[@MrDidact]

Just posted, including a nice little KL bit. It's an interesting segment, as it shows another kind of reality with Alerie- she isn't entirely evil but she is brooding as fuck and knows the way the game works, she's already in full Olenna Tyrell mode here. I imagine that she goes from being this really cute, beautiful looking girl in her green/gold dress to being the equivalent of the most red thing in Westeros that isn't a Red Priestess in her red one, that change is actually a little incognito need for what might come next (and no, she's not off to go deal in fire and shit). 

I think a flash forward would be quite cool. Setting it about six months after, with a few casualties and the impact of the aftermath that comes from the small wars would be good- my hat is in for a War of Ninepenny Kings scenario as it would perhaps be worth looking at a mixture of factions who want to dethrone the Targaryens, or a potential civil war after Jon/Dany pass away. Even one about a month after, so we can take a whole new bunch of people on board, closing in every conflict that happened back to a reset would be cool- allowing any narrative strands to carry on beyond. I still think it would be nice to carry it on- just perhaps with a little more speed to close down certain parts of the story. 

I like the PvE element so I still think that a big war could still be contained (say, just one Red Mountains rather than lots), just in one place rather than all at once in lots of different strands. As cool as it is, I found myself hinging on collabs and having a lot to write across a massive Geographical range, which is doable for a while but I feel like it would have been nice to see the returns on some plans I'd laid out very early in the RP to start playing out, which due to the distances and long-term campaigns and focus on war, wasn't as possible. I'd like to write my way into a flash forward though- so say, setting up Alerie with the future of her cunning plans and her marriage/wedding to Tom, and perhaps more for Ellion's [s]incredible sex life [/s] endgame in what his future may be, with a few hinted at before. 

Personally, I'd really like to explore the intrigue of what a Lannister-Tyrell alliance looks like again, and I'm glad that magic may be reined in. It felt a bit too...common? It felt more like a different world compared to the grit and realism of the Medieval horrors of war- badassery felt good enough in the hands of swords rather than something confusing. I think if it exists, definitely that is awesome, but it needs to be more mystical rather than accessible broadly to more people, something properly frightening, even in friendly hands. It became a bit convoluted at times and while I might not be good at understanding that, it was the one bit I sometimes feel a little confused on.