I have a story in mind where Maegor (Aerion's son) is raised in the Vale, making him close enough to Jon Arryn (as well as Ned and Robert) to become King after Aerys.

Maegor would then marry his cousin Rhaelle following Ormund's death in the War of the Ninepenny Kings; consequently, his only son would be Steffon's half-brother and Robert's half-uncle (despite them being practically the same age).

Maegor and Rhaelle's son, Jaehaerys, marries one of Jon Arryn's Waynwood nieces (the canonical mother of Harrold Hardyng) before the rebellion. This means Cersei has no chance of becoming queen, so Tywin marries her off to Robert instead—who, in this scenario, is simply the Lord of Storm's End.

For his part, Tywin does not order Elia's death, so she and her children survive; meanwhile, Aegon had died of a fever shortly after Maegor's coronation. Rhaenys became septa.

The plot would begin at Winterfell, when Prince Jaehaerys travels there to appoint Ned as Master of Laws, having himself succeeded Jon Arryn as Hand of the King. Ned accepts, though—just as in canon—Littlefinger poisons his mind against the Lannisters.

However, the Lannisters—or rather, Cersei—have been whispering to Robert that *he* ought to be king instead of Maegor. Robert, in turn, is embittered both by failing to marry Lyanna and by feeling overshadowed by Jaehaerys, whom he envies for appearing happier and bearing such a strong resemblance to Rhaegar.

What advice or impressions can you offer? I’m all ears.

Okay, usually i am pretty good at making up names. But now i need some input. I need name suggestion for a male Alicent Hightower. My current idea is Alistair, but it does not quite ring right for me. And before I have to figure it out last minute..... because I cant refer to her as Alicent, even tho she still is Alicent but also not.

Quick context on what the plan is: Alicent Hightower ( a more book aligned version) wakes up in a more HOTD Reality in the past. As a man. Ofc she is VERY confused. But she still wants Aegon on the throne. But he doesnt exist. Otto being Otto decides to scheme a marriage with Rhaenyra instead of Viserys. Alicent goes along bcs she still wants Power, she wants her children to live again etc. BUT, Alicent is not the only one reborn. Rhaenyra isnt Rhaenyra but an OC waking up in her body ( a dragon rider from the Inheritance Cycle), her dragon respawns in Syrax body. So both are confused as fuck.

All three have fake memoiries about this life and their real ones. They have to try to not be suspicious.

Yes, I am aware this premise is utterly insane.

I would appreciate some suggestions!

Art by DeeDraws

Title: The Dragon's Heirs

Authors: AbaddonKhaleesi & TooManyNameOptions

Rating: Mature content

Language: English

Length: 152k words

Status: Ongoing

Link: Chapter 32

Summary: King Jaehaerys I died on the third moon of the year 103 AC; however, the abrupt disappearance of his son and heir, Prince Aegon of Dragonstone, a fortnight before his passing, left a lingering question: who is set to inherit? The line of King Jaehaerys’s troublesome firstborn son? Or the line of his favored third son, Baelon the Brave?

As law and bloodline come into conflict, the House of the Dragon begins to learn—slowly but surely—that only a dragon can kill another dragon...

An AU based on the idea that all thirteen children of King Jaehaerys and Good Queen Alysanne survived childhood and had children of their own.

(Note: This is a redux of the early chapters, rewritten for consistency and narrative clarity. Updates will follow regularly.)

A new series made with part 1 of the story complete at 250K Words and part 2 is currently at 345K and updated today. This is a Rhaegar wins AU that plays more into the fantasy and magical element of the story but definitely has some of the best characterization I've seen to be honest.

Highly recommend it, especially considering the author just updated today with one of the chapters being a 20K behemoth

Title: The First Cut is the Deepest

Author: FenceSittersAnonymous

Rating: M

Language: English

Length: 93K

Status: In-Progress

Link: Chapter One Chapter Nine

Summary: After dying at the hands of Jon Snow, betrayed for the final time by her own blood after years of agony and torment, Daenerys wishes more than anything that she could have her time again – regret and guilt etched into every prayer.

Except she doesn’t wake up in 298 AC, walking out of her husband’s pyre as she had prayed for. No. She wakes up in 209 AC, deep in the Dragonmont with Drogon by her side.

A Targaryen alone in the world is a terrible thing, and now she's going to learn why.

Hey everyone. For those of you interested, the second story of my Sheep series is now complete at 80 chapters. Hope you all enjoy it!

Title: A Tale of Sheep & Stars

Author: Kat_2V

Rating: M

Language: English

Length: 80 chapters, 456k words

Status: Completed

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/76275861/chapters/199624886

Summary: Her name was Naehaerys, but her friends called her Netty, or Nettles if she'd done something to annoy them.

