Post by The Black Dread on Jun 19, 2014 6:44:14 GMT -5
In the Kingdom of Westeros:
It is nearing the end of the ninety-eighth year since Aegon's Conquest of Westeros, and the people of of all the Seven Kingdoms prepare celebrate harvest festivals to honor the gods for the huge surplus of grain grown in the past year. Trade is booming, both internally inside Westeros and external across the Narrow Sea; however, the price of food has plummeted as an effect of the vast surpluses in recent years, and the Queen was forced to subsidize grain sales in the capital to keep prices at a reasonable level.
The crown debt of Westeros, which peaked at nearly eight million dragons in the year after Queen Rhaena took the throne, has been paid down to a much more manageable one million dragons and indeed the Exchequer estimates that it will only be a further five years before it is completely paid. Rhaena improved and expanded the Royal Fleet (slowly, and frugally) bringing it up to forty ships, twenty-five of which are stationed at Dragonstone to ensure the security of the Gullet, while the rest patrol the Blackwater Rush. The Dragonmont is strictly guarded, and it was only six months ago that a man claiming to be the true son of King Aegon Targaryen was caught sneaking up the mountain, sent to King's Landing, and burned alive.
Lord Lyonel Lannister lives in the capital, leaving the duties of managing the Westerlands to his mother and step-father, both of whom have refused to grant him the title and sword that are his right of birth, despite reaching is age of majority two years past. He spends his time in the capital carousing whorehouses and taverns, as well as hunting and hawking in the Kingswood, with a small clique of lordlings including; Beron Stark, the heir to Winterfell; Queen Rhaena's twin Princes, Maegor and Traegon; the young Lords of Stokeworth and Rosby, as well as any number of hangers-on who miraculously appear to accompany a royal prince wherever he wishes to go.
The Festival of Tyraxes is approaching, a favorite of Queen Rhaena's and always lavishly celebrated in the capital, though it is rarely so elsewhere in the Kingdom.
In the Principality of Dorne:
It is twelve years since the castles of Yronwood and Wyl fell to the Stormlanders, and the Dornish Marches have not known peace since. Both Dornish and Stormland raiding parties harry each other across the long border, and in 96 AL Lord Quentyn Fowler, sometimes called the Stone Hawk and widely renowned as one of the greatest generals in Westeros laid a daring siege to NIghtsong, coming a hair's breadth from capturing the castle and presumably razing it to the ground, before the Lords of Griffin's Roost and Blackhaven arrived to raise the siege. The Stone Hawk was forced back south into the Prince's Pass, and he massacred the pursing Stormlanders when they attempted to chase him back into his own territory, though he lost too many men to resume the siege and had to return to Skyreach.
In Sunspear, it has been nearly a decade since the death of Prince Trystane's wife and daughters to the plague, and he has defied his lady mother, Princess Sarella, at every turn where she has attempted to compel him to remarry. Some say he is too grief-stricken over the loss of his daughters to think of taking a new wife, and others that he has lost all desire for women, but those who know the truth see that it is Lady Visenya Targaryen who has captured his heart. It is no secret that Princess Sarella resents the poisonous influence the Targaryen exile has over her heir, Visenya already being the widow of Trystane's brother Quentyn, who was taken by the same plague, and a Targaryen besides. However her dragon Silverwing has been too instrumental in fending off further incursions from the Stormlands and Reach for Sarella to banish her from Trystane's presence, and many at court in Sunspear believe that Prince Trystane is merely waiting for his mother to die, so that he can marry the woman of his choosing.
It is nearing the end of the ninety-eighth year since Aegon's Conquest of Westeros, and the people of of all the Seven Kingdoms prepare celebrate harvest festivals to honor the gods for the huge surplus of grain grown in the past year. Trade is booming, both internally inside Westeros and external across the Narrow Sea; however, the price of food has plummeted as an effect of the vast surpluses in recent years, and the Queen was forced to subsidize grain sales in the capital to keep prices at a reasonable level.
The crown debt of Westeros, which peaked at nearly eight million dragons in the year after Queen Rhaena took the throne, has been paid down to a much more manageable one million dragons and indeed the Exchequer estimates that it will only be a further five years before it is completely paid. Rhaena improved and expanded the Royal Fleet (slowly, and frugally) bringing it up to forty ships, twenty-five of which are stationed at Dragonstone to ensure the security of the Gullet, while the rest patrol the Blackwater Rush. The Dragonmont is strictly guarded, and it was only six months ago that a man claiming to be the true son of King Aegon Targaryen was caught sneaking up the mountain, sent to King's Landing, and burned alive.
Lord Lyonel Lannister lives in the capital, leaving the duties of managing the Westerlands to his mother and step-father, both of whom have refused to grant him the title and sword that are his right of birth, despite reaching is age of majority two years past. He spends his time in the capital carousing whorehouses and taverns, as well as hunting and hawking in the Kingswood, with a small clique of lordlings including; Beron Stark, the heir to Winterfell; Queen Rhaena's twin Princes, Maegor and Traegon; the young Lords of Stokeworth and Rosby, as well as any number of hangers-on who miraculously appear to accompany a royal prince wherever he wishes to go.
The Festival of Tyraxes is approaching, a favorite of Queen Rhaena's and always lavishly celebrated in the capital, though it is rarely so elsewhere in the Kingdom.
In the Principality of Dorne:
It is twelve years since the castles of Yronwood and Wyl fell to the Stormlanders, and the Dornish Marches have not known peace since. Both Dornish and Stormland raiding parties harry each other across the long border, and in 96 AL Lord Quentyn Fowler, sometimes called the Stone Hawk and widely renowned as one of the greatest generals in Westeros laid a daring siege to NIghtsong, coming a hair's breadth from capturing the castle and presumably razing it to the ground, before the Lords of Griffin's Roost and Blackhaven arrived to raise the siege. The Stone Hawk was forced back south into the Prince's Pass, and he massacred the pursing Stormlanders when they attempted to chase him back into his own territory, though he lost too many men to resume the siege and had to return to Skyreach.
In Sunspear, it has been nearly a decade since the death of Prince Trystane's wife and daughters to the plague, and he has defied his lady mother, Princess Sarella, at every turn where she has attempted to compel him to remarry. Some say he is too grief-stricken over the loss of his daughters to think of taking a new wife, and others that he has lost all desire for women, but those who know the truth see that it is Lady Visenya Targaryen who has captured his heart. It is no secret that Princess Sarella resents the poisonous influence the Targaryen exile has over her heir, Visenya already being the widow of Trystane's brother Quentyn, who was taken by the same plague, and a Targaryen besides. However her dragon Silverwing has been too instrumental in fending off further incursions from the Stormlands and Reach for Sarella to banish her from Trystane's presence, and many at court in Sunspear believe that Prince Trystane is merely waiting for his mother to die, so that he can marry the woman of his choosing.
all alone and also really bored 
Hopefully going to kickstart the festival too