revenance_comms | Comm Post: First of Its Name [video/audio]

[Fiddles with the communicator strapped tightly to his right wrist and glares as the picture comes into focus. Doing anything that requires fine motor control with just his left hand is still difficult, and even fastening buttons takes time. Add completely unfamiliar technology into the mix, and he's lucky he can even turn it on. He's waited until he found the inn the... what was that little white dwarf-bear with the red puff-ball called again? Oh... Moogle... The inn that the moogle directed him to and arranged for a room before trying to turn it on.]

I must admit, it is almost refreshing to be told that I need to introduce myself, though talking to a box on my wrist seems to be an odd way of doing it. Some sort of sorcery perhaps?

[A pained expression spreads over his face. Tyrion would have been fascinated by this. HE would have had ideas. HE would have poked and prodded at the little box and muttered about old books and maesters and theories. But Tyrion isn't here.]

I am Jaime Lannister, son of... no, I suppose that doesn't matter here, if you don't know the Lannister name. Suffice to say, I am a knight and a warrior...

[He looks down at the stump where his right hand once was.]

Though there's less of me than there used to be.

I've been told there are others here from many worlds... if there are any here from mine, be it Westeros, or the Free Cities, or Essos, you know my name, and I offer you... if not my friendship, then my help in getting back to where we came from.

And Brienne, if you're here... wake up and find the Stark girl, and SEVEN HELLS, stop following me! Unless you can't wake up either. If that's the case, I might have a use for that sword arm of yours and that very fine sword I gave you. I seem to be unarmed. Most embarrassing for a knight of the kingsguard, wouldn't you say?

[He pokes warily at the communicator again, and it lets out a shrill screech before turning off. The pricklemane that's been following him since he agreed to let the moogle help him synthesize it, and is now laying at his feet, winces and hisses at him, but doesn't move away from him. Jaime rather wishes that it would just go away, but doesn't think it worth the trouble to drive it off.]

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There is no dishonor in such duty. The Empress of the Crystal Empire recently wed the captain of my sister's own guard.

[His eyebrows shoot up, and his mouth twists into a bitter smile before answering.]

There is no dishonor is such duty when the king or queen is a good one. When a ruler is cruel, questions of honor get more... complicated.

I wish your Empress and her guards...man every happiness. [Perhaps it should be "guardshorse?"] But where I come from, members of the Kingsguard don't marry.

[He finds her news incredibly funny, but in the "I'm laughing at it because if I don't it will hurt" kind of way.]

If a ruler is cruel, then they should not be a ruler.

[Jaime is a little taken aback by her conviction.]

In my experience, it's not usually a question of who "should" be a ruler It's a question of who has the biggest armies, the best commanders, the most power. Luck and dragons don't hurt, either...

[His expression softens a little.]

It's a nice thought, though. Tell me... are all rulers where you come from good and wise?

...I am not the right mare to ask. [For a good many reasons. She should probably not be a princess at all, if she held herself to her own standards. But that is hardly a new revelation.]

But young Cadenza will be a good Empress, and our other closest neighbors - the dragons and griffons - still rule themselves well. Equestria was ruled by a most cruel tyrant once, and we have never since been a nation to stand by while others suffer.

The... dragons rule themselves well? That is... good to hear. Ill-behaved dragons sound like they might be a problem for their neighbors.

[Jaime doesn't know why he's surprised. Of course there are dragons and griffons in the kingdom next door to the talking horses.]

I suppose some might say we've had a succession of tyrants, some cruel, others less so. I'm told it's preferable to the strife between the Seven Kingdoms before the Conquest...

They were. Once. [Shortly thereafter they learned that messing with the beings that control the sun and moon wasn't really the greatest idea.]

Equestria was once a nation of multiple tribes as well! Only three, however, and they united long before Discord came into power.

[Jaime can't help but laugh.]

I suppose that from a certain point of view the dragons I know were rather badly behaved as well.

The dragons in my world's history were the conquerors. Or their riders were.

So tell me, did your tribes unite of their own free will? It seems that would be better than being forced to bend the knee by an invading force on dragonback.

Oh, yes. That was a very long time ago, beyond even what I can remember. It did take an unnatural, relentless winter to force them to it.

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