Antony
Printmaker
I am 16 years old
I am from Greece
I firstly learned about the server from the WesterosCraft channel on youtube, and especially from the WesterosCraft walks videos hosted by Dutchguard and Kobe, where I was really fascinated by the style of the builds and generally the server itself
I have read almost all the books that comprise the Tolkien legendarium.
Game of Thrones
Clash of Kings
All of the above
My favourite ASOIAF character is King Stannis Baratheon. I also have to point out that I mainly favour him because of his character, and also because of his keen military mind and experience that makes him one the most capable commanders in Westeros, but I disagree with certain actions of his like burning his bannermen at the steak, and his daughter also in season 6 in the show which destroyed the image I had of a loving father for him, and also because I do not like the fact that he brought the red woman in his halls.
But hopefully the advantages are more than the drawbacks of his grace's character, even if the drawbacks are very serious and just bad, as burning a man, who is related to you even by marriage so as to get favourable winds is very extreme and bad, but I really think that Stannis is not to blame for that, as I think that he did it as he was under the influence of the red woman.
Still Stannis is a good and loyal man, that always puts family first, always acting in interest of his family and not his own. During Robert's rebellion, Stannis stayed loyal to his brother and held the family seat of Storm's End for a year without abandoning his post and his men, always fighting, and starving with them, thus inspiring loyalty to his men who saw him as one of them, and not like a high lord who would eat his fair share of the meals and leaving his men to die of starvation, whatever his men endured he endured. Then, when Davos managed to break through the siege, and bring his small cargo of onions and other foodstuff in the castle, thus saving the Baratheon, Stannis distributed the food fairly taking no larger share that any other of his men, and after this he successfully held the castle against the Tyrell force until the arrival of Lord Eddard Stark who was sent to lift the siege. After that, Robert ordered him to build a fleet and take Dragonstone so as to kill the remaining Targaryens who fled there. Even if that was an immoral action, as it meant that he had to kill a boy and a baby girl, he obeyed his brothers command who was now his King. Stannis built a fleet and sailed to Dragonstone which he took with victorious, amphibious operation that demanded great synchronisation of land and sea forces, even if the Targaryens managed to escape to Essos.
Even after the insult that he received from Robert for failing to find and kill the Targaryen children, when Robert gave Storm's End, the family seat, to his younger brother Renly who was still child at the time, and gave him the smoky dark castle of Dragonstone, Stannis still remained loyal, and showed his great military skills in the wars to come. In the Greyjoy rebellion, when lord Balon Greyjoy raised the Iron Islands in revolt and burned the Lannister fleet at anchor, with their own mighty Iron Fleet of 100 great longships, Stannis sailed the Royal Fleet all across Westeros, from the Narrow Sea to the Sunset Sea where he met with the Redwyne fleet of Reach, and destroyed the Iron fleet at Fair Isle, as they longships where no match for their war galleys, but still the iron born suffered a great defeat, thus with that decisive battle Stannis crippled the strength of the Iron Islands and allowed the now united force of Westeros led by the King himself and his friend lord Eddard Stark to reach safely the island and attack them. Stannis himself subdued the biggest of the islands, Great Wyk.
The others stories of Stannis's battles are known, and they are characterised mainly by their bad endings, like the battle of Blackwater bay where Stannis was defeated after most of his fleet was destroyed by wildfire, lord Tyrion's Lannister, the current hand of the King, secret weapon, and a united Tyrell and Lannister force of 90.000 men when he only had an army of 25.000 men and 200 ships. Otherwise the battle would have been a success even after the wildfire incident.
Stannis is also a good, modest man and a loving father (in the books, as in the show, burning your daughter is not that nice, but we are talking about the books and not the show, so...). Unlike many of his noble peers, Stannis dresses plainly. He sometimes wears a grey wool tunic, a dark red mantle, and a plain black leather belt from which hang his sword and dagger. On campaign he wears a studded leather jerkin over quilted doublet, worn boots, breeches of brown roughspun, and a belt studded with garnets and yellow topaz. Other armor includes wool and boiled leather or grey plate inlaid with a flaming heart. He is modest for a lord, that is true. He is also a good man, as he always putts the needs of his house and name first before his own will, something that can be seen by his marriage with Selyse Florent, whom he does not love, at all, he married her because he had to, for the good of his family. Even if he does not love her at all he has tried many times to produce an heir with her with no avail, without off course liking this act with her, as he does not love her, but he lives with her and suffers her. The only child that lady Selyse gave him was their only daughter Shireen, who suffered fro greyscale when she was a baby, and the sickness left a permanent scar on her face. As greyscale is a deadly disease that can rarely be cured, Stannis did everything he could in his power to save his daughter. So he had the maester cure her with any possible way there was, which he did, thus saving the girl. Also the fact that Stannis is a good man can the understood from the Proudwing incident. Proudwing was an injured goshawk which he nursed back to health and then named so. The fact that he took care of the bird and saved not is a sign of a good heart in addition with what we see in certain scenes or what the people of Westeros believe about him.
I do not know what skills I might have that could make me a good addition to the team, but by judging by my latest post, for Justman, I believe that I might be good on designing and organising major buildings, like a castle or a septry. (As I do not really know whether I am good or not on designing buildings, at the end of the sentence there should be a question mark)
I would like to build on the server because I am really fascinated, and really impressed by the work of the team, and also by the great amount of thoughts given to every project, and also because I want to give a hand in doing that magnificent job that is being done by the team and completing at some point in the future the server it self and then proceed in all the other possible aspects of it.
