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So, I'm going to be posting some videos of my Westeros building/gamplay two or three times a week. This first video will take you through different areas of the red keep and includes a general introduction to the neighborhood!

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Fun fact, this is canonically what Howland Reed has been doing during the entire plot of the books.

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Next, we have the tower of the hand where Jon Arryn lives with his family. The inside is fairly lackluster I’m afraid, except for the dining room/small council chambers which I am quite proud of.

Jon hasn’t been murdered, and I don’t think I’ll have Lysa murder him, though it is possible. He works as the hand of the king and Lysa goes to court as well to fulfil her role as the Duchess of the Vale and collect the simoleans that come with that. She also woohoos with Littlefinger when Jon isn’t around.

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King Robert, first of his name, king of the andals, the rhoynar and the first men, lord of the seven kingdoms and protector of the realm has graced our simple household with his presence to steal our newspaper.

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Next, we have the Starks!

I’m sure there is a custom direwolf breed somewhere, but I couldn’t be bothered to hunt it down, and I didn’t want them to just have huskies, so I gave the Starks Mabari hounds instead. Here we have Robb, Bran, and Arya playing with them.

Red haired Bran feels weird to me. The show actor did a great job and was really iconic, but Bran is supposed to have red hair and resemble Catelyn’s family. The only kiddos that have dark hair like Ned are Arya and Jon.

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For the Nights Watch, I had to get a little creative in terms of fitting them into the regency era. Essentially, they are still a penal colony where sims take vows to serve for life and give up any titles. However, they are focused more on gathering resources such as ore, lumber, and hunting arctic animals.

Benjen hasn’t gone missing, and he’s having some yummy burnt horker stew with Alliser Thorne, Jon, and Sam. Benjen and Alliser are rangers and go on expeditions to hunt, fish, and patrol for grumpkins and snarks. Jon and Sam are still stewards obviously, and focus on cooking, cleaning, and taking care of elders like Maester Aemon and the Lord Commander.

Viserys and Daenerys didn’t manage to flee dragonstone during the storm. They were caught but Ned convinced Robert to let them live. Dany lives at king’s landing and is betrothed to Joffrey to secure his rule and appease Targaryen loyalists, while Viserys was sent to the wall.

He is a lot more sane and emotionally stable, having grown up in a safe and secure environment with Maester Aemon to care for and guide him. Over time, he has let go of his bitterness at losing his family and crown. He is a builder, and helps collect lumber and ore, and do some basic maitenence around castle black.

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Roose Bolton is the Earl of the Dreadfort, and is training Ramsey to rule in his name someday. Reek fixes the gents a lovely luncheon of wolf pies and tea.

Roose marries Walda Frey, and happily cashes in her massive dowry. He is happy to be $60,000 simoleans richer, and she is happy to be Countess of the Dreadfort.

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And here we have.. Gregor’s towerhouse. When you enter you’re greeted with a big heavy locked door, which leads to the dungeon. Here, Gregor has two floors full of cages, torture devices, and training equipment. The only light in the dungeon comes from a fire he lights under the prisoners in the mounted cage to terrify them.

Up two flights of stairs are Gregor’s private rooms. He has a dining hall, and adjacent are a kitchen and a room/office for a steward who does housework for Gregor and manages his accounts. Gregor drinks strongwine and milk of the poppy for his headaches, so there are plenty of bubble blowers and minibars for him.

Upstairs is a little mancave where he can play darts and look at deer antlers, and a bedroom/bathroom.

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I was able to find some burn cc for Sandor, thanks to the wonderful folks in the Historical Sims discord server. I made the guys taller as well, which you can see in comparison to the Jihoons from the welcome wagon.

That’s right, there’s a house Midlock. Did you really think that because I’m building a neighborhood based on an established canon book series with established characters that I wouldn’t add a family of Jihoons? Please. Of course there are Jihoons and they brighten up the neighborhood considerably. 

By the way.. expect something new and hopefully interesting in regards to Westeros in about an hour...

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I hate the idea of cleganebowl and truly hope that Sandor continues his positive arc of letting go of his anger and baggage and living a chill peaceful life on the quiet isle or as sansa’s husband

But if it does happen, here’s my artistic rendition of the event.

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And now, we have the youngsters who live in the eastern castle. 

Up top, from left to right, we have Fat Walda, who is being courted by Roose Bolton, Earl of the Dreadfort. She has had a dozen new gowns made in Bolton colors and will be marrying him within the fortnight. She has an immense dowry due to the Viscount promising her weight in silver to Roose upon their marriage.

Then we have Miss Roslin Frey, a sweet, shy and unusually pretty daughter of the Viscount. He is saving her for the most ambitious political marriage he can muster up.

And then on the right, we have Amerei Frey, a young romance sim who gets up to all kinds of shenanigans that could bring scandal upon the family.

In the middle photo we have Marissa Frey who is only three and ten and not out in society yet. She exclusively prefers the company of women, and wants to be a cook, though that is obviously beneath the granddaughter of a Viscount, so she’s trying to enjoy the few short years she has before being forcibly married off and helping out in the kitchen as much as she is allowed. 

