Worldbuilding: Combine Worm and ASOIAF

[Jcogginsa]

The problem with the idea of just integrating Triggers into existing power structures is the same as the problem of integrating new Capes into official lawenforcement on Earth Bet - the way you become a cape is stacked against it. You trigger on the worst day of your life, when you are most likely NOT going to be very receptive to arguments of the divine right of kings and nobless oblige. The odds are you'll either set up as a robber baron or start an uprising. Because villains outnumber heroes.

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I'm not sure the hero villain dichotomy would exist in the same form In Westeros

Though that does make me thing: Would Cauldron be active in this version of Westeros?

 

[Fernandel]

The problem with the idea of just integrating Triggers into existing power structures is the same as the problem of integrating new Capes into official lawenforcement on Earth Bet - the way you become a cape is stacked against it. You trigger on the worst day of your life, when you are most likely NOT going to be very receptive to arguments of the divine right of kings and nobless oblige. The odds are you'll either set up as a robber baron or start an uprising. Because villains outnumber heroes.

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Let's remember that not all triggers necessarily cause superpowers that are receptive to fighting off a dedicated group of assailants.

You could have single "capes" be attacked and killed by groups of even lightly armed peasant militia, and that's without assuming the existence of organisations dedicated to combating people with superpowers.

However, that doesn't mean that people wouldn't be interested in integrating into existing power structure. The appeal of rising to noble status is much stronger in a medieval than a modern setting, and there would be organisationg that would probably be very interested in recruiting superpowered members, like the Maesters or the Night Watch. Not to mention various noble Houses trying to bind the loyalty of superpowered individuals to them.

 

[Reveen]

If Aegon Targaryen conquered the Seven Kingdoms with just three pansy-ass dragons. Rachel Lindt can do the same with a couple hundred or thousand monster dogs.

Cry havoc motherfucker.

 

[Zero Gravitas]

Let's remember that not all triggers necessarily cause superpowers that are receptive to fighting off a dedicated group of assailants.

You could have single "capes" be attacked and killed by groups of even lightly armed peasant militia, and that's without assuming the existence of organisations dedicated to combating people with superpowers.

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Not every superpower but most of them.

Someone like Hookwolf would be pretty much invincible against a medieval army. Unlike Earth Bet where a sniper is a credible threat to Lung the unpowered people of Westeros would have to rely on absurdly lucky balista shots. Many villains who'd fall to a modern platoon would be practically invincible in Westeros because the only thing that even mildly approaches the power of a parahuman are dragons.

Like about half the parahumans in Brockton Bay are small army killers while most of the rest would 'merely' deal with raiding parties like the Mountain's and the Brocktonites are nowhere near the apex of what powers can do.

 

[Kaiya]

Let's remember that not all triggers necessarily cause superpowers that are receptive to fighting off a dedicated group of assailants.

You could have single "capes" be attacked and killed by groups of even lightly armed peasant militia, and that's without assuming the existence of organisations dedicated to combating people with superpowers.

However, that doesn't mean that people wouldn't be interested in integrating into existing power structure. The appeal of rising to noble status is much stronger in a medieval than a modern setting, and there would be organisationg that would probably be very interested in recruiting superpowered members, like the Maesters or the Night Watch. Not to mention various noble Houses trying to bind the loyalty of superpowered individuals to them.

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"I HAVE THE GODLIKE POWER TO-...oh shit i have 360 degree awareness without enhanced reflexes"