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@Greenie It'll have to be carefully worked out if you want to have a mystic character. Plus we don't know anything about Rhoynish water magic besides that they can control water and there is a religious element to it. Anything more is pure speculation.

@bloonewb It's the 3rd Century, women can own property too y'know.

On a serious note, I had that written in before Dredigan had Tyrion marry Sansa. I might have it rewritten so that one of Brandon's children is overseeing the land. But it would still make sense to have Sansa as the castle's steward. She doesn't have to be there all the time, and she's competent and loyal. Either way, the Starks have control of the Dreadfort for now.

I imagine Brandon will probably keep the castle from the Boltons until they can prove themselves as loyal vassals. Or he might give it to another House that proves themselves. It's not so much that Sansa or whoever is the hereditary ruler of the castle now, but they are administering it for the time-being. Kind of like Moat Cailin or the Bloody Gate.

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@Greenie The World of Ice and Fire book talks about Rhoynish Water Mages that managed to resist the dragons. We aren't given any more information than that, but given that the Rhoynar worshiped the River I kind of imagine them to be an aquatic analogy to the Red Priests.

There's no such thing as too long a bio in Advanced Roleplay, your character sheet is gold, put 'er in the CS tab.

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@Gowi Exactly, that adds more to make the story morally ambiguous. A decent character gets looked down on by their peers, who are also usually decent, just because their family has a bad rap.

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@bloonewb I think literally doing so seems well logistically improbable, but figuratively seems more workable :P

Seriously though, I like the idea that William kind of becomes a Varys type character. Seemingly friendly and loyal, and perhaps even helpful; but ultimately has his own agenda.

@Gowi Just once, I think there should be an at-least non-hostile Bolton Lord. Break the vicious cycle.

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@Greenie Look forward to reading it!

@bloonewb It's a pretty good sheet, but I have just a few minor quibbles.

1) I think it fits more that Jon would have taken on the Boltons after Stannis had a go, like in the show with the Battle of the Bastards. I can't really see Jon running to Daenerys for help instead of rallying his forces and I find the idea of Bran leading an army well... unlikely to say the least. I feel like the Boltons would have been taken care of before Daenerys landed on Westeros and things ramped up with Cersei. Plus since this is trying to stick to canon, Jeyne should already have been in Stark custody since she ran away with Theon.

2) It doesn't seem likely that the child would have just been sent away with the Starks just hoping for the best. That basically never happens when a child potentially poses a threat. Realistically, he would have been taken as a hostage and raised with the Starks. He might have been given a castle of his own, and this could be that Castle Ethering (I see no reference to it in canon).

3) So he wouldn't have the Dreadfort but he'd still vie for it. Your concept made him seem more like a manipulator than a warrior, so it would make more sense for him to be scheming instead of leading an army. Like he's pretending to be a loyal vassal but he's really planning on betraying the Starks, just like Roose. That's more believable than him somehow suddenly finding out he's a Bolton, somehow proving it to a bank, and than somehow marching an army big enough to besiege a major castle without any warning from the spies the Iron Throne has. It'd also improve his long-term survivablity a lot since I don't think a rogue lone upstart would survive a one-man war against the North and the Iron Throne. Especially since he's supposed to be smart, I think he'd rather scheme than jump straight to conquest.

Alternatively you could have him be more subtly vying for the Dreadfort by trying to get in the good graces of the Starks and Targaryens instead of trying to undermine them or openly rebel. So he might be kind of loyal but also looking out for himself above everything. Also your character can have a sweet ancestral flaying knife.

That's just my thoughts on it, otherwise I think you have a good concept.

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@Masterkeun Once you do that, I think you're pretty much good to go and post in the CS tab.

@bloonewb Good to see you, still wanting to work on the Boltons?

@Xyo Still interested in playing?

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@Greenie So would your character be involved in all the Iron Island madness or are they travelling?

@Masterkeun It would make most sense for a hostage like Malkor to be sent to live with either the Starks, the Tullys, or even to King's Landing. Even if they tried to be amiable to him, I could see Malkor developing a very personal grudge with Jon.

The Boltons have a familial history of torture, but with Ramsay dead, I don't really know if the tradition would be as strong. It's not like there's some kind of torture gene, that would be something that would depend on their upbringing. And Roose was a sadist but I don't think he tortured noble sons for shits and giggles. Domeric Bolton actually seemed like a nice kid.

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Ah I see, that clears it up. Well the sheet implies Malkor was conditioned to hate the Tullys and Starks by the Boltons, but the question remains of why a house known as Frey collaborators would be given a Frey ward? Did the Tullys arrange the deal or did the Freys do so? And if the Boltons and Freys were allies in the past why would they torture him?

Ramsay was crazy enough to do that, but I don't know if the new generation of Boltons would neccesarily be as sadistic or random in their torturing. I don't think he needs to have been tortured to disdain noble families, being born a child of a house beset by scheming and violence would be enough.

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@Masterkeun The sheet seems to be really coming together, but if you intend for Malkor to be a POV he should have the same fields filled out as the others. I assume you're collaborating with @supertinyking for House Mudd, but are you also doing so with @bloonewb for House Bolton? I'm not really sure if the Boltons would be given a Frey hostage since they were collaborators, and why the Boltons would torture him.

@Dredigan All I have filled out about Brienne right now is that she's alive somewhere with a sweet new sword, and presumably she's head of House Tarth now since I don't know if there are any other heirs to Lord Selwyn. Other than that, yeah have free reign with her history from the end of the books, and I'm curious to see what you come up with!

@Greenie Did you have any interest playing other Greyjoy characters as well?

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@Greenie Interesting concept! I imagine it would be hard for Theon to do so after he became Reek :P

Your equipment doesn't have to be super specific unless you have unique and specialized gear. If it's just general gear, you can just mark the essentials. For characters who don't need much equipment at all since they're diplomats/money men/statesmen the equipment field can just be blank.