Old town is a massive port city with clean streets, relatively nice stone architecture and decent housing that holds it's large population still medieval in architecture by the lack of mass made glass and the sewage running into the sea but a hell of a lot better than most places.
This was my first impression after a few days of sailing by ship and my constant suffering at the whims of a cruel god known as sea sickness the flesh is weak but I must persist. We were met with the same strange looks we got at Lanisport from the mostly clean masses of Old town but the Lord (Leyton Hightower) had a stoic mask giving away nothing as to his true emotions. The old man standing beside him looked with curiosity and intrigue at us and the ships.
After the greetings and the formality of guest rights were over my guards and I were escorted into Leyton Hightowers banquet room in the Tower I wanted to look into it's foundations but it wasn't convenient for me to do so. I learned the Old guy was a member of the citadels council of archmeasters who had heard about the my quest for knowledge and was here to extend an invitation to visit the citadel. I was a bit shocked at how quickly spies and ravens could transfer information in the seven kingdoms. "Prince Gojo Satoru we have no information about a nation existing to the west as all the ships heading that way never return." Maester Benomure said.
"Indeed there are constant large storms that separate the two lands even for us we would seldom be able to get ships in and out of the storm zone to gather information about other lands. Also The empire is a largely isolationist state that is self sustaining in terms of materials we have deeply set traditions and culture that have resulted in some stagnation which I intend to rectify with my expedition. " I lied as easily as breathing while I set up a backstory for my nation as unlike other travelers who became lords I had to work hard on creating a rich history and people that made sense for the rest of the world to see. I sadly couldn't just young master my way through like the guy's from Blue star or those guys that built kingdoms in chapter 2 and never explained how they had time for that it's just day 1 new world day 2 I built a kingdom I have nanotechnology and a race of advanced ai and it still takes years. your plot armor did it in a week.
The citadel is like a massive university that has several buildings that I was currently escorted around. One of my guards had discreetly taken out a tricorter(scanning device) looking for any strange energy reactions. Interestingly the only one we got was from the great green statues at the entrance but it was very faint likely some form of weak compulsion, old ward or maybe someone spilled some magic mushroom juice on them. The rest of the citadel was rather ordinary but there was a lot of information which after a sizable donation I was allowed to read almost anything during my stay in old town luckily my brain and eyes were very good at memorizing the information really fast. Though those maesters that looked at me with eyes where full of contempt thinking I was skimming the books like in some cultivation novel. If only they knew the difference between heaven and earth.
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So for the next 2 weeks I spent it on reading the books in public and by night sneaking into all a place's that I shouldn't be like restricted sections of the library or the foundations of the Tower. Is what I would of said if I didn't have subordinates and a shota body that if captured in a dark ally would not end well yea I have nanites and a certain amount of self protection ability but at the base I'm still not a killer or fighter.
The day before out of the corner of my eye I saw a strange and suspicious raven luckily it didn't have 3 eyes but it was still a bad omen so My main men for the job were the spy's Lorgar had sent they had good intelligence and are very sneaky in fact some had already infiltrated lanisport before.
If they got caught then they would disassemble into smaller replicator blocks and self-destruct luckily none where caught outright but the look Lord Hightower had behind his mask of nobility by the second week made it clear we might be over staying our welcome. Makes sense Strangers arriving and then suspicious people snooping around all over the place. I wish I had proper sifi spy's like ghosts from Starcraft 2 unfortunately the technology tree was still in it's starting state and it was to much of a sink in resources to push into more of my whims the ship was already pushing it but I must say lorgars people really don't seem like proper spy's quite disappointing but they are still young so It doesn't matter.
A knock on my door broke me out of my thoughts. The guard said "My lord there are guests seeking an audience at the entrance of the ship"
My meeting with a gaggle of Maesters asking for various things in flowery words used to entice lords into suspicious contracts and kids into getting in black van's was less than amusing. But I could understand it. My ship looked very cool and having the honor to write about an unknown people would be the gossip and envy of any wise old man. But I had to refuse on both accounts for now as I had no interest in steam punk Westeros no matter how unlikely and I needed to build a solid lie before people could write about it. In the end the old men left with some regret but hope in the eyes as I promised an exchange of information on our next return to westeros in a couple of years.
With all that we came for settled Barbossa set sail for home.
What you want me to explore more to dive into the lore and politics or become the 8th kingdom of Westeros and conquer it all. To this I can only say why should I. I'm here to live the best life I can not uplift a backwards people, become a fat man who sits on swords because of some dreams of grandeur or revive a long dead house with a bunch of wyverns. Also I'm currently a kid no adult in there right mind would put much attention or respect on me even if I did sound mature. No best to go home grow big and strong and then do the time honored tradition of using the plot to fish in troubled waters and see what happens in this new Game of thrones.