Prologue
What can I say?
How should I introduce myself?
I guess I can only start from the beginning...
I was a normal 20-year-old woman who was going to university and studying and simply devoting my life to my career. Then a terror attack happened and I was shot to death and the last thing I heard was "Allahu Akhbar".
I didn't die like I thought I was gonna do instead I reincarnated into a different world with a system. I know, it sounds sick, doesn`t it? With that system, I began to view my life as nothing more of a game and when I fulfilled the quests or failed I simply died and reincarnated into another world and then another. It went on for so long until I had enough experience points to overcome the power of the system itself. I broke loose and realized that I had actually become a goddess. I could do many things. Now the god of the system didn't like me becoming independent and leaving him. I had a feeling he was a tad bit possessive and obsessive with me, after all, I did make-out with his avatars in those different worlds. To be fair I never knew that the men I slept around with were the same god all along. Anyway, this god decided to hunt me down and his angels managed to do it except I suppose the goddess who had always played the female lead in those worlds didn't like her husband to find me and also hunted me down...
Westeros (295 AC)
Winterfell
The day was just like any day in Winterfell. Robb, Jon and Theon were practising with their swords under Rodrick's guidance. Arya had sneaked away from her lessons again and Bran was simply trying his best with the sword. Meanwhile, Lord Eddard Stark whose nickname was Ned, sat in his study room and read report after report that is until the lightning and thunder that sounded horrifying. Ned Stark went out and ordered his servants to prepare for the storm that was going to come. He looked at the sky and froze. A large boom was heard and it was as if the heavens had opened themselves. He saw someone falling down from the sky who had wings. And she was falling down unto the courtyard. Soon the lightning and thundering vanquished and what remained of it all was a young and beautiful woman with wings and a sword in her stomach.
"Father, do you think...", Arya was the first to have gone near the woman.
"Step away, Arya. We don't know if she's a danger or not", he then turned to the servants and ordered them to carry the woman with wings inside.
The woman with wings was soon spread throughout Winterfell with rumours and Ned Stark used his powers to hush them. The maester Luwin was happy to take care of the woman and use his knowledge of medicine to heal her. Catelyn began to speculate about her origins and so did the rest of his family. Ned however simply watched the sleeping woman and the more he looked at her the more he began to feel for her. However, he was an honourable man and he wouldn't slight his wife even though she believed he had done it once. Ned fought off those feelings of romance for this creature. Meanwhile, he took a look at the sword that had pierced the woman and seemed to have been the reason for her unfortunate condition. It was a sword he had never once seen before. It wasn't made by any metal he had seen before. It was clear to him that this was sword made out of materials that wasn't from this world or maybe it was from a part of this world he had yet seen.
Ned visited the young woman from time to time and began to spend more time with her. He didn't know when it began that he came to her to begin to speak of the past and present with her. Although she never spoke back he knew somehow that she could hear him. And it wasn't just him that came to visit her and speaking with her like this. He learned eventually that all of his family members did it.
Around the 5th month, the unconscious woman woke up. All his family members were gathered inside the room as the woman was being carefully fed by maester Luwin.
"I know you all have a lot of questions for me such as where am I from? Why am I here?", the beauty spoke slow but with the most beautiful voice, they had ever heard. "Oh, wait forgive me", she said and then it was as if whatever made her special disappeared. Her voice was no longer beautiful and she had no wings and her skin seemed to glow much less. She had become an ordinary human being.
"My name is Cin, I am not from your world. I am what you humans would describe as gods or goddesses", she said looking at them and the room was completely silent and some of the people even wanted to fall down on their knees.
"Then do you know the old gods?", Arya began to talk.
"The old gods? Oh you, mean the souls trapped inside the weirwoods melting into one big soul. Yeah, I wouldn't call them old gods, gods to begin with. They are a product of unfortunate souls that due to blood rituals were done by the first humans", the shock to hear that made the children gasp. "Did you know that the first weirwood was actually a human. They were sacrificed by first generation of greenseers who used the rituals to gain more magic so that they could see the whole wide world from above and even become gods. The grudge of the human being that was sacrificed made the body of the human live on, though as a tree that swallows every soul close to a root of a weirwood tree or any tree. Of course, being a tree it was hard to see so the Children of The Forest carved faces onto the tree so that the souls inside the tree would be able to see what was going on outside".
"So let me get this straight, the old gods are not gods but the first generation of greenseers became gods", this time it was Bran who began to talk.
"Not quite correct. You see, the greenseers thought that they could become gods through magic however magic is and will always be something of this world meaning it is something of the flesh. The difference between gods and humans is that they are not tied to the flesh meaning your body's desire. What is the action of flesh? Well, according to the Supreme God the acts of the flesh is: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. All that he spoke of was about are actions of sin. That is why people who dabble into magic won't be able to become gods as they have tainted themselves with sin through magic. They mostly are dead since the punishment for sin is death", Cin explained to them.
"So since you are a goddess you are not tainted with sin?", Bran concluded.
