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* CoitusEnsues: Alys Karstark and Sigorn have sex at the end of her chapter, which ends with [[spoiler:alarm announcing the sighting of White Walkers near the Wall]].
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* TheDragon: Euron Greyjoy to the Night King; he's acting on the Night King's behest to disrupt any activities that would stop the Long Night.


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* ThePeepingTom: Euron uses his greenseer powers to spy on two couples (Bran and Meera and Jon and Sansa).

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Followed by a sequel, "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40758741/chapters/102130866 The Hour of the Wolf]]".



* DecoyProtagonist: Ryman Frey is the viewpoint protagonist for the story's prologue, but is offed at its end (as usual with [[TeaserOnlyCharacter prologue viewpoints]]).

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** Bennis, a farmer near the God's Eye, is the viewpoint character for the sequel's prologue. He and his wife Dalla are murdered by Euron and his men.


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** Euron Greyjoy has one of his men cut out one of his eyes.


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* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:The fate of Bennis and Dalla, the couple who sheltered Euron.]]

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* BizarreSeasons: Much like in canon, this trope is part of the MythArc. Notably though, winter arrives earlier and it has been snowing in King's Landing for days by the time of Jaime's first chapter.

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* BizarreSeasons: Much like in canon, this trope is part of the MythArc. Notably though, winter arrives earlier and it has been snowing in King's Landing for days by the time of Jaime's first chapter. It's even snowing as far south as Dorne, as some of the civilians have found out the hard way.



* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Dickon threatens one of Euron's men by [[{{Fingore}} telling Bronn to cut off one of his thumbs]] before he talks.



* ShoutOut: The author based Bran's system of organizing the memories he accesses off of the door system from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''.

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* ShoutOut: The author based Bran's system of organizing the memories he accesses off of the door system from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''.''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' and ''Film/TheMatrix''.

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* CoitusEnsues: Alys Karstark and Sigorn have sex at the end of her chapter, which ends with [[spoiler:alarm announcing the sighting of White Walkers near the Wall]].



* CoitusEnsues: Alys Karstark and Sigorn have sex at the end of her chapter, which ends with [[spoiler:alarm announcing the sighting of White Walkers near the Wall]].

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* CoitusEnsues: Alys Karstark CruelAndUnusualDeath: Blowing the Horn of Winter will cause the blower to spew BloodFromEveryOrifice and Sigorn have sex at burn from the end of her chapter, which ends with [[spoiler:alarm announcing the sighting of White Walkers near the Wall]]. inside-out.



* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:Instead of being burned alive by Drogon, Randyll Tarly is stabbed by Euron Greyjoy.]]

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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
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[[spoiler:Instead of being burned alive by Drogon, Randyll Tarly is stabbed by Euron Greyjoy.]]



* EyeScream: Ser Ilyn Payne is seen executing a man who stabbed a Gold Cloak in the eye.

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* EyeScream: Ser EyeScream:
** Kedge Whiteye is blind in his left eye.
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Ilyn Payne is seen executing a man who stabbed a Gold Cloak in the eye.

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* CoveredWithScars: Sansa's wounds from her DomesticAbuse at Ramsay's hands are described in more detail. She has a series of shallow knife wounds, wax burns on her abdomen, burns from a hot poker applied to her thighs, lacerations from a potato peeler, and Ramsay cut off one of her nipples.

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* CoveredWithScars: Sansa's wounds from her DomesticAbuse at Ramsay's hands are described in more detail. She has a series of shallow knife wounds, wounds all over her body, wax burns on her abdomen, burns from a hot poker applied to her thighs, lacerations from a potato peeler, and Ramsay cut off one of her nipples.


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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:Instead of being burned alive by Drogon, Randyll Tarly is stabbed by Euron Greyjoy.]]


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* FaceDeathWithDignity: After getting stabbed, [[spoiler:Randyll Tarly grimly admits that he's done for, forgives Sam for taking Heartsbane for a good cause, and tells Dickon to take care of his remaining family.]]


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* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Randyll Tarly eventually turns on Cersei and has her imprisoned, declaring Jaime king.]]
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Cersei is [[RealityEnsues hated by the smallfolk for destroying the Great Sept]].

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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Cersei is [[RealityEnsues hated by the smallfolk for destroying the Great Sept]].Sept.
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** Dickon Tarly is the main POV in King's Landing after Jaime Lannister leaves northward.

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* EyeScream: Ser Ilyn Payne is seen executing a man who stabbed a Gold Cloak in the eye.



* MythologyGag: Cersei makes a reference to Catelyn Stark rising from her watery grave. This [[spoiler:indeed happened in the books with Catelyn being resurrected by Beric Dondarrion and becoming Lady Stoneheart.]]



* PragmaticVillainy: Cersei attempts to hire several assassins to kill Sansa, but they all refuse because they don't want to go where it's cold.

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* PragmaticVillainy: PragmaticVillainy:
** Cersei agrees to send an army to the Riverlands to hunt for Arya so she can say she held up her end of the deal with the Freys.
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Cersei attempts to hire several assassins to kill Sansa, but they all refuse because they don't want to go where it's cold.

