Chapter 3 Background Overview

   After determining his lineage, career, and growth path, Ian set his sights on the last option the starting location.

  [Finally you starting at? ]

  [Westeros, Essos, Sothothros]

  Looking at this option, Ian couldn't help but twitch his lips. He could accept both Westeros and Essos, but he couldnt figure out what Sothothros option is meant for. What the hell is going on?

  It was an uninhabited and poisonous island where even the greatest explorers could not survive.

  If the player starts there, wouldn't it really be a check mate on the spot?

  After thinking about it, Ian clicked on Westeros, mainly because the original book described this area in more detail. Ian believed that he could develop better in the early stage with this knowledge reserve.

  Later, more details were displayed.

  [Kingland, Riverlands, Stormlands, Reach, Vale, Dorne, Western Territory, Northern Territory, Iron Islands, North of the Great Wall] This time Ian chose the:

  Riverlands, mainly because it is well connected in all directions, regardless of Whenever or wherever I find out the where about of another player, Ian can be there as soon as possible.

  However, just when Ian was about to continue selecting a specific city, the system did not display the next option.

  This surprised him because it meant that the player's specific starting point was random.

  In this way, players who have agreed to form an alliance cannot start in a city. They can only rush to their previously agreed meeting point after landing randomly.

  Of course, this would not bring any advantage to Ian, because while he can predict their rendezvous location based on some famous location from the series, he cant really guess their meeting time, he cant just camp some famous inns for for who knows how long or whatever people will really meet here.

  After confirming for the last time that the selected information was correct, Ian clicked the OK button.

  [Please enter your name]

  "Name?" Ian repeated, and then casually entered [Ian].

  [Please formulate your image]

  "Huh? You can still make your own face?" Seeing the preview picture on the screen of a mercenary knight wearing armor, holding half a sword, and riding a tame horse, Ian was stunned for a moment, and then Start trying to modify the knight's face.

  After a while, Ian discovered that he really had no talent for pinching faces, and the faces he made were so ugly that they looked like those from a horse-drawn swordsman.

  So he put his hope in random generation. After three minutes of hard work, he finally clicked on the image of a typical blond Andal youth with good looks.

  [Character generation completed]

  Soon, a complete background story was delivered to him.

  [Background overview, You have the blood of both the Ancestors and the Andals. (Strength +2, gain skill 'Common Language Spoken'), Your father is a farmer in the valley, and your mother is a maid in the manor of a local wealthy knight.

  In 281 AC (Note 1), you were born into this world as the eldest son in your family, and your father named you Ian. This is an unusually warm late winter, as if spring has arrived early because of your birth. However, at the end of the year, the coldness of winter suddenly returned to Westeros, and heavy snow fell everywhere. This year, it was called the False spring. (Starting capital + 200 Silver Stag)

  When you were one year old, Jon Arryn, Lord of the Vale and Lord of the Eagle's Nest, raised the banner of rebellion and declared war on the Targaryen royal family. Your father was recruited by the local lords and picked up the The weapons went south and never came back.

  After the war, in order to repay the debt your father incurred in purchasing equipment before the war, your mother had to sell the mill at home, and then took you to the knight's manor to take care of you. Your astuteness was loved by the knight's wife. She arranged for you to be a study companion for her son who is the same age as you. (Spirit +1, acquire the skills 'Etiquette Basics' and 'Common Language Reading and Writing Basics'), At the age of 11, you and your little master were sent to the count's castle and began to learn swordsmanship, equestrianism and riding with the instructor. Gun, you did an excellent job. (Strength +4, Agility +4, acquire the skills 'Basics of Swordsmanship', 'Basics of Horsemanship', 'Basics of Cavalry') Two years later, you defeated your little master in a contest and won a knight form the Earl's family. Qualifications to be a servant. (Strength +5, Agility +5, acquire the skills 'Swordsmanship Beginner', 'Lance Beginner', 'Equestrian Skills Beginner') When you were 16 years old, you shined brightly in a clearing operation against the mountain clans in the valley. After the war, you will be knighted. That night, you completed the vigil in the sanctuary after anointing yourself with the Seven Holy Oils. (Strength +10, Agility +10, acquired skills: 'Intermediate swordsmanship', 'Intermediate lance', 'Intermediate horsemanship') Not long after, you got married to the daughter of the housekeeper of a wealthy knight's manor. She was not very beautiful, but makes you are extermly satisfied with her personality.

  But on your wedding night, your former young master drunkenly broke into your new house with four guards. With the anger that he had been defeated by you, he declared to you that your bride was his bride. People, he wants to exercise his sacred power as a lord - the right of first night.

  However, the tradition of the Right of First Night, which originated from the ancestors, had been abolished as early as the fourth monarch of the Targaryen Dynasty, King Jaehaerys I, on the advice of his Queen Alysanne.

  Therefore, you regarded the other party's order as a provocation and humiliation. You loudly called for your attendants and friends to come to support, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

  After a fight, you killed your original little master and his guards, but your wife and companions also died in the melee.

  The battle caused a fire, and the manor where you spent your entire childhood was quickly submerged in the sea of ​​​​fire. You had no time to care, and hurriedly packed up your belongings (a one handed sword without heraldry, a complete set of a heraldic old chain mail, a tame horse, and 200 silver deer), you escaped from the valley overnight, fled to the river, and began a career as a hired knight] The background story is followed by detailed page information:

[Ian:Power 21 , Agility 19, Mental Power 1 Skills: Basic Etiquette, Basic Reading and Writing in Common Language, Intermediate Swordsmanship, Intermediate Equestrian, Intermediate Cavalry]

  ( Reading and writing skills in the same language will directly cover speaking skills. Only those who can speak but cannot read will Will demonstrate speaking skills).

  "Reminder, the bodies used by the players are bionic humans released by the organizer into this world. They appear out of thin air. The aborigines of this world will not have any memory of the player characters." After confirming that Ian has finished reading the information Finally, AI Annie spoke,

  "But the system generates a reasonable background story for the player based on the player's custom choices. Players can obtain knowledge and memories related to the background to better integrate into the world of Song of Ice and Fire with a new identity. "

  Ian couldn't help but nodded. This thing is indeed very helpful to the players. After all, even the players who know the original work and history best can't understand the real life details of a certain profession in this era. there must still be many omissions.

  But this obviously also brings about a problem, that is, it is more difficult for players to discover each other. If the disguise is good enough, two players may not be discovered even if they are sitting together in a tavern and talking and laughing.

  This obviously contradicts the receptionist's statement that players will fall into fierce competition and even kill each other as soon as they start.

  From a planning perspective, if he wanted players to kill each other at the start of the game, he shouldn't have designed this kind of mechanism to help players hide their identities.

  This was unreasonable. Ian silently recorded this problem in the small notebook in his heart.

  "Now that you have completed all the processes in the creation phase, you only need to click the OK button to officially travel." Annie reminded, "Although you cannot act in advance before all players have completed their character creation, you can take this time to understand Complete game mechanics and auxiliary system functions."

  Ian felt that what Annie said was quite reasonable. After all, the organizer had regulations that required players to understand the detailed game mechanics after entering the game.

  If he uses the preparation time to analyze the mechanism, he will not waste a second after the game start.

  Thinking of this, Ian no longer hesitated and clicked the OK button directly.

  The moment he clicked on it, he suddenly felt as if he was being melted. His vision, hearing, and touch disappeared one after another, and the whole world turned into a vast whiteness.