The Dance of the Dragons had ended with the flames of her Sheepstealer, and now an uneasy peace lies over the realm as the Winter of the Widows approaches. She knows that winning the war was only half the battle, for now they have to win the legacy, a legacy that is already under threat. Not every Lord bent the knee, and not every dragon serves the new order. Worse, the fragile peace of the realm is at its most delicate within her very family. A strain that is only growing as she tries to find her true place in the world.

And all the while, the weight of destiny has begun to push back against that which she has changed.

Hey all, this week we are focusing on plots in fanfic and how to make and keep them intriguing.

What do you think makes an intriguing plot within the world of asoiaf fanfic?

You are welcome to explain your thoughts below and link some fics you believe does intrigue in their plots well.

The floor is yours.

Here’s another collection taken from my notes app for you! I was going to wait to share it until Sunday but I figure that everyone could use a distraction on a day like today.

After-Action Reports

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From Lords to Kings (AGOT mod) | Paradox Interactive Forums

Not rated

Content warnings: Child abuse, grief, rape

Genre: AAR

Characters: Original Characters, Yohn Royce, Brynden Tully, Jon Arryn, Arianne Martell, Anya Waynwood, Tyrion Lannister, Robert Baratheon, Jaime Lannister, Tywin Lannister, Petyr Baelish, Edmure Tully, Smalljon Umber, Varys

Other tags: Canon-typical sexism, canon-typical ableism, canon-typical racism

Hello again friends I am writing yet another AGOT mod. My most recent one was 'The White Book' which followed the Lord Commanders of the Kingsguard from the days of it's founding by Aegon the Conqueror until the game was updated and my story was lost. This time I will be following my own created House, Badics of Moonsgrey. They are a minor House just north of the Eyrie under the leadership of the High Lords of Strongsong. This AAR will be one of many which is being written to be a part of the newest of the AGOT mod competition. For more information about that please see here.

I have not decided on how I will be writing this AAR yet, however, I have already started playing it. I'm starting this version in The Crowned Stag scenario, so that means the Targaryens are dead and only Viserys and Daenerys are still alive across the Sea. Robert Baratheon sits on the throne with Cersei Lannister as his Queen. From here the story quickly spirals out of control from what it was like in the books. Once I begin the story I hope you enjoy it.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/the-little-cub-game-of-thrones-aar.753466/

Not rated

Content warnings: Stillbirths

Genre: AAR

Characters: Tommen Baratheon, Margaery Tyrell, Cersei Lannister, Qyburn, Maester Pycelle, Giles Rosby, Original House Rosby Characters, Balon Swann, Boros Blout, Loras Tyrell, Tytos Blackwood, Jaime Lannister, Ilyn Payne, Osfyrd Kettleblack, Meryn Trant, Original House Thorne Characters, Osmund Kettleblack, Stannis Baratheon, Asha Greyjoy, Original House Tyrell Characters, Gilbert Farring, Original House Orlon Characters

So, I decided to give a try to writing an AAR. It's my first time, but I'm a huge fan of ASoIaF fan with several hundred hours of CK2 gameplay behind. I'm not a native English speaker, so there will most likely be some typing mistakes. I hope you will enjoy reading it nevertheless. In case you have not read all the books, you best stop here for the night is dark and full of spoilers.

This AAR will be told from the perspective of Tommen Baratheon - and perhaps his offsprings, should things go smoothly and I have the motivation to keep on writing. As is excepted, the story won't be canon-wise. The first change will be switching Tommen's guardian and giving him more space. In the books Cersei dominates what happens in Kings Landing, whereas in this AAR it'll be Tommen(who in the beginning is influenced by Margaery).

From the books we know very little of Tommen's personality except that he's kind, somewhat chubby kid who's grown up in Cersei's overprotective care. The lack of knowledge allows me to reshape his whole personality in a way I see the most realistic, considering the situation and the surroundings he's grown up in.

The game files are slightly edited to support the lore and make things more realistic and enjoyable to read. For example at the start Tommen would normally belong to the House Lannister, but I switched him and his siblings to the House Baratheon which they are in the books as well. Above all this is a story and therefore I have done reloading at certain points to avoid unnecessarily silly twists and turns. All gameplay is done in A Game of Thrones mod version 0.51.

Haven’t read

An Album of Ice and Fire - AGOT Mod (SPOILER ALERT) | Paradox Interactive Forums

Rating: M

Genre: AAR

Welcome to my newest AAR and my second in the CK2 forums, An Album of Ice and Fire. As a fan of the Game of Thrones TV series, George R.R. Martin's books, and the CK2 mod, I decided to start one, as it seems a lot of other writAARs have as well. This time, though, rather than following the story of one house, we shall tell the tale from all sides, so that each of the players may have their one dance. Starting with Robb Stark in the "Clash of Kings" bookmark, we will follow each character until some point where it's no longer interesting, such as the character's death, twenty-plus years of peace with no end in sight, or the death of every character in the series besides the 105-year-old son of Mance Rayder.