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* DecoyProtagonist: Ryman Frey is the viewpoint protagonist for the story's prologue, but is offed at its end (as usual).

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* DecoyProtagonist: Ryman Frey is the viewpoint protagonist for the story's prologue, but is offed at its end (as usual).usual with [[TeaserOnlyCharacter prologue viewpoints]]).



* InSpiteOfANail: Sam cures Jorah's greyscale by flaying him.



* OnlyAFleshWound: Tanton Fossoway's eye wound that he got during the siege of Highgarden infects and [[SubvertedTrope he dies three days later]].

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* OnlyAFleshWound: Tanton Fossoway's eye wound that he got during the siege of Highgarden infects gets infected and [[SubvertedTrope he dies three days later]].



* {{Revenge}}: Tyrion intends to have Littlefinger slowly tortured to death for selling Sansa to the Boltons.

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* {{Revenge}}: Tyrion intends to have Littlefinger slowly tortured to death for selling Sansa to the Boltons. It doesn't wind up coming to that because Jon executes Littlefinger first.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Ryman Frey drinks due to the death of his wife in childbirth.


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* ThickerThanWater: Despite not agreeing with the Red Wedding, Arwood Frey pressures the Starks to punish Arya for the deaths of seven of his kinsmen who did not participate in the Red Wedding.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Tanton Fossoway's eye wound that he got during the siege of Highgarden infects and [[SubvertedTrope he dies three days later]].

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* CoitusEnsues: Alys Karstark and Sigorn have sex at the end of her chapter, which ends with [[spoiler:alarm announcing the sighting of White Walkers near the Wall]].



* CoitusEnsus: Alys Karstark and Sigorn have sex at the end of her chapter, which ends with [[spoiler:a White Walker attack on the Wall]].
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* CoitusEnsus: Alys Karstark and Sigorn have sex at the end of her chapter, which ends with [[spoiler:a White Walker attack on the Wall]].
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* ThroneMadeOfX: A throne made of weirwood roots lies beneath Winterfell. Bran uses it a sort of magical battery, allowing him greater focus for his powers.
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* BizarreSeasons: Much like in canon, this trope is part of the MythArc. Notably though, winter arrives earlier and it has been snowing in King's Landing for days by the time of Jaime's first chapter.
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* SwitchingPOV: Like the books, the fic uses a system of each chapter being told from the perspective of a different character.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Cersei is [[RealityEnsues hated by the smallfolk for destroying the Great Sept]].
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* MoralMyopia: Reviewers have noted that while Arwood demands Arya's head for the deaths of seven innocent Freys, he doesn't seem willing to acknowledge the murders committed at the Red Wedding as wrong.


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* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Littlefinger is decapitated by Jon.]]
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* CassandraTruth: Melisandre and the Brotherhood without Banners meet Daenerys and her forces to warn them of the White Walkers, but it falls on deaf ears since Daenerys is unwilling to wait any longer to take the Iron Throne.


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* {{Revenge}}: Tyrion intends to have Littlefinger slowly tortured to death for selling Sansa to the Boltons.

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* AdaptationalBadass: Bran's telepathic abilities are expanded, as he is able to communicate with Archmaester Marwyn in Oldtown.



* CoveredWithScars: Sansa's wounds from her DomesticAbuse at Ramsay's hands are described in more detail. She has a series of shallow knife wounds, wax burns on her abdomen, and Ramsay cut off one of her nipples.

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* CoveredWithScars: Sansa's wounds from her DomesticAbuse at Ramsay's hands are described in more detail. She has a series of shallow knife wounds, wax burns on her abdomen, burns from a hot poker applied to her thighs, lacerations from a potato peeler, and Ramsay cut off one of her nipples.


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* DreamWeaver: Archmaester Marwyn is apparently one of these since he's been planting visions in Jaime Lannister's dreams to get him to go to Moat Cailin and seek out Jon Snow.


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* EndlessCorridor: Bran's organization of human memory revolves around this trope, as a hallway with many doors leading off it to various moments in time.


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* ShoutOut: The author based Bran's system of organizing the memories he accesses off of the door system from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''.


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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Someone has been trying to poison Sam at the Citadel.
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** Sandor Clegane is a prominent character, but not one that we’re really inside the head of during the books. He gets his own set of POV chapters here.

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** Sandor Clegane is a prominent character, but not one that we’re we're really inside the head of during the books. He gets his own set of POV chapters here.



* CoveredWithScars: Sansa’s wounds from her DomesticAbuse at Ramsay’s hands are described in more detail. She has a series of shallow knife wounds, wax burns on her abdomen, and Ramsay cut off one of her nipples.

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* CoveredWithScars: Sansa’s Sansa's wounds from her DomesticAbuse at Ramsay’s Ramsay's hands are described in more detail. She has a series of shallow knife wounds, wax burns on her abdomen, and Ramsay cut off one of her nipples.



