History Characters / AManOfIron

!The Brotherhood of the Blackfyres

A mysterious group, composed of people with great powers, who are preparing to come out of the shadows and reveal themselves to the world.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: Their name is altered from "The Brotherhood of Mutants" to "The Brotherhood of the Blackfyres".
* CompositeCharacter: Given some of the author's notes and reveals, the Brotherhood is a composite of the Faceless Men and Young Griff's faction (for a given fan interpretation of Young Griff being a Blackfyre).
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Magneto sacrificing the Bloody Mummers for the ritual that [[spoiler: mutates Arya and Gendry]] also manages to hatch a purple dragon, later named Lockheed after the Valyrian god of the dead.
* TrueCompanions: It's noted that they all view each other as family.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They often try to murder each other only to rally together in order to defend one of them.

[[folder:Magneto]]
!!Erik Blackfyre, a.k.a. Magneto
Mystique's master, he's first mentioned in the first book, being implied to be raising an army in the shadows for some purpose. Finally makes an appearance in the last third of the second book, having hidden himself as the Maester of Harrenhal in order to put Arya and Gendry to the test, and finally revealing he is the son of Daemon Blackfyre, and thus a potential claimant for the Iron Throne.
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* ActorAllusion: His musing about coming precisely in time and claiming of the title "White Pilgrim" are a ShoutOut to [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]].
* TheDreaded: Doom is proudly unaffected by the House of the Undying's attempts to show him his greatest fear and desire, but he still freaks out a bit upon seeing he'll be meeting Magneto soon.
* FantasticRacism: He's very dismissive of mundane people.
* TheGhost: Only name-dropped in the first book, but won't be long to appear if Arya's arc progresses. [[spoiler:He finally does in the second book, having hidden as the Maester of Harrenhal.]]
* LastOfHisKind: Given that the Blackfyres were all but extinct in canon, he might be the last of his family name.
* MagnetismManipulation: This is the Master of Magnetism we're talking about, so this goes without saying.
* MasterOfDisguise: Made everyone in Harrenhal believe he was the castle's [[spoiler:kind Maester.]]
* TheMentor: How Syrio presents him.
* NightmareFetishist: When he learned of Raven's existence, he insisted to see "the real her", and was obviously insatisfied when she tried to take the classical Targaryen looks. Only when she finally showed him her blue skin, he claimed her perfect.
* OneManArmy: He easily slaughtered the Bloody Mummers, [[MuggingTheMonster who believed he would be a nice kill]].
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: As a Blackfyre, he's distant cousins to Daenerys, [[spoiler:Mystique, and Jon.]]
* TheResenter: Is none too pleased that his cousin Daenerys is making waves in Essos, when he considers himself the true heir to the Iron Throne.
* TheRival: As a Blackfyre, he's this to Daenerys.
* StealthMentor: Has been carefully testing both Arya and Gendry in order to see whether they are worthy of [[spoiler:gaining powers.]]
* StoryBreakerPower: Do remember that Dark Age weapons and armor are made of ''metal''. However, it is downplayed compared to the comics. The smallfolk wear ''significantly'' less metal than modern humans (no zippers, while buckles and metallic buttons are primarily for rich people), and several weapons that are common in medieval times are a lot easier to adapt to have no metal on them than guns, meaning that his powers are significantly less useful against, say, some random peasant bandits armed with wooden spears they got by simply sharpening a pole, or even just quarterstaves they got by removing the spearheads from their spears. Or any archer who isn't wearing armor, or is only wearing leather armor, hearing of his powers and deciding to simply remove their arrowheads and either use stone arrowheads or sharpen the arrows shaft instead.
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[[folder:Syrio Forel/Mystique]]
!!Syrio Forel, a.k.a. Mystique
Arya Stark's "dancing" teacher. Supposed to be a mere Braavosi traveler, but reveals himself as much more than meets the eye.
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* ActionGirl: She takes on Meryn Trant and his goons unarmed and ''wins''.
* AdaptationalHeroism: This series opts for the [[Film/XMenFilmSeries Fox X-Men]] characterization of Mystique as a complex AntiHero who cares about her fellow mutants and voluntarily associates with Magneto's Brotherhood, rather than her comic counterpart's unfailingly selfish sociopathy.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Her true appearance is blue-skinned with crimson hair.
* ComplexityAddiction: Sabretooth accuses her of this, that Mystique enjoys complex games simply because she's bored and could do far much more without constant scheming.
* CompositeCharacter: "Syrio Forel" is actually one of Mystique's disguises, and she's explicitly replacing Jaqen H'gar as the one who inducts Arya into a shadow organization.
** Chapter 22 of ''A Crack of Thunder'' complicates it even more, revealing she is the [[spoiler:daughter of Duncan the Small (Aegon V's firstborn) and Jenny of Oldstones]] - and that she got her mutation because of the magic her mother was exposed to in [[spoiler:the Tragedy at Summerhall.]]
* CorruptTheCutie: Subtly grooms Arya to favorably consider the cause.
* TheCynic: Blatantly considers the Iron Man a fool for protecting fickle people who will turn against him the very moment he falters.
* GenderBender: The male Syrio is just one of many identities the female Mystique has used. She then disguises herself as [[spoiler:''Jaime Lannister'', no less]].
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Arya's first idea when she sees her mentor's real appearance is that Mystique is actually a fairy.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: When she was younger, before meeting Magneto, she had to do many things she is not proud of, but if she had not then she would have died.
* IHaveManyNames: In the first book, she used three names: Syrio Forel, Ravan and Mystique.
* LostOrphanedRoyalty: She is the daughter of [[spoiler:Duncan the Small and Jenny of Oldstones (and, thus, Aegon V's grand-daughter), born during the Tragedy at Summerhall, like Rhaegar.]]
* MasterActor: Very much so.
** She fooled the entire Red Keep for months when she pretended to be a Braavosi swordsman then she plays the distressed commoner to the hilt when she escapes the Stark purge. She even instructs Arya on the behavior she must use to be unnoticed.
** She then successfully manages to fool ''Tywin Lannister'' into thinking she's [[spoiler:Jaime. Even more impressive since, after hearing about the "impostor" Sansa, Tywin was especially on guard for an impostor]].
* MasterOfDisguise: Being a shapeshifter has its perks.
* TheMentor: Ned Stark enlisted him to teach swordmanship to Arya, but he ends up taking a more prominent role in her education about the wider world.
* OhCrap: Upon realizing she'll have to give Arya TheTalk.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: She's actually the daughter of [[spoiler:Duncan the Small, making her Daenerys' first cousin once removed. Also, as Magneto is a Blackfyre, he's a more distant cousin.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: It's noted that for all that she and Toad bicker, they'd instantly fight to protect each other if necessary.
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler:As "Jaime"]], she's left in command of Harrenhal when Tywin goes to ally with the Tyrells.
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[[folder:Toad]]
!!Toad
A Brotherhood member introduced in ''A Shield of Man'', who is able to jump around like his namesake.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: He's the first of the Brotherhood members to intercede when Gambit is flirting with Arya.
* VitriolicBestBuds: It's noted that for all that he and Mystique bicker, they'd instantly fight to protect each other if necessary.
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[[folder:Sabertooth]]
!!Sabertooth
Another Brotherhood member introduced in ''A Shield of Man'', he's a large beast of a man.
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* TheBigGuy: Towers over his companions and is the physically strongest of them. Would be TheBrute, if not for his HiddenDepths.
* CompositeCharacter: A meta example of merging various incarnations of the character into one -- his physical appearance is a mix of the two [[Film/XMen1 film]] [[Film/XMenOriginsWolverine versions]], while his personality is based on the [[WesternAnimation/XMen cartoon]] and ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' versions.
* CuttingTheKnot: He doesn't believe in complex planning, instead preferring to just charge in and get the job done.
* HiddenDepths: Is a lot smarter than he looks, and kinder towards his comrades than you'd expect.
* MoralityPet: Has a soft spot for Arya.
* MundaneUtility: Uses his claws to uncork bottles.
* RealMenWearPink: He knits in his free time. Arya's brain almost breaks from the strain of imagining musclebound Sabertooth indulging in a granny's hobby.
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[[folder:Lady Deathstrike]]
!!Lady Deathstrike
A Brotherhood member introduced in ''A Shield of Man'', she is a Yi-Ti noblewoman that can extend her nails into claws.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Regardless of her disdain for Arya, she threatens to disembowel Gambit if he tries to force himself on the girl.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Not very popular among the Brotherhood for sneering at and insulting her teammates.
* PetTheDog: When Arya expresses insecurity regarding her new dress, Deathstrike reassures her she's beautiful.
* UpperClassTwit: She's a [=YiTish=] noble and looks down on everyone around her save for Magneto (mostly because she knows he could destroy her in a fight).
* WolverineClaws: Her nails extend into lethal claws.
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[[folder:Blob]]
!!Blob
Blob (also known as Duke) is a Brotherhood member introduced in ''A Shield of Man'', with his flesh being so bouncy that all attacks get repelled.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: He's surprisingly agile and graceful in spite of his girth.
* BigEater: Eats a lot of food.
* TheBigGuy: Easily the Brotherhood's tallest member at 9 feet, and also the fattest.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Shudders at the thought of what meat the [[https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Bowl_of_brown bowl o' brown]] might actually have.
* MoralityPet: Much like Sabertooth, he has a soft spot for Arya.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Calls Arya the biggest troublemaker of the lot, but is not above working with her to do things like stealing Mystique's cookies.
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[[folder:Gambit]]
!!Gambit
A Brotherhood member introduced in ''A Shield of Man'', he is the son of a man from the Neck and a Dornish woman with the power to infuse objects with energy that makes them explode.
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* AudioErotica: Arya shudders in pleasure (or disgust, she's not sure) when she hears his voice.
* TheCharmer: Another quality of his that remains. He claims that it comes out even when unintended.
* FunetikAksent: He retains the Cajun brogue of his original version.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: When Arya has a FreakOut over starting a fight between the brotherhood and the X-men, it's Gambit who comes down to comfort her and explain where all that tension comes from.
* TechnicolorEyes: Black eyes with red pupils, like the original.
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[[folder:Avalanche]]
!!Avalanche
A Brotherhood member introduced in ''A Shield of Man'', he's a youth from Pentos who can create earthquakes.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Having been born and raised in the wastes outside Pentos, he tends not to understand references to Westerosi life and culture.
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!Braavos

The Free City of Braavos is a city of Essos ruled by a Sealord. The current Sealord and his inner circle, though, are nothing like those who came before, given that, like the Brotherhood, they also possess superhuman powers.

[[folder:The Sealord of Braavos]]
!!Charlus Waters, Sealord of Braavos

The ruler of Braavos. A wheelchair-bound bald man with a penchant for adopting children. He has some history and an uneasy relationship with Erik/Magneto.
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* CompositeCharacter: He's Charles Xavier merged with Ferrego Antaryon, the ruling Sealord during the events of the books. Downplayed in that he only gets the title from the latter.
* PsychicPowers: His power is telepathy.
* RestrainedRevenge: Charlus originally conspired with Erik to return as another conquering duo. But in time, he decided that the best kind of revenge would be to become successful in Essos. Show that they weren't nothing without doing direct harm to the people who shunned them.
* UnknownRelative: According to Gambit, Charlus is the bastard son of one of the Baratheons, though he admits he's not sure which one.

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[[folder:Scott]]
!!Scott, the Summer Knight

One of Charlus' proteges, and Jeen's husband.
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* EyeBeams: His power is to fire energy beams from his eyes.
* InformedAbility: InUniverse, despite his epiteth, he isn't really a knight.
* MysteriousPast: He was found adrift in the northern sea with only a golden medallion with a sun and two swords crossed over it. Little else is known about his past.
* PowerIncontinence: He can't shut his power off, having to wear a pair of myrish glasses with rubies instead of normal lenses.

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[[folder:Jeen]]
!!Jeen, the Gray Lady

Charlus' ward, and Scott's wife.
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* IdenticalStranger: Downplayed, Arya comments on her startling likeness to Sansa. If the rumor about Jeen being Hoster Tully's bastard is true, then it would be explained as StrongFamilyResemblance with her niece.
* MyNaymeIs: Je''e''n instead of Je''a''n.
* MysteriousPast: Like Scott, little is known of her past other than being from the Riverlands. Her bright red hair makes people suspect she might be a Tully, with some people even suggesting she might be Holster Tully's bastard daughter. Qyburn implies he knows about her.
* PsychicPowers: Unlike Charles, not only can she read minds, but she can also [[MindOverMatter telekinetically move objects]].

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[[folder:Hank]]
!!Henrik "Hank" Tarly, Beast

Another of Charlus' proteges. Randyll Tarly's younger brother, who was studying at the Citadel to become a Maester, until an accident involving wildfire turned him into a blue furry humanoid.
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* AdaptationNameChange: From Henry [=McCoy=] to Henrik Tarly.
* AngstWhatAngst: InUniverse, his reaction to a mutation that made him look more like an animal than a human is "such is life".
* CulturedBadass:Has a love of books and knowledge, and was quite strong even before his mutation.
* JockDadNerdSon: The Nerd Son to his and Randyl Tarly's unnamed Jock Dad. However, unlike Randyll and his own son Sam (who also exemplify this trope, seems to be a Tarly thing), Hank was more than able to put his father in his place.
* MartialPacifist: Doesn't like to fight. Doesn't mean he won't if provoked.
* MyNaymeIs: Henrik instead of Henry.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Randyl Tarly didn't have a brother in canon.

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[[folder:Ororo]]
!!Ororo

Another of Charlus' protegees. A woman from the Summer Islands.
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* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her white dress is not only described as extremely revealing, but it also leaves some of her private bits exposed if she so much shifts in her seat.
* SupremeChef: If Beast's reaction is anything to go by, she appears to be this.
* WeatherManipulation: Her powerset.

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[[folder: Rogue]]
!!Maree, Rogue

Another of Charlus' protegees. A young girl who shares some history with Mystique.
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* FunetikAksent: Much like Gambit, Maree retains her comic counterpart's thick accent.
* MyNaymeIs: From Mar''i''e to Mar''e''e
* PowerIncontinence: Like in canon, Maree can absorb life energy on touch with human skin. But also like in Marvel, she can never turn it off, and needs to wear gloves for everyone's safety.
* TheResenter: She resents Mystique for seemingly abandoning her.
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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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[[folder:In General]]
* AdaptationalNameChange: For all intents and purposes, they're the fic's equivalent of SHIELD.
* TheConspiracy: The Council intended to bring [[spoiler:Jon]] to Essos after he was born, so he could be raised along with [[spoiler:Aegon]] for his eventual return to take the Iron Throne from the Baratheons. Nowadays, their main plot is to fight against the Others.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: 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.
* WeAreEverywhere: 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.
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[[folder:Nikolos Fury]]
!!Nikolos Fury a.k.a. Gerion Lannister
An agent of The Council, Nikolos works to prevent the return of the mysterious Court.
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* CompositeCharacter: He's the missing Gerion who took an alias, becoming Earth 616-Fury.
* CoolSword: A Valyrian steel one, mind you. [[spoiler:That's his family's AncestralWeapon Brightroar, for which he left Westeros in order to find.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: "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.
* FatalFlaw: 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.
* EyepatchOfPower: He's ''one'' of the "Nick Fury's" of this world, so no shit he'd have this.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: 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.
* PetTheDog: Tells Natasha that [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre she is more of a hero than she believes she is]].
* SecretKeeper: Knows that Tony is Iron Man and that Jon is the Centurion [[spoiler:and Jaehaerys Targaryen.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: When he's scowling, Varys muses he's pretty much Tywin's brother.
* TookALevelInJerkass: 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.
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[[folder:Varys*]]
!!Varys
The current Master of Whispers, Varys in reality is an agent for The Council who knows many of Westeros' closest guarded secrets.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Varys in the books was an EnigmaticMinion that no one could tell to whom was he loyal to, and despite his claims of serving the realm [[spoiler: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.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: 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.
* CassandraTruth: Despite his flawless track record when it comes to information gathering, no one believes him when he claims that [[spoiler:the real Jaime Lannister is still a prisoner in Winterfell, and whoever showed up at Harrenhal wasn't him]].
* CrazyPrepared: 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.
* IHatePastMe: 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.
* MasterActor: He plays many roles. Even "Varys" as King's Landing knows him is nothing but a role.
* MasterOfDisguise: Like in canon, he has a variety of disguises on standby for any number of situations.
* NoodleIncident: Had a past encounter with [[spoiler: Natasha]] that led to her not trusting him, and may explain his spider nickname.
* WorthyOpponent: 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.
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[[folder: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.
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* BadassLongcoat: Wears long, black leather jackets.
* BaldOfAwesome: This one is more rooted in the MCU and Ultimate Marvel version of the character, so this is in full effect.
* DecompositeCharacter: "Nikolos Fury" is an identity used by two men at least. This one is the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse[=/=]ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version.
* EyepatchOfPower: Apparently only has his to copy the other Fury.
* TheMole: Works for the Council [[spoiler:and the North, and claims he was sent by Tony to work for Ned. WordOfGod has stated that Tony didn't send him, as he has ''no idea'' that Ned didn't have a Master of Whispers.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Possibly. He claims to be Jaime Rhodes' cousin, but since WordOfGod says that he [[spoiler:wasn't actually sent by Tony]], and we know that Nikolos Fury is a pseudonym, it may be a lie.
* TheSpymaster: [[spoiler:For the Northern Kingdom]], he is the Master of Whispers.
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!The Ironborn

The people of the Iron Islands, who have a long history of pirating and raiding. In light of the chaos starting to consume Westeros, they're beginning to return to that heritage.
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* CoolSword: Thanks to the use of sunstones, they've upgraded their swords into ''lightsabers'', which they put to good use in the siege on Winterfell.
* HornyVikings: As per canon, the Ironborn are a sea-faring people who practice a religion different from the mainland and frequently raid their neighbors.

[[folder:Asha Greyjoy*]]
!!Asha Greyjoy
The daughter of Balon Greyjoy and a skilled Ironborn captain. Asha has joined forces with her lover, Ivan Vanko, to destroy their enemies.
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* ActionSurvivor: She endured [[BastardBastard Ramsay Snow's]] tender attentions for two weeks until he tried to play [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame his favorite game of "hide and seek"]] with her, giving her an opening to ambush and kill him with all his men.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the source material, Asha was a NobleDemon. Here, she's bent on ravaging and pillaging the North and Westerlands with her lover Vanko and WordOfGod confirmed her as a BigBad for the story.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Her lover is a pirate captain who explicitly wants to ravage the West and North of Westeros, and she sees nothing wrong with it. She actually is helping him.
* ArcVillain: Towards Robb Stark in ''A Crack of Thunder''.
* AssholeVictim: After everything she did in ''A Crack of Thunder'', it's hard to feel too much sympathy for her when [[spoiler: Euron captures and tortures her]] in ''A Shield of Man''.
* BrainyBrunette: Her plan to lure Ramsay into a false sense of security to destroy him when he would try to hunt her worked without a hitch.
* CainAndAbel: Very much the villainous reaver to Theon's faithful ward. Still, she seems a bit reluctant to hurt her brother when they meet again, while Theon actively wants to kill her. Granted, he doesn't know she's his sister, but he makes it clear that he doesn't care.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Her relationship with Vanko is rather equalitarian and strong. She also seems to care for Theon in spite of his being raised in the North, and is obviously dismayed when he refuses to identify himself as Ironborn.
* HaveWeMet: Theon is able to tell she looks ''familiar'', but doesn't peg her as his sister - a cousin at the most. What rattles her is that not only does he not know, he doesn't ''care'' who she is.
* HeroKiller: She's responsible for killing [[spoiler:Jonos Bracken.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:In canon, Theon was a villain who ended up being horribly tortured by a worse villain (Ramsay). In ''A Song of Metal and Marvels'', however, ''Asha'' is the villain horribly tortured by a worse villain (Euron).]]
* ItsPersonal: She involved herself into Vanko's crusade for kicks, but after meeting Theon - who doesn't remember her and blatantly renounces the Ironborn culture - she develops a grudge towards the Starks for stealing her baby brother away.
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: After being an ArcVillain in ''A Crack of Thunder'', she's [[spoiler: captured and made a test subject by Euron]] in ''A Shield of Man''.
* MasterActor: She played Ramsay like a fiddle when posing as a poor commoner girl seeking refuge and help.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her killing [[spoiler: Lord Bracken]] helps turn her allies against her, and more importantly, ensures that Theon will ''never'' try to reconcile with her as well as making him declare himself for the Starks.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Ivan Vanko. They are quite demonstrative with each other.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Flees from Winterfell when [[spoiler: the Guardians]] show up and defeat her assault on it.
* VillainousValor: Gal holds RapePillageAndBurn as a holy sacrament but Seven above has she massive balls. She ''willingly'' endures [[BastardBastard Ramsay's]] idea of fun for two weeks then uses his trademark killing method to lure him and his followers into a trap and kill them all.
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[[folder:Ivan Vanko]]
!!Ivan Vanko
An Ironborn captain from the island of Lash, who has sworn to destroy the North and the Westerlands for their actions in the Greyjoy Rebellion.
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* ArcVillain: Towards Tony Stark in ''A Crack of Thunder''.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He's never called Whiplash.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His desire to destroy the Starks and Lannisters stems from his family being wiped out in the Greyjoy Rebellion. He also shares [[UnholyMatrimony a passionate relationship with Asha]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Utterly unimpressed by [[spoiler:Renly Baratheon]]'s motive for seeking Tony's destruction. At least Vanko is trying to avenge his family, not crying over his hurt ego.
* FakingTheDead: He faked his death [[spoiler:with Renly Baratheon's support]] in order to escape capture by the Martells.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Jon accuses him of being no better than the lords he hates for killing his family, by killing innocent bystanders. He does not care.
* KavorkaMan: Asha Greyjoy took him for lover in spite of him being very much older and disinclined to bathe.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: His murder of [[spoiler:Ramsay]] is rather unsettling to read, but then you remember that [[spoiler:Ramsay]] hunts unarmed women with his dogs and rapes and flays them.
* MayDecemberRomance: He's a good deal older than Asha (think Mickey Rourke versus Gemma Whelan).
* MisplacedRetribution: Tony calls him out on the fact that the Iron Pointe Starks had nothing to do with his family's deaths, so targeting them makes no sense.
* OldSoldier: He's actually middle-aged, but ''that'' is old for an Ironborn captain. And when an Ironborn captain gets old, he either retires to die on the earth or is killed and tossed into the sea. Not him.
* ThePigPen: His shirt is tattered, his pants absolutely covered by grime and his hair unwashed. Truly lovely.
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: His group is operating without Balon Greyjoy's approval. When Balon hears that they were apparently working [[spoiler:with Renly on his behalf, he's not happy, and orders all Ironborn ships to return to Pyke]].
* ShutUpKirk: His response to Jon's HeWhoFightsMonsters comment above is to state that he doesn't care.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Theon manages to identify him because he remembered seeing his father Anton while the Ironborn were rebelling against the Iron Throne.
* TakingYouWithMe: Just like his MCU self, [[spoiler: his response to being beaten by Tony is to blow himself up in an attempt to kill him.]]
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He doesn't bother hiding his loathing towards [[spoiler:[[EvilIsPetty Renly]] [[PsychopathicManchild Baratheon]]]] but needs his money for his campaign against the North and the Westerlands.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Asha, whom he treats as a worthy partner.
* WhipItGood: He specifically customized his whip to make the lash as painful as possible.
* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: During their FinalBattle, Tony calls him out on how he could have used his knowledge of the sunstones to save people, instead of pursuing petty revenge.
* YouKilledMyFather: His desire to ravage the Westerlands and North is motivated by his whole family dying in the Greyjoy Rebellion.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dagmer Cleftjaw]]
!!Dagmer Cleftjaw
A member of Asha's crew during her travels with Vanko.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Theon cuts off both his hands during his break from the Ironborn.
* EliteMook: He gets to put up a much better fight than Asha's other men, though it's pretty much entirely because he's fighting Theon rather than Brienne.
* NoNameGiven: He has yet to be named in the story, but the description of his face leaves little doubt who it is.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Euron Greyjoy]]
!!Euron Greyjoy
Asha and Theon's uncle, who was banished from the Iron Islands for being too much even for the Ironborn. He has since found a new calling, unfortunately for everyone else.
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* AnIcePerson: His alliance with the Others has granted him the ability to freeze things solid instantly.
* ArcVillain: Set up to be one for ''A Shield of Man''.
* CompositeCharacter: Appears to have been merged with Ronan the Accuser.
* DropTheHammer: Wields a massive, ancient war hammer.
* EvilerThanThou: Was banished from the Iron Islands because he was too intense and psychotic even for the other Ironborn. [[spoiler: He also makes quick work of Asha in their first in-story encounter, overwhelming her crew and taking her prisoner.]]
* TranshumanTreachery: [[spoiler:He became an Other and now serves the Night King of his own free will.]]
* UncannyValley: InUniverse, he's this for Asha, who notes that everything about him has always felt ''wrong'', as if he doesn't belong in the world, and reality knows it.
* VillainRespect: Actually respects Theon's decision to cut loose from his heritage and forge his own path.
* VillainTeamUp: Has pledged himself to the Others, due to the Night's King accepting his true nature.
[[/folder]]

