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*** The brilliant life of the one born 'Arwyn Waters' ***
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
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Epilogue
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DISCLAIMERS:
- Arwyn 'Waters' was a fully AI-driven character. Nothing was done to aid the character, neither through cheats nor actions of player characters. This is why I find her worthy of this tale.
- Queen Arwyn 'the Conqueror' of House Targaryen legitimized herself upon seizing the Iron Throne.
- She died with over 8000 prestige, the achievement 'exhalted above all men' and the nickname 'the Conqueror'.
- The characters played were Aegon 'the Conqueror', Aerion 'the Lazy, Arion (the short-lived), Lord Ronel 'the Imperious' and Baelor 'the Generous'.
- Dragon Egg Chance was set at 'Hard'.
- The only cheat (if it counts as a cheat) was switching player character to Lord Ronel instead of playing as Arion's child and dim-witted heir.
- Lord Ronel's thought processes were pretty much mine as I watched AI-Arwyn pull this off. It was so funny that I just had to write this xD
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This mod is amazing, and I hope I get to witness more of these feats by unexpected AI characters
Part I
Daughter of King Aerion 'the Lazy' and his prisoner Celia Hayford, born a bastard and naturally ugly.
Married after her years of infancy and captivity to the Lord Paramount of the Stormlands, the marriage was short and unproductive: Lord Osmund rebelled against the Crown and died like a traitor, burned to a crisp by dragonflame and leaving no descendent.
Arwyn 'Waters' spend another handful of years as a prisoner in King's Landing, well-fed and comfortable, but otherwise continuously humiliated by her father, a cruel and debauched ruler for whom blood and family mattered not..
Thus bearing her painful existence, she found solace in the kindness and mercy that marked the brief reign of King Arion, Aerion's son and successor. King Arion married Arwyn 'Waters' to Ronel 'Waters', another bastard of Targaryen blood.
Ronel was a brilliant commander, skilled fighter and nothing short of a genius. So much so that he tamed a fierce dragon roaming the streets of King's Landing, thus becoming a Dragonrider. King Arion admired the young man so much that he legitimized him and granted him Dragonstone, the ancestral seat of House Targaryen, in detriment of his own son and heir.
King Arion died a depressed young man, scarred by the wounds of a Targaryen civil war that saw 4 dragons perish and 2 dragonriders follow them, leaving only two surviving dragons and one egg intact.
Married after her years of infancy and captivity to the Lord Paramount of the Stormlands, the marriage was short and unproductive: Lord Osmund rebelled against the Crown and died like a traitor, burned to a crisp by dragonflame and leaving no descendent.
Arwyn 'Waters' spend another handful of years as a prisoner in King's Landing, well-fed and comfortable, but otherwise continuously humiliated by her father, a cruel and debauched ruler for whom blood and family mattered not..
Thus bearing her painful existence, she found solace in the kindness and mercy that marked the brief reign of King Arion, Aerion's son and successor. King Arion married Arwyn 'Waters' to Ronel 'Waters', another bastard of Targaryen blood.
Ronel was a brilliant commander, skilled fighter and nothing short of a genius. So much so that he tamed a fierce dragon roaming the streets of King's Landing, thus becoming a Dragonrider. King Arion admired the young man so much that he legitimized him and granted him Dragonstone, the ancestral seat of House Targaryen, in detriment of his own son and heir.
King Arion died a depressed young man, scarred by the wounds of a Targaryen civil war that saw 4 dragons perish and 2 dragonriders follow them, leaving only two surviving dragons and one egg intact.
Part II
As Arion's son failed to hold the realm together and a parade of wars and usurpers was ongoing, only in Dragonstone did the legacy of dragon-riding Targaryens endure. The egg hatched to Allyria Targaryen, a true-born Targaryen, and Arwyn 'Waters', made strong by a life of hardship, tamed the fierced Balerion, the 'Black Dread', when his aging dragonrider perished.
Lord Ronel Targaryen of Dragonstone thus reimagined himself as Aegon 'the Conqueror': a dragonrider of Targaryen blood, with two fierce dragon-riding wives and ruling nothing but Dragonstone and its sparse vassals. As he watched the realm collapse under the mismanagement of his kin and waited for the best moment to strike, Arwyn 'Waters' seethed, and begged him coin to help her field an army and restore the Realm. He refused her any aid; he would be 'Aegon', he promised.
Two years passed, and Arwyn gave him a son and daughter. The chaos in the Realm continued unabated, but to Ronel's eyes, the situation had not improved, for the Lords Paramount grew stronger, not weaker, even in the midst of war and winter.
Arwyn snapped. She had bore the indignities of King Aerion and seen her mother wither and die under the same treatment. If such a monster could rule Westeros, and if her husband was too scared to try, then she would right the wrongs in the Realm and hope King Aerion was watching from the afterlife his bastard daughter take upon herself the Targaryen legacy.
