of servants walked in carrying warm drinks, alongside the cups needed, the girl took one of the various cakes and began to eat it, before pausing and suddenly lighting up once more.

"I don't have to stay?" She asked and Tywin simply looked at her understanding what those words truly meant.

"No, not if they don't have anything of worth and even if they do, much is needed to be written and felt with before we can even begin negotiations." He answered her

The girl smiled and looked into his eyes, before showing the slightest hints of holding back her words. She seemed to understand that, no she knew that since the day of her birth this was her destiny and now she was turning to him, in hopes that he could find her a kind destiny.

Tywin simply looked at the girl, he was her grandfather and so he allowed himself to smile, granted that smile was so small that a person needed to either know him for some time, that they could identify the shuttle changes in his expression or have been so quick that they could see the smile appear and vanish.

Yet the girl only seemed to light up with life, as she looked at him.

"Grandfather, you'll never guess everything that has been going on back in KingsLanding."

Marcella began, to tell her stories of what she had seen and heard, in truth none of it was important, yet he allowed her to talk, who knew how long it would be, before they could do it again, or perhaps this would be the last time.

Only time would tell.

[Character change)

 

[Skychan]

Aww, sweet Marcella. I like the tough as iron lord trying not to show his soft side. It's cute.

 

[blueayes]

The many guild leaders, along with their direct counterparts, the team leaders, were present and the atmosphere in the room was heavy, both men and women, read each word that had been written on the skins of long-dead animals and none of them liked what they were seeing.

They had been tried, no not tricked, they all had expected to be lied from the beginning, but there was a sense of pride that all players felt, regardless of their position.

Yet none of them dared to voice their anger, after all even amongst their own people entire parts of history are known to be missing.

Still, one document told the stories of a man that had snuck into a castle and impregnated all of the princesses, but another told the story of a man that fought a golden lion, yet both were written like if they were the true history.

The confusion only continued, for in one piece of animal skin, the life story of a man that was only called the builder was found and in another, the tables of the dragons and those that controlled them.

Regardless of what they looked at, the mismatch pieces of history are found, slowly a thought began to spread amongst the guild leaders and if by instinct the team leaders began to come to the same realization.

This was, in fact, the medieval era of this world, so it wasn't the peoples felt that they hadn't written everything down, right now the world was covered in territorial wars and only within brief pieces was there any peace, for someone to actually sit down and write or draw their own history.

Slowly the mood within the room began to lighten and a smile began to cross each of the player's faces.

They had been fortunate enough to arrive in an that was at peace and so they had time to get things in order, whatever those things were, only time and the individual person knew.

One by one they all began to set the peaces of skin aside and switched to more commons paper, that was used within the castle.

The animal hoarders wanted axes to the fields that were in the higher floors, normally this wouldn't have been a problem, except that right now as things stood, even the creatures within Aincrad were only beginning to realize where they stood, within the animal kingdom.

For now, their petition would be denied and anything that even remotely resembled it would-be as well.

The level of danger could only be explained by a brief description of what they've encountered so far. An endless swarm of giant rats had eaten an baby dragon, only for its mother to wipe out the entire rat nest and hunt down any survivors, in search of revenge.

An entire group Pegasus were seeh fighting a bunch of unicorns, this wouldn't have been out of the ordinary, after all, both animals severely dislike each other, except that an entire heard of normal horses stood watching everything and they made so much noise, that they even seemed like if they were cheering.

Goblins, orcs and other less favorable creatures native to the castle had begun to change.

Before it wasn't unusual to see a few enslaved goblins to a powerful orc, now the orc had formed tribes a d those tribes had begun to enslave every goblin they could find. Still this was a common thing, until one realized that the orcs were preparing themselves to struck at their only true competition, besides the humans.

The minotaurs, who themselves had gone and enslaved the senators.

Yet this level of dancer didn't even mention, the various insects that were now moving around a d the strange illnesses that had to be dealt with.

No for people to move from floor to floor at the moment was far to dangerous, only those that were in sales and kept the makeshift economy moving would be allowed and that would only be, if they either had a player of an army at their side.

Next came the preparations for the visit that the nearby lord would do, the fact that the man would be staying for more than a day was not only a possibility, bit reality was all to real, as things stood the mode of transportation of this age, was painfully slow.

They needed to present a united front, but how could they, when they only had small patches of land under their control and those patches didn't extend to the kingdoms that existed inside the castle. The guilds and teams were quick to take abandoned, cities-kingdoms- dungeons and so on, but where there were castles kings and queens exist.

The players had remained away from those places, they couldn't risk a war at the moment, none of them had any doubt that they would eventually win, but none of them knew if they had what it took, to actually kill another human.

The monsters, they were monsters no matter how much they mated human actions, so killing them was normal, but another person that was an entirely different thing. It was the very reason, no player had killed any native, even if the native had attacked them.

They had to deal with this carefully, every stone moved and laid to build a road, could cut thru a kingdoms territory, in those occasions, if that road was truly needed, then the players would pay for the kingdom to allow them to both build the road and use the part of the road that crossed thru the kingdom territory.

