So I've been looking at the exit surveys and one of the biggest reasons for people canceling their membership is 'Tertius711 has not been as active as I expected' which you know what, that is fair enough.
Last year I didn't want to commit to any particular update schedule because I knew I still had exams and Christmas stuff to do that would cause updating issues but I am ready to commit now. So from now on until High Tide is completed, I would like to officially announce a weekly upda...
2024-01-09 10:35:10 +0000 UTC
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Tenth Moon, 114 AC
2024-01-09 10:02:45 +0000 UTC
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Fifth Moon, 114 AC
Gael
Daemon was off somewhere in the city, no doubt indulging in yet another day of revelry and celebration with his men now that he had finally been reinstated to his post as Commander of the Watch. She was happy for him.
Her husband’s reinstatement was a result of her efforts. She had been working hard to convince Aemon for years and it had finally borne fruit after she had pointed out how well behaved Daemon had been ...
2023-12-29 06:32:57 +0000 UTC
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Baela
Eighth Moo
2023-12-09 08:22:22 +0000 UTC
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Eighth Moon, 113 AC
Baela
“How are you settling in girls?” Aunt Viserra asked after they had taken their first helpings of the morning meal.
She had invited the two of them to break their fast with her and they had obliged. It was only the three of them however, as the other resident ladies in High Tide, Alys Grafton and Irina Tarth, did not have the highest opinions of Targaryens.
Not that Baela had much high opinion of them in re...
2023-11-24 02:46:16 +0000 UTC
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Military and Maritime Organization of the Velaryon State – 113 AC
Foreword
“Your Excellency, Lord Jacaerys, here is the report that you requested of me detailing our military capabilities. I hope that the information I have meticulously compiled will prove useful in all your endeavors. For House Velaryon! Velaryon and Victory! The Old, the True, the Brave! – Ser Jaremy Gottwell, Lord Commander of the Tide Guard.
The Po...
2023-11-20 07:24:24 +0000 UTC
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Seventh Moon, 113 AC
Baela
The tourney that was thrown in celebration for her and her twin sister’s wedding was as grand as the wedding ceremony that preceded it. Apparently the tourney was greater and grander and even more expensive than the one which had been thrown to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of her late grandfather’s reign in 98 AC. Not that Baela remembered that particular tourney though, she had only been a one-year-old at th...
2023-11-13 13:55:51 +0000 UTC
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Seventh Moon, 113 AC
Baela Targaryen
The festivities that had been planned for her and Rhaena’s wedding were rather ostentatious in Baela’s opinion. Maybe even too much so. All the pageantry and splendor one would expect from a royal wedding was to be on display. Neither her uncle or the Velaryons had spared the slightest expense, both families were eager to show off the full extent of their wealth and power. That wasn’t just her estimation ...
2023-11-06 18:35:13 +0000 UTC
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Sixth Moon, 109 AC
Daeron
The winds buffeted against Daeron as his dragon folded her wings and dived toward High Tide. He could hear the screeches of the dragons behind him and turned his head briefly to catch a glimpse. Laena was quick on their tail astride Shrykos and not far behind her were Jace and Luke atop their own dragons, fighting to not be last.
A prod he felt seemingly inside his own mind from Terrax through their bond nudged him ...
2023-10-30 15:36:08 +0000 UTC
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Sixth Moon, 109 AC
Jacaerys
They had left King’s Landing within a day of his altercation with Daemon. His mother and Lucerys had refused to speak to him at all the day they returned to High Tide and even after that their few limited interactions had been curt and cold.
He wasn’t exactly sure what his younger siblings thought. Daeron and Laena were certainly upset about his recklessness and their consequential separation from their friend...
2023-10-15 08:53:26 +0000 UTC
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Sixth Moon, 109 AC
Jacaerys
He’d known it was coming, but somehow his uncle announcing it in open court just made it all so much more real.
The reactions were mixed. Some like their trusted allies, Starks, Tarths, Graftons, Royces, and Celtigars, were either pleased or disappointed that they didn’t get something more substantive. Jace acknowledged his family’s friends with nods and mouthed words of thanks. Caeryn and Caspian Celtigar a...
2023-10-08 04:46:34 +0000 UTC
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Sixth Moon, 109 AC
Rhaenys
“Viserys, what do you think should happen with the Velaryons?” She asked her husband and cousin.