"Exactly, among us here I am the only one not shackled to the slavery of sin but have been released from it and therefore have been given eternal life", Cin explained.
"In other words the rest of us are...", Bran bit his lower lip.
"Exactly, you are sentenced to death by The Supreme God", she said and the gruesome hit everyone.
"How do we know you are speaking the truth? How do we know that you are not a demon and speaking lies?", Catelyn Stark began to.
"That is actually a good question and many humans fail to think critically", she smiled at Catelyn who felt a little proud over the compliment. "In the world where I was born as a human, there is a religion which started from a man who believed due to his wife and her cousin that he was speaking to an angel of The Supreme God. He wasn't. He spoke with a demon who disguised himself as an angel. The demon tricked that man into thinking that he was a prophet and whenever he didn't receive revelations from God the self-proclaimed prophet began to jump from a cliff at a mountain where the demon disguised as an angel would save him every time. This self-proclaimed prophet would use scriptures from The Supreme God's followers and twist the words. He would also use other people's more scientific manuscripts to sound like he knew the laws of the universe. There were people who didn't believe in him to be a prophet because they thought critically and they asked questions which the self-proclaimed prophet couldn`t give satisfying answers to. For example, when people asked the self-proclaimed prophet to perform miracles like prophets of The Supreme God he only excused himself by saying that his book was the miracle of God. However, there were also gullible people who believed him to be a prophet or simply joined his religion due to the benefits it would give them. Anyway, if only someone had stopped him or killed him, he wouldn't have had sex with a nine-year-old girl, let his followers rape other people's wives after they beheaded the women's husbands and took their children as sex slaves. The self-proclaimed prophet killed people who criticized him and kissed young boys as old as thirteen openly in front of people. He warred and killed those who did not believe in his god and wanted to join his religion or kill those who wanted to leave his religion. So yes Catelyn false gods and demons who disguise as gods, it is very important to expose them for who they are", she spoke with ease and a rhythm that let the Starks and master Luwin take the information in them. "So how do you know that I'm a real goddess? Well, what can demons and humans not do? Take a guess".
Ned looked at his wife who seemed to think deeply while the other children were silent.
"You can release us from sin", Bran spoke slowly.
"Ding, ding, ding! Correct. You are so smart for such a young boy Bran Stark but then again your father Eddard Stark comes from a long line of smart people", she complimented. "The demons can't release you from sin because they are already in prison and have been sentenced to eternal damnation so they can't pay you out of your sentence to death. Another human such as your father or mother can't release you from your death penalty because they too are sentenced to death. A criminal cannot take upon another criminal's crimes it is not just. When Lord Stark sentences criminals to death he can't let one criminal take upon himself all the crimes of his fellow criminals so that they can be released when they haven't been punished for their crime. No, it is justice to sentence every criminal to death".
"But wait is even children seen as criminals in The Supreme God?", Arya furrowed her eyebrows.
"To be honest, yes but it is a bit more complicated. Due to the first humans being idiots they accidentally cursed every human child being born into the world to be born into sin. So the moment you Arya was brought out of your mother's womb you were tainted by sin and became a slave to sin. That is the curse of the first humans that The Supreme God brought upon humanity", the dawn of realization came upon Catelun Stark's face while the children had yet to understand. "Now The Supreme God knew that there was no way to save his dear creation from being released from sin so the only way to save the humans was if The Supreme God himself became a sinless human. In other words, The Supreme God himself had to be born from a virgin and take upon the world's sins through human's torture and die and then resurrect which he did by conquering death. Not in this world, however. This world has yet been graced by The Supreme God's sacrifice but I guess it wouldn't hurt if I were to be the sacrifice".
"So you would need to be tortured and killed in other to release us from sins because you take upon our sins just like The Supreme God?", Bran look at her with a sudden realization.
"I just knew that you were easily gonna become my favourite human", she smiled. "But enough about this topic. Since you, Starks, took me in and nursed me even though you wouldn't need to do it, I will give each of you a gift. It might not be a gift you wanted but a gift that you will need so bare with me. You, Lord Stark, come I will give your gift first", she said as she held out her hand and he took it slowly. She brought him closer to her and placed her mouth on his temple.
Through the kiss, a bit of her spirit was placed inside his soul and Stark fell unto his knees as the system she was giving him was slowly integrating into his body. The system was called [The Lord's system] it was a system that allowed the user to see his property from above and see how his citizens felt and thought by reading the screens above their heads. There were quests for him to and rewards if he fulfilled them so he could receive gold from nowhere.
"What did you do to him?", Catelyn said alarmed as she watched her husband being still.
"Don't be alarmed Cat", Ned said. "I'm just taking in information right now".
"Alright, next?", the Starks looked at each other but then the boldest and most curious out of them stepped forward. "Are you ready, Arya?", and she nodded.
