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Storm Kingdom
Storm's End
13 BAC
Argilac was off to a war in the Free Cities, joining the city-state of Braavos against another city-state called Pentos.
The two cities had gone to war because of Pentos' practice of slavery, and both had offered monetary rewards to anyone willing to join them. Her father had chosen to join the side of Braavos, intending to use the gold he would earn to arm his men and hire mercenaries against the Ironborn and cover the deficit in their coffers and pay their debts.
Had the cities been any closer, Ei would have joined just to wipe that abominable act out of the face of this world.
But for now she would just wave at her father as he sailed to the other side of the Narrow Sea.
Which brought her attention to her "grandfather," Lord Lucan Penrose, a tired and grumpy-looking old man, who had been declared as Regent by the Storm King while he was away.
He didn't seem to like her for some reason, even though she is technically his granddaughter.
Maybe he blamed her for the death of his daughter, or maybe it was because she wasn't a boy.
She didn't care, to be honest.
Ignoring him, she turned back and went to her room. She intended to build herself a forge, as the weapons of this world were severely lacking compared to her Engulfing Lightning.
She did not even want to mention Musou Isshin, as not even the vaunted Valyrian Steel swords could stand against it.
She jumped out of the window, landing way outside Storm's End.
Her destination? Weeping Town once more.
While on horseback it would take several days to make the journey, less on a ship. She was there in less than an hour with her speed, jumping several miles in a single leap, creating an electro platform, and jumping again.
She bought everything one would need to build a forge and the materials necessary to smelt high-quality steel that would be necessary for the Engulfing Lightning and Musou Ishhin.
Ei had jumped back to Storm's End after having the materials shipped back to Storm's End via a merchant ship.
She made it just in time for lunch.
—
Ei was facing the problem of not having any Mora. Not because she lacked money, but because it was the catalyst used in crafting many things, including her weapons.
The gold here was just a shiny metal used for trade and didn't have any magical properties.
And it just so happened that creating Mora fell into the domain of Morax.
She would have to find an alternative.
—
A Week Later
Storm's End
13 BAC
"Greetings, Princess, these crates have been sent to you by a man named Carn," the merchant captain said, bowing deeply to the Princess of the Storm Kingdom.
"Yes, thank you. Have your men deliver them inside," Ei said, inspecting her crates.
"Yes, Princess," the captain acknowledged and began to shout orders at his crew to carry the crates inside.
Ser Carn had paid good gold to have them delivered, and he would make sure they were pleased with his work to keep the business.
Ei had the crates moved to outside her room, as they were too big to pass through the door.
"Girl, where did you get all this?" came the voice of her grandfather while she was rummaging through one of the crates.
"I bought them, obviously." She didn't even stop her search while answering the man she nicknamed grumpy.
"Your father gives you that much allowance?" Lord Lucan was pissed at this. The king had gone to fight in the free cities for wealth, all the while giving his daughter enough coin to buy all these?
"That fool," he thought, knowing he couldn't voice it.
"No, I bought them with the coin I earned." Ei finally found what she was searching for, pulling out a hammer from the crate.
"And how did you earn the silver?" Grumpy asked. She was seven years old; what could she have done to earn coin, sell her toys?
"Oh, you know. I have been selling paper. It is a truly lucrative business," Ei said. She wagered she could be even richer than the Lannisters, as she was an expert artisan and engineer.
If paper earned her that much silver, creating a forge for mass production and selling everything from consumer goods to weapons could earn her several times the amount.
Lucan started thinking. The paper merchant, a man named Carn that they had a hard time tracking, was selling cartfuls of paper for half the cost of paper produced in Old Town.
Naturally, there were a lot of buyers.
"The man, Carn. You know him?" Lucan asked tentatively, wondering if the man was using the princess for his own gain.
"Yes, I do. He has been handling the paper business for me." "Ei," she said, shutting the door in her fuming grandfather's face.
—
Inside the Painted Realm
She was back in her original form, building a forge, one that was up to her standards anyway.
It took a month of going in and out of the Painted Realm to finish her forge, which left her with the question of what to use as a catalyst to infuse elemental energy into Engulfing Lightning.
The Electro Archon pondered for the rest of the day but ultimately was unable to come up with an alternative.
She left the Painted Realm disappointed.
—
Bessie was a snitch, Ei decided, as the maid was busy tattling to her grandfather about her constant disappearances.
The old man had decided she was at the age where a septa should be assigned to her for the purpose of teaching her the Seven-Who-Are-One and courtly manners.
Also to keep an eye on her, but none would dare voice that idea when it came to the daughter of a man like Argilac.
Ei had considered a hostile takeover, but if she was ruling a nation drowning in problems, she would have no time to forge her weapons.
That is why she was currently in the Painted Realm, building a puppet who would take her place while she worked.
But first she would need more weirwood trees.
—
Godswood in the Storm's End scarcely received visitors, mostly people looking for a place out of the way.