In the bottom photo we have Olyvar Frey, one of the Viscount’s much younger sons who is a Lieutenant in the army, his youngest son Elmar Frey, and Merrett’s youngest son, Little Walder.

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Trust me, honey, you don’t want to join the ironborn. They are a hot mess.

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So, I’ve started a new historical neighborhood.

More details and info about these sims below the cut. I rambled a LOT.

I’ve been having technical issues with Riverwood Park for probably over a month. Basically it just crashes every time I try to enter the Fischer household, and the occasional times that it loads everything is just drenched in invisible soup.

I’m not giving up on Riverwood Park. This has happened in other neighborhoods once I’ve been playing them for a while, but I don’t intend to stop that series at all. I have posts queued up for several months and I welcome any advice/solutions anyone might have for dealing with that.

However, I’ve been missing historical gameplay with all of this going on, I was chatting with some friends on the Historical Sims server and one of them was making a Victorian save file of Westeros, which made me completely giddy with excitement. I’ve actually read a couple of regency era asoiaf fanfictions so I kind of knew about the idea of a regency au westeros. But I never thought of doing it in the sims until now. 

It’s a huge undertaking and a LOT of building, so it might be a while before I post any gameplay. I’ll probably try and do shorter rotations since we’ll have a lot of families, and I’ll start actual intro rounds once we have a few more families. I just took a few photos of the sims and gave the adults careers and stuff.

So anyway..

We have the Reeds as our first family!!

Howland and Jyana Reed are very mysterious. We can only guess at their appearances through what their kids look like. All we know about Jyana is her name and all we know about Howland is that he helped Ned at the tower of joy and Ned trusts him a lot.

So technically he could have face 18, we don’t really know. Like I was going to avoid giving face 18 to one of the coolest, most mysterious characters who knows important secrets and lives in a freaking moving swamp castle. Which I was not able to create at all. I made them a nice mini-manse made out of logs and the inside is actually pretty nice, though I didn’t get pictures of it.

So, for Howland and Jyana, I just made them knowledge sims. Idk why, it seemed to fit. Jyana rolled the want to join the education career so I made her a senior schoolteacher. It makes sense that a pretty progressive mother who lets her daughter wear pants and learn combat abilities is just minding her business running a small school for the swamp children.

For Howland, I made him a Marquess, since he’s technically the lord of the borderlands of the north, and Ned trusts him and owes him his life. I feel like he doesn’t really like leaving home, but he does go to the court at Winterfell to visit Ned sometimes.

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The bad news

After taking break for a little while from my Westeros/Riverwood Park hoods, I looked into the issues a little more and I don't have any bad cc or anything, but both neighborhoods are corrupted and basically crash upon me trying to load any lot/open cas. I'm not surprised about Westeros since it's a huge hood but I am truly devastated about Riverwood Park and don't have the heart to try and rebuild it again. I'll still leave all the stories up for those hoods, but I'll have to start a new hood, or renovate a maxis hood maybe if I'm going to make more regency content. I'll keep you updated but I do want to get back into that again, especially with some of the beautiful cc that has come out while I've been busy with my modern sims/bg3/other games.

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Mychel is a diligent and hardworking sim, but does have a few dalliances with Mya Stone outside of wedlock. He wants to marry her, but of course he knows his father won’t approve.

Jon ends up getting promoted to torture chamber sweeper, and Varys comes to visit the family. Some other sims come by in the welcome wagon, and Varys is happy to chat with them and collect some information.

Janyce Frey really shouldn’t be out and about in her condition, but I am guessing she really wanted to get away from her husband and meet some other nice men. Creighton seems to like her, and he also likes Amerei Frey.

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The next Vale family we have is the Redforts!

Horton Redfort is a physician who basically cared for Lysa and Sweetrobin when they visited the Eyrie. Lysa is always fancying herself ill and fussing about her son’s health, so Horton made himself a pretty penny, though as of late they have been traveling less and less and Horton is having to make do with serving the other Vale families who can afford his services. 

Horton is very concerned with wealth and status, and likes to spend more money than he has. Thus, his sons are living in somewhat cramped quarters and he is adamant that all of them marry wealthy sims, since he has not a penny to his name to give them as inheritance.

Horton married thrice, and his first wife had face 18. Jasper, his eldest, is a physician as well and is taking medical courses at the Citadel. He is set to inherit the estate, if not any simoleans, though he needs to wait for his brothers to move out before he can marry a sim for money.

Creighton is a bit of a wastrel and a disappointment. He is a romance sim who drinks all day and works as a fopdoodle in the gambler career. He is very loose with women and a disgrace to his family.

Jon Redfort was from Horton’s second wife, who was actually a mermaid. So Jon inherited her mermaid genes and works in the spy career, sending Varys information about the Vale and Riverlands. 

Mychel Redfort is from Horton’s third and final wife, and he is a captain in the military career. He is very gallant and handsome.

They have a servant, though they can barely manage to keep her. She is actually a distant cousin of Jon’s on his mother’s side, and works for meager wages in order to collaborate with Jon on his spy work, since they are both mermaids in Varys’ employ.

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