It's the literal game of thrones. Awesomeness is a given.
- The Dream Team and Battle Couple that is Young Griff and Dany in A Feast For Crows bookmark. The Golden Company, the Unsullied, the courts of both characters and the lords of the Stormlands fighting to install the husband on the Iron Throne? Check. Said husband having good stats? Check. Oh, and the couple can both become dragonriders. Throw in Dornish support, and the Iron Throne is within reach.
- Also, when the Iron Throne is obtained, it is the culmination of the dreams and ambitions of many people:
- Dany returns to her father's kingdom as Queen Consort and as a dragon rider in the vein of her ancestors.
- Doran Martell has the last laugh after what happened to his siblings.
- The Golden Company return to Westeros and take the Iron Throne after more than 100 years. And, if you believe that Aegon is truly a Blackfyre, Aegor's dream of sitting a son of Daemon on the Iron Throne is finally fulfilled.
- Both Jon Connington and Ser Barristan Selmy fulfill their lifelong dreams of serving their lords.
- Also, when the Iron Throne is obtained, it is the culmination of the dreams and ambitions of many people:
- To add to the above, the kingmakers that are the Riverlands and the Vale. Canon!Littlefinger would be proud.
- Speaking of Littlefinger, you can totally place him on the Iron Throne. In the Robert's Rebellion bookmark, he is only sixteen years old and lord of a single dinky county. With the right combination of skill and luck, you work your way higher and higher up the latter. Littlefinger was born ruling a flint tower, but he died ruling a continent.
- Best part: You can use that legendary intrigue of yours to make Catelyn available for marriage. Littlefinger can get the only girl he ever loved, and their children will inherit a continent.
- You can make Robb Stark win the War of the Five Kings against Joffrey, earning justice for Ned and the North, and averting the tragedy of the Red Wedding.
- If you play as Robert Baratheon during the Robert's Rebellion bookmark, then you have a good chance of saving and later marrying Lyanna. This means that King Robert never lets himself go, the Lannisters never work their way into King's Landing via marriage, and the civil war that takes up most of the series never happens. And to top it all off, Daenerys and Joffrey are usually never born in this bookmark. Westeros can expect a golden age of peace and stability, and Robert can expect to grow old and die peacefully in the arms of the woman he loves.
- In A Clash of Kings bookmark, you can win as Joffrey. This in and of itself is not awesome, outside of the skill required to pull it off. But do you know what is awesome? The idea of Robb, Jon, Stannis (or Renly), Aegon of Essos (he comes in later), and Hoster Tully ALL being on the Wall, wearing black and fighting against Others and Wildlings. It also helps that all of these characters look badass in black.
- Or if you take the Iron Throne as Renly or Stannis, you can banish or imprison the entire Kingsguard as well as all Lannisters in King's Landing. Imagine Tyrion Lannister guarding The Wall with his nephew Tommen, his brother Jaime, and his father Tywin. The Lannister Brothers would be badass Night's Watchmen. Also, Joffrey would lose his crown and his power, he would be shunned and humiliated for being a child born of incest, and if you send him to the wall he will probably freeze to death, get murdered by Night Watch recruits for being an obnoxious little shit or get eaten by Others.
- The Baratheon brothers working together in order to claim the Iron Throne for either of them.
- It is rare, but if you start in A Clash of Kings bookmark and play long enough then you might get a chance to arrange a marriage between Tyrion and Daenerys. Both characters are awesome. Also, their children will all be dragon riders.
- This awesomeness is slightly mitigated by the fact that such a marriage will result in either the Lannisters being bred out of Casterly Rock, or the Targarians being bred out of existence.
- Starting as Stannis in A Feast For Crows. Your army is freezing, most of Westeros is against you or neutral, Roose Bolton stands in the way of your winning the North, and Aegon and the Golden Company and maybe even Dorne are gunning for your Stormlands. But if you can beat the Boltons and secure the North, play the Lannisters against the GC, and fight tremendous odds against the Tyrells and lords of the Crownlands. May you sit the rightful heir of Robert Baratheon on the Iron Throne. And it is hard won and glorious. Bonus points for saving Davos and making a lowly smuggler your LP of the Stormlands.
- Dragon Slayers. Enough Said.
- Double the awesomeness when the character with the Dragon Slayer trait is a character from the series.
- Triple the awesomeness when said character is already awesome.
- "Sandor 'the Hound' has just slayed a dragon."