!King's Landing

The capital of the Seven Kingdoms, home to thousands of people caught in the crossfire of the political power plays.
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[[folder:Gendry Waters]]
!!Gendry Waters, aka Petyr
One of King Robert Baratheon's numerous bastards. A very skilled blacksmith who gets dragged into a dangerous whirlwind.
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* BeneathSuspicion: How he helps Mystique and Arya to flee King's Landing: no one is going to suspect a family of three who's asking for directions.
* TheBlacksmith: Talented enough for Tony to buy his apprenticeship.
* CompositeCharacter: Eventually turns into the story's version of [[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Colossus}}]].
* DropTheHammer: Outright ''pulps'' Janos Slynt's head when the douchebag starts leering at Arya.
* DumbMuscle: How he's considered by many people. His master even dismisses him as "all muscles and no brains, a true colossus". However, he is smarter than he is given credit for.
* HeroicBastard: He's a complete NiceGuy and is one of Robert's bastard sons.
* HeroicBystander: His reaction when he sees the Gold Cloaks' commander harassing a poor commoner woman and her daughter? [[spoiler:Why, smashing his head open, of course.]]
* InTheBlood: He wields a hammer for a weapon, and shows slightly perverted tendencies when he muses about his and Arya's guide's gender preferences, just like his birth father.
* PersonalityPowers: As a blacksmith apprentice, he worked metal for a living. [[spoiler:So of course he gains the power to turn himself into metal]].
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Later in ''A Crack of Thunder'', [[spoiler:his mutant gene's activation aged him until his twenties.]]
* RefugeInAudacity: His strategy to leave King's Landing after killing Janos Slynt? He doesn't bother with a disguise, just walks through the doors while talking to the gold cloaks on his way. Arya is stunned by his success.
* ShipTease: It's subtle, but he does show a bit of attraction towards Arya after they're both [[PlotRelevantAgeUp aged up]].
* TheTease: When Arya protests lady parts are not how he envisions them, he playfully asks her if she's propositioning him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Petyr Parker]]
!!Petyr Parker, Spider Man
The son of Goldcloak Rickard Parker who was murdered along with his wife in the riots against the Lannisters, while Petyr was luckily staying with his aunt and uncle. He later gains spider-like abilities after being bit by one affected by wildfire.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Jon was clearly capable of dealing with the guard he was fighting, but he still helps by webbing the guard to the wall.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: With Gwen Stacy.
* ChildProdigy: Taught himself to read without a maester's aid, and later thinks up a design for a wheel-powered automated training dummy horse.
* ForWantOfANail: He barely escaped being murdered along with his parents because his uncle Ben took him see the red comet.
* KidHero: Only twelve years old when he's orphaned.
* MotorMouth: He never stops talking during a fight.
* {{Nephewism}}: Taken in by his aunt and uncle after his parents were killed in the anti-Goldcloak riots.
* VillainRespect: Earns this from Tywin for his cleverness.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Benjen Parker]]
!!Benjen Parker
Rickard Parker's brother, who took in his orphaned nephew Peter.
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* AdultFear: Losing his brother to a rabid anti-Lannister mob, and knowing his nephew was spared only by a twist of fate.
* DoomedByCanon: Assuming Spider-Man's origin remains close to the original, he's going to die to teach Peter to use his powers to be a hero. Tywin offhandedly mentions he was also killed during the Battle of Blackwater.
* PosthumousCharacter: We don't even see him in person, and then Tywin mentions he was killed during the Battle of Blackwater.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jeor Stacy]]
!!Jeor Stacy
A Goldcloak commander who was close with the late Rickard Parker.
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* CharacterDeath: Falls during the Battle of the Blackwater [[spoiler:when a wight cuts him down to get to Tyrion]].
* CompositeCharacter: Being Tyrion's ally in the Goldcloaks and an honest man makes him a composite of Jacelyn Bywater and George Stacy, a cop from Spider-Man, and much like Bywater, Stacy dies during the Battle of the Blackwater (just as George was killed in the comics).
* DoomedByCanon: His canonical counterpart is most famous for dying, so it shouldn't be too surprising that he does.
* DueToTheDead: He was so popular and respected among the Goldcloaks, Tywin decides to pay the pension of May Parker since he knows she's taking care of Stacy's daughter Gwen.
* FriendOnTheForce: Serves as this for Tyrion, who knows he needs good recruits to fix the clusterfuck that King's Landing is and considers Stacy a worthy candidate, eventually giving him the job.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: He's killed by being cut roughly in half diagonally.
* KilledMidSentence: Is fatally attacked in the middle of updating Tyrion on their forces' counterattack against Stannis' forces.
* RankUp: Is promoted to Commander of the Goldcloaks by Tyrion.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The anti-Goldcloak sentiment in King's Landing hasn't changed his determination to do good by the people.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Adrian of the Tombs*]]
!!Adrian of the Tombs, the Vulture King
A knight from the Reach, embittered against the Tyrells for their treatment of his family, who uncovers an ancient relic that allows him to finally take power for himself.
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Adrian does not have his MCU version's hatred of Tony Stark. Instead, it is directed at the Tyrells.
* AffirmativeActionLegacy: Inverted. He's a Westerosi male who becomes the next Vulture King, who was previously [[spoiler:Rhaenys Targaryen, a Valyrian woman]].
* ArcVillain: Being set up as one for ''A Shield of Man''.
* BerserkButton: The Tyrells as a whole are one for him, given all the ways they've screwed over his life.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Adrian is utterly convinced that his long list of failures in life have all been engineered by the Tyrells, who don't want anyone from his family moving up in society. To be fair, there's quite a bit of evidence that he's right.
* CosmicPlaything: He absently muses that he must be cursed, because all his attempts at improving his lot in life have failed.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: His hatred for the Tyrells was brought by their manipulations in preventing him from doing anything that would distance him from his family's duty of protecting House Tyrell's tombs.
** First, he tried to find a knight to squire with, but none would accept him because he was not important enough.
** Then he tried to join the Faith of the Seven, but then a Septon had a "vision" of the Seven stating that he had to return to his family's duty. The Septon gained greater standing in the Faith, and [[SarcasmMode coincidentally]] the Tyrells made a sizeable donation to the Starry Sept a few days after the "vision".
** Later, he went to the Citadel and stayed there for two years, only for a Hightower to offer him the chance to squire. Adrian accepted - and within two months he was knighted, told that he could not be a Maester and all but ordered to return home.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The helmet of his Vulture King outfit has eye lenses of Yi Ti glass, which are noted to glow like wildfire in the dark.
* LegacyCharacter: Uncovers and claims for himself the dragonbone flight harness of the original Vulture King.
* MagneticHero: Well, not a hero. But he has the charisma to drive everyone to listen to everything he has to say, and to follow his lead, even if they don't like him.
* PragmaticVillainy: He is smart enough to realize that Tywin's messenger could likely betray him, and so kills him. In addition, he's smart enough to endear himself to the Old Lion himself, knowing that he not only rewards loyalty better than House Tyrell, but is the officially the second most powerful man in the Seven Kingdoms, and most powerful by de facto. Not to mention during his first raid as the Vulture King, he doesn't use the wagons used by the Tyrell soldiers, as they are easily identifiable and would spark suspicion if they are seen with them, and keeps some of the goods for his men to enjoy so as not to acquire MistreatmentInducedBetrayal of the kind he himself is inflicting on House Tyrell.
* ProperlyParanoid: He knows that any messenger Tywin Lannister might send to bring him back would likely just murder him for the sake of the glory of discovering the Vulture King's wings. He also knows that, were he to return to King's Landing with those wings, Tywin Lannister and Mace Tyrell would just take them away and claim to have discovered their existence themselves.
* IShallTauntYou: He takes on the Vulture King identity to mock the Tyrells (due to the title's status as TheDreaded in the Reach).
* ShootTheMessenger: Kills the messenger sent by Tywin to recall his expedition, not trusting the man not to kill him and steal credit for his discovery (and, given the man's reaction when he mentions this, it is obvious he was planning to do that).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jiffsun Davus]]
!!Jiffsun Davus
A commoner from the Summer Islands who is made the new Commander of the Gold Cloaks after Jeor Stacy's death.
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* ActionDad: To his young son Miles.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He's made Commander largely on the strength of his successful defense of the King's Gate during the Battle of the Blackwater.
* SelfMadeMan: While most of the other Summer Islanders who arrived with Jalabhar Xho simply leached off Robert's hospitality, Jiffsun applied to join the Gold Cloaks, which pays off with his promotion.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gwen Stacey]]
!!Gwen Stacey, Spider-Woman
Commander Jeor Stacey's daughter and a friend of Petyr Parker's, who like him gains spider-like abilities following being bitten by a wildfire-affected spider.
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* ChildhoodFriends: With Petyr.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She can sew, dance and play music. She also enjoys archery.
* KidHero: Is about the same age as Petyr, and gained her powers at the same time.
* YouRemindMeOfX: Jon fondly comments he might believe Arya had dyed her hair blonde as a prank when she's around.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Miles Muralus]]
!!Miles Muralus
Commander Davus' son, who like Petyr and Gwen gained spider abilities after being bit by a wildfire-affected spider and became a hero.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Wears a mostly black costume, but is a hero.
* KidHero: Is roughly the same age as Petyr and Gwen, and gained his powers at the same time.
* MixedAncestry: His father is a Summer Islander while his mother is a Dornishwoman.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sam]]
!!Isamalwi Iso Malsosia aka Sam
A Summer Islands warrior living in voluntary exile in King's Landing to escape his homeland's constant warfare.
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* BadassCape: One made of red feathers.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: An extremely competent swordsman and teacher whom Westerosi highborns dismiss as a dark-skinned barbarian and exotic decoration. He lets slip a hint of bitterness over this.
* TheExile: Voluntarily followed his Prince into exile in Westeros, knowing that he'd probably never return.
* LightningBruiser: His sparring contest leaves Jon feeling like he's fighting three men.
* TheMentor: To Petyr.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Because no one in Westeros can manage to properly call him by his birth name without butchering it.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The reason he left the Summer Islands. He's seen so much warfare, he wants to live somewhere where he has no obligations to fight anymore.
[[/folder]]

!The Martells

The ruling family of Dorne, who have a complicated history with the other major Houses of Westeros.
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[[folder:Oberyn Martell]]
!!Oberyn Martell, the Red Viper of Dorne
Brother of Prince Doran of Dorne. A longtime friend of Tony's.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In canon, he first appeared in ''A Storm of Swords'', the third book in the series. Here, he's introduced in ''A Crack of Thunder'', which follows the events of ''A Clash of Kings'', the second book of the series.
* AnythingThatMoves: As per canon, he's not picky about his sexual partners.
* BirdsOfAFeather: He and Tony share a love of drinking, sex, and snark.
* EveryoneHasStandards: As much as he hates the Lannisters, he refuses to tolerate Ellaria's suggestion that Myrcella be tortured to punish them.
* {{Foil}}: After meeting him, Jon declares he's the Dornish Tony - which Oberyn counters by claiming Tony is the Westerland Oberyn.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: His eldest daughter and [[spoiler:the Council kept him away from their operations since he was unable to keep a secret.]]
* NoodleIncident: A font of these:
** He apparently owns a portrait of him and Tony in a compromising position.
** Tony's pretty sure Oberyn tried to sell him as a sex slave once.
** He claims he once taught a goat to milk itself.
** Tony claims that there are tons of stories about Oberyn, and that most of them came from Oberyn himself, though Tony claims he helped Oberyn write a few.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Doesn't let his hatred of the Lannisters ruin his friendship with Tony, who's their bannerman.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Unknowingly screws Tywin Lannister's plot to secure Jon's loyalties by presenting the boy his daughter Natasha as a bride, tying him to the Martells via marriage.
* TranquilFury: Jon notes that when he gets angry, his voice stays perfectly even and calm.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Natasha Martell*]]
!!Natasha Stark née Martell, the Black Widow of Dorne
Oberyn's oldest bastard daughter, legitimized by Ned as his last legal act as Hand of the King. Betrothed (and later married) to Jon.
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* ActionDressRip: Rips off the bottom of her dress to better fight the Ironborn raiders attacking the wedding tourney with.
* ActionGirl: Her father's ensured that she's skilled in all forms of combat.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Her father is well-known for his sexual appetite, and she inherited all of his kinkiness. [[HormoneAddledTeenager Jon]] very much approves.
* ArrangedMarriage: Her father sets her up with Jon to cement his alliance with the Starks.
* TheAtoner: Before meeting Jon, she had to do many unsavory things [[spoiler:for the Council - including murdering people. She sees Jon and his crusade as the Centurion as her chance to redeem herself.]]
* BadassNormal: Just like the original, she jumps into battle alongside people with superpowers despite having none herself.
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Has her canon red hair, plus a Dornish tan.
* DualWielding: Wields a pair of Braavosi tonfas, a wedding present from her father.
* {{Foil}}:
** To her betrothed Jon, with whom she shares a background of bastardry. However, her nobleman father loved and raised her as if she were his trueborn daughter, and she considers her being legitimized more binding than freeing.
** To Pepper, the current redheaded Lady of Iron Pointe, who also comes from unsavoury background and whose husband took heroism in his free time. Except that Natasha's marriage was arranged, she's rather less fiery and actually supports Jon about his hobby.
* GreenEyedMonster: Gets quietly enraged at the thought of anyone else having Jon.
* HistoryRepeats: Once again, a daughter of the House Martell marries [[spoiler:a Targaryen prince.]]
* IJustWantToBeFree: She muses the Martell name is more a chain than a boon. As a bastard, she could have done ''anything'' she wanted and no one would have cared. As a Martell, there is standards she must uphold.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Assumes that Jon was raised just like her, treated no differently from a trueborn child, and that no man would stop and think about what might happen if they got a prostitute pregnant. [[WickedStepmother She's]] [[ChasteHero wrong]].
* {{Irony}}: Catelyn Stark, née Tully, ruined Jon's childhood. Pepper thinks that his wife-to-be's mother was probably a Tully.
* ItMeantSomethingToMe: When Jon learns she's really an [[spoiler:agent for the Council and accuses her from marrying him to further their goals]], she tearfully assures him she married him for himself and sees him as her way to redeem herself.
* NoodleIncident: Had at least one past encounter with [[spoiler: Varys]] that contributed to the "red in [her] ledger", and may explain her nickname.
* RaceLift: In the comics, Black Widow is a white Russian. In ''A Song of Metal and Marvels'', she is brown-skinned but retains the red hair.
* SherlockScan: Is constantly analyzing everyone around her for strengths and weaknesses.
* UnfortunateNames: Tony notes that her nickname has some negative connotations. Especially as a prospective bride.
[[/folder]]

!The Wall and Beyond

The great barrier separating Westeros in the south from the northern lands of the wildlings (or Free Folk, as they call themselves), protected by the brotherhood of the Night's Watch.
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[[folder:Jeor Mormont*]]
!!Lord Commander Jeor Mormont
The leader of the Night's Watch and former ruler of Bear Island. Surviving his canon fate, he prepares to face the Others.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Surrounded by wights and facing off against two Others, he prepares to go down fighting. [[spoiler:Fortunately, intervention by Steve saves him.]]
* ForWantOfANail: Survives the mutiny that kills him in canon simply because he needed to take a late night piss and overheard the plotters talking, allowing him to safely flee.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Is perfectly willing to toss aside the Watch's centuries of animosity with the wildlings in face of the war with the Others.
* SpitTake: He and Benjen do this in unison when [[spoiler: Steve]] reveals that Lann the Clever was a dwarf.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Benjen Stark]]
!!Benjen Stark
Ned's younger brother, and First Ranger of the Night's Watch.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Arrives with [[spoiler:Steve]] just in time to save Jeor's group from the Others.
* SpitTake: He and Jeor do this in unison when [[spoiler: Steve]] reveals that Lann the Clever was a dwarf.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mance Rayder]]
!!Mance Rayder, King-Beyond-The-Wall
The elected king of the Free Folk, and a former member of the Night's Watch.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Like Jeor, he's willing to set aside the animosity between his people and the Watch in light of the Others' return.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ygritte]]
!!Ygritte
A Wildling warrior woman and one of Mance's lieutenants.
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* ActionGirl: One of Mance's best fighters.
* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Doesn't quite enjoy being saved from the Others by Benjen, since he's a Black Brother.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Hates being called "lady", even if it's just because she's a woman, since in her mind a lady is a pampered woman who just sits around and does nothing all day.
* LadySwearsALot: Curses like a sailor, all the time, much to [[spoiler: Steve]]'s annoyance.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Mance.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lord of Bones]]
!!Rumlow aka Lord of Bones
A Wildling chieftain who wears a suit made of bones.
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* CompositeCharacter: Between Rattleshirt and Crossbones.
* DemBones: As noted, he wears bones.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Does not like being called by his name instead of his title.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tormund Giantsbane]]
!!Tormund Giantsbane
A Wildling leader and one of Mance's closest allies.
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* BoisterousBruiser: A big guy and pretty damn friendly when he likes you.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: While there's no indication of him having siblings in canon, here he's Rahne's older brother.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rahne Wolfsbane]]
!!Rahne Wolfsbane
Tormund's sister, who can transform into a giant wolf.
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* CanisMajor: Has the ability to transform into a wolf bigger than most people.
* MythologyGag: In the comics, "Wolfsbane" was Rahne's X-Men code name.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: She's Tormund's younger sister in this universe.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Since [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing her abilities don't include her clothes]], she's always naked after transforming, and doesn't seem to mind it at all.
[[/folder]]