So far the system had worked and things were being done in order to either go around or simply completely avoid any problems that might occur, whether it is by using the various rivers or by flying.

The rapid movement of resources had caused a rapid change, however, and because of it the various towns-cities and villages were quickly having protective walls built around them, something many of the various kingdoms villages could only dream of.

But this-this was something completely different, they would have to show a time of unity that didn't exist, if they were seen as to disorganized, then the chances of the word spreading and some opportunistic lord attacking was high.

Even if lord Tywin didn't attack, he could easily entice someone he didn't like to do so and in that way learn about their defenses and respond time. No, they had to plan and they had to make sure that whatever they planned was nearly perfect, but how could they keep up a free that could last for weeks or even months.

 

[blueayes]

(Character change Cersei Lannister )

The cold wind of the north could be felt inside the carriage despite it being sealed enough to keep the cold wind from coming in. A letter had arrived, carried by a messenger one of her father's secret guard.

The letter had only a few words written on it, but knowing her father, what was left unsaid spoke more than any words ever could.

"Don't cause any problems"

Those few words filled her with fear, something was happening near her father's lands and he had no patience for any sort of problems that could or would occur.

Normally the messenger would have left soon as the letter he was carrying had been received by the person it was meant for, but the man had stayed, that alone meant that he was either carrying more letters, either for her brother, the dwarf or the fat blob that was her husband.

A light mist formed as she exhaled her breath, something was happening and she needed to find out what it was. The two girls from the north slept happily completely unaware of any danger that might occur, the eldest was young and foolish an easily manipulatable pawn, the youngest of the two was rebellious and hard to move, hard but not unmanageable.

The sun was starting to set, it would be dark soon, it would be foolish for her or anyone inside the carriage to step outside, any women surrounded by men, was just asking for those men to claim her.

She was certainly safe, her brother/lover was with her, the two girls, however, that was another story, in fact the only reason her husband and the high king hadn't laid claim to them, was the simple fact that they were his old friend's daughters and nothing else.

Still, she knew she had to sleep lightly, bandits walked these dark lands and packs of while animals roam freely, the bandits could care less of the king wearing a crown and of any of the knights, they were bandits and bandits did what they pleased.

As for the animals, well animals only cared about eating and it wasn't unusual for entire patrol units to be eaten by a large pack of hungry wolves or/and bears.

The cartridge stopped and the light of fires burning could be seen thru the carriage windows, soon a servant brought her and the two girls hot food and hot drinks, but since both girls were still asleep, she was the only one that are and drank.

"A message, well read the blasted thing to me" her husband's voice reached her, it seemed that the messenger wanted to finest his work a quickly as possible.

"Forgive me my king." The messenger answered.

"Robert Baratheon, as you may now be aware of the situation near my lands, I have taken it upon myself to open negotiations with the mysterious island that has suddenly appeared near the edges of my territory."

"My spies have already seen many oddities within the mountain, but due to it's disable defenses have yet to actually set foot on it. As you are aware the many drawings of the strange creatures and stone beings, negotiations cannot wait any longer."

"So I Tywin Lannister, will be negotiating personally with the people if the island and with luck, a war between my lands and theirs can and will be avoided...That is all my king." The messenger said.

"...I see. Go on leave" Robert Baratheon said.

The sounds of the messenger footsteps could be heard leaving, slowly walking away from the campsite, soon the housing of wolves followed.

"My king." Ned Stark the Lord of the north and the father of the two girls said.

"I know, he's trying to get ahead of everyone else, we can't do anything at the moment, but when we get to Kings Landing, you'll have a lot of work to do." Rover Baratheon answered his childhood friend and new Hand of the King.

An uneasy silence began to set in and slowly the sound of a would growling next to the carriage could heard, both of the girl's pets were reacting to something, the wind blew stronger almost to the point it shook the carriage.

The two girls woke up at that moment and opened their eyes in fear of what was happening, they gasped for air and the sound of a lions roar soon followed.

"Stay behind us" the Starks guards voices could be heard and the sound of something growling followed, it was loud and it almost seemed like something giant was walking past them.

Nothing happened after that the carriage door opened and Cersei saw the glimpse of black swords wide blade move past her, the girls screamed and for an instant the darkness passed and a Stark Guard stood in front of them.

Something was happening and Cersei knew she needed to figure out what was going on.

(Character change)

The guards began to gather around the edges of the beach, one by one boats began to leave the island and head towards their location, it wasn't a long distance by any means, it was simply an act to keep visitors from getting wet.

The new village, no settlement was strangely well kept and as Tywin looked around, he began to wonder if some sort of underground deal was made behind his back, if not then it was entirely possible that the people were using the giant animal's body parts as building materials, but was ridiculous.

Yet again, he had seen it before with smaller animals, so it was possible.

He and his granddaughter stepped onto a boat and soon they were headed towards the island, it was time to see the new players in this game.

The sound of water slowly moving was the only sound that could be heard and Tywin made sure that none of his men, the accompanying lords or even the servants would make any unnecessary noises, lest they unintentionally break any of the newcomer's customs.

