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2* HarsherInHindsight: Jojen Reed actually fares better in this story than in ''Game of Thrones'', where he was given a DeathByAdaptation before he even got into the cave.
3** Some of the ending points, such as [[spoiler: Dany becoming queen or Rickon dying in a battle]] can be a bit awkward when we've gotten some of the notes where Series/GameOfThrones ended up going.
4* HilariousInHindsight: Some of the twists and turns in this story - such as [[spoiler: Dany incinerating Randyll Tarly]], [[spoiler: Littlefinger dying while begging a Stark woman for mercy]], or [[spoiler: Sansa becoming Queen]] in the north, - have turned out to be ''ludicrously'' prescient in light of the end of ''Series/GameOfThrones.''
5* ShockingMoments:
6** In chapter 99,[[spoiler: Ser Robert the Strong has Robb Stark's head!]]
7** Or how about chapter 97, wherein [[spoiler: Aegon is revealed as a Blackfyre pretender, Jon Connington and Varys die, and two stone dragons are brought to life?]] Or if that's not doing it for you, maybe [[spoiler: Cersei trying to destroy King's Landing with wildfire, Jaime killing her, and dragons advancing on the city]] in chapter 101 will. This fic arguably has a higher HSQ than ''[[Literature/AStormOfSwords A Storm of Swords]]''.
8* TheWoobie: Many, many examples, but Edmure Tully and Jeyne Westerling easily stand out as the biggest ones. Edmure for [[spoiler: having his plans botched of getting Jeyne to safety by Addam Marbrand, who sends a raven to Cersei who then promptly executes his lady wife and unborn child, destroying any leverage the Lannisters may have held on him]], and Jeyne for [[spoiler: her guilt over getting the man she loved killed by treachery, and then forced to abandon everything she knew and escape out of Riverrun with the Blackfish. Her family, along with Roslin, is completely wiped out because of her actions, leaving absolutely nothing else for her but the heir of the North growing inside her. And when she finally gives birth, the northern lords who had generally treated her well with hospitality soundly reject her after seeing that her son was born crippled because of the contraceptives she had unknowingly used.]]

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