YOU KNOW NOTHING, JON SNOW
I am from Greece
I firstly learned about the server from the WesterosCraft channel on youtube, and especially from the WesterosCraft walks videos hosted by Dutchguard and Kobe, where I was really fascinated by the style of the builds and generally the server itself
I have read almost all the books that comprise the Tolkien legendarium.
Game of Thrones
Clash of Kings
All of the above
My favourite ASOIAF character is King Stannis Baratheon. I also have to point out that I mainly favour him because of his character, and also because of his keen military mind and experience that makes him one the most capable commanders in Westeros, but I disagree with certain actions of his like burning his bannermen at the steak, and his daughter also in season 6 in the show which destroyed the image I had of a loving father for him, and also because I do not like the fact that he brought the red woman in his halls.
But hopefully the advantages are more than the drawbacks of his grace's character, even if the drawbacks are very serious and just bad, as burning a man, who is related to you even by marriage so as to get favourable winds is very extreme and bad, but I really think that Stannis is not to blame for that, as I think that he did it as he was under the influence of the red woman.
Still Stannis is a good and loyal man, that always puts family first, always acting in interest of his family and not his own. During Robert's rebellion, Stannis stayed loyal to his brother and held the family seat of Storm's End for a year without abandoning his post and his men, always fighting, and starving with them, thus inspiring loyalty to his men who saw him as one of them, and not like a high lord who would eat his fair share of the meals and leaving his men to die of starvation, whatever his men endured he endured. Then, when Davos managed to break through the siege, and bring his small cargo of onions and other foodstuff in the castle, thus saving the Baratheon, Stannis distributed the food fairly taking no larger share that any other of his men, and after this he successfully held the castle against the Tyrell force until the arrival of Lord Eddard Stark who was sent to lift the siege. After that, Robert ordered him to build a fleet and take Dragonstone so as to kill the remaining Targaryens who fled there. Even if that was an immoral action, as it meant that he had to kill a boy and a baby girl, he obeyed his brothers command who was now his King. Stannis built a fleet and sailed to Dragonstone which he took with victorious, amphibious operation that demanded great synchronisation of land and sea forces, even if the Targaryens managed to escape to Essos.
Even after the insult that he received from Robert for failing to find and kill the Targaryen children, when Robert gave Storm's End, the family seat, to his younger brother Renly who was still child at the time, and gave him the smoky dark castle of Dragonstone, Stannis still remained loyal, and showed his great military skills in the wars to come. In the Greyjoy rebellion, when lord Balon Greyjoy raised the Iron Islands in revolt and burned the Lannister fleet at anchor, with their own mighty Iron Fleet of 100 great longships, Stannis sailed the Royal Fleet all across Westeros, from the Narrow Sea to the Sunset Sea where he met with the Redwyne fleet of Reach, and destroyed the Iron fleet at Fair Isle, as they longships where no match for their war galleys, but still the iron born suffered a great defeat, thus with that decisive battle Stannis crippled the strength of the Iron Islands and allowed the now united force of Westeros led by the King himself and his friend lord Eddard Stark to reach safely the island and attack them. Stannis himself subdued the biggest of the islands, Great Wyk.
The others stories of Stannis's battles are known, and they are characterised mainly by their bad endings, like the battle of Blackwater bay where Stannis was defeated after most of his fleet was destroyed by wildfire, lord Tyrion's Lannister, the current hand of the King, secret weapon, and a united Tyrell and Lannister force of 90.000 men when he only had an army of 25.000 men and 200 ships. Otherwise the battle would have been a success even after the wildfire incident.
Stannis is also a good, modest man and a loving father (in the books, as in the show, burning your daughter is not that nice, but we are talking about the books and not the show, so...). Unlike many of his noble peers, Stannis dresses plainly. He sometimes wears a grey wool tunic, a dark red mantle, and a plain black leather belt from which hang his sword and dagger. On campaign he wears a studded leather jerkin over quilted doublet, worn boots, breeches of brown roughspun, and a belt studded with garnets and yellow topaz. Other armor includes wool and boiled leather or grey plate inlaid with a flaming heart. He is modest for a lord, that is true. He is also a good man, as he always putts the needs of his house and name first before his own will, something that can be seen by his marriage with Selyse Florent, whom he does not love, at all, he married her because he had to, for the good of his family. Even if he does not love her at all he has tried many times to produce an heir with her with no avail, without off course liking this act with her, as he does not love her, but he lives with her and suffers her. The only child that lady Selyse gave him was their only daughter Shireen, who suffered fro greyscale when she was a baby, and the sickness left a permanent scar on her face. As greyscale is a deadly disease that can rarely be cured, Stannis did everything he could in his power to save his daughter. So he had the maester cure her with any possible way there was, which he did, thus saving the girl. Also the fact that Stannis is a good man can the understood from the Proudwing incident. Proudwing was an injured goshawk which he nursed back to health and then named so. The fact that he took care of the bird and saved not is a sign of a good heart in addition with what we see in certain scenes or what the people of Westeros believe about him.
I do not know what skills I might have that could make me a good addition to the team, but by judging by my latest post, for Justman, I believe that I might be good on designing and organising major buildings, like a castle or a septry. (As I do not really know whether I am good or not on designing buildings, at the end of the sentence there should be a question mark)
I would like to build on the server because I am really fascinated, and really impressed by the work of the team, and also by the great amount of thoughts given to every project, and also because I want to give a hand in doing that magnificent job that is being done by the team and completing at some point in the future the server it self and then proceed in all the other possible aspects of it.
YOU KNOW NOTHING, JON SNOW
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