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Sometimes I ring myself, to see if I might chime by dwellingondreams
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
06 Sep 2020
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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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The Sea Wolf by TeemVizzle
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
10 Sep 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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09 Aug 2026
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The House of Ice and Fire by Tir3dAnt
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
25 Jun 2025
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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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16 Jul 2026
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Wild tigers I have known by dwellingondreams
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
14 Sep 2020
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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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04 Jun 2026
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we should just kiss like real people do by vixleonard
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
09 Feb 2020
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It's funny how quickly secrets can multiply.
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03 Jun 2026
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Goodbye Means Going Away (And Going Away Means Forgetting) by vixleonard for midnightblack07
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
22 Jun 2012
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Memory is unreliable. No one understands this better than Rickon Stark.
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03 Jun 2026
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She is lonely and so he is. They find each other, and together they remain.
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01 Jun 2026
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The Mark of a True Lord by Samira2132
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
28 Aug 2026
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In which Jon Snow is the best swordsman Winterfell has produced in a century
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- English
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- 80/?
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28 May 2026
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Grey Winds, Grim Iron, and Gold Shrouds. by jddropper
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
26 Nov 2025
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The War of the Five Kings has erupted. Robert Baratheon had died, and his disputed succession has plunged the Seven Kingdoms into bloodshed. Ned Stark is dead, executed in King’s Landing. Lyarra Snow flees the capital with her half-sister Arya, embarking on the long journey north.
War has come to Westeros, in all its horror. The Game of Thrones carries on, with its stakes never being higher. In the end, vendettas and justice will swallow some houses whole. Autumn has come, and men fall like leaves on the fields of war.
In the North, wildlings march south in a vast host for the first time in generations, intent on passing the wall. In Essos, dragons stir and grow alongside their mother. All around her, men kneel and vow vengeance in her name.
Westeros is broken, and only iron and blood will make it whole once more. But the worst is yet to come.
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- English
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- 107,274
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- 17/?
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24 Feb 2026
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Sow the Tide, Reap the Storm by WearyBlues
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
12 Jul 2026
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Quen felt peculiar up on the dais, flanked by stags and lions and wolves.
The Usurper had once been a formidable man, with blazing eyes and a massive war hammer. Now, he was just a red-faced fat man, a pathetic drunk who ate as gracefully as a half-starved hog.
His Queen seemed to be a perpetually unhappy woman. Cersei Lannister was as beautiful as the singers said, though the woman had all the warmth of a dead fish.
She might have done well in the north, Quen thought, almost pitying.
(Or: The gods in their blind malice give Theon the feeble body of a woman.)
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- Part 3 of STRS-Verse
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- English
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- 517,000
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- 86/86
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24 Feb 2026
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The Marshal of the North by Geos1
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
15 Feb 2026
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In the Winter of 299, at the height of the war of the five kings, a young, 18-year-old bastard-born general took command of a ragged, demoralized army on the central north; it was his first command, and many expected him to fail.
Instead, in just one month, he won his first brilliant campaign with astonishing self-confidence, boldness, and energy. He led his army to victory after victory, transforming the war in Westeros, winning praise from a grateful kingdom, and forging a legend.
This is the story of Jon Snow's first campaign, and the dawn of a new age.- Language:
- English
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- 41/?
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20 Feb 2026
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All our silence could not excuse by dwellingondreams
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
28 Jun 2020
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"All our silence could not excuse/Disappoint or further prove/Anything other than what we already know." - MS MR, 'All the Things Lost'.
“Who did you promise?” she asks him, tearful with alarm and terror.
He gives an odd sort of little half smile, then rasps, “Lyanna. I always kept my promises. She would have been so angry with me… otherwise. I had to help her. It was the only way.”
“What was the only way?” Catelyn feels cold sweat dripping down her back, feels slightly feverish herself. “What do you mean, Ned? Did Lyanna ask you to do something?”
“Keep him away… from Robert,” he whispers. “To protect him.”
(Mortally wounded during the Greyjoy Rebellion, a delirious Ned makes a deathbed confession to Catelyn, leaving her to pick up the pieces of both her life and Jon Snow's.)
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18 Feb 2026
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She fell beneath the wheels to help me up by dwellingondreams
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
05 Jul 2020
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"Oh, maybe you were free,/Before my blackened wing covered you,/I took the sing from your song/I made a bed,/Where you don't belong." - Ben Howard, 'Esmerelda'.
“You are the Knight of the Laughing Tree. You disguised yourself as a man and entered the lists?” His tone is caught somewhere between skepticism and… wonder?
“Yes,” she nods in a clipped fashion.
