History Fanfic / TheMountainAndTheWolf

* AssInAmbassador: Though he's hidden while he does it, the Wolf interrupts Cersei and Danaerys' final parley with a string of insults that causes Cersei to have a bunch of prisoners executed. He justifies it as letting them die quickly rather than starving to death in a siege, and weakening Cersei by costing her hostages.

** Jon ends up killing another during the siege of King's Landing when the Norscan starts attacking both citizens and Daenerys' soldiers.

* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: The Wolf tends to use Bretonnians (''Warhammer''[='=]s FantasyCounterPartCulture to Arthurian french myths) when looking for an unfavorable comparison. Note that the author is [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales french himself]].

** Baelish was given a sword, but proved so ineffective with it the Wolf gave him a second chance [[spoiler:only to betray him.]]

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Given that they're war-loving [[EldritchAbomination Chaos]] [[ReligionOfEvil Worshippers]] from a world far darker and brutal than even the ''Game of Thrones'' universe at its worst, there's quite a lot of instances of GOT characters expressing horror and disbelief at the Norscans' sheer brutality and alien ways.

* MassOhCrap: Beric and Arya are happily reuniting with Sandor, who casually mentions that he saw the Wolf decapitate the revived Mountain. As they know he's taking the skulls for a sinister purpose, they rush out to find Tyrion, Jon and Grey Worm, and later warn the Red Priests, who have a similar reaction.

* TheQuisling: Baelish was entirely ready to sell out the entire world to the Wolf and his gods in exchange for saving his own skin (and getting Sansa in the bargain). [[spoiler:Fittingly enough, the Wolf lets him think he has a chance of escaping before stabbing him in the back then slitting his throat.]]

* EqualOpportunityEvil: The Wolf ends up recruiting Ironborn sailors, Dothraki riders and cannibalistic Wildlings. He's also seen to have champions of all four Chaos gods working for him (a Khornate berserker, Nurglite mercenaries, a Slaaneshi ShapeshitingSeducer and a Tzeentchian seer).

* HumanDemonHybrid: The Wolf repeatedly ([[KickTheSonOfABitch but unintentionally]]) inflicts Karmic Injuries on his enemies. Justified since he's sacrificing them to the Chaos gods (of rage, hedonism, betrayal, and decay respectively) and tries to make the victim's death match the intended god:
** The Mountain [[spoiler:has his skull burst]] as he did to Elia Martell.
** Ramsay Bolton [[spoiler:is flayed alive]] as his House is famous for, and [[spoiler:emasculated]] as he did to Theon.
** Petyr Baelish is (literally and figuratively) [[spoiler:backstabbed]] after being told he'd be spared.
** Euron Greyjoy is silenced not by ripping his tongue out as he did to his crew but [[spoiler:by being held underwater until he drowns]].
** [[spoiler:The (zombified) Mountain]] gets an eye stabbed, just as it had gouged out one of [[spoiler:Sandor's]] eyes.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: While under the influence of his possessed hand, Jaime kills several of the Wolf's men with ease, then demands one that can provide a challenge. He turns around to see the Wolf looking at him.

* BadassAbnormal: Jaime gets his golden hand enchanted (and likely possessed by a Daemon) into a MorphWeapon, making him a much more dangerous fighter.

* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: The Wolf tends to use Bretonnians(''Warhammer''[='=]s FantasyCounterPartCulture to Arthurian french myths) when looking for an unfavorable comparison. Note that the author is [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales french himself]].

* AnimalMotifs: Subverted, the only noticeably wolf-like element about the Wolf (real name Wulfrik) are his fangs, whenever he smiles.

* DefiantToTheEnd: One Lannister soldier actually insults the Wolf despite being about to die. The Wolf congratulates him for his courage before killing him much faster than the previous one.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The Wolf is repeatedly baffled by some of the Westerosi's kinder actions, whether it's Davos loyally serving Stannis despite Stannis [[BlueAndOrangeMorality cutting some of Davos's fingers for smuggling food despite saving his life]], Bran forgiving Jaime and refusing to denounce him to his family despite Jaime permanently crippling him, Daenerys sparing (formerly) enemy soldiers rather than executing them or Tyrion [[spoiler:asking Wulfrik to spare Bronn despite Bronn having tried to kill Tyrion just seconds ago]].

** Conversely, the Wolf seems to have difficulty remembering some of the people he deals with, only vaguely remembering he'd seen Tyrion once.

** After Jon kills a Norscan berserker, the Wolf brings him the man's armor, axe, and head as these are his by right of victory, and says it's not a bad start for a collection.

* GuestStarPartyMember: The Wolf recruits Harald Hammerstorm (one of the iconic but little-used Warhammer characters) during an expedition to fight a Tomb King. His payment is being dropped off near the Crater of the Waking Dead, a ForeverWar between two permanently-reanimating Tomb King armies in exchange for capturing a Nehekharan noble.
* HeightInsult: The Wolf tends to belittle people for their height (especially if they were taller than average), referring to the Mountain as "Molehill" and claiming Smalljon was well-named. Oddly, he doesn't make height jokes when talking to Tyrion, who he seems to have genuine respect for.

* HornyVikings: The Norscans (including Wulfrik) and the Ironborn perfectly embody this trope from their penchant for raiding and killing to taking women as their captives.

** The Wolf tells Theon to grow a pair, not knowing why that comment might cut Theon deeper than most.
** Similarly, he tells Jon that those who order people's executions are rarely the executioners themselves.
** And again, when discussing how best to defend King's Landing from the Iron Fleet, not knowing/caring that Davos doesn't like to be reminded of his son being burned to death during one such invasion.
** And turned on the Wolf when Tyrion mentions AlcoholInducedIdiocy, a subject that happens to be the Wolf's TraumaButton.
** The Wolf enters a cellar used as a crypt and says it reeks in there, as Akkarulf is accompanying him.

* MasochistsMeal: The Norscans have a ceremony called the Doomdrinking where every man drinks of a GargleBlaster, one ingredient of which is ''troll bile''. Akkarulf sees one man whose jaws were dissolved by the stuff and understands why it's treated as a test of courage.

** Downplayed. The Wolf doesn't deny [[spoiler:that Daenerys is dead by his hand]], but clearly feels it's her fault for [[spoiler:trying to a hit meant for a dragon.]]

* NothingIsScarier: The Wolf brings the Silence to a subterranean lake and tells the crew to wait inside the ship while he conducts business with the denizens and not go outside lest they be ambushed and slaughtered. Whatever's outside makes a few efforts to break in but isn't seen. It's revealed in the next chapter to have been [[spoiler:Skaven]], which the Wolf brought in to help Qyburn with his reanimation project.
* OddFriendship: The Wolf gets along quite well with Tyrion of all people (it's not exactly mutual on Tyrion's part). Even though his insensitive comments get on Tyrion's nerves most of the time and he's shown to have sinister motives, he never cracks a dwarf joke. Tyrion, on the other hand, endures the Wolf's obnoxious brand of friendship, even if he does conside the Wolf useful.

* PassedOverPromotion: Gorion (an Ironborn captain who led the expedition to the Isle of Faces) thought the Wolf would make him master of the Silence, but chose Akkarulf instead. He protests, but Akkarulf yields to him, to everyone's surprise (and the Wolf's disappointment).

* EnigmaticMinion: While the reader knows what Wulfrik is doing in Westeros, and he himself doesn't hide the fact that he's there to serve the chaos Gods, the ''Game of Thrones'' characters, due to not knowing what he Chaos Gods are and never really askign in details, don't understand what exactly the Wolf is there for until he's left their employ.