A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying
CHAPTER 1: A WESTEROS PRIMER CHAPTER 1: A WESTEROS PRIMER Welcome to Westeros and A Song of Ice and Fire In this world, seasons last for years, not months, and Roleplaying Game. Westeros is the creation of author family generations can be traced back for thousands of George R.R. Martin, and it is a world of noble houses years to the Age of Heroes. Ancestral weapons may be great and small, true and false knights armoredSample in shin- worth morefile than a lordling’s only daughter, and castles may ing steel, lords and ladies resplendent in silks and furs, have flown a score of banners in their storied histories. and the smallfolk who toil in the lands and holdings Magic lives mostly in the myths and faded dreams of of the nobility. earlier generations. The learned maesters say that it died Westeros is composed of seven “kingdoms,” provinces out a lifetime ago, but others say it still exists amongst that all swear fealty to the Iron Throne, but each has an the maegi and warlocks of the exotic eastern lands. ancient history as a kingdom in its own right. From the SIFRP is about Machiavellian court politics, fam- cold North where summer snows are all too common ily alliances and enmities, the rise and fall of kingdoms, to the hot arid deserts of southern Dorne, and from the and the clash of armies. But it is also about honor and desolate and sea-swept rocks of the Iron Islands to the duty, family tensions, the responsibility of leadership, love bustling capital of King’s Landing, the Seven Kingdoms and loss, tournaments, murders, conspiracies, prophecies, of Westeros are filled with many colorful people and dreams, war, great victories, and terrible defeats.
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