Cin placed her lips on her temple and information also flowed into her though it was different information. Arya received the [The Art system] and skimmed through the options on [Martial arts] and she could learn the different martial arts depending on her experience points. In the options of [The Art of Daily Life] There was also the Seamstress skill which could be handy during Septa's lessons and The Chef's skill would also come in handy when she is hungry. Also on the options of [Nobility arts] there were the skills for proper etiquette, grace and formal speaking. [The Art of Dancing] would also come in handy. Arya never knew that there could be so many types of dancing. However, she would most like to use the options in [Martial arts].
"Oh, I love this, thank you so much", Arya said as she looked into the air as Ned did and Catelyn Stark feared that they had both been tricked by the demon.
The next was Bran who received [The Customization system]. Bran looked at all the options the system gave him. He could create his own kind of castle from nothing but his own experience points. He looked at the options he had now and saw that he could even create a different dimension if he wanted though that required him to be at level 100 and right now he was at level 1.
"This is so fun", Bran simply said as he began to put together his own house according to the quest but to others it looked like he pointed at the air in front of him.
Next was Robb Stark [The Late Bloomer system]. The late bloomer system allowed Robb to take upon any skill from any nearby system he wanted and he wasn't limited to learn any skill, however, he needed to put in hard work to earn the skill. His late bloomer system localized three different skills. Appraising skill from [The Lord System] which was from his father's, [The Martial art] option from Arya and Building a house skill from Bran.
"Arya, please look more into the Nobility arts for me", Arya raised an eyebrow but did it anyway and the request if Robb wanted to learn it as well popped up. He was basically cheating off of other people's skills as long as the owner was available.
After Robb, Sansa approached carefully and was kissed on her temple. When Sansa opened her eyes the [Queen's system] had been integrated with her and she could see her own stats as well as other people's stats. Her system wasn't only limited to human skills.
Catelyn Stark was the last of Starks, or so she thought, to have received the self-proclaimed goddess' gift. She received [The matchmaker's system] and she could see the threads of destiny between people as well as see the compatibility between people. She was quite satisfied with the system and then she saw something as she looked at Jon Stark.
"Father... Rhaegar Targaryen. Mother... Lyanna Stark", she said slowly and Ned who had been too busy with looking at Winterfell and see what the commoners did turned around and looked at her. "All this time you lied to me".
"I'm sorry Cat, I just promised her that I would take care of him", Ned explained and looked at his wife with begging eyes to keep silent. Catelyn sighed as she understood what it meant to hide a Targaryen, and nodded as she regretted the way she had treated Jon Snow- no, Jon Targaryen. She promised that she would take better care of him now. Though she wasn't the only one who learned the secret as Robb Stark just now stole a skill from her and saw on the pink window beside Jon who his father and mother was. Robb Stark was shocked over this but quickly composed himself as he heard his father and mother speaking.
The last was Jon Snow who just stood at the door not moving. He wasn't a Stark so the goddess' gift wasn't for him.
"Jon, come here", still he was happy when the goddess called for him and he received her gift.
When he opened his eyes, the world seemed brighter and livelier. He had received the [Dragon Lord System] and learned about his origins as he looked at his family tree in front of him, which was only visible to himself. Along with the Dragon Lord System came a set of Martial Arts skills as well as administration skills. The [Dragon Lord System] wasn't much different from Ned Stark's system however since Jon didn't have his fief or town or city he couldn't do what Ned did. With the dragon lord system Jon Stark looked at his [Shop] option. He could buy dragon eggs. He had apparently enough experience points to do it and so chose a snow dragon that didn't spout fire but instead ice. He clicked on (buy) and a dragon egg appeared in front of him.
"Aww... I can't do it", Robb said sadly as he looked at Jon. "I can't buy a dragon egg...". Robb had been localizing any skill that came his way and as his family members began to explore more and more skills appeared in his radar. Unfortunately, just because he had the chance to learn the skills he still had to begin from the bottom to earn the skills.
"Robb, stop copying other people's skills", Jon had learned from his Appraising skill that Robb had the [Late Bloomer System] and he could read all about it.
"But I also wanted a dragon", Robb pouted but soon saw other creatures he could buy. There were creatures called pegasus as well as underwater creatures he could buy
While the Starks was looking into the air while lifting their arms and seemed to touch the air with their fingers Maester Luwin simply looked at them in disbelief especially when a dragon egg appeared out of nowhere. Arya seemed to have summoned a bow from nowhere.
"Maester Luwin, since you took care of me I shall also give you a gift", she said and held out her hand. He leaned into her and felt something warm enter his body and fill his heart with joy. When he opened his eyes he had received [The Librarian System]. In other words, it was a system that allowed him to make his own library. He had a dimensional space that allowed him to store any book and the dimensional space would grow according to the books. He could also let other people enter his library through keys if he wanted. Also, he could spend hours in the dimensional space and a minute wouldn't have gone by in the real world. In his [Shop] he could buy books from other worlds depending on his experience points. The librarian system was the easiest since most of the quest were read this and that book.
Sansa was enjoying her system too much she looked at her [Shop] and she could make-up and other tools to make herself pretty. She could apparently also hand out skills to her servants. If she wanted her servant to become better at cooking she could gift them a skill that helped them become better at it. So far she was looking at a fashion magazine to see the latest trend in Westeros but also in Essos as well as other parts of the world. Her first quest was to take a rose bath with milk.