He sighed. “I’ve told you once before that my opinions are yours did I not?”
“And I appreciate your support, but when my own opinions are yet to be fully formed, I need counsel from my husband, unless your opinions are as unbuilt as mine? Be frank with me Viserys, what are your honest thoughts?” Rhae...
2023-09-30 08:58:21 +0000 UTC
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Sixth Moon, 109 AC
Viserra
Her father had died late in the third moon of 109 AC. It was early in the sixth moon now. Though many had been increasingly coming to court to pay their respects to the ailing king, the true tide of arrivals had begun arriving once his death and the date for his funeral was announced across the realm.
Every lord, great or small in the Crownlands, down to some of even the smallest landed knights had come. The great ...
2023-09-23 09:18:48 +0000 UTC
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Third Moon, 109 AC
Gael Targaryen
“Well here comes another useless bootlicker,” her husband complained. Gael turned her eyes to the supposed licker of boots in question, Lord Otto Hightower of Highwatch, Governor of the Stepstones.
She smirked at her husband. “You were the one who decided you wanted to attend court today. You could have been drinking with your cronies and captains out in the city instead.”
Daemon returned her s...
2023-09-16 18:20:05 +0000 UTC
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Third Moon 109 AC
Viserra
Nine years had passed since her family had moved back home to Driftmark. In those nine years, Corlys and her had worked hard to prove that their people’s faith in them was not misplaced. They had strived to rebuild Driftmark’s shattered economy in a myriad of ways.
First of all, they had reined in their defiant vassals; Wendwater, Bar Emmon, and Sunglass. All three had had little choice but to accept their invit...
2023-09-09 09:18:32 +0000 UTC
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-Excerpt from ‘The Sea Snake’, the biography of Corlys Velaryon, Abridged Edition.
The very first meeting of King Jaehaerys the Conciliator and Lord Corlys the Sea Snake happened at the funeral of Lord Corlys’ grandfather, Lord Daemon Velaryon. As aforementioned, Lord Daemon was none other than the uncle of Jaehaerys himself, and so the presence of Jaehaerys, his sister-wife Alysanne, and their three eldest children, Princes Aemon and Baelon, and Prin...
2023-09-01 15:53:18 +0000 UTC
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Hello all! I would just like to inform you all that I have finally and officially created my public Discord server for High Tide and my other works! Some of you might already know because I accidentally invited you when I linked Patreon to Discord for your patron benefits, which was actually before I was ready to launch ~ ... anyway, I have finished setting up the server and now officially invite all of you to it! Link below!
2023-08-31 12:34:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, I have some unfortunate news. There will not be a chapter this weekend. I’m going for a convention and I won’t have time to write Ch39. Still don’t worry, we will pick back up with the High Tide fix the following weekend for sure.
I figured that after the last chapter was delayed cause of my business on the weekend, I should give you guys a head’s up for this chapter. Feel free to ask questions or for teasers on the next chapter and I will PM you the answers according ...
2023-08-24 15:00:34 +0000 UTC
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Viserra
First Moon, 100 AC
The ride over to Dragonstone was not long. The island was visible from the highest tower of High Tide, and a dragon covered the distance in little more than five and ten minutes. Her first instinct had been to take Laena and Daeron to ride with her on Dreamfyre, like they’d taken them when they rode the horses. However, her two youngest children had begged and cajoled her to let them ride their dragons and she had begr...
2023-08-19 08:26:33 +0000 UTC
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Viserra
First Moon, 100 AC
They had left Driftmark to conquer Tyrosh in the eighth moon of the ninetieth year since Aegon’s Conquest. It was the first moon of the hundredth year now. Nine years and five months that she had spent away from her true home. Nine years and five months since she had last seen that wondrous isle.
Those years had changed Viserra greatly. She was not the foolish and reckless young girl that had conquered a city any...
2023-08-06 13:19:55 +0000 UTC
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Viserra
Seventh Moon, 98 AC
“Dracarys!” Viserra commanded as Dreamfyre dived. Instantly, a column of blue flames emerged from her maw. A rain of fiery death pouring from the sky. Within minutes, the enemy fleet had been reduced to smoldering planks and cinders burning on the sea.
