-Mance Rayder-
The journey back beyond the Wall had been simple enough. Avoiding his old black brothers was second nature after so many years evading rangers.
The Frostfangs rose grey against the pale sky, and somewhere in those peaks, his camp waited. A hundred thousand wildlings huddled against the cold, waiting for their king to return with word of the south.
Mance's hand drifted to his belt as he walked. To the small leather pouch he'd taken to wearing against his skin.
Inside was the small stamp.
He'd found it in his bag three days after leaving Winterfell. He remembered nothing of acquiring it, nothing of how it came to be in his possession.
That honestly terrified him, but a part of him refused to get rid of it. The stamp was small of a black color. He'd seen the Old Lord Commander use such things a few times before he left the watch.
Just for his own amusement he has started stamping several spearwife in his camp… After sometime he got bored of it giving the stamp to one of the woman he stamped.
He hope the girl would at least enjoy using the stamp before throwing it away.
-Jon Snow-
Ignoring the constant notifications, I have been receiving throughout the month I continue walking with my uncle's man at the back of the king host walking along with the men, there were accompanying my uncle.
I at least manage to plunge my seed in both Ros and Catelyn before leaving and with any chance both would be a child if I had any luck.
If I haven't had an influence in the world the long night should start at 300 AC or whatever Euron greyjoy decide to attack the Hightower and blow the horn of winter.
Thankfully I had the future king as my slave as with my mark marking him as captured I could control the little incest boy from a distant.
I could make Joffrey take his own life if I ready wanted to or have him trying to kill someone to make a scene or something ridiculous like that.
I instead decided to make him relax of course, in Joffrey mind rationalizes his behavior like every other order I give him and that includes every other one of my capture slaves.
Unlike Catelyn my other slaves don't know that there's slaves and don't "directly hear my orders" but it comes to them like a thought, and they act upon it.
Eventually, when we reach castle darry I made sure to use my mental power to make that little shit of Joffrey to behave as I had done throughout our journey.
So this time around no dead dumb boy, I didn't do it out of the goodness of my heart but because if I could prevent stupid drama between my slaves I will, and mycah would probably die anyways later when war came back to Westeros.
With either the war of the 5 king or any future invasion by the Golden Company with Aegon Blackfyre or viserys if he actually managers to not get himself killed and bring a fucking horde of savages to westeros or maybe daenerys if the star aligned and she gets lucky and manages to hatch her dragons like in the book.
Thankfully, the boy did not follow us to Darry.
My trueborn kin and the royal family and the other nobility slept in castle darry. Me and the other hedge Knight or men at arms and even some extremely minor nobility slept outside.
Captain Jory Cassel and Walder "the red" has set up a large tent with the other 50 retainers of my uncle.
Only me and the other man of the stark household were here due to the fact that this was our tent. Ghost was currently sleeping where the other dire wolves were sleeping as well.
My attempt to sleep was uncomfortable but thankfully, I decided to sleep next to the entry of the tent so the cooler from the outside help me to fall asleep much faster.
The next morning the royal host continues traveling to Kings Landing. The rest of the travel took around four day until we finally arrive to this disgusting city.
Truly the only good targaryen king was jaehaerys the first as he was the only one of my memory who actually try to install a better sewer system before dying and the project being forgotten by his successor.
Originally I wanted to go to flea bottom and start increasing the population of my progeny but it this was the smell of the good parts of the capital it would just get worse in flea bottom.
Fortunately for my uncle show his favoritism as I was granted, one of the better room in the tower of the hand.
My trueborn kin stayed in the largest rooms in the tower and my uncle probably will stay in the main office of the hand…
As I entered the room, I would be staying in immediately lay in the comfortable looking bad as I allow myself to relax.
But I don't indulging it for very long as I get up and I lift my left hand to the air as slight dark energy manifest on top of my hand as it slowly formed into the shape of a stamp.
With my reach in my skin changing I could probably get rid of two little fuckers that wouldn't mind getting rid of before the war of the five war.
But I resist as I needed one of them alive, and the other could be useful for the eventual arrival of Aegon with the Golden Company.