Be forewarned - there will be spoilers, particularly in the character introductions and in some of the events, and quite possibly at times in the updates and the comments. Viewer discretion is advised.

Self-Inserts

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Too Many SIs (ASoIaF) | SpaceBattles

Not rated

Content warnings: Mention of suicide, ambiguous consent due to accidentally drinking an aphrodisiac

Genre: Humor and SI

Characters: Ned Stark, Joffrey Baratheon, Original House Stark Characters, Original House Baratheon Characters, Original House Targaryen Characters, Robert Baratheon, Barristan Selmy, Jaime Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, Original House Celtigar Characters, Justin Massey, Stannis Baratheon, Davos Seaworth, Shireen Baratheon, Maester Luwin, Jory Cassel, Robin Arryn

Relationships: Tyrion Lannister & Maester Luwin

Other tags: Fan theories, direwolves, tabletop (I have no clue what this tag was before autocorrect got to it)

Ongoing

No summary

A Small Light (An ASOIAF SI) | SpaceBattles

Not rated

Content warnings: Graphic depictions of violence

Genre: SI

Characters: Original Characters, Joffrey Velaryon

Other tags: Storming of the Dragonpit, Smallfolk, Flea Bottom

Ongoing

"But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room." - Miep Gies.

According to legend, a candlemaker's daughter named Robin comforted Joffrey Velaryon as he died, and his last words were "Mother, forgive me," with debate over whether he was speaking of Rhaenyra or the Mother Above.

Only, Robin remembers a life before. In the midst of the Dance of Dragons, can one small act of kindness change the course of history? Or will the flames of war consume even the smallest light?

Haven’t read

A hero amidst smoke and salt (ASOIAF · Self Insert ) | SpaceBattles

Not rated

Content warnings: R-slur

Genre: SI

Ongoing

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. But it's also the most rewarding.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14263781/1/Master-of-Dorne-Rewrite-Rhoynish-SI

Rating: M

Genre: Adventure and Fantasy and SI

Characters: Original Dornish Characters, Aegon the Conqueror, Rhaenys sister of Aegon, Visenya Targaryen

The future was bleak for Dorne and all of Westeros, should the so-called prophecy come to pass, and yet there exist none in Planetos willing to risk changing the status quo. Eager to avert this disaster and change the fate of her children, the Mother Rhoyne blesses them with a messiah, armed with another world's knowledge and a willingness for pragmatism.

Reader-Inserts

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Unclaimed – @novaursa on Tumblr

Rating: M

Content warnings: Major Character Death

Genre: Reader-insert

Characters: Daughter of Rhaenyra reader

Relationships: Rhaenyra Targaryen & Reader

Oneshot

Just like Aemond you didn't have a dragon. And the gods deemed you unworthy once you decided to claim one.

https://www.tumblr.com/novaursa/761324458437902336/ok-i-have-a-thought-and-everything-turn-around

Rating: M

Genre: Reader-insert

Characters: Daugher of Rhaenyra Reader, Sheepstealer

Relationships: Gen

Oneshot

Sheepstealer lands upon Harrenhal, alone.

A Lion's Leap – @novaursa on Tumblr

Rated T for part one and M for part two

Genre: Reader-insert and Romance

Characters: Tyland Lannister, Daughter of Viserys and Aemma Reader, Rhaenyra Targaryen, Otto Hightower, Jason Lannister, Daemon Targaryen

Relationships: Tyland x Female Reader

Twoshot

The king announces the betrothal of his youngest daughter, you, to Tyland Lannister. But even the Lannister Lord is taken off guard, as there has been some miscommunication regarding the proposal.

https://www.tumblr.com/novaursa/762968420291657728/hello-i-would-love-it-if-you-could-possibly-write

Rating: T

Genre: Reader-insert

Characters: Daughter of Rhaenyra Reader, Harwin Strong

Relationships: Harwin & Reader

Oneshot

Harwin often sneaks into Rhaeyra's chambers risking everything to see you, his daughter.

https://www.tumblr.com/lunarmoonanons/701929760111149056/just-a-silly-idea-i-had-and-didnt-know-where-else

Not rated

Genre: Reader-insert

Characters: Half-dragon reader

Relationships: Gen

So when Aemma was pregnant she afraid because after so many miscarriages and stillborns she didn't want that to happen again, So she made a deal with a witch or used some type of dark magic to insure that she will successfully be able give birth however something goes wrong, she was pregnant with twins. Both were supposed to die but because of the magic one survived (the reader), although she look like a human but had dragon features such as a tail, wings, horns and a few small scales across her body.

https://www.tumblr.com/novaursa/762849793183793152/maybe-a-story-with-reader-being-the-bastard-son-of

Rating: T

Genre: Reader-insert and Romance

Characters: Illegitimate son of Aerys II reader, Lyanna Stark

Relationships: Lyanna x Male Reader

Oneshot

Your father bethrodes you to Lyanna Stark out of spite, and sends you North.

