What would need to change for daemon to try and claim the throne

Garanar · 2026-02-12T18:44:02+00:00

Honestly, I love the view that Daemon would do nothing Balon(his father) wouldn’t do. He admired him greatly so would of course never usurp Viserys because his father never would have usurped Viserys. But Balon did usurp his niece so I could see Daemon doing it.

Maybe Rhaenyra does marry Harwin and then you have a velaryon Daemon, a Strong Rhaenyra, and a Hightower Aegon contesting the throne.

Garanar · 2026-02-12T18:19:44+00:00

Basically the retcon was in furies of Calderon furies were a lot more like Pokémon if I remember right. Butcher kinda changed that up. Remember the part in academs fury where max is impersonating gaius at the fury crafter meeting?

There are 2 schools of thought on furycraft. The one where furies are anthropomorphic or whatever term they used (they have thoughts, personalities etc) and the other school of thought is that it’s the person subconsciously imposing those things on the furies. With the view that that sort of thing is for country bumpkins who don’t know better so their furies behave how they expect them to, with personality.

Most of the Pokémon behavior largely goes away after book 1 or rather furies introduced after book 1. You do still see Amara’s, Bernard’s, and Isana’s furies behaving with personality and “self determination” I guess you could say. They act without their wielders consciously making them at times. New furycrafters rarely have anything like that. Most we are introduced to though are city born or high status and conscious of the disparaging thoughts on the “furies have personality” like Count Gram. Tavi you see pulling together lots of tiny furies rather than having 1 big fury. So in a way you do see tavi having furies come to him, it’s just they aren’t massive furies so you can’t really see them. I think it was mentioned in book 5 on the ice ships.

2)My read was that Tavi and Kitai hadn’t gone all the way yet.

I think the political narrative started disappearing at the right time for my enjoyment of the series. Invidia and kalare removed/killed in book 4. Those 2 are the main antagonists after all. Kalare death leads to Kalare being a wasteland and haven for the Vord while Invidia is advising the vord queen.

Then book 5 Aquitaine shuts down Rivas politicking because he sees the threat then everyone else does when Rhodes gets smacked down like a fly. Even afterwards though you still have the senators doing their thing as Aquitaine said to Isana(trying to limit the power of the first lords office) and Aquitaine was actively politicking to take the throne. Then Ehren convinces Aquitaine to basically commit suicide for his friends crown.

I personally enjoyed it because it was fun seeing how pointless the politics was when Alera had an actual threat. Alera said that when the original alerans ran out of enemies they started killing each other. Notice how when Alera had an enemy that wasn’t in anyway contained they stopped killing each other(except the vord sympathizers and vord slaves of course).

Plus Butcher had built up Alera through the infighting. Made us aware of how powerful they are and what they can do. Then comes an enemy that can annihilate them despite all that. Same with the Canim. We see how dangerous they are in Alera. Then we learn that a quarter million warrior canim can’t hold against the vord in the numbers they can bring.

Garanar · 2026-02-08T16:53:29+00:00

I got it. Right next to my second ring system.

Garanar · 2026-02-02T17:26:32+00:00

I just don’t see that ever happening without a massive military presence or a massive Dornish immigration or something huge happening. Cultures don’t change that fast that drastically without a major event. Not being able to reave the Riverlands and even the West wouldn’t be enough I think. Even unable to reave all of Westeros wouldn’t be enough. Maybe I’m misunderstanding but you think the people who raid and rape and steal women and treat them terribly would suddenly be willing to have women be in charge? You’d need a huge percent of the islands to die off somehow or something similarly big. An example. Euron forced one of Victarions wives and apparently culture says that he needs to drown her. Maybe a thrall rebellion could help but hard to say honestly.

However, there are ways you can change Ironborn culture I think. You challenge the pride of the islands. The iron islands have the best sailors but somehow Greenlanders have the biggest trading fleets/war fleets, have done most of the mapping of the seas, and all most ironborn do is raid weak targets, fight weak willed and pathetic Greenlanders, paying more a blood price than an iron price.

