I've never finished any story before but there is a first time for everything

The Crowned Stag A Maester's Path Eustace of Menaskham (June 284) It was going on twenty years now since he had left his home of Menaskham. Since he was a boy of fourteen he has lived his life in the halls of the Citadel where he spent tireless days training to become a Maester. Those days were easier to remember then even what his own parents had looked like before their deaths. His days of training and remembering did not come easy however. Each of his links except two came with little difficulty. Touching the Pewter and Pale Steel links he remembered those two had been his first. Those were the two which brought him from a mere novice to that of an acolyte and a true member of the Citadel and his future position as a Maester of Westeros. Growing up on a farm with no brothers and your father levied to fight during the War of the Ninepenny Kings you quickly had to learn the way of the land. To plow and plant and water, sheer and fertilize the land. When it was time to cut, what weeds would help in the growing and which would hinder. Most importantly though you needed to know the signs of the coming winter and how to store the extra crops so you and your family would not starve during the cold. Though he had been doing this for years it was the Pale Steel he had earned first. He knew how to grow things along the mountains, but they had to still teach him about growing in the desert, in the swamps, and the different plants of other lands. A forge and hammer though was the same wherever you went. Having only a few coppers except after a good harvest you had to learn to reshoe your own horse, fix a dented plow after ramming it into a buried rock which happened way to frequently for him and to sharpen the blades for cutting. He was not the best trained Maester he knew, but he was still competent. Running his fingers along the chain he could now tell what each one was just by the feel of them. Copper, Tin, Steel, Black Iron, Pewter, Yellow Gold, Silver, Pale Steel, Bronze, and Copper again. He had mastered the arts of Smithing, Agriculture, Economics, and Engineering in his first three years. Medical and Ravenry came the next two years. It took him three more to learn the stars and four to learn the history of these lands. Tin, Heraldry, his last link in the chain which he recieved was by far the hardest to earn. They all seemed to blend together one with the other. To learn what each color meant, which house had which sigils and what the slightly altered ones meant. The only four he had known before coming to the Citadel was the Three-headed dragon of the Targaryen Kings that took his father from him, the moon and falcon of House Arryn, the nine bells of the Belmore's of Strongsong that would buy his crops and finally the black horse under a red chevron on a field of gold. This was the first he had learned. The House that ruled over the lands he lived on, House Badics. They were an old house though they had never really accounted for much. House Badics was founded eight thousand years ago during the Andal invasion where a peasant turned General named Badics became Commander of King Artys Arryn's entire cavalry. In recognition for his services his son was given the lands of Moonsgrey after his father died. Bryton took his father's name as his family name and his Coat of Arms became his father's horse running across a field of gold. It would not be until the arrival of the dragon riders when the red chevron would be added. Lord Calleb Badics or Calleb the Castle Forger took part in the engineering of what is still today House Badics seat of power. In six months the entire project was complete, but in the end it was not even needed. Visenya Targaryen simply flew her dragon up to the Eyrie and the war was over. Today though the dragons were dead and the Stag ruled in its place. Robert Baratheon had won his war and took his place upon the Iron Throne of Westeros. With the war won Eustace found himself making the trip along the Mountains of the Moon to return to his home. He was now Maester to the Lord of Moonsgrey, Lord Paul Badics. He would advise him in all matters as well as his wife Hilary, a woman he had known during his own youth. The thing he most looked forward to though was the raising of his Lord's two children. Bryton and Caleigh were twins of golden hair much like their mother. He loved children and now he would get to be the teacher. Coming over the last hill Eustace finally came within sight of his new home. Castle Renwick was a beautiful castle built into the side of the Mountains of the Moon. This would be his home just as it had been before, only now he would be a man. Not just any man, he would be the person that his Lord turned to for all discussions and planning instead of the boy with no family. Wrapping the cloth around his hands a little tighter he started the last few steps down the path that would consume the rest of his life. The cloth helped remove the pain from the cut he received during his last vigil. It was this cut and vigil which had named him ready to take his first steps down the path of being a Maester.

the world I'm using is based on A song of ice and fire and you may see some familiar characters

I've divided the story into six books. much like asoiaf

Don't you hate it when someone else pretends that your writing is their own.