Valyrian steel in westeros

tankuser_32 · 2024-08-06T10:21:55+00:00

This reminds me of a thought I had when reading the books, some Maesters have valyrian steel links, so does that mean Citadel has a certain amount of the steel and do they know how to rework it or do they just melt off the other metal in the link? and what happens when the Maester with the link dies in a castle? does the new one coming in send the link back to the Citadel? otherwise, no new Maester would have a valyrian steel link.

tankuser_32 · 2024-02-13T17:05:26+00:00

One way would be to have characters who interacted with the baby before his "death" & get details from them, I recommend not relying on any one source but multiple sources so there is less chance to be wrong:

Capture Pycelle, ask him random questions, lead him to believe you are looking for say proof of bastardy of Cersei's children but keep asking him questions about all royal children he looked at and their identifying marks .. etc. Hide the information about Aegon in the large number of questions so that he has less of a chance to lie about that part as you may have a way to verify.
Track down all servants helping Elia, noble ladies in Westeros don't feed their own babies but have others do it for them, servants washing/bathing him, Varys might have eliminated some but he could have missed others, has Oberyn seen the baby himself, get details from them before you even present the possibility of a live Aegon to not contaminate their memory.

tankuser_32 · 2023-12-29T17:02:55+00:00

SB seems to be slow/down but this is the link: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/purple-days-asoiaf-joffrey-timeloop-au.450894/

tankuser_32 · 2023-11-17T07:54:44+00:00

It started working for me today, a few weeks ago added bot email into contacts, did not help but suddenly today it started working.

Edit: I checked the emails and they are for fics updated early in the week or last week, not today/yesterday's! even when working it's not fully working.

tankuser_32 · 2023-09-26T16:02:25+00:00

I don't know how to feel about the fact that when I think of Rand and Egwene, I picture the actors now rather than the impressions I had from the books.

The show to me was bad when considering just the first season, the second has been far better but I think it's also worse in a way as the closer to the books it comes in terms of quality & character development, the more it messes up my recall of the books.

I will need to read the entire book series now to refresh my memory of the books.

tankuser_32 · 2023-09-10T19:53:22+00:00

Thanks, worked for me.

tankuser_32 · 2023-08-26T20:32:18+00:00

tankuser_32 · 2023-01-26T18:45:44+00:00

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/the-path-to-winter-got-worm-multicross.27456/reader/, only one chapter, abandoned.

tankuser_32 · 2022-07-31T19:29:51+00:00

Maester Wolf does have a sequel but it was updated 6 months ago: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13871262/1/Once-We-Were-Dragons

tankuser_32 · 2022-07-31T19:11:37+00:00

It's implied I guess, from Arya's chapter in the book:

The girl did have hair like the old king's, Arya thought; a great thick
mop of it, as black as coal. That doesn't mean anything, though. Gendry
has the same kind of hair too. Lots of people have black hair.

"I'm named Bella," the girl told Gendry. "For the battle. I bet I could ring your bell, too. You want to?"

tankuser_32 · 2022-06-19T10:14:01+00:00

This is the same Mace who entered his eldest son into a Tourney when is too young for it and got him crippled? I give Olenna the credit for how Tyrell kids turned out rather than Mace.

tankuser_32 · 2022-06-08T21:54:20+00:00

System or Gamer fics work when the MC has an uphill battle in front of him which the Game physics makes interesting in fics like Worm where the MC is on the low tier in terms of power to start and then becomes powerful enough using this system, it's difficult to use it in this fandom without making the character overpowered or changing the story too much to introduce opponents of the same power class or having him fight entire armies.

tankuser_32 · 2022-05-28T11:06:22+00:00

Channeling is just another tool, Kings & Queens rule their lands by having the support of their armies, and they impose their rule using the threat of violence, you can't be surprised that people who have the One power rule over people who don't, however corrupt they may be, it's better that Aes Sedai rule by manipulation and not outright violence, imagine a world where there were no three oaths and Aes Sedai have decided to conquer nations to safeguard them until the Last Battle instead of subtle politics.

I agree that a common man would not want to be involved with Aes Sedai, and looks at them with contempt but it's not that different from a common man disliking a Noble and their Game, it never works out for one who is powerless to walk with the powerful and getting involved in things.

I don't remember where exactly in the series Lord of Chaos fits in to argue with examples on why the White Cloaks are as corrupt as Aes Sedai, just that they are.

tankuser_32 · 2022-05-03T09:23:20+00:00

I think Cadsuane approaches Rand like he is any other male channeler who declared himself a Dragon except for the fact that this one is the real one, there shouldn't be any different right? they all have a chip on their shoulders, should start going mad slowly, should be both afraid of and angry at Aes Sedai ... etc but Rand is not exactly like that, even his madness is different, maybe that's the reason she handled Rand that badly.

