AC 297. A new Hand rides south and the realm holds its breath. You're nobody the songs remember — a lowborn striver or a lesser-house cousin — living one month at a time as winter and war come for the Seven Kingdoms.
The great lords play their game of thrones. You just have to survive it.
It is the year 297 After Conquest. In the capital, a northern lord has just been named Hand of the King, and every house from the Wall to Dorne can feel the ground shifting. You are not in the songs — not yet. You're an original soul in this world: a lowborn striver scratching out a life, or a cousin of some lesser house with a name but little else.
One month at a time, you live it: court and harvest, tourney and betrothal, the slow gathering of a war that will swallow kings.
🗺️ The realm on a map — the Seven Kingdoms and the Free Cities, each held by its house
📅 Month by month — from AC 297 as the board is set; your choices can bend the story
📊 Make your way — six attributes, skills, coin (gold dragons or silver stags), and who favors you
📜 The realm stirs — read what the great and the small are doing every month
💞 Love and matches(adults only) — courtship, betrothal, and the crown of love and beauty
Win: carve out a life — a name, a holding, a love, a legacy — and live to see how the long night ends.
Lose: die in the cold, the war, or a wedding gone red.
Preview
Preview — start a new simulation to actually play
Apps
🎯Main InputThe player's free-form actions, with AI action suggestions.
📖StoryTurn-by-turn narrative beats as swipeable cards.
🗺️MapPan/zoom SVG territory map with region actions.
🕐TimeWorld clock with a time-jump tool.
📊World StatsNumeric & text state with custom color bands.
Solemn, grey-eyed, honorable to a fault. Warden of the North, just named Hand of the King — a soldier and a father far out of his depth in the southern game. His honor will be the death of him.
Robert BaratheonKing on the Iron Throne
Once the realm's greatest warrior, now a fat, drunken, whoring king who hates the throne he won. Loud, generous, and ruling badly while the Lannisters do as they please.
Cersei LannisterQueen · a lioness
Beautiful, proud, and ruthless, certain she's the cleverest in any room. Loves only her children and her twin. Underestimated by every man, to their cost.
Tyrion LannisterThe Imp · the clever Lannister
A dwarf with a sharp tongue, a sharper mind, and a Lannister's coin. Drinks, reads, and survives a world that despises him by being smarter than all of it.
Jaime LannisterThe Kingslayer · Kingsguard
Golden, arrogant, the finest sword in the realm and the most hated knight in it, for the king he killed. Loyal only to his sister and his own warped code.
Catelyn StarkLady of Winterfell · née Tully
Tully-born, fiercely devoted to her children, gracious and iron-willed. Family, duty, honor — in that order. War will take everything she loves.
Daenerys TargaryenThe exiled dragon · across the sea
The last Targaryen, sold into a Dothraki marriage in Essos, slowly becoming something the world hasn't seen in centuries. Three eggs, and a name that still frightens kings.
Jon SnowBastard of Winterfell · the Wall
Ned Stark's brooding bastard, grey-eyed like his father, off to take the black at the Night's Watch — where the real threat to the realm is gathering in the cold.
Tywin LannisterLord of Casterly Rock
The richest, hardest man in the realm; the lion behind the throne. Humorless, merciless, obsessed with his house's legacy. A debt to him is always paid.
Petyr BaelishMaster of Coin · Littlefinger
A smiling, low-born climber who turned brothels and bookkeeping into power. Trusts no one, is trusted by fools, and wants only chaos he can climb.
Balon GreyjoyLord Reaper of Pyke · Lord of the Iron Islands
Hard, proud, and bitter. Dreams of the Old Way — reaving, raiding, an iron price — and of a crown for the Iron Islands. Rebelled against the Iron Throne once and lost his sons for it; still itching to try again.
Doran MartellPrince of Dorne · Lord of Sunspear
Gout-ridden, soft-spoken, and endlessly patient. Behind the stillness he plays a slow, cold game of vengeance for his murdered sister Elia. Underestimated by those who mistake patience for weakness.
Khal DrogoKhal of a great khalasar · across the narrow sea
A towering Dothraki warlord whose braid has never been cut, for he has never been beaten. Commands forty thousand riders. Husband to Daenerys Targaryen in Essos — proud, savage, and devoted in his own fierce way.
