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The Council
A group of people from all over Westeros and Essos, whose purpose is mysterious but aims to help defend humanity from those who would threaten it.
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In General
- Adaptational Name Change: For all intents and purposes, they're the fic's equivalent of SHIELD.
- The Conspiracy: The Council intended to bring Jon to Essos after he was born, so he could be raised along with Aegon for his eventual return to take the Iron Throne from the Baratheons. Nowadays, their main plot is to fight against the Others.
- The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: Their existence wasn't even revealed until the end of the first book, and it took almost forty chapters into the second before information about them went into more detail.
- We Are Everywhere: As Fury explains it, they have at least one agent in every castle, city, town and village, each of whom is encouraged to form their own network of informants.
Nikolos Fury
Nikolos Fury a.k.a. Gerion Lannister
An agent of The Council, Nikolos works to prevent the return of the mysterious Court.- Composite Character: He's the missing Gerion who took an alias, becoming Earth 616-Fury.
- Cool Sword: A Valyrian steel one, mind you. That's his family's Ancestral Weapon Brightroar, for which he left Westeros in order to find.
- Decomposite Character: "Nikolos Fury" is an identity used by two men at least. This one is closer in appearance to the mainstream (Earth 616) Marvel comics version.
- Fatal Flaw: Hinted to be complexity addiction mixed with a hefty dose of cynicism — he tried to recruit Jon by indirect means, which leaves the youth distrustful of him.
- Eyepatch of Power: He's one of the "Nick Fury's" of this world, so no shit he'd have this.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He almost alienated himself Jon's support when he attempted to recruit him for fighting the Others, just because he refused to be straight and blunt about it.
- Pet the Dog: Tells Natasha that she is more of a hero than she believes she is.
- Secret-Keeper: Knows that Tony is Iron Man and that Jon is the Centurion and Jaehaerys Targaryen.
- Strong Family Resemblance: When he's scowling, Varys muses he's pretty much Tywin's brother.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Gerion Lannister was known to be a happy-go-lucky, genial fellow. His adventures in Valyria and his actions as an agent of the Council have made him a lot more cynical.
Varys*
Varys
The current Master of Whispers, Varys in reality is an agent for The Council who knows many of Westeros' closest guarded secrets.- Adaptational Heroism: Varys in the books was an Enigmatic Minion that no one could tell to whom was he loyal to, and despite his claims of serving the realm he secretly worked to destabilize it in order to smooth Aegon VI's return to power. Here, he works for the setting's equivalent of SHIELD, whose main goal is to protect the world from the Others.
- Both Sides Have a Point: When Ned refuses to endorse the Iron Man's campaign against corruption because the knight is flouting the law, Varys concedes the point before reminding Lord Stark that Robert's Rebellion was also a violation of the law, and that the Iron Man is not trying to undermine the current king's authority, he's a genuine defender for the smallfolk.
- Cassandra Truth: Despite his flawless track record when it comes to information gathering, no one believes him when he claims that the real Jaime Lannister is still a prisoner in Winterfell, and whoever showed up at Harrenhal wasn't him.
- Crazy-Prepared: He has some of his own "little birds" spy on him, so that they can warn him if he's falling into bad habits without realizing it, or just to give him a second opinion on a conversation he had.
- I Hate Past Me: At one point he comments that he hates his younger self for choosing to make wearing exotic robes part of his role, as he finds them quite gaudy.
- Master Actor: He plays many roles. Even "Varys" as King's Landing knows him is nothing but a role.
- Master of Disguise: Like in canon, he has a variety of disguises on standby for any number of situations.
- Noodle Incident: Had a past encounter with Natasha that led to her not trusting him, and may explain his spider nickname.
- Odd Friendship: Seems to be quite cordial and friendly with the OTHER spider based council member The Black Widow despite their opposite talents.
- Worthy Opponent: Varys admits to being impressed by Tyrion's gambit of using Myrcella's betrothal to rout out Cersei's spy on the Small Council, to the point he considers the possibility of reusing a variation on it for his own means in the future.
Nikolos Fury (other)
The other Nikolos Fury
Another agent of the Council going by the name of Nikolos Fury, he claims to be the cousin of Ser Jaime Rhodes. He is the current Master of Whispers for the North.- Badass Longcoat: Wears long, black leather jackets.
- Decomposite Character: "Nikolos Fury" is an identity used by two men at least. This one is the Marvel Cinematic Universe/Ultimate Marvel version.
- Eyepatch of Power: Apparently only has his to copy the other Fury.
- The Mole: Works for the Council and the North, and claims he was sent by Tony to work for Ned.
Word of God has stated that Tony didn't send him, as he has no idea that Ned didn't have a Master of Whispers. - Related in the Adaptation: Possibly. He claims to be Jaime Rhodes' cousin, but since Word of God says that he wasn't actually sent by Tony, and we know that Nikolos Fury is a pseudonym, it may be a lie.
- The Spymaster: For the Northern Kingdom, he is the Master of Whispers.
Maria Hill
Maria Hill
An agent of the council who works under Gerion/Nikolos Fury, first appearing in Braavos in order to urge Tony to contact Daenerys.
- Age Lift: While every other incarnation is always a grown woman, she's a young teen here.
- Consummate Professional: Takes the work of the Council in preparing to save the world very seriously.
- Heroic Bastard: She's working to prevent the Others from rampaging all over Westeros and her name "Hill" indicates she's a bastard from the Westerlands.
- Related in the Adaptation: While the story hasn't outright said it yet, there are strong hints (confirmed by Word of God) that she's Tyrion's daughter by Tysha, which also means that Gerion is her great-uncle.
- Shared Unusual Trait: Has one eye black and the other green. It serves as a very strong hint that she's Tyrion's daughter by Tysha.