!Asgardians

The gods of Westeros, who have watched over them for thousands of years and have taken pilgrimages every generation. The people of Westeros worship them, but they clearly don't know anything about them.
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[[folder:In General]]
* AngelUnaware: Once every five centuries, they make pilgrimages to Planetos and live as mortals for roughly 25 years at a time, defending the people throughout their lives.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Each of the Asgardians we meet seems to have interacted with major figures in history.
* CompositeCharacter: The Norse pantheon meets the Faith of the Seven, with some of the other Westerosi religions added in for good measure.
* PhysicalGod: In their true identities, they would be indistinguishable from your average mortal.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: When they're undertaking a pilgrimage on Planetos, they apparently are born in mortal bodies and grow up until they regain their powers and memories.
* SadlyMythtaken: The people of Westeros seriously missed their mark when they interpreted the gods. While Odin and Frigga were interpreted well enough, the others... weren't.
** They gave Balder Mjölnir and Heimdall's beard, gave Thor the sword, and saw [[ActionGirl Sif]] as ''[[ProperLady the Maiden]]''.
** [=Ægir=]'s probably got it the worst, as his worshipers see him as a reaving pirate god and misinterpret the origin of his name as being from getting drowned battling Thor, when he was just pushed off a boat while drunkenly flirting with Sif. Ironically, the Ironborn's interpretation of Thor is ''far'' more accurate than the Andal interpretation, at least as far as appearance, armaments, and abilities are concerned, given that Theon was able to recognize him with a single glance.
* TimeAbyss: They are several thousand years old, with some of them being present for great historical events. Thor fought against the Others during the Long Night alongside Azor Ahai ([[spoiler:Later confirmed to be this world's Captain America]]), while Sif was the one who tamed Sheepstealer under the incarnation of Nettles.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Odin]]
!!Odin Borson, the Father, the Allfather
The ruler of Asgard who is known as "The Father" among the people of Westeros. He is the father of Thor and Loki.
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* BigGood: He's the protector of Asgard and the Nine Realms, including Westeros.
* GodIsGood: He's a benevolent deity who desires to protect the Nine Realms.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: His own father craved power so much he murdered his parents for it, while Odin congratulates Thor for having the mental fortitude to refuse the crown.
* SelfMadeOrphan: When he punished his father for killing his own parents and for craving more power.
* SoProudOfYou: He expresses great pride when Thor acknowledges his flaws and renounces his claim to the throne, passing it to Loki.
* TheThreeFacesOfAdam: The Prophet. Odin is known for his cleverness and wisdom, and he's certainly old enough to have the looks.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Frigga]]
!!Frigga, the Mother
The Queen of Asgard who is referred to as "The Mother" by the Westerosi. She is the mother of Thor and Loki.
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* AlmightyMom: She's the Goddess of Magic and mother to Thor and Loki. You can bet she is this.
* TheHecateSisters: As the Queen of Asgard, she's the Mother aspect and worshiped as such by the Andals.
* TheHighQueen: Married to Odin the Allfather, she rules the gods themselves.
* TheMentor:
** Briefly, to Amora. Boy, did she regret it...
** Also to Loki, who was her ''actual'' best student.
* TheThreeFacesOfEve: The Wife, as Frigga is Odin's consort and TheHighQueen.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sif]]
!!Sif, the Maiden
An Asgardian goddess and an old friend of Thor and Loki. Among those in Westeros, she is "The Maiden". Just don't bring it up around her.
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* ActionGirl: She's one of the best warriors in the Nine Realms. Not like Westeros sees it though.
* BerserkButton: Being called "The Maiden" is one for her. Seriously, she ''will'' bludgeon you if you bring it up.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: During one of her mortal pilgrimages, she was the woman known as Nettles, who tamed the dragon Sheepstealer and played a fairly important role in the Dance of the Dragons.
** She's the reason that the Drowned God is called such - the name is a nickname given to him when he was flirting with Sif, so she pushed him off a boat into a lake.
* DragonRider: Under her alias Nettles, she tamed the wild dragon Sheepstealer which she brought to Asgard when her pilgrimage ended.
* TheHecateSisters: Subverted. She's the placeholder for the Maiden, but she's as far away as you can get from a ProperLady.
* OneOfTheBoys: To the point that she believed they would tease her for pretending to be a ProperLady.
* TheThreeFacesOfEve: She fits much better the Child archetype than the Maiden from TheHecateSisters, being tomboyish and adventurous.
* UnwillinglyGirlyTomboy: She would be quite conspicuous if she showed herself an ActionGirl every time she goes on Midgard, so she occasionally has to play the ProperLady -- which is an explicit source of distress for her.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Since she feared her friends would mock her for her deeds on Planetos, she begged for no Asgardian to be able to spy another Asgardian on a mortal pilgrimage. So not only does Thor not know what happened to Loki, [[spoiler:he's unaware of Amora plotting on Earth.]]
* WorldsBestWarrior: Thor says that no warrior rivals her, meaning that she's likely the best fighter in Asgard.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:[=Ægir=]]]
!![=Ægir=], the Drowned God
The Drowned God of the Ironborn. He's actually a pretty nice guy.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: The Drowned God is said to have made the Ironborn in his likeness, which translates to being rapists, pillagers, and murdering lunatics. Here, he's a good drinking buddy, fun at parties, and is nothing like what the Ironborn see him as.
* EmbarrassingNickname: What his title actually means -- he got it after drunkenly hitting on Sif who dumped him into a pool.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Male example, the Asgardians apparently consider him the life of the party and a pretty swell guy.
* HopelessSuitor: He tried to bed Sif once, and she dunked him into a pool to show how much she thought of it.
* MistakenForBadass: The Ironborn believe him to be a powerful SocialDarwinist who reaves and slaughters his enemies like cattle. He's actually a down-to-earth party animal who's a bit of a CasanovaWannabe. That being said, he's still an ''Asgardian,'' which means that he's still tougher than ninety-nine percent of all Westerosians.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Valkyrie]]
!!Brunhilde
The leader of the Valkyries, charged by the Allfather to take the fallen warriors to Valhalla.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Being based on her raceswapped MCU incarnation, she's a dark-skinned woman from a group of beings who are usually fair-skinned.
* BrutalHonesty: Unlike the other Asgardians, Valkyrie doesn't bother with platitudes and is pretty blunt.
* DivineRaceLift: As mentioned above, Valkyrie is noticeably more dark-skinned than her original counterpart from the Norse myths and the comics.
* LightIsGood: She wears silver white armor and serves Asgard by bringing great warriors to their place in Valhalla.
* {{Psychopomp}}: As a Valkyrie, it is her duty to take fallen warriors to Valhalla, although she would certainly not carry them.
* {{Valkyrie}}: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's in her name]]. She is a fierce Asgardian warrior who takes the souls of deceased knights to the afterlife.
[[/folder]]

!The Court of the Others
The leadership of the Others, the ancient race that once tried to destroy mankind during the Long Night. Now, after thousands of years of dormancy, they've awakened to threaten the world again.
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[[folder:In General]]
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: The composited Marvel villains that they are based on are re-imagined as Others, who are interpreted here as spiritual entities called titans.
* CompositeCharacter: They have elements of certain Marvel villains mixed in. Notably, each seems to be a BigBad of their respective franchise.
* DemonicPossession: Once upon a time, their race practiced FusionDance in order to explore Westeros. Then the Mad Titan decided he didn't really like to bother with ''sharing'' his body...
* TheDreaded: Thor admits that they make him tremble. Remember, Thor is a WarriorPrince, and a PhysicalGod who loves fighting, so when you can make someone like ''that'' tremble, you know you're a force to be feared.
* TheFairFolk: Oh boy, yes. They come from the lands beyond the Wall, bear mythical abilities that allow them to possess people and perform various forms of magic, and their endgame is the conquest of all of Westeros.
* GreaterScopeVillain: They aren't very prevalent in the main story of the first book, but their presence is felt by many characters in the second book and they're set to become the main BigBad later down the road.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Night's King]]

!!The Night's King, the Mad Titan, Thanos
The leader of the Others, who is starting his long-prophesied campaign to conquer Westeros.
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* BigBad: Just as in the regular canon, he's shaping up as the ultimate foe the side of good will need to defeat.
* CompositeCharacter: After a series of hints to this throughout ''A Crack of Thunder'', Chapter 53 finally confirms that he's Thanos.
* DecompositeCharacter: Here, the book's canonical Night's King was only a human thrall whom the Night's Queen carefully buttered up so as to make him feel important. The ''true'' Night's King is much more feared and dangerous.
* DemonicPossession: During the war between the Children and the First Men, he possessed the body of a man whom the Children believe could have been king of all his people... and then decided that he didn't feel the need to ''share'' control of that body.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Thanos" is clarified to mean "Mad Titan" in the language of the Children. When Rickon first speaks his name to Robb, the latter notes that despite having never heard the name before, it sends a chill down his spine.
* TrickedOutGloves: Uses "a great gauntlet of infinite power", likely the Infinity Gauntlet.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Night's Queen '''(Spoilers)''']]
!'''Warning! This character is considered a major WalkingSpoiler for the ending of Book 1 and throughout Book 2. As a result, all spoilers for this character are unmarked.'''
!!The Night's Queen
The only Other able to cross into Westeros ahead of their invasion, courtesy of DemonicPossession.

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* ArcVillain: More subtle than most examples, but becomes this for Tyrion in ''A Crack of Thunder''.
* AnimalEyeSpy: Unlike with Varys, her "little birds" are quite literal, as she kills and reanimates them to spy for her. Given that the body she's using has latent warging powers, it's possible that she's combining this with her own ability to create wights.
* BadassBoast: "Do you fear me? Think me a beast? I am no queen or monster. I am the Goddess of Death."
* CompositeCharacter:
** Tyrion has a nightmare where she has the appearance of Satana Hellstrom.
** She calls herself "the Goddess of Death," showing that Hela's in there too.
* TheCorrupter: It's heavily implied she uses her secret meetings with maids and all sort of people to brainwash or convert them, and there are increasing hints Sandor is slowly becoming an Other.
** Since they are described as pale, gaunt and blue-eyed, it's possible she's turning them into ''wights''.
* DemonicPossession: Currently possessing Sansa's corpse, though it's implied that the real Sansa may still be in there as well.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Her answer to the "who does the sellsword kill?" riddle is that all four men die, because none of them thought that the woman in the room with them may have been the real threat (an addition no one else references). The first person to peg her as both dangerous and not human was Bronn, ''a sellsword'', who came to this conclusion after meeting her ''once''. Taking it beyond the literal terms of the riddle, Sam also figures out that she is dangerous, and he's also completely beneath the Night's Queen's notice.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** She's disgusted by Joffrey's pettiness and lechery and finds Cersei extremely tiresome to deal with.
** She's also disgusted by Littlefinger's obsession with Catelyn and how he lusts after Sansa.
* FanDisservice: When her newly-grown possessed corpse awakens and flashes her tits to Sandor, the Hound's very reasonable reaction is a FreakOut.
* HealingHands: She manages to entirely wipe away Sandor's burns, leaving him with a normal face.
* HumanoidAbomination: A White Walker puppeting the corpse of a young girl after modifying it to suit her more? Bronn was not wrong to call her a ''what'' rather than a ''who''.
* LadyAndKnight: The Dark Mistress to Sandor's faithful Hound.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Discussed. She considers setting up Littlefinger and Joffrey for one of those.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: After her reanimation of Sansa's corpse, she gained snow-white skin, faded red hair (which further bleaches as time goes by) and CreepyBlueEyes.
* LogicalWeakness: Anyone sane enough fears wildfire, but she's even more justified in her fear of it since she belongs to a race of ice-people.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Is able to deceive ''Tywin'', making him believe she's the spirit of his dead wife.]]
* MistakenForAnImposter: Tyrion refusing to believe she's really Sansa Stark when he gets to see her after her death is quite justified: not only she's way older than she's supposed to be, her whole appearance changed, leaving Tyrion fuming about the fact the only thing the "fake" got right was her red hair, which is still the wrong shade of red. Granted, he's right that she isn't actually Sansa. It's just that he thinks she's a entirely different person rather than [[HumanoidAbomination one of the leaders of the White Walkers]] who has [[CameBackWrong taken control of her dead body]].
* MuggingTheMonster: Five Flea Bottom men try to rape her during the riot in King's Landing. The one who gets his neck snapped is by far the luckiest.
* NeckLift: Does this to a would-be rapist during the riot in King's Landing, followed by a NeckSnap.
* NotSoStoic: She twitches when the Wall is mentioned.
** Seeing Lady's stuffed corpse leaves her [[FreakOut freaking out]], not least because she doesn't remember giving (apparently very detailed) orders to recover it. The fact that she whispers "help me" as Sandor leaves implies that her control of Sansa's body may not be as complete as she thinks...
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Plays the ditzy, naive noblegirl to the hilt and ''relishes'' in the fact that everyone[[note]]Well, almost everyone. Bronn sees right through her, Sam and Tyrion have also realized she's a threat and Varys witnesses her brutally killing four would-be rapists[[/note]] believes it to be the real her.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: She made Sansa's body five years older when she resurrected it. It's one of the reasons why Tyrion refuses to believe her the genuine article, as she's supposed to be barely into puberty.
* TheVamp: She gives Sandor a peek of her newly-mature body to seduce him to her cause. Sandor is just as freaked as aroused because she's supposed to be ''dead'' and in ''her early teens''.
** Since she didn't update her wardrobe, her dresses clung very much to her form, which makes her quite indecent. Tyrion muses she looks like a Dornish madam. Later Joffrey gives her new dresses but they aren't much better.
** She idly considers using her charms and a WoundedGazelleGambit to trick Joffrey and Littlefinger into killing each other.
** She makes use of various perfumes and varnishes her nails to make herself more alluring and exotic.
* WalkingSpoiler: Pretty much everything about her spoils much of the ongoing plot and the threat of the Others.
* WrongGenreSavvy: She thinks that no man would view a woman as a threat, and that everyone would think that she is too simple-minded to be a threat. She doesn't quite get that [[MasterOfDisguise Varys]] and Littlefinger have built ''entire spy rings'' based on getting information from women, children, and others that people usually ignore, or that Tyrion, whose best friend is a master of ObfuscatingStupidity and who's used to being looked down on, is smart enough not to take everything at face value. Also, Bronn, a ''sellsword'', was one of the first to figure out she is both dangerous and not human.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Commander]]
!!The Commander a.k.a the Red Skull
The leader of the Others' armies.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Downplayed. He's still a villain, but where Johann Schmidt in the comics was evil even before he became the Red Skull, Johann in this story was a friend of Steve's whose body was taken over by an Other after he died.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Ygritte mockingly calls him "Red Skull", which he seems to like the sound of.
* ArchEnemy: To Steve, dating back to the War for the Dawn.
* AxeCrazy: Jojen claims he's going to "coat his head with the blood of the Night's Watch". If literal, this dude seriously needs therapy.
* TheBrute: Considered the most vicious member of the Court.
* CompositeCharacter: Between an Other and the Red Skull. He also has shades of Bucky[=/=]The Winter Soldier, being a friend of Steve's who died and came back as a villain (though this friend actually died, unlike Bucky who was thought to have died).
* TheDreaded: His skull-like face is said to be the last thing any of his targets will see.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He's the Other that Craster directly worships.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He claims Steve is no different from him and seems to see no difference between him using thralls to do his dirty work and Steve fighting alongside humans. Whether he actually believes this or is just trying to mess with Steve’s head is anyone’s guess.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: His host body was once Steve's friend Johann. He uses this fact to mock Steve repeatedly.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Traitor '''(Spoiler)''']]
!Warning! This character is a major spoiler for the ending of Book 2. All spoilers are left unmarked.
!!The Traitor a.k.a. Azor Ahai, a.k.a. Steve Rogers, Captain Westeros
The Court's most mysterious member, of whom absolutely no information has survived. In Chapter 54 of Book 2, he is revealed to be '''Steve Rogers''', Azor Ahai.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: They're part of the Court, but Rickon views them awakening before most of the other members as a good thing. Combined with their title, it raises the question of ''who'' they have and[=/=]or will be betraying. With the reveal that he was once Steve Rogers, Azor Ahai, it becomes clear that he is firmly on the side of good.
* AntiHero: While he falls under AmbiguouslyEvil above, Chapter 30 of ''A Crack of Thunder'' implies that their plan involves allying with Benjen Stark, though it's not clear why. He is shown to be firmly on the side of good with his BigDamnHeroes entrance.
* BerserkButton: ''Don't'' suggest to him that all men are rapists.
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Jeor Mormont, Mance Rayder and Ygritte when a group of Others attempt to kill them.
* CompositeCharacter: Seemingly one with Coldhands, the undead Watchman fighting against the Others in canon.
* FamousAncestor: As a son of Lann the Clever and the legendary Azor Ahai, you can bet he's this to the Lannisters.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Having slumbered for thousands of years, he's out of date on how culture has evolved. In particular, he's shocked to find that most noblewomen no longer fight, hunt, and work alongside their subjects, not understanding why people would obey them if they don't earn the right to it.
* {{Foil}}: To his own descendant Jaime Lannister. Both are peerless warriors originating from the Westerlands who committed treachery in order to protect countless innocent people. But Steve is very much a NiceGuy and TheCape, while Jaime is TheOathbreaker and rather a jackass.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Being an Other, the Traitor has their typical OccultBlueEyes, yet his stubborn defense of mankind slots him in this trope.
* IHaveManyNames: His birth name is Steve Rogers, but he was known to the North as [[MythologyGag the Nomad]], to the Free Folk as Azor Ahai, and as the Lord Captain of the Knights of the Dawn, all in addition to being the Traitor of the Others.
* LivingRelic: From the War for the Dawn.
* PalsWithJesus: Several millennia after the War for the Dawn, Thor still remembers him as a great shield-brother and speaks fondly of him.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: He's the second son of Lann the Clever, and thus distantly related to the Lannisters.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He hates slavers. Considering that the Casterlys enslaved his mother, it’s hard to blame him.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Rickon seems oddly relieved that the Traitor was the second of the Court to awake after the Night's King, implying they'll have some unexpected part to play. With the revelation that he's Steve Rogers, the heroes just got some unexpected and much needed back-up.
* TokenGoodTeammate: On two levels; before he betrayed the Others' plot to ruin Westeros in order to side with humanity, he was the second son of Lann the Clever so is this to the Lannisters.
* UnPerson: Absolutely no knowledge about him seems to exist in Westeros beyond the name. Though given TheReveal of his identity, it would appear this is because of millennia of LegendFadesToMyth turning him into an in-universe DecompositeCharacter.
* WalkingSpoiler: With the revelations made at the end of Book 2, it's pretty hard to talk about him without bringing up that he's the Westeros counterpart to Captain America and is the Azor Ahai from the original Long Night.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Margaery Tyrell]]
!!Queen Margaery Tyrell
Lord Mace Tyrell's fourth child and only daughter, she has married Renly Baratheon and become Queen.

* BigSisterInstinct: She doesn't like to see her brother Loras pummeled into the ground and forfeits the match for him when his arm is too badly bruised for him to continue fighting.
* CharacterTic: Sucks in her cheeks and puckers her lips when displeased. Theon muses it makes her look like a duck.
* HotConsort: To Renly. Even if she's not Theon's type, he concedes he would have been tempted to jump her if they had met in a private room.
* WomanChild: Theon compares her to a little girl dressing up and donning a parchment crown to play the queen.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Brienne of Tarth]]
!!Brienne of Tarth
The only daughter of Lord Selwyn Tarth, she was a sickly child who would become ill too easily, but has managed to become a strong, powerful woman... at a price.

* ActionGirl: Well, of course.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the books, Brienne was considered an ugly girl growing up and her [[Series/GameOfThrones show version went the extra mile to look plain]]. Here, she's more attractive [[spoiler:and her non-Hulk form is straight up gorgeous.]]
* AdaptationalDyeJob: In the source material, she's blonde with InnocentBlueEyes. Here, she's dark-haired with green eyes. [[spoiler:And of course, there's the matter of her skin...]]
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: She's much more confident and doesn't display any insecurities about her looks. Sure, people may stare at her, at least they don't think "oh, this poor girl, how can she be still alive" anymore.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Her skin became [[spoiler:deep green as a result of her transformation.]]
* BarehandedBladeBlock: Pulls this when fighting an Ironborn.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Her [[spoiler:non-Hulkified form]] is that of a beautiful blonde woman - and Theon notes that, even [[spoiler:in her Hulk form]], there's something quite appealing about her.
* BigBrotherWorship: She's extremely grateful towards her cousin Bruce for doing the impossible: [[spoiler: going to Valyria and ''coming back'' '''ALIVE''' with]] a cure for her chronical illness.
* BoyishShortHair: A pagecut. Theon notices it suits her much better than [[LongHairIsFeminine long hair]] ever would.
* CompositeCharacter: Canon Brienne mixed with [[spoiler:She-Hulk and a touch of Captain America's]] backstory.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Spent most of her youth deathly ill, a situation made even worse by the presence of a fanatical Septon who convinced her father that her condition was the will of the gods and that they should therefore stop trying to fix it.
* DistaffCounterpart: Her being originally an IllGirl who gained strength from a mysterious cure quite resembles Captain America's OriginStory. Only, you know, more medieval and fantastic.
* EmeraldPower: What did you expect from [[spoiler:She-Hulk?]]
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: {{Downplayed}}. [[spoiler:Her skin is deep green]], and she is powerful and strong, but she lost what beauty she had when her cousin [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce]] cured her. Not that she cares.
* IllGirl: Was this to a heavy extreme, which makes her transformation into a strong woman more the surprise.
* InASingleBound: She can jump this far, [[spoiler:just like ComicBook/SheHulk!]]
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Heavily muscled with BoyishShortHair. When she wears her armor, it's impossible to know she's actually female.
* LoyalToThePosition: After discovering [[spoiler:Renly's treachery]], she tells him she had sworn loyalty to what he represented, not to him.
* PowerAtAPrice: She gave her beauty up for health and strength, and considers it a fair trade. [[spoiler:Subverted, as her non-Hulk form is incredibly gorgeous.]]
* PurpleIsPowerful: When Renly grants her a place in his Rainbow Guard, she confesses being partial to purple. [[spoiler:It is the Hulk's typical clothing color, after all.]]
* SamusIsAGirl: The people at Renly's tourney are surprised when they hear her speak for the first time.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Decides to take Theon back to the Riverlands when she discovers [[spoiler:Renly has allied himself with the Ironborn.]]
* ShipTease: With [[spoiler:Theon Greyjoy]], of all people.
* SuperStrength: She's got the full [[spoiler:She-Hulk]] package in this regard, being able to jump so far and with enough force to shatter the sound barrier and easily bend metal.
* TranquilFury: She's never actually calm, she's just able to constructively release her frustration and rage.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: It's suggested there's the beginning of ''something'' between her and Theon. Merely hinting he's endangered is enough for her to almost go on a rampage.
* WorldsStrongestWoman: Being the InUniverse equivalent to [[spoiler:ComicBook/SheHulk]] certainly adds up to this.

[[folder:Mace Tyrell]]
!!Lord Mace Tyrell
The Lord of Highgarden and Lord Paramount of the Reach.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Tywin states that his buffoonish nature is trick into getting people to underestimate him.
* ParentalSexualitySquick: Sputters in embarrassment at his mother's sex jokes, seemingly more at the thought of her having sex at all than at the nature of the jokes.
* PlayingBothSides: Sieging Storm's End during Robert's Rebellion was him doing this -- if Aerys won, he could say he was acting loyally to the crown, but if he lost he could at least tell the Baratheons that no one was killed during the siege.

[[folder:Olenna Tyrell]]
!!Lady Olenna Tyrell, a.k.a. the Queen of Thorns
Mace's mother, and the true leader of House Tyrell.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: In addition to constantly belittling Mace, she has no problem cracking sex jokes when he's in hearing range.
* TheDreaded: Is one of the people that Natasha warns Jon to never let himself be alone with, due to her intelligence and ruthlessness.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: States that being old means that she can say whatever she wants.

[[folder:Lord Oaker]]
!!Lord Oaker
A cowardly and self-important minor Lord from the Reach whose actions prove to be the catalyst of Iron Man's birth.

* DirtyCoward: He sold his own daughter to a group of bandits so they would stop sacking his lands.
* GeneralFailure: According to Tywin, his main strategy is to overwhelm the enemy with numbers, regardless of how much casualties his side ends up with. There's the fact that he's unable to keep his lands safe from bandits other than bribing them.
* MilesGloriosus: Almost his entire character. Loves to boasts how much of a fierce warrior and cunning tactician he is, but in reality, a group of bandits attacking his lands is enough to scare him into submission.
* OriginalCharacter: He has no canon counterparts.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite only making a single physical appearance and generally being unimportant in the grand scheme of things, Tony Stark would have never become Iron Man if it wasn't for him surrendering his daughter to the same bandits who kidnapped Tony.

!The Brotherhood of the Blackfyres

A mysterious group, composed of people with great powers, who are preparing to come out of the shadows and reveal themselves to the world.

* AdaptationalNameChange: Their name is altered from "The Brotherhood of Mutants" to "The Brotherhood of the Blackfyres".
* CompositeCharacter: Given some of the author's notes and reveals, the Brotherhood is a composite of the Faceless Men and Young Griff's faction (for a given fan interpretation of Young Griff being a Blackfyre).
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Magneto sacrificing the Bloody Mummers for the ritual that [[spoiler: mutates Arya and Gendry]] also manages to hatch a purple dragon, later named Lockheed after the Valyrian god of the dead.
* TrueCompanions: It's noted that they all view each other as family.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They often try to murder each other only to rally together in order to defend one of them.