Hiring a couple thousand man by her own expense and channeling determination from Balerion's ever-burning rage, Arwyn 'Waters' set sail for King's Landing. The capital was ruined and devoid of soldiers, with the king of the day fighting in a forgotten field against rebelling vassals. Thus she climbed the steps of the Iron Throne and proclaimed herself Arwyn, First of Her Name, both as a Queen and as a Targaryen.
Lord Ronel Targaryen of Dragonstone thus reimagined himself as Aegon 'the Conqueror': a dragonrider of Targaryen blood, with two fierce dragon-riding wives and ruling nothing but Dragonstone and its sparse vassals. As he watched the realm collapse under the mismanagement of his kin and waited for the best moment to strike, Arwyn 'Waters' seethed, and begged him coin to help her field an army and restore the Realm. He refused her any aid; he would be 'Aegon', he promised.
Two years passed, and Arwyn gave him a son and daughter. The chaos in the Realm continued unabated, but to Ronel's eyes, the situation had not improved, for the Lords Paramount grew stronger, not weaker, even in the midst of war and winter.
Arwyn snapped. She had bore the indignities of King Aerion and seen her mother wither and die under the same treatment. If such a monster could rule Westeros, and if her husband was too scared to try, then she would right the wrongs in the Realm and hope King Aerion was watching from the afterlife his bastard daughter take upon herself the Targaryen legacy.
Hiring a couple thousand man by her own expense and channeling determination from Balerion's ever-burning rage, Arwyn 'Waters' set sail for King's Landing. The capital was ruined and devoid of soldiers, with the king of the day fighting in a forgotten field against rebelling vassals. Thus she climbed the steps of the Iron Throne and proclaimed herself Arwyn, First of Her Name, both as a Queen and as a Targaryen.
Part III
Queen Arwyn Targaryen marched from the ransacked capital with 5000 men, all that she had of loyalists from a handful of Valyrian lords with their seats in the Crownlands. At ther sight of Balerion's wings, the former king, a weakling with nothing of worth but Targaryen blood, fled into exile across the Narrow Sea. The Lords Paramount of the Rock and Dorne, who had stood against him, now stood against Arwyn Targaryen. But with Arwyn flew the 'Black Dread', and where he flew, armies burned, castles crumbled and lords bent the knee.
With the Rock and Dorne subjugated, the Lords of the Reach and the Stormlands rushed to pay homage, and the Realm was slowly putting itself back together. In Dragonstone, Lord Ronel (King, in fact, by virtue of his marriage with the ascendant Arwyn) raged. This was to be his achievement, and Arwyn had stole it from him. Even though he did nothing to help her, even though she had but one dragon, where Aegon had had three, she was stealing his dreams of glory.
Ronel seriously considered to challenge his new Queen and "loving" wife. He too was a dragonrider, alongside his other wife, Allyria. But the tales of the previous "dance of dragons" refrained him. Another such episode, and facing against Balerion, no less, was almost assuredly a path to certain disaster for himself and his loved ones, and would certainly doom dragons to extinction and the Targaryens to irrelevance, no longer the last dragonlords of Ancient Valyria.
Thus, Lord Ronel stayed his hand and put House Targaryen in front of his own broken dreams. Indeed, even his repeated refusals to aid the Queen against her enemies, which she repaid with slights such as his dismissal from positions in the Small Council, could be interpreted as safeguarding the future glory of his House rather than pure spite. For his dragon was Fenrion, the most fertile of all living dragons, and preserving its life was assuring the survival of dragons.
With the Rock and Dorne subjugated, the Lords of the Reach and the Stormlands rushed to pay homage, and the Realm was slowly putting itself back together. In Dragonstone, Lord Ronel (King, in fact, by virtue of his marriage with the ascendant Arwyn) raged. This was to be his achievement, and Arwyn had stole it from him. Even though he did nothing to help her, even though she had but one dragon, where Aegon had had three, she was stealing his dreams of glory.
Ronel seriously considered to challenge his new Queen and "loving" wife. He too was a dragonrider, alongside his other wife, Allyria. But the tales of the previous "dance of dragons" refrained him. Another such episode, and facing against Balerion, no less, was almost assuredly a path to certain disaster for himself and his loved ones, and would certainly doom dragons to extinction and the Targaryens to irrelevance, no longer the last dragonlords of Ancient Valyria.
Thus, Lord Ronel stayed his hand and put House Targaryen in front of his own broken dreams. Indeed, even his repeated refusals to aid the Queen against her enemies, which she repaid with slights such as his dismissal from positions in the Small Council, could be interpreted as safeguarding the future glory of his House rather than pure spite. For his dragon was Fenrion, the most fertile of all living dragons, and preserving its life was assuring the survival of dragons.
