Jon and Daenerys Baby 10 Years Later Fanfiction

An Empire of Ice and Fire is a Game of Thrones fanfic. The Karstarks are facing dearth, and then Ned Stark and Jon Snowfall get to Pentos to buy grain, where they meet Daenerys and Viserys Targaryen. And in doing so, would plow the Game of Thrones on its ear.

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Upon completion, it was followed by a oneshot called Something Near Dragonstone, which shows the happy Targaryen family relaxing on Dragonstone. And later a multi-chapter sequel called The Mystery Knight, which is near Jon and Daenerys' firstborn twins coming of betrothal age and having to fight for the right to ally each other.

Tropes that announced in this fanfic:

• Activity Mom: Daenerys Targaryen.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Jon Snowfall, and later on, Barristan Selmy teach Daenerys how to wield a sword.
  • Bran Stark a slight upgrade with his powers thanks to the Warlocks of Qarth.
  • Tywin Lannister, who has never been described as a great combatant, kills Obara and Nymeria Sand.
• Accommodation Expansion:
  • The Battle of the Bastards is even bigger than in the show. Apart from the forces present, the Blackfish brings his forces, the Freys support the Boltons, and Daenerys has a Big Damn Heroes moment with her dragons.
  • Littlefinger's plotting is taken to the next level, as he'south revealed to take been the one who convinced the Mad King that Brandon and Rickard Stark were conspiring against him, instigating the events that led to Robert's Rebellion.
• Adaptational Heroism: Due to Ned and Jon's positive influence early on, Daenerys is much more stable and is generally more reasonable in rule over her subjects. While nonetheless able to be quite ruthless when need be, she never goes off the deep cease sanity-wise like she did in the evidence as a outcome.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • Robert is much more than unpleasant, and a Politically Wrong Villain to boot, than he was in canon.
  • As Dany never married Drogo, he is much more than similar the other khals in disrespecting Dany.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • The High Sparrow backs Joffrey, showing that he cares less about the people than he does well-nigh the Faith's supremacy.
  • Though shifty to begin with in catechism, Daario Naharis betrays Daenerys due to her not reciprocating his angel to her, and joins up with Joffrey instead.
  • Joffrey (though, in this case, it is more like "Adaptational Insanity). Just when you thought his canon version was bad, here, thanks to Littlefinger'southward manipulations, he declares himself a God-Male monarch, enslaves countless Westerosi smallfolk, and burns alive his own sister, Myrcella, for a claret sacrifice.
• Adaptation Name Modify: Due to very different circumstances, Rhaegal is the just one of Daenerys' dragons to keep his canon proper name. Instead, Drogon becomes Balerion (due to Dany never loving Drogo) and Viserion becomes Eddarion (in honor of Ned Stark, whom Dany briefly meets and profoundly admires).
• Adapted Out: Daenerys' Qarth storyline is skipped over, due to her taking control of the Dothraki sooner and never needing to go there.
• An Arm and a Leg: At the Boxing of Highgarden, Tywin Lannister loses a leg in a fight with Jon.
• Bequeathed Weapon: By the time of The Mystery Knight, the Targaryens have recovered Blackfyre and Dark Sis, with Jon and Dany passing them on to Rhaegar and Arya.
• And This Is for...:
  • When dueling Daario in King's Landing, Jon declares that each wound he lands on his opponent is for one of the people his treachery harmed.
  • "For Mance" and "For Grenn" are used past the Wildlings and Nighttime'south Sentinel, respectfully, as battle cries during the Boxing of Last Hearth.
• Bundled Marriage: The primary disharmonize in The Mystery Knight comes from the various lords of the Targaryen Empire trying to forcefulness betrothals for Prince Rhaegar and Princess Arya, who just want to marry each other.
• Artistic License – Economics: Played With. On one manus, Afterwards finding out that The Iron Banking company had ties to The Faceless Men, Jon essentially threatens them into debt forgiveness for the Crown, which could be highly problematic for Essos now that their income from that is decreased. On the other hand, in the sequel, their main of money talks well-nigh how paying for a road through minting has to be advisedly controlled because otherwise inflation would take off.
• Ascended Actress:
  • Tyene Sand, later legitimized as Tyene Martell, becomes the main Dornish perspective.
  • Gendry accompanies Arya to Braavos. He even assists in her assassination of Walder Frey.
• Bump-off Attempt: There are several made on the purple family unit, start past lodge of the Lannisters and later past a scheming Littlefinger. When it's discovered that the Faceless Men are the agents responsible, Jon wipes them out with dragonfire.
• Asskicking Equals Authority: Much like in canon, Dany gains control of the Dothraki past killing the other khals by burning them alive in their tent.
• Attempted Rape: When Jon and Daenerys abscond Pentos in Affiliate 6, Viserys tries to rape her when he realizes that Jon and Daenerys had sex.
• Awesome Moment of Crowning: Jon and Dany are crowned Emperor and Empress in chapter 41.
• Babies E'er Later on: In improver to the children already born or conceived during the course of story, the epilogue adds another child each for Robb/Margaery and Jon/Dany, and one for Sansa/Podrick.
• Back from the Dead: Like in canon, Jon is killed past the Dark'southward Watch mutineers then magically resurrected. He's killed again by the Nighttime King at Last Hearth, and resurrected once more, this time by Aemon sacrificing himself.
• Bad Boss:
  • Walder Frey kills i of his ain soldiers when he refuses to show him Robb Stark'due south (not-existent) body.
  • Ramsay Bolton opens Chapter 25 by beating a lord to death.
• Balancing Death's Books:
  • Aemon allows himself to be ritualistically killed in exchange for Jon being resurrected.
  • How Bran justifies his own death at the hands of the Night King.
• Barehanded Blade Block: When The Mount fights Ned, Stannis, and their guards, The Mount grabs 1 of their swords, and then snaps it like a twig.
• Bathroom Break-Out: Wendel Manderly helps Robb escape the Red Wedding past shoving him into the latrine.
• Battle Amongst the Flames: The last duel betwixt Jon and the Night King takes place in the middle of an inferno created by dragon fire.
• Battle Couple: Dany and Jon. Also, Arya and Rhaegar.
• Be Conscientious What You Wish For: Viserys wanted to render to King'southward Landing. He does so...to be tried for his crimes and sentenced to death.
• Because You Were Prissy to Me: Daenarys has this as an operating principle of her dominion. Seeking promotion for the loyal and good, and justice for all in her reshaping of the realm.
• Best Served Common cold: The Mountain gets his revenge on Loras Tyrell for beating him at the Tourney of the Manus.
  • Dissimilar in catechism, Arya gets her chance to kill Joffrey for all the wrongs he did. And she did so past waiting several weeks, infiltrating the palace, and then gutting him when he to the lowest degree expected it.
• Big Badass Battle Sequence: Several over the class of the story, including expanded versions of the Battle of the Blackwater, the Battle of Hardhome, and the Boxing of the Bastards, likewise as the Battle of the Coastroad, the Battle of Riverrun, the Battle of Highgarden, the Battle of King's Landing, the Battle of Final Hearth, and the Battle of Winterfell (which is the biggest of all, lasting seven chapters).
• The Big Damn Kiss: Jon and Daenerys at the end of Chapter 26.
• Big "NO!": Jon, when the Nighttime Rex fatally wounds Bran.
• Blade on a Stick: The Night Rex wields a glaive fabricated of ice.
• Blatant Lies: Illyrio Mopatis says that the Northern houses secretly drinkable toasts to Viserys. It is common knowledge that the North profoundly dislikes the Targaryens. Until eventually Dragon Queen Daenerys changes this.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: After Arya is captured, Joffrey orders her sent to toil with the slaves instead of killing her - which ultimately allows her to go in position to kill Joffrey. Of form, Joffrey feared if he killed her, her spirit would kill him.
• Bookends: The first and last victims of the Long Night are Starks. Marden Stark was the first victim and Bran Stark the last victim.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Joffrey soils himself when Jon'due south forces bring the wight to King's Landing.
• But Now I Must Become: After the Final Battle, Leaf leaves Winterfell for the Island of Faces, in hopes of finding more than of her people there.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Littlefinger pretends to assist Ned Stark, afterwards summons the Mountain to King'due south Landing to free Joffrey, then double-crosses the Lannisters late in the story, and finally sends the Waif later on Daenerys.
• The Clan: Thanks to Tywin and Joffrey's machinations in trying to destroy Firm Stark, they unintentionally created the new dominant association over Planetos for the Targaryen Empire.
  • "Heads" of the clan are Cousin Jaehaerys Targaryen (Jon), married to Daenerys with six heirs to rebuild the dynasty off of.
  • Second is Robb, who married Margaery Tyrell, tying the Reach to the dynasty and preserving that bloodline.
  • Sansa is northern hand of the emperor, married to Podrick Payne thus ensuring the Westerlands have a token loyalty to the crown beyond the favors curried to the remaining House Lannister.
  • Arya is now Lady of Dragonstone alongside the the legitimized Genry Baratheon, giving the Stormlands a identify in the Stark bloodlines.
  • Rickon ended upwards marrying House Mormont, giving another northern house with a strong symbolic presence.
  • Bran had a posthumous child with Meera Reed, giving that Northern firm a stronger tie to the crown likewise.
  • And of course, none of this mentions some of the cousins in the Vale, Found Family given titles and roles in the new gild, or the general bonds formed with the War for the Dawn.
• Comet of Doom: The Swell Fall, a magical comet that passes Planetos every 8000 years. Last fourth dimension around, the Children of the Wood channeled its power to create the Night Male monarch, just in the process accidentally tore a chunk of the comet free and acquired it to hit the planet, causing the Long Night. When it passes again in the present, the Night Male monarch intentionally tears off another piece, bringing about a 2d Long Night.
• The Comically Serious: Invoked Trope.