[[folder:Magneto]]
!!Erik Blackfyre, a.k.a. Magneto
Mystique's master, he's first mentioned in the first book, being implied to be raising an army in the shadows for some purpose. Finally makes an appearance in the last third of the second book, having hidden himself as the Maester of Harrenhal in order to put Arya and Gendry to the test, and finally revealing he is the son of Daemon Blackfyre, and thus a potential claimant for the Iron Throne.

* ActorAllusion: His musing about coming precisely in time and claiming of the title "White Pilgrim" are a ShoutOut to [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]].
* TheDreaded: Doom is proudly unaffected by the House of the Undying's attempts to show him his greatest fear and desire, but he still freaks out a bit upon seeing he'll be meeting Magneto soon.
* FantasticRacism: He's very dismissive of mundane people.
* TheGhost: Only name-dropped in the first book, but won't be long to appear if Arya's arc progresses. [[spoiler:He finally does in the second book, having hidden as the Maester of Harrenhal.]]
* LastOfHisKind: Given that the Blackfyres were all but extinct in canon, he might be the last of his family name.
* MagnetismManipulation: This is the Master of Magnetism we're talking about, so this goes without saying.
* MasterOfDisguise: Made everyone in Harrenhal believe he was the castle's [[spoiler:kind Maester.]]
* TheMentor: How Syrio presents him.
* NightmareFetishist: When he learned of Raven's existence, he insisted to see "the real her", and was obviously insatisfied when she tried to take the classical Targaryen looks. Only when she finally showed him her blue skin, he claimed her perfect.
* OneManArmy: He easily slaughtered the Bloody Mummers, [[MuggingTheMonster who believed he would be a nice kill]].
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: As a Blackfyre, he's distant cousins to Daenerys, [[spoiler:Mystique, and Jon.]]
* TheResenter: Is none too pleased that his cousin Daenerys is making waves in Essos, when he considers himself the true heir to the Iron Throne.
* TheRival: As a Blackfyre, he's this to Daenerys.
* StealthMentor: Has been carefully testing both Arya and Gendry in order to see whether they are worthy of [[spoiler:gaining powers.]]
* StoryBreakerPower: Do remember that Dark Age weapons and armor are made of ''metal''. However, it is downplayed compared to the comics. The smallfolk wear ''significantly'' less metal than modern humans (no zippers, while buckles and metallic buttons are primarily for rich people), and several weapons that are common in medieval times are a lot easier to adapt to have no metal on them than guns, meaning that his powers are significantly less useful against, say, some random peasant bandits armed with wooden spears they got by simply sharpening a pole, or even just quarterstaves they got by removing the spearheads from their spears. Or any archer who isn't wearing armor, or is only wearing leather armor, hearing of his powers and deciding to simply remove their arrowheads and either use stone arrowheads or sharpen the arrows shaft instead.

[[folder:Syrio Forel/Mystique]]
!!Syrio Forel, a.k.a. Mystique
Arya Stark's "dancing" teacher. Supposed to be a mere Braavosi traveler, but reveals himself as much more than meets the eye.

* ActionGirl: She takes on Meryn Trant and his goons unarmed and ''wins''.
* AdaptationalHeroism: This series opts for the [[Film/XMenFilmSeries Fox X-Men]] characterization of Mystique as a complex AntiHero who cares about her fellow mutants and voluntarily associates with Magneto's Brotherhood, rather than her comic counterpart's unfailingly selfish sociopathy.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Her true appearance is blue-skinned with crimson hair.
* ComplexityAddiction: Sabretooth accuses her of this, that Mystique enjoys complex games simply because she's bored and could do far much more without constant scheming.
* CompositeCharacter: "Syrio Forel" is actually one of Mystique's disguises, and she's explicitly replacing Jaqen H'gar as the one who inducts Arya into a shadow organization.
** Chapter 22 of ''A Crack of Thunder'' complicates it even more, revealing she is the [[spoiler:daughter of Duncan the Small (Aegon V's firstborn) and Jenny of Oldstones]] - and that she got her mutation because of the magic her mother was exposed to in [[spoiler:the Tragedy at Summerhall.]]
* CorruptTheCutie: Subtly grooms Arya to favorably consider the cause.
* TheCynic: Blatantly considers the Iron Man a fool for protecting fickle people who will turn against him the very moment he falters.
* GenderBender: The male Syrio is just one of many identities the female Mystique has used. She then disguises herself as [[spoiler:''Jaime Lannister'', no less]].
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Arya's first idea when she sees her mentor's real appearance is that Mystique is actually a fairy.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: When she was younger, before meeting Magneto, she had to do many things she is not proud of, but if she had not then she would have died.
* IHaveManyNames: In the first book, she used three names: Syrio Forel, Ravan and Mystique.
* LostOrphanedRoyalty: She is the daughter of [[spoiler:Duncan the Small and Jenny of Oldstones (and, thus, Aegon V's grand-daughter), born during the Tragedy at Summerhall, like Rhaegar.]]
* MasterActor: Very much so.
** She fooled the entire Red Keep for months when she pretended to be a Braavosi swordsman then she plays the distressed commoner to the hilt when she escapes the Stark purge. She even instructs Arya on the behavior she must use to be unnoticed.
** She then successfully manages to fool ''Tywin Lannister'' into thinking she's [[spoiler:Jaime. Even more impressive since, after hearing about the "impostor" Sansa, Tywin was especially on guard for an impostor]].
* MasterOfDisguise: Being a shapeshifter has its perks.
* TheMentor: Ned Stark enlisted him to teach swordmanship to Arya, but he ends up taking a more prominent role in her education about the wider world.
* OhCrap: Upon realizing she'll have to give Arya TheTalk.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: She's actually the daughter of [[spoiler:Duncan the Small, making her Daenerys' first cousin once removed. Also, as Magneto is a Blackfyre, he's a more distant cousin.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: It's noted that for all that she and Toad bicker, they'd instantly fight to protect each other if necessary.
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler:As "Jaime"]], she's left in command of Harrenhal when Tywin goes to ally with the Tyrells.

[[folder:Toad]]
!!Toad
A Brotherhood member introduced in ''A Shield of Man'', who is able to jump around like his namesake.

* BigBrotherInstinct: He's the first of the Brotherhood members to intercede when Gambit is flirting with Arya.
* VitriolicBestBuds: It's noted that for all that he and Mystique bicker, they'd instantly fight to protect each other if necessary.

[[folder:Sabertooth]]
!!Sabertooth
Another Brotherhood member introduced in ''A Shield of Man'', he's a large beast of a man.

* TheBigGuy: Towers over his companions and is the physically strongest of them. Would be TheBrute, if not for his HiddenDepths.
* CompositeCharacter: A meta example of merging various incarnations of the character into one -- his physical appearance is a mix of the two [[Film/XMen1 film]] [[Film/XMenOriginsWolverine versions]], while his personality is based on the [[WesternAnimation/XMen cartoon]] and ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' versions.
* CuttingTheKnot: He doesn't believe in complex planning, instead preferring to just charge in and get the job done.
* HiddenDepths: Is a lot smarter than he looks, and kinder towards his comrades than you'd expect.
* MoralityPet: Has a soft spot for Arya.
* MundaneUtility: Uses his claws to uncork bottles.
* RealMenWearPink: He knits in his free time. Arya's brain almost breaks from the strain of imagining musclebound Sabertooth indulging in a granny's hobby.

[[folder:Lady Deathstrike]]
!!Lady Deathstrike
A Brotherhood member introduced in ''A Shield of Man'', she is a Yi-Ti noblewoman that can extend her nails into claws.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Regardless of her disdain for Arya, she threatens to disembowel Gambit if he tries to force himself on the girl.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Not very popular among the Brotherhood for sneering at and insulting her teammates.
* PetTheDog: When Arya expresses insecurity regarding her new dress, Deathstrike reassures her she's beautiful.
* UpperClassTwit: She's a [=YiTish=] noble and looks down on everyone around her save for Magneto (mostly because she knows he could destroy her in a fight).
* WolverineClaws: Her nails extend into lethal claws.

[[folder:Blob]]
!!Blob
Blob (also known as Duke) is a Brotherhood member introduced in ''A Shield of Man'', with his flesh being so bouncy that all attacks get repelled.

* {{Acrofatic}}: He's surprisingly agile and graceful in spite of his girth.
* BigEater: Eats a lot of food.
* TheBigGuy: Easily the Brotherhood's tallest member at 9 feet, and also the fattest.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Shudders at the thought of what meat the [[https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Bowl_of_brown bowl o' brown]] might actually have.
* MoralityPet: Much like Sabertooth, he has a soft spot for Arya.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Calls Arya the biggest troublemaker of the lot, but is not above working with her to do things like stealing Mystique's cookies.

[[folder:Gambit]]
!!Gambit
A Brotherhood member introduced in ''A Shield of Man'', he is the son of a man from the Neck and a Dornish woman with the power to infuse objects with energy that makes them explode.

* AudioErotica: Arya shudders in pleasure (or disgust, she's not sure) when she hears his voice.
* TheCharmer: Another quality of his that remains. He claims that it comes out even when unintended.
* FunetikAksent: He retains the Cajun brogue of his original version.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: When Arya has a FreakOut over starting a fight between the brotherhood and the X-men, it's Gambit who comes down to comfort her and explain where all that tension comes from.
* TechnicolorEyes: Black eyes with red pupils, like the original.

[[folder:Avalanche]]
!!Avalanche
A Brotherhood member introduced in ''A Shield of Man'', he's a youth from Pentos who can create earthquakes.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Having been born and raised in the wastes outside Pentos, he tends not to understand references to Westerosi life and culture.

!Braavos

The Free City of Braavos is a city of Essos ruled by a Sealord. The current Sealord and his inner circle, though, are nothing like those who came before, given that, like the Brotherhood, they also possess superhuman powers.

[[folder:The Sealord of Braavos]]
!!Charlus Waters, Sealord of Braavos

The ruler of Braavos. A wheelchair-bound bald man with a penchant for adopting children. He has some history and an uneasy relationship with Erik/Magneto.

* CompositeCharacter: He's Charles Xavier merged with Ferrego Antaryon, the ruling Sealord during the events of the books. Downplayed in that he only gets the title from the latter.
* PsychicPowers: His power is telepathy.
* RestrainedRevenge: Charlus originally conspired with Erik to return as another conquering duo. But in time, he decided that the best kind of revenge would be to become successful in Essos. Show that they weren't nothing without doing direct harm to the people who shunned them.
* UnknownRelative: According to Gambit, Charlus is the bastard son of one of the Baratheons, though he admits he's not sure which one.

[[folder:Scott]]
!!Scott, the Summer Knight

One of Charlus' proteges, and Jeen's husband.

* EyeBeams: His power is to fire energy beams from his eyes.
* InformedAbility: InUniverse, despite his epiteth, he isn't really a knight.
* MysteriousPast: He was found adrift in the northern sea with only a golden medallion with a sun and two swords crossed over it. Little else is known about his past.
* PowerIncontinence: He can't shut his power off, having to wear a pair of myrish glasses with rubies instead of normal lenses.

[[folder:Jeen]]
!!Jeen, the Gray Lady

Charlus' ward, and Scott's wife.

* IdenticalStranger: Downplayed, Arya comments on her startling likeness to Sansa. If the rumor about Jeen being Hoster Tully's bastard is true, then it would be explained as StrongFamilyResemblance with her niece.
* MyNaymeIs: Je''e''n instead of Je''a''n.
* MysteriousPast: Like Scott, little is known of her past other than being from the Riverlands. Her bright red hair makes people suspect she might be a Tully, with some people even suggesting she might be Holster Tully's bastard daughter. Qyburn implies he knows about her.
* PsychicPowers: Unlike Charles, not only can she read minds, but she can also [[MindOverMatter telekinetically move objects]].

[[folder:Hank]]
!!Henrik "Hank" Tarly, Beast

Another of Charlus' proteges. Randyll Tarly's younger brother, who was studying at the Citadel to become a Maester, until an accident involving wildfire turned him into a blue furry humanoid.

* AdaptationNameChange: From Henry [=McCoy=] to Henrik Tarly.
* AngstWhatAngst: InUniverse, his reaction to a mutation that made him look more like an animal than a human is "such is life".
* CulturedBadass:Has a love of books and knowledge, and was quite strong even before his mutation.
* JockDadNerdSon: The Nerd Son to his and Randyl Tarly's unnamed Jock Dad. However, unlike Randyll and his own son Sam (who also exemplify this trope, seems to be a Tarly thing), Hank was more than able to put his father in his place.
* MartialPacifist: Doesn't like to fight. Doesn't mean he won't if provoked.
* MyNaymeIs: Henrik instead of Henry.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Randyl Tarly didn't have a brother in canon.

[[folder:Ororo]]
!!Ororo

Another of Charlus' protegees. A woman from the Summer Islands.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her white dress is not only described as extremely revealing, but it also leaves some of her private bits exposed if she so much shifts in her seat.
* SupremeChef: If Beast's reaction is anything to go by, she appears to be this.
* WeatherManipulation: Her powerset.

[[folder: Rogue]]
!!Maree, Rogue

Another of Charlus' protegees. A young girl who shares some history with Mystique.

* FunetikAksent: Much like Gambit, Maree retains her comic counterpart's thick accent.
* MyNaymeIs: From Mar''i''e to Mar''e''e
* PowerIncontinence: Like in canon, Maree can absorb life energy on touch with human skin. But also like in Marvel, she can never turn it off, and needs to wear gloves for everyone's safety.
* TheResenter: She resents Mystique for seemingly abandoning her.
[[/folder]]


!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.

[[folder:In General]]
* AdaptationalNameChange: For all intents and purposes, they're the fic's equivalent of SHIELD.
* TheConspiracy: The Council intended to bring [[spoiler:Jon]] to Essos after he was born, so he could be raised along with [[spoiler:Aegon]] for his eventual return to take the Iron Throne from the Baratheons. Nowadays, their main plot is to fight against the Others.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: 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.
* WeAreEverywhere: 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.

[[folder:Nikolos Fury]]
!!Nikolos Fury a.k.a. Gerion Lannister
An agent of The Council, Nikolos works to prevent the return of the mysterious Court.

* CompositeCharacter: He's the missing Gerion who took an alias, becoming Earth 616-Fury.
* CoolSword: A Valyrian steel one, mind you. [[spoiler:That's his family's AncestralWeapon Brightroar, for which he left Westeros in order to find.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: "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.
* FatalFlaw: 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.
* EyepatchOfPower: He's ''one'' of the "Nick Fury's" of this world, so no shit he'd have this.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: 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.
* PetTheDog: Tells Natasha that [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre she is more of a hero than she believes she is]].
* SecretKeeper: Knows that Tony is Iron Man and that Jon is the Centurion [[spoiler:and Jaehaerys Targaryen.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: When he's scowling, Varys muses he's pretty much Tywin's brother.
* TookALevelInJerkass: 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.

[[folder:Varys*]]
!!Varys
The current Master of Whispers, Varys in reality is an agent for The Council who knows many of Westeros' closest guarded secrets.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Varys in the books was an EnigmaticMinion that no one could tell to whom was he loyal to, and despite his claims of serving the realm [[spoiler: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.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: 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.
* CassandraTruth: Despite his flawless track record when it comes to information gathering, no one believes him when he claims that [[spoiler:the real Jaime Lannister is still a prisoner in Winterfell, and whoever showed up at Harrenhal wasn't him]].
* CrazyPrepared: 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.
* IHatePastMe: 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.
* MasterActor: He plays many roles. Even "Varys" as King's Landing knows him is nothing but a role.
* MasterOfDisguise: Like in canon, he has a variety of disguises on standby for any number of situations.
* NoodleIncident: Had a past encounter with [[spoiler: Natasha]] that led to her not trusting him, and may explain his spider nickname.
* WorthyOpponent: 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.

[[folder: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.

* BadassLongcoat: Wears long, black leather jackets.
* BaldOfAwesome: This one is more rooted in the MCU and Ultimate Marvel version of the character, so this is in full effect.
* DecompositeCharacter: "Nikolos Fury" is an identity used by two men at least. This one is the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse[=/=]ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version.
* EyepatchOfPower: Apparently only has his to copy the other Fury.
* TheMole: Works for the Council [[spoiler:and the North, and claims he was sent by Tony to work for Ned. WordOfGod has stated that Tony didn't send him, as he has ''no idea'' that Ned didn't have a Master of Whispers.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Possibly. He claims to be Jaime Rhodes' cousin, but since WordOfGod says that he [[spoiler:wasn't actually sent by Tony]], and we know that Nikolos Fury is a pseudonym, it may be a lie.
* TheSpymaster: [[spoiler:For the Northern Kingdom]], he is the Master of Whispers.

!The Ironborn

The people of the Iron Islands, who have a long history of pirating and raiding. In light of the chaos starting to consume Westeros, they're beginning to return to that heritage.

* CoolSword: Thanks to the use of sunstones, they've upgraded their swords into ''lightsabers'', which they put to good use in the siege on Winterfell.
* HornyVikings: As per canon, the Ironborn are a sea-faring people who practice a religion different from the mainland and frequently raid their neighbors.

[[folder:Asha Greyjoy*]]
!!Asha Greyjoy
The daughter of Balon Greyjoy and a skilled Ironborn captain. Asha has joined forces with her lover, Ivan Vanko, to destroy their enemies.

* ActionSurvivor: She endured [[BastardBastard Ramsay Snow's]] tender attentions for two weeks until he tried to play [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame his favorite game of "hide and seek"]] with her, giving her an opening to ambush and kill him with all his men.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the source material, Asha was a NobleDemon. Here, she's bent on ravaging and pillaging the North and Westerlands with her lover Vanko and WordOfGod confirmed her as a BigBad for the story.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Her lover is a pirate captain who explicitly wants to ravage the West and North of Westeros, and she sees nothing wrong with it. She actually is helping him.
* ArcVillain: Towards Robb Stark in ''A Crack of Thunder''.
* AssholeVictim: After everything she did in ''A Crack of Thunder'', it's hard to feel too much sympathy for her when [[spoiler: Euron captures and tortures her]] in ''A Shield of Man''.
* BrainyBrunette: Her plan to lure Ramsay into a false sense of security to destroy him when he would try to hunt her worked without a hitch.
* CainAndAbel: Very much the villainous reaver to Theon's faithful ward. Still, she seems a bit reluctant to hurt her brother when they meet again, while Theon actively wants to kill her. Granted, he doesn't know she's his sister, but he makes it clear that he doesn't care.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Her relationship with Vanko is rather equalitarian and strong. She also seems to care for Theon in spite of his being raised in the North, and is obviously dismayed when he refuses to identify himself as Ironborn.
* HaveWeMet: Theon is able to tell she looks ''familiar'', but doesn't peg her as his sister - a cousin at the most. What rattles her is that not only does he not know, he doesn't ''care'' who she is.
* HeroKiller: She's responsible for killing [[spoiler:Jonos Bracken.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:In canon, Theon was a villain who ended up being horribly tortured by a worse villain (Ramsay). In ''A Song of Metal and Marvels'', however, ''Asha'' is the villain horribly tortured by a worse villain (Euron).]]
* ItsPersonal: She involved herself into Vanko's crusade for kicks, but after meeting Theon - who doesn't remember her and blatantly renounces the Ironborn culture - she develops a grudge towards the Starks for stealing her baby brother away.
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: After being an ArcVillain in ''A Crack of Thunder'', she's [[spoiler: captured and made a test subject by Euron]] in ''A Shield of Man''.
* MasterActor: She played Ramsay like a fiddle when posing as a poor commoner girl seeking refuge and help.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her killing [[spoiler: Lord Bracken]] helps turn her allies against her, and more importantly, ensures that Theon will ''never'' try to reconcile with her as well as making him declare himself for the Starks.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Ivan Vanko. They are quite demonstrative with each other.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Flees from Winterfell when [[spoiler: the Guardians]] show up and defeat her assault on it.
* VillainousValor: Gal holds RapePillageAndBurn as a holy sacrament but Seven above has she massive balls. She ''willingly'' endures [[BastardBastard Ramsay's]] idea of fun for two weeks then uses his trademark killing method to lure him and his followers into a trap and kill them all.

[[folder:Ivan Vanko]]
!!Ivan Vanko
An Ironborn captain from the island of Lash, who has sworn to destroy the North and the Westerlands for their actions in the Greyjoy Rebellion.

* ArcVillain: Towards Tony Stark in ''A Crack of Thunder''.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He's never called Whiplash.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His desire to destroy the Starks and Lannisters stems from his family being wiped out in the Greyjoy Rebellion. He also shares [[UnholyMatrimony a passionate relationship with Asha]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Utterly unimpressed by [[spoiler:Renly Baratheon]]'s motive for seeking Tony's destruction. At least Vanko is trying to avenge his family, not crying over his hurt ego.
* FakingTheDead: He faked his death [[spoiler:with Renly Baratheon's support]] in order to escape capture by the Martells.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Jon accuses him of being no better than the lords he hates for killing his family, by killing innocent bystanders. He does not care.
* KavorkaMan: Asha Greyjoy took him for lover in spite of him being very much older and disinclined to bathe.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: His murder of [[spoiler:Ramsay]] is rather unsettling to read, but then you remember that [[spoiler:Ramsay]] hunts unarmed women with his dogs and rapes and flays them.
* MayDecemberRomance: He's a good deal older than Asha (think Mickey Rourke versus Gemma Whelan).
* MisplacedRetribution: Tony calls him out on the fact that the Iron Pointe Starks had nothing to do with his family's deaths, so targeting them makes no sense.
* OldSoldier: He's actually middle-aged, but ''that'' is old for an Ironborn captain. And when an Ironborn captain gets old, he either retires to die on the earth or is killed and tossed into the sea. Not him.
* ThePigPen: His shirt is tattered, his pants absolutely covered by grime and his hair unwashed. Truly lovely.
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: His group is operating without Balon Greyjoy's approval. When Balon hears that they were apparently working [[spoiler:with Renly on his behalf, he's not happy, and orders all Ironborn ships to return to Pyke]].
* ShutUpKirk: His response to Jon's HeWhoFightsMonsters comment above is to state that he doesn't care.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Theon manages to identify him because he remembered seeing his father Anton while the Ironborn were rebelling against the Iron Throne.
* TakingYouWithMe: Just like his MCU self, [[spoiler: his response to being beaten by Tony is to blow himself up in an attempt to kill him.]]
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He doesn't bother hiding his loathing towards [[spoiler:[[EvilIsPetty Renly]] [[PsychopathicManchild Baratheon]]]] but needs his money for his campaign against the North and the Westerlands.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Asha, whom he treats as a worthy partner.
* WhipItGood: He specifically customized his whip to make the lash as painful as possible.
* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: During their FinalBattle, Tony calls him out on how he could have used his knowledge of the sunstones to save people, instead of pursuing petty revenge.
* YouKilledMyFather: His desire to ravage the Westerlands and North is motivated by his whole family dying in the Greyjoy Rebellion.

