schemes

Winterfell has been relatively silent and calm until a week ago when a band of assassins from essos found their way into the north these assassins are known as weeping men because they cry for the target they killed. this is supposed to fool their gods so that they don't get thrown into hell after death but unfortunately they could not even get inside, also from the lasso of truth we tried to know the name of who ordered the assassination, but as it happened the employer just anonymously sent 100000 gold coins and gave my name as the target. we guessed it would be the glassmakers of myr who have who now have competition. well no matter what I had to retaliate so I sent souei to essos to destroy the guild of the weeping men, it will be some time until he returns to Winterfell for now, phamtom001 will take his place. 001 is souei disciple and also the second in command of the phantoms who now have at least 1000 numbers and speak Japanese as their code language.

an unexpected situation arose in the north and that is the preaching of the old gods the faith of the seven, is almost non-existent even the manderlys gave up on that and adopted the old gods because they dont sak you for anything to get graces by them this changed the heart of many smallfolk. the smallfolk as they are called here, have found their own business opportunities some of them are public bathhouses and restaurants and pubs which have been growing in numbers. we also found an exceptional diamond from the mines it was big and beautiful, I wanted to give it to my mother but she insisted that we should give it to the queen instead, mostly because this will keep the crown from coming against us and stop our development and also keep courtiers at bay, while my mother may keep a simple demeanor and a calm lady she is quite shrewd on her own.

Winterfell, for one thing, has gone through many renovations one of them are chandeliers made of glass, very large and in most places one of them being the great hall which has 16 of them, the common room of our family as well have two of them one of the larger changes being indoor plumbing and light bulbs in every nook and corner of the castle. all of this was because of senku who helped us to make electric generators through coal, though indoor plumbing is only for guests and high-ranking officials which include guard captains marshals maesters head servants, and all the knights which means the entire winter guard also all members of house stark. we also built a clock tower 500 feet high with wolves made on them it has 3 large bells which ring at every hour the mechanization was crucial and difficult and the whole structure was solely built, to give temporary jobs. leaving all this much of the floor in Winterfell was changed to marble. the biggest and the most expensive one though was the glass garden, a big garden built after expanding the walls of the godswood with many winter roses in there it was warm even in the cold. me mother father Robb and john and Sansa Arya Hadrian and bran often go there in the afternoon and spend some time. it even has lamp posts made with gas from coal. mother and father often take evening walks there

one of the big things we made as the starks were the wolf guard it was a special group of knights who are of higher ranking than all of the winter guards this group includes

sir geralt, dame nabe( mothers female knight), , sir guts, sir bismark Waldstein, sir Suzaku kururugi, sir daryun, sir jorry Cassel, sir gino Weinberg, sir Godric, sir mark snow, dame marriane, sir Sandor clegane

Sandor clegane or the hound was on official business by tywin Lannister but after Kanzaki's medicine healed his burn marks, he swore his fealty to me and left lannisters he became quite good with a sword through training and held his own against members of the winter guard, for a few minutes or half a minute without the help of the herb after consuming the herb he was very good and got promoted to a wolfs guard. much like the the knights of the round in code geass they are also didivided as knight of 1 to knight of 12 with sir geralt being the lord commander. they all use valyrian steel swords

3 months later casterly rock

tywin lanister was disgrunted because of the hedonistic news he got from his infromants, not only the band of assassins sent by him after torhen stark were annihlated entirely, their entire guild was also destroyed by some unknown force. now one must inderstand that the weeping men were the second best group of assassins in the world after the faceless men, and some one had the power to kill all of them, and now there are rumors in the air that this happend after the failed assassination attempt on torhen stark and many believed it was house of stark retaliating. now it may sound impossible for a backward family which has recedntly risen to power would have the strenght to assisassinate an entire guild of assassins, but to tywin lannister it did sounded like quite the truth . there was no evidence to proove it but he had a hunch, a hunch he developed after many years of ruling as the hand to the mad king and fighting in countless wars. and no matter what tywin just could not dismiss this feeling. leaving these more news came to him which was depressing they were that 2 of the lannisters mines had went dry after centuries of mining though 8 more existed, this certainly was not a good thing. other than this the port city of lannisport went through some accidents while being under reconstruction, and had to be rebuilt again. his resouces were being drained like water considering the annual loans he was giving to the crown. seeing this situation he had ordred teams to check every nook and cranny of the westerlands for more veins of gold or silver which will make him money, he also ordered new farms to be built in order to make the westerlands as much self reliant as possible.