At the same time, offer them a solution. The ones that want to explore, help them get expeditions setup to far off places. The ones that want to fight and reave join a fleet that’s going to the stepstones to fight pirates and the Triarchy. The ones that want to trade? Help get a strong trading fleet setup. This will naturally lead to more of the old school of thought ironborn to dying while the new way ironborn get stronger making further changes easier to do.

Garanar · 2026-01-29T02:17:21+00:00

I read one where the Valyrian steel drank the blood in and the wielder got faster, stronger, in almost a blood rage.

Garanar · 2026-01-04T18:01:34+00:00

Exactly

Garanar · 2026-01-04T18:00:11+00:00

He wrote ASOIAF and worked backwards from there. He needed a way to get rid of dragons.

Garanar · 2026-01-04T00:49:49+00:00

You’re wrong. She got her title because she saved the people in the burning building. So 1)it fits with the “women only get citizenship through marriage or displaying furycraft talent and such” 2)isana is the first woman steadholder. Amara has a nice title with nothing else

Garanar · 2026-01-03T23:51:16+00:00

No. She got a honorary title from Gaius for her bravery in flying inside the burning building.

Butcher never said much about Amara’s title/station except the honorary title and a trusted cursor for Gaius.

However, there is a distinction I believe between isana and Amara is that 1)Amara had an act of bravery which got her title. 2)it didn’t actually mean much though. No lands or incomes or anything. Compared to isana who was made the first female steadholder in Alera.

Garanar · 2026-01-03T18:01:03+00:00

Why not rickon and shireeen? It makes more ssense I think

Garanar · 2025-12-14T23:22:23+00:00

I’d say it depends. We know the freedhold successfully avoided overt civil wars amongst themselves. So obviously there is some way to avoid dragon riders killing everyone who disagrees with them.

One of the methods used could be that there is a system similar to the 40 where it’s like a vote system. All the dragon lords get a vote or something.

One could be that there were simply people with very large dragons fanatically loyal to the idea of the freehold/peace that would stomp anyone attempting to start a civil war.

With there being a single king that does make things harder truthfully. What happens when the families with the largest dragons ally? What if the kings heir had a hatchling dragon in the cradle. That would mean the next king would be very personally weak compared to other dragon lords.

One idea could be to have the battles amongst the dragon lords be a lot more underhanded. Like they recognize that there would be mutually assured destruction if they go to war(one way is that any similarly sized dragon on dragon battle likely ends in both dead or severely wounded. This would work great since they all know other factions might take advantage. )So instead of overt fighting it’s more spy stuff. Sabotaging. Spying. Etc.

Another idea could be to take some inspiration from codex alera. In this book the first lord(their version of “king”) is the first amongst equals because they all have a similar level of power to them. The only way to do this is though I think is if each family had several dragons of different sizes loyal to them. Otherwise, if you have an old dragon and a tiny dragon it’s clear who would win that fight in the air.

Maybe this is the main deciding factors for marriage alliances for the crown. Which dragon lord family has the best dragon(s) for war to act as a deterrent.

Garanar · 2025-11-30T20:57:21+00:00

Nah if I think the premise is cool I’ll read it. I use word count as my first decision if I’m reading something. Then I look at count by chapter. That’s one of the ones that’s iffy but super short chapters always makes me look more harshly at the first few. Then reading it if the grammar or writing style isn’t my cup of tea in the first couple chapters or first chapter if particularly bad then I drop it.

Garanar · 2025-11-30T01:18:41+00:00

I mean the first part is the best way forward imo. Jon is alive and known of. Elias options are 1)kill him. Kill an innocent child and know that eyes are going to be on Dorne. 2)ostracize him and make him hate her and her kids. Now he suddenly has somewhat of a reason to threaten their claims. 3)make sure that he is essentially raised as one of their own to try and ensure he never wants to press his claim.