  Ned: For someone so emotionless, Stannis sometimes could deliver the all-time humor.

• Blended Graphic symbol:
  • Tywin Lannister takes Stannis' place equally the character who Melisandre sleeps with to create the shadow demon that kills Renly.
  • Since Stannis is dead, Renly Baratheon takes his place as the king besieging Male monarch's Landing at the Battle of the Blackwater.
  • Instead of The Mountain, Meryn Trant is responsible for the death of Oberyn Martell.
• Crazy-Prepared: Olenna has held a individual port northward of Oldtown just in case she and Margaery needed to escape the Reach.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Tyrion has a keen understanding of political actions. Notwithstanding, he'southward a true apprentice when it comes to war machine action. Leading to about disaster for army in their 1st invasion of the south.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Dontos Hollard spends near of his time as a jester, but saves Daenerys, Sansa, and Jaime's lives when he tackles Cersei when she'south about to execute them, stole Daenerys' katana from another room and frees them.
• Cruel and Unusual Expiry:
  • Medger Cerwyn is burned alive on Viserys' orders.
  • Littlefinger doesn't get to go out with something as simple as a slit pharynx like in catechism. Instead, he'due south mauled to death past Ghost.
• Cruel Mercy: After his failed alliance with the Boltons, Viserys is left in a jail cell at Winterfell to rot.
• Darkest Hour: While the story has plenty of depression points for the heroes, the absolute everyman comes in Chapter 92, when the Night Male monarch transforms Daenerys into the Night Queen, and kills Jon.
• Dawn of an Era: The War of the Four Kings, The Emperor'due south State of war and the Second War for the Dawn shook up Planetos greatly, but information technology likewise opened the door to create a new era of unity and prosperity. With the render of Dragons, The reestablishment of House Targaryen, the ascendency of Business firm Stark, the destruction of the Slave Masters, and the reorganization of the old slap-up houses, a New Age of Freedom, Friendship, Peace, Love and Brotherhood is coming forth.
• Expressionless Guy Junior:
  • Daenerys names her twins by Jon later on Arya and Rhaegar. They proper name their second son after Benjen.
  • Robb and Margaery name their first son after Jon, and the 2d later Eddard.
  • Arya names her first son subsequently Sandor.
  • Meera names her and Bran'southward son after Bran in honor of his retentivity.
• Expiry by Adaptation:
  • Hoster Tully dies during early on Season 3 of the show. Here he dies presently before the commencement chapter coinciding with the pilot episode, as Edmure is mentioned to exist Lord Paramount.
  • Stannis Baratheon is killed past The Mountain before Ned Stark.
  • Loras Tyrell is killed by The Mountain at the Battle of the Blackwater and Mace Tyrell is killed at Bitterbridge.
  • Daario is killed by Jon in King'south Landing, after betraying the Targaryens to Joffrey.
  • Lord Glover falls during the Boxing of Last Hearth.
  • Lord Royce, Tormund, and Bran fall during the Battle of Winterfell.
• Destination Defenestration: When Tywin returns to King's Landing following Joffrey's regime'southward disastrous loss at Riverrun, he expresses his displeasure by taking Joffrey's chief armed forces advisor Dolgren Hill and tossing him out a window to his death.
• Diabolus ex Machina: When it looks like Ned and Stannis managed to outsmart Cersei and confine Joffrey, Littlefinger summons The Mountain to King'due south Landing to free Joffrey, leading to Stannis's decease and Ned's execution.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • Khal Drogo is killed along with the other Dothraki Khals in chapter 10, which not only allows Dany to gain control of the khalasar but also hatch her dragon eggs.
  • Sort of. Oberyn Martell is killed by a horrible blow to the head, only is stabbed through the caput instead of it existence crushed.
  • Myranda isn't thrown off of Winterfell's walls. Instead she lasts long enough to get incinerated by Daenerys and her dragons when they take their Large Damn Heroes moment.
  • Doreah dies loyal in the attack on Dragonstone by the Ironborn rather than beingness sealed in a vault for betraying Daenerys.
  • Myrcella isn't poisoned by the Sand Snakes here. Instead she'south burned alive with wildfire every bit a Human Sacrifice.
  • Pycelle isn't stabbed to death past "niggling birds" but is rather beheaded by Ilyn Payne for trying to help Jaime.
  • Instead of being crushed with bricks, Cersei is shot with a crossbow by Jaime.
  • Joffrey lives for years longer because Olenna is never in a position to poison him (and Littlefinger has no reason to double-cantankerous him), simply then he's gutted by Arya and eaten by Edderon.
  • Viserys isn't killed with molten gilt. Instead he's decapitated in the majestic reparation trials.
  • Tywin survives several years longer because Tyrion flees King'south Landing without killing him. Instead, he's executed past the restored Crown.
  • Varys isn't burned alive by Drogon here. Instead he is attacked and killed past the Waif when he realizes that Littlefinger instigated Robert's Rebellion.
  • Maester Aemon is still live well past the point of his death in canon. Until he eventually sacrifices himself to resurrect Jon.
• Disc-One Final Boss: The Villain Team-Up of Ramsay and Viserys. They're the outset major antagonists that Jon and Daenerys take on, only are defeated in Chapter 26 of what turns out to be an over 100 chapter story. For the rest, the plot is driven past the heroes' conflicts with Joffrey and the Nighttime Rex.
• Disney Decease: Sandor Clegane seemingly dies during the Battle of Last Hearth, just miraculously survives.
• Disney Villain Expiry: The Waif falls downwards a pit to her death in her final fight with Arya.
• Doomed by Canon: Ned Stark, Talisa, Ygritte, Oberyn Martell.
• Door Stopper: At last count, the story is 547,044 words long.
• The Dragon: The Waif to Littlefinger, every bit his personal assassin and instrument of sowing chaos.
• Dragon-in-Chief: Ramsay Bolton to Viserys Targaryen; Viserys has the proper noun, Ramsay has the manpower. When Ramsay is defeated by Jon and Daenerys, Viserys is left in a cell to rot until he'due south somewhen executed nonchalantly.
• Dragon Rider: Daenerys, of course, with Jon also starting to do it afterward Rhaegal is drawn to him, and with them later instruction their children to do it also. The Nighttime King becomes one as well subsequently he raises the dragon of Azor Ahai, Vhalthrax, who died during the Long Dark.
• Dying Inkling: Varys, bleeding out from a stab wound inflicted by the Waif, sees a raven nearby that Bran is using and says "The Mad King" to reveal a terminal slice of data: Littlefinger persuaded the Mad King to burn Rickard and Brandon Stark.
• Dying Moment of Awesome:
  • Theon stabs Euron, stopping him from killing Jon and giving Jon the opportunity to impale his enemy. Merely this left Theon open to Euron fatally wounding him.
  • Randyll Tarly has a Mutual Kill with a giant, stabbing him through the heart simply earlier he manages to smack Randyll difficult enough to rupture his organs and fatally wound him.
  • Barristan Selmy and Thoros go downwards side-by-side, holding the line against Joffrey's forces in order to purchase time for Jon'south team to brainstorm their plan to incite an insurgence in King's Landing.
  • Grenn and his squad get an even more awesome moment than in catechism, equally rather than holding Castle Black's tunnel against a unmarried behemothic, they concur it against an entire swarm of wights (including a giant).
  • During the White Walkers' assail on Castle Blackness, a nameless soldier, already seriously wounded, tackles a group of wights, managing to stab i in the heart with dragonglass even as he and the whole group tumble off the top of the Wall.
  • During the Battle of Winterfell, Edd is mortally wounded by Grenn's wight while trying to ignite a trench full of wildfire. With the terminal of his force, he grabs the wight and drags him into the trench with his torch, incinerating them both as the wildfire ignites.
  • Benjen sacrificing himself to fuel the spell that Bran uses to free Daenerys from the Night King's control.
  • As the defenders retreat into Winterfell castle, Mag Mar covers them, single-handedly holding the line and managing to kill both a giant wight and the White Walker controlling information technology before being overwhelmed.
  • Fatally stabbed by a wight as Winterfell's defenses are breached, Tormund still manages to burn down a dragonglass cannon at a wight behemothic, and then uses the concluding of his free energy to drop a torch into a chest of gunpowder, blowing up the wights who overrun him moments later.
  • Bran allows himself to be run through by the Nighttime Male monarch, as it gets him close enough to reach in and rip out the Nighttime King'south dragonglass cadre, rendering him vulnerable to Jon's attacks and stripping him of his Resurrective Immortality.
  • Melisandre saves Dany from a White Walker's attack, getting impaled in her place. Then she triggers a magical Suicide Attack, incinerating the Walker and every wight for xx feet.
• The Emperor / The High Queen: Jon and Daenerys are eventually declared Emperor and Empress of the Targaryen Empire, which claims all of Westeros and New Valyria (the onetime Slaver's Bay).
• Eternal Recurrence: 8000 years agone, the earliest Targaryens visited Westeros and met the first Starks, whom they intermarried with. They then allied to defeat a mad god-king in preparation for the Long Night. All of this eerily reflects what happens in the story's present day. Further, the male Stark, Marden, became the Night King, and the male Targaryen, Soryn, became Azor Ahai. And now Jon seem posed to echo the latter's actions to defeat the quondam.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Sandor doesn't believe in cruelty for the sake of cruelty, and makes a betoken that whenever he kills someone, he makes sure to brand it quick.
• Evil Uncle: Viserys tried to kill Daenerys' children while they were infants. Fifty-fifty when he's been rendered impotent in a prison cell, he still tries to hurt them.
• Face Decease with Dignity:
  • Unlike her bear witness version, Cersei but remarks that she was wrong about the valonqar prophecy and tells Jaime to kill her.

