~~~Third Person, Tenth Moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~High Zone, Xandar~~~
~~~Hours before the event at the Academy~~~
The man had been in the new city for five days, camouflaging himself and going into the sectors less protected by the witches, not getting too close to the smithies, the shipyards, the mines, the Arcane Center, the Academy, much less Ischyros.
Years of training he had made him one of the best assassins in the House of Black and White, which was why he wa...
Those dragon house trailers were beautiful.
~~~Third Person, Tenth Moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~Amanda's Academy, Xandar~~~
The dances and celebrations went on for another ten minutes. During that time, many felt infected by the joyful and danceable rhythm of the song sung by the Xandarian musicians and dancers descended from the Summer Isles.
The cheerful rhythms and the pleasant atmosphere transmitted by the dancers and singers prod...
~~~Third person, tenth moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~Academy of Amanda, Xandar~~~
The guests were already arriving, with several important and recognized faces coming from Yi Ti, Braavos, Pentos, and even Asshai.
They all came with the same goal: to take advantage of the slightest thing coming from Xandar. Many brought daughters to throw them to Azrael; others brought gifts by the bucketload to enamor the King.
Amanda's Academy, that imposing building of white marble and blue roo...
2024-03-20 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post~~~Isabella Farwan, ninth-tenth moon 276 AC~~~
~~~Jade Sea~~~
Two long moons had taken the journey, and after taking several long and little-used routes to lose my pursuers, my mother and I were forced to ask for help, rather my mother mobilized members of the Hand of Fire, a total of ten warriors to protect us on our way.
Although these warriors would protect my mother first because she was the high priestess of the Red Temple in Volantis, they were also obliged to protect ...
2024-03-18 16:05:47 +0000 UTC View Post~~~Azrael Jaesyrian, Tenth Moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~Xandar~~~
"GRRRRR" Endoxes roared imposingly as we soared through the skies, frightening the birds that flew at the same altitude as the two of us.
The sun's rays reflected off the dull golden membranes of Endoxes, a bluish color with dull golden membranes, along with the chest and lower part of the same color. That, plus the scaly rows on its body, in company with its large horns on its head, made Endoxes' appearance both beauti...
2024-03-17 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post~~~Azrael Jaesyrian, ninth moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~Royal Zoological, Xandar~~~
Once I stepped through the portal, I felt as if a draft was pushing me upwards. Out of the portal, I was lying in and out of the room I had been in moments before entering the End.
"Ufff" I let out a long sigh, shaking my shoulders and rubbing the bridge of my nose from the stress I had been through in there.
The experience was much more emotional and colorful than I first thought it would be; ho...
2024-03-15 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
~~~Azrael Jaesyrian, date?~~~
~~~The End~~~
"So another has come looking for what was not lost to him!" The towering dragon spoke to me, managing to startle me, "You may speak."
The dragon looked at me with a friendless face and asked, "Are you stupid or are you made? Of course, I can talk."
This was the final boss—a talking dragon with a huge sum of haughtiness? It was something completely different from what I first thought when I got here.
"So, you're h...
~~~~Azrael Jaesyrian, eighth moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~Royal Zoological, Xandar~~~
Many times, it crossed my mind to use the loyalty enchantment book on Varys, but was it necessary? Varys was a good player, one who knew what he was doing, but he wasn't necessary in my plans; I could easily assassinate him and there would be no consequences of that, but. I saw no profit in that.
What I did see profit in was tempting Varys, giving him breadcrumbs so that, in the end, he would come fo...
2024-03-11 07:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~Azrael Jaesyrian, eighth moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~royal zoo, Xandar~~~
Seeing these wyverns, as they were known, made me reflect on the enderdragon, which many describe as the ultimate Minecraft villain.
That quadrupedal dragon was purple and supremely difficult to kill unless you had mods or were creative. I knew there were dragon eggs on the menu, but whether I could hatch them was a different matter, so I might ask the librarians or the witches whether they knew of a specia...
2024-03-10 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
~~~Micaela, eighth moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~Summer Sea~~~
The distant sound of the waves crashing against the strong hull of the huge ship I was on reached my ears, with the salty breeze stirring my hair in the air, this being perhaps the first time I showed my hair.
After a long, tiring, and extensive expedition in that green hell known as Sothoryos, and having managed to fulfill our orders, we were now on our way home, a moon and a half away from the place we now called home too...
2024-03-08 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
~~~Azrael Jaesyrian, eighth moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~Ischyrós, Xandar~~~
The sound of birds of prey and seagulls in the fjord entered my ears, with the yellow rays of the sun streaming in through the windows of the room.
