Meeting the Lords

To prepare for the journey I made sure this time to not spend all of my money. First I bought a magical expanded tent for the trip as to travel to Deep wood is short as we are taking a ship their but the trip to Winterfell is over 300 miles through the wolfs wood. Lydia refused to stay and keep watch, as one she did not have that skill set and as my sworn shield she will not let me travel alone. So to compromise we agreed that first I needed to summon a dedicated steward, more men to keep guard and to join me, and that I need to get better at arguments. As for what we are bringing besides general supplies, at least 3 every drink we have in small barrels, soaps of each types, and some odds and ends for their children.

As for the summons Lydia and I discussed about what their qualities should be, one they need to be familiar with the running of estates, what magic is capable of since they would be useless with out, and finally protect themselves.

With that narrowed down to those from HP verse as they have the most versatile magic, Lydia wanted them to be a woman as she wanted more badass woman around, and help keep us from doing something stupid.

That helped narrow it down more, we agreed that we needed a pure blood witch that was capable of doing this. So we had it down to the Black Sisters but which one.

Andromeda: Like all the black sister were raised to be perfect wife, she was kicked out of the family for marrying a first generation wizard who her mother killed when they found out she was pregnant. She like all her sisters has a complete Hogwarts education while she specializes, in healing, and farm management. She will also be summoned 8 months pregnant with Nymphadora.

Narsscia: Once finding out about her mother actions she and her sister cast themselves out of the family, she and Bellatrix refused to marry. So the Black sister banded together to survive on their own and eventually became major businesswomen. She has master level skill in: spy craft, business management.

Bellatrix: Who read her marriage contract that would make her a slave joined her sisters in protecting them from the world. She worked as a hit wizard to gather starting money, and then went on to gathering the biggest security company on the wizard world. She has master level skill in: War magic, infiltration, and strategy.

All named summons de-aged to 21 years old and given general knowledge about the world, the mission, their life if they had not been summoned, and access to parts of the system.

Lydia and I went back and forth for some time trying to pick which sister till I joked that we should just pick them all. Which caused the system to ding.

-A coupon given to you as thanks for a new granddaughter-

Which I had no idea what that meant but whatever so I summon the 3 Black sister. Then all 3 Black Sisters appeared in front of me and Lydia.

Mc-"Hello everyone should know my name and why we summoned you, but I'll explain non the less. First my name is Halvard Maelstrom and this is Lydia, we summoned you cause we need help."

Andromeda-"Holy fuck I'm pregnant again"

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Once the girls calmed and I was loudly informed that Andromeda was very annoying with me. But the Black sisters were actually pretty happy to have their youth back, even Andromeda was excited that she gets to raise her daughter again.

But then we got to work Andromeda began to inspect our medical facilities and farms. Given the circumstances she said the facilities were decent but she had idea to improve them, as for the farms she after the first harvest she drew up more efficient plans and looked into our food storage for the future.

Narsscia, was not impressed with our infosec capacity. She demanded that we put in place more anti scrying, loyalty enforcement and more strenuous contracts to be put in place. She did like my idea of using wizard painting as spies in noble houses with the ward stones. As for the business she was sending out samples to the Northen Nobles and merchants before getting better idea.

Bellatrix, inspected the walls and defense of the palace, pointed out some flaws in place like how even though we were the only major wizard where we needed better wards over the entire village. Next, she wanted more people to be trained in martial skills. She ha even started her own basic training for the war mage to improve them.

Lydia had taken a close kinship with Bellatrix out of all the sister as they had a lot in common with each other.

With them setting things up I now had a need for a dedicated Bird house, so I bought 10 magical falcons to be used a messenger here along with enchanted mirrors to contact with one another in the event danger.————————————————————————————————————————————

The trip to Deepwood Motte we went by Ship as our traders have been making the trip for the past couple of months, the main purpose is to cut down on the time on horse back as we will be on horse back for most of the trip through the Wolfswood much to my annoyance.

The trip is expected to take 16 DAYS from Deepwood Motte to travel to Winterfell as it is over 300 miles through thick old growth forest thankfully we have magic to keep us comfortable like expanded tents and trunks. So we need to encourage road building or build airships to avoid traveling by land.