The Starks and Maester Luwin were enjoying and exploring their system that they forgot the goddess herself which was alright as she fell asleep and smiled as she had gotten more faith points.
Westeros (297 AC)
Winterfell
Two years ago Winterfell did not look like this. Canals that connected all parts of the north to Winterfell which made. Winterfell itself had grown The castle was now due to Bran's ability was taller and wider. The court hall was ten times bigger than before. Glass was used for all windows. There were balconies here and there not to mention Sansa's balcony which was probably the most luxurious one. There were lots of sculpturing done on the entrances. Bran had made the walls around the Winter Town at his father's request. Ned received a quest after quest and made sure to use Bran's ability. There were now around fifteen glass gardens. Due to all of these quick changes, people would know that powers beyond humans were used however with Sansa's ability [Rhetoric] so she could easily convince people to whatever she wanted. So whenever a Winter Town man questioned all of these changes she just spun a tale about extraordinary fast builders from a far off land and the wind would carry her words towards the person and convince them. Now all citizens under Lord Stark believed that tale. There was also a church dedicated to Cin in Winter Town and the Sept had been destroyed and the Septa had been sent back to King's Landing "willingly", of course, it was Sansa who convinced her to go back.
Roads had become better and wider. Now all citizens lived in either a house or an apartment building. The apartment buildings had balconies so they could look outside at the street and also glass as roofs because so that the people living in the apartment building could grow their own food. They also had windows and also pipes for keeping the building warm. Bathhouses had been built and a bank had also been built, and the pubs and stores had become upgraded. There were schools free of fees so anyone who wanted to learn how to read and write could learn it for free. The trade had increased and many of the citizens felt satisfied which made Ned happy too as he gained more experience points and could open up another skill soon. The interior of his castle had changed so much after he picked up the magazine of interior design which his [Shop] offered. The only thing he missed was the weirwood forest which had to be destroyed in order to lay the souls trapped inside to rest. When the souls were released at Cin's command Ned saw his father and his brother, due to the fact that they had died close to a weirwood tree. Ned cried as he watched the souls enter Cin's kingdom. He cried as he also didn't see his sister's spirit.
Inside the castle, each child had their own room. The guestrooms depended. If it was a family they would share the same suite. Sansa being the way she was wanted the biggest room in the castle which also would have a walk-in-closet according to her magazine. The biggest room ended up to be Ned and Cat's bedroom. Catelyn had her own walk-in-closet. Bran could only sigh and look at his sister. Bran's room was at top of the highest tower. Robb got the second largest room and Jon Snow received an equally big room. Arya simply wanted to have a room big enough for her to also be able to show off her weapons. Rickon received a room big enough for him.
Catelyn enjoyed her system so much that she decided to start up a match-making business. Of course, no commoner was aware that she was behind their match-making but they all were happy in the end. Catelyn took pride in match-making people perfectly as she could view their history and possible future. Nowadays, she spent most of her time trying to find matches for her children, Jon Snow included. Catelyn out of fun tried to match her daughter with the king's son Joffrey but found out that he was a product of incest and that if she married him she would suffer. Joffrey was a big no to her. Lyanna Mormont and Bran Stark seemed compatible so Catelyn sent a betrothal offer to Maege Mormont. Arya and Tommen was a possible match, but Catelyn did not like that he was a product of incest. Catelyn sought out other possible matches and the system gave her a match between Gendry Waters and Arya. Gendry Water was, however, a bastard so a big no too. For Arya, it was hard to find a compatible match that Catelyn took a liking too but she wouldn't give up. As for her eldest Robb, Jeyne Westerling.
Rickon Stark also received his own system as well which was basically a [Doctor System] but Rickon could only cure those that had been hurt slightly. When Benjen Stark had come for a visit the goddess had also given him a system which was [Farm System]. It was a system that allowed Benjen to farm inside his own dimensional space and hide in it during battles.
New products like vodka, ice-cream, and rice had especially become a favourite in Essos and in Southern Westeros and news spread that Winterfell was looking for workers. Ned had sent a request to the king to send all jobless and homeless people up to the north where they could make some use for him. Ned was truly enjoying the sight of Winterfell growing even if he was not an ambitious man seeing the sight of Winterfell from above was great. Besides working on Winterfell he had also restored Moat Cailin with the help of Bran and much to Walder Frey's displease. The Frey's had lived off of poaching and taking tolls to whoever wanted to go up to The North but when the new Lord of Moat Cailin Robb Stark all of that ended. Since Robb Stark copied a lot of Bran's skills he had made effort to earn them and now he would finally be able to use it. He used Bran's [Town Building] skill to build a canal connecting White Harbor to Moat Cailin and down to Greywater Watch. Of course, he used his system skill to make a canal but since it would become suspicious if a canal appeared out of nowhere in White Harbor and in Greywater Watch he decided that he would make a canal halfway to White Harbor and halfway to Greywater watch. The men would do the rest. He had also used Sansa's [Rhetoric] skill to convince the 1500 people living at Moat Cailin that the changes were due to their hard work. Like what Ned had done to Winterfell so did Robb Stark. Using Bran's skill he had rebuilt Moat Cailin's towers before customizing the castle to his own liking. The concrete roads that appeared out of nowhere made it easier for travelers. Robb had sent to Lord Reed and Lord Manderly to inform him them that he was soon connecting their territory to moat Cailin through water. Since Robb understood how hard life must be for Lord Reed since his territory was filled with Swamps he decided to help them and to make the journey on the road a lot easier. Jon Stark would visit from time to time using his dragon. Since Jon Stark obviously loved to visit so much Robb build a landing port for Jon Stark's dragon and Robb's own flying Pegasus. Robb couldn't wait to hatch another Pegasus as soon as his experience points allowed it. As mountain clans would often come and attack Moat Cailin.