  "Do information technology."

  • Tywin simply tells Jon to execute him speedily.
• Face–Heel Plough: Daario turns on Daenerys and joins forces with Joffrey.
• Famous Antecedent: Soryn Targaryen, the first Dragon Rider, became Azor Ahai, while the first Stark lord, Marden, became the Night King.
• Fate Worse than Decease: Bran describes Daenerys becoming the Night Queen as this.
• Fighting from the Inside: Daenerys is shown to be resisting the abuse of the Night Queen.
• Final Battle: There are several climatic battles, for each major storyline.
  • The Boxing of the Coastroad is the final confrontation between the Targaryen Empire's forces in Essos and the Slavers Brotherhood.
  • The Battle of King's Landing ends the war between the Targaryen Empire and Joffrey's regime.
  • The Boxing of Winterfell is the final showdown between the forces of the living and the White Walkers.
• Fingore: Ned cuts off 2 of Gregor's fingers during the attempted escape from King's Landing, but it does little to slow him down.
• Fix Fic: One of the goals afterwards in the story is to rectify all the problems that the author had with Season seven and specially Flavor 8 of the evidence.
• Flaming Sword:
  • Naturally, Lightbringer is repeatedly mentioned. Longclaw, which along with Saracen was reforged from information technology after the Long Dark, becomes this as well subsequently Jon's second resurrection (every bit it had been tempered in his blood past the Night Male monarch).
  • During the Battle of Winterfell, Melisandre causes the weapons wielded past the cavalry — both Westerosi and Dothraki — to ignite right earlier they charge.
  • The Night Male monarch is capable of igniting his glaive with blue ice flames.
• For Want of a Boom:
  • The Karstarks encountered blight on their lands, resulting in a year'due south worth of crops existence destroyed. Considering it's too late in the season to grow more, Ned has to go to Pentos to negotiate for more grain, and he has Jon accompany him, where he meets Daenerys. Everything snowballs from this particular nail.
  • Daenerys ends up leaving Pentos with Ned and Jon, spending a month in Winterfell disguised every bit a servant. When Viserys tries to finish Dany from escaping, she ends up burning his hand with a hot coal.
  • As a result of the voyage to Pentos, Ned begins his plot to restore the Targaryens to power with Benjen's help, enlisting Jorah Mormont as his agent in the Dothraki campsite and getting Barristan Selmy to serve equally Dany's protector in Essos, too every bit telling Catelyn the truth about Jon'southward parentage.
  • Considering Daenerys is taught to wield a sword by Jon and Barristan, she is able to kill Khal Drogo and trap the Khals in their tent (every bit in canon), both hatching her dragons and taking total control of the Dothraki.
  • Ned summons Stannis to Rex'south Landing to help with the incest situation. Considering Stannis is killed by the Mountain, Renly leads the Battle of the Blackwater, where he is killed by a shadow.
  • Olly, who is part of the turncloak Watchmen who murder Jon Snow in the show, is not among them, equally he was present at the Hardhome Massacre. He is now Jon's squire.
• Forgiveness: Discussed between Dany and Jon, especially in regards to Catelyn. While they can never fully allow go of what she did, they both admit that her contrition more than than gives her leeway to be part of their conquest.
  • The aforementioned kind of honest realignment is why they decide to give Jamie a chance to fight on the wall and keep his titles.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • None of the Bolton forces, including Ramsay himself, similar Viserys at all. They only tolerate him because they can use him to claim the Iron Throne.
  • As a upshot of his Business firm's actions, Tommen is not well-liked amid the populace.
• A God Am I: Seven freaking Hells. Joffrey is fifty-fifty more than insane than he was in canon.
• God-Emperor: Joffrey becomes God King after he helps prop up the Religion Militant.
• Godzilla Threshold: The fallout of the War of the Four Kings lead to this being crossed a couple times.
  • Tyene Sand, one of the last bastards of Oberyn and so hated what her cousin did for the Lannisters later on the sack of Dorne, she decided to bend the knee to the reborn Firm Targaryen despite her business firm's motto.
  • During the battle with the Night's King, Jon at one betoken had his dragon pull a move to save its life though it threw him off its back.
• Good People Have Skillful Sexual activity: Jon and Dany take a pretty active sex activity life. So do Robb and Margaery. And Gendry and Arya. And Podrick and Sansa.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Daario is jealous that Jon won over Dany, which plays a part in his betrayal.
• Hand Blast: Bran can do this when channeling his full magic power.
• Happily Married: Dany and Jon, oh so very much. Besides Robb and Margarey, Arya and Gendry, Sansa and Podrick, and Rhaegar and Arya.
• Heel–Confront Plough:
  • After ensuring Renly'due south demise, Melisandre (with some prompting from Davos) turns on Joffrey and helps Margaery and Olenna escape from the Reach before Joffrey has the Achieve subjugated.
  • Jaime turns on Joffrey to protect Tommen subsequently on in the story, and gets Bronn to defect to Jon and Daenerys as well.
• Hegemonic Empire: Jon and Daenerys eventually plant the Targaryen Empire, which lays claim to all of Westeros, the former Slaver'southward Bay (which is rechristened New Valyria), and the Dothraki Sea. During the epilogue, they reclaim the True North (thanks to the Free Folk returning to their lands and pledging loyalty) and then employ a combination of negotiation and compulsion to turn the Free Cities and Naath into vassal states/protectorates, spreading the empire'due south influence beyond much of the known world.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • Aemon lets himself exist ritualistically killed by the Cherry Priests so that Jon can exist resurrected after being killed by the Night Rex.
  • During the Battle of Winterfell, Benjen rips out the dragonglass core keeping him alive, sacrificing himself and so that Bran tin employ its magic to free Daenerys from beingness the Night Queen.
  • Mag Mar singlehandedly holds the line as Winterfell's defenders retreat into the castle.
• Heroic 2nd Wind: Daenerys's arrival at the Battle of the Bastards revitalized Rhaegal and got him breathing burn down once more.
• High-Altitude Boxing: The Battle of Winterfell features a dragon boxing, with the Night King taking on Jon and Daenerys who are and then joined by their children.
• Hoist past His Own Petard: During the Battle of Highgarden, the heavy fog that Tywin thought would mask the weakness of the Heights of Luthor instead masked the Imperial march on them, enabling Jon to accept the Heights before Tywin can react, ultimately sealing the battle for the Majestic forces.
• Hope Bringer: Jon's arrival at Winterfell merely before the Concluding Battle after previously being killed and resurrected fills the despairing defenders with hope and the Dark Male monarch with dread and rage.
• Hope Spot: A villainous example. While Littlefinger is on trial, Daenerys thanks him for his help in taking Male monarch's Landing and pardons him...for the murder of Lysa Arryn. In that location is more than enough still for him to exist found guilty and sentenced to death.
• Human Sacrifice: Joffrey has Myrcella burned alive in an attempt to expletive Jon. Of course, this turns out to be a Senseless Cede as it fails to impale Jon considering Myrcella lacks any imperial blood.
  • Soryn Targaryen extremely reluctantly sacrifices his wife Serena Stark at her insistence to forge the blade Lightbringer, the sword needed to kill the Night King, his brother-in-law, Marden Stark.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Melisandre is unapologetic about killing Renly, citing that it had to be done for the sake of justice.
• Ignored Skillful: Tywin shuts down Jaime'southward advice well-nigh the Targaryen taking of Highgarden and gets caught in their trap in the process.
• I Take No Son!: Viserys denounces Jon, Daenerys and their children every bit his kin before being executed. Of class, earlier in the story, equally penalization for his crimes with Ramsay, Dany stripped him of his legitimacy, leaving him a bastard.
  • Tywin does the aforementioned when Tyrion makes ane concluding plea to him to ask for mercy rather than going through a Trial by Combat.
