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After the Dragons by ey085
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV)
17 Mar 2026
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Summary
Elia Martell survives the Sack of King’s Landing and returns to Dorne to rule, her daughter Rhaenys left in King’s Landing as both consort and carefully contained threat. Years later, Jon Snow—no longer a bastard, newly legitimized and already a war hero—rides south to Sunspear seeking alliance. Instead, he finds the woman who was once his father’s wife: older than him by twenty-six years, sharp-eyed, politically formidable, and far more alive than history ever allowed her to be. What begins as wary diplomacy turns into something slower, more dangerous—an attraction neither of them rushes, both of them question, and the realm would gladly condemn. Between Rhaenys’s ambition, Daenerys’s claim, and the ghosts of Rhaegar and Lyanna standing between them, Jon and Elia must navigate a love shaped by grief, generational divide, and the knowledge that some happiness comes late—and may not be meant to last.
Series
- Part 1 of After the Dragons