Wizard Lord of Westeros

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Iron Islands

POV of Domeric Bolton

"Very well then. Get on with the third suggestion boy."

He felt slightly irritated at being called a boy again and again as it brought up memories of another life, but he pushed down on his irritation and said "I propose that you give the post of the Lord Paramount to someone who believes in making a life with trading rather than by raiding and raping. Someone like that would allow the Iron Islands to stand up on their feet once again and focus on trading. Even if only for one generation."

Robert stroked his beard for a moment before he nodded "Aye. That seems like a good idea as well. Lord Tywin. Do you know of someone like this within the Iron Islands?"

Tywin thought about it for a moment before he replied "House Orkmort is one of the largest houses within the Iron Islands who opposed the old ways even though they joined Balon in the end. Making them the Lord Paramount seems as good a decision as any."

"Very well then. I'll make him the lord paramount of this shit hole once I meet him. It's decided then." Then he turned to Eddard Stark and said "Ned. Make sure that these Greyjoys are sent to the Wall and their women are sent to the silent sisters."

"Yes, Your Grace." Lord Stark nodded before the king bellowed out a laugh "What are you all still looking at? This meeting is over. Go drink some of the ale, pick up some wench, and enjoy yourself. You've deserved some rest after all this bloodshed."

And just like that. The Greyjoy rebellion came to an end.

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Iron Lands

POV of Domeric Bolton

Domeric watched with a stoic expression as the various workers climbed on board the Royal Fleet which would eventually take them to Dreadfort.

As soon as King Robert had finished the war, he started collecting men and women who knew how to build and sail on boats and large ships because he knew that he would be creating a navy for himself sooner or later.

And despite his dislike for the Iron Islanders, it was clear to him that there were very few men in all Westeros who knew more about the ships than these Iron Islanders.

After all, they live in an archipelago and have to rely on ships to travel from one island to another whenever they want to leave for another place.

So, once he was free to do as he liked, he went with his men and gathered all shipbuilders and other such men from the other islands.

Some of them were too old and set in their way of the drowned gods. Even his heavy manipulations with the promise of gold and a good life as well as the compulsion charms didn't change their minds so he left them to their own devices and took all the men that he could.

By the end of it all, he had collected some 3500 men who knew about building and sailing ships as well as boats and some 40,000 thralls and salt wives from these lands.

As decreed by the King, the Royal Fleet, and Redwyne Fleet helped him to transfer these men and women to the Dreadfort.

Once they landed back in dry land at Seagard, he told his men to return home with the other men in the Northern army while he went to a secluded place and portkeyed back to Dreadfort where he quickly told his aunt to prepare food and temporary accommodations for the men and women about to arrive in his lands.

She was not very happy with such a decision on his part, but he was sure of one thing. There would have been no shortage of miners once these thralls reached Dreadfort.

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Dreadfort Castle

POV of Domeric Bolton

A few days later.

"The first batch of grain has been harvested, my lord." Maester Wolkan said as he entered his solar.

"And?" he asked while feeding Hedwig with slices of bacon.

After all, he had spent a good amount of magic and time in creating those HYV Seeds and it would be rather sad if his hard work bore no result in the end.

"And… the results are amazing my lord. The farmers you hired to work in your fields have produced six times the amount of grain than the other farmers.

"I see. Send Locke to take the harvest and give each farmer the 200 silver stags just like I promised." He said and his aunt frowned from beside him.

"200 silver stags! Isn't that a bit too much for a single harvest?" His aunt said more than asked.

"It is. But I want people to know that they'll earn more gold and silver by working for me than they'll do by working on their own." He said as he stood up and looked at the large canals that his people were working on in order to take water from the river to irrigate their fields.

It would take some time for these people to increase the size of the canals, so he'll probably have to hire some more men to work in those canals.

After all, the more farmers worked for him in these fields, the more grain he'd have. The more grain he had, the more people in his lands would be free to work on other things like building roads, houses, mining, joining the army, etc.

The workforce was a very valuable resource to him at the moment. And had to try every possible method that would increase the efficiency of his people.

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