History Fanfic / DragonsOfIceAndFire

* AbortedArc: The black armour in the Nightfort was originally part of a setup for Bran's plot.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Stannis asks Melisandre how Daenerys and her three dragons factor into her prophecies of the Great Other and Stannis as Azor Ahai. She doesn't have a clear answer.

* PrinciplesZealot: Played with. Even after he accepts the truth of Melisandre's prophecies and earns a crazed and harsh reputation, ''The Broken King'', Stannis still carries shades of his former defining trope. While Melisandre and Selyse argue for a [[TheNeedsOfTheMany ritual sacrifice of a thousand people]] Stannis is against killing such numbers of innocents.

** [[spoiler:Bran also has reservations due to self-consciousness about his youth and crippled legs. He and Jon Snow have a heartfelt back and forth before he is finally convinced to accept.]]
* RevenantZombie: Turns out that it's possible for some wights to regain control of their body after the Others turned them. If done quickly enough their hearts re-start and they become regular humans again, like Jon Snow, though it turns his hair white. Those who regain their bodies later have no heartbeat and don't age, like [[spoiler: Coldhands]].

* XanatosGambit: All of the Boltons' and Ramsay's [[spoiler:undercover maneuvering and subterfuge leading up to and during the Battle of Snows. The author refers to it as a Reverse-Xanatos Gambit, where no matter how Jon moved or reacted he would still ''lose'']].

** It's the method that ultimately kills [[spoiler:Malvern. In large part it works because one of Samwell's defining characteristics is his cowardice.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[https://imgur.com/gallery/UgQSU Sonagon, the Dragon of the North]]'' by [[http://www.mattinian.com/portfolio2015.html Ed Mattinian]]]]

* Doorstopper: The series is planned to consist of two books. Book 1: Ice is already 700,000 words long, and WordOfGod says that Book 2: Fire will be about the same.

* PrinciplesZealot: Even after he accepts the truth of Melisandre's propehcies and earns a crazed and harsh reputation, ''The Broken King'' Stannis still carries shades of his former defining trope. While Melisandre and Selyse argue for a [[TheNeedsOfTheMany ritual sacrifice of a thousand people]] Stannis is against killing such numbers of innocents.

* IgnoredEpiphany: Cersei regrets not taking Ned Stark's offer way back in ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'' and leaving Westeros with Jaime and their children. It doesn't matter and it doesn't last.

* Armor-PiercingQuestion: Stannis asks Melisandre how Daenerys and her three dragons factor into her prophecies of the Great Other and Stannis as Azor Ahai. She doesn't have a clear answer.

* ReluctantRuler: Jon Snow to a T. The only reason he demands fealty from the free folk is because he realizes they need a strong ruler to keep them united together against the Others. When Robb Stark's will reveals he is a legitimate heir Jon flat out refuses to be King of the North, but it falls on his shoulders anyway because the other Starks are a missing girl(Arya), under suspicion(Sansa), very young(Rickon), or crippled(Bran).

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[https://i.imgur.com/7Zykym0.jpg Sonagon, the Dragon of the North]]'' by [[http://www.mattinian.com/portfolio2015.html Ed Mattinian]]]]

''Dragons of Ice and Fire'' is an ongoing ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' FanFiction written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4870466/serpentguy serpentguy]] and hosted on [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12200320/1/Dragons-of-Ice-and-Fire [=Fanfiction.net=]]] and [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8346424?view_full_work=true [=Archive of Our Own=]]]. Published in October 2016, with the first of two books nearing completion.

Jon Snow discovers and awakens an ice dragon north of the Wall in the aftermath of a devastating ambush by white walkers while travelling with Mance Rayder's host. Divergences ensue; Jon learns how to bond with the dragon and travels south with the Westeros equivalent of an [[FantasticNuke ultimate weapon]], to unite a war-torn realm and fight the Others. Things do not go as straightforwardly as anyone, Jon included, expected.

* AGodAmI: Euron Greyjoy even before he [[spoiler:summons and binds a kraken. He just offers the occasion as definitive proof.]]

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Cersei absolutely refuses to believe that an Ice Dragon exists, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

* BadassBureaucrat: Tyrion Lannister excels as paymaster of the Golden Company, so much Jon Connington becomes afraid he'll steal the entire campaign.

* BatmanGambit: Petyr Baelish planned to marry Sansa to Harry the Heir specifically because he knew [[spoiler:Harry is the kind of man to exploit MaritalRapeLicense.]] He did this to make Sansa feel vulnerable and hurt so that she'd turn to him for help and become more reliant on him.

* DragonRider: Jon becomes this.

* EmpathicEnvironment: The storms during the Battle of the Snows and the Battle of Oldtown. [[spoiler:Euron engages the fleets in Oldtown right during a violent storm for a reason.]]

* HeroWithBadPublicity: Due to the Boltons keeping a lid on their evil and the wildlings and magic having a bad reputation, Jon is seen as a monstrous EvilSorcerer wildling-king BastardBastard by most of Westeros.

* HollywoodTactics: Played straight and then inverted in the battle of [[spoiler:Oldtown. Euron deliberately makes 'bad' decisions, like charging and ramming much larger and more fortified ships in a naval battle. However, His formations were so suicidal that he wanted to unnerve the defenders by throwing lives away, so the men would freak out and break rank. Inverted in that it was all very much deliberate - he was never trying to win the die, he just wanted enough people to die so that he could [[XanatosGambit summon]] a [[HijackingCthulhu kraken]] with all their blood.]]

