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    He sighed and collapsed into his armchair. Even from across the room, she could feel in her bones the putrid smell of ale on his breath. "I don't want to. I have to."

    "What?" she asked

    He had a dead look in his eyes. If she didn't know better, she may have been speaking to a living corpse. "I can't win. I can't escape. I can't scheme my way out. The Old Gods have cursed me to do this over and again, on until there's nothing left to lift the sword. I shatter myself against the walls, on and on, until it's over or I've gone mad in trying to do the impossible. The only escape is death, and I can never die."

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    02 Dec 2025

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    When Eddard Stark is young, he goes to war. He rises up against his king, swears veangance in the name of his brother, in the name of his father. As part of that vengeance he must marry Catelyn Tully, even though he swore himself to Ashara Dayne. But he must honour the betrothal, and so he marries Lady Catelyn, sacrificing more than a marriage when he does.

    Nine moons later Robb Stark comes wailing into the world with eyes as green as the forests.

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    02 Dec 2025

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    Eddard Stark doesn't make it back to the North as the banners gather in rebellion, slipping beneath the waves of the Bite during an ambush in the storm. Someone else, from a world like ours, rises from the waters in his place.

    The Old Gods have stolen a soul to right the wrongs of the coming years and avert disaster. Will it work? Who knows? But someone once said that if you want to change the future, you'd better start by changing what you do in the present.

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    01 Dec 2025

  4. Rec 19

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    Includes strength by house for regions of Westeros, several stabs at Free Company and Free Folk numbers, and a lot of guesswork. Houses without specified locations were (as often as possible) given a minor place as theirs or assigned to a fixed-location nearby overlord. Nearly every location is based on the Interactive Game of Thrones Map at quartermaster.info. Numbers, wherever possible, were taken from A Wiki of Ice and Fire and books by George R. R. Martin. Where not, I used land mass, common sense, and mostly guesswork.
    Hope this proves useful!

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    30 Nov 2025

  5. Rec 27

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    A butterfly flaps its wings and the world changes...

    In a world where Mace Tyrell dies during Robert's Rebellion but Brandon Stark survives, what happens to Eddard Stark? And what happens to the Reach?

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