Which Side of the Dance Would You Have Chosen?

How it works

Nine questions, four answers each, drawn from a larger bank so a second attempt is a second war. They are not about who has the better claim — both sides in a succession crisis have a real argument, which is precisely why it becomes a war. They are about you: whether an oath survives its convenience, how much precedent is worth against a promise, what your family being on one side does to your reasoning, and how long you would take to move.

None of it goes anywhere. No account, no request, no record — the questions were in the page when it loaded, which is why there is no wait and why it works offline.

The six positions

Sworn to the Elder Claim — you swore, and a vow that only holds when convenient is not a vow.
Reluctantly for the Elder Claim — you think the promise was foolish and you think breaking it is worse.
Sworn to the Younger Claim — precedent, stability and the plain reading of the law, and you will not be embarrassed about it.
Reluctantly for the Younger Claim — your family went that way and you were not going to be the one who did not.
The Third Claim — you looked at both of them and concluded neither should have it.
The One Who Profited — you waited, and you were still waiting when it was decided, and you did rather well.

Why the timing is the real question

In every succession war the interesting people are not the ones who declared on the first day — they had already decided years earlier and the war simply revealed it. The interesting ones are the houses that took eight months, and the reason they took eight months is almost never cowardice. It is that they were weighing an oath against a border, a cousin against a precedent, and the near-certainty that whichever way they moved they would be on the wrong side of somebody they loved. This quiz is built around that hesitation, which is why several of the questions are about when rather than which.

Declaring in public

Your position is written into the address bar the moment you have one. Send that link and it opens on the same card for anybody, with no sign-up on either end — and there is a downloadable image of it as well, drawn inside the page with nothing fetched from anywhere.

This is fan-made, and unofficial

This quiz is about a disputed succession in a fictional realm. It is a free, unofficial fan quiz — an unofficial fan tribute, made for fun. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to George R. R. Martin, HBO, or any official Game of Thrones property.

It names no character and quotes no line from any book or television series; the six positions and every question were written for this page. Iron Realms — the strategy game the rest of this site is about — is an original fantasy world with its own map, its own houses and its own art, and has no connection to Westeros. This corner is kept separate on purpose, and nothing in it should be read as suggesting otherwise.

Where the rest of them are

The reign quiz asks what you would do with the throne once one of these arguments had been settled. The Westeros — ASOIAF & Game of Thrones section lists every quiz and tool in this wing, and the fan tributes hub has the rest of the corner. If you would rather play something than answer questions, Iron Realms is free and runs in a browser tab.