* DrillSergeantNasty: Sandor uses most of the time he’s at Moat Cailin to train up the soldiers there the best he can, similar to what Jon had to do back in the first book.
* GreenAroundTheGills: Tyrion spends most of the voyage back to Westeros suffering from seasickness. Varys said he’d be better if he didn’t drink, but Tyrion refuses to stop drinking, putting the two of them back at square one.

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* DrillSergeantNasty: Sandor uses most of the time he’s he's at Moat Cailin to train up the soldiers there the best he can, similar to what Jon had to do back in the first book.
* GreenAroundTheGills: Tyrion spends most of the voyage back to Westeros suffering from seasickness. Varys said he’d he'd be better if he didn’t didn't drink, but Tyrion refuses to stop drinking, putting the two of them back at square one.

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* BodyHorror: Sansa's body is covered with numerous wounds from Ramsay's torture. One of her nipples was cut off, she has many scars from Ramsay's knife, and there are many wax burns on her abdomen.



* CoveredWithScars: Sansa’s wounds from her DomesticAbuse at Ramsay’s hands are described in more detail. She has a series of shallow knife wounds, wax burns on her abdomen, and Ramsay cut off one of her nipples.



* GreenAroundTheGills: Tyrion spends most of the voyage back to Westeros suffering from seasickness.

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* GreenAroundTheGills: Tyrion spends most of the voyage back to Westeros suffering from seasickness. Varys said he’d be better if he didn’t drink, but Tyrion refuses to stop drinking, putting the two of them back at square one.
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** Sandor Clegane is a prominent character, but not one that we’re really inside the head of during the books. He gets his own set of POV chapters here.


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* DrillSergeantNasty: Sandor uses most of the time he’s at Moat Cailin to train up the soldiers there the best he can, similar to what Jon had to do back in the first book.

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* SpottingTheThread: One of the Frey soldiers is able to figure out who Arya is by seeing Needle.

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* SpottingTheThread: SnowMeansDeath: The Tyrell forces clash with the Tarly forces on a snowy day.
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One of the Frey soldiers is able to figure out who Arya is by seeing Needle.Needle.
** Dickon is able to spot that the Highgarden force is merely a token force because there are too few soldiers at the front lines.

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* CampingACrapper: One of Jaime's men is torn apart while going off to take a dump.

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* CampingACrapper: One of Jaime's men is torn apart by a wolf while going off to take a dump.



* NumberTwo: Igon Vyrwel has command of the Tyrell forces and once Captain of the Guard at Highgarden.

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* NumberTwo: Igon Vyrwel has command of the Tyrell forces and was once Captain of the Guard at Highgarden.Highgarden.
* PragmaticVillainy: Cersei attempts to hire several assassins to kill Sansa, but they all refuse because they don't want to go where it's cold.
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* TheBusCameBack: Harrenhal makes its first appearance in Chapter 16 after being absent from every season after Season 3.
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* TheBait: Olenna has set up Highgarden as bait. With only a token force defending it, Highgarden's resources have been split between three castles, forcing the Lannisters to spread their forces thin and leave King's Landing open.


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* DidntSeeThatComing: Nobody in Dorne expected winter, as Tyrion observes several hastily-built sets of shutters and numerous candles.
* GreenAroundTheGills: Tyrion spends most of the voyage back to Westeros suffering from seasickness.
* NumberTwo: Igon Vyrwel has command of the Tyrell forces and once Captain of the Guard at Highgarden.


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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: It doesn't take long for Tyrion and Ellaria Sand to start snarling death threats at each other because Ellaria blames Tyrion for Oberyn's death.
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"[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28717572?view_full_work=true A Forging of Alliances]]" is a ''Series/GameOfThrones'' fanfic that is a FixFic for the last two seasons of the show.

!!Tropes that appear in this work:

* AscendedExtra:
** Ryman Frey is mainly a supporting character amongst the Freys in the books, but here he is the first POV.
** Eddison Tollet is mainly a SatelliteCharacter to Jon and Sam in the books and show, but he also takes a POV.
* BadBoss: Euron sacrifices one of his men as a demonstration of what the dragonbinder horn can do; the man blows the horn and is burned to death by whatever magic is in the horn.
* BodyHorror: Sansa's body is covered with numerous wounds from Ramsay's torture. One of her nipples was cut off, she has many scars from Ramsay's knife, and there are many wax burns on her abdomen.
* CatapultNightmare: Chapter 2 opens with Dolorous Edd waking up from a nightmare of being killed by wights, in the exact same way [[Recap/GameOfThronesS8E3TheLongNight as in the show]].
* ChildSoldier: Kedge Whiteeye became a member of the Night's Watch as a ten-year-old boy.
* DeathByChildbirth: Ryman Frey's wife died giving birth to Petyr.
* DecoyProtagonist: Ryman Frey is the viewpoint protagonist for the story's prologue, but is offed at its end (as usual).
* SpottingTheThread: One of the Frey soldiers is able to figure out who Arya is by seeing Needle.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Ryman Frey opens the story having just taken command of the Freys. When [[spoiler:he is poisoned]], Arwood Frey leads the efforts to find and kill Arya.
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