When someone had eventually stumbled on the Electro Weirwood trees Ei had grown, they had immediately informed her grandfather, the Regent.
Ei watched from the corner as the man inspected the tree before ordering it to be cut down. It did not work, as the tree defended itself by launching a purple lightning bolt, slamming the guardsman with the axe back at the crowd.
Naturally, all eyes fell on her, as the only other time lightning of that color had been seen was at her birth.
He simply turned back and left.
Good luck to them cutting down that tree.
—
After two months of work, Ei was done and had named the puppet Kage, short for Kagemusha, a "shadow warrior," and after instructing her, had switched places.
Good thing too; she had no intention of tolerating the Septa anymore.
Kage was no Raiden Shogun, capable of going toe-to-toe with a deity, and did not have any upside compared to humans, besides her durability.
She was just ordinary, though as time went by and Ei "grew," she could upgrade the puppet, creating a general to lead her armies in the future.
Her work done, she returned back to the matter of finding a catalyst.
—
Morax had created Mora using his powers as the Geo Archon, naturally being attuned to basically anything coming out of the ground, minus the living ones, which tended to fall into the domain of the Dendro Archon.
As far as she knew, the Geo Archon basically blended his condensed elemental energy with gold, his elemental energy resonating with it, and as Geo did not produce any violent reactions with the other elements, this made it the perfect medium for alchemy as well as forging.
Electro, on the other hand, did not play nice with most materials.
If only she had some Mora.
—
Storm's End
12 BAC
Her father was back victorious, to the cheers of the people, with ships full of gold and loot.
Good thing too; she did not want to deal with the issues that would arise had he died.
After basking in the adoration of his subjects, he had picked her up, much to Ei's chagrin.
"Welcome home, Father," she greeted him curtly once he stopped spinning her.
"Did you miss me, Princess?" the Storm King asked, checking the chest one of the men was holding.
"Yes," Ei had said, and while it wasn't a complete truth, she had come to like her father.
"Here, a gift for my dear daughter." Argilac fished out a necklace with a rather curious-looking golden coin at the end.
"The merchant said it brings good luck," the Storm King said, watching as his daughter was fixated on the coin.
He smiled, happy that his daughter liked the gift.
Ei snapped out of her stupor before snatching the necklace to inspect the gold at the end.
Which wasn't an ordinary gold coin but an honest-to-seven Mora.
"Where did you get this?" She turned to her still smiling father.
This could be the answer to her dilemma.
"A merchant near the docks in Braavos was selling it. He said no one would take the coins in trade and was just selling them as trinkets." Argilac responded, remembering how hard the man had bargained.
"Thank you, Father, I will cherish this," Ei said, truly meaning it.
She would have to get to Braavos and find this merchant.
—
There was a feast held for the return of the victorious Storm King.
Ei just picked at her food. While it wasn't bad, she would have preferred some dango over all those dishes.
Or any other dessert from Inazuma.
"Is the food not to your liking, daughter?" Argilac asked, watching her.
"No, it is fine; I just do not have an appetite." Ei said, and then began to actually eat her food, lest her father question her more.
"Alright then," the King said, turning to continue his talk with his godfather.
In truth, Ei was thinking of a way to get to Braavos immediately, but even platform-jumping there would take too long, and she didn't even want to think of traveling there with a ship.
She continued to eat her food in silence before an idea struck her.
She would make a puppet, one that could fly her to Braavos in a short amount of time.
After her dinner.
—
Ei began to draw the designs as soon as she made it to her room. At first she wanted to make it a simple flying platform, but simple creations were never in her dictionary. So she considered idea after idea and finally decided on a dragon puppet.
She had also considered a Thunderbird, but the idea was discarded immediately, as the design made her remember Kanna Kapatcir.
Ei immediately started work, the trusty Kage taking her place outside.
—
Thunder Dragon Puppet, The Steed of Her Excellency
An excerpt from "Glorious History: Her Excellency the God of Thunder and Eternity, Version 3.0, Year 200 of the Royal Calendar," a history book written by the Guild of Teachers of the Academy of Transience founded by Her Excellency.
Created five years before her ascendance to the throne of the Storm Kingdom, the Thunder Dragon Puppet had been kept a secret until her rise to the throne, revealed for the first time during the Thunder God's war against the Ironborn invading the Riverlands. While sightings of a serpentine creature flying above the Narrow Sea and Braavos were reported, they were thought to be ravings of ill sailors.
The Thunder Dragon was responsible for sinking the reinforcement fleet sent by the Iron Islands to support their king.
The battle, though most prefer to call it a slaughter, was very one-sided. The storm summoned by the Thunder Dragon sank half the fleet, while the other half was destroyed by the myriad of weaponry the machine dragon possessed.
Longer than even the famed Targaryen dragon Balerion the Black Dread, as well as significantly faster than any other recorded dragon, it still continues to guard the borders of our kingdom; its mere shadow is enough to deter any aggression from Essos.