When Robb Stark arrived at Lord Reed's territory he felt so sad for Lord Reed and the other crannogmen that during the night when everyone slept and only a few were awake he used [Town Building] and levelled the ground up by putting rocks as foundations which were covered by concrete. The castle was put unto this giant and wide foundation. Since the swamps wouldn't apparently go away due to Robb Stark's lack of experience points, he solved the problem by putting stone-bridges on the swamps around the Lord Reeds castle so that it would have become an underground canal if the swamp hadn't been there. He levelled up the houses unto the stone bridges. The King's road between Greywater Watch and Moat Cailin was also put into multiple 'S' connected to each other which he had learned from the system was more beneficial and he also finished the canal. He went back to the Lord Reed's Castle and put four towers slightly beneath the castle and then four other towers slightly beneath those previous towers. The gateway up to the castle was stairs but also an 'S' road. At this point, Lord Reed's castle might become bigger than Winterfell's. He thought about Sansa and felt pity for Lord Reed's daughters and to spite Sansa he also made big rooms for them with walk-in-closets. Now she couldn't show off. Of course, the biggest castle room would be Lord Reed's. He snorted at the thought of Lord Reed waking up to all of this but like his father said they had to be careful and only keep the secrets about their abilities within the family so while everyone slept he spun a similar tale to Sansa's and when they all woke up they would have false memories and live on their daily life as usual. When Robb felt done with his masterpiece he pushed the [Done] button and he watched outside the window as things changed.
The next morning he went down at the now ten times bigger court hall and had breakfast. Lord Reed came down with his wife, Jyana and also had breakfast. Their two children arrived later. Everything was like normal. Well, a few people felt that something was unusual Robb could tell but what could they do. And deep down people did now instinctively that something had changed but nobody wanted to sound crazy and just went along with it all. One of Robb's servants approached him and told him that the barrels of rice seeds had arrived.
"Lord Reed, I have a present for you that I forgot to bring with me when I arrived", Robb presented his barrels of rice seeds. "This is the seed of rice which my family has used to plant in Winterfell's glassgardens. I would like to give these to you as rice grows the best in swamps and my father has told me that he would like to turn The Neck into the primary source for rice planting".
"If your father says so Robb, I would happily plant them", Lord Reed said as his eyes shone gold at the thought of the gold and money that would role in.
And so Greywater Watch became the main producer of rice.
While Lord Reed smiled as his family would become even richer a letter had been sent to Lord Reed from Lady Sansa Stark who was inviting his daughter for her debut. How could Lord Reed say no to that? It was also time for their families to make more connection and for Meera to become a good friend to Lady Sansa just like Reed was a good friend to Ned Stark. It was also high time that he visited his friend too so Lord Reed would come with his family to Winterfell. He sent a letter to Lord Stark about him coming for a visit.
Robb Stark had intended to sail back to Moat Cailin alone with his entourage but since Howland Reed and his family were also going he offered them to sail along with him and besides it would be faster than taking the road.
Once Howland Reed and his family arrived at Moat Cailin which they blinked at surprise at as the last time they had seen it Moat Cailin had been in ruins. Now a big city surrounded the reconstructed castle. Robb ordered a family carriage for the Reed as they parted ways and Reed continued to travel up to Winterfell.
