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TBOV: PROLOGUE: Stranglehold

PROLOGUE: Stranglehold

An Excerpt from The Annals of the Green Triumph, penned by Archmaester Vaelor in the Reign of King Aegon II Targaryen

“Of wars unlooked for, it is said: Fortune’s wheel turns swiftest w...

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Update

Need sleep. I'll post the prologue for Book Two when I wake up. I keep messing up the final edits and it's driving me crazy.

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TGW: EPILOGUE: Casus Belli (End of Book One)

EPILOGUE: Casus Belli (End of Book One)

"Survival is the ability to swim in strange water."

―Bene Gesserit Teaching

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In the twilight hours, when shadows stretched long across Br...

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AD: Chapter One

Chapter One

Pain hauled me back to consciousness as though by a corroded hook through my flesh. The first true impression was the cold—clinical, uncaring, the sort that creeps into one’s bones. My eyes fluttered open, yet the world rem...

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AD: Prologue

Prologue

I came to myself by degrees, first assailed by a foul admixture of odours—burnt oil, putrefying flesh, and some tang of metal that defied ready definition. Even as I gagged, I felt coarse refuse crinkle beneath me, and the deep ...

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Arcane Disorder

Imma just gonna post this while I'm at it.

Synopsis:

Jaeyun Han is, by all accounts, a good man. He is also a stubborn man, unyielding as iron run through with rust—though goodness and obstinance, in Silco’s Undercity, are afflic...

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TGW: Volume TWO

To the moon!

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TGW: Volume One Cover

We are ending Volume one now. Moving on to greater things!

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TGW: EPILOGUE: The Prince’s Tourney

EPILOGUE: The Prince’s Tourney

"No man is so accursed as the kinslayer."

―Eddard Stark

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Jeyne had spent much of her life in the austerity of the Eyrie, perched high above the ...

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TGW: Chapter Fifty: Coda(Pt. 3)

Chapter Fifty: Coda(Pt. 3)

Garren could hear the rumble long before he saw Vermithor. It was a sound deeper than distant thunder, reverberating off the cavern walls beneath Dragonstone. The passages were chiseled from ancient, volcanic sto...

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TGW: Chapter Fifty: Coda(Pt. 2)

Chapter Fifty: Coda(Pt. 2)

Present Day

Rowenna felt the salt wind whip her hair as Vhagar descended through ragged clouds, vast wings beating thunder from the sky. Beneath her, the old beast’s scales were rough as ...

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TGW: Chapter Fifty: Coda (Pt. 1)

Chapter Fifty: Coda(Pt. 1)

Five Years Ago

The girl was fourteen the night her father sold her.

She had known it was coming. In the days leading up to it, his temper had grown shorter, his hands heavier, the sme...

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TGW: Chapter Forty-Nine: Flee!

Chapter Forty-Nine: Flee!

"What is there for me in Westeros but death?"

―Tyrion Lannister

Rhaenyra Targaryen stood by the high windows of the Sea-Dragon Tower, gazing out over a churning g...

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TGW: Chapter Forty-Eight: The Butchering

Chapter Forty-Eight: The Butchering

"Only death can pay for life."

―Mirri Maz Duur

Daeron’s breath came fast and shallow as Tessarion alighted upon the wet sand, her talons sinking into ...

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TGW: Chapter Forty-Seven: The Duel

Chapter Forty-Seven: The Duel

“To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror. To learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.”

— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

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Chapter Forty-Six: The Butcher’s Terms (PT. 2)

Chapter Forty-Six: The Butcher’s Terms (PT. 2)

Lucerys had never liked silence. Too much space for thinking. And thinking, in times like these, was a dangerous thing.

The fog still clung to the dips and hollows of the land, relucta...

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Chapter Forty-Six: The Butcher’s Terms (PT. 1)

Chapter Forty-Six: The Butcher’s Terms (PT. 1)

“When I am weaker than you, I ask for freedom because that is according to your principles. When I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my princi...

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TGW: Chapter Forty-Five: A Gathering of Foes

Chapter Forty-Five: A Gathering of Foes

"We march to victory, or we march to defeat. But we go forward. Only forward."

―Stannis Baratheon

Daemon leaned against the battlements, hands resti...

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TGW: Chapter Forty-Four: A Gathering of Heirs

Chapter Forty-Four: A Gathering of Heirs

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Cont. from INTERLUDE(True Power)

The older prince watched as his younger sibling fiddled with a stick, drawing squiggles in the s...

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TGW: Chapter Forty-Three: Precipice

Chapter Forty-Three: Precipice

"I believe in second chances. I don't believe in third chances."

―Doran Martell

Aegon woke to the taste of bile and stale wine, Westeros’s king reduced to ...

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TGW: Chapter Forty-Two: Killing Morale

Chapter Forty-Two: Killing Morale

“If I look back, I am lost.”

Daenerys Targaryen

Daemon stood, unmoving, his gaze locked on the last of the dragonseeds as he stumbled to the ground, his body ...

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TGW: Chapter Forty-One: Hostile Denial

Chapter Forty-One: Hostile Denial

"Let us raise an army of bastards."

―Rhaenyra Targaryen

Rhaenyra Targaryen stood at the threshold, her breath misting before her in the morning chill. The...

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TGW: INTERLUDE: Pink in the Morning

INTERLUDE: Pink in the Morning

“Dragons. The grief and glory of my House, they were.”

―Maester Aemon

Night hung heavily over Dragonstone, its basalt towers looming stark and black agai...

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TGW: INTERLUDE: The Prince’s Demands

INTERLUDE: The Prince’s Demands

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”

— Arya Stark

Wind and sea conspired to gnaw at Pyke’s ancient stones. It was a grey day, grey as the iron in the blo...

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TGW: Chapter Forty: Draconic Suppression

Chapter Forty: Draconic Suppression

“They say night’s beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.”

— A line from the smallfolk’s sayings (referenced in A Feast for Cro...

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TGW: Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Wages of Caution

Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Wages of Caution

“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.”

―Cersei Lannister

The sun had barely crested the rooftops of King’s ...

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TGW: Chapter Thirty-Eight: Rewards for the Strong

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Rewards for the Strong

"The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are at the mercy of those forces."

―Leto II Atreides

The green walls of the chamb...

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TGW: The Darkarmar(8k visuals)

Reference images for the components of and equipment used by the Darkarmar(Red Cloaks)

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TGW: Chapter Thirty-Seven: Revelations

Chapter Thirty-Seven: Revelations

"The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are at the mercy of those forces."

―Leto II Atreides

In the shaded recess of a Pentoshi vill...

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TGW: Chapter Thirty-Six: Breaking of the Stag

Chapter Thirty-Six: Breaking of the Stag

An excerpt from The Prince of Fire and Fate by Archmaester Vaelor, written in 153 AC

The storm broke upon Storm’s End no...

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