[[folder:Dagmer Cleftjaw]]
!!Dagmer Cleftjaw
A member of Asha's crew during her travels with Vanko.

* AnArmAndALeg: Theon cuts off both his hands during his break from the Ironborn.
* EliteMook: He gets to put up a much better fight than Asha's other men, though it's pretty much entirely because he's fighting Theon rather than Brienne.
* NoNameGiven: He has yet to be named in the story, but the description of his face leaves little doubt who it is.

[[folder:Euron Greyjoy]]
!!Euron Greyjoy
Asha and Theon's uncle, who was banished from the Iron Islands for being too much even for the Ironborn. He has since found a new calling, unfortunately for everyone else.

* AnIcePerson: His alliance with the Others has granted him the ability to freeze things solid instantly.
* ArcVillain: Set up to be one for ''A Shield of Man''.
* CompositeCharacter: Appears to have been merged with Ronan the Accuser.
* DropTheHammer: Wields a massive, ancient war hammer.
* EvilerThanThou: Was banished from the Iron Islands because he was too intense and psychotic even for the other Ironborn. [[spoiler: He also makes quick work of Asha in their first in-story encounter, overwhelming her crew and taking her prisoner.]]
* TranshumanTreachery: [[spoiler:He became an Other and now serves the Night King of his own free will.]]
* UncannyValley: InUniverse, he's this for Asha, who notes that everything about him has always felt ''wrong'', as if he doesn't belong in the world, and reality knows it.
* VillainRespect: Actually respects Theon's decision to cut loose from his heritage and forge his own path.
* VillainTeamUp: Has pledged himself to the Others, due to the Night's King accepting his true nature.

!King's Landing

The capital of the Seven Kingdoms, home to thousands of people caught in the crossfire of the political power plays.

[[folder:Gendry Waters]]
!!Gendry Waters, aka Petyr
One of King Robert Baratheon's numerous bastards. A very skilled blacksmith who gets dragged into a dangerous whirlwind.

* BeneathSuspicion: How he helps Mystique and Arya to flee King's Landing: no one is going to suspect a family of three who's asking for directions.
* TheBlacksmith: Talented enough for Tony to buy his apprenticeship.
* CompositeCharacter: Eventually turns into the story's version of [[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Colossus}}]].
* DropTheHammer: Outright ''pulps'' Janos Slynt's head when the douchebag starts leering at Arya.
* DumbMuscle: How he's considered by many people. His master even dismisses him as "all muscles and no brains, a true colossus". However, he is smarter than he is given credit for.
* HeroicBastard: He's a complete NiceGuy and is one of Robert's bastard sons.
* HeroicBystander: His reaction when he sees the Gold Cloaks' commander harassing a poor commoner woman and her daughter? [[spoiler:Why, smashing his head open, of course.]]
* InTheBlood: He wields a hammer for a weapon, and shows slightly perverted tendencies when he muses about his and Arya's guide's gender preferences, just like his birth father.
* PersonalityPowers: As a blacksmith apprentice, he worked metal for a living. [[spoiler:So of course he gains the power to turn himself into metal]].
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Later in ''A Crack of Thunder'', [[spoiler:his mutant gene's activation aged him until his twenties.]]
* RefugeInAudacity: His strategy to leave King's Landing after killing Janos Slynt? He doesn't bother with a disguise, just walks through the doors while talking to the gold cloaks on his way. Arya is stunned by his success.
* ShipTease: It's subtle, but he does show a bit of attraction towards Arya after they're both [[PlotRelevantAgeUp aged up]].
* TheTease: When Arya protests lady parts are not how he envisions them, he playfully asks her if she's propositioning him.

[[folder:Petyr Parker]]
!!Petyr Parker, Spider Man
The son of Goldcloak Rickard Parker who was murdered along with his wife in the riots against the Lannisters, while Petyr was luckily staying with his aunt and uncle. He later gains spider-like abilities after being bit by one affected by wildfire.

* BigDamnHeroes: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Jon was clearly capable of dealing with the guard he was fighting, but he still helps by webbing the guard to the wall.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: With Gwen Stacy.
* ChildProdigy: Taught himself to read without a maester's aid, and later thinks up a design for a wheel-powered automated training dummy horse.
* ForWantOfANail: He barely escaped being murdered along with his parents because his uncle Ben took him see the red comet.
* KidHero: Only twelve years old when he's orphaned.
* MotorMouth: He never stops talking during a fight.
* {{Nephewism}}: Taken in by his aunt and uncle after his parents were killed in the anti-Goldcloak riots.
* VillainRespect: Earns this from Tywin for his cleverness.

[[folder:Benjen Parker]]
!!Benjen Parker
Rickard Parker's brother, who took in his orphaned nephew Peter.

* AdultFear: Losing his brother to a rabid anti-Lannister mob, and knowing his nephew was spared only by a twist of fate.
* DoomedByCanon: Assuming Spider-Man's origin remains close to the original, he's going to die to teach Peter to use his powers to be a hero. Tywin offhandedly mentions he was also killed during the Battle of Blackwater.
* PosthumousCharacter: We don't even see him in person, and then Tywin mentions he was killed during the Battle of Blackwater.

[[folder:Jeor Stacy]]
!!Jeor Stacy
A Goldcloak commander who was close with the late Rickard Parker.

* CharacterDeath: Falls during the Battle of the Blackwater [[spoiler:when a wight cuts him down to get to Tyrion]].
* CompositeCharacter: Being Tyrion's ally in the Goldcloaks and an honest man makes him a composite of Jacelyn Bywater and George Stacy, a cop from Spider-Man, and much like Bywater, Stacy dies during the Battle of the Blackwater (just as George was killed in the comics).
* DoomedByCanon: His canonical counterpart is most famous for dying, so it shouldn't be too surprising that he does.
* DueToTheDead: He was so popular and respected among the Goldcloaks, Tywin decides to pay the pension of May Parker since he knows she's taking care of Stacy's daughter Gwen.
* FriendOnTheForce: Serves as this for Tyrion, who knows he needs good recruits to fix the clusterfuck that King's Landing is and considers Stacy a worthy candidate, eventually giving him the job.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: He's killed by being cut roughly in half diagonally.
* KilledMidSentence: Is fatally attacked in the middle of updating Tyrion on their forces' counterattack against Stannis' forces.
* RankUp: Is promoted to Commander of the Goldcloaks by Tyrion.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The anti-Goldcloak sentiment in King's Landing hasn't changed his determination to do good by the people.

[[folder:Adrian of the Tombs*]]
!!Adrian of the Tombs, the Vulture King
A knight from the Reach, embittered against the Tyrells for their treatment of his family, who uncovers an ancient relic that allows him to finally take power for himself.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Adrian does not have his MCU version's hatred of Tony Stark. Instead, it is directed at the Tyrells.
* AffirmativeActionLegacy: Inverted. He's a Westerosi male who becomes the next Vulture King, who was previously [[spoiler:Rhaenys Targaryen, a Valyrian woman]].
* ArcVillain: Being set up as one for ''A Shield of Man''.
* BerserkButton: The Tyrells as a whole are one for him, given all the ways they've screwed over his life.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Adrian is utterly convinced that his long list of failures in life have all been engineered by the Tyrells, who don't want anyone from his family moving up in society. To be fair, there's quite a bit of evidence that he's right.
* CosmicPlaything: He absently muses that he must be cursed, because all his attempts at improving his lot in life have failed.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: His hatred for the Tyrells was brought by their manipulations in preventing him from doing anything that would distance him from his family's duty of protecting House Tyrell's tombs.
** First, he tried to find a knight to squire with, but none would accept him because he was not important enough.
** Then he tried to join the Faith of the Seven, but then a Septon had a "vision" of the Seven stating that he had to return to his family's duty. The Septon gained greater standing in the Faith, and [[SarcasmMode coincidentally]] the Tyrells made a sizeable donation to the Starry Sept a few days after the "vision".
** Later, he went to the Citadel and stayed there for two years, only for a Hightower to offer him the chance to squire. Adrian accepted - and within two months he was knighted, told that he could not be a Maester and all but ordered to return home.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The helmet of his Vulture King outfit has eye lenses of Yi Ti glass, which are noted to glow like wildfire in the dark.
* LegacyCharacter: Uncovers and claims for himself the dragonbone flight harness of the original Vulture King.
* MagneticHero: Well, not a hero. But he has the charisma to drive everyone to listen to everything he has to say, and to follow his lead, even if they don't like him.
* PragmaticVillainy: He is smart enough to realize that Tywin's messenger could likely betray him, and so kills him. In addition, he's smart enough to endear himself to the Old Lion himself, knowing that he not only rewards loyalty better than House Tyrell, but is the officially the second most powerful man in the Seven Kingdoms, and most powerful by de facto. Not to mention during his first raid as the Vulture King, he doesn't use the wagons used by the Tyrell soldiers, as they are easily identifiable and would spark suspicion if they are seen with them, and keeps some of the goods for his men to enjoy so as not to acquire MistreatmentInducedBetrayal of the kind he himself is inflicting on House Tyrell.
* ProperlyParanoid: He knows that any messenger Tywin Lannister might send to bring him back would likely just murder him for the sake of the glory of discovering the Vulture King's wings. He also knows that, were he to return to King's Landing with those wings, Tywin Lannister and Mace Tyrell would just take them away and claim to have discovered their existence themselves.
* IShallTauntYou: He takes on the Vulture King identity to mock the Tyrells (due to the title's status as TheDreaded in the Reach).
* ShootTheMessenger: Kills the messenger sent by Tywin to recall his expedition, not trusting the man not to kill him and steal credit for his discovery (and, given the man's reaction when he mentions this, it is obvious he was planning to do that).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jiffsun Davus]]
!!Jiffsun Davus
A commoner from the Summer Islands who is made the new Commander of the Gold Cloaks after Jeor Stacy's death.

* ActionDad: To his young son Miles.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He's made Commander largely on the strength of his successful defense of the King's Gate during the Battle of the Blackwater.
* SelfMadeMan: While most of the other Summer Islanders who arrived with Jalabhar Xho simply leached off Robert's hospitality, Jiffsun applied to join the Gold Cloaks, which pays off with his promotion.

[[folder:Gwen Stacey]]
!!Gwen Stacey, Spider-Woman
Commander Jeor Stacey's daughter and a friend of Petyr Parker's, who like him gains spider-like abilities following being bitten by a wildfire-affected spider.

* ChildhoodFriends: With Petyr.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She can sew, dance and play music. She also enjoys archery.
* KidHero: Is about the same age as Petyr, and gained her powers at the same time.
* YouRemindMeOfX: Jon fondly comments he might believe Arya had dyed her hair blonde as a prank when she's around.

[[folder:Miles Muralus]]
!!Miles Muralus
Commander Davus' son, who like Petyr and Gwen gained spider abilities after being bit by a wildfire-affected spider and became a hero.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Wears a mostly black costume, but is a hero.
* KidHero: Is roughly the same age as Petyr and Gwen, and gained his powers at the same time.
* MixedAncestry: His father is a Summer Islander while his mother is a Dornishwoman.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sam]]
!!Isamalwi Iso Malsosia aka Sam
A Summer Islands warrior living in voluntary exile in King's Landing to escape his homeland's constant warfare.

* BadassCape: One made of red feathers.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: An extremely competent swordsman and teacher whom Westerosi highborns dismiss as a dark-skinned barbarian and exotic decoration. He lets slip a hint of bitterness over this.
* TheExile: Voluntarily followed his Prince into exile in Westeros, knowing that he'd probably never return.
* LightningBruiser: His sparring contest leaves Jon feeling like he's fighting three men.
* TheMentor: To Petyr.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Because no one in Westeros can manage to properly call him by his birth name without butchering it.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The reason he left the Summer Islands. He's seen so much warfare, he wants to live somewhere where he has no obligations to fight anymore.

!The Martells

The ruling family of Dorne, who have a complicated history with the other major Houses of Westeros.

[[folder:Oberyn Martell]]
!!Oberyn Martell, the Red Viper of Dorne
Brother of Prince Doran of Dorne. A longtime friend of Tony's.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In canon, he first appeared in ''A Storm of Swords'', the third book in the series. Here, he's introduced in ''A Crack of Thunder'', which follows the events of ''A Clash of Kings'', the second book of the series.
* AnythingThatMoves: As per canon, he's not picky about his sexual partners.
* BirdsOfAFeather: He and Tony share a love of drinking, sex, and snark.
* EveryoneHasStandards: As much as he hates the Lannisters, he refuses to tolerate Ellaria's suggestion that Myrcella be tortured to punish them.
* {{Foil}}: After meeting him, Jon declares he's the Dornish Tony - which Oberyn counters by claiming Tony is the Westerland Oberyn.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: His eldest daughter and [[spoiler:the Council kept him away from their operations since he was unable to keep a secret.]]
* NoodleIncident: A font of these:
** He apparently owns a portrait of him and Tony in a compromising position.
** Tony's pretty sure Oberyn tried to sell him as a sex slave once.
** He claims he once taught a goat to milk itself.
** Tony claims that there are tons of stories about Oberyn, and that most of them came from Oberyn himself, though Tony claims he helped Oberyn write a few.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Doesn't let his hatred of the Lannisters ruin his friendship with Tony, who's their bannerman.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Unknowingly screws Tywin Lannister's plot to secure Jon's loyalties by presenting the boy his daughter Natasha as a bride, tying him to the Martells via marriage.
* TranquilFury: Jon notes that when he gets angry, his voice stays perfectly even and calm.

[[folder:Natasha Martell*]]
!!Natasha Stark née Martell, the Black Widow of Dorne
Oberyn's oldest bastard daughter, legitimized by Ned as his last legal act as Hand of the King. Betrothed (and later married) to Jon.

* ActionDressRip: Rips off the bottom of her dress to better fight the Ironborn raiders attacking the wedding tourney with.
* ActionGirl: Her father's ensured that she's skilled in all forms of combat.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Her father is well-known for his sexual appetite, and she inherited all of his kinkiness. [[HormoneAddledTeenager Jon]] very much approves.
* ArrangedMarriage: Her father sets her up with Jon to cement his alliance with the Starks.
* TheAtoner: Before meeting Jon, she had to do many unsavory things [[spoiler:for the Council - including murdering people. She sees Jon and his crusade as the Centurion as her chance to redeem herself.]]
* BadassNormal: Just like the original, she jumps into battle alongside people with superpowers despite having none herself.
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Has her canon red hair, plus a Dornish tan.
* DualWielding: Wields a pair of Braavosi tonfas, a wedding present from her father.
* {{Foil}}:
** To her betrothed Jon, with whom she shares a background of bastardry. However, her nobleman father loved and raised her as if she were his trueborn daughter, and she considers her being legitimized more binding than freeing.
** To Pepper, the current redheaded Lady of Iron Pointe, who also comes from unsavoury background and whose husband took heroism in his free time. Except that Natasha's marriage was arranged, she's rather less fiery and actually supports Jon about his hobby.
* GreenEyedMonster: Gets quietly enraged at the thought of anyone else having Jon.
* HistoryRepeats: Once again, a daughter of the House Martell marries [[spoiler:a Targaryen prince.]]
* IJustWantToBeFree: She muses the Martell name is more a chain than a boon. As a bastard, she could have done ''anything'' she wanted and no one would have cared. As a Martell, there is standards she must uphold.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Assumes that Jon was raised just like her, treated no differently from a trueborn child, and that no man would stop and think about what might happen if they got a prostitute pregnant. [[WickedStepmother She's]] [[ChasteHero wrong]].
* {{Irony}}: Catelyn Stark, née Tully, ruined Jon's childhood. Pepper thinks that his wife-to-be's mother was probably a Tully.
* ItMeantSomethingToMe: When Jon learns she's really an [[spoiler:agent for the Council and accuses her from marrying him to further their goals]], she tearfully assures him she married him for himself and sees him as her way to redeem herself.
* NoodleIncident: Had at least one past encounter with [[spoiler: Varys]] that contributed to the "red in [her] ledger", and may explain her nickname.
* RaceLift: In the comics, Black Widow is a white Russian. In ''A Song of Metal and Marvels'', she is brown-skinned but retains the red hair.
* SherlockScan: Is constantly analyzing everyone around her for strengths and weaknesses.
* UnfortunateNames: Tony notes that her nickname has some negative connotations. Especially as a prospective bride.

!The Wall and Beyond

The great barrier separating Westeros in the south from the northern lands of the wildlings (or Free Folk, as they call themselves), protected by the brotherhood of the Night's Watch.

[[folder:Jeor Mormont*]]
!!Lord Commander Jeor Mormont
The leader of the Night's Watch and former ruler of Bear Island. Surviving his canon fate, he prepares to face the Others.

* DefiantToTheEnd: Surrounded by wights and facing off against two Others, he prepares to go down fighting. [[spoiler:Fortunately, intervention by Steve saves him.]]
* ForWantOfANail: Survives the mutiny that kills him in canon simply because he needed to take a late night piss and overheard the plotters talking, allowing him to safely flee.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Is perfectly willing to toss aside the Watch's centuries of animosity with the wildlings in face of the war with the Others.
* SpitTake: He and Benjen do this in unison when [[spoiler: Steve]] reveals that Lann the Clever was a dwarf.

[[folder:Benjen Stark]]
!!Benjen Stark
Ned's younger brother, and First Ranger of the Night's Watch.

* BigDamnHeroes: Arrives with [[spoiler:Steve]] just in time to save Jeor's group from the Others.
* SpitTake: He and Jeor do this in unison when [[spoiler: Steve]] reveals that Lann the Clever was a dwarf.

[[folder:Mance Rayder]]
!!Mance Rayder, King-Beyond-The-Wall
The elected king of the Free Folk, and a former member of the Night's Watch.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Like Jeor, he's willing to set aside the animosity between his people and the Watch in light of the Others' return.

[[folder:Ygritte]]
!!Ygritte
A Wildling warrior woman and one of Mance's lieutenants.

* ActionGirl: One of Mance's best fighters.
* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Doesn't quite enjoy being saved from the Others by Benjen, since he's a Black Brother.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Hates being called "lady", even if it's just because she's a woman, since in her mind a lady is a pampered woman who just sits around and does nothing all day.
* LadySwearsALot: Curses like a sailor, all the time, much to [[spoiler: Steve]]'s annoyance.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Mance.

[[folder:Lord of Bones]]
!!Rumlow aka Lord of Bones
A Wildling chieftain who wears a suit made of bones.

* CompositeCharacter: Between Rattleshirt and Crossbones.
* DemBones: As noted, he wears bones.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Does not like being called by his name instead of his title.

[[folder:Tormund Giantsbane]]
!!Tormund Giantsbane
A Wildling leader and one of Mance's closest allies.

* BoisterousBruiser: A big guy and pretty damn friendly when he likes you.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: While there's no indication of him having siblings in canon, here he's Rahne's older brother.

[[folder:Rahne Wolfsbane]]
!!Rahne Wolfsbane
Tormund's sister, who can transform into a giant wolf.

* CanisMajor: Has the ability to transform into a wolf bigger than most people.
* MythologyGag: In the comics, "Wolfsbane" was Rahne's X-Men code name.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: She's Tormund's younger sister in this universe.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Since [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing her abilities don't include her clothes]], she's always naked after transforming, and doesn't seem to mind it at all.

!Asgardians

The gods of Westeros, who have watched over them for thousands of years and have taken pilgrimages every generation. The people of Westeros worship them, but they clearly don't know anything about them.

* AngelUnaware: Once every five centuries, they make pilgrimages to Planetos and live as mortals for roughly 25 years at a time, defending the people throughout their lives.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Each of the Asgardians we meet seems to have interacted with major figures in history.
* CompositeCharacter: The Norse pantheon meets the Faith of the Seven, with some of the other Westerosi religions added in for good measure.
* PhysicalGod: In their true identities, they would be indistinguishable from your average mortal.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: When they're undertaking a pilgrimage on Planetos, they apparently are born in mortal bodies and grow up until they regain their powers and memories.
* SadlyMythtaken: The people of Westeros seriously missed their mark when they interpreted the gods. While Odin and Frigga were interpreted well enough, the others... weren't.
** They gave Balder Mjölnir and Heimdall's beard, gave Thor the sword, and saw [[ActionGirl Sif]] as ''[[ProperLady the Maiden]]''.
** [=Ægir=]'s probably got it the worst, as his worshipers see him as a reaving pirate god and misinterpret the origin of his name as being from getting drowned battling Thor, when he was just pushed off a boat while drunkenly flirting with Sif. Ironically, the Ironborn's interpretation of Thor is ''far'' more accurate than the Andal interpretation, at least as far as appearance, armaments, and abilities are concerned, given that Theon was able to recognize him with a single glance.
* TimeAbyss: They are several thousand years old, with some of them being present for great historical events. Thor fought against the Others during the Long Night alongside Azor Ahai ([[spoiler:Later confirmed to be this world's Captain America]]), while Sif was the one who tamed Sheepstealer under the incarnation of Nettles.

[[folder:Odin]]
!!Odin Borson, the Father, the Allfather
The ruler of Asgard who is known as "The Father" among the people of Westeros. He is the father of Thor and Loki.

* BigGood: He's the protector of Asgard and the Nine Realms, including Westeros.
* GodIsGood: He's a benevolent deity who desires to protect the Nine Realms.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: His own father craved power so much he murdered his parents for it, while Odin congratulates Thor for having the mental fortitude to refuse the crown.
* SelfMadeOrphan: When he punished his father for killing his own parents and for craving more power.
* SoProudOfYou: He expresses great pride when Thor acknowledges his flaws and renounces his claim to the throne, passing it to Loki.
* TheThreeFacesOfAdam: The Prophet. Odin is known for his cleverness and wisdom, and he's certainly old enough to have the looks.

[[folder:Frigga]]
!!Frigga, the Mother
The Queen of Asgard who is referred to as "The Mother" by the Westerosi. She is the mother of Thor and Loki.

* AlmightyMom: She's the Goddess of Magic and mother to Thor and Loki. You can bet she is this.
* TheHecateSisters: As the Queen of Asgard, she's the Mother aspect and worshiped as such by the Andals.
* TheHighQueen: Married to Odin the Allfather, she rules the gods themselves.
* TheMentor:
** Briefly, to Amora. Boy, did she regret it...
** Also to Loki, who was her ''actual'' best student.
* TheThreeFacesOfEve: The Wife, as Frigga is Odin's consort and TheHighQueen.

[[folder:Sif]]
!!Sif, the Maiden
An Asgardian goddess and an old friend of Thor and Loki. Among those in Westeros, she is "The Maiden". Just don't bring it up around her.

