**Important Update**

I think I have a fair bit to answer for with the state all of this is in. I know this will annoy some of you but I hope you will also understand why I am doing this. As you have all likely become aware, my opinion of the show has been steadily decreasing ever since season 5 aired and I doubt many of you will be surprised when I say that season 7 did nothing to help with that. So as of now, this fic is discontinued and can be classed as abandoned and dead.

Now, before you all jump on your teleporting Ironborn fleets and assault my poorly CGI-ed castle with no siege equipment, this is not the end of the story completely. Instead, this version will remain as it is, unaltered, while a new version is posted under a different name but with the same picture (I mean seriously the name is too like of Kings, Draugr and Dragons, the clear inspiration for this). Reason being primarily I wanted to take it in a different direction from the very start while maintaining this one so that people will still have it if they end up preferring it.

I sincerely hope I have not annoyed too many people with this, I know some of you have been here since the very beginning in 2015. Christ I feel old. I also hope to see many of you in the new story and I cannot thank you all enough for the support you have shown me thus far.

**Thank you and tara**