An Excerpt from The Annals of the Green Triumph, penned by Archmaester Vaelor in the Reign of King Aegon II Targaryen
“Of wars unlooked for, it is said: Fortune’s wheel turns swiftest when pride and grievance compel great powers to fol...
2025-03-17 07:58:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Need sleep. I'll post the prologue for Book Two when I wake up. I keep messing up the final edits and it's driving me crazy.
2025-03-16 08:19:51 +0000 UTC View Post"Survival is the ability to swim in strange water."
―Bene Gesserit Teaching
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In the twilight hours, when shadows stretched long across Braavos’s famed canals, an unsettling hush blanket...
2025-03-16 08:14:11 +0000 UTC View PostPain hauled me back to consciousness as though by a corroded hook through my flesh. The first true impression was the cold—clinical, uncaring, the sort that creeps into one’s bones. My eyes fluttered open, yet the world remained blurred in that diseased glow of greens and ...
2025-03-16 05:28:49 +0000 UTC View PostI came to myself by degrees, first assailed by a foul admixture of odours—burnt oil, putrefying flesh, and some tang of metal that defied ready definition. Even as I gagged, I felt coarse refuse crinkle beneath me, and the deep pounding in my skull seemed to echo throughout my ...
2025-03-16 05:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Imma just gonna post this while I'm at it.
Jaeyun Han is, by all accounts, a good man. He is also a stubborn man, unyielding as iron run through with rust—though goodness and obstinance, in Silco’s Undercity, are afflictions best kept hidden.
Alas, whilst b...
2025-03-16 05:26:41 +0000 UTC View Post
We are ending Volume one now. Moving on to greater things!
2025-03-16 05:21:22 +0000 UTC View Post"No man is so accursed as the kinslayer."
―Eddard Stark
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Jeyne had spent much of her life in the austerity of the Eyrie, perched high above the clouds where the winds rattled the moon doors and ...
2025-03-16 04:56:03 +0000 UTC View PostGarren could hear the rumble long before he saw Vermithor. It was a sound deeper than distant thunder, reverberating off the cavern walls beneath Dragonstone. The passages were chiseled from ancient, volcanic stone, and their shadows seemed endless, devouring wh...
2025-03-15 19:44:49 +0000 UTC View PostPresent Day
Rowenna felt the salt wind whip her hair as Vhagar descended through ragged clouds, vast wings beating thunder from the sky. Beneath her, the old beast’s scales were rough as river-stone, her hide gleaming slate-gray in the h...
2025-03-11 06:21:04 +0000 UTC View PostFive Years Ago
The girl was fourteen the night her father sold her.
She had known it was coming. In the days leading up to it, his temper had grown shorter, his hands heavier, the smell of ale ever-present on his breath. He had lost ...
2025-03-11 05:16:46 +0000 UTC View Post"What is there for me in Westeros but death?"
―Tyrion Lannister
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Rhaenyra Targaryen stood by the high windows of the Sea-Dragon Tower, gazing out over a churning grey sea. Dawn had barely touched the sky, yet ever...
2025-03-09 01:36:59 +0000 UTC View Post"Only death can pay for life."
―Mirri Maz Duur
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Daeron’s breath came fast and shallow as Tessarion alighted upon the wet sand, her talons sinking into the brine-soaked shore. His heart thundered agains...
2025-03-09 00:14:54 +0000 UTC View Post“To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror. To learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
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The chill off the Narrow Sea gnawed...
2025-03-07 10:19:25 +0000 UTC View PostLucerys had never liked silence. Too much space for thinking. And thinking, in times like these, was a dangerous thing.
The fog still clung to the dips and hollows of the land, reluctant to part, as if even the mist itself had the goo...
2025-03-04 06:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post“When I am weaker than you, I ask for freedom because that is according to your principles. When I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.”
— Frank Herbert, Childre...
2025-03-03 20:44:08 +0000 UTC View Post"We march to victory, or we march to defeat. But we go forward. Only forward."
―Stannis Baratheon
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Daemon leaned against the battlements, hands resting on the cool, damp stone. The salt-laden wind tu...
2025-03-02 14:40:51 +0000 UTC View Post✥✥✥
Cont. from INTERLUDE(True Power)
The older prince watched as his younger sibling fiddled with a stick, drawing squiggles in the soft earth. “...So, will you tell me?” the boy ...
2025-02-27 03:03:24 +0000 UTC View Post"I believe in second chances. I don't believe in third chances."
―Doran Martell
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Aegon woke to the taste of bile and stale wine, Westeros’s king reduced to a mess of tangled sheets and aching bones. His hea...
2025-02-24 16:42:23 +0000 UTC View Post“If I look back, I am lost.”
―Daenerys Targaryen
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Daemon stood, unmoving, his gaze locked on the last of the dragonseeds as he stumbled to the ground, his body charred and broken. The air around Dragonstone sti...
2025-02-22 19:36:36 +0000 UTC View Post"Let us raise an army of bastards."
―Rhaenyra Targaryen
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Rhaenyra Targaryen stood at the threshold, her breath misting before her in the morning chill. The stone beneath her feet was ancient, weathered by ...
2025-02-22 19:31:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Dragons. The grief and glory of my House, they were.”
―Maester Aemon
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Night hung heavily over Dragonstone, its basalt towers looming stark and black against a moonless sky. A chill wind hissed across the...
2025-02-22 19:30:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
— Arya Stark
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Wind and sea conspired to gnaw at Pyke’s ancient stones. It was a grey day, grey as the iron in the blood of the men who called these islands home, and t...
2025-02-22 19:28:31 +0000 UTC View Post“They say night’s beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.”
— A line from the smallfolk’s sayings (referenced in A Feast for Crows)
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The wind came in...
2025-02-22 19:26:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-Nine: The Wages of Caution
“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.”
―Cersei Lannister
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The sun had barely crested the rooftops of King’s Landing when Jasper Wylde arrived at the chamber o...
2025-02-22 19:21:40 +0000 UTC View Post"The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are at the mercy of those forces."
―Leto II Atreides
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The green walls of the chamber absorbed sound, muffling the murmur of activity...
2025-02-13 00:49:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Reference images for the components of and equipment used by the Darkarmar(Red Cloaks)
2025-02-09 22:34:17 +0000 UTC View Post"The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are at the mercy of those forces."
―Leto II Atreides
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In the shaded recess of a Pentoshi villa, where the air was thick with the scent of myrrh...
2025-02-09 22:32:13 +0000 UTC View PostAn excerpt from The Prince of Fire and Fate by Archmaester Vaelor, written in 153 AC
The storm broke upon Storm’s End not by dragonfire, nor by siege engines, nor by the ...
2025-02-09 22:30:04 +0000 UTC View Post