* ActionGirl: She's one of the best warriors in the Nine Realms. Not like Westeros sees it though.
* BerserkButton: Being called "The Maiden" is one for her. Seriously, she ''will'' bludgeon you if you bring it up.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: During one of her mortal pilgrimages, she was the woman known as Nettles, who tamed the dragon Sheepstealer and played a fairly important role in the Dance of the Dragons.
** She's the reason that the Drowned God is called such - the name is a nickname given to him when he was flirting with Sif, so she pushed him off a boat into a lake.
* DragonRider: Under her alias Nettles, she tamed the wild dragon Sheepstealer which she brought to Asgard when her pilgrimage ended.
* TheHecateSisters: Subverted. She's the placeholder for the Maiden, but she's as far away as you can get from a ProperLady.
* OneOfTheBoys: To the point that she believed they would tease her for pretending to be a ProperLady.
* TheThreeFacesOfEve: She fits much better the Child archetype than the Maiden from TheHecateSisters, being tomboyish and adventurous.
* UnwillinglyGirlyTomboy: She would be quite conspicuous if she showed herself an ActionGirl every time she goes on Midgard, so she occasionally has to play the ProperLady -- which is an explicit source of distress for her.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Since she feared her friends would mock her for her deeds on Planetos, she begged for no Asgardian to be able to spy another Asgardian on a mortal pilgrimage. So not only does Thor not know what happened to Loki, [[spoiler:he's unaware of Amora plotting on Earth.]]
* WorldsBestWarrior: Thor says that no warrior rivals her, meaning that she's likely the best fighter in Asgard.

[[folder:[=Ægir=]]]
!![=Ægir=], the Drowned God
The Drowned God of the Ironborn. He's actually a pretty nice guy.

* AdaptationalHeroism: The Drowned God is said to have made the Ironborn in his likeness, which translates to being rapists, pillagers, and murdering lunatics. Here, he's a good drinking buddy, fun at parties, and is nothing like what the Ironborn see him as.
* EmbarrassingNickname: What his title actually means -- he got it after drunkenly hitting on Sif who dumped him into a pool.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Male example, the Asgardians apparently consider him the life of the party and a pretty swell guy.
* HopelessSuitor: He tried to bed Sif once, and she dunked him into a pool to show how much she thought of it.
* MistakenForBadass: The Ironborn believe him to be a powerful SocialDarwinist who reaves and slaughters his enemies like cattle. He's actually a down-to-earth party animal who's a bit of a CasanovaWannabe. That being said, he's still an ''Asgardian,'' which means that he's still tougher than ninety-nine percent of all Westerosians.

[[folder:Valkyrie]]
!!Brunhilde
The leader of the Valkyries, charged by the Allfather to take the fallen warriors to Valhalla.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Being based on her raceswapped MCU incarnation, she's a dark-skinned woman from a group of beings who are usually fair-skinned.
* BrutalHonesty: Unlike the other Asgardians, Valkyrie doesn't bother with platitudes and is pretty blunt.
* DivineRaceLift: As mentioned above, Valkyrie is noticeably more dark-skinned than her original counterpart from the Norse myths and the comics.
* LightIsGood: She wears silver white armor and serves Asgard by bringing great warriors to their place in Valhalla.
* {{Psychopomp}}: As a Valkyrie, it is her duty to take fallen warriors to Valhalla, although she would certainly not carry them.
* {{Valkyrie}}: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's in her name]]. She is a fierce Asgardian warrior who takes the souls of deceased knights to the afterlife.
[[/folder]]

!The Court of the Others
The leadership of the Others, the ancient race that once tried to destroy mankind during the Long Night. Now, after thousands of years of dormancy, they've awakened to threaten the world again.
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[[folder:In General]]
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: The composited Marvel villains that they are based on are re-imagined as Others, who are interpreted here as spiritual entities called titans.
* CompositeCharacter: They have elements of certain Marvel villains mixed in. Notably, each seems to be a BigBad of their respective franchise.
* DemonicPossession: Once upon a time, their race practiced FusionDance in order to explore Westeros. Then the Mad Titan decided he didn't really like to bother with ''sharing'' his body...
* TheDreaded: Thor admits that they make him tremble. Remember, Thor is a WarriorPrince, and a PhysicalGod who loves fighting, so when you can make someone like ''that'' tremble, you know you're a force to be feared.
* TheFairFolk: Oh boy, yes. They come from the lands beyond the Wall, bear mythical abilities that allow them to possess people and perform various forms of magic, and their endgame is the conquest of all of Westeros.
* GreaterScopeVillain: They aren't very prevalent in the main story of the first book, but their presence is felt by many characters in the second book and they're set to become the main BigBad later down the road.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Night's King]]

!!The Night's King, the Mad Titan, Thanos
The leader of the Others, who is starting his long-prophesied campaign to conquer Westeros.
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* BigBad: Just as in the regular canon, he's shaping up as the ultimate foe the side of good will need to defeat.
* CompositeCharacter: After a series of hints to this throughout ''A Crack of Thunder'', Chapter 53 finally confirms that he's Thanos.
* DecompositeCharacter: Here, the book's canonical Night's King was only a human thrall whom the Night's Queen carefully buttered up so as to make him feel important. The ''true'' Night's King is much more feared and dangerous.
* DemonicPossession: During the war between the Children and the First Men, he possessed the body of a man whom the Children believe could have been king of all his people... and then decided that he didn't feel the need to ''share'' control of that body.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Thanos" is clarified to mean "Mad Titan" in the language of the Children. When Rickon first speaks his name to Robb, the latter notes that despite having never heard the name before, it sends a chill down his spine.
* TrickedOutGloves: Uses "a great gauntlet of infinite power", likely the Infinity Gauntlet.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Night's Queen '''(Spoilers)''']]
!'''Warning! This character is considered a major WalkingSpoiler for the ending of Book 1 and throughout Book 2. As a result, all spoilers for this character are unmarked.'''
!!The Night's Queen
The only Other able to cross into Westeros ahead of their invasion, courtesy of DemonicPossession.

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* ArcVillain: More subtle than most examples, but becomes this for Tyrion in ''A Crack of Thunder''.
* AnimalEyeSpy: Unlike with Varys, her "little birds" are quite literal, as she kills and reanimates them to spy for her. Given that the body she's using has latent warging powers, it's possible that she's combining this with her own ability to create wights.
* BadassBoast: "Do you fear me? Think me a beast? I am no queen or monster. I am the Goddess of Death."
* CompositeCharacter:
** Tyrion has a nightmare where she has the appearance of Satana Hellstrom.
** She calls herself "the Goddess of Death," showing that Hela's in there too.
* TheCorrupter: It's heavily implied she uses her secret meetings with maids and all sort of people to brainwash or convert them, and there are increasing hints Sandor is slowly becoming an Other.
** Since they are described as pale, gaunt and blue-eyed, it's possible she's turning them into ''wights''.
* DemonicPossession: Currently possessing Sansa's corpse, though it's implied that the real Sansa may still be in there as well.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Her answer to the "who does the sellsword kill?" riddle is that all four men die, because none of them thought that the woman in the room with them may have been the real threat (an addition no one else references). The first person to peg her as both dangerous and not human was Bronn, ''a sellsword'', who came to this conclusion after meeting her ''once''. Taking it beyond the literal terms of the riddle, Sam also figures out that she is dangerous, and he's also completely beneath the Night's Queen's notice.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** She's disgusted by Joffrey's pettiness and lechery and finds Cersei extremely tiresome to deal with.
** She's also disgusted by Littlefinger's obsession with Catelyn and how he lusts after Sansa.
* FanDisservice: When her newly-grown possessed corpse awakens and flashes her tits to Sandor, the Hound's very reasonable reaction is a FreakOut.
* HealingHands: She manages to entirely wipe away Sandor's burns, leaving him with a normal face.
* HumanoidAbomination: A White Walker puppeting the corpse of a young girl after modifying it to suit her more? Bronn was not wrong to call her a ''what'' rather than a ''who''.
* LadyAndKnight: The Dark Mistress to Sandor's faithful Hound.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Discussed. She considers setting up Littlefinger and Joffrey for one of those.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: After her reanimation of Sansa's corpse, she gained snow-white skin, faded red hair (which further bleaches as time goes by) and CreepyBlueEyes.
* LogicalWeakness: Anyone sane enough fears wildfire, but she's even more justified in her fear of it since she belongs to a race of ice-people.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Is able to deceive ''Tywin'', making him believe she's the spirit of his dead wife.]]
* MistakenForAnImposter: Tyrion refusing to believe she's really Sansa Stark when he gets to see her after her death is quite justified: not only she's way older than she's supposed to be, her whole appearance changed, leaving Tyrion fuming about the fact the only thing the "fake" got right was her red hair, which is still the wrong shade of red. Granted, he's right that she isn't actually Sansa. It's just that he thinks she's a entirely different person rather than [[HumanoidAbomination one of the leaders of the White Walkers]] who has [[CameBackWrong taken control of her dead body]].
* MuggingTheMonster: Five Flea Bottom men try to rape her during the riot in King's Landing. The one who gets his neck snapped is by far the luckiest.
* NeckLift: Does this to a would-be rapist during the riot in King's Landing, followed by a NeckSnap.
* NotSoStoic: She twitches when the Wall is mentioned.
** Seeing Lady's stuffed corpse leaves her [[FreakOut freaking out]], not least because she doesn't remember giving (apparently very detailed) orders to recover it. The fact that she whispers "help me" as Sandor leaves implies that her control of Sansa's body may not be as complete as she thinks...
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Plays the ditzy, naive noblegirl to the hilt and ''relishes'' in the fact that everyone[[note]]Well, almost everyone. Bronn sees right through her, Sam and Tyrion have also realized she's a threat and Varys witnesses her brutally killing four would-be rapists[[/note]] believes it to be the real her.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: She made Sansa's body five years older when she resurrected it. It's one of the reasons why Tyrion refuses to believe her the genuine article, as she's supposed to be barely into puberty.
* TheVamp: She gives Sandor a peek of her newly-mature body to seduce him to her cause. Sandor is just as freaked as aroused because she's supposed to be ''dead'' and in ''her early teens''.
** Since she didn't update her wardrobe, her dresses clung very much to her form, which makes her quite indecent. Tyrion muses she looks like a Dornish madam. Later Joffrey gives her new dresses but they aren't much better.
** She idly considers using her charms and a WoundedGazelleGambit to trick Joffrey and Littlefinger into killing each other.
** She makes use of various perfumes and varnishes her nails to make herself more alluring and exotic.
* WalkingSpoiler: Pretty much everything about her spoils much of the ongoing plot and the threat of the Others.
* WrongGenreSavvy: She thinks that no man would view a woman as a threat, and that everyone would think that she is too simple-minded to be a threat. She doesn't quite get that [[MasterOfDisguise Varys]] and Littlefinger have built ''entire spy rings'' based on getting information from women, children, and others that people usually ignore, or that Tyrion, whose best friend is a master of ObfuscatingStupidity and who's used to being looked down on, is smart enough not to take everything at face value. Also, Bronn, a ''sellsword'', was one of the first to figure out she is both dangerous and not human.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Commander]]
!!The Commander a.k.a the Red Skull
The leader of the Others' armies.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Downplayed. He's still a villain, but where Johann Schmidt in the comics was evil even before he became the Red Skull, Johann in this story was a friend of Steve's whose body was taken over by an Other after he died.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Ygritte mockingly calls him "Red Skull", which he seems to like the sound of.
* ArchEnemy: To Steve, dating back to the War for the Dawn.
* AxeCrazy: Jojen claims he's going to "coat his head with the blood of the Night's Watch". If literal, this dude seriously needs therapy.
* TheBrute: Considered the most vicious member of the Court.
* CompositeCharacter: Between an Other and the Red Skull. He also has shades of Bucky[=/=]The Winter Soldier, being a friend of Steve's who died and came back as a villain (though this friend actually died, unlike Bucky who was thought to have died).
* TheDreaded: His skull-like face is said to be the last thing any of his targets will see.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He's the Other that Craster directly worships.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He claims Steve is no different from him and seems to see no difference between him using thralls to do his dirty work and Steve fighting alongside humans. Whether he actually believes this or is just trying to mess with Steve’s head is anyone’s guess.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: His host body was once Steve's friend Johann. He uses this fact to mock Steve repeatedly.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Traitor '''(Spoiler)''']]
!Warning! This character is a major spoiler for the ending of Book 2. All spoilers are left unmarked.
!!The Traitor a.k.a. Azor Ahai, a.k.a. Steve Rogers, Captain Westeros
The Court's most mysterious member, of whom absolutely no information has survived. In Chapter 54 of Book 2, he is revealed to be '''Steve Rogers''', Azor Ahai.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: They're part of the Court, but Rickon views them awakening before most of the other members as a good thing. Combined with their title, it raises the question of ''who'' they have and[=/=]or will be betraying. With the reveal that he was once Steve Rogers, Azor Ahai, it becomes clear that he is firmly on the side of good.
* AntiHero: While he falls under AmbiguouslyEvil above, Chapter 30 of ''A Crack of Thunder'' implies that their plan involves allying with Benjen Stark, though it's not clear why. He is shown to be firmly on the side of good with his BigDamnHeroes entrance.
* BerserkButton: ''Don't'' suggest to him that all men are rapists.
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Jeor Mormont, Mance Rayder and Ygritte when a group of Others attempt to kill them.
* CompositeCharacter: Seemingly one with Coldhands, the undead Watchman fighting against the Others in canon.
* FamousAncestor: As a son of Lann the Clever and the legendary Azor Ahai, you can bet he's this to the Lannisters.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Having slumbered for thousands of years, he's out of date on how culture has evolved. In particular, he's shocked to find that most noblewomen no longer fight, hunt, and work alongside their subjects, not understanding why people would obey them if they don't earn the right to it.
* {{Foil}}: To his own descendant Jaime Lannister. Both are peerless warriors originating from the Westerlands who committed treachery in order to protect countless innocent people. But Steve is very much a NiceGuy and TheCape, while Jaime is TheOathbreaker and rather a jackass.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Being an Other, the Traitor has their typical OccultBlueEyes, yet his stubborn defense of mankind slots him in this trope.
* IHaveManyNames: His birth name is Steve Rogers, but he was known to the North as [[MythologyGag the Nomad]], to the Free Folk as Azor Ahai, and as the Lord Captain of the Knights of the Dawn, all in addition to being the Traitor of the Others.
* LivingRelic: From the War for the Dawn.
* PalsWithJesus: Several millennia after the War for the Dawn, Thor still remembers him as a great shield-brother and speaks fondly of him.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: He's the second son of Lann the Clever, and thus distantly related to the Lannisters.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He hates slavers. Considering that the Casterlys enslaved his mother, it’s hard to blame him.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Rickon seems oddly relieved that the Traitor was the second of the Court to awake after the Night's King, implying they'll have some unexpected part to play. With the revelation that he's Steve Rogers, the heroes just got some unexpected and much needed back-up.
* TokenGoodTeammate: On two levels; before he betrayed the Others' plot to ruin Westeros in order to side with humanity, he was the second son of Lann the Clever so is this to the Lannisters.
* UnPerson: Absolutely no knowledge about him seems to exist in Westeros beyond the name. Though given TheReveal of his identity, it would appear this is because of millennia of LegendFadesToMyth turning him into an in-universe DecompositeCharacter.
* WalkingSpoiler: With the revelations made at the end of Book 2, it's pretty hard to talk about him without bringing up that he's the Westeros counterpart to Captain America and is the Azor Ahai from the original Long Night.
[[/folder]]

!The Baratheons of Dragonstone

The branch of House Baratheon based on the island of Dragonstone, currently headed by Lord Stannis Baratheon, who is technically the rightful king in light of Joffrey's true heritage.

* TheRemnant: The faction's status as of Book 3. With all their leadership [[spoiler: dead or in Asgard]], they've been reduced to just holding their lands against all comers rather than fighting proactively.
* TookALevelInBadass: After Thor terrifies the Stormlanders, they go from having the smallest army in the war to having the entirety of the Stormlands on their side.

[[folder:Stannis Baratheon]]
!!Stannis Baratheon
The middle Baratheon brother, lord of Dragonstone, and (technically) the rightful King of Westeros.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: He ultimately ascends to Valhalla upon his death.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Amora]] mind controls him into trying to sacrifice his daughter.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: After prompting from Thor, he admits that he'd be miserable as King, but feels an obligation to take the Iron Throne anyway. Considering the fact that the other options right now are [[PsychopathicManchild Renly]] and [[TheCaligula Joffrey]], he has a valid point.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: He dies at [[spoiler: the Battle of the Blackwater]], long before the point of his death in the show.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: While fairly badass on his own, when he's put into [[spoiler:the Destroyer, he becomes powerful enough to fight against [[PhysicalGod Thor]]]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Before the Valkyrie carries his soul to WarriorHeaven]], he tells Shireen how much she made him proud, entrusts her to his retainers and asks for Thor to destroy the Destroyer, so as to prevent it ruining more lives.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After seeing his "guest" flying, he grabs a tankard of ale to quaff with such gusto that Robert's soul must be bursting with pride.
* KnightTemplar: Is utterly convinced about what's right and what's wrong.
* MistakenForBadass: When Tywin hears about a "divine" warrior pledging his sword to him and treating Jane Seaworth as a queen, Tywin immediately thinks Stannis is trying to boost his popularity amongst the superstitious smallfolk to legitimize his claim and discreetly divorce Selyse Florent for a more fertile wife.
** Downplayed, since Stannis is ''still'' an experienced soldier, commander, and ruler, being instrumental in the defeat of the Ironborn during their rebellion, and having commanded the Royal Fleet in battle against numerous pirates. He's just... not [[PhysicalGod Thor]].
* MoralityPet: He may not be the world's best dad, but he still cares about Shireen.
* OddFriendship: The anal-retentive, compulsively honest and law-abiding Stannis decided to be best friends with a laidback smuggler [[spoiler:who actually was the human identity for a deity of chaos and lies.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Among the Baratheon brothers, he's pretty much this. Robert cared for nothing if he couldn't fuck it, fight it, or drink it, and Renly is a narcissistic brat who wants power for himself.
* PalsWithJesus: Unbeknownst to him, Stannis [[spoiler:gained Loki's respect and friendship, so much that "Davos Seaworth" swore himself to him.]] He also works with Thor.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He might have a stick up his ass regarding rule and law, but he knows not to point blame where it doesn't belong. Case in point, he knows not to push the subject regarding Thor mistaking Jane as Queen and him as her servant, and lets her know that he doesn't blame her for the confusion.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Renly about how he's done absolutely nothing deserving of being a king.
* SoProudOfYou: Some people would claim he was dishonored by his lack of a son. But if you ask for his opinion, being Shireen's father was his greatest achievement.
* TakeCareOfTheKids: His [[spoiler:LastRequest to Jane and Davos before he dies]] is to love Shireen as their own and seat her on the Iron Throne.
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: On paper, he's allied with a bonafide god, but Thor firmly insists he's not gonna do the heavy lifting of winning the Iron Throne for Stannis. How can you be worthy of a crown if it's handed to you instead of earned?
* WarriorHeaven: His injuries from [[spoiler:fighting Thor]] are deadly, but he's judged worthy of entering Valhalla.

[[folder:Davos Seaworth '''(Spoilers)''']]
!Warning! This character is deemed a WalkingSpoiler for Book 2. Because of this, all spoilers for this character folder will be unmarked.
!!Ser Davos Seaworth/Loki Odinson, aka the Stranger
Formerly a commoner, he was knighted by Stannis Baratheon and followed him ever since. Father to Jane. Revealed in Chapter 43 of ''A Crack of Thunder'' to be '''Loki Odinson'''.