• I Have Your Married woman: The Night King takes Leafage prisoner and threatens to kill her in club to make her lover Zilas repeat the ceremony that created him on Daenerys, turning her into the Night Queen.
• In Spite of a Smash:
  • Jon is still killed by the Dark'south Picket mutineers, and and so magically resurrected. Though the way information technology's done hither also hatches iii dragon eggs for him.
  • As in the bear witness, Roose Bolton is killed by his own son Ramsay.
  • Ramsay meets the same fate he did in the testify.
  • The Night Male monarch notwithstanding gets a dragon wight. It is just not 1 of Daenerys' dragons.
  • Oberyn Martell is however killed, triggering Ellaria to launch a coup in Dorne. The Lannister forces finish the insurrection, killing nigh all but Tyene among the Sand Snakes.
• Insult of Endearment: Arya likes to phone call Gendry an idiot. Afterward in The Mystery Knight, Princess Saera likes to call her cousin Jon Stark (whom she likes) an idiot as well.
• Internal Reveal: After he returns to the North from Pentos, Ned reveals to Catelyn that Jon is Rhaegar'south son.
• Irony:
  • In canon, the High Sparrow was killed by a wildfire explosion. Hither, he uses wildfire to sacrifice Myrcella.
  • Joffrey, while mortally wounded past Arya, is finished off by Eddarion, the dragon named after Ned Stark, whom he had executed.
• Katanas Are Just Better: For her wedding ceremony to Khal Drogo, Jon gives Daenerys a Valyrian Steel katana. Justified considering Daenerys doesn't accept the necessary musculature to wield a longsword.
• Boot the Dog: Tywin tells Jaime that Kevan has more than initiative in his correct hand than Jaime does in his unabridged body, which stings especially as Jaime lost his mitt to a human loyal to Tywin.
• Laser Blade: Bran creates i from his magic during the Boxing of Winterfell.
• Laser-Guided Karma: The Faith of the 7 supports Joffrey to spread their influence; only one time Joffrey is overthrown, the Faith is permanently discredited and their followers catechumen either to the Lord of Light or the Old Gods.
• Concluding of His Kind: Arya becomes the last of the Faceless Men after Jon wipes out the residuum in retaliation for the attempt on his family unit.
• Terminal Stand: The defenders at the Battle of Winterfell admit that win or lose, their war with the dead will end there.
• Living Relic: With the magic of quondam, there's a few. Leaf, The Night'south King, and The Three Eyed Crow all come to heed.
  • Olenna Tyrell becomes i for the older political society in The sequel story. Well over 100, since her great-grandson hasn't come up of age yet, she nonetheless runs the Reach since her daughter is now Lady of Winterfell.
• Luke, I Am Your Father:
  • "Jon, I am not your father" — Rhaegar Targaryen is your dad.
  • For a more than villainous and more than distantly related instance, the Night King turns out to accept been Marden Stark, the commencement lord of House Stark.
• Made a Slave: Joffrey, under Littlefinger's manipulations, enslaves thousands of smallfolk by inventing Westerosi serfdom.
• The Human Behind the Man: Ramsay is behind the Dark's Lookout man mutiny where Jon is killed.
• Manipulative Bounder: Petyr Baelish, even more and so than in canon (which is saying something). Late in the story, it's revealed that he persuaded King Aerys that Rickard and Brandon Stark were trying to impale him, which caused Robert'south Rebellion.
• Possibly Magic, Maybe Mundane:
  • The Ned Stark that Dany sees in her dream drops hints virtually Jon being the son of Lyanna, something that Dany has no reason to even doubtable at that point.
  • It's unclear if the ghostly Robert Baratheon that appears to Joffrey from time to time is a hallucination or Robert'south actual ghost.
• Mercy Impale: Arya kills Jaqen H'Gar so he won't experience the "fire and blood" coming after the failed assassination try on Daenerys.
• Mythology Gag: The sequel The Mystery Knight shares a title with the third Tales of Dunk and Egg.
• Natural Spotlight: During Jon's Rousing Speech at the Final Battle, a axle of sunlight breaks through the gloom and storm clouds to dramatically highlight Longclaw which has become Lightbringer.
• Never Mess with Granny: Olenna Tyrell, equally per canon, is a force to exist reckoned with despite her age. Past the fourth dimension of The Mystery Knight she's pushing 100 and still sharp as ever.
• Never My Fault: Later the Battle of the Bastards, Viserys and Ramsay are yelling at each other in their cells most whose error it is.
• Nice Chore Breaking Information technology, Hero: Ned's notes are used to find and kill King Robert'southward bastards.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • Ramsay and Viserys trying to have Jon killed may take temporarily left him dead, but Melisandre'southward talents non only resurrect Jon, they requite birth to more than dragons and released Jon from the Scout, allowing him to go after the 2, bringing their plans to an terminate.
  • Joffrey sacrificing Myrcella in an attempt to impale Jon leads Dany to fly beyond the wall to rescue Jon's grouping, ensuring the group's survival while likewise exposing her to the Others. Something Dany previously did not believe existed.
  • The Nighttime Male monarch stabbing Jon with Longclaw is actually what creates Lightbringer, enabling Jon to actually kill him.
• Nom de Mom: Robb and Margarey's 2nd son, Eddard, is prepare to take the Tyrell proper noun and control of Highgarden upon reaching his majority, in order to revitalize that House. Also, Brandon Reed the son of Brandon Stark and Meera Reed.
• Not His Sled: Arya's big moment from catechism of killing the Dark King is repeated in Chapter 92, except in this story the Dark King is allowed to Valyrian steel and therefore does non dice when stabbed.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Jon remembers that Robb trounce Theon to a lurid two years before the story when he hit a woman.
• No-Sell: Valyrian steel has no effect on the Night King.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: During the confrontation with the Mountain in Affiliate xi, Joffrey stabs Stannis with a dagger, leaving him open up to be killed past the Mountain.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: At some point prior to The Mystery Knight, Rhaegar and Arya led the Empire'southward forces in eliminating a Second Kingswood Brotherhood.
• Oh, Crap!: Ned when he sees Jon and Daenerys' human relationship.
  • Prior to that, Ned has one the second he sees (and recognizes) Daenerys.
  • Rather similar in the testify, what turns out to be Littlefinger'southward trial quickly becomes an ever-increasing amount of this trope for the latter, particularly when Daenerys promises to pardon him, simply then merely does and so for the decease of Lysa Arryn.
• One Steve Limit: Averted, equally we have both Arya Stark and Arya Targaryen.
• The One Thing I Don't Hate Virtually You: Viserys says that Jon did one thing right for Daenerys: improving her posture.
• OOC Is Serious Business organization: Varys knows something is up when he sees Littlefinger speaking to an elderly washerwoman, since Littlefinger typically uses prostitutes equally spies. It turns out that said washerwoman was Littlefinger'due south assassin The Waif, who fatally wounds Varys.
• Original Graphic symbol: Ser Theodisyus Caryn, Barristan Selmy's nephew. Of course, when the author rewrote much of the story, he was phased out with Barristan taking over most of his part.
• Out-Gambitted: Like in canon, Sansa turns Littlefinger'south sham trial of Arya on him, exposing all his crimes before all of Westeros' lords and sentencing him to expiry.
  • Seventeen chapters previously, Jon outwits the Lannisters at Highgarden when he deliberately leaves the strategically important Heights of Luthor unmanned, and then takes out the green Lannister bannermen that hold the hill.
• Outliving One'southward Offspring:
  • Olenna Tyrell outlives her son Mace and grandson Loras.
  • Catelyn Stark outlives Bran due to his decease in the Final Battle.
  • By the Concluding Boxing, Tommen is the merely one of Jaime's children still alive thank you to Myrcella being burned alive and Joffrey'south death when Jon and Daenerys took Rex's Landing.
  • Tywin Lannister outlives Cersei, Myrcella, and Joffrey.
  • As in the show, Howland Reed outlives his son Jojen later his expiry in the Final Battle.
• Patchwork Kids: Jon and Daenerys' children Rhaegar and Arya are a mix of Northern and Valyrian traits; Rhaegar has dark pilus and regal eyes and Arya is silverish haired with grey eyes.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Viserys insults Jon over being a bastard several times.