- Dragons. If you ride one you can make conquer an entire continent in one lifetime, as having a dragon makes all but the most foolhardy leaders bend the knee immediately.
- Using your dragon to conquer the world in a single lifetime.
- Everything about starting as Aegon the Conqueror. Riding Balerion into battle is incredible.
- Bringing back the dragons in a bookmark where they've all died out. It's not easy at all, as it requires you to first find a dragon egg (itself a rather rare event), then successfully hatch it (which requires dragon lore from various locations to increase your chances of success), but these difficulties make success all the sweeter. Not only have you brought a legendary species back from extinction, but you have a dragon, and in all likelihood, you are at this point the only person with a dragon on the entire planet.
- Slaying The Mountain in personal combat, especially while playing as Sandor Clegane.
- By using the Ruler Designer and giving your new Lord the traits "Legitimized Bastard" and "House Customizer," you can create a Cadet House of any family you want. While you certainly can imitate House Blackfyre and rise up against your parent house, the nature of the new house is entirely up to you. A few examples for the Great Houses:
- Creating House Redjoy [Greyjoy Cadet] and becoming even more bloody and violent, like Boltons of the sea. Doubly so if your psychotic streak leads to a Heel Realization for the Greyjoys.
- Creating House Dreadwolf [Stark Cadet] and throwing Northern honor aside to protect your cousins in the main house from their own selflessness. Bonus points if you take over the Dreadfort and are the bastard offspring of a Stark and a Bolton. By default, ruler designed bastards only have one parent, but you can save edit yourself your preferred father and mother.
- Creating House Goldfyre [Targaryen Cadet] and having an even bloodier feud with the Blackfyres than the Targaryens did.
- Creating House Silvermane [Lannister Cadet, with reversed Stark colors] and sabotaging Tywin and Cersei in the War of the Five Kings.
- Ditto for any Extinct Houses, who through the House Customizer trait, can be brought Back from the Brink and retake their rightful place in Westeros
- House Mudd, the last King of the Rivers and the Hills who followed the ways of the First Men and the Old Gods before being brought down by the Andal invasion. As their last surviving member, retake the Trident as either King or Lord Paramount, and rebuild Oldstones as the capital once more.
- House Brightstone and Shell, Houses of the Eyrie who were similarly wiped out by the Andals. Take back their lands, and wipe out House Corbray while you're at it
- House Greystark, former vassals and cadet branch of the Starks who were wiped out during a rebellion. Either become The Atoner, rebuild your lands in the North as loyal vassals; war with the Manderleys for your former holdings; Rebel once more against the Starks to become King in the North. Or in the aftermath of the Red Wedding, with the Starks publicly extinct and the Boltons in power, lead a rebellion to take back the North and put it under a Stark descendant once more.
- House Durrandon and House Gardner, former royal families of the Stormlands and Reach respectively. The Targaryens, thanks to a rapidly expanding dynasty and all with claims to the throne, become increasingly weak as time goes on after Aegon's Conquest. Start as either House after the Dance of the Dragons, and you can show the world exactly what Valyrians are without their dragons. Double your points if, as House Durrandon, you exterminate all of House Baratheon save for one woman, who you take as your wife.
- Playing as Aegon the Conqueror is awesome on its own. But the CMOA come when you beat the canon Aegon's feats and conquer Dorne as well.
- When you start as Aegon in 7998, the game gives you a choice between forging the Iron Throne, as in canon, or taking Essos instead and making New Valyria. Why not both?
- The Ironborn claim that their god (and, by extension, themselves) rule all the oceans west of Westeros. What better way to prove that than by defeating the Sunset Invasion or the Brindleman Invasion, without the aid of the greenlanders and being hailed as their saviors?
- Leading the Forresters to victory against the Whitehills. This is extra awesome because the Forresters lost the war and their holding in canon. Not only will they have to make do with an army half the size of the Whitehills', but since the Forresters is officially a vassal of House Bolton, there's a high chance Stannis' army will destroy the Forresters long before they have a chance to take out the Whitehills. Fortunately, that can also work in the player's favor because the same can happen to House Whitehill. Success mostly depends on whom Stannis attacks first, but if the player manages to pull off a victory against the Whitehills while still remaining free from Stannis, it can be a Moment of Awesome. With the blood feud over, it's time to plot revenge against the Boltons...
- Using the Ruler editor, it's possible to create Ser Twenty of House Goodmen, with extremely high martial stat.