* ActionDad: One of the greatest sorcerers in all the Nine Realms and is father to a daughter and several sons.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Zigzagged. He certainly accumulated weight and years, but the books made a point to describe Davos as plain and homely, without any indication that he ever was a knockout in his youth. And even his actor in the series didn't have the god-level handsomeness of Loki.
* AdaptationalBadass: He's very much a NonActionGuy in canon, and is at the most an ActionSurvivor. It's a massive change when he reveals himself as a god able to duel Amora the Enchantress, herself no small fish.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Not so much for Davos, who's a hero throughout the series, but this more applies to his true self as Loki.
* AdultFear:
** He pleads Jane to put a lid on her BrutalHonesty since he doesn't want to see her burnt alive as a "heretic" by Melisandre.
** He ends up causing this for his family back on Asgard. A pilgrimage on Planetos is supposed to be safe for a god, except that Loki never came back from his. Thor understandably felt worried and decided to go and seek his brother.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Not really idiocy, but crossdressing when drunk indicates quite the loosening of habits.
* AngelUnaware: Unknown to ''everyone'', he's actually Loki.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Thor apparently was his main target when he was in a pranking mood.
* BecomingTheMask: Loki actually grew to enjoy being Davos Seaworth, HonestAdvisor to Stannis Baratheon and loving father that even after he reveals his true form to the others, he makes plans to bring the family he formed with him to Asgard and swears to a dying Stannis that he will do everything he can to make Shireen Queen of Westeros.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: During his many trips to Midgard over the centuries, he's played a trickster advisor to many prominent historical figures:
** Taught Lann the Clever everything he knew.
** Guided King Theon Stark towards raiding Andalos.
** Convinced Ser Criston Cole to get revenge on Rhaenrya by siding with Aegon II.
** Wrote the Pureborn of Qarth's rules and doctrines.
* BigDamnHeroes: He arrives to deal with Amora right as she binds Thor with her magic and nearly kills Jane.
* BlackSheep: No matter his godly identity, Loki cannot escape this. He was a trickster among the honorable and warrior-like Asgardians, and everyone in Westeros shuns the Stranger out of fear for being a death deity.
* CompositeCharacter:
** He combines his character from the books with Loki.
** With the Stranger, fittingly enough -- in the myths, Loki was infamously a loose canon, never actually integrated within the Aesir pantheon and associated with death through his hereafter-ruling daughter Hela. Also, the Stranger is from AmbiguousGender, while Loki sometimes showed hints of being gender-fluid (he was rumored to shapeshift into a woman for banging mortals and bearing children).
* CurbStompBattle: Delivers a very well deserved one to Amora when he reveals himself as Loki. He treats the entire thing like a minor issue and spends more time talking with his family than he does acknowledging his opponent.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Ironically for a TricksterGod, Loki never expected he would fall in love for the human Marya.
* DivineDate: Him being Loki means that him courting and marrying Marya was this.
* {{Fingore}}: As punishment for past sins, he had several fingers amputated. Since he's an Asgardian and can either regrow the fingers or just hide that he's missing them with illusions, this... doesn't exactly work.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There were several hints that the author snuck in that Davos wasn't ''exactly'' what he seemed.
* TheGadfly: Well, ''duh''. He's Loki, it comes with the territory.
* GodzillaThreshold: Amora imperiling his children finally persuades Loki to cast his human disguise away and fight her as a god.
* GoodParents: He's a loving father to his children, which makes him a very odd duck amongst the Westerosi highborns. He ''is'' freshly ennobled, mind you.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: He's one of the nicest guys in Westeros, and the fact he has a daughter and several sons is proof he's got some quality time with his wife.
* HiddenInPlainSight: Never once had Thor suspected this fat, aging mortal to be his missing brother.
* HonestAdvisor: The reason why Stannis values him so much.
* IChooseToStay: He never went back to Asgard when the time for his pilgrimage came to an end, and continued to live simply with his wife and children. He confirms that the reason he remained in Westeros was because he loved his wife and wanted to be there to raise his children.
* IHaveManyNames: Befitting a trickster, "Loki Odinson" and "the Stranger" are only two of his identities. He's currently living as "Davos Seaworth".
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Davos is perfectly happy to be a simple man who loves his family. It even led him to briefly renounce Asgard, and Loki is anguished when he's forced to abandon this persona.
* InterspeciesRomance: It's ultimately revealed that he's Loki Odinson, a Frost Giant (with potentially Aesir ancestry), and he married a human woman in his time on Westeros.
* InTheBlood: Jane is just as blunt and loyal a person as him. She also shows hints of GuileHero and manages to unlock magic when attacking Amora.
* {{Irony}}: Davos is infamous for his BrutalHonesty, but one of Loki's mantles is God of ''Lies''.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Nobody can see his StrongFamilyResemblance with Jane because he grew old and fat, but she certainly didn't inherit her beauty from her mother. As Loki, it overlaps with HotGod.
* KnifeNut: He taught all his tricks to his son Matthos and his daughter Jane. It's minor foreshadowing that he's Loki, who's practically the MCU king of this trope.
* LoveRedeems: Davos the smuggler was quite the satisfied, unrepentant scoundrel. Until he met his future wife Marya and sired Jane, which gave him the need to be ''worthy'' of their love. And when you have been turning tricks for several millennia, it's quite the change of character.
* MagicKnight: Loki wields his spear with as much skill as he does magic. He even tells [[BrilliantButLazy Amora]] that Frigga emphasizes this philosophy in her training: "a true wielder of the mystic arts must have a body as honed as their mind if they wish to succeed."
* TheManBehindTheMan: This is the role that Loki typically assumes when he comes down to Westeros, playing things in the shadows. He's changed his ways since becoming Davos.
* MasterActor: Despite being a lowborn smuggler, he's remarkably skilled at this, as he is revealed to be Loki. Meaning he perfectly knew who Thor was when he arrived yet never slipped once in front of his brother, which shows how crafty he was to pull the wool over someone who had millennia to learn all his ticks' eyes.
* MasterOfDisguise: A very good one. So good that his own brother couldn't see through "Davos Seaworth" as a cover identity.
* MasterOfIllusion: A talent of his, which he put to use by disguising himself as a woman.
* MommasBoy: Thor mentions he was his mother Frigga's best student.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Stranger, since they're supposed to be the Westerosi ''death god''.
* NeverGetsDrunk: According to Jane, neither of them ever gets drunk no matter what they drink. This is because he's actually Loki, so drinks from Westeros won't get him plastered.
* NoSell: He casually stops Melisandre's magic with his ''bare hands''. This reveals that he's really Loki.
* PapaWolf: He pulls his daughter to safety when a shooting star falls right on Dragonstone's beach and quite disapproves of Thor fondling Jane's breasts when she obviously dislikes it. He later reveals his true identity as Loki when Amora threatens the life of his children and Shireen, and when he learns that Amora attempted to have Jane raped to death, he horrifically disfigures her with magical venom and brutally kills her.
* ThePromise: Swears to Stannis that he'll place Shireen on the Iron Throne as Stannis lays dying.
* SiblingRivalry: In the past, Loki and Thor were awful towards each other, both out of obliviousness and genuine malice. Fortunately, they managed to mend their relationship before it was too late.
* SiblingYinYang: Thor is very loud and favors honesty, while Loki disappears into the background and hides his true intentions.
* AndThisIsFor: As Loki, he finishes Shireen's job in ruining Amora's face while pointing out he's doing it for all the people Amora murdered and tried to murder.
* TheThreeFacesOfAdam: With the revelation that he is Loki, he takes up the role of The Lord. He's strongly attached to kingly power as Stannis' adviser and his own status as Crown Prince of Asgard, and his mortal family anchors him to the material realm.
* TranquilFury: Loki was already furious when Amora tried to kill Jane and Shireen. Then Thor revealed she was planning to do [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil worse]] to Jane. He says nothing, but he vibrates in wrath as he realizes what Thor refers to.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Inverted. Marya is described as homely at best by her own daughter while Davos appears to have been quite the tall drink of sexy in his glory days.
* VillainousBreakdown: Downplayed as he only was a RoyalBrat at the time, but he willingly undermined and hated Thor once upon a time. Then his elder announced him he was RejectingTheInheritance since he felt Loki was more worthy of the crown, and the younger prince briefly went to pieces over it.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Right before going to town on Melisandre, aka Amora, he peels his "Davos" appearance away to regain his youth and divine power.
* WalkingSpoiler: Just as big as the Night's Queen. Hence why all spoilers are unmarked for this character.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Thor comments that he wears dresses when he gets drunk. He even confused Jane for Loki when he first saw her.

[[folder:Jane Seaworth*]]
!!Queen Jane Seaworth, the Stormtamer
The eldest daughter of Ser Davos Seaworth, Jane is Shireen's nursemaid and ''de facto'' mother figure. An atheist with a critical mind, she doesn't believe in magic. Of course, all these things would change when a man fell from the sky, and declared her a queen.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: The wildfire explosion unlocks her [[spoiler:Asgardian[=/=]Frost Giant heritage, allowing her to use magic to make her knives explosive.]]
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the comics, Jane is a full-blooded human. [[spoiler:''A Crack of Thunder'' reveals that she is actually half-human, half-Frost Giant since she is the daughter of Loki, otherwise known as Davos Seaworth]].
* AgentScully: She firmly believes everything can be explained by mundane reasons, such as highborns living longer because they have a better quality of life. She also believes the White Walkers were nothing but another wildling tribe. Then Thor drops by on the beach of Dragonstone...
** She starts going back on this later, acknowledging that maybe there are some things that you can't logically explain.
* BigSisterInstinct: She didn't hesitate to lie about seeing the prince threatening Shireen - knowing the king would strike him - because he was bullying the poor girl.
* BrutalHonesty: She ''is'' Davos' daughter, so much that her father has to tell her to step down a bit or she will get herself in trouble.
* BuxomIsBetter: Thor marvels at her magnificent breasts. She's not flattered by his groping.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Davos isn't really too hot on her growing closer from Thor, which is quite reasonable since he introduced himself to her by groping her against her will. [[spoiler:In hindsight, of course Loki wouldn't like to see his daughter going frisky with her (adopted but still) uncle.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: When it suits her. Like making snide comments about Renly throughout his parley with Stannis.
* DefiantCaptive: Even when facing rape by [[spoiler:Amora's followers]], she never stops fighting, and promises bloody vengeance on them all.
* TheDreaded: At least she is to Tyrion, who calls her 'The Stranger's Daughter' and internally acknowledges one of the reasons he is not going to spread rumors about Shireen being a bastard is that he knows Jane ''will'' carve him up.
* GenerationXerox: She's basically her father's younger female version, being a blunt commoner-turned-noble who's fiercely loyal to a Baratheon.
* HalfHumanHybrid: It's revealed in chapter 43 of Book 2 that she's [[spoiler:half-Asgardian/Frost Giant on her father's side. Which, by the rules in this universe, makes her Asgardian.]]
* HumanMomNonHumanDad: As revealed in chapter 43 of ''A Crack of Thunder'', her mother is a human, [[spoiler:but her father is ''Loki'', who is half-Asgardian, half-Frost Giant.]]
* IHaveBrothers: Jane certainly isn't afraid to speak her mind or wield a knife -- in the latter case, that's because her brother Matthos was learning how to use it and so she pestered their father until he let her in the lessons.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Her reaction when Thor gorily murders [[spoiler:her would-be rapists]] right in front of her isn't fear or disgust, oh no... She's actually ''envious'' because she would like to be ''the one doing the mess''.
** When [[spoiler:Loki]] begins to tell her about his story, Jane mentions she has no trouble if he does it while [[spoiler:he keeps brutalizing Amora.]]
* KnifeNut: Pestered her dad for learning how to use a knife after hearing her brother would benefit from these lessons. [[InformedAbility She hasn't been seen making use of it]] but she's apparently so good that Tyrion doesn't want to draw her ire upon him.
** Thor gives her a pair of [[ThunderBoltIron star-metal]] daggers as a gift before Team Dragonstone left to parley with Renly.
** Finally gets to show off her props [[spoiler:by hitting Amora twice with her throwing knives.]]
* LadySwearsALot: While several characters curse in the story Jane tends to be the one to drop f-bombs more than anyone else. She is the daughter of a sailor, after all.
* MamaBear: For Shireen.
* MyNaymeIs: Averted, she's Jane rather than Jeyne.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Tyrion nicknamed her the "Stranger's Daughter". Remember that the Stranger is the local ''death god''. [[spoiler:This takes on a new meaning when it's revealed that she's actually ''Loki'''s daughter.]]
* NearRapeExperience: Chapter 41 of ''A Crack of Thunder'' begins with three men about to rape her, only to be saved in the nick of time by Thor. It is still a really disturbing experience.
* NeverGetsDrunk: She claims that she and her father never get drunk no matter what they drink. She thinks they might have a Stark in their ancestry because of this. [[spoiler:Then Chapter 43 of ''A Crack of Thunder'' shows the actual reason - Davos is ''Loki Odinson''.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll:
** Davos playfully reminds her she used to put her milk teeth on the window for the Tooth Queen to take. She claims it was because she wanted the copper to buy sweets.
** Melisandre's attempts to seduce Thor while disparaging Jane's charms annoy her so much she thinks about ripping her dress to let Thor feel her again.
* OutnumberedSibling: The story seems to go with Davos's canonical big family, since she mentions having three brothers at the least.
* ParentalSubstitute:
** As Lady Selyse outright washes her hands of her daughter, Jane has to care for the girl as she were her own. Unintentionally lampshaded when Thor is introduced to Shireen and thinks she's Jane's child. [[spoiler:Stannis requests her to outright become Shireen's mother.]]
** Chapter 15 reveals that Shireen finds the fact that people are now mistakenly thinking Jane is her mother to be hilarious, and as such [[{{Troll}} has started referring to her as "Mother" or "Mama"]] in front of everyone other than her parents.
** She's officially elevated to this when the dying Stannis entrusts Shireen to her, asking for Jane to love the girl as her blood daughter.
* PluckyGirl: Her reaction when a star falls on Dragonstone's beach? She immediately runs ''for'' it, giddy at the idea of finding sky-metal. Even before it landed, she only went for cover because her father dragged her and because she wanted to protect Shireen.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the original comics, [[spoiler:Loki and Jane's only connection was the fact she was dating his brother. Here, she's his daughter.]]
* SilkHidingSteel: Very much steel with a touch of silk. She's Shireen's primary caretaker who will have no remorse in shredding anyone threatening her charge, no matter their rank.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Averted. Despite being Davos's daughter, she hardly looks like him, and is considered too beautiful to have much resemblance to her homely mother. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed that Davos is ''Loki'' and that she really takes after her father. It also puts Thor's confusing her for his brother in a new context.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[AgentScully Her refusal to believe in magic]] becomes hilarious when she learns [[spoiler:she's actually a demigoddess through her father.]]
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: People are scratching their head over the fact that "such a pretty flower grew into a pile of shit". It's explained by Davos being [[IWasQuiteTheLooker a real stunner]] before letting himself go. [[spoiler:And seeing him in his [[HotGod Loki appearance]] confirms it.]]
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: When she bluntly reminds Thor she's nothing but a knight's daughter from a painfully new noble house, he gently points Aegon the Dragon started as a man without a home and in spite of not being highborn enough, she's the queen Dragonstone's people ''deserve''.

[[folder:Shireen Baratheon]]
!!Shireen Baratheon
Daughter of Stannis, and thus ''de facto'' princess of the Seven Kingdoms, as far as his followers are concerned.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: After [[spoiler:Amora]] tries to have Stannis burn her alive, she drives a burning brand straight into Amora's [[EyeScream left eye]], blinding her and melting the flesh on that side.
* BrutalHonesty: She doesn't sugarcoat her words, bluntly acknowledging she's scared by the burnings and wants Davos with her to be reassured.
* CompositeCharacter: Both herself and Beta Ray Bill.
* DaddysGirl: Her father may not be the greatest when he has to act as a normal human being, but his love for her is plain as day and she happily returns it.
* GenerationXerox: Her and Jane Seaworth mimic their fathers' dynamic, with Shireen as the blunt Baratheon. They are only younger and female.
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler: Right before dying]], Stannis officially entrusts her to her beloved ParentalSubstitute Jane Seaworth.
* HarmfulToMinors: She's ForcedToWatch while people are burned alive by her father's fanatic priestess-adviser.
* KickTheDog: She was on the receiving end when Joffrey destroyed her brand-new doll [[EvilIsPetty only because he didn't want to visit Dragonstone]], saying that ''now'' the doll looked as ugly as her and trying to bully her into admitting she did it herself. Thankfully, Jane put a stop to it.
* LegacyCharacter: Replaces [[spoiler:Brunhilde as the new Queen of the Valkyries]].
* LikeASonToMe: Jane basically stepped up as her ParentalSubstitute since her birth mother is very neglectful and too fanatic to properly care for her child. Lampshaded by Thor when she's introduced to him and he mistakenly thinks she's Jane's daughter.
** Apparently, others have started to mistakenly believe that Jane is her mother. Shireen finds this hilarious, and has started [[{{Troll}} calling her "Mother" and "Mama"]] in front of everyone who isn't her parents.
* LonelyDollGirl: Broken dolls seem to be a recurrent thing with her: it starts with the one which gave her grayscale then you have the one Joffrey ruined to make it as "ugly" as Shireen. Fortunately, her latest set averts it.
* MoralityPet: To her parents. Stannis genuinely tries to put his grumpiness and awkwardness away to interact with her, [[spoiler:and Selyse flat-out refuses to let her die even to satisfy her fanaticism.]]
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: After leaving Westeros for Asgard at the end of ''A Crack of Thunder'', she returns in ''A Shield of Man'' as an adult, despite only being away for months at most. It is explained that time flows differently in Asgard.
* ScarsAreForever: Her grayscale-marred face always makes people pity her. Except for Thor who thinks she fought a dragon and praises her for being so brave at her young age.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Thor and Jane.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: She never gets burned alive to Rh'llor here.
* TookALevelInBadass: Spent "years" training [[spoiler: in Asgard, becoming Queen of the Valkyries]].
* {{Troll}}: Plays along with Thor's initial mistaken belief that she's Jane's daughter just because she finds Jane's annoyance at it funny.
* {{Valkyrie}}: [[spoiler:Shireen becomes the new Queen of the Valkyries as a fully-grown adult]].

[[folder:Thor Odinson]]
!!Thor Odinson, the Warrior, the Storm God
The God of Thunder, who travels from Asgard to Westeros in search of his missing brother Loki. He doesn't look quite like what people expected.

* AccidentalTruth: Thor tells Jane she is the Queen Westeros deserves to have. [[spoiler:Then it turns out he was only half-right - because Jane, as Loki's heir, is fated to become ''Asgard'''s Queen.]]
* AngelUnaware: His people frequently travel to Westeros to mingle with mankind. Thor himself was a sellsword, a smith, even a maester once.
* ApologeticAttacker: He expresses his regret when he's forced to fight [[spoiler:Stannis while in The Destroyer under Amora's control.]]
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Apparently believes in this, since he deems Jane a Queen for not cowering in front of his arrival.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Was the King-Beyond-The-Wall who fought against the Others during the Long Night.
* BerserkButton:
** Don't insult Jane within his earshot. Seriously.
** Also, don't hurt her. Or try to. [[spoiler:His execution of the three men that nearly raped Jane in Chapter 41 is nothing short of horrifying.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's an affable NiceGuy and a great drinking buddy, but he ''is'' a powerful thunder god whose rage is something you '''DO NOT''' want to invoke. As seen in Chapter 41 of ''A Crack of Thunder'', where he [[spoiler:brutally kills Jane's would-be rapists, doing anything to hurt those he cares for is a terrible, ''terrible'' idea.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct:
** His main reason for being in Westeros is to search for his missing brother.
** He swears he won't let any harm come to Shireen if he can help it.
* BigEater: When he said he'd hold seven days of feasting, he wasn't joking. He ''still'' looks like he could go for more when it was over.
* BookDumb: While a savant in the battlefield and remarkably perceptive, he's rather ill-fit for more intellectual, diplomatic pursuits that would be needed for a ruler. He was a maester in the past, but he has no trouble admitting that he wasn't a very good one.
* CompositeCharacter:
** In-universe, his people were mixed together to become the Seven. When he lands on Dragonstone, the audience remarks on the fact he's dressed as the Warrior but holds the Smith's hammer.
** Out of universe, his character is assimilated with Joramun, the legendary first King-Beyond-the-Wall, who he lived as in one of his past mortal lives.
** He's also the Storm God the Ironborn fear, while [=Ægir=][[note]]It isn't confirmed if he is an Asgardian, as the [=Ægir=] of Norse mythology was a sea jotunn, though he was friends with the gods and often hosted parties for them[[/note]] is the Drowned God. While the Ironborn do have a somewhat more accurate view of his appearance and abilities (Theon realizes who Thor is when he recognizes Mjölnir, and he knows that only the worthy can wield it), Thor and [=Ægir=] are actually friends, and the whole Drowned God thing was a nickname Sif gave him after she dropped him in a pond for trying to bed her.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Chapter 41 of ''Crack'' reveals that, in one of his past lives, [[spoiler:he was turned into a SexSlave in Lys when he was a boy.]]
* DropTheHammer: Well, ''duh''.
* TheDreaded: For Theon, who recognizes him as being The Storm God, responsible for casting down the Drowned God that the Ironborn worship. Among the Ironborn, he's depicted as a horrific boogeyman who kills and tortures the Drowned God's followers for his amusement.
* {{Flight}}: Using his hammer, he can fly through the air at high speeds. This floors ''everyone'' when they first see it, even causing '''Stannis''' of all people to down his drink at a rate that Robert would be proud of.
* {{Foil}}: Reviewers lament Stannis' plight, since he's stuck with a blond version of Robert. However, Thor has a genuine respect for women - while Robert has no qualms hitting his queen - and refused to take the throne which is his birthright since he knew he would be an awful king. Lampshaded in Chapter 15, with Jane thinking to herself that Thor is basically Robert reborn as an immortal blonde.
* FriendToAllChildren:
** Immediately takes a shine to Shireen whose curiosity he indulges. It's apparently a cultural thing for his people, since they hold children as sacred.
** Chapter 15 reveals that he got Shireen a quarterstaff as a gift and has promised to train her with it when he returns from the meeting with Renly.
* GodIsGood: He immediately becomes popular among Dragonstone's smallfolk because of that, as a deity who genuinely cares about people and enjoys their friendship instead of asking for bloody tributes.
* GodOfThunder: Need we say more?
* HeroOfAnotherStory: His being a CompositeCharacter with the first King-beyond-the-Wall, Joramun, means he helped Azor Ahai to banish the Others and win the War for the Dawn thousands of years ago.
* HiddenDepths:
** Boisterous as he is, he is able to recognize his flaws and the flaws in others, admitting that he would make a poor king and pointing out that Stannis would be miserable as king.
** When Renly is about to start his famous peach speech, he interrupts saying that he would like a peach, throwing Renly off completely. At first, it seems like he's just being his usual, somewhat ditzy self, only for him to reveal that Renly doesn't have any other peaches, and tell Renly that he shouldn't offer people things he can't give them, regardless of whether he's offering peaches or ''promises of success''.
** He also reveals that he understands what Jane is going through [[spoiler:after being nearly raped - because ''he'' was also raped when he was turned into a SexSlave in one of his past Midgardian lives.]]
* HumbleHero: He confesses he's not king material and sees no shame in crowning and serving his adopted brother instead. Downplayed in that he still loves to talk about his adventures, but he also likes to talk about his friends.
* IAmXSonOfY: He outright introduces himself as a son of Odin and calls Jane "Davosdaughter". He has also referred to himself as simply being "[[SpellMyNameWithAThe The]] Odinson".
* IHaveManyNames:
** The Odinson, Prince of Asgard, and God of Thunder are the ones he's called among his own. In Westeros, he's The Warrior to the Andals, both the Storm God and the Skybreaker to the Ironborn, and Punor of Oaks to the First Men.
** His hammer Mjölnir is also called Thunder Maker, the Crusher and the Grinder.
* IHatePastMe: He's not really proud of the GloryHound, selfish and spoiled princeling he was, and specifically expresses regret about being a BigBrotherBully to Loki.
* IWillFindYou: Claims he was sent on Westeros to find his brother Loki's whereabouts.
* JerkassGods: PlayedForLaughs when he cursed Brandon the Builder to be unable of getting drunk, because the Stark helped "that shit" Durran Godsgrief to build Storm's End (intended to be a defiance towards the gods themselves). Outside of this, he's a complete aversion.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: In Chapter 41, he finds [[spoiler:Jane about to be raped by three men - and he electrocutes one alive until he just bursts, hangs a second one by his own intestines ''after'' breaking all his bones and finishes the third by doing the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_eagle Blood Eagle]] on him.]]
* LifeOfTheParty: His first deed after landing on Dragonstone was commanding a feast for seven days. Seven days as a ''whole''. He personally ensured the food and drink wouldn't run out and had a great time retelling his and his friends' various adventures.
* NiceGuy: A tad insensitive, but he genuinely praises Jane's bravery when he fell on Dragonstone and doesn't disparage Shireen when he sees her scar, telling her she's strong for living.
* NotHyperbole: When he said he was going to feast for seven days, he meant seven days ''nonstop''.
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: His hammer can only be lifted by those worthy to wield it. He asks Renly to hold it... and the royal brat promptly fails and falls off his horse.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Was meant to inherit his father's throne, but has refused it, as he does not feel worthy.
* ShutUpHannibal: Calmly and easily shoots down all of Renly's claims to greatness.
* StoryBreakerPower: Given that he's a PhysicalGod in a world of human warriors, few of whom are [[EmpoweredBadassNormal augmented in some ways]], he could quite literally end the war and 90% of Westeros's problems in a few days if he wanted. However, he's only in Westeros to find Loki and is only helping Stannis until he accomplishes his goal. Even then, he makes it a point not to do any heavy lifting for Stannis since he would not have ''earned'' his crown if he did so. To get around this, enemies, such as [[spoiler:the Destroyer armor]], are introduced and shown to be among the few that can challenge him.
* SuperStrength: Par for the course with Thor. After he returns with more food for the feast, he's seen carrying a massive stag on his shoulders without effort, something that would have broken anyone else's back from the attempt. He also apparently carried dozens of other animals over to be slaughtered for the seven day feast.
* SurpriseIncest: The revelations in Chapter 43 of Book 2 put [[spoiler:his whole relationship with Jane at risk of being tanked by the reveal that Davos was Loki's human identity, which makes him Jane's paternal uncle. Okay, that's only through adoption and gods infamously slept with their own siblings, but still...]]
* ThanksForTheMammary: When he meets Jane, he grabs her tits and remarks on their beauty. She's quite disgruntled. In his defense, he was checking to see if it was Loki in disguise... which, given Loki's talents of illusion and disguise, is somewhat reasonable... somewhat.
* TheThreeFacesOfAdam: The Hunter. He loves adventure, openly confesses he would be ill-suited for responsibility and is currently on a quest to find his younger brother.
* {{Troll}}: Turns out that the Starks' fabled [[NeverGetsDrunk inability to get drunk]] is because he pranked [[FamousAncestor Brandon the Builder]] by giving him an Asgardian constitution so he could not get drunk on Midgardian alcohol. All because he helped Durran Godsgrief build Storm's End.
* WeatherManipulation: He ''is'' the God of Thunder. When Renly pushed his BerserkButton too hard, he unleashed a raging storm so powerful it completely blackened the sky and made the storm that took Stannis's parents away seem like a gentle breeze.

