Mance Rayder: Learning about that ambition of his. That's what made me end our working relationship. It was a lofty ambition though. He couldn't figure out how to manufacture it safely. Couldn't get the chemical composition quite right. He's likely still trying to come up with the perfect recipe.
Jon Stark: But he could crack the code at any time. And then what would he do?
Mance: No telling. But he would use it. Without hesitation, he'd use it. He doesn't care who inhales it. Rich. Poor. Friend. Foe. He just wants to see the city descend into chaos. We shared some views. Sometimes the only way to fix a system is to burn it down and start from scratch. But he's not interested in the 'fixing' bit.
Jon Stark: But he could crack the code at any time. And then what would he do?
Mance: No telling. But he would use it. Without hesitation, he'd use it. He doesn't care who inhales it. Rich. Poor. Friend. Foe. He just wants to see the city descend into chaos. We shared some views. Sometimes the only way to fix a system is to burn it down and start from scratch. But he's not interested in the 'fixing' bit.
— On The Night King, Of Gold and Iron
With how bad Westeros and surrounding areas are, it comes as no surprise that fans have written some especially vile characters, canon or not.
- Crossovers can be found here.
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Franchise-wide
- The Chamber Below the Dreadfort (link
): Ramsay Bolton is as depraved as in canon. Having murdered his own brother to become the heir to Dreadfort and with the implication he murdered his wife, Ramsay would also pillage Winterfell and frame Theon, then torture him for six months to the point where he was an Empty Shell. Ramsay would also murder many people and put their skulls on his shelf. After marrying Sansa Stark, Ramsay flayed the skin off the backs of two women to make gloves, leaving them alive for a long time. Ramsay forces Sansa to participate in a twisted game in which she should attempt to escape from the castle; when he catches her, he tries to rape her. After Theon intervenes, Ramsay tries to blind Sansa, stating that she doesn't need eyes for whelping and that he is going to starve Theon until he eats her eyes. - Of Gold and Iron:
- Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, despite claiming to be Catelyn's friend, is in truth the puppet master of the conspiracy against her family. Growing jealous of Ned Stark, Petyr murders a prostitute in order to blackmail Joffrey Baratheon into killing Ned for him. After then manipulating Arya Stark into seeking out the Faceless Men, resulting in three years of hellish training—including starvation and forced drug addictions—Petyr supplies another prostitute to be murdered to fake her death. Petyr later has Stannis murdered, with Joffrey being made his scapegoat before he's then hung in his prison cell. Having also threatened Lysa Arryn into killing her own husband, Petyr also employs Ramsay Snow, leading to Jaime being caught in an explosion and Sansa being forcibly addicted to Long Night. Even willing to murder Catelyn, the woman he claims to love, when he's on the verge of being caught, Petyr represents all of the evils of the modern business world.
- The Night King is a sadistic drug lord who seeks to burn down all of King's Landing just because he can. Formerly a member of Mance Rayder's revolutionaries, he was kicked out of the group when Mance realized he wanted to destroy rather than save, leading to him creating Long Night, a drug which causes severe and mindless aggression in repeat users. After receiving a large shipment of supplies from the Faceless Men, the Night King converts the drug to a gas to force multiple people to ingest it at once, intending to release it across the entire city. After luring Bran Stark and the police into a trap before killing multiple cops with a bomb, the Night King forces Bran to be his "witness" as he deploys the gas in the crowded tournament, leading to dozens of people killing each other in a mindless rage.
- Reunions: Melisandre of Asshai lacks the good intentions of her book and TV series counterparts, masterminding a wildfire attack in the prologue that destroys most of Harrenhal. On Dragonstone, Melisandre continues with her Burn the Witch! rituals. Her eventual plan is to sacrifice Shireen to the Lord of Light; she has been slipping sedatives into Shireen's food so she won't resist, biding her time until Stannis, who is on his deathbed due to more shadow creations, dies. When Stannis dies, Melisandre attempts to collect Shireen, but her plans are foiled by Davos, who escapes to the North with Shireen. Melisandre leaves Dragonstone, leaving her loyalists to die at the hands of Lannister forces. She journeys to Slavers' Bay, where she masterminds the downfall of the Slaver Cities and the imprisonment of Daenerys Targaryen. Melisandre manages to take control of the dragons without Daenerys's knowledge and uses Drogon to rescue Daenerys, while Rhaegal and Viserion destroy the Slaver Cities. With nowhere to turn, Daenerys goes to Asshai with her remaining supporters and Melisandre. Three days after their arrival, Melisandre orchestrates the murders of all of Daenerys's supporters apart from Barristan Selmy and reveals her role in the downfall of the Slaver Cities and her plot to put Daenerys and her dragons in her power and sacrifice them to awaken the Lord of Light.
A Song of Ice and Fire fan works
- A different weasel makes a difference (sic) (link): Euron Greyjoy, after learning of the Others and becoming convinced humanity could not survive, decides to cause as much destruction as he can before he dies. After killing his brother Balon and anyone else who opposes his claim to the Driftwood Crown, Euron leads the Iron Fleet in a destructive campaign against the Reach. He uses dark magic to bolster his strength and terrorize the Reach even further, which he fuels by sacrificing his Reacher prisoners, soldier and civilian alike. Euron cares nothing for his own men, frequently intentionally taking heavy casualties that could have been avoided and sacrificing any Ironborn who questions him. Mad even by the standards of the Ironborn, Euron's name would prove the most infamous of any player in the War of the Eight Kings.