For now I could rest as today was our first day here but tomorrow, I was probably going to have to follow Jory or Walder and be under their command.
And if the tourney of the hands happens, which likely will I would probably be forced to be the squire of one of them if this time they choose to compete, Walder probably will if only to try his skill against the southern Knights. The Giant of Winterfell without bran fucking up his brain ended up becoming one of the most powerful warrior of the north as Walder had made a name for himself in the Greyjoy rebellion, despite being very young.
Walder is hodor if you haven't noticed. I know it surprise me as well. Instead of being the retarded giant of Winterfell he was that but people were actually comfortable with him fighting.
And the giant motherfucker despite being the same age theon, Walder was already bloody in war and with a reputation around the seven kingdoms.
It really showed the effects of hypergamy even in this medieval society.
Jokes aside, I was definitely going to move my capital once I take the iron throne for myself, but better to leave these thoughts for the future as for right now I'm just a simple bastard of a Lord paramount, and with no claim to the iron throne that people know about.
Regardless I was making sure to take the full advantage of my stay in king landing.
-the runway (not canon, Omake)-
I could feel my exhaustion as sweat cover my body under my clothing. I had taken money before leaving Winterfell but I didn't want to waste all of it so I joined a small crew, heading towards Skagos.
My gamble to come to this island and leave everything behind, without explaining anything was very simple it was a gamble a very unlikely one, but a gamble nonetheless, in my past lives, they were several theories on what happened to the surviving dragons after the end of the dance of the dragons pacifically two the cannibal and sheepstealer.
Sheepstealer is irrelevant to me, and will only become relevant if this ends up being a fuck up on my part, but the one i'm interested in is the cannibal.
Of course, with my knowledge of this world, I knew the majority on the reasoning of the theory were bullshit as the Skagosi were savages, like majority of the first men but still those two dragons, so happen to have not died during the dance and were probably still alive after all it hasn't been even 200 years since the dance.
Regardless, if this ended in failure, I would have to build himself from scratch and maybe I would go to Castle Black to join the watch or I might end up traveling throughout essos. With my physical strength I could easily become king beyond the wall or a Patty King in essos creating a power base for myself.
I was already done with my captures in Winterfell, capturing all of my relatives, and all of the household having them under my web of influence.
I made sure to leave before the Kings Roberts arrival to not have any suspicion about my disappearance.
-later-
For the next moon I research around the islands to find out more information on my target thankfully, with my typical looks of the first man nobody seems to recognize me at all which was good.
And even if they didn't know, I wasn't a comforter. It's not like they have ever been to Winterfell or even left this fucking island for that matter.
Regardless, to my delight there's an entire section of the island known, has by the local Savages as the hunting ground of the man devouring beast, or the black demon.
Frankly, I don't know if I should be surprised on the fact that nobody noticed that it was a dragon (not really surprising since the Skagosi completely refuse, any believer in the faith in their islands and refused to employed any maester) or the fact that some of these fuckers even worship the damn thing, but regardless I knew for a bare minimum I would find something interesting.
After maxing out [mind defense] I felt like I was almost ready for my plans of claiming that beast but I still needed to be careful, mostly since this was the most hostile dragon of it era and this dragon rejected people with more "dragon blood" in their veins that I had so this might end up in my foolish death. If so, I'll simply use one of my connections to steal the body of one of my captures, which is unfortunate, since this body has great magical talent and with more access to different forms of magic of this world since I'm not fully locked in with the first man magic path like my cousins.
Considering one of my earlier actions in this world was presenting add a potential: Haki from one piece and Greenseer my training with the latter being more efficient than with the former.
Haki was willpower essentially and with the with the power scaling of this world, it would be easy to dominate. If only I could find a way to mass at the basics.
As for now if I concentrated really hard, I could manifest some armament haki and I haven't even glimpse in using observation.
Nevertheless I hoped that this would be enough to at least hurt the beast if I had to fight it as I didn't have any dragonsteel that I could cut it with if it attacked me.
-later-
Three days of tracking through the hills of Skagos brought me to the mouth of a cave. The entrance was massive, easily forty feet high, jagged black stone that seemed to swallow the pale light of the sun.