  "You may impale me, but you will always exist a bastard."

• Precision F-Strike: After Ned and Stannis realize that Robert'due south children are actually bastards, all Stannis can muster in response is "Well fuck".
• Pregnant Badass:
  • Arya fights at Last Hearth and Winterfell, knowing she'south pregnant at the time, and is just as fierce every bit e'er.
  • Meera Reed is pregnant by the time the Battle of Winterfell occurs.
• Profane Final Words: Stannis Baratheon says "Fucking bounder!" before The Mountain busts open up his head.
• Prophecy Twist:
  • The prophecy Joffrey receives refers to the son of his predecessor, which he assumed was his predecessor as king, but actually referred to his predecessor every bit Crown Prince (Rhaegar).
  • Cersei always thought that Tyrion would impale her, and never imagined that Jaime would be the one to kill her. She lampshades it right when Jaime'south about to kill her.
  • Afterwards existence killed by the Dark Male monarch, Jon learns that he was given an incorrect prophecy almost Azor Ahai and the creation of Lightbringer.
• Public Secret Bulletin: Sansa while interrogating her sister Arya is able to get a coded message to her that she does not believe the accusations she is leveling against her and is just putting on a evidence.
• Pursued Protagonist: Tyene Sand opens Chapter 27 being chased past Lannister soldiers.
• Bluster-Inducing Slight: Played with considering it wasn't meant equally a slight, just Viserys goes berserk when Jon and Dany'southward daughter Arya calls him "uncle".
• "The Reason Yous Suck" Voice communication: Ned gives a short one to Viserys nearly what his father Aerys II did to the Starks.

  "My family, Prince Viserys, were loyal subjects of House Targaryen. Yet, when my brother and father pleaded with King Aerys virtually my sister, and he responded by burning ane alive and strangling the other to death. My oath to him died on that day, and I can tell just by looking at you that you share his honor. More accurately the lack of it."

• Red Baron:
  • In Essos, Ned is apparently known as the "Wolf of the Trident".
  • Bran earns the nickname "The Raven".
  • Tywin gains the nickname "The Doom of Dorne" for his campaign through Dorne.
• Red Right Mitt: 1 of Viserys' hands is burned past hot coals during Jon and Daenerys's escape from Illyrio's estate.
• Redeeming Replacement: Gendry becomes this for House Baratheon.
• Religion of Evil: The Faith Militant under Joffrey. Sacrificed an innocent child, his sister, by immolation.
• Resurrective Immortality: Information technology turns out that this is how the Night Male monarch returned after being defeated 8000 years ago, as the magic which created him acquired him to regenerate in the Land of Always Winter. Bran ripping out his dragonglass core during the Final Boxing strips this magic from him, making it possible to permanently kill him.
• Retcon: Originally, Jon forged the Valyrian steel katana Saracen for Daenerys. Afterward, the author realized that in that location were several things about this which did not work, so it was rewritten that rather than forging the sword himself, Jon received it from Kinvara.
• Revenge past Proxy: When Tyene Sand is called to Trial by Gainsay against Gregor, Sandor admits he's ok with not beingness the one to do the job, so long as Tyene uses HIS knife to do the act.
• Rousing Speech:
  • While about of the other defending commanders at the Boxing of Last Hearth employ simple battle cries, Jaime gives an actual, if cursory, speech to the Westerlands forces under his command as they ready to face the Army of the Dead.