-Quest Added-

-Make a airship to travel the north and beyond-

-Rewards: 50,000 Gold, Master class skill in airship piloting, and 5 crews worth of summons-

Black Sisters/Lydia-"You are building me one as soon as possible and I will marry you then and their."

"Deal and no take backs."

But that is for later and much, much, more research so in a couple of years maybe. So a bunch of books on flying brooms, and a bunch on physics to read on the trip. After a week in preparation we left Eskigarðr to Deepwood Motte by ship with expanded trunks and crates filled with goods by the order of Narsscia, 10 men in all most half wizards while the others mundane made our trip to Deepwood Motte 2 days by Cutter Ship.

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Deepwood Motte is only half a day ride from the coast where we were welcomed by Heir Galbart himself.

"Welcome to Járnviður, Clan Leader Maelstrom I welcome you and offer Bread and Salt."

"I thank you Heir Glover for the welcome and I bring gifts for your family."

Deepwood Motte is not the most magnificent castle to see, it is not on Winterfell scale it is a good size Castle. The most impressive part is main castle is made entirely out of Ironwood, Lydia's only comment was that it is a giant fire hazard. Their we were showed to our rooms then told to meet Lord Glover in his hall in 2 hours.

"Welcome, Clan Leader Maelstrom to Deepwood Motte. My Son has told me many things about you and your people tales of magic and spirts. I have a half a mind to think him mad if not the word of him and his men. Then came your new ships faster than anything I have ever seen in my many years coming for trade the past 6 months. If you can prove my sons claims of defending my lands from those savages and these claim of magic I will give you full claim of Eskigarðr, a city permit to expand, and your Clan to be the same Rank as the mountain clans. Now proving your claims. First you shall duel my men at arms, and you shall preform a magic act that I deem to be of talent, "

"Thank you Lord Glover, First I bring gifts that my steward would be greatly annoyed if I do not announce them. First a variety of drinks that my people produce that one you should be familiar with Fire whiskey, This is Soap they are used in cleaning and come in a variety of smells, and finally our medicines that our people can make they can help aches and pains all the way to helping a person recover from battle. Now I believe I have challenges to complete."

The first task was a tournament style battle till first blood or surrender. Most of the men were not much of a fight but the main focus of the fight was my axe, which I had enchanted with basic sharpening and returning.

The next was the magical act, Lydia and I went back and forth on this, so we decided to do three smaller acts being a different use of magic. First was battle magic, I cast a variety of spells call lighting, wall of earth instead of fire as this was a wooden fort, and a ice spike. Next was making a rocking chair from a block of wood, and finally I used my Animagous form to fly around the court yard. Then landing in front of a shocked Lord Glover and a smug Lydia.

"Well Lord Glover does that prove my claims."

"Aye it does Halvard aye it does."

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We stayed for 3 days at Deepwood Motte befroe we set off to Winterfell. Most of that time was spent being asked to preform magic by the local children much to Lydia private joy. It was mostly small little tricks like making their toys come to life, changing hair color small stuff like that. In the evenings was me talking with the Glovers about my people and the products we were selling and what our martial skill were, the relief in their eyes when I said not all our people were had that level of magic. The first evening was mostly about who could do magic, what can magic do and could they learn. So I walked them through the conversation about active and passive magics. I even healed Lord Glover of his arthritis that even got me a hug from the old man. The rest of the days were spent just telling them of wizarding culture, like how we do kneel instead we bow, saluting in the military, stuff like that. Heir Glovers wife greatly enjoyed the soaps even put he first order in. Lord Glover also order a Ward stone for the castle to made after hearing from his son about it's capabilities.

I did alert The Black Sisters that we are now the owner of Eskigarðr and we have a city permit.

The time at Deepwood was actually nice once the initial time passed but we then set out through the Wolfswood to Winterfell.

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The trip through the Wolfwood was long and boring, with the expanded tent it made thing bearable. Those traveling with us where jealous of us and I did not know that old man Glover could guilt you more than anything, so he could stay in the tent with us.

At night it during the journey Lydia and I would sing and tell stories; Dragon Born Comes, My mother told me, Ent's Marching for songs. For stories first was the tales of Three Brothers, The Warrior Prayer, and Lord of the Rings.

