History Fanfic / DragonsofIceandFire

''Dragons of Ice and Fire'' is an ongoing ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' FanFiction written by Serpentguy, edited (and currently hosted by) by Diablo Snowblind, and hosted on [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14195348/1/Dragons-of-Ice-and-Fire [=Fanfiction.net=]]]. The first chapter was published in October 2016, with the first of two books completed. The second book is on permanent hiatus, with a basic outline given in the comments section of the final book one chapter.

In the aftermath of a white walker's devastating ambush on Mance Rayder's host Jon Snow awakens an ice dragon north of the Wall. 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.

* KillItWithFire: Played straight with the [[BurnTheUndead Other's wights]], even the [[spoiler: ice wyrms]] but then very much averted with [[spoiler: [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Qyburn's special creatures]] - that he uses as [[ManOnFire unstoppable suicide]] [[BurnBabyBurn bombers carrying wildfire]].]]

* TheBeastmaster: Skinchangers and wargs in general. With Jon, he has [[CanineCompanion Ghost]], [[RightHandCat Phantom]], and, of course, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Sonagon]]. He later gains the mammoth [[WarElephants Wrath]] during [[spoiler:The Battle for the Wall]]. The three-eyed crow, Bran, Varamyr and all the other wargs all qualify too.

''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/14195348/1/Dragons-of-Ice-and-Fire[=Fanfiction.net=]]] and [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8346424?view_full_work=true [=Archive of Our Own=]]]. The first chapter was published in October 2016, with the first of two books completed. The second book is on permanent hiatus, with a basic outline given in the comments section of the final book one chapter.

-->-- '''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8346424/chapters/19120927 opening story synopsis]]''', ''Dragons of Ice and Fire''

''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=]]]. The first chapter was published in October 2016, with the first of two books completed. The second book is on permanent hiatus, with a basic outline given in the comments section of the final book one chapter.

* BigBadassBattleSequence: Many examples, special note goes to Chapter 31 and [[spoiler:Euron destroying Oldtown with a giant kraken]].

* JustToyingWithThem: The Others have been noted to do this on occasion, as they kill a lot of people. Jon [[ExploitedTrope exploits this]] [[spoiler:during The Battle for the Wall, enticing one of the Others into playing a game with him and lulling it into a false sense of security, before using its distraction to get close enough to kill it]].

** A variant with [[spoiler:Sonagon, who used to be a red-scaled, fire-breathing dragon before the Doom of Valyria forces him to flee across the world and he crash-lands in the North. A Stark greenseer uses the Horn of Winter to seal him away, and this dyed his scales white and turned him into an ice dragon]].

* AbdicateTheThrone: [[spoiler: Jon abdicates his titles as King in the North and King Beyond the Wall to Bran, believing the North would be better unified under a trueborn.]]
* AGodAmI: Euron Greyjoy even before he [[spoiler:summons and binds a kraken.]] He just offers the occasion as definitive proof.

* AnyoneCanDie: Very much in the spirit of George RR Martin's series.

** Justified with Jorah, as [[LoveMakesYouDumb he associates dragons with his reverence for Danaerys]] and believes only ''she'' is worthy of having them.

* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: Harry the Heir]] to Sansa, [[spoiler: and indirectly Baelish to Sansa since he arranged it.]]

* BigBadassBattleSequence: Many examples, special note goes to Chapter 31 and [[spoiler:Euron destroying Oldtown with a giant kraken]].

** The roles switch later as Jon concedes to a degree with the Weeper’s vicious acts since the man’s raiders are such effective fighters and his declaration of fealty got the ball rolling for the free folk to swear to Jon. Gets invoked [[spoiler: during the most tragic occurrence, when the Weeper kills the heir of White Harbor during the chaos at the beginning of The Battle of the Snows.]] For just about any other man Jon would have executed him, instead the punishment is a brutal, but single beating. [[spoiler: After the beating, Jon gives the Weeper fair warning that if he screws up again, Jon ''will'' kill him.]]
-->'''Jon:'''He deserves it. He does. He's a violent bastard and he [[spoiler: killed Ser Wylis for no other reason than because he was angry.]] It was murder, it was, and the Weeper killed your friends, but that doesn't matter because I still need him.
* CoolSword: Jon loses Longclaw. When Bloodraven points out he needs a new sword Jon laments that he is unlikely to find a finer blade...so Bloodraven gives him Dark Sister, an ancestral Targaryen blade. In Jon's next battle he slices clean through a giant's leg in one stroke.

* DepravedDwarf: Tyrion[[spoiler:, more so than in canon actually.]]