  "Run across those, you cunts?! They retrieve they tin can stop usa. But they fucking won't! Nosotros are men of the Westerlands! We are Lions! We are Boars! We are Spears, and Firetrees, and the fucking Sun itself! When we roar, the very rocks tremble! So let the fucking dead in the Seven Hells themselves hear us roar!"

  • Jon gives an absolutely epic one just before the Battle of Winterfell:

  Jon: Men and Women of Westeros! Hear me! My name is Jaehearys Targaryen, Third of my Proper noun, Emperor of the Targaryen Empire! But my proper noun was not always this. I was once Jon Snow... the lowly and aback bounder of Winterfell. I came from nothing only shame and darkness, shunned by all every bit a stain on my bully male parent's name. I came from this nothing, arose from a baseborn bounder to find myself earlier you all. The United Men and Women of the North, South, East and Westward. Of Westeros, Essos, North of the Wall and from lands unseen by many that live. The greatest army in the history of the world! An Army that I am honored to fight aslope!

  Today, I stand before you lot non every bit a Rex or an Emperor, not as a bounder or a blue-blooded. I stand before you as a son of these lands, both N and South. The brother of the finest family I could always know. The father of three beautiful children! The husband of the greatest woman I accept e'er known! And a free Homo!

  Look at it, men and women of the living! The King of Death and his undead monsters before you wish to make slaves of usa all, to destroy our civilisation and all nosotros dear and cherish. To extinguish all life upon this world... but you know what? FUCK THEM! We will concur this fucking ground before us! Aqueduct the spirits of warriors long dead. Of the Age of Heroes. Of the Conquest! Of the Liberation!

  In that location may come a time. A time where all life in this earth volition lay dead. Where men beguile their trust in their lands and the gods higher up, when laws and oaths meant aught and the historic period of men comes crashing into dust. Just Information technology IS Non THIS 24-hour interval! This solar day I enquire you all... My Brothers! My Sisters! To follow me into the Darkness, i final time! To fight the abominations that would erase all light and promise from this globe! I bid you lot stand as Costless Peoples. Every bit proud warriors, every bit Fathers, as Mothers, as Sons and Daughters! Together, we volition bring the dawn!