Why have I thought that this was a good idea? Dragon lived in dragonstone for a reason as it volcano environment being the habitat for dragons. And Skagos was just some shit hole Island.
I slowly made my way inside the cave, as I travel throughout the cave, I noticed several bones scattered around the cave clearly showing that it was inhabited as several bones were around the cave. I kept my hand on my sword, though I knew it would be useless against dragonhide.
I could use Haki infusing it with the sword if necessary, but I need to get myself a valyrian steel sword.
The cave opened into a vast chamber. The ceiling disappeared into darkness above. And there, curled in the center of the space like a mountain made of shadow, was what I can only assume being the dragon cannibal.
Even for my position, I could see the large monstrous beast is black scales covering his entire body. Several images of dragons. Enter my mind as I compare them to the beast right in front of me.
This has to be the cannibal as the beast fit the description in my mind of my previous life, and this life learn history from a native of the world.
Her eyes were closed, but I could see the slow rise and fall of her chest indicating that the beast of sleeping.
I carefully made sure to get closer to the beast as I prepare myself mentally and just in case I needed to fight the ginormous dragon.
As I prayed to my sponsor I put one of my hands onto one of the claws of the beast, immediately I could see one of it eyes opened, the large green eye looking at him directly.
"Y'mza kesor rȳ sȳz…." the words came out in High Valyrian, my accent rough but understandable as I had learning the language throughout my education and had recently started practicing again for this moment.
Her head had snapped forward, jaws wide, teeth like black daggers aimed at my chest. I threw myself to the side, rolling through the floor. Her jaws snapped shut where I'd been standing, the impact shaking the entire chamber.
"Wait!" I shouted, scrambling to my feet. "nyke sagon daor aōha qrinunty! nyke maghagon ānogar hen Uēpa Valyria!.." I am not your enemy I carry the blood of Old Valyria but like I should've known she didn't give a fuck.
She lunged again but this time I was ready.
I brought my sword up, Haki flaring along the blade. The steel met her jaw, and stopped. Not cutting, not even scratching just holding. Her momentum shoved me backward, my boots skidding across the stone.
I released the blade, dropping low as her head passed over me. I drove my fist into her throat and her head snapped back but even this attacked doesn't seem to face her and the bitch even seem more amused than anything else.
For the next however long I continue finding her dodging the green flames coming out of her mouth, trying to burn me alive.
Speaking of the devil green fire came again, and I threw myself behind a pillar of rock. The flame washed over it, and I felt the heat through the stone, felt my skin blister even through the cover.
Fucking dragonfire.
I rolled out from cover, my sword in hand, Haki already flaring along the blade. She was faster than anything her size had any right to be. Her head swung around, jaws open, and I dove between her legs, sliding across the bone-littered floor.
Her tail whipped around, catching me in the ribs. I felt something crack. The impact sent me flying into the cave wall, and I hit hard enough to see stars. My sword clattered away as my grip loosen.
I pushed myself to my feet just as her head descended. I caught her jaw with both hands, Haki surging through my palms as they turn black, and for a moment we were locked together a dragon and a man, neither giving ground.
Her green eyes burned into mine. As I try to use my skin changing, I could feel the connection being completely rejected as my head started throbbing from the pain.
If this was anyone else, it would likely their brain would be turned into liquid mush.
She threw me off, and I crashed into a pile of bones. Something sharp dug into my shoulder likely one of the many fucking bones in this fucking cave.
Reaching for my sword, I picked it up as I forced myself to get back up. Thankfully, my sword hadn't broken yet and immediately I infuse all my willpower into the sword my Haki blooming as the blade turn completely black.
The damn beast lunch at me ready to finally devour me and stop playing around.
I stepped forward, into her attack, and drove my blade into the soft tissue of her lower jaw. The tip pierced through, barely a scratch. But she felt it. Her head recoiled, a sound like grinding stone escaping her throat. I swung at her neck, at the scales that should have been impenetrable for any normal weapon.