Fools, Viserra thought. The Ghiscari had forgotten the might of dragons and had thought to defy them yet again. She looked back to her fleet which now ...
2023-07-30 11:05:54 +0000 UTC
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Viserra
First Moon, 98 AC
Legions of fanatics as numerous as the stars, waved silver-green banners and chanted for victory as they marched onwards, never ceasing. The silver-green banners faded into embers. The pale fortress burned, its splendor igniting into flame. Its silver towers melted into a sea of rising tides. The dragons roared in the sky, and the earth trembled before their wake.
Viserra rubbed her forehead, her t...
2023-07-22 02:14:08 +0000 UTC
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The Storm Lord
Twelfth Moon, 94 AC
Things were not going to plan for Boremund Baratheon. The Velaryons should have been humbled in Tyrosh, crushed by his older brother’s sanctions and forced to return to beg his mercy. Instead the opposite had happened. They had defeated all who would defy them in Tyrosh and had begun to rebuild the city, reaping vast profits and wealth. They had forced Otto Hightower to back down in the Stepstones Crisis. His o...
2023-07-18 17:48:46 +0000 UTC
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Viserra
Seventh Moon, 94 AC
It had been over two years since the Morghon Revolt had been crushed. Those two years had seen a massive turn in House Velaryon’s fortunes as Tyrosh was brought under their full control. Now, House Velaryon ruled in Tyrosh absolutely, unquestioned, unchallenged.
The militant Stars, which had been loyal but worryingly fanatic and independent, had been greatly bloodied and their numbers had been thinned during the...
2023-07-17 17:03:52 +0000 UTC
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Viserra
Second Moon, 92 AC
Corlys had dreaded this for months, and now that it had come at last, Viserra finally understood just a little why he had been so worried. Tyrosh was in flames. The loyal Ser Jaremy had described how the arrest of a Tower had turned sour, and now a massive mob was rioting and tearing through the city. Their call to arms was a roaring chant of death. “Morghon,” they cried, calling for death; death to the infidels and ...
2023-07-08 08:54:03 +0000 UTC
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Viserra
Second Moon, 92 AC
Just a few more days, and it would mark one year since Rhaekar died. Even now it was still hard to believe that he was really gone, but he was, and the world had moved on without him. Aurane and Alys had had their first child, a child that would never know an uncle, a son named Malentine. Soon, Viserra would have another child that would also never know its uncle as well.
Beyond Tyrosh and House Velaryon, the world...
2023-07-02 04:34:17 +0000 UTC
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Viserra
Second Moon, 88 AC
She shivered briefly as Corlys took her cloak off. The three-headed red dragon of House Targaryen was soon replaced with the silver seahorse of House Velaryon as he wrapped his own cloak around her protectively. She nestled in the warmth.
The septon spoke as he brought out the ribbon. “My lords, my ladies, we stand here in the sight of gods and men to witness the union of man and wife. Corly...
2023-06-26 16:39:13 +0000 UTC
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The Lady of Maidenpool
Third Moon, 91 AC
“Mother!” Maegon called out to her eagerly as she arrived in his rooms. At three years old, her younger son would be starting his lessons soon, but for a little while longer at least, he would be free to play all day. His toys were strewn around the room, including a stuffed dragon her father had gifted him.
She tried not to think about it, but sometimes she wondered if she was a good mother. She ...
2023-06-20 16:14:12 +0000 UTC
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Viserra
Second Moon, 91 AC
“Maester Desmond has confirmed my suspicions. The poison was the Strangler. The symptoms match perfectly,” Corlys said as he walked into the room. His words were calm and measured, but his face gave away his anguish.
Viserra knew it was mirrored on her own. She sat on the edge of her bed, her mind brooding. “If I hadn’t stopped you from drinking the wine… you’d be dead as well,” she said, haunted by t...
2023-06-08 09:43:04 +0000 UTC
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Jaehaerys
Second Moon, 91 AC
Whenever Jaehaerys made a decision he was unsure of, he found himself wondering what his elder brothers would have done in his place. His father Aenys had been a weak pathetic man who failed them all with his indecisiveness and mewling weakness. His uncle Maegor had been a cruel tyrant and kinslayer. Jaehaerys hated them both. They were unworthy kings and even less worthy men.
No, it was not Aenys and Maegor that...
2023-06-06 07:56:20 +0000 UTC
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