* DidntSeeThatComing: Ser Shadrich. [[spoiler: He very successfully executes a high-risk kidnapping, escapes a castle, trekked through the mountains, avoided mountain clans, and single-handedly beats Ser Jorah down to escape. And then Sansa Stark snatches his dagger up and jams into his back. "Oh".]]

-->'''Jon Snow(thinking)'''By the gods… Would my father curse me for saying those words?
* DoNotGoGentle: Even in the face of [[spoiler:gigantic undead wyrms and the literal collapse of the Wall much of the Night's Watch and Jon Snow's coalition fight tooth and nail during The Battle for the Wall. They know if the White Walkers make it through they are all done for anyway.]]

* DragonRider: Jon Snow becomes this.
* DramaticIrony: Bloodraven points out to Jon that he needs Valyrian blood to bond with a dragon. In response Jon ponders how his unknown ''mother'' qualifies.

** Even as [[spoiler:her son dies in her arms Olenna Tyrell]] maintains her composure and looks his and soon to be her murderer straight in the eye.

* EnemyMine: Ramsay hates Jon Snow, [[spoiler:but he hates the Others more because the white walkers controlled him as a wight.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: Though Lord Borrell is all too happy to sell Sansa Stark back to Petyr Baelish, even knowing who she is, he changes his mind when Sansa tells him about Baelish's BatmanGambit.

* EvilGloating: Ramsay does this a lot, especially when [[spoiler:he has beaten Jon Snow and subdued Sonagon. Of course it gets him killed.]]

** This is actually {{Zigzagged}} with the reveal that [[spoiler: the Others were searching for Jon's unique bloodlines for years, and when they found him, drove him towards the place where Sonagon was buried on purpose in order to use his blood to unseal the Horn of Winter and awaken the dragon. They definitely weren't expecting Jon to survive and take the dragon for himself, however.]]

* [[spoiler:{{Fix Fic}}]]: [[spoiler:Averted. The course of events does change, starting north of the Wall and rippling outward, but close to the same number of named characters are deceased as are in the first three books of ''A Song of Ice and Fire''.]]

** In chapter 38 [[spoiler:Aegon says when he dreams of his mother he remembers her silver hair. Elia Martell had dark hair.]]

** As if things weren't bad enough for the Reach [[spoiler:Qyburn]] allies with Euron.
** [[spoiler: And now the Others are working to exterminate ocean life and building a fleet out of whale corpses providing them with a new road to invasion and depriving the living of an important food source in the winter.]]

** 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.

* IronicEcho: Bloodraven and Jon Snow's conversation where the seer implores Jon Snow to utilize his supernatural power as a warg to save the dragon from the Others(powers which in the books Jon never liked or embraced) parallels ''kill the boy'' and echoes ''magic is a sword without a hilt'', quotes from the novels.

** Aegon/"Young Griff" is the nephew of Viserys [[spoiler: as in, Varys' birth name was Viserys.]]
** In universe, how Jon sees [[spoiler:the return of Sansa Stark to Winterfell]] at first.
-->[[spoiler:I lost one sister, but the gods returned to me another, he thought. I lost the little sister I loved and played with, in return for the sister that shunned me.]] It was a cruel thought, but he was feeling too bitter to care.

* JustToyingWithThem: The Others have been noted to do this on occasion, as they kill a lot of people.

* MultipleChoicePast: Maester Aemon claims that the Valyrians bred the dragons they rode, but [[spoiler: Sonagon remembers being a wild dragon before being captured and enslaved.]]
** Jon himself, in-universe. Ever since his hair turned white, he began wielding[[AncestralWeapon an ancestral Targaryen sword]], and 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]].

* NearVillainVictory: Sonogan appears at the brink of [[spoiler:The Battle for the Wall.]]

** [[spoiler: It's a kind thing Theon does when he stays with Jayne Poole 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.]]

** Once they are south of the Wall, a few wildlings leaders try to recruit Rattleshirt into their planned coup against Jon Snow. Rattleshirt kills "them" instead. He never likes Jon, but will still wait until there is no risk to his own hide.

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: The Battle of the Snows. Jon Snow’s northern coalition wins the battle, but between the enormous losses, several traitors among the northern houses, the murder of [[DeadPersonImpersonation Arya Stark]], and a sickened dragon peace hangs by a thread. Relationships between Jon and the free folk and the north are so tense in the aftermath that Jon must keep hostages and ''guests'' in Winterfell, even from the houses still loyal to him. This was Roose Bolton’s whole strategy, [[XanatosGambit see below]], and for good measure he surrenders just to sow more distrust.]]