Winterfell
Sansa Stark was walking on her treadmill which she bought in her [Shop]. Apparently she could lose weight and also increase the blood circulation in her body which would make her more healthier. She stopped to rest for a bit as Jeyne Pool, the steward's daughter, came inside announcing that the bath was ready. She looked out at the wide window facing the forest and she took her towel as she exited her gym room which she had seen in her magazine. The bathroom wasn't far away from the gym. The bathroom was, of course, fit for a queen as it had four sculptured wolf heads against the wall with open mouths were water rained down into the large pool. Rose petals had been put unto the pool and Sansa Stark entered it as Jeyne took a seat at the chair near the table close to the pool. She began to read poems which Sansa quickly memorised due to her system. Sansa put her hands into the water and scooped up a water bubble in her hand. [Water manipulation] was something she had learned from the system. She could also manipulate fire, earth and wind too. Sansa thought it was magic and was afraid that she had committed a sin until Cin calmed her down by explaining that it wasn't magic since she wasn't drawing power from the devil. The power the system allowed her to have come from Cin who was a goddess so it was fine. She played with the water bubble a bit more before placing it on her hand and allowing the water to rin down on her. After the bath she rinsed herself and got up. It was time for a massage. Jeyne was the one doing the massage as Sansa had given her the skill to do it. After a bit of massage, she entered the sauna. When she got out and went to her walk-in-closet Jeyne stood there at the centre of the closet with a few dresses for Sansa to choose between. There was a white, a light blue, a dark green or a grey dress. All those dresses had the Stark family seal on them. Sansa went with a light blue dress. After having chosen the dress Sansa chose a pair of black kitten shoes. She did have high heels in her closet but they were all for the future as they were too big for her. Sansa used [Wind manipulation] to dry her hair more quickly after it was dry enough Jeyne began to put her hair into a 'Low Braided Bun Hairstyle' which were decorated with diamond flowers. After that Sansa chose a heart diamond necklace that had been put together with gold metal. For earrings, she chose two heart-shaped diamonds.
"You are a sight to see, my lady", Jeyne Pool sighed as they both looked into the adult-sized mirror and Sansa smiled as Lady barked as if to say it was time.
Sansa then went down from her tower with her direwolf behind and down to her courtyard where she would meet her lady friend of whom she had made them swear loyalty to. After all her debut wasn't simply to show herself off to everybody but to also ensure the loyalty to her house. This was one of the quests that the system had given her. Who knew that the king would also decide to come during her month of the debut.
"Lady Sansa", her lady friends curtsied.
"My ladies", she nodded with a graceful smile. "Is everyone here?", they all nodded. "Then we shall leave to meet up with the rest", and the started to walk towards Castle's courtyard where they would receive the royal family. Lady, of course, stayed in the courtyard.
Sansa and her entourage were about to walk past Arya's courtyard and the two rival sisters met each other with displease. Arya made a gesture for Sansa to continue walking before Arya began walking with her entourage of warrior girls. Sansa then walked through the glass garden with flowers and chandeliers hanging above them and then once they were through the glass garden they soon entered the "Mirror hall" and walked through it and the garden and the big garden in front of it. They soon arrived at a small gate which was open. On the other side of the gate was a terrace
As they went through the gate she saw her mother sitting on a chair and chatting with the ladies of the sworn houses. There her mother and other lady's of the houses sat at and enjoyed some tea and coffee as they awaited the king and queen's arrival. She saw her brothers, as well as her cousin, being with the men on the other side and having a good laugh.
"Sansa", her mother called her and waved her over. Her mother wore Stark colours and silver jewelry. Like hers, her hair had been put up however Catelyn had put her hair up into a'Fishtail Braided Bun Hairstyle'.
"Good day, Mother, Lady Reed, Lady Umber, Lady Mormont, Lady Manderly, Lady Flint, Lady Wull, Lady Norrey, Lady Liddle, Lady Westerling", she curtsied elegantly and smiled gracefully as Catelyn Stark looked at her daughter with pride in her eyes.
"Your eldest daughter keep impressing me", Lady Manderly said as she looked at Sansa with a genuine smile and the other ladies began to throw compliments too.
"My daughter's sister-in-law is a sight certainly", Lady Westerling smiled.
"She is", Lady Mormont agreed.
Catelyn glanced at her youngest and was relieved that she at least had the decency to dress better than usual. As soon as they saw the carriage approach The East Gate. Catelyn went to stand beside her husband who had lost a few pounds due to the training in his gym. She could see the longing in his eyes. Her children stood beside her in row from oldest to youngest. Of course, Jon was hidden among the crowd so as not to give attention to him.
First their guards arrived along with the prince. If Sansa had not had the system she would probably be crushing all over the prince but she was not a princess and her system was not called a [princess system] for a reason. She appraised the prince and was glad that she had put on her [Queen face] which was a graceful, elegant and kind facial expression. Had she not she would be gaping at the news. Did her mother know? Was that why she tried to kill Sansa's thoughts of ever marrying the prince?
A few meters away from them the king's horse stopped and the king stepped down as soon as the stairs were put down for him. The Starks could easily see that the king had grown fat during his years on the throne. They all bowed as the king approached and everything was silent. When Lord Stark got up to face his friend and they stared at each for a few seconds before
"You've grown fat!", The king said to which Ned simply made a look that said "look who`s talking". The king then laughed and they hugged each other.
"Cat", he hugged The Lady Stark and Cat remained with a smile as she pitied the king. He would never know that his three children weren't of his blood. She wanted to tell her husband but she knew he would go and tell the King and then the Lannisters would be after their heads. It was better to wait for an opportunity before she exposed them.
"Nine years, since I've last seen you. Where the hell have you been?".
"Guarding the North for you, your grace", and the Queen got off the carriage behind the king.
