History Fanfic / RingMaker

* WrittenByTheWinners: [[spoiler: After Bakuda apparently kills the Wards and Glory Girl, Annatar tells her that like how almost nobody remembers Grendel but everyone remembers Beowulf, his killer, no one will remember her as more than a footnote in Annatar's own story in the end. The trope name is even dropped in an Omake where she ''does'' know who Grendel is]].

** [[spoiler: Gold Morning]] is this rather than the final battle in and of itself, as [[Gotterdammerung Dagor Dagorath]] looms over Earth Bet due to Morgoth being a GreaterScopeVillain.

* Gotterdammerung: Dagor Dagorath from Middle-Earth canon. [[spoiler: Gold Morning is the opening salvo, and the epilogue ends with the forces of the West preparing for Morgoth to escape the Doors of Night]].

* UnexpectedCharacter: [[spoiler: the Witch-King of Angmar cameos in Arc 14]].

Complete. Can be found on [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/ring-maker-worm-lord-of-the-rings-alt-power.39492/ Sufficient Velocity]], [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/ring-maker-worm-lord-of-the-rings-alt-power.517894/ SpaceBattles]], [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12557361/1/Ring-Maker FF.net]], and [[Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn AO]][[http://archiveofourown.org/works/11392257/chapters/25512489 3]].

Complete. Can be found on [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/ring-maker-worm-lord-of-the-rings-alt-power.39492/ Sufficient Velocity]], [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/ring-maker-worm-lord-of-the-rings-alt-power.517894/ SpaceBattles]], [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12557361/1/Ring-Maker FF.net]], and [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/11392257/chapters/25512489 AO3]].

* SequelHook: In the epilogue, Taylor and company share a vision of [[spoiler: Curumo, aka Saruman, who has likewise been reincarnated... on [[Literature/TheStormlightArchive Roshar, as Kaladin Stormblessed]]]]. They all resolve to undergo a quest to find [[spoiler: him]].

* ArtifactOfDoom: The One Ring, which is mentioned several times but as of yet appeared only in cameos. [[spoiler: it doesn't make it's first on-screen appearance until Dawn 14.5]].

As of the end of January 2022, the fic is mostly complete, with the last few updates being epilogue chapters. Can be found on [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/ring-maker-worm-lord-of-the-rings-alt-power.39492/ Sufficient Velocity]], [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/ring-maker-worm-lord-of-the-rings-alt-power.517894/ SpaceBattles]], [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12557361/1/Ring-Maker FF.net]], and [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/11392257/chapters/25512489 AO3]].

** [[spoiler: Being a Maiar means this comes naturally to Taylor]].

** [[spoiler: Taylor]] is the last remaining Maiar actively involved in Arda [[spoiler: until the hosts of Valinor show up for Gold Morning]].

** Again played straight by [[spoiler Emma Barnes, who deals the coup-de-grace to finnish of scion at the end of Gold Morning]].

* SequelHook: In the epilogue, Taylor and company share a vision of [[spoiler: Curumo, aka Saruman, who has likewise been reincarnated... on [[Literature/TheStormlightArchive Roshar, as Kaladin Stormblessed]]. They all resolve to undergo a quest to find [[spoiler: him]].

Can be found on [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/ring-maker-worm-lord-of-the-rings-alt-power.39492/ Sufficient Velocity]], [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/ring-maker-worm-lord-of-the-rings-alt-power.517894/ SpaceBattles]], [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12557361/1/Ring-Maker FF.net]], and [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/11392257/chapters/25512489 AO3]].

* DeusExMachina: [[Gold Morning ends in a Tolkienesque Eucatastrophe, with the hosts of Valinor as TheCavalry for the Protectorate, and to prepare for Dagor Dagorath]].

* {{Anticlimax}}: [[spoiler: the Slaughterhouse Nine fight ends like this. Considering it was in the buildup to Gold Morning, this was inevitable]].

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Grue joins the Wards post-Leviathan]].

** [[spoiler: Taylor]] is the last remaining Maiar actively involved in Arda.

* BowAndSwordInAccord: [[spoiler: Sophia used Narsil for a brief time, and finds that she misses having a sword. Taylor offer to make her a new one]].

** ''Everyone'' in at least one Omake where [[ArtifactOfDoom the One Ring]] is forged.

* {{Seer}}:

* DistantFinale: ''the entire fic'' is one for [[spoiler: the Witch-King]].

* ArtifactOfDoom: The One Ring, which is mentioned several times but as of yet appeared only in cameos.

* DramaPreservingHandicap: Taylor can only use one of her three rings at once.

* ChristmasEpisode: One Omake is this, with Annatar in a sexy santa outfit asking the Wards what they desire.

* TheDreaded: Annatar eventually becomes this to basically every criminal in the Bay. She scares [[spoiler: Emma Barnes]] so much that the latter [[EnemyMine allies with Empire 88 against her]].

** [[spoiler: And then the Heartbroken provoke Annatar to a Second Trigger, inadvertently unleashing the reborn Sauron loose on Earth Bet, provoking Armsmaster and Shadow Stalker to form an alliance against her]].

*** The three Silmarils canonically wound up in a chasm of fire (fire), thrown into the sea (water), and carried through the sky on a flying ship (air), leading at least one Omake to suggest that the first three Endbringers- Behemoth (fire), Leviathan (water), and the Simurgh (air)- are corrupted silmarils, [[one Omake with Earendil also implying that the Simurgh is also a corrupted ''Elwing'']].

** Taylor's reaction to seeing [[spoiler: Hookwolf]] is ''"[[Literature/TheSilmarillion I could show him what a real werewolf is capable of]]"''.
** Maglor makes a cameo in an Omake, having jumped to intervene when hearing of Annatar.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: When Annatar second-triggers, she decides not to and proceeds to fight off her shard.]]
** [[spoiler: the trope is also Zig-Zagged because Maiar could be the 'Cthulhu' in relation to the Shard]].
** Sophia also gets one when she [[spoiler: stands up to ''Sauron'' in single combat]], a feat matched in canon only by [[spoiler: Luthien, Huan, Gil-Galad, and Elendil]].

* TheDreaded: Annatar eventually becomes this to basically every criminal in the Bay.

* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler: Hearth ends with the Endbringer attack]].
** [[spoiler: After Leviathan, Valefor shows up, having taken offense to Annatar standing up to the monster. Then, right after Coil of all people has stolen the Ring of Fire via Trickster, ''Heartbreaker'' shows up, looking for Regent]].

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Emma gets one in "Twinkle 2.3" when she tries to bully Taylor after the latter's trigger event.

* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler: There are a number of hints that Taylor is Mairon/Sauron reborn, which are effectively confirmed later]].