INTERLUDE: Northern Affairs
“Ygritte: I hate this Wall. Can you feel how cold it is?
Jon: It's made of ice.
Ygritte: You know nothing, Jon Snow. This wall is made o' blood.”...
2025-04-09 02:08:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Twenty: House Targaryen of Storm’s End
“The nightfires had burned low, and as the east began to lighten the immense mass of Storm's End emerged like a dream of stone while wisps...
2025-04-09 00:36:52 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Nineteen: Treading Treacherous Waters
“Then as now, the Braavosi were a pragmatic people, for theirs is a city of escaped slaves where a thousand false gods are honored, but only ...
2025-04-08 00:51:57 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Eighteen: Family Matters
"The Hightowers of Oldtown are among the oldest and proudest of the great houses of Westeros, tracing their lineage back before the coming of the First Men....
2025-04-07 23:39:37 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Seventeen: The Velaryons
“The sea was their element, not the sky.”
―writings of Gyldayn
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Alyn wiped the back of his hand across his brow, squinting agains...
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Chapter Sixteen: Foothold
"Swift death to the enemy. No mercy."
―Frank Herbert, Dune
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Mysaria felt relief as soon as Pentos’s high walls appeared on the horizon, th...
2025-04-07 00:18:23 +0000 UTC
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This fic is getting increasingly complex. I think it would be wise to put together a world bible for future reference. There are some minor spoilers ahead, but nothing major or unexpected. To save ...
2025-04-05 22:53:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Fifteen: Lord Paramount
“This Storm's End is an old place. There are spells woven into the stones. Dark walls that no shadow can pass—ancient, forgotten, yet still in place.”<...
2025-04-04 19:23:09 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Fourteen: The Price of Safety
“If truth be told, even our claim to Highgarden is a bit dodgy, just as those dreadful Florents are always whining.”
―Olenna Tyrell to Sans...
2025-04-04 05:40:17 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Thirteen: The Chains That Bind Us
“Who do you think killed all the dragons the last time around? Gallant dragon-slayers armed with swords? The world the Citadel is building has no...
2025-04-04 04:25:34 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Twelve: Power Shuffles
"The lies we tell for love, [she thought]. Or for hate. Or for any reason at all."
―Arya Stark, A Storm of S...
2025-04-04 04:20:27 +0000 UTC
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As requested.
P.S.: Actual chapters will be online soon. I need to trim things a bit and ensure I am not introducing a bunch of plotholes before I can post them. This next arc would temporari...
2025-04-02 23:48:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Eleven: Merger
“Clever, craven Lyseni.”
―Andrey Dalt to Sylva Santagar
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Lysandro Rogare had always believed that power was a thing one could hold in one...
2025-04-01 02:18:56 +0000 UTC
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INTERLUDE: The Siege of the Narrow Sea
An Excerpt from The Annals of the Green Triumph, penned by Archmaester Vaelor in the Reign of King Aegon II Targaryen
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2025-04-01 02:14:52 +0000 UTC
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INTERLUDE: The Games Men Play
“Alyn's wife, Baela Targaryen, disliked hearing about Aliandra.”
―A Wiki of Ice and Fire
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Three days of feasting and no sign of ...
2025-03-30 09:38:24 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Ten: The High Roost
The pale morning light seeped through the veiled windows of the Eyrie’s upper solar, casting shifting patterns across the embroidered tapestries. Jeyne stood b...
2025-03-30 09:22:57 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Ten: The High Roost
“He married her for a claim. A crown is worth a thousand times what any woman is.”
―Petyr Baelish, A Feast for Crows
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They had told Ke...
2025-03-28 04:54:04 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Four
Singed and I stood at a broad metal table in one of his back rooms, preparing the fuel mixtures we would need to power the engines for the rest of the week. The place was as cr...
2025-03-27 04:33:11 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Nine: The Scorpion’s Gambit
“Dorne is sand and scorpions, and bleak red mountains baking in the sun.”
―Reznak mo Reznak to Skahaz mo Kandaq
2025-03-27 02:21:39 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Three
I had spent the better part of the past two weeks simply going through the motions, and now, as I stood in Wort’s shop once more, I found myself drumming my f...
2025-03-27 01:15:22 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Two
I woke with a jolt, to that half-light of bare corridors and greenish haze, as though surfacing from a long-forgotten dream. The stale air of my cramped room tasted faintly meta...
2025-03-26 17:57:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Eight: The Battle of the Steps
An Excerpt from The Conflagrations of the Narrow Sea, by Maester Theomund of Sunspear
(Composed in the reign of Kin...
2025-03-25 12:22:50 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Seven: Breakpoint
“Dorne has danced with dragons before. I would sooner sleep with scorpions.”
―in response to a letter from Ser Otto Hightower, asking for s...
2025-03-25 12:20:05 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Six: Threshold
“Lord Alyn was an insolent boy and did not love his king.”
―Mushroom
The salt wind felt sharper than he remembered.
A...
2025-03-25 12:16:56 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Five: Progress
“No man had ever claimed Grey Ghost.”
―Archmaester Gyldayn
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By the third day, the very stones beneath Wyl’s feet...
2025-03-25 12:14:11 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Four: Chasing Ghosts
“Though he was large and old and fearsome to look upon, Grey Ghost would flee at the first sign of a man.”
―Archmaester Gyldayn
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Chapter Three: Bond of Circumstance
“We look up at the same stars and see such different things.”
―Jon Snow to Mance Rayder, A Storm of Swords
…...
2025-03-25 12:08:56 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Two: Control (PT. II)
Rowenna caught the first glimpses of King’s Landing through the hazy glare of morning, the wind tearing at her hair as she and Vermithor des...
2025-03-21 22:47:09 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Two: Control
“The tones, the timbre, the subtleties—they are a secret language all their own.”
―Frank Herbert, Dune
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She went b...
2025-03-19 23:12:26 +0000 UTC
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Chapter One: The High-handed Enemy
“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
―Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
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Prince Qoren Martell nev...
2025-03-19 16:47:29 +0000 UTC
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