The Dragon Comes was met with a mixed reaction, but once we explained that a Dragonborn kills dragons it was better. I used Illusion and Thaumaturgic magic to give the song more weight, by showing a small scale dragon attack on a village. Lydia did get a little emotional during the song but later when I asked her about it she said it just reminded her of home.

My Mother Told Me, I sung in Old Norse which Lord Glover said it reminded him of his grandfather who fought Ironborn raiders at sea to his last breathe were he took on a fleet by himself to slow them down to save Járnviður from being raided. The illusion I showed was the Fjords of Norway.

The Ent's Marching, with telling them the Lord of Rings story enraptured the group. I showed them what Ent's look like and made me realize that their is a good chance that their are Ents in these woods now that magic is increasing.

The stories were fun they really like lord of the rings, and the Warriors Prayer. But the reaction to The Tale of Three Brother was interesting As unlike the others Lord Glover stayed silent after the end and nodded at the end. When everyone looked at he spoke.

"I am a man who has lived a long life, I have fought in many battles, lost the love of my life, lost many men, but I know in the end I will leave behind sons that I know will make me proud, a land that will prosper when I am gone and most I will see my wife again."

The rest of the trip was just normal travel while I looked into Airships and physics, the more I looked into it the more I wanted to just say fuck it and apparat back to home and get to work.

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It 16 days of walking through the woods to reach Winterfell the view was amazing. If you have ever visited a really old building like the Parthenon or the Colosseum and you could feel the very weight of the building like it had a presence to it. That is what it felt when arriving at Winterfell. We were offered guest rights like normal and told to follow Lord Stark to his Solar.

Lord Stark-"Welcome, Clan Leader Maelstrom to Winterfellm Lord Glover has sent word about many things Tales of magic, new drinks and goods coming out of your clan. At first i though the man mad till I received the second letter stating that these were not just true but even better than expected. Now I am hoping to speak to you about what your plans in the North are."

"Thank you Lord Stark, First I bring gifts that my steward would be greatly annoyed if I do not announce them. First a variety of drinks that my people produce that one you should be familiar with Fire whiskey, This is Soap they are used in cleaning and come in a variety of smells, medicines that our people can make they can help aches and pains all the way to helping a person recover from battle, and finally a variety of toys for your children and I hear you had a girl congratulations. As for my plans that will require a long conversation and a history lesson."

I went into the story of our people and how we were forced out of Westeros and hide. Then our plans of teaching magic here in the North. He was interested in having a center of learning here in the North and the fact that they could marry after they left, I may have sent Jon on a new path.

"Finally Lord Stark Lord Glover I have one more thing to show you and one question to ask. How much of the world map do you know?"

"I know that their is land past Essos and the Red wastes called Yi-Ti past that I only know the basics. Why do you ask?"

"This is why Lord Stark" as I roll out the full map of the World I bought from the System. "This is the work of generation of my ancestors it is a complete map of the World, and I want the North to be the First to gain its resources. But I have only one thing to ask do not let this out till we are already expanding. This is the future of the North trade coming from all over the world directly into The North all being used to better the lives of her people and this is only the beginning."

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Name: Halvard Maelstrom

Age 20 (Fixed Age)

Strength: 25

Agility: 25

Intelligence: 25

Stamina: 25

Magic Power: 50 (Dumbledore level)

Avg: 10 for all stats

Knowledge: A complete Hogwarts education, Wards (7th), Mediwizard (5th)

Special Skills: Parsaltounge, Animagous (Eagle), Master Smith (Mg/M), Master Axe man, Music (Old World)

Spells (Custom):

Store: skills, items, knowledge, and summons.

Gold: 300

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[Eskigarðr]

<Keep/Castle-Basic Jarls Home>

<Wards: Mapping, Master level protection form weather and fire, anti-scrying, Ect>

<Stewards: Black Sisters>

<Soldiers-5 War mages, 5 Warriors,>

<Literacy Rate: 25%>

<Population: 300 Native, 60 magic users>

<Food availability: Relying on brought supplies and fishing>

<Navy: 2 Fishing ship, 1 Large Trade ship>

<Goods: Varity of Alcohols, Soaps and Medicines. NO glass as of yet.>