His brow furrows. “Lady Eddara, why?”
“To avenge the honor of a friend,” she replies, and it is almost too easy to slip into the role. To… well, to pretend she were like Lyanna. That she did such wild things without hesitation. That she was so ironclad in her convictions. That she… that she still had dreams. It is alarmingly easy, to pretend.
(Hastily attempting to hide the evidence of her sister's brief time as the Knight of the Laughing Tree, Eddara Stark is discovered by Rhaegar. In an effort to spare Lyanna from Aerys' wroth, Edda claims the shield and armor as her own, and the next day, unwillingly claims a crown of winter roses as well.)
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18 Feb 2026
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Some day people will tell tale of Ashara Dayne, the tragic and beautiful sister of the great Ser Arthur Dayne, who flung herself from the Palestone Sword with a broken heart. They will whisper about the man who dishonored her at Harrenhal, the man who got a bastard on her. But they will never get the story right.
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- English
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- 6/6
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- 117
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05 Jan 2026
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the ghosts that live between us by xylodemon for honey_wheeler
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
19 May 2012
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She comes to the Wall with her hair cropped, a heavy cloak wrapped around the strong curves of her body, but there is no mistaking what she is, or who she is. Jon remembers her from the few occasions her family had visited Winterfell; she had been shorter then, still dressed in skirts, and she had smiled often, laughed with a sound as warm and bright as summer.
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05 Jan 2026
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Matters of Honor by NoOne0_o
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
01 Mar 2018
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Ned returns from the Tower of Joy with not only Lyanna, but the knights who'd been guarding her.
Jaime has a more complicated time navigating his fall from honor with so many knights he'd once admired still around. Especially Ser Arthur, whose presence proves particularly tricky to deal with.
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- 13,251
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- 5
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- 215
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- 3,734
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05 Jan 2026
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The Promised Queen by CatherinewithaK
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
27 Jan 2026
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AU: Robert had been born a girl
Valyrian gods did not offer Aerys a living daughter, so the firstborn of Steffon Baratheon was undoubtedly considered as Prince Rhaegar's prospective bride. Roslyn was brought to Red Keep to be Queen Rhaella's ward, growing up with her cousin.
She thrived in the court and befriended with the dour, melancholic prince. Fearless, exuberant, and gregarious...she was everything he wasn't. So it surprised no one when he finally fell in love with her. Unfortunately, he was not the only one.
Or: A different bride should have solved all the problems, but chaos ensued in another way because of the king's madness.
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- English
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- 351,477
- Chapters:
- 84/?
- Collections:
- 9
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- 4,438
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- 3,101
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03 Jan 2026
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The Wolf Of Casterly Rock by WickedTheRedHorse
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV)
02 Aug 2020
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The solemn girl he met the day before their wedding didn't match up with the stories he'd heard of the she-wolf of Winterfell. His little wife's wild looks seemed somewhat strange when paired with her subdued personality. She spoke clearly but quietly, and though she repeated her courtesies, if a little coldly, she did not smile, nor did those words sound natural from her mouth. She was her brother Ned in every respect, solemn, serious and reserved. And it didn't suit her one bit.
"Just count yourself lucky I won't put up the same fight for you I did for him," She tossed her hair slightly, dark curls dancing in the warm candlelight, an old, proud defiance that was clearly familiar to her returning. It suited her better than the dead shell she had been up until this point. Jaime said nothing. He didn't doubt for a moment that this woman had put up a hell of a fight.
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If Lyanna Stark survived but was married off to Jaime Lannister.
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- 4/4
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02 Jan 2026
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All of Us Honorable by dwellingondreams
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
15 Oct 2021
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In the aftermath of the War of the Ninepenny Kings, Branda Stark, daughter of a mountain clanswoman and a wandering wolf, finds herself wedding a minor lord of the Stormlands, while her younger sister is betrothed to their cousin Rickard, heir to Winterfell. While Branda finds love in her 'lesser' match, taking up residence at the mysterious Amberly, Aerys Targaryen takes the throne, Rickard Stark begins to dream of a southern alliance, and Branda's adventurous children, always in the shadow of their cousins, find themselves scattered across a realm edging closer and closer to civil war.
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- Part 1 of House Rogers
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 271,053
- Chapters:
- 40/40
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- 1,699
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17 Apr 2025
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Some Hearts Are Ghosts by honey_wheeler
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
31 Dec 2012
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“You were fathered by a bear,” Maege said to Dacey then, tucking Rhella into the crook of her arm expertly, “and now your daughter has been fathered by a wolf.”
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- Part 2 of Somewhere Beyond the Bitter End
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07 Apr 2025