- Hell Is Empty (link): Aerys II Targaryen is as repulsive as his book incarnation. Aerys burns people alive as punishment for various crimes, including petty theft. Aroused by this, he often rapes Queen Rhaella afterwards. Arranging a marriage between his son Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, he finds that Lyanna reminds him of Johanna Lannister, developing an unhealthy attraction to her. Burning his Hand Qarlton Cheslton alive for calling him mad after Aerys decides to have caches of wildfire hidden throughout King's Landing, Aerys begins to abuse Viserys as well when he interrupts his rape of Rhaella and has Rhaegar bring Tywin Lannister and his bannermen to King's Landing to be executed when he suspects them of treason. When he sentences a child to be burned to death, Lyanna, now heavily pregnant, challenges him to a trial by combat. Aerys forces Lyanna herself to fight, and chooses fire as his champion, molesting Lyanna beforehand and informing her she will bare his child after she gives birth. The child burns to death and Lyanna miscarries, Jaime Lannister killing Aerys to save her. This heavily traumatizes Lyanna and almost tears her marriage with Rhaegar apart.
- The Open Way: Euron Greyjoy, during the Ironborn's attempt to become independent, is first introduced torturing a captured lord, using the skulls of his two eldest sons to taunt him and threatening to have his remaining children—who are being Forced to Watch—raped by his men unless he begs for death. Capturing Casterly Rock before having the Lannister forces killed and sending their heads to Queen Cersei Lannister and King Rhaegar Targaryen, Euron reveals he sent Balon's sons and his brother Aeron into battles they cannot hope to win as simple distractions. Later seizing two dragon eggs and having Robb Stark tossed into the sea after capturing his lover Asha Greyjoy, Euron attempts to sacrifice Asha and several children so as to hatch the eggs. Ordering massive sections of King's Landing torched by wildfire in the meantime, Euron's last offer to a captured Robb is to either burn with Asha or watch her die. A power-hungry Psychopathic Manchild who thirsts for godhood, Euron wasn't afraid to kill anyone who stood in his way, including his own family.
- Safe Anchorage: Ramsay Bolton, the monstrous Bastard of Bolton and the husband of Jeyne Poole, is a brutal sadist who tortured Theon Greyjoy into insanity. Well-known for the torturous deaths he subjects others to, Ramsay had castrated Theon and conditioned him to the broken Reek. Marrying and regularly abusing and raping Jeyne, Ramsay even threatens to kill her child and feed it to his dogs if it is a girl before "starting over".
- A Vicious, Vengeful Sea: Ramsay Bolton is reimagined as a Serial Killer. Ramsay's MO is to abduct women and torture, rape, and kill them, while uploading pictures of the process to his Shock Site. Abducting Theon Gryejoy and Jeyne Poole, Ramsay tortures them both for months, including raping them, letting his friend rape them, keeping them hooked on drugs to keep them under control, and forcing them to hurt each other. A violent Andal supremacist motivated by hatred of native Northerners and Ironborn, Ramsay spends his trial gloating about his crimes, and even as Jeyne and Theon recover, it's made clear they'll always be affected by what he did to them.
- The Bloods of Bolton: Ramsay Snow was a monster even from the age of twelve. When Drucilla Bolton took shelter from a storm in his cottage, Ramsay decided to hunt her for sport, something he had done several times before. When Drucilla managed to escape, Ramsay became obsessed with her, intentionally seeking out "prey" that looked like her. Upon an elderly couple taking him in after Ramsay told them bandits had murdered his family, he thanked them by murdering them. Four years later, after practicing his archery on a peasant he captured, Ramsay attends Domeric Bolton's Name Day ceremony in order to make Domeric aware of his existence and to taunt Drucilla. After gaining Domeric's friendship, Ramsay covertly causes him to fall off his horse, causing injuries that Domeric would die from, simply to hurt Drucilla. With no line he will not cross to get what he wants, Ramsay proves himself to be a monster even by the low standards of the Bolton family.
- There and Back Again: Brynden "Bloodraven" Rivers is the entity responsible for the ending depicted in the show. Learning that Jon Snow was the Prince that was Promised, Bloodraven began slowly draining Jon of the magic in his blood and siphoning the magic into Daenerys Targaryen, then arranged for dragon eggs hidden in the Winterfell crypts to be sold to Illyrio Mopatis, knowing both that he would give them to Daenerys, who was not equipped to handle them. Luring Bran Stark to his cave Beyond the Wall, Bloodraven used the White Walkers' attack on his cave to hijack Bran's body and disguise himself in Bran's skin so he could return to Westeros. When Jon was resurrected with a Damaged Soul due to Bloodraven's tampering with his blood, Bloodraven engineered events in Westeros, ranging from the Long Night to the destruction of King's Landing, to create a situation where the last Targaryens would wipe each other out, the "winner" would be exiled, and Bloodraven would rule for all time, a situation so undesirable that the Gods interfered by sending several characters back in time to undo Bloodraven's damage.
- A Wolf Amongst Lions: Joffrey Baratheon attempts to execute the captured Arya Stark, later ordering his guards to beat her after Tywin talks him down from doing so. Angered by Tywin negotiating a peaceful end to the war with the Starks, Joffrey schemes with Littlefinger to restart the bloodshed in the hopes of slaughtering them, attempting to have Tywin and his own younger brother assassinated for his plot and tries executing the Stark representatives sent to finalize Tywin's peace agreement.
