500 Years After: An Opera of Gunpowder and Steel

by Roderico Valens

500 years after the War of the Five Kings, the descendants of the original ASOIAF characters play the old Game of Thrones, in a world were Thrones themselves might be left in the dustbin of History

4. Chapter 4

Duke Blackwater stared at the map of the 7 Colonies of the Empire. A big and plump man, he delighted on the balls he hosted at Highgarden, with the old castle surrounded by artists and musicians.

New Westerlands

New Duskendale

Shenandoah

New Dorne

North Arrynland

South Arrynland

Mormont Island

The city of Preyatts, at Shenandoah, was were the Viceroy resided. Old Emperor Jaime VI put Ned Hollard as Viceroy, a bureaucrat too honest for his ambitions. Blackwater thought about the situation. The emperor died without direct issue. The Grand Imperial Council is torn between Dowager Empress Margaery's brother, Duke Baratheon-Tarth, or the Emperor's nephew, Duke Daven Lannister. Blackwater knew that the election would be heated, but he didn't looked for the council at Summerhall, with all the high lords reunited while they argued for their candidate.

It felt boring as hell.

However, as he sipped from his redwyne wine, an idea flashed though him. Who is Hollard answering to now? After all, the hand cannot rule above the Grand Imperial Council during the regency, unless a crisis is in place.

Blackwater grabbed pen and paper, and layed out his terms for the vote to both candidates, finding that the game of thrones to be a fond pastime for him.