As much as I like the idea...he wouldn't last long.Personally I think a good story could revolve around a 12th century Crusader being ISOTed into Westeros. Be rather nice to see someone bring the wrath of god down on those fools.
As much as I like the idea...he wouldn't last long.Personally I think a good story could revolve around a 12th century Crusader being ISOTed into Westeros. Be rather nice to see someone bring the wrath of god down on those fools.
More than likely in each area of Westeros. Dorne, The Reach, The North, The Vale... the list goes on. Perhaps close enough to each lord's hovel, but not in an easily invadable position.So let's say ASOIAF was written by someone who wasn't lazy..and had a sense of scale.
Targ cadet branches.
Where would they be strategivally dumped and how many?
More than likely in each area of Westeros. Dorne, The Reach, The North, The Vale... the list goes on. Perhaps close enough to each lord's hovel, but not in an easily invadable position.
Yeah, but I assume that the North would not like to give it's most powerful tool away to the Targaryen's, even if they do let it rot 24/7. I would say perhaps Stony Shore? House Fisher has been extinct well before the Targaryen conquest. Either that or Sea Dragon Point?The North? I could see that being their "honoring the pact of Ice and Fire." Bit. But where? I guess Moat Callin which would be a benefit to the North while also chipping away at their power a bit as in theory a Northern Targaryen House would be loyal to the crown and not Winterfel.
In practice though..
Roberts rebellion would be a bit different if it happened at all.
Yeah, but I assume that the North would not like to give it's most powerful tool away to the Targaryen's, even if they do let it rot 24/7.
I would say perhaps Stony Shore? House Fisher has been extinct well before the Targaryen conquest. Either that or Sea Dragon Point?
So let's say ASOIAF was written by someone who wasn't lazy..and had a sense of scale.
Targ cadet branches.
Where would they be strategivally dumped and how many?
Depends. The first question is whether or not they get dragons.
the second is what cadet branches.
The Vale, Iron Isles, and Step Stones are the places you really want loyal Targaryen houses (if they have Dragons).
With Dragons, the Eyrie becomes utterly impossible to lose and provides the perfect spot to keep the Riverlands loyal and act to block the North from getting any ideas. It also provides a second, more secure, connection to Braavos. And a secure path to bring the Northern armies down into the Crownlands.
The Iron Isles (probably ruled by a Targ-Stark descendant House) keep the Westerlands loyal and secure the west of the continent secure.
The Step Stones sharply curtail Dornes power and would effectively make the Narrow Sea into the private waters of the Iron Throne. Dragons there, along with a naval force, let you control effectively all relevant sea trade.
Yup. Armies move at 25km a day.Transit times, outside of magical HBO teleporting armies, should be measured in months.
Also one of the main forms of attrition in medieval armies was desertion. Peasant leavies will just fuck off as soon as you look the other way. While they want to go back home, most of them don't know where home is anymore and many end up becoming bandits because all they have to their name is weapons and spite.
Jon offers hand of Best Sis Arya in marriage to Best Bro Ramsey. The two "click" and become known as Da Red Fangs of da Norff.an unlikely kind of friendship is formed between the two bastard castaways
At least Ramsay gets the real Arya and not the disguised one.Jon offers hand of Best Sis Arya in marriage to Best Bro Ramsey. The two "click" and become known as Da Red Fangs of da Norff.
- The Storm Princess Reborn: What if Robert and Cersei had a trueborn child? Though this question often leads to fanfics where the trueborn child is a son in most cases, this time it is a trueborn daughter. If Robert and Cersei had a trueborn daughter, the succession would be in an even more complicated manner, since the trueborn daughter would have to fight Joffrey for the right to sit on the Iron Throne. In this case, Robert might arrange a marriage between his trueborn daughter and Robb Stark.
So no Joffrey in this case at all? I can definitely see Ariel being wedded to Robb Stark, because her father would want this kind of match. I’d like to read a full fix about this. On the other hand, would Argella, daughter of Robert and Cersei, have a cordial relationship with Renly?"My father was cuckolded twice in his life and in both instances it led to a war that crippled our nation while uncle Stannis, his fire witch and that cute bastard wolf beside me here are babbling about monsters made of ice and my cousin across the narrow sea has three Dragons..."
She leaned backwards, seated upon the Iron Throne, lounging between two jutting blades that seemed to refuse to so much as fray her dress, which of course came with a corset of segmented armor from Braavos. Few in the room could be said to deny that she more than her brother looked as though she belonged on that accursed chair.
A brother, who had fallen down the same flight of stairs her mother had. -Let it not be said that I possessed solely my father's fury, but my grandfather's cunning and my progenitor Aenar's vision-. Beside her, Jon Snow and his "brother" Rob named for her father stood like silent statues, her war wolves.
"Dragon or Lion I do not intend to end up dead because I enraged the wrong animal unlike my poor father and I do not intend to cow to my grandfather, who dares set a pretender up in my place though I love little Tommen and am no kinslayer " A theatrical flourish of her right hand later and the court went silent.
Eyes narrowed.
"Let it hence forth be known that Tywin Lannister is attainted, in his place I elevate the Lannisters of Lannisport to the dominion of the Rock, let them choose amongst themselves who rules the city by the sea and who the Rock. Let it be known, the Tywin Lannister is a blood traitor, a heretic, a defiler, a criminal cad who sent his poppy addled roughs to rape and murder my cousins who were but babes and butchered their mother. Let it be known that Tywin formerly of the Rock, Tywin the nameless seeks to wield my halfwitted half brother, Tommen waters; a Bastard born of incest by my mad mother and deviant uncle as a marionet in a mummers farce he intends to perpetrate on the Kingdom. Let it be known that all nobles within the Westerlands who cast their swords aside and bow in supplication to Lord Randyl Tarley the commander of my hosts in the Western campaign will be raised up as brother's and sisters, pardoned of all transgressions and granted land and titles. But those who resist? Shall know that mine is the fury, fire flows through my blood and I pay my debts in full. They will learn this as their children are slaughtered, their parents annihilated...their kin even twice removed ripped root and stem and given to the hangmen, as their lands are seized and auctioned or otherwise gifted as recompense to those who remained loyal or now change sides and fight and by the forfeiture of at least one champion of their family in battle pay a debt of loyalty to me in blood. They will learn this as every noble house that continues to aid and abet this grotesque fraud is eradicated from the very face of our world." She never raised her voice, she never needed to.
It cracked like thunder through the throne room and when she rose she purposefully cut her hand upon a blade of the Throne. This would be a blood oath, in the old style.
"So speaks Argella Baratheon, first of her name, Sovereign of the Firstmen, the Andals, the Rhoynar and the Valyrians of the narrow sea. Lady of the Seven Kingdoms, mistress of the East, West, North and South. Of House Baratheon, Lannister and Targaryen.
Queen of the seven Kingdoms and rider of the Storm."
It's late, I'm working on my own fic..But this came to me..Basically, "The seed is strong" indeed...in her case, all the seeds are strong.View attachment 1327
So no Joffrey in this case at all? I can definitely see Ariel being wedded to Robb Stark, because her father would want this kind of match. I’d like to read a full fix about this. On the other hand, would Argella, daughter of Robert and Cersei, have a cordial relationship with Renly?