Just checking in on this story to let everyone know i'm not dead...yet lol but life has been kicking my ass. I'll probably return to this in the next few months once I feel like i have things under control. Oh and btw I HATE THIS STORY! I was just rereading it and cringing at all the mistakes that I've made already. Jeor Mormont is supposed to be at the wall, with Ser Jorah as Lord of Bear Island, and Lady Lynesse as his wife. I still mean to put the frostfangs INSIDE THE WALL, since thats my whole reason for writing the story in the first place, so hopefully people read that before i get more reviews of how my landscaping is wrong...Even though I'm sure ill mess up on some part of the lands in the future story lol. I had them arrive less than a year after the Greyjoy rebellion and that doesn't give them nearly enough time to carve out a home in the mountains or get settled in the north. So I think that i'll be changing the time of the arrival of the dwarves. And i feel like i didn't do my OC justice since he is supposed to basically be an angelic being, and the men of westeros, even the north, would know that there is something different about him. ALSO, since i had them leave Middle-Earth before Thror being killed by Azog, and there is no Battle of Azanulbizar, so there would be more notable dwarves..Mainly those of the Longbeard Clan and in my head canon the dwarves would grow nearly as wise as the dwarves of the first age, since they don't have Aule to help enhance their craft but they do have the next best thing, and that is his servant, Balwe. Obviously he is going to be constricted to what he does in Westeros, and he will take no parts in the wars of MEN. In my head he is also one of the Maiar who helped craft the mountains in Arda, which is why Eru is sending him with the dwarves, for he shall aid them in the construction of their new home.

P.S. I know people weren't happy with how i portrayed the Northmen being hostile towards the dwarves, but i honestly believe they would. There isn't a single MAN in their company and the only dwarves we get in asoiaf is tyrion, penny and her brother, and the dwarves that joffrey mocks. So when I first had them arrive, I thought to myself...hmmm dwarves in westeros and essos are just stunted men, whereas tolkien's dwarves are a race, and a hardy race at that. So they will earn the respect of the Northmen, once the starks and their men see that not only can they survive in these harsh lands, but prosper as well. I also want to give casterly rock a run for its money...in grandeur not gold. Some gold will be mined but it will not be what brings great wealth to the lands. That's all i have to say for now and I hope you guys and gals still want this story, but even if you don't, ill probably still write this story for my own sake.

I said ALL of that just to say this...This story is not abandoned, not by a long shot. Just give me a few months and ill be back at it, and hopefully not going on hiatus any time soon...but no promises lol