Opening my eyes gently due to the incoming light, I saw Valka lying next to me, her black eyes already looking at me, "I could wake up like this forever." I said in a low tone, receiving a small laugh from her.
"Don't even think about falling in love, we're...
2024-03-06 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post~~~Azrael Jaesyrian, eighth moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~Xandar~~~
Applause, roses, kisses, and blessings greeted me as I passed through the Sunset Gates, filling my spirit and giving me pure life.
"Long live the King!"
"Blessings to Priya!"
"Long live the Khal!"
Various messages filled with love and happiness reached my ears, as the thousands of people in the city positioned themselves on both sides of the road to let me pass. 'Is this how Alexander the Great must h...
2024-03-04 16:46:46 +0000 UTC View Post
~~~Micaela, seventh-eighth moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~Sothoryos, Wyvern Point~~~
I was good, excellently good at doing everything I set my mind to, from making a potion to slaying that enemy I encountered, and I proved that from the first day I came into this world.
That day, when I felt for the first time, My King, My Creator, that person who exudes the same essence of what Herobrine once was, that dead brother of the original god of my old world.
But Azrael was different...
~~~Bario, merchant of Volantis, eighth moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~Xandar, chancellery~~~
"I pay all the taxes you impose; right here it says so." A tall, richly dressed man was speaking to a man behind a cubicle while holding a stack of papers in his right hand.
I was currently in the chancellery office, a strange name, but like everything in this city, many things were strange. This office was a huge building located in the castle, very close to the Central Bank, another ridiculous...
2024-03-01 08:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
~~~Third person, seventh moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~Sothoryos, Gorosh~~~
"Move!"
"Get the camp ready as soon as possible!"
Orders and commands could be heard everywhere, among an ancient abandoned city in the middle of a vast, virgin jungle.
That said, the city, after more than three hundred years, saw human life again, causing rodents, small animals, and other creatures to abandon the place and wander into the undergrowth.
On the shores of the summer sea, fifteen ...
2024-02-29 08:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post~~~Third person, seventh moon, 276 AC~~~
A huge caravan of people was moving along a large cobblestone road, which Azrael was creating with the help of the block of structures, a road capable of allowing ten mammoths to pass side by side, one that would soon connect the place where Meereen used to be and would reach the place of Yunkai.
Azrael had decided to create his version of the Valyrian roads, only these were much larger, much like an eight-lane highway in size, with stone p...
2024-02-27 15:51:27 +0000 UTC View Post~~~Azrael Jaesyrian, seventh moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~Meereen~~~
In two hours, the greatest slave city in the world fell. Years of torment and death, made the thousands of slaves living in the city rise against all those who had kept them under their shoes.
Those hints and ideas of rebellion given by the witches to every slave in the city bore fruit, causing the city to fall in a short time.
Even the plan to use the sewers of the city to attack it from within became futile o...
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~~~Third person, seventh moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~~Asshai~~~~
In total darkness, not a single ray of sunlight could be seen; the streets maintained perpetual shadows, and not even the thousands of torches and bonfires in the city could keep it illuminated.
Entering the room and closing the balcony door, Isabella found herself leaning back on a black couch while holding her left hand over a pe...
~~~Third person, sixth-seventh moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~Xandar, Elevated Bridge, fjord~~~
"Messages came in from the Sunset Gates; the second legion stopped the siege; we may see an attack on the Bridge as well, so be on the lookout."
Francis, the unsullied general in charge of protecting the raised Fjord Bridge, told his unsullied commanders, who nodded.
Something that had been put into operation months ago was the good administration in the city, in the military, commercia...
2024-02-22 19:47:38 +0000 UTC View Post~~~Viewpoint: Third person, sixth moon, 276 AC~~~
~~~Sunset gates, Xandar~~~
Moments before the parrots sounded the attack alarm, in the tent of the mercenary leaders, a meeting was taking place.
The whole place reeked of liquor, plus in the tent, the atmosphere was heavy from the verbal fights and bickering over who would lead the attack.
"I don't care who will lead the attack; what I want are ideas on how to attack those damn gates." One of the leaders raised his voi...
2024-02-20 03:26:13 +0000 UTC View Post~~~Viewpoint: Third-person sixth moon, 276 AC~~~
"Have the Khalasar stand by; I don't want any more surprises."
"Check everything! Let every stone be lifted; I don't want something like this to happen again".
"Valka, go to your sisters; check that there are no more like him."
Azrael was shouting orders left and right. Ever since the encounter with the demon... Or whatever that being was, Azrael had been restless, not letting his hand off the pommel of his sword, or bei...
