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After they drop anchor and disembark they request an audience with the king. Their leader is one Victor de Vapeur who offers king Robert a novel little device as a gift, a small little mechanical contrivance about 20 centimeters long on wheels which goes around a small metal track by burning spirituous liquor to boil water to work pistons that turn the wheels. He then explains that this is but a miniature model to illustrate the operation of his pride and joy. Which he takes the king aboard his ship to behold several of these...
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Then, after plying King Robert with some excellent wines, monsieur de Vapeur and his clerks present him with his offer: he wants to build sets of steel tracks across all of Westeros on which his mighty Locomotives would run drawing huge trains. He proposes setting up a line which runs from King's landing West to Lannisport then Branching in two: one branch going to Riverrun the other going south to Highgarden and Oldtown. Another one which would run North to Winterfell with three branches coming off it: one which goes to Eirye and Gulltown, another that would go Riverrun and yet another up north which goes to White Harbor. One would go due south past storms end and onto Sunspear and Dorne. In exchange for the King's assistance in it's construction in the form of labor and the creation of House de Vapeur of Steam and the Iron Road, the Iron Throne shall get a Tariff of 20% of all income on freight and passengers and his own special train specifically for the royal family and their entourage, which will carry them across the landscape in comfort and peace. Once these are completed a similar arrangement would be made for branch lines in each of the individual kingdoms, with ten percent of the profits going to the ruling houses and ten percent going to the crown. More rails shall be provided from the foreign lands from which de Vapeur and his associates come from will also set up a mill for the production of more rails near King's Landing.
King Robert agrees and the project is soon under way. Victor soon after provides some inquiring Maesters with some information about Steam Engines and has his engineers show them about his locomotives and his new steamworks, foundries and rail mills as they go up to make rails, replacement parts and ultimately new locomotives. Confident in the fact that this has earned their goodwill and that they will be unable to build anything which could come close to his fleet of locomotives without his assistance within his lifetime.
A similar fleet arrives in Braavos headed by one Dieter von Dampfdorf and offers the Sealord a similar deal.
How does this Iron Road affect the Game of Thrones?
Zor