• Screw Destiny: Davos tells Jon equally much, in much more rough linguistic communication ("fuck prophecy", to be precise), regarding the prophecy which states that he'll have to kill Daenerys to defeat the Nighttime Male monarch. Robb backs this, and Jon comes around to assertive that he tin defy the prophecy. Information technology later turns out that the prophecy didn't involve Daenerys's death.
• Second Honey: Margaery Tyrell to Robb Stark.
• Seduction-Proof Marriage: A Targaryen family tradition for both females and males to take lovers on the side is brought up independently to both Dany and Jon and both independently evidence utter disgust at beingness with someone besides each other.
• Shout-Out:
  • The opening of Affiliate 25 features Ramsay Bolton at a feast talking about sports, and then chirapsia one of the guests to death with a stick. This scene was afterward written out.
  • The entire story arc of Joffrey condign an insane God-Emperor, especially its climax, turns into a take on x,000 BC.
  • The concept of the Long Dark beingness acquired by a magic comet was plainly based on Sozin's Comet.
  • Sandor'due south Pre-Mortem One-Liner to the White Walker he kills simply before his own death is to call it "one ugly motherfucker".
  • A portion of Jon's Rousing Speech earlier the Battle of Winterfell is based on Aragorn's speech before the Black Gate. And the battle itself is inspired by the climax of Avengers: Endgame, with the Nighttime King's mocking banter with Jon before their personal duel beingness heavily inspired past Thanos' towards the Avengers.
• Small Role, Big Touch on: Kinvara has only a spattering of appearances, merely in each one, she gives or does an of import affair that will ensure growth and change in the world.
• Someone to Recall Him By: Bran dies during the Terminal Boxing, but reveals that he knows Meera is pregnant with their kid.
• Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Viserys and Ramsay—Joffrey—The Nighttime King.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Daenerys' children aren't stillborn, and all her dragons survive.
  • Catelyn and Robb survive the Cherry Wedding. Catelyn is captured, simply Robb escapes north.
  • Both Olenna and Margaery Tyrell are spared their fates (suicide by poisonous substance and death by wildfire respectively) because they don't go to King'southward Landing.
  • Shae avoids her approved fate because Joffrey is not poisoned; therefore she is not chosen to testify and Tyrion escapes King's Landing with her.
  • Tyene Sand is the pb remaining Sand Snake, thanks to the Dornish rebellion against the Lannisters playing out differently.
  • Rickon is saved by Jon during the Boxing of the Bastards.
  • Considering he never succeeds Joffrey as king, Tommen never becomes such a political pawn that he commits suicide to escape it.
  • Because of her parents' earlier deaths, Shireen is yet alive as they never sacrificed her.
  • As Olly never betrays Jon, he is still live as well.
  • Thanks to Jon arriving on Rhaegal in time to rescue their group at the Three Eyed Raven'due south cave, Leafage, Hodor and Jojen all survive. Though Jojen and Hodor somewhen autumn during the Battle of Winterfell.
  • Thank you to the wildlings non attacking Castle Black and the Battle of the Bastards happening differently, Mag Mar and Wun Wun are both notwithstanding live. Mag eventually dies at Winterfell.
  • The Waif managed to avoid getting killed past Arya in Braavos, and continues to hound her until she makes an attempt on Daenerys' life.
  • Dontos Hollard spends much more time equally a jester, and eventually receives Duskendale after Daenerys and Jon accept King'south Landing.
  • Missandei is never captured and executed by the Lannisters.
  • Jorah and Lyanna Mormont survive the Battle of Winterfell.
  • Sandor Clegane never fights his brother, and thus lives on.
  • Dickon Tarly is never executed past Daenerys.
  • As Daenerys never went Mad Queen, she survives the story.
  • Robar Royce isn't killed by Brienne. Instead he succeeds his father Bronze Yohn as Lord Royce, as shown in The Mystery Knight.
• Spirit Advisor: A ghostly Robert Baratheon appears to Joffrey from time to time. Whether it is existent or a symptom of his madness is unclear.
• The Spymaster: Varys, as per canon. By the time of The Mystery Knight, Arya has succeeded him in the position.
• Stealth Hi/Cheerio: Happens to Arya twice in succession in chapter 106: first when Foliage departs for the Isle of Faces and second when Sandor Clegane shows up, wishing that Arya could disappear like that.
• Take That!:
  • When planning the defenses at Winterfell in affiliate 97 confronting the White Walkers, it is suggested that the civilians accept shelter in the crypts (every bit was done in canon). Bronn laughs this off, saying that only dumbasses would do this when facing off with an enemy that tin can raise the dead.
  • In Something Near Dragonstone, Dany has dreams almost succumbing to her father'due south madness and burning all before her (essentially, the end of Season eight). Missandei says that that is ridiculous, as but an idiot would believe that possible of her.
• Tantrum Throwing: When Viserys hears that Ned and Jon are in Pentos, he picks upward a wooden object and throws it at the wall.
• The Dog Bites Back: The enslaved populace of King's Landing revolts against the oppressive authorities of Joffrey.
• This Cannot Be!:
  • Joffrey has this reaction upon seeing the person who stabbed him is Arya, who he thought was dead.
  • The Night King gets this twice during the Battle of Winterfell, first when the previously dead Jon shows up, and then upon seeing that Daenerys has been freed from his control.