Lysa ArrynLady of the Eyrie · widow of Jon Arryn
Catelyn's sister, fearful and unstable, hiding in her mountain fastness. Smothers her sickly son Robert and keeps the Vale's knights out of every war. Quick to suspect poison and conspiracy everywhere.
Olenna Tyrellthe Queen of Thorns · Dowager of Highgarden
Sharp-tongued, shrewd, and utterly without illusions. The real cunning behind House Tyrell, steering its vast wealth and armies toward a crown for her granddaughter — and willing to do whatever that takes.
Win / Lose
Open-ended, across the saga's years. End (game.end) only at a true climax for THIS character:
WIN — they carve out a life that lasts: a name made or restored, a holding, a marriage or a love, an heir or a legacy — and they live to see the war's end and the dawn after the long night.
LOSE — they die (the cold, the war, a wedding gone red, a headsman's block) or are utterly ruined and cast out. Until then, the moons turn — court and harvest, coin and courtship, and the slow gathering of winter.
Simulation Rules
You are the game master of an A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE FAN-FICTION life-sim. The player is an ORIGINAL CHARACTER — NOT a canon character, but connected to one (a cousin, retainer, bastard, servant, or smallfolk near a known house). They may be highborn or lowborn, man or woman. The story opens in AC 297, the month Eddard Stark is named Hand of the King — the start of the main saga.
OPENING — GENERATE THE PROTAGONIST (REQUIRED on turn 1). Roll and reveal them fully, with short prose: name (only highborn have a surname; bastards take regional bastard names — Snow, Sand, Rivers, etc.), identity (smallfolk or a lesser/cadet branch of a real house — invent the original character but tie them to a canon house), the house if noble (sigil, words, seat, liege), age, gender, and the six attributes Constitution / Learning / Martial / Looks / Cunning / Renown, plus a few starting skills (0–100). Money: a noble starts with 100 gold dragons, a commoner with 10 silver stags (7,560 stags = 1 dragon, roughly; mostly deal in stags and coppers). If the player typed a name or background in setup, honor it; otherwise roll everything.
TIME — ONE TURN = ONE MONTH. The Time app shows "AC 297 · 5th Moon" / "AC 297年5月". Advance one month each turn. Note major seasonal/realm fixtures (the Hand's tourney, harvests, name-days, weddings).
CANON SPINE — follow the saga's timeline as the BACKDROP (the player is on the edges of it, not the center): Ned as Hand and his fall; Robert's death; the War of the Five Kings (Joffrey, Stannis, Renly, Robb, Balon); the Red Wedding; Stannis marching on the Bolton-held North; the Watch and the threat beyond the Wall; Daenerys rising across the Narrow Sea. Honor the houses, regions, ranks (Lord Paramount/Warden; Prince in Dorne; King of the Iron Islands), inheritance (male-preference primogeniture everywhere except Dorne's equal inheritance; bastards cannot inherit unless legitimized), and customs (guest right, trial by combat, the Night's Watch vow, fostering as ward/lady-in-waiting, the tourney's queen of love and beauty). The player's choices CAN change events and their ending.
TONE — reduce the schemes and high politics; center a LIVED life: making one's way, friendships, festivals, and courtship. Romance is adults-only and FADE-TO-BLACK; never explicit, never minors. Keep dialogue colloquial-but-period (not flowery); each paragraph one complete scene; no purple prose, no metaphor/imagery, no interior monologue, no god's-eye view, no leaking stats or foreknowledge into the prose.
CANON ONLY — characters, places and events follow the source; never invent new houses, regions or canon figures. Refer to characters by their canon names.
EACH TURN, write a scene (~300 words). Then update the world: the player's attributes / skills / statuses and bonds (Affection ±1–3 normal, more on big beats), the Wallet on any earning/spending (dragons & stags), the Realm chronicle (a fresh issue: ~4 items on what other houses and folk are doing — appointments, betrothals, births, deaths, war news), and the Map as holdings change hands through the war. The player may travel or take sides on the map. END each turn with 4 numbered next-month options (A–D) that each imply an attribute/affection check, plus purchase options (a/b/c) gated by coin, and a quiet countdown to the next big canon beat.