Arya was about to make an inappropriate comment but chose to shut up as she read the stats of the queen and then glanced over to the kingslayer. She frowned and hoped that the royal family would leave soon.
"My aren't you a beautiful", he told Sansa who curtsied deeply as she thanked him. He then looked at Arya and she curtsied elegantly and then he rubbed both Bran and Rickon's hair.
"And you must be Robb, The temporary Lord of Moat Cailin. Gosh, I could immediately see why your father put you in charge of Moat Cailin. It was a sight to see when we passed by the castle".
"Thank you, your grace", Robb simply bowed with a proud face.
The Queen approached and once again it became silent as the Queen reached out her hand for Ned Stark to kiss.
"My Queen", he said afterwards.
"Let's go down to the crypts so that I can pay my respect", The King said and everyone knew who he was going to pay respect to.
"We've been travelling for three weeks, my love. Surely the dead can wait", the King ignored her and simply called "Ned" as he began to walk.
Ned would have felt pity for the Queen if it wasn't for the fact that all her children didn't carry any blood from his friend. He was angry for his friend but he kept his [Lord face] which was a stone face. He trailed behind the king as they walked towards the crypt. Things had also changed a lot in Winterfell so the king might get lost. He would take this opportunity to reveal what Jon Arryn found out based on what he read on the Queen's status window.
Meanwhile, Catelyn was left with a bitter Queen but kept her smile and showed the Royal family the guest house they would stay at. The guest houses were at the western part of the castle and they were spread out at a big yard. There were about 20 meters between each Guest House. And each guest houses were more like mansions.
Currently, there were only five more Guest Houses available since the other northern lords and ladies occupied the others. The Royal family obviously got the biggest mansion and most beautiful out of all of them.
As soon as Cersei Lannister arrived at the "Guest House" which was clearly a mansion she felt slightly more relieved about coming up to the North. The journey seemed to have been worth it after all. As she entered the mansion a big hall with a chandelier above was what entered her sight. There was a door between two crescent moon stairs. A servant led her upstairs and showed her to the master bedroom which was big then to her private bathroom and walk-in-closet. You could almost believe that Cersei would move in there forever. Cersei sat down at the big soft bed and then turned to one of the the large windows behind the bed. As she looked at the mansion's garden. Her children were already playing around. Cersei was so tired that she decided to take a nap. One of her ladies-in-waiting helped her while the other two ladies-in-waiting followed the Winterfell servant to their quarters. Their quarters weren't bad either even though it was simpler than the Queens but it seemed that the Starks hadn't slighted them either as they also received their personal bathroom.
Jaime Lannister actually liked his room even if it was at the servants quarters. It was a simple room with only a bed and a desk as well as a wardrobe, beside the bedroom was the bathroom but there was only a shower there and no bath. He saw that Tyrion's room was the same as his. Speaking of his brother he had to go and get him. He saw that Tyrion had walked over to a brothel named "Blossom garden" when they rode through Winter Town. And speaking of Winter Town it had completely blown Jaime's mind. When they arrived East Gate of Winter Town they had thought they had entered a city. They passed by a few glassgardens, stores and buildings that used glass. Most of the buildings that they passed were tall building and there seemed to be glass covering them roof just like in Moat Cailin. But what most surprised him was Winterfell itself. It was larger than Casterly Rock and prettier too. When and how on earth did Lord Stark manage to do all of this in sort a short time because he had heard before that Winterfell was only a fortress.
Meanwhile, while everyone was settling down Ned Stark pondered, while his friend was lamenting over his sister, if he should confess the Queen's crimes it would be the honourable and honest thing to do but he also lacked proof so he needed to wait and see how this all would go. According to his system, those actions would only lead to a worse outcome if he suddenly confessed.
Bran was usually climbing Winterfell. He liked heights, that was what he lived in the tallest tower. Sure it was a hassle to go up and down but he did it anyway.
At the dinner the king and queen sat were Ned and Cat would usually sit along with their children. Instead, they sat at one of the long tables. There were four long tables on the marble floors made out of gold combines with wood and glass. There were mirrors formed into flowers on the ceiling that reflected the lights of the chandeliers. The court hall was large and echoed slightly as people ate and talked. In front of the king and Queen, a large round scene had been put up for entertainment as dancers got up unto it and began to dance to the music of the orchestra on the balcony. The piano sounded first and then the violins began to play and soon some drums. The orchestra who was playing was Winter Town's Orchestra and there was a school only dedicating to music.
Sansa Stark felt the prince's eyes on her but ignored them. Soon it was time for dancing as the song "Maiden fair" was playing and all northern noble children who had been sent to Winter fell for schooling knew it. It was a joyful song that you danced the waltz to. Of course, the southerners didn't know this dance. They thought that the North was all barbaric but who knew that it was more cultured than they thought. Ned and Cat also got up to join the young people. Lord Reed followed with his wife as they dance tiny movements.