the small council meeting kings landing

john arryn, peter baelish, grand maester pycelle and varys were the only ones present and they were discussing the management of the realm.

peter: his grace has orderd another tourney and a large feast and the best wines from dorne and essos, as well we are already in debt at this moment to the iron bank and the and to the lannisters.trade also has been reduced to some extent becuase of the new buisnesses sprouting all over the realm . in order to maintain the bare mimimum we had to raise taxes in the crownlands .

john: by the seven peter how is this happening the starks sent 1 milion gold coins 2 months ago and another detachement of 2 million silver coins to the crown in the form of taxes where is it going

peter: a substaintial amount is going to lord tarly for the army he is making, some is going to the the faith of the seven so that they can propagate the faith because of the numbers going down in the north they want to make more septs. we were able to create some new jobs in kingslanding by ordering the small folk to clean the sewers that is taking a substantial amount while the rest is going to pay the fees of the castle staff and to lord varys to maintain his spider web

john: is it really needed lord varys

varys: indeed my lord hand it is needed very much i have lost a lot spies in the north and currently trying to put some in stepstones the martells are a sharp bunch of people it will be difficult

john: thats it the martells, they are making some money we can raise their taxes to some extent. we should try all ways possible,

varys: i believe the master of coins can spare some from his own profits, which are owerflowing at this momnet courtsey of his brothels

peter: i wish, my lord spider but that cannot be arranged, the brothel's money is used to maintian them and bribe members of the golden cloaks otherwise we cannot hope for them to help when fights or others conflicts break out, also much of the money is being sent to the fingers my own lands to fortify them against pirate raids which are on the rise.

john: forget about them we will see what can be done, any more news from somewhere

varys: more whispers from the east the targaryan children were spotted in norvos but soon went missing again before they resurfaced in bravos and apparently john connington was also found there

john: john connington, that is a name i have not heard in a long time, i believe he was a good friend of rheagar and currently was protecting a boy considered to be a bastard from rhaegar

varys: apparently so, but the boy died during his journeys on sea, since then he has made a company of his own which is some 2000 strong i believe mostly made of targaryan loyalists and a few slaves freed by him after obtaining money from batteling in a death arena. his loyalty to the dragons is astounding, i believe he is sheltering the targaryan children now

john: should we tell his grace about it

pycelle: i think no my lord, his grace is a man of anger if he heard that the targaryan are being protected he may wage war on essos

peter: i think so too my lord by the idea that they are difficult to find, we can agree that someone is helping them and to be able to go against a spider web they must be powerfull

varys: i agree so as well maybe we should wait for more whispers

john: anything else

varys: the north is booming

john: the north is coming in our discussions are alot

varys: indeed my lord

john: what happened there now

varys: many things my lord, most recent is the completion of the canal they were building it has boomed trade by a lot in the north even many merchant companies were born from it, solely to provide the boats needed to transport the goods around, leaving that there is also the new construction of the roads large roads much more maintained then the kingsroad itself. many diffrent kinds of craft forms have taken palce in the north woolen tapestrys for example are quite famous many new towns and cities are being born as well. leaving these many lords are known for expanding and renovating their castles with a new form of fibre which makes them more sturdier.

john: the north has been doing a lot recently who all are dissatisfied with them there must be a few

varys: yes my lord there are, the freys for example are unhappy the tolls which they got have significantly gown down or outright stopped , after the great influx of southeners going north now that all traders take ships to go there. leaving them a few reach lords are also unhappy because their profits got cut short ever since ever north became more self reliant

john: most people dont know yet but the king has given lord stark full discretion in whatever he wanted no matter what for now try to control information about north as much is posibble. with this let us end our meeting today