TheEpicBasedGamer
In 1871, the old world found Westeros-and brought the future with it.
Beyond the Arctic ice, three iron fleets emerge from the fog beneath the flags of the United States, Great Britain, and France. They arrive during the War of the Five Kings, bearing rifles, steam engines, factories, missionaries, merchants, and promises of order.
At first, the lords of Westeros mistake them for another band of conquerors.
They are wrong.
Conquerors seize kingdoms.
These men intend to remake them.
Major General Arthur Donaldson carries the scars of America's Civil War and a belief that backward nations must either modernize or be broken open. Lord Thomas Johnstone sees Westeros as a divine imperial inheritance. Marshall Jean Bonaparte seeks redemption beneath a name France has grown to fear.
Together, they establish Promised Beacon, a fortified industrial settlement beyond the Wall.
Then the rifles begin to spread.
Wooden fleets burn. Ancient loyalties fracture. Foreign gold reaches the smallfolk. Tyrion Lannister abandons his house. Dragons awaken in the east. Dead men return through the snow.
And slowly, the invaders discover that Westeros was never waiting to be civilized.
It was waiting for winter.
As steam and sorcery collide, every victory creates a greater enemy, every alliance carries the seed of betrayal, and every new machine brings the world closer to a war no king, emperor, or general can control.
The age of swords is ending.
What follows may be far worse.