Proto-Industrialization
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Smoke, Swords, and Stars by partiallykritikal
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV)
19 Sep 2025
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Summary
Fifty years ago, a young Rickard Stark chose to focus his ambitions on his own lands – seizing on a chance invention in Barrowton to build out a new world of coal, smoke, and steel. The great machines bring with them prosperity and advancement, but a lack of alliances leaves Winterfell standing alone when forces from the south steal their favored daughter. Embittered but unwilling to start a losing war over the insult, the Lord of Winterfell retreats even further into his own lands.
Now King Rhaegar is dead at last, and his son Aegon VI crowned as King – a sickly young man, raised by the faith, and no friend to the North. Deep in the new King’s confidence is a charismatic High Septon whose tenure has been marked by religious fervor and a new wave of intolerance.
Rickard Stark and the North must face down the crown once again, and this time they may have no choice but to fight.
Series
- Part 1 of Smoke, Swords, and Stars