Part IV
Resigning himself to his position as custodian of House Targaryen and the dragon race, he watched as Queen Arwin burned rebels alive and slowly reunified the Realm. Content that at least their son would inherit a powerful kingdom and a great legacy of history and tradition, Lord Ronel determined that Baelor, his son, would have reason to look up to him as much as he did his mother. And so, Lord Ronel set sail into the horizon...
Arwin Targaryen was no longer a young woman, but she had reason to be believe her son would inherit a unified Westeros. The lords only infrequently rebelled, and she was seen as a formidable ruler. The Lords of the Vale bent the knee without a fight, the Riverlands and the Iron Islands burned beneath Balerion's wings, and the North failed to stop her armies. When Lord Ronel returned from his journey, all but a handful of small lords owed their allegiance to the Iron Throne.
Lord Ronel's voyage had, it turned out, been about reclaiming an ancient blade of Valyrian steel. 'Blackfyre' and 'Dark Sister', those fearful blades of old, had been lost during the chaos of the Targaryen civil war. This new blade, 'Withersteel', would be Baelor's inheritance from Lord Ronel, alongside a dragon egg from Fenrion and Dragonstone itself. As Lord Ronel perished from the hardships of his voyage, he died a happy man, safe in the knowledge that Baelor would revere him nearly as much as he would his fierce mother.
Baelor grew into everything Queen Arwyn ever wanted in a son, as formidable as Aegon himself, and with nearly as worthy wives. Two years before her death, the last of the independent lords were vanquised by the Crown, and at the old age of 70, this lengendary queen died.
Baelor wept as she died. He had wept when Ronel, 'the Imperious', had perished from his wounds, and he wept even more as his mother died. Arwin 'Waters', Queen Arwin Targaryen, and Arwin 'the Conqueror', as Aegon himself, would forever live in the annals of Targaryen history.
Arwin Targaryen was no longer a young woman, but she had reason to be believe her son would inherit a unified Westeros. The lords only infrequently rebelled, and she was seen as a formidable ruler. The Lords of the Vale bent the knee without a fight, the Riverlands and the Iron Islands burned beneath Balerion's wings, and the North failed to stop her armies. When Lord Ronel returned from his journey, all but a handful of small lords owed their allegiance to the Iron Throne.
Lord Ronel's voyage had, it turned out, been about reclaiming an ancient blade of Valyrian steel. 'Blackfyre' and 'Dark Sister', those fearful blades of old, had been lost during the chaos of the Targaryen civil war. This new blade, 'Withersteel', would be Baelor's inheritance from Lord Ronel, alongside a dragon egg from Fenrion and Dragonstone itself. As Lord Ronel perished from the hardships of his voyage, he died a happy man, safe in the knowledge that Baelor would revere him nearly as much as he would his fierce mother.
Baelor grew into everything Queen Arwyn ever wanted in a son, as formidable as Aegon himself, and with nearly as worthy wives. Two years before her death, the last of the independent lords were vanquised by the Crown, and at the old age of 70, this lengendary queen died.
Baelor wept as she died. He had wept when Ronel, 'the Imperious', had perished from his wounds, and he wept even more as his mother died. Arwin 'Waters', Queen Arwin Targaryen, and Arwin 'the Conqueror', as Aegon himself, would forever live in the annals of Targaryen history.
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Epilogue
King Baelor, 'the Generous', inherited a completely unified Westeros under the rule of the Iron Throne, a Valyrian steel sword, 5 Targaryen dragons and one dragon egg. Quick of mind and brilliant in warfare, King Baelor now looks toward Essos, and the Sealord of Braavos trembles at the prospect of Valyria's rebirth.
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DISCLAIMERS:
- Arwyn 'Waters' was a fully AI-driven character. Nothing was done to aid the character, neither through cheats nor actions of player characters. This is why I find her worthy of this tale.
- Queen Arwyn 'the Conqueror' of House Targaryen legitimized herself upon seizing the Iron Throne.
- She died with over 8000 prestige, the achievement 'exhalted above all men' and the nickname 'the Conqueror'.
- The characters played were Aegon 'the Conqueror', Aerion 'the Lazy, Arion (the short-lived), Lord Ronel 'the Imperious' and Baelor 'the Generous'.
- Dragon Egg Chance was set at 'Hard'.
- The only cheat (if it counts as a cheat) was switching player character to Lord Ronel instead of playing as Arion's child and dim-witted heir.
- Lord Ronel's thought processes were pretty much mine as I watched AI-Arwyn pull this off. It was so funny that I just had to write this xD
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This mod is amazing, and I hope I get to witness more of these feats by unexpected AI characters
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