[[folder:Melisandre]]
!!Melisandre
Stannis' advisor-priestess. A fundamentalist who likes nothing more than spreading her Lord's word and fire everywhere. She also has a ''very'' uncomfortable obsession with Thor.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Towards Thor, who prefers Jane over her. [[spoiler:She really wants him for her paramour and King consort, even after he declined the crown for Loki]].
* AdaptationalDyeJob: In the original source material, [[spoiler:Amora has golden blond hair. Melisandre confesses it was formerly the same for this story, but she's now a redhead - which prevented Thor from immediately identifying her, even if he could guess she wasn't a normal human]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the books, she's more of an AffablyEvil AntiVillain at her worst. [[spoiler:Being Amora in this story throws out her redeeming qualities]].
* AmbiguouslyHuman: After meeting her, Thor starts to suspect she could be ''Asgardian''. [[spoiler:She ultimately reveals herself as Amora the Enchantress, an Asgardian]].
* ArcVillain: Towards Thor and Jane in ''A Crack of Thunder''.
* AssholeVictim: Her death is one of the more cruel fates in the story so far. [[spoiler:She's stabbed, mutilated, branded, poisoned into an almost corpse-like state, then executed by Loki, knowing that how she looks when she dies will carry over to the afterlife]]. She's such a heartless, cruel, narcissistic, petty, vain witch that every second of her fate is well deserved, and no character morns her loss.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted with a vengeance when Shireen strikes her face with a brand, leaving her horrendously burned on the left side and blind from this eye. [[spoiler:And then Loki pours magical venom all over over her as payment for trying to have Jane brutally raped to death, leaving her face ''falling off her skull in pieces.'' Plus, since Asgardians look the same in the afterlife as they do in the moment of their death, Loki condemns her to exist forever as the hideous and warped being she's become.]]
* BigBadWannabe: Oh she's certainly a threat, but in the grand scheme of things, she's rather pathetic and unimportant. Once [[spoiler:Loki reveals himself]], the entire conflict with her becomes so one-sided against her that she goes from a moderate threat to completely pathetic in the span of moments.
* BrilliantButLazy: [[spoiler:Loki]] notes that she does genuinely have the potential to be a great sorceress, but she utterly cripples herself by being a vain narcissist. She doesn't want to develop and hone herself because that would require that she put actual effort into being a better person. Rather than take her magic to new heights through practice, she gets others to do the job for her, coasting by on the work of others. This leads to her undoing when she goes against [[spoiler:Loki, a master of magic who has trained and honed himself almost every single day of his life to become the sorcerer he is today]].
* CharmPerson: She's really persuasive when she has to convince a man to do something. [[spoiler:Thor explicitly explains that it's not her beauty and charisma alone, she's able to magically "enthrall" people of the male persuasion.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Melisandre gets combined with [[spoiler:Amora the Enchantress]]. She also has shades of MCU Loki, [[spoiler:who jumped from the Bifrost after raising chaos in Asgard, landed on Midgard and started to make trouble.]]
* DidntSeeThatComing: When Thor crashes on Dragonstone, she's just as flat-footed as everyone else on the beach.
** The big one comes when she attacks Davos Seaworth [[spoiler:only for him to effortlessly stop her magic attack... because he is actually '''Loki Odinson'''.]]
* DirtyCoward: Thor calls her out on this, saying that she relies on others to fight her battles and then flees when they fail.
* DistaffCounterpart: Shireen actually compares her to Joffrey, since both are spoiled narcissists bullying people into obedience through the destruction of treasured possessions.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler:As Amora]], she was never able to realize the real power things like friendship or love have. She still hasn't learned anything to this day.
* TheExile: If only because she fled the actual punishment meant for her. [[spoiler: She fled from Asgard rather than face Odin's wrath after her attempt on Sif's life.]]
* EyeScream: Shireen drives a burning brand into her left eye, melting it.
* FateWorseThanDeath: She is without a doubt the ''epitome'' of a VainSorceress. [[spoiler:So when Loki finally executes her, he brutally disfigures her. Since Asgardians look in death as they were at the moment of death, Amora will spend her afterlife as a repulsive, disgusting monster.]]
* FemaleMisogynist: A hint of this. As long as another woman is beautiful, she's a threat. If she's not, then she's good for nothing.
* TheFundamentalist: She's a disturbed follower of R'hllor, the "Lord of Light". [[spoiler:Even when she's revealed to be Amora, WordOfGod confirms that she still highly believes in R'hllor and that it's a religion she became deeply attached to in her time on Westeros.]]
* HateSink: She's a despicable, narcissistic witch who has no compunctions with burning innocent children and having potential rivals raped to death for her selfish needs. She's as horrid as can be to make the readers root for Jane and Thor all the more, and to make it her [[spoiler:gruesome death at Loki's hands]] as satisfying as possible.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Once the prime adviser to Stannis, Thor's arrival utterly destroyed her influence because smallfolk would rather worship a compassionate, helpful deity than a terrifying entity asking for HumanSacrifice.
* {{Irony}}: She manages to enthrall any man she meets, but the one she truly covets is utterly impervious to her charm and glamour.
* JerkassGods: It's revealed in ''A Crack of Thunder'' that she's [[spoiler:actually an Asgardian sorceress whose only goal is to become a Queen, and she doesn't care about collateral damage.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: She tried to burn Shireen alive, but the girl defends herself by burning her face ([[spoiler:which a VainSorceress such as Amora would undoubtedly considers a FateWorseThanDeath]]).
* ManipulativeBitch: [[TheVamp Via her sex appeal]]. It works on most men, but Thor is completely unperturbed.
* MeaningfulRename: "Melisandre" isn't her true name, and it comes from a legend about a beautiful woman trying and failing to hide her monstrous nature from her husband. [[spoiler:Amora is a metaphorical monster, but a monster all the same under her beauty.]]
* OhCrap: She totally loses it when she understands Davos Seaworth is '''''NOT''''' a soft target, [[spoiler:but '''Loki Odinson''', who's '''far''' above her regarding magical prowess.]]
* PsychopathicWomanchild: Shireen's description of her has vibes of it -- she only cares about her wants, and she enjoys destroying what other people hold dear to bully them into compliance.
* RasputinianDeath: Completely brutal, and completely deserved. [[spoiler:She gets stabbed by Jane, her right eye branded by Shireen, blown off her feet by Jane's magically empowered dagger, Loki cuts her hand off with her own spell, magically pummelled into the ground, her other hand stabbed with a spear, her face and hand utterly ruined with Skaði's serpent's poison and finally executed via spear.]]
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: She was assumed dead after jumping off [[spoiler:the Bifrost, but instead made her way to Westeros.]]
* TheResenter: Strongly implied to be this for Jane Seaworth, since the girl basically replaced her. She outright told Stannis Jane had to be killed for being named a contender in the War of Five Crowns. [[spoiler:It's later revealed to be because she's a {{Yandere}} for Thor.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness:
** Good luck getting her to acknowledge that [[spoiler:Thor doesn't return her feelings.]]
** She also deludes herself into believing that she was [[spoiler:Frigga's greatest student]], when she was anything but.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: She grew absolutely paranoid about Jane stealing everything she coveted (a queenly crown and Thor's love) and as such decided to destroy the other woman. Well, it certainly ticked Jane off, so much that she decided to avenge herself by utterly ruining Melisandre.
* SelfProclaimedLoveInterest: She does everything she can imagine to seduce Thor to her cause, but he barely notices or is creeped out. [[spoiler:When Amora finally eschews her mask, Thor has nothing but disgust towards her.]]
* TheSociopath: She's a manipulative, cruel, rude, cold-blooded and spoiled sorceress who will do anything to get Thor, from sending three men to rape Jane to trying to trick Stannis into sacrificing his own daughter to R'hllor.
* TheThreeFacesOfEve: The classical Seductress, she uses [[TheVamp her looks]] to manipulate people.
* TheVamp: Absolutely no shame about baring her tits to Thor while hinting she wouldn't be adverse to him touching her package. Alas for her, he thinks Jane's cleavage far more superior.
* VillainousBreakdown: Her perception of Jane as a threat to her power and influence gradually chips away at her self-control, and seeing Jane opposing her on the Blackwater finally reduces the red witch to throw a fully-blown tantrum. [[spoiler:Goes completely off her gourd when Davos reveals himself to be Loki.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Her plans involve having Shireen killed.
* {{Yandere}}: She's revealed to be this much like the version from the [[spoiler:comicbook depiction, she ''hates'' to see Thor more interested in another woman. So she orders two of her brainwashed cronies to go and rape Jane by "all her orifices" before slitting her throat.]]
* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: [[spoiler:Loki]] points out she could have used her skills to become a Goddess, make Westeros a rival to Asgard or even turned the Cult of R'hollor into a force to be reckoned with. Instead, she just coasted by on what she learned from Frigga and a bit from Midgardian magic and went to a desperate man and promised him things she would never give him.

[[folder:Cressen*]]
!!Maester Cressen
The Maester of Dragonstone, who has faithfully served House Baratheon for decades. In the present, he serves as one of Stannis' chief advisors.

* TheGoodChancellor: Along with Davos, he tries to play this role to Stannis.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Shireen and Jane talk him out of protesting Melisandre's actions, so he never poisons himself trying to kill her.
* YouAreInCommandNow: After the Battle of the Blackwater, he's put in charge of the remaining Baratheon forces [[spoiler: until Shireen can return from Asgard to claim her throne]].

!The Baratheons of Storm's End and Highgarden

The branch of House Baratheon based out of their ancestral seat of Storm's End, currently ruled by Lord Renly Baratheon, who is so determined to become king that he's allied with House Tyrell of the Reach to seize the throne by force.

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: They begin book 2 as the most powerful alliance with the strongest army in the war. After the meeting with Stannis and Renly pissing off Thor, they lose all support from the Stormlands. Then after it was discovered that Renly [[spoiler:plotted to have Mace Tyrell killed, hold his children hostage, and give the Reach to the Ironborn]], the support of Highgarden is long gone as well.

[[folder:Renly Baratheon]]
!!Renly Baratheon
Robert and Stannis' younger brother and Lord of Storm's End, upon the death of Robert has crowned himself, expecting to use the armies of the Stormlands and the Reach (having married Margaery Tyrell) to take King's Landing and the Iron Throne.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Even more so than his rather morally dubious book counterpart and ''especially'' compared to his [[AdaptationalHeroism romanticized show counterpart]]. This Renly is so self-righteous and straight up narcissistic that he plots other people's deaths for minor slights. He's responsible for [[spoiler:the bandit attack on Tony Stark and arranged for the Ironborn to attempt to kill Robb.]]
* AffablyEvil: He is quite charismatic, alright. He is also the one that paid the bandits [[spoiler:that nearly killed Tony Stark (all because he scorned his demand of an armor) and has paid Vanko to murder both Tony and Robb Stark]], all so he can use that to make Eddard swear loyalty to him.
* CompositeCharacter: He's eventually revealed as the equivalent to [[spoiler:Justin Hammer]], with some [[spoiler:Obadiah Stane, as he is the one who hires the bandits that attempt to kill Tony]].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He has a tendency to backstab any potential allies when they don’t show him the respect he thinks he deserves.
* DamnedByFaintPraise: Jonos Bracken wanted the North to side with him because he was "the best of a bad lot" comprising [[KnightTemplar Stannis Baratheon]] and [[TheCaligula Joffrey]]. Renly then loses his faint praise after Bracken spends more than a few minutes with him and his "leadership" style.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When he asked Antony Stark to make him a suit of armor, the blacksmith mocked his demand. [[spoiler:Renly decided to retaliate by paying a bandit to "kidnap the jackass and slit his throat quick", and then Vanko and his men.]]
* {{Foil}}: Theon compares him to Robert Baratheon and Antony Stark and finds him lacking, since Robert was a BoisterousBruiser and Antony actually hides a sharp mind, while Renly has only the surface details right.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Starts off the war with the largest army. But between Thor's presence on Stannis' side and [[spoiler:his plotting with the Ironborn being exposed]], his forces all turn cloak on him, leaving him to flee and go into hiding.
* ItsAllAboutMe: If there’s an argument to be made that Joffrey is a true Baratheon, Renly is Exhibit A. He's so self-centered that [[spoiler:he allies with the Ironborn and plots to have Tony and Robb Stark killed because]] he cannot stand Eddard Stark (or anyone else) not giving him the respect he believes he deserves.
* PetTheDog: Congratulates Brienne on her newfound health and power before granting her wish of becoming a Rainbow Guard.
* PsychopathicManchild: Theon thinks he looks like a kid playing at being a king. For the "psychopathic" part, arranging for [[spoiler:someone's demise because they snubbed you is ''not'' a composed or mature reaction.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the aftermath of [[spoiler:being discovered as Vanko's backer]], he has ran away to Essos. [[spoiler:WordOfGod states that he will return sooner or later.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Very much on the periphery in Book 1, but [[spoiler:his arranging for Tony's kidnapping would make him responsible for the existence of Iron Man... who emboldened other mystics and metahumans to make themselves known.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the books he's killed shortly after his meeting with Stannis by one of Melissandre's "shadow babies". Due to the different circumstances surrounding Stannis, namely Thor's presence and its effect on the lords of the Stormlands, Stannis refuses to have him killed.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Theon - who saw Robert at Pyke - concedes Renly looks like the late King, but calls him a weak imitation since Renly lacks in height and build.
* StupidEvil: Enough to give Joffrey a run for his money. [[spoiler:It takes a special kind of stupid to sell out your biggest supporter to the Ironborn.]]
* ThisCannotBe: Has a small moment of this when Brienne introduces herself - as he remembers her as a IllGirl.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: His publicity is more mixed than good, but he still starts as a popular choice for king. The good publicity erodes completely by the end of Book 2.
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: Thinks Brienne should be completely loyal to him just because he showed her kindness.

[[folder:Margaery Tyrell]]
!!Queen Margaery Tyrell
Lord Mace Tyrell's fourth child and only daughter, she has married Renly Baratheon and become Queen.

* BigSisterInstinct: She doesn't like to see her brother Loras pummeled into the ground and forfeits the match for him when his arm is too badly bruised for him to continue fighting.
* CharacterTic: Sucks in her cheeks and puckers her lips when displeased. Theon muses it makes her look like a duck.
* HotConsort: To Renly. Even if she's not Theon's type, he concedes he would have been tempted to jump her if they had met in a private room.
* WomanChild: Theon compares her to a little girl dressing up and donning a parchment crown to play the queen.

[[folder:Brienne of Tarth]]
!!Brienne of Tarth
The only daughter of Lord Selwyn Tarth, she was a sickly child who would become ill too easily, but has managed to become a strong, powerful woman... at a price.

* ActionGirl: Well, of course.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the books, Brienne was considered an ugly girl growing up and her [[Series/GameOfThrones show version went the extra mile to look plain]]. Here, she's more attractive [[spoiler:and her non-Hulk form is straight up gorgeous.]]
* AdaptationalDyeJob: In the source material, she's blonde with InnocentBlueEyes. Here, she's dark-haired with green eyes. [[spoiler:And of course, there's the matter of her skin...]]
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: She's much more confident and doesn't display any insecurities about her looks. Sure, people may stare at her, at least they don't think "oh, this poor girl, how can she be still alive" anymore.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Her skin became [[spoiler:deep green as a result of her transformation.]]
* BarehandedBladeBlock: Pulls this when fighting an Ironborn.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Her [[spoiler:non-Hulkified form]] is that of a beautiful blonde woman - and Theon notes that, even [[spoiler:in her Hulk form]], there's something quite appealing about her.
* BigBrotherWorship: She's extremely grateful towards her cousin Bruce for doing the impossible: [[spoiler: going to Valyria and ''coming back'' '''ALIVE''' with]] a cure for her chronical illness.
* BoyishShortHair: A pagecut. Theon notices it suits her much better than [[LongHairIsFeminine long hair]] ever would.
* CompositeCharacter: Canon Brienne mixed with [[spoiler:She-Hulk and a touch of Captain America's]] backstory.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Spent most of her youth deathly ill, a situation made even worse by the presence of a fanatical Septon who convinced her father that her condition was the will of the gods and that they should therefore stop trying to fix it.
* DistaffCounterpart: Her being originally an IllGirl who gained strength from a mysterious cure quite resembles Captain America's OriginStory. Only, you know, more medieval and fantastic.
* EmeraldPower: What did you expect from [[spoiler:She-Hulk?]]
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: {{Downplayed}}. [[spoiler:Her skin is deep green]], and she is powerful and strong, but she lost what beauty she had when her cousin [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce]] cured her. Not that she cares.
* IllGirl: Was this to a heavy extreme, which makes her transformation into a strong woman more the surprise.
* InASingleBound: She can jump this far, [[spoiler:just like ComicBook/SheHulk!]]
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Heavily muscled with BoyishShortHair. When she wears her armor, it's impossible to know she's actually female.
* LoyalToThePosition: After discovering [[spoiler:Renly's treachery]], she tells him she had sworn loyalty to what he represented, not to him.
* PowerAtAPrice: She gave her beauty up for health and strength, and considers it a fair trade. [[spoiler:Subverted, as her non-Hulk form is incredibly gorgeous.]]
* PurpleIsPowerful: When Renly grants her a place in his Rainbow Guard, she confesses being partial to purple. [[spoiler:It is the Hulk's typical clothing color, after all.]]
* SamusIsAGirl: The people at Renly's tourney are surprised when they hear her speak for the first time.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Decides to take Theon back to the Riverlands when she discovers [[spoiler:Renly has allied himself with the Ironborn.]]
* ShipTease: With [[spoiler:Theon Greyjoy]], of all people.
* SuperStrength: She's got the full [[spoiler:She-Hulk]] package in this regard, being able to jump so far and with enough force to shatter the sound barrier and easily bend metal.
* TranquilFury: She's never actually calm, she's just able to constructively release her frustration and rage.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: It's suggested there's the beginning of ''something'' between her and Theon. Merely hinting he's endangered is enough for her to almost go on a rampage.
* WorldsStrongestWoman: Being the InUniverse equivalent to [[spoiler:ComicBook/SheHulk]] certainly adds up to this.

[[folder:Mace Tyrell]]
!!Lord Mace Tyrell
The Lord of Highgarden and Lord Paramount of the Reach.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Tywin states that his buffoonish nature is trick into getting people to underestimate him.
* ParentalSexualitySquick: Sputters in embarrassment at his mother's sex jokes, seemingly more at the thought of her having sex at all than at the nature of the jokes.
* PlayingBothSides: Sieging Storm's End during Robert's Rebellion was him doing this -- if Aerys won, he could say he was acting loyally to the crown, but if he lost he could at least tell the Baratheons that no one was killed during the siege.

[[folder:Olenna Tyrell]]
!!Lady Olenna Tyrell, a.k.a. the Queen of Thorns
Mace's mother, and the true leader of House Tyrell.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: In addition to constantly belittling Mace, she has no problem cracking sex jokes when he's in hearing range.
* TheDreaded: Is one of the people that Natasha warns Jon to never let himself be alone with, due to her intelligence and ruthlessness.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: States that being old means that she can say whatever she wants.

[[folder:Lord Oaker]]
!!Lord Oaker
A cowardly and self-important minor Lord from the Reach whose actions prove to be the catalyst of Iron Man's birth.

* DirtyCoward: He sold his own daughter to a group of bandits so they would stop sacking his lands.
* GeneralFailure: According to Tywin, his main strategy is to overwhelm the enemy with numbers, regardless of how much casualties his side ends up with. There's the fact that he's unable to keep his lands safe from bandits other than bribing them.
* MilesGloriosus: Almost his entire character. Loves to boasts how much of a fierce warrior and cunning tactician he is, but in reality, a group of bandits attacking his lands is enough to scare him into submission.
* OriginalCharacter: He has no canon counterparts.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite only making a single physical appearance and generally being unimportant in the grand scheme of things, Tony Stark would have never become Iron Man if it wasn't for him surrendering his daughter to the same bandits who kidnapped Tony.

!The Brotherhood of the Blackfyres

A mysterious group, composed of people with great powers, who are preparing to come out of the shadows and reveal themselves to the world.

* AdaptationalNameChange: Their name is altered from "The Brotherhood of Mutants" to "The Brotherhood of the Blackfyres".
* CompositeCharacter: Given some of the author's notes and reveals, the Brotherhood is a composite of the Faceless Men and Young Griff's faction (for a given fan interpretation of Young Griff being a Blackfyre).
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Magneto sacrificing the Bloody Mummers for the ritual that [[spoiler: mutates Arya and Gendry]] also manages to hatch a purple dragon, later named Lockheed after the Valyrian god of the dead.
* TrueCompanions: It's noted that they all view each other as family.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They often try to murder each other only to rally together in order to defend one of them.

[[folder:Magneto]]
!!Erik Blackfyre, a.k.a. Magneto
Mystique's master, he's first mentioned in the first book, being implied to be raising an army in the shadows for some purpose. Finally makes an appearance in the last third of the second book, having hidden himself as the Maester of Harrenhal in order to put Arya and Gendry to the test, and finally revealing he is the son of Daemon Blackfyre, and thus a potential claimant for the Iron Throne.