** How Jon sees [[spoiler:the return of Sansa Stark to Winterfell]] at first.

** Jon himself, in-universe. Ever since his hair turned white, Bloodraven gave him[[AncestralWeapon an ancestral Targaryen sword]], and he started riding a dragon, many people (including Jon himself) begin wondering if he has Valyrian blood. Several stories and theories of his parentage spread, ranging from an affair with Ashara Dayne to a lost Blackfyre princess Ned Stark harbored. They all agree, however, that [[DramaticIrony Ned Stark is his father]].

* MythologyGag: When discussing the possibility that Jon has Valyrian blood, Lady Mormont informs him that there used to be a rumor that he was the son of Ashara Dayne- just as some fans have theorized.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Although Jon doesn't know it yet, his crushing defeat of Stannis (and the subsequent removal of the OnlySaneMan in his employ) has led Stannis' crew to become more fanatical than ever, Stannis himself turning to piracy and JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope to take Jon down.
** [[spoiler: It's a kind thing Theon does when he stays with Jeyne to die with her. But he was also one of the few people alive who knew the Boltons posed her as Arya Stark. Granted there was a chance he was going to be killed by the Boltons, but the death of ''Arya'' is devastating for Jon and fractures the Northern Alliance.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Slightly deconstructed with Jon; while he manages to keep all of the promises he makes, he does so by crossing several lines that he ''wasn't'' sworn to obey (or raised to follow due to Ned Stark's HonorBeforeReason), despite knowing it will still displease his allies. The result is that nobody can get a problem with his behavior that's large enough to call him out on it, but tensions rise as his followers and allies become more irritated.

* RevenantZombie: Turns out that it's possible for some wights to regain control of their body after the Others turned them. If done quickly enough their hearts re-start and they become regular humans again, like Jon, though it turns his hair white. Those who regain their bodies later have no heartbeat and don't age, like [[spoiler: Coldhands]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:[[DeadPersonImpersonation Arya Stark]] in Winterfell. Jon launches a whole campaign to save his sister, amassing free folk and northmen to march on Winterfell to rescue her... only for "Arya" to burn to death in a tower while Jon's army is ambushed outside the castle walls. In the immediate aftermath, Jon's sister is thought dead and he even receives the blame for her murder. Nobody even finds out that she was a fake, Jon mourns Arya's death and it makes the entire northern coalition's purpose moot.]]

* TheDreaded: Euron, Ramsay, Jon, Malvern, the list goes on, with some more justified than others.

** Invoked in Varys case, as he intends to do all the DirtyBusiness for the Golden Company so Aegon won't have to.

* UnknownRival: Thanks to a combination of Melisandre's false visions implying that Jon is The Great Other's Champion and the CurbStompBattle that he suffered, Stannis sees Jon as his ArchEnemy. While Jon knows Stannis doesn't like him, Ramsay Bolton and the Nights King are his ''real'' [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]], and Stannis isn't even in his top ten priorities.
* UnwantedFalseFaith: Happens to Sonagon after a religion forms around the ice dragon. The dragon doesn't seem to mind, but Jon does.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[https://i.imgur.com/7Zykym0.jpg Sonagon, the White Dragon of the North]]'' by Ed Mattinian]]

''Dragons of Ice and Fire'' is an ongoing ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' FanFiction written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4870466/serpentguy serpentguy]] and hosted on [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12200320/1/Dragons-of-Ice-and-Fire [=Fanfiction.net=]]] and [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8346424?view_full_work=true [=Archive of Our Own=]]]. Published in October 2016, it currently spans 42 chapters with over 600,000 words.

* DisappointedInYou: Olyvar Frey, Robb Stark’s former squire, is convinced that Robb would have had this reaction to his half-brother after [[spoiler:Jon Snow demolishes The Twins in dragon fire]]. On occasion Jon agonizes over how his father and brother would feel about the decisions he has had to make to unite the free folk and northerners against the Others.

** Subverted on the heroes side, as Jon's original plan was to Warg Sonagon the same way he does to Phantom. Turns out dragons are natural Wargs.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[https://i.imgur.com/7Zykym0.jpg Sonagon, the White Dragon of the North]]'' by [Artist unknown at the moment]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[https://i.imgur.com/7Zykym0.jpg Sonagon, the White Dragon of the North]]'' by [Artist unknown at the moment]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[https://i.imgur.com/7Zykym0.jpg Sonagon, the White Dragon of the North]]'' by [Artist unknown at the moment]]

* SpoiledByTheFormat: Specifically in regards to the Archive of Our Own server, which includes characters lists and relationships in story headings. Especially in regards to the tagged relationship [[spoiler:Jon Snow/Daenerys Targaryen]]. After over 40 chapters and 600,00 words the two characters have yet to encounter one another.
** According to WordOfGod, this was inadvertent; it was originally intended for Daenerys to have an prominent role earlier, but then the author changed their plan such that Book 1 would focus on Jon, and then Daenerys would only be introduced in Book 2.

* TalkingDownTheSuicial: Played with during Sansa's escape to the North. [[spoiler: She's desperate enough to be rid of Littlefinger to [[DriveToSuicide jump off the walls of White Harbor]], but she also plays the situation so Littlefinger's man is more focused on calming a frightened girl and less on her hidden dagger.]]

** Jon himself, in-universe. Since Bloodraven gave him [[AncestralWeapon Dark Sister]], his hair turned white, and he started riding a dragon, many people (including Jon himself) began wondering if he has Valyrian blood and several stories and theories of his parentage come up.

* IdiotBall: Because of the ginormous ice breathing dragon on their side some of Jon Snow's allies [[spoilers:and some of his traitors]] believe and act as though they are all but guaranteed to win easily. Jon quickly learns this is not the case, but mostly from experience. A dragon can destroy, but it cannot conquer and rule.