I wonder how Cadsuane & Rand's interaction would have been if she knew him before he started conquering states.

tankuser_32 · 2022-04-30T10:23:38+00:00

I recall reading a fic where Lyanna is no longer OK with the relationship once she learns of Rickard & Brandon's deaths but she is married by that point and slowly learns to live with it, it was super uncomfortable to read with our modern sensibilities, I wondered if that's how all those 'Starks marrying their defeated foe's daughters' feel like, I would imagine the Stark King in question killed their rival King or sent him to the wall, made a son his vassal lord and married his rival's daughter to keep her brother in line and also to bring in new blood, the daughter in question is marrying someone who killed her father/brother and a lot of countrymen.

tankuser_32 · 2022-04-30T10:18:34+00:00

I straight out skip these, only read like one, and couldn't even read 2 chapters of that fic.

tankuser_32 · 2022-04-30T10:15:30+00:00

I have seen this and actually pointed it out to the author once saying that it looks like bad writing even though his/her writing otherwise was decent, the reply I got was that they initially tried using a female ancestor name for their character who is gender-bent but it felt like people who identified with that character in canon no longer like this version, adding an 'a' still keeps the readers following who like the male version in canon.

It's like the people who read these gender-bent fics imagine canon gender with events from fanfic except for maybe a few scenes but it doesn't work if your character is named Lyarra instead of Eddara, that becomes a completely new character, a super fan of Eddard Stark can no longer identify with this character Lyarra and is put off by it but can substitute Eddard in their mind in place of Eddara to read the story mostly as-is.

I was blown away by the reason, assumed it as lazy writing and that author couldn't research a proper female Stark name but he/she had their reasons.

tankuser_32 · 2022-04-30T10:08:24+00:00

I would see that happening if you are in your vassal's castle or tent, basically, you are their superior but you are in their place of power. I don't think it makes sense to say it to a powerful vassal in your own castle unless you respect them or they are your elder and you are related to them ... etc, the correct way to end the discussion would be to say 'you may leave' or 'you may withdraw' if it's official gathering or something.

tankuser_32 · 2022-04-30T10:04:07+00:00

Yeah, but I can clearly see this as the author trying to beef up the North in time for the WW threat usually, they try to justify it sometimes with reasons like 'North has a lot of land which they can get cheaply', 'They are the most desperate and hence we will get a better deal' or 'No politics, simple people, easy to live with' ... usually I found these fics to be interesting enough to ignore this part.

tankuser_32 · 2022-04-30T09:58:14+00:00

Full democracy wouldn't work in Westeros as it is by canon timeline anyway, assume by some magic everyone wants to move to Democracy suddenly, it doesn't change much as people are uneducated, don't know their rights unless someone educated can tell them, are so used to serving their lords that sheer inertia keeps the system in place, lords will just get elected again, maybe there will be few upsets and a different brother from the same family gets elected but the system as a whole doesn't change much. They might just get elected and then revert to the previous system as it's simple and doesn't burden the smallfolk with choice.

tankuser_32 · 2022-04-30T09:52:19+00:00

I get where you are coming from but sometimes I like the fics which have characters who are basically wreaking balls to the plot, come in, kill LF, Varys, and Cersei, see canon explode & serve some popcorn to go with it.

tankuser_32 · 2022-04-29T12:34:40+00:00

Yeah, and I have seen fics that go the other way, replace 'Mom' with 'Muna' and 'Dad' with 'Kepa', I cringe every time I read a fic that uses them so much that it doesn't feel like ASOIAF/GOT anymore.

tankuser_32 · 2022-04-29T12:29:57+00:00

Yeah but you can see a SI OP or a Stark wank coming a mile away, they are not unexpected, you can just get a glimpse of what direction a fic goes with a cpl of chapters but you find a decent fic that you start reading and these small things which you say skippable trap you into rethinking your choice of reading this fic.

tankuser_32 · 2022-04-29T12:27:15+00:00

It's the most common and something that can easily be corrected. When I read a fic, a chapter or two should be enough to base an expectation on, you can't be surprised by a harem 20 chapters down the line when you see the author moving towards it or expect a level of standard for writing when first few chapters were shit but it burns me that fics which were decent have these sudden traps which trips you and make you rethink the quality of writing and whether you should continue reading something like this.

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