2024-02-18 22:28:50 +0000 UTC View Post~~~Viewpoint: Azrael Jaesyrian, Sixth Moon, 276 AC~~~
As the body of the Dothraki that tried to attack me fell to the ground, silence reigned in the great hut. With everyone looking at me angry and upset.
"What are you doing?!"
"You fucking asshole!"
"I'll kill you!"
Like an open water fountain, those and more insults suddenly rang out, filling the air with hubbub.
For my part, I didn't startle the moment I received that; instead, I stood for a moment as I ...
2024-02-18 02:12:07 +0000 UTC View Post~~~Viewpoint: Third person, sixth moon, 276 AC~~~
"Princess, if your father finds out that I let you come with us, he will murder me." A middle-aged man, with light armor on his body and a long katana around his waist, spoke to the woman standing a few meters away from him.
The tall, well-built woman rode a white steed, which, coupled with her long black hair and bright green eyes, made her look like an angel.
The woman only turned to look at the man who had spoken to her, a...
2024-02-16 16:19:32 +0000 UTC View Post~~~Azrael Jaezyrian, sixth moon, 276 AC~~~
After two months of extensive walking, in which I led my Khalasar across the great expanses of glistening grass that rippled like tides in the ocean.
I caught a glimpse of the giant bronze horses in the distance, above the gate of the only known Dothraki city.
During the journey, my Khalasar encountered other groups, though as my goal was to reach Vaes Dothrak in the shortest possible time, I did not linger with them; there would be...
2024-02-16 01:16:55 +0000 UTC View Post~~~Viewpoint: Varys (the spider) fourth moon, 276 AC~~~
I stood looking out of the caravan window at the great canyon I was passing through. From what I had seen, the passage to the giant gates was a great black stone bridge that glowed in shades of purple.
I did not know if this design was due to a natural phenomenon or was part of the so-called rumors of things being created out of nothing, but leaving that aside, I did know that trying to invade the city by land was almost impo...
2024-02-16 00:59:10 +0000 UTC View Post~~~Viewpoint: Varys (the spider) fourth moon, 276 AC~~~
As I watched my caravan move forward, I thought about what motivated me to make this long journey.
It wasn't until seven moons ago that I found myself in Volantis when the first little mouse climbed onto my table and informed me of what was happening in Slave Bay, more precisely in Astapor.
The city had fallen to a Dothraki Khalasar, and that set the alarm bells ringing in many free cities, from Braavos to Qarth. I knew...
2024-02-16 00:35:24 +0000 UTC View Post
~~~Viewpoint: Azrael Jaesyrian, Second Moon, 276 AC~~~
Watching as the men crawled out of the city, I knew that Xandar would soon have its first full-scale war, and while I was confident that I would win if I moved my chips right, I also understood that a war against three free cities would be no easy task.
Letting out a small sigh, I turned my face slightly to my left, as I felt a presence behind me. "Valka," I greeted the woman with whom I had formed a beautiful friendship over ...
2024-02-16 00:32:28 +0000 UTC View Post
~~~Viewpoint: Azrael Sanchez; second moon 276 AC~~~
"Your Majesty, it is a pleasure to greet you." I was greeted by the castle's castellans and some housekeepers.
One thing I had learned, was that to manage a colossus like this castle was, it took an almost infinite number of people, and to keep it warm in the right places was even worse. Maybe that's why Harrenhal needed thirty-five hearts just to heat the great hall.
For that reason, I distributed control of the castle to ...
2024-02-16 00:07:29 +0000 UTC View Post
~~~Viewpoint: Azrael Sanchez; second moon, 276 AC~~~
'Come on, one more and the inner part of the city will be done' I thought, as I placed rows and rows of mother blocks.
After the conquest of Astapor, I got quite busy, and I wanted to use the location of the city, as it was in a very strategic part, close to the free cities and the eastern part of Essos, very close to Qarth, Yi Ti, the summer islands and Asshai.
Astapor had been badly destroyed after the sacking, from whic...
2024-02-16 00:00:39 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~Point of view: Azrael Sanchez 275 AC~~~~
I rode up to face a host of a thousand Dothraki, all in steel plate armor and with their armored steeds.
For this, I did not decide to use everyone, but only chose the oldest and most disciplined, if that term existed among the Dothraki in the first place.
"Remember, I want no innocents killed, at least no more than necessary; everyone will get a good share of the city's spoils, so I don't want you to disobey my orders; anyone see...
2024-02-15 23:57:15 +0000 UTC View Post