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    "I don't believe my will's quite free/I'm half machine, at least half steam./Aquinas, call on me." - Dessa, 'Velodrome'.

    “I have a letter we must speak about,” he says, and after a moment’s hesitation, reads it aloud, slowly and clearly, to her.

    Aemma stares at him blankly, only registering that it is a letter from the King. She thinks she met the King once, when she was very small and he and his family visited. She couldn’t have been any older than four or five. It was before Prince Duncan ran off with that peasant girl and gave up his rights to the throne. Now it will go to his brother, Prince Jaehaerys. Septa says he was mad for love. Aemma can’t comprehend of such a thing, but then again, she has never fallen in love, and she certainly hopes the first man she falls for is not poor and lowborn, no matter how pretty his looks.

    “Aemma,” Father says, gently, “the letter is about you and Prince Maegor.”

    (Jon Arryn's daughter by Jeyne Royce survives. Aegon V seeks a marriage into a loyal house for his troublesome nephew. Chaos ensues.)

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    18 Aug 2026

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    A tale of three brothers, they who carry the blood of the ancient Kings of Winter. Eddard Stark, the Quiet Wolf, Benjen Stark, the Black Wolf, and Karlon Stark, the Sea Wolf.

    Fostered in Bear Island at nine, Karlon discovered an affinity for the sea found only once before in Brandon the Shipwright. Given the lordship of Sea Dragon Point, he raised from the bones of the Warg King's castle a fortress and a fleet that has made the North a naval power for the first time in a thousand years.

    When Jon Arryn dies and Robert Baratheon rides north to lay the weight of the Handship on Eddard's shoulders, the three brothers are reunited for the first time since Robert's Rebellion.

    This is a retelling of the events of a Game of Thrones and the wars that follow, as they might have unfolded with a third Stark brother in the world.

    Stark-brothers centric fic, the older generation.

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    At the end of Robert's Rebellion, the first thing Eddard Stark did was make a deal with the Night's Watch to repopulate the Gift and raise new lords. Jon Snow, bastard of Winterfell, has lived his entire life learning how best to rule as a lord, anticipating the day he would leave to claim his new title and start his own house. Will he be the leader he needs to be, or will he fall short and fail the people he is meant to protect?

     

    In "A Storm of Swords" Jon recalls a conversation between his father and Benjen regarding a deal Ned wishes to make with the Watch to repopulate the Gift with new lords. This is a world where he does just that, though not quite the same way he had wanted in canon. Tags and characters will be updated as I post

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    "You keep your heart from your chest./It'll be gone, just like the rest." - Emily Jane White, 'Wild Tigers I Have Known'.

    Ned once told her she would have a much easier time wedding south than Lya- amiable, he said, amiable, eager to please, the wolf who would gladly shed her furs for some gossamer and lace, her leather boots for some silk slippers. Sometimes she barely recognizes herself in the looking glass. It’s too hot to wear her hair down so she usually braids it in a crown behind her ‘real’ crown, the golden circlet sculpted into delicately arching antlers, a smaller, lighter version of Robert’s, so dainty and demure.

    The pregnancy has already begun to fill out her long face some- along with her rapidly swelling hands and feet- and she has not worn Stark colors since her wedding day. Yet Robert likes her in soft greys, gentle blues, maidenly whites, even forest greens. Anything that reminds him of Lyanna, who always favored cooler colors in her dress.

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    It's funny how quickly secrets can multiply.

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    03 Jun 2026