To boat soon reached the island and no one had even so much as set foot on it, when a massive creature that towered over any tree walked past them, its neck was long and its legs were the size of tree trunks, but it simply walked past them, not farming for any of them.

"Welcome Lord Tywin" a man's voice said to him.

"Yes this was going to be interesting." Tyson thought to himself

 

[blueayes]

A man stood at the side of the beach greeting them, Tywin simply looked at the man, he didn't appear threatening at all, despite wearing a set of simple thick gray armor.

Yes the man wasn't threatening at all, Tywin was nearly certain of that, except that wasn't the case, the fact that the man could stand openly without a care in the world, as the creature walked pass him, meant that either the animal was completely harmless or that the man didn't even consider it a threat.

However, neither his relaxed stance, nor his casual way of speaking, could make Tywin ignore the man's eyes, they were cold and calculating, almost to the point that Tywin was certain that the man knew, that if a fight broke out, he would win.

Whether the man would be injured or not, Tywin didn't know.

The boat finally touched ground, however, the men quickly left the boats and dragged them up to the point, where dry sand was on the beach.

This was a power play, one Tywin had seen before and told him far more than many would be able to know.

The fact that there was no place to put the boats, suggested that things were still under construction and only the bare minimum had been done. The fact that the men had demonstrated their strength, alongside the fact that only one person, was greeting the diplomats, meant that that things inside the island, were far from running smoothly.

There was a breach in the armor, but could it be capitalized? Only time would tell.

One by one the knights, the servants and the lord's last foot on this new world, his granddaughter quickly made sure to remain near him.

"Right this way please" said the knight, that had yet to introduce himself.

"Please forgive the fact that you'll have to walk up where the carries are, but as you are aware of, getting things back in order, is harder than breaking them." The knight said to them.

After a minute of walking Tywin found himself staring at two carriages, one that was all black and another that was completely red, both design and form were completely identical, only that the color was different.

Not only that but six horses, pulled each carriage, six red horses for the black carriage and six black horses for the red carriage.

The inside of the carriage was comfortable, not too hot and not too cold, this meant that a certain level of sophistication was held by these people, anyone that could build something like this could make fairly detailed plans.

There are few that will, willingly admit it, but war is won by those that can plan, make preparations for the smallest details, similar to a cook or a carpenter, that have to plan for things that might occur.

The carriage stopped and Tywin was about to step out when the knight that had been riding in the opposite carriage spoke loudly.

"I thought you might want to take in the view, it takes my breath away every time I see it." The man's voice was now irritating.

Myrcella turned to look at him for approval and Tywin noded after all he would be stepping out as well. The girl alongside the wives, the women servants and even some of the men gasped at the sight before them.

Tywin didn't allow himself to react, right in front of him were eight giants made of steel and stone guarding the entrance to a city protected by walls made of white and black stone.

"It's a bit early,but welcome to the city of beginnings." The knight said to them.

Again one by one the reentered the carriages and were on their way, from the windows, Tywin could see wild boars, rabbits and so on, either there were so many of the animals, that hunting them was almost pointless or no one hunted them at all and so the animals felt no fear, from being around humans.

The sound of stone moving soon fought their ears, it seemed that any form of escape would soon be lost. Again the sound repeated itself from here on out, they would only have themselves to rely on.

From the windows, tywin could see men and women go about their day, one word came to mind as he looked at them pass.

Clean.

One of three things were happening, the city and its people had been cleaned for their visit, the people were in fact always like this or that only recently things had changed just enough, for everyone to live this comfortably.

Granted there were still beggars in the alleys, but even they looked well fed.

The soon came to a complete stop and the carriage door opened, several knights stood side by side, welcoming them all.

One by one they all stepped down and stood directly in front of several armored men, immediately Tywin knew that these were the ones you don't mess with, the way that they stood, was completely different from the way every other knight stood.

It was time to play this game, up to this point it had been nothing but mind games, from hear on out, everything from the way they acted, to the way they spoke could and would be used against them.

"Ow" a small girl said behind them and as Tywin turned to see who it was, he found himself looking at a small girl that wore a loose set of knights armor.

The mountain enraged by the girl's actions drew his sword and instantly a small lizard flew at him, in the blink of an eye, the creature that was no bigger than a small cat, was the size of a full grown horse.

"Dragon" Tywin said.

"Enough, apologize to the man, you knew not to trip and you still did it anyway. One of the knights ordered the young girl, who in turn simply rose her hand calling off the beast.

The mountain reluctantly put away his sword, Tywin had wanted to bring the mans younger brother, but he was accompanying his grandson in his visit to the north.

Still, this one piece of information was valuable, there were dragons here and with them those that could control them.

 

[blueayes]

What they saw was something along these lines

 

[ZFighter18]

Still reading this.

Both here and on FF.net

It's a good story and concept.

You just need a Beta for some clean-up.

 

[Suryn]

What they saw was something along these lines

Click to shrink...

Almost but not quite as daunting as multistory fighting machines.