As a black blood started coming out of her injury I could heal the streams and roars of the beast but regardless, the bitch still tried actually tried to open her mouth, green fire building in her throat. I was too close but I threw myself forward, into the fire, and the heat was beyond anything I had ever experienced. My skin blackened, my clothes vaporized, and for a moment I couldn't breathe, couldn't see, couldn't do anything but scream as I felt the worst pain I could ever had felt in my entire life.
But this was all for a gamble as I made it inside of her mouth. I drove my blade upward, and I felt it pierce through the soft roof of her mouth. She thrashed, her jaw clamping down, and I felt my bones break. But I kept pushing, kept driving the blade deeper, higher, until I felt something give way.
I pulled my sword free and stabbed again and repeated it multiple times slashing and ripping through her mouth making a hole in her head.
She collapsed, her head slamming against the stone floor, and I was thrown from her mouth. I landed in a heap, my body broken, burned, barely conscious.
I tried to move and couldn't. My body was screaming at me, warning me that I had pushed too far. That I might not survive this, regardless I forced myself to get up as my body was ripping it self apart, but there was one last thing I needed to do.
I tore into her flesh with my teeth as I started devouring her, I drank her blood and ate her flesh the blood burned going down but I could feel her power flowing into me, as I could feel my body slowly repairing itself.
My gamble was working….
I drink and feasted until I couldn't anymore slowly but surely my body collapse to the floor as I felt myself losing consciousness.
-later-
I open my eyes was confusion. As I thought the moment I close it was going to be the last time I had lived in this world before probably getting tortured by my sponsor for failing to surviving in this world.
But instead, I was alive and better than alive as I could feel myself physically more stronger as I immediately got up and looked around my surroundings.
[Slaying of a Dragon] - completed
Reward: free heritage perk dragon (Dragon Heart), Dragon core
[Dragon Heart]
You have a dragon's blood - and, as such, a Dragon's power. Choose a Primal Element as your draconic affinity. In addition to your basic humanoid form, you now have a second form: a fully sized draconic body of your choosing. (If you lack a humanoid form, one will be provided for you.) Your dragon form's initial size caps out at roughly 25 meters from the tip of the nose to the base of the tail - as with many crocodilians, the tail itself is roughly half of the total body length. Your affinity, thematics, and personal sense of aesthetics will affect your draconic appearance and abilities, including the breath weapon possessed by all Dragons. While active, your dragon form grants a massive enhancement to your chosen affinity, as well as to all other supernatural abilities you've acquired and trained. Your original form is likewise enhanced, to a lesser extent. Should you wish to do so, you may manifest traits from your draconic form in your original form. This selection is haphazard, and manifested traits take some small amount of concentration to dismiss. Your power radiates through your being, with every attack leaving a lasting Dragon Mark. Those whose blood you've drawn using any of your natural weapons - whether fang, claw, tail, or breath - will feel your power and your dominance radiate through their being. The severity of the wound greatly affects the influence's impact upon an individual. A scratch might only bestow a vivid and lasting memory of the event, while a wound that flays their chest to the bone would leave a near-permanent mental scar. The effects of a Mark vary from person to person and can include anything from intense masochistic arousal to jaw-dropping terror, though you may direct the effects to a degree. This echo of power functions as a lure, causing the target to seek you out. Depending on the personality of those afflicted, they might submit to you for their own self-preservation, demand that you sate their lust, or possibly seek to end your reign of terror once and for all.
Please select your element (???)
So I want my gamble in the end I thought to myself with amusement. In the original catalog, there was a mission which allowed someone to kill and consume a dragon, gaining the first perk of the Dragon Heritage, so I had tried to do the same to see if I could survive by consuming the beast and gaining some sort of power and it turned out that I was right.
But what the fuck was a dragon core?
[Dragon Core - Magic Core Integration]
The Dragon Core is the fundamental source of your draconic power. It functions as a secondary magical core, distinct from your natural mana pool, that generates and stores draconic energy. Your current core is formed from the Cannibal's essence. Its size and power will grow with use, training, and consumption of additional draconic sources.
Note: Your primary magical core (mana) and draconic core are distinct but interconnected. Damage to one will affect the other.
Seemed about right and honestly with this new magic in my body I want to try to learn more about the magic system of this world specifically blood magic.
