There's no deep origin story here. I got hooked on a fresh Three Kingdoms reread, then binged Game of Thrones again for the hell of it. Saw a couple memes, smacked my forehead, and decided to write the damn thing.
The Heaven's Will system was purely for entertainment value. I originally planned to start with the classic "Emperor's Mark" opener, but there are already way too many Viserys stories out there. Zero novelty.
So I went with Joffrey—the ultimate big bad. I figured he and Cao Cao were a perfect match, except Joff's ten times more heroic.
I thought hard about the starting point. Considered waking up right after Robert "choked," but that would've left all his early evil deeds untouched. So I stuck with the very beginning: the royal progress north.
Yeah, it's still a "bastard start," but the characters are so tightly woven together that every interaction has to follow canon beats. That meant polishing every single line until my brain hurt—like Littlefinger's dagger plot at the tourney and the desperate bullshit he tries to pull when it blows up in his face. I stared at those paragraphs for hours trying to make them land.
The timeline is brutally tight, too. There's barely room for new original characters, and even most canon ones barely get screen time. Poor Lady and Nymeria have been locked in the kennels for chapters.
While writing I also ran head-first into Martin's giant plot holes. The man never finished the books himself. That's why the show and the novels feel like two completely different stories now.
In the end I made the only sane decision: wherever the lore works better for the book, that's what I'm using. This is fanfiction, after all.
I wrote this to scratch an itch and make up for regrets. I don't do dark, grim, heavy stories—I write light and fun. All I really want is to give you something entertaining to read after a couple drinks and a good meal.
I'm still a newbie at this. Early chapters have some random meme energy, the writing style shifts around, and yeah, there are a few toxic bits I probably should've cut. I'm sorry about that.
I bow to you all.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
But I'm leaving those flaws in on purpose.
Because I want you to know exactly what you're eating.
This is unofficial history. This is the new Romance of Westeros.
So dig in—what are you waiting for?