* 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 from some 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.]]
** Another mention to [[spoiler:Margaery Tyrell trapped in the Red Keep by Cersei. It's a hostage situation that lasts 77 days because nobody wants to risk Margaery's live. And yet this whole standoff is resolved when [[KillTheCutie Cersei strangles her in a fit of rage]], [[CameBackWrong resurrects her as wight]], and [[BurnBabyBurn sends her in to the trial as a distraction]].]]

--> '''Cersei:''' 'Don’t you understand? He’s coming to kill me… Tyrion is going to destroy me!'
--> [[spoiler:Ser Kevan shook his head. 'He already has.']]
** In universe meta example. Melisandre believes Jon Snow is fated to die only at Stannis's hands. [[spoiler:Thus her shadow assassin doesn't target him when it attacks at Winterfell.]]

* SuicideByCop: How Jon Connington plans to end it all, where Stannis Baratheon is the cop. It actually solves two of Jon and Aegon's problems, Jon hides all signs that Aegon's army carried a man with contagious greyscale when Stannis burns him to a crisp, but not before Jon infects one of Aegon's enemies with a greeting handshake. [[spoiler: What Jon Connington doesn't know about going in is Melisandre's powers and that Stannis no longer has his dominant hand.]]
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Aemon, the old blind and father figure maester]], after being pushed down the stairs by surprise assassins going for Jon.]]
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Played with during Sansa's escape to the North. [[spoiler: She's desperate enough to be rid of Littlefinger to [[DrivenToSuicide 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.]]
* TheBeastmaster: Skinchangers and wargs in general. With Jon, he has [[CanineCompanion Ghost]], [[RightHandCat Phantom]], and, of course, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Sonagon]]. The three-eyed crow, Bran, Varamyr and all the other wargs all qualify too.
* TheChosenOne: As in canon, Melisandre's view of Stannis. Then, Mother Mole and many wildlings towards Jon and Sonagon.
** TheChooserOfTheOne: The three-eyed raven, which he does by being very good at picking out people who have the right skillset (and/or supernatural powers) and are in the right location to complete an important task. He can also arrange special training with the Children of the Forest for those who have ''really'' rare traits that make them significantly more likely to succeed than others (such as Valyrian blood for Jon). [[spoiler: Deconstructed, as these tasks are actually decoy and stalling missions. Bran is the only one Bloodraven actually needs.]]
* TheDreaded: Euron, Ramsay, Jon Snow, Malvern, the list goes on, with some more justified than others.
* TheMarvelousDeer: Coldhands has his elk, and Jon is given an elk too. Later, Jon skinchanges into a goat named Hullen to carry him around, but it doesn't last long.
* TheSociopath: Euron. And Ramsay.
** In the case of the latter, it's at least partially due to [[spoiler: House Bolton being descended from Other-Human hybrids.]]

* TooGoodToBeTrue: Alleras realizes that the incoming Ironborn attack is way too obviously going to fail, and there ''has'' to be something else going on. Nobody listens, and they're all unprepared when [[spoiler: Euron uses the men killed in the attack to summon a kraken.]]
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Exploited; Jon can't be hurt without triggering Sonagon, so [[spoiler:before he knew how to poison the dragon]] Ramsay planned to assassinate Jon in his sleep and make Sonagon rampage on Jon's forces.
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler: Poor Maester Aemon; one of the last Targaryens and likely oldest and most decent man alive, dies a very [[SurprisinglySuddenDeath sudden]] death when assassins meant for Jon [[AccidentalMurder accidentally]] knock him over and cause him to break his neck. Jon laments how unfair a death it is for such a great man.]]

* UnreliableNarrator: In an attempt to retain superiority in their retelling of history the White Walkers claim that they built the Wall or that they allowed the Wall to be built. They also leave out mentioning that [[spoiler:their king is half human.]]

* WrongContextMagic: The Free Folk think that Jon is ''only'' using Warging to connect with Sonagon, and that any sufficiently powerful Warg could replace Jon. [[spoiler: [[PoorCommunicationKills Some of them start planning to do just that,]]]] because nobody told them that Valyrian blood is needed for a dragon bond.

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Aemon, the old blind and father figure maester]], after being pushed down the stairs by surprise assassins going for Jon.

* BigBadassBattleSequence: Many examples, special note goes to Chapter 31 and [[spoiler:Euron destroying Oldtown with a giant kraken.]]
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* MixedAncestry: The Others' king is half human. According to Bloodraven this makes him and the Others more dangerous because their otherwise dispassionate nature has become infused with human emotions like anger and hate.
** Jon Snow descends from both Valyrians and the Winter Kings. The latter bloodline awoke Sonagon and the former allowed Jon to bond with the dragon.