History FanFic / ANorthernDragoness

* EgocentricallyReligious: ''Baelor'', crossed with TheFundamentalist and TooDumbToLive. He's ''obsessed'' with an interpretation of the Faith of the Seven that caters to his own chaste, SuicidalPacifism preferences while ignoring the resentment his decisions generate among his family and lords. He thinks he can pray away all the ills of the kingdom, locks his sisters in confinement (ignoring that two of the three utterly ''hate'' the arrangement, that Targaryen princesses could be key to the dynasty's survival and that the main book of the Faith indicates women should have families) and desperately wants to avoid war (more out of cowardice than anything else), even to the point of refusing to appoint Masters of Law and Whispers (feeling the very fact he needs either means the Faith doesn't have all the answers) and paying exorbitant amounts of cash to Dorne and beg forgiveness for entirely warranted attacks while ignoring colossal breaches of SacredHospitality (even though it's one of the main tenets of the Faith). He's also willing to spend obscene amounts of money in charity and a magnificent Sept, but that's seen as a point in his favor by the smallfolk.

* FairytaleMotifs: At the beginning, Daera is a GirlInTheTower and the man who imprisioned her is a Targaryen, whose AnimalMotifs is a dragon. However the method of rescueing her is by marriage rather than dragon slaying.

* HateSink: Dorne is essentially this for all of Westeros. Not for resisting Daeron's conquest, but for how they totally ignored each and every rule and ancient custom to do so - including [[SacredHospitality guest right]].

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Cregan is even harsher on the people who turned on Aegon II than in canon; what seemed like one of his softer moments, his marriage to Black Aly, turns out to have been a means to drain House Blackwood of resources in the face of the oncoming winter.

* CurbStompBattle: Aemon, the Dragonknight, is one of the best swordsmen in the realm. Cregan Stark defeats him in less than a minute.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The smallfolk, however, love Baelor, due to his multiple acts of charity.

* TheArcher: Daena is a very good archer, and would love to be in the range if it were not for her brother-husband keeping her confined. Her uncle Viserys gifts her a dragonbone bow during the wedding.

--->''Lord Cregan Stark:''' Baelor and his promised peace have done nothing more than delay the inevitable. There will be justice for all that the Dornish have done against these lands, I promise you that, good-daughter. When it does, they will learn that ours is a fury that has grown strong, and that although we hold our honor highest of all, it is for that honor, for duty and for family that we strike against them. When all is over and done, they will look to their lands, drowned in fire and blood, and know that the Seven Kingdoms has roared and that winter has come.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Daena gives one to Baelor when he presses one time too many on her BerserkButton, so hard that her hand stings and he is sent flying against one of the Kingsguard.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The smallfolk love Baelor, due to his multiple acts of charity.

** HundredPercentAdorationRating: The smallfolk, however, love Baelor, due to his multiple acts of charity.

To her surprise, these hopes are answered: Lord Cregan Stark, Warden of the North and probably one of the most powerful men in Westeros, has heard of Baelor's vows, and has traveled south with his heir Jonnel to fulfill the Pact of Ice and Fire, which promised a Targaryen princess to House Stark. And, though King Baelor is reluctant to marry one of his sisters to the heir of House Stark, Lord Cregan will not be denied his price - and for Daena, the Starks could not have come soon enough.

* BadassBoast: Lord Cregan is going to fight against Aemon the Dragonknight just with his fighting gloves and [[{{BFS}} Ice]]. When Hand of the King Viserys Targaryen asks if they should ask for more armor or a shield, Lord Cregan replies that Aemon is armored enough for their fight.

--> '''Lord Cregan Stark:''' Baelor and his promised peace have done nothing more than delay the inevitable. There will be justice for all that the Dornish have done against these lands, I promise you that, good-daughter. When it does, they will learn that ours is a fury that has grown strong, and that although we hold our honor highest of all, it is for that honor, for duty and for family that we strike against them. When all is over and done, they will look to their lands, drowned in fire and blood, and know that the Seven Kingdoms has roared and that winter has come.

* ConspicuousConsumption: To Viserys' horror, the two and a half million gold dragons Baelor wants to spend on his Great Sept. It's twice what Aegon the Conqueror spent on the original Sept of Remembrance, which was fortified and had barracks for the Faith Militant, and that's the figure he arrived at ''after'' Lord Manderly convinced him to tone down his original plans - ''[[RuleOfSeven 7,777,777]]'' gold dragons - enough, in Aegon's estimation, to build an entirely new King's Landing in the shape of a seven-pointed star with streets of marble and running water for every house. Most of it's intended to go into salaries and charity, but the expense of the sept is exacerbated by the high-end materials he wants, transport expenditures, and the highly-ritualized construction conditions he wants to impose.

* DeathByChildbirth: Jonnel's first wife, Robyn, died after suffering her third miscarriage.

* ForWantOfANail: Daena Targaryen marries Jonnel Stark before the Maidenvault is even built. With the eventual birth of Daemon (the son of Daena with her cousin Aegon) avoided, the defining events of the next century, the Blackfyre Rebellions, will be completely averted.

*** WordOfGod is that [[spoiler:as Aemon was sent to Lys on a mission to rescue a Westerosi noblewoman that had been captured and taken there as a slave, Naerys' melancholy worsened enough that she died instead of living.]]
* FreudianThreat: When Aegon starts to get a bit too irritating with his "japes", Viserys threatens to send him to Lys - after being castrated.

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:After Naerys' and Aelyx's deaths, Aegon remains awake for days while taking care of his daugther Rhaenys.]]

* TooSoon: A large part of why Jonnel and Daena's marriage gets off to such a rocky start: It's been only ''six months'' since Jonnel's first wife died (worse, she died due to blood poisoning from a miscarriage), and he is very definitely ''not'' recovered yet.

* TrademarkFavoriteDrink: Aegon prefers wine (Arbor Gold, to be exact), though Aemon vouches for the variety of ale.

* DrinkOrder: Aegon prefers wine (Arbor Gold, to be exact), though Aemon vouches for the variety of ale.

* BadassGrandpa: Lord Cregan Stark. Old enough to be a grandfather - he could have actually been - and capable of defeating [[TheAce Aemon the Dragonknight]] in a duel [[CurbStompBattle that only lasts seconds]].