But that would have to wait for right now I quickly decided on the element I was going to pick since it was a no-brainer for me.
As I obtain a new fire element, I felt the urge to start manifesting my magic and using this new element of mine, but I resisted.
As I walked out of the cave, I finally noticed my current state of clothes or lack of them, thankfully, with my new abilities, the coldness no longer affected me or at least not the natural cold of the north.
I would have to find some random fucker to kill to steal their clothing for my travels.
XxX
This was a hard one to pump out… honestly the Omake was mostly to show a path the story won't go down to because the idea after looking up of any dragon surviving after the death of the last Dragon it's pretty dumb as it would get discovered eventually and even if countable did make his nest in the north, he would probably just been hunted down and kill. Other than that, the main chapter was pretty short due to my lack of motivation and me having other shit to do. On a bright side [The legacy: the way of old Valyria] it's already finished and the last two chapters will be released very soon.
Next chapter will be probably about the events around the tourney of the hands and then with the eventually war of the five Kings. But I've been wrong about shit like this before so who knows?
New build
Starting World: A Song of Ice and Fire
Starting budget 140
Intensity [1]
Me and My Girlfriend(s) (PvE) 0
You as Jon Snow (Substitute) of T3 -5 [135]
Bindings
Company Stamp free [135]
Lures
Sticky Fingers -5 [130]
Home Perks
Pocket Space -5 [125]
Talents
Body Tune-Up -5 [120]
Athletic -5 [115]
Martial -10 [105]
Wild -5 [100]
Communication -10 [90]
Soul -10 [80]
Covert -10 [70]
Added Potential[You as Jon Snow has Greenseer] -5 [65]
Defenses
Body x2 -10 [55]
Wild x2 -10 [45]
Mind -25 [20]
Defenses discounted for retinue members +26 [46]
Misc Perks
Universal Calibration -10 [36]
Sexual Calibration -2 [34]
Fertility Calibration I -2 [32]
Companions captured +0; sold +0 [32]
Catelyn Stark(T2) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Sansa Stark(T2) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Arya Stark(T4) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Joffrey Baratheon(T2) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Cersei Lannister(T1) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Jeyne Poole(T1) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Myrcella Baratheon(T1) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Ygritte(T3) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Val(T2) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Mance Rayder(T3) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Varamyr Sixskins(T4) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Tormund Giantsbane(T3) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Ros(T1) from Game of Thrones
Omake build
Starting World: A Song of Ice and Fire
Starting budget 140
Intensity [1]
Me and My Girlfriend(s) (PvE) 0
You as Jon Snow (Substitute) of T3 -5 [135]
Discounted because of your archetype +5 [140]
Heritage
Dragon Heart[Fire] -60 [80]
Bindings
Company Stamp free [80]
Lures
Sticky Fingers -5 [75]
Home Perks
Pocket Space -5 [70]
Discounted for duplicate talents +5 [75]
Talents
Body Tune-Up x2 -5 [70]
Athletic -5 [65]
Martial -10 [55]
Wild -5 [50]
Communication -10 [40]
Soul -10 [30]
Covert -10 [20]
Added Potential x2 [You as Jon Snow has Greenseer, Haki] -10 [10]
Everlasting free [10]
Defenses
Body x2 -10 [0]
Wild x2 -10 [-10]
Mind x2 -50 [-60]
Stress free [-60]
Environmental free [-60]
Defenses discounted for retinue members +27 [-33]
Misc Perks
Universal Calibration -10 [-43]
Sexual Calibration -2 [-45]
Fertility Calibration I -2 [-47]
Companions captured +0; sold +0 [-47]
Catelyn Stark(T2) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Sansa Stark(T2) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Arya Stark(T4) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Joffrey Baratheon(T2) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Cersei Lannister(T1) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Eddard Stark(T2) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Robb Stark(T3) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Robert Baratheon(T3) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Jaime Lannister(T3) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Barristan Selmy(T3) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Jeyne Poole(T1) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Tyrion Lannister(T2) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Sandor Clegane(T3) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Brandon "Bran" Stark(T4) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Benjen "Ben" Stark(T2) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Specific credit modifiers +60 [13]:
Dragon heart [+60]