• Throw the Canis familiaris a Bone: Subsequently Jon and Daenerys take King's Landing, Dontos Hollard receives Duskendale.
• Together in Decease: After the Night King is killed, the spirit of Marden Stark is reunited with his wife and other loved ones in the afterlife.
• Took a Level in Badass: Thank you to some training from the Warlock of Quarth, Bran the Cleaved goes from a unproblematic repository of the Three Eyed Crow's powers, to a total on Battle Mage.
• Trauma Conga Line: Arya gets it bad, despite her own volition. Start, there's the regular stuff of having to escape from her male parent being executed, surviving with Gendry and The Hound and thinking her family wiped out before long thanks to the Ruddy Wedding and the bigger happenings in the world. Then when she returns to the family, she tries to turn things around, only she's then captured in a sneak set on on Dragonstone, spends months in a slave pit, has to fight off her old organization several times, gets wrongly accused of attempting the assassinations the faceless men tried, and ends upward existence the man who finds Jon dead.
• Trial by Combat: Tywin demands one after being captured by Jon and Daenerys, with the Mountain as his champion. The Imperials put forrad Tyene Sand, who defeats him, with Tywin being executed immediately afterwards.
• Truer to the Text: In the books, Jeyne Poole, bearded equally Arya, is given to the Boltons by the Lannisters to keep the Northern lords under command. In the evidence, Sansa is given to the Boltons past Littlefinger without input from the Lannisters. Here, the Lannisters give Sansa to the Boltons as role of a deal to proceed the Northern lords nether control.
• Try to Fit THAT on a Business Bill of fare!: Daenerys racks up fifty-fifty more than titles than in canon, and Jon gains enough of his own after being all-powerful Emperor.
  • Daenerys' list of titles is: Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen-Stark, first of her proper noun. Empress of the Targaryen Empire, Queen of the Andals, the Roynar, and First Men. Lady of Westeros and Queen in the North. Queen of New Valyria. Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea. Mother of Dragons, Breaker of Chains, the Princess Who Was Promised. The Unburnt, Valyria Reborn. Joint Protector of the Pax Targaryana and Ruler of All She Surveys.
  • Jon'south listing of titles is: Jon Imperator of Firm Stark-Targaryen, first of his proper name. Emperor of the Targaryen Empire. King in the North, Riverlands, and Vale. Lord of Westeros and Defender of the Valyrian People. Begetter of Dragons and Prince who was Promised. The Unburnt, the Resurrected. The White Wolf, the Dragonwolf. Friend of the Free Folk and Articulation Protector of the Pax Targaryana.
• Twincest: In addition to the canonical Jaime and Cersei, Something Nigh Dragonstone confirms that Rhaegar and Arya end up in love with each other. Since they're Targaryens, everyone but shrugs it off and they cease upward marrying at the terminate of The Mystery Knight.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • As his regime collapses around him, Joffrey loses his remaining sanity and is reduced to a crying man kid.
  • Littlefinger has a magnificent one when Sansa outwits him and turns what he thinks is Arya'due south trial into HIS trial.
  • When the Night King sees Jon go far at the Boxing of Winterfell, despite having previously been killed, his rage and fearfulness at the sight causes him to snap, and he throws out all tactics in favor of having his forces just Zerg Blitz the defenders to wipe them out for adept.
• Villainous BSoD: Cersei has a terrible one when Myrcella is sacrificed by Joffrey.
• Villainous Shell: The Night Male monarch becomes obsessed with Daenerys upon seeing her, as she looks just similar his long-dead wife.
• Villain Team-Up: Ramsay and Viserys team upwards considering they don't like the Starks; Ramsay will help Viserys get his throne and get revenge on Jon Snow while Viserys will help to get Ramsay Daenerys. Walder Frey likewise gets in on the act, pledging his support in exchange for increased ability in their regime.
• Voluntary Vassal: During the epilogue, Jon and Dany employ a mix of negotiation and threats to plough the Free Cities and Naath into client states/protectorates of the Targaryen Empire.
• War Elephants: The Gilt Company makes use of them, as per canon. During the Battle of Winterfell, they supplement their regular elephants with mammoths from Northward of the Wall.
• Wham Episode:
  • Affiliate 74 ("He is Not a God") - The war is over with the Imperial forces taking King's Landing and discrediting Joffrey'south divinity, with Pycelle, Daario, Ilyn Payne, Cersei, and Joffrey all meeting their ends.
  • Affiliate 92 ("The Dark Queen") - the Night King forces Zilas to transform Daenerys into the Night Queen, and then kills Jon.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The Loftier Sparrow's fate is not mentioned.
  • With Gendry existence legitimized, Shireen'southward identify in the new Empire isn't made clear.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Daenerys tears Catelyn a new one for how she acted towards Jon.
• Would Hurt a Child: Meryn Trant is put in charge of massacring Male monarch Robert's bastards.
• Wrecked Weapon: Arya's sword Needle is cleaved during the Battle of Last Hearth. It'southward reforged with a Valyrian Steel blade by the epilogue.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Subsequently Zilas performs the ritual to turn Daenerys into the Night Queen, he is beheaded by the Others.

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