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A Wolf Apart by Ziggy527
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
06 Jul 2020
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Lyanna Stark has lived when she expected to die. The pain of the birth, however, was nothing compared to the pain of the separation. Now a few years later, Queen Lyanna Baratheon brings her husband and young children home to Winterfell and to the piece of her heart that lives there.
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03 Sep 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Far better than expected. One of the very few stories that manage to pull off major canon deviations without feeling jarring or unbelievable. The language is flawless, the prose very good, and the plot itself grounded and consistent. The only minor issue is that the story is not chronologically written, causing a bit of annoyance when jumping several years back and forth between chapters; though this is more of a personal preference and therefore subjective critique.
Jon lives in Winterfell just like in canon, but Lyanna marries Robert and has two children with him, Orys and Lyarra. Rhaella survives as well, resulting in Dany having a living mother just like Jon. The story jumps between Lyanna, Jon and Dany and explores the childhoods of the latter two as well as Lyanna's challenges and occasional visits to Winterfell and her secret son.
The story is generally angsty, just as described and expected, with Jon being regularly sad about his fate, griefing Lyanna to no end. Yet, it never feels over the top, but rather realistic for a motherless child who constantly believes himself to be an outcast. Jon gets knighted at twelve years old by Robert for standing against sellswords who intended to kill Orys, likely setting up betrayal by the Lannisters that never comes to pass because the story doesn't reach that point.
Eventually, Lyanna and Ned tell Jon the truth in the godswood in King's Landing, and he attacks them in a fit of rage before telling Orys as well, not thinking clearly. His half-brother runs to Robert who attacks Lyanna and Ned, but it doesn't end well for him with multiple direwolves lurking in the shadows. Jon flees the capital, arriving at Pentos and promptly stealing Blackfyre from Illyrio.
He manages to find Dany, Rhaella and the surviving Dothraki after Drogo's death in Vaes Tolorro outside of Qarth, and they slowly grow fond of each other, having to fight against sellswords who are after Jon before they decide to stop hiding. They leave for Qarth and travel to Astapor, then Yunkai, and finally, Meereen.
The story is abandoned right after Lyanna wakes up from her injuries, Orys declares the necessity to fight against Jon should he return, the Starks are trying to consolidate enough power to keep the peace while multiple forces are doubtlessly moving in the dark, Jon takes two thousand Unsullied to conquer Yunkai yet again, and in Meereen, Oberyn Martell arrives before Dany.
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Red Reign by gutterking, Sleepy_moon29 for Traphouse, House_Targaryen
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
21 Aug 2024
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The early death of King Rhaegar allowed a new regent to rule over Westeros. Now his eldest son, Aegon sits the Iron Throne but dragons and magic and a wayward brother, Jaehaerys, have returned, challenging his power and reign. Yet that is not all House Targaryen must contest with as foes from within his kingdom and beyond wait in the shadows.
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04 Aug 2023
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Quite interesting, but abandoned far too early for the extensively developed plot points to come into fruition. The language seems to be flawless, and the pace is extraordinary, though the characters are sometimes very OOC and have little in common with their equivalents from canon. There's also some unnecessary drama intertwined with all of the various, more important events.
Jon returns from the North with his dragon while Aegon ascended to the throne years ago, when Rhaegar and Elia died under mysterious and yet unexplored circumstances. One of the many Chekhov's guns that are yet to be fired, and while said foreshadowing is commendable, there's no real advantage to it as of right now.
Jon and Dany are keeping it complicated, Rhaenys is the third wheel, Myrcella is a tool used by Tywin to determine whether the rumours about Jon and Dany are true, Robert Baratheon is still alive and consolidating his power in Essos, the Lannisters are plotting and have just received a letter with unknown origin, Lyanna is pretty annoyed with Jon, Aegon can't believe that his brother just beheaded Waymar Royce in front of the entire court for multiple slights against Rhaenys, and so on.
In the last chapter, Jon spends his time by — amongst other things — fighting against bandits in the Stormlands, feeding their leader to his dragon.
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The Last Dragonlord Rewrite by 404_AsayaNotFound
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV)
12 Oct 2025
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In the three-hundredth year after Aegon’s Conquest, Prince Aemon returned from the East with a beast of fire and blood, bearing the sword with no name and the wrath of the forgotten. What followed broke the realm anew.
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The Stranger's Son by Fyreheart for SainTalia
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
08 May 2025
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The first battle of The Dance of Dragons goes differently after a stranger and his dragon intervene.
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No Joy in Command by Gladiusx
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV), House of the Dragon (TV)
19 Aug 2025
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After Jon Snow witnesses the end of the world only to wake up at a different time, a time with flying, fire-breathing lizards roaming the skies, he decides he's too tired for this shit and decides to fish. Literally.
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29 Aug 2025
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Wow. Truly incredible. Such a ridiculous concept on first glance, yet beautifully written, perfectly encapsulating the feeling of tragedy caused by failing to stop the Others in one life, turning into reluctant and slowly developing hope that it could be feasible in the next one.
It starts not by jumping into action, but with Jon hesitating to act in a way that borders at indifference. He truly just wants to fish, and fate plots while invoking unfortunate circumstances to disturb his peace over and over again.
Jon makes some new friends including Jaeherys's former dragon Vermithor, bonding with the mirthful and prideful dragon and keeping it a secret out of bare necessity. He soon finds himself almost happily haggling about minor problems while ignoring the scheming of the Targaryens and high lords regardless. Eventually, he saves Rhaena and Baela from the silent knights and gets forced into public. Rhaenyra and Coryls Velaryon intend to have him killed for slaughtering anointed knights as a member of the smallfolk. King Viserys intervenes shortly before his inevitable death, legitimizing Jon as a Stark and granting him a generous allowance, which he promptly uses to—you guessed it—fish.
His interference has already been felt regardless, and the consequences of his involuntary path to glory reverberate through the realm, however subtle they may be. Regardless, a smaller part of the war is told through summaries, merely glancing over events and changes from canon instead of describing them in detail. What may sound like boring exposition is a clever way of skipping to important points in the story without breaking suspense of disbelief, and it never feels out of place or like a chore to get through.
While Jon is not part of the war, he's not exempt from battle, and him returning with a vengeance to hunt the Cannibal after the dragon tried to kill Rhaena and him, eating Grey Ghost as a side quest, is certainly a sight to behold. Especially given that Jon succeeds, gaining incredible strength and durability by drinking the green-eyed kin eater's blood and devouring his heart. He soon goes back being a mere observer, albeit titles like "Dragonslayer" have doubtlessly some influence over the realm's perception of such an odd man.
Peace is not forever though, and after the calm, a storm waits for its due. The Greens have won, Rhaena and Baela being the sole survivors, and Aegon plans on marrying them off for political benefit, taking Baela for himself. They manage to flee, and while Rhaena barely arrives at Jon's humble home before losing consciousness due to a fever caused by winter, Baela takes to the heavens with Moondancer and kills Aegon in the air, receiving some aid by Jon and Vermithor.
Finally, Jon has enough and proposes to marry Rhaena, crowning himself king as well. He gains ally after ally, and the final part of a war that was thought to have been finished takes place.
What strikes me as exceptionally impressive is the somber but oddly triumphant feeling caused by even more summaries toward the end of story, giving glimpses of a future that was never meant to be, yet has a far more positive outcome than anything we see in canon. But is it still victory if the characters you would have wanted to see celebrate said triumph never came to be?