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I like creating an alternate timeline that's very different from canon, but still has certain canon people/events happen anyway. It's not going to happen often and it's already happened with Oberyn injuring Willas Tyrell in a tourney.
Malora's paired up with Jonos Slate, heir to Blackpool and...
Chapter 25
Castle Warg, Early Seventh Moon, 286 A.C., The next morning…
I sit at the desk in my solar, my hangover lessened by a breakfast of eggs, mushrooms, black pudding, and bacon as Wyman stands to my left nursing his own hangover.
While I couldn't throw a feast in winter, that didn't...
Hugo will expand on his skinchanging abilities. He has an academic interest in magic but is leery of actually wielding it, "Sword without a hilt" and all that. He's acquiring dragonglass because he wants to stockpile them for the Others. He might try to get a dragonglass candle and he might want...
The Targaryen Islands (they'll get a rename because I don't think Robert will tolerate that name) will be revisited, maybe even settled, though by who remains to be seen. They're mapped and known but no one's claimed them.
Lonely Light actually has sticky-stone (continuing my trend of having it...
Funnily enough that painting plus a lot of 19th century illustrations like this one:
A Leviathan is like this sperm whale, but with teeth on both sides of it's jaws and double the length
Considering how much he's invented and how many changes he's made in their lives in just five years he's...
Malora's basically a blank slate because all we know of her is she's called the Mad Maid and she's never been married. Here she can be a friend and fellow skinchanger. As for marriages, she's "officially barren" but that was a lie mad eup by her father to avoid marrying her off. That could be...
Chapter 24
Castle Warg, Early Seventh Moon, 286 A.C., Three weeks later…
The Northern highborn of the western shore trickled in over the last five days by ship, with the exception of the Wolfswood clans, who came by dog sled. The Director's Meeting and the return of the Yi-Ti expedition used...
I think I go with something like this. Ibbenese Men/human women have a lot of stillbirths, mutations, and infertile offspring. Only one of ten are healthy, viable offspring.
Human men/Ibbenese women have less stillbirths, etc. and maybe half are viable offspring.
I just picked the...
Yep, Cersei has to Cersei and because we can't have nice things, the one time she gets away with cheating with her brother is the one time she gets knocked up with a boy.
The Ibbenese, based on their descriptions seem to be based on Neanderthals and there is one character who claims to be the...
Chapter 23
Wolfsport, Late Fourth Moon, 286 A.C., One moon later…
I watch Edric descend the gangplank, in a wolfskin cloak covering his blue woolen tunic and a mink-furred ushanka perched on his head, the straps tied up to the crown. Accompanying him isn't Dagwell, for he's back in the...
Chapter 22
Sea Dragon Bay, Late Third Moon, 286 A.C., Three moons later…
The driver swims through the kelp, inspecting each stalk carefully before finding some reason to dismiss it and moving to the next stalk. I send him a mental poke asking what he is doing as I've never seen this type of...
Not a bad idea. The big towns are already named but maybe he could get a small keep and hamlet to call his own and settle the former slaves. Hugo will support him building up his own town.
Interlude: Edric 3
Morosh, Mid Twelfth Moon, 285 A.C., A few hours later…
The lords and knights talk amongst themselves, goblets of the local apple brandy in hand, having gathered at the governor's palace for a simple victory feast. The food has been eaten, and now the Westerosi and their...
By now he's had four years to recover enough to fight. He's no great knight or anything, but he's good enough to defend himself. He got his ass kicked by Brandon but Brandon was considered a good swordsmen (not KG level but good). He still hates the North but sees the benefit in having Edric owe...
Interlude: Edric 2
Morosh, Early Twelfth Moon, 285 A.C., Six weeks later…
I bet Hugo would like this game. I think to myself as I move an onyx elephant piece on the marble board, removing my opponent's ivory crossbowmen. Instead of being fazed, my opponent smirks and moves his ivory dragon to...
Interlude: Edric
King's Landing, Late Ninth Moon, 285 A.C., One moon, one week later…
The size of the city in front of me "boggles my mind", to barrow a phrase from my brother. Even after the stories and descriptions from not just Hugo and Wyman, but from the hardened survivors of the war, I'm...
Interlude: Victarion
Lordsport, Mid-Eighth Moon, 285 A.C., Three days later…
A gust of wind sweeps through the harbor of Lordsport, causing my nephews Rodrik and Maron and their friend Harren Botley to mutter about the cold. Thin snow flurries flutter down from gray clouds as Lord Sawane...
Interlude: Stannis
Lannisport, Mid Eighth Moon, 285 A.C., Six moons later…
The frigid winter air blows fiercely as the Lannister clipper, the Swift Claw, barrels towards Lannisport at near sixteen knots, the bear-skin cloak wrapped around me shielding me from the worst of it. My head and ears...
Chapter 21
Sea Dragon Bay, Early Second Moon 285 A.C., One year, three moons later…
The cold, murky waters of the bay rush past us as we swim, the first light of dawn breaking through the horizon. I hear a series of clicks from the pod of orcas, out on the hunt as the dawn's early light...