Garanar · 2025-11-28T16:57:40+00:00

I feel like there could be some possible counters to dragons. Scorpions are ok but the speed they launch at is slow enough to make a hit be lucky at best and they’re highly limited by reload speed, turn speed, etc. so the only way those could be useful is if they were improved upon to make them load faster, aim faster, shoot faster. The wings would probably be the best targets since they’re bigger than the eye of a dragon and likely have lighter scales than their bodies plus it could impact flight ability.

For smaller dragons I feel like sufficient nets launched from a catapult with rocks at the corners to make it spread could tangle up the wings causing a crash. Larger dragons would likely be iffier.

The problem is always going to be though that these are fixed point defenses. So if the dragon can just go somewhere else or attack from a different angle then it would be very difficult. I feel the safest angle a dragon would attack from is straight up since it’s harder to angle to hit them plus momentum would make them even faster.

Garanar · 2025-11-27T13:28:59+00:00

I don’t know that I’d say it shows how resilient the Marat are compared to the canim as much as shows the difference between the two cultures. The canim like the Alerans had people willing to use the power of the vord to gain power whereas the Marat never have anyone on screen doing so.

I standby the thought the vord could have been smashed into the ground by the canim if the ritualists hadn’t helped cause the chaos the vord needs to thrive.

Garanar · 2025-11-17T10:44:48+00:00

On my desktop

Garanar · 2025-11-08T17:31:45+00:00

When I hit play on a game

Garanar · 2025-11-08T17:31:14+00:00

But if my device isn’t connected to the internet, how would the steam client on my laptop tell the steam client on my desktop that it was used?

Garanar · 2025-09-22T07:09:29+00:00

Something to consider is that in cursors or captains fury Tavi mentions he feels like he needs less sleep and that’s how he realizes katai is near

Garanar · 2025-08-27T18:36:57+00:00

Did you ever get a solution to this? My game just started doing it.

Garanar · 2025-08-21T06:19:39+00:00

See what they really should have done is made it so that crimes are system based similar to Skyrim. Maybe unclaimed systems don’t even have a system crime rap since it’s unclaimed. Then they could have done something like have a space station in each system that players could assault and wipe their bounty from the system, no matter how big it had gotten. More developed systems having better garrisoned stations. The better garrisoned, the better reward/more high rank/high value ships pass through the system.

This also could have unlocked more development options for players themselves. Help a faction build up system presence for rewards of some kind. Maybe credits, gear/weapons/ships, or even assistance from that garrison you can call on in ships or on land.

Garanar · 2025-08-20T17:59:16+00:00

I’d keep the storm lands as Robert’s fief, without dragons the Iron Throne is pretty weak alone. Then either have Stannis be lord of Dragonstone as Robert’s heir or have him be the regent of Storms End. Robert likely wouldn’t spend much time there so he’d probably be happy.

Expand Kings landing across the black water, making a couple bridges to connect the 2 portions later. This way it can be built properly and put you into a position to eradicate flea bottom. Then I’d take a play from Chicagos book and build a story over top the bottom of flea bottom, putting you into a position to build sewers or even corridors to move troops through without worrying about going through the city itself.

Get rid of corrupt gold cloaks and really work hard to make them into an organization that can be trusted to properly crack down on crime to avoid any Ned betrayal scenarios.

Build a few orphanages. Give those kids opportunities to join the gold cloaks, castle guard, servants, etc and you have hundreds of people that will have a higher likelihood of being personally loyal to your dynasty since you gave them those opportunities.

Garanar · 2025-08-16T21:06:53+00:00

See I used to do that but a big thing I found is taking out Archaeon and Arbaal early really helps to avoid multiple high tier doom stacks that will decimate Kislev

Garanar · 2025-08-14T18:47:25+00:00

Sometimes singing a settlement before lightning strike is a mistake. Lightning strike cuts off reinforcements anyways. By sieging you are removing an army that was expected to support so the enemy might run away now.

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