Sansa was shining and standing out of the crowd which was mainly due to her system. Her hair glowed her skin was fair and smooth. She wore light pink eye-shadow and had long eyelashes. Her jewellery glittered under lights and her laughter was the most melodic and beautiful out of all of the laughter in the hall. So, of course, the prince would be bewitched by her beauty and join the dance despite not knowing how to dance the waltz. He approached Sansa and her partner as the song ended.
"May I have this dance", the prince bowed and held out his hand.
Sansa didn't want to but kept her [Queen face] on all the time.
"Of course, my prince", then the music started and it was clear that he didn't know how to dance so she had to lead him. "Just follow my lead".
"The red rose with thorns", was quite a passionate song and only a few dared to dance to it. Most people who had danced before had chosen to sit this song out and it was understandable as "tango" was called the "dance of passion" here in Westeros.
Cersei watched the scene and looked at the northern women moving their bodies in a seductive way towards their partners. Sansa and Joffrey were close to each other as Sansa led Joffrey's body. She twirled and her dress fluttered along and she kicked her feet into the air and between Joffrey's legs and beside one of his legs. She wasn't seducing him so she didn't go too far like the other dancers. Cat and Ned obviously chose to dance more slowly to the music as they otherwise would break their backs. He music soon stopped and Sansa curtsied as she excused herself leaving the prince dumbstruck for a moment before he walked back to his place.
"These northern dances are interesting", Cersei told her husband as she eyed her son coming back.
"Indeed", her husband said.
Next up was a foxtrot dance music and people were on the dance floor again. Somewhere along the line, Myrcella had taken a liking to the dancing despite not knowing how to dance and so did Tommen. Myrcella walked up from her seat and went to Sansa just like that. There was something about Sansa that made her feel approachable. Sansa, of course, received her with kindness and then led her to Bran Stark who would lead her through the dance floor. Bran might not have been a master at dancing but he would certainly not embarrass his family. He led Myrcella Baratheon, as he still thought she were a Baratheon, out unto the dance floor and twirled her and carried her through the mass of people. Myrcella laughed and enjoyed her time. Bran, of course, couldn't be her dance partner the whole evening since his fiancèe Lyanna Mormont waited for him to dance with her.
As time went and the young stayed to dance the older men went to the "lounge" where they could play billiards or simply have dirty and manly talk privately. There was also a bar for the men to go and fill their drinks at.
Ned had to listen to the drunk Robert complaining about his life and how he wished he had killed Rhaegar sooner etc. etc. Ned was just silent as he still pondered on when he should reveal the truth to Robert.
Everyone was a bit hungover the next day. Thankfully the feast the coming days would be a lot simpler than the previous night's grand feast.
Essos (305 AC)
Andalos
They cried as she was strung up naked to be seen for everyone. Every man lined up and had his turn with her. They were allowed to hit her, beat her and rape her but not kill her. The people devoted to the Faith of The Seven cheered on as the blasphemer was being punished for her crimes.
All of her followers had been ordered to flee to other parts of the world but some of her most devoted followers chose to stay and witness everything.
Then the High Septon ordered her to be taken down only for her limbs to be tied to four horsemen.
Through all of the pain She didn't scream nor begged for mercy, just quietly accepted the outcome.
Westeros
All the followers of the goddess had chosen to witness her death at the Great hall of the Red Keep. It had been remade as Jon Stark Targaryen took over the throne. There was a great pool in the hall were they could witness happening around the world as long as Jon Stark Targaryens birds could go. They witnessed her death through the eyes of his bird that sat on a roof-top.
Ned Stark gripped Ice so tightly.
Jon Stark Targaryen and the new King of The Iron Throne had tears falling down his face.
Sansa Stark was crying but it didn't show as she had activated her [Poker face].
Catelyn Stark had tears in her eyes and hugged her eldest.
Arya Stark swore revenge but remembered what the goddess had told her. This had to be done in order for their souls to be liberated from sin.
Robb Stark was boiling with anger, swearing that he would kill all the priests of the Faith of The Seven.
Bran and Rickon Stark had the luck to never witness this.
Tywin Lannister, a man who had been baptized by the goddess herself out of convenience, had never loved anyone but Joanna but when he met her he couldn't help but fall in love with her. His eyes were red with sadness and anger as he witnessed her torture and death. He of course masked his feelings.
Tyrion Lannister and Jaime Lannister didn't say a word.
Myrcella and Tommen Baratheon sobbed as the goddess used to sing songs and tell stories to them. Their mother obviously hated her and they should hate her and all Starks as Cersei Lannister and Joffrey Baratheon died under Jon Stark Targaryen's sword.
Oberyn Martell was boiling with anger and ready to leave to kill the religious bastards who had killed his goddess despite knowing that this was the cost for all of their sins.
Olenna Tyrell and Margaery were just watching the horrible sight. They had yet to convert but they had spoken with the goddess and a lot of what she said made sense. Mace Tyrell, however, sobbed slightly.
Renly Baratheon and Stannis Baratheon hadn't met her and only heard of her so there were no sentimental feelings as they watched her die. Still, for Renly, this was a bit too much to watch.
All of them witnessed her death... and resurrection.