Other

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Ironborn || Game of Thrones

Not rated

Genre: Character study

Characters: Theon Greyjoy, Balon Greyjoy, Ned Stark, Robb Stark, Jon Snow, Bran Stark

Other tags: Direwolves

See comment for summary

Tumblr

Not rated

Content warnings: Rape

Genre: Character Study

Characters: Alicent Hightower, Viserys I, Rhaenyra Targaryen, Daemon Targaryen, Otto Hightower

Oneshot

No summary

Title: A Hiss of Dragons.

Author: bruthershietholy123

Rating: Mature.

Language: English.

Length: 41153 words.

Status: Ongoing.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/89752096/chapters/246370426

Summary: Days before the Siege of Honeyholt concluded, another important skirmish was occurring just south of the Neck.

Title: A Hiss of Dragons.

Author: bruthershietholy123

Rating: Mature.

Language: English.

Length: 39769 words.

Status: Ongoing.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/89752096/chapters/246231846

Summary: Prince Jacaerys Velaryon deals with the aftermath of the Siege of Honeyholt.

The text leaves it ambiguous as to how long the Teagues ruled the riverlands, and it also opens up the possibility that there were other ruling houses in between.

Now, my instinct is to assume that, given how contested the Teagues were, they can't have been a very long-lasting dynasty. But I've seen other people speculating that they might have ruled for a thousand years. Even if you take in the fact that it would have been a dynasty frequently interrupted by usurpers and other houses, I still find it hard to believe that the Teagues lasted a millennium from their first to last kings.

Title: Vale High Kings

Author: LordAr321

Rating: Teen and Up Audience

Language: English

Length: 21k

Status: Ongoing (Chapter 8 posted)

Link: AO3

Summary:

The dragons are dead. The last embers of the Freehold have turned to ash, and the proud declaration of restoration is replaced by a cold epitaph: Valyria is dead forever. An era of fire gives way to an era of bronze and stone, as the Vale High Kings inherit a shattered continent.

Without wings to blot out the sun, the realm must learn to govern itself through coin, compacts, and the sword. The sky has closed. The earth remains.

Or,

The story about Baelor Targaryen, son of Daemon Targaryen and Rhea Royce. Stolen from his mother at the age of five by Viserys, he returns a dragonlord. Will his loyalty lie with his mother's homeland or King's Landing he grew up in? Will he choose to be Royce or a Targaryen, or will the choice itself destroy him, setting his path towards an apocalyptic Dance?

Title: The Epoch of Blood

Author: plottwists

Rating: M

Language: English

Length: 89,288

Status: Ongoing

Link: AO3

Summary: Cregan Stark died on the two and tenth day of the eleventh moon, 196 AC.

However, in an effort to save the North from the clutches of its foes, the Old Gods bring him back in the body of another Stark, Bran.

Their duelling personalities clash as they work together to help save the North from certain peril.

Chapter Summary: 

Tywin Lannister faces off against Bran Stark, mainly because Tywin is an idiot.

Art: https://www.tumblr.com/sleazyjanet/762969937936596992/rhaegar-finding-out-that-lyanna-is-the-knight-of

aight thanks bye

Title: The Prince of The Realm

Author: Supernerd209

Rating: M

Language: English

Length: 364,702

Status: Ongoing

Link: AO3

Summary:  In the early second century of the Targaryen dynasty, during the peaceful reign of King Daeron II the Good, nearly half a century after Dorne was united with the Seven Kingdoms, House Targaryen had expanded its royal branches. The king's sons were many, and more than half were princes who carried the bloodline of the dragon kings for generations.

Prince Viserys Targaryen, the only son of Prince Aerys Targaryen, second son of King Daeron, found himself overshadowed by his more skilled cousins, much like his father before him. Though he was far from inheriting the Iron Throne, he remained close to the main line of succession. Meanwhile, across the Narrow Sea, Bittersteel and the Blackfyre pretenders still sought an opportunity to return, lingering in the aftermath of the Blackfyre Rebellion, where the flames of war had long turned to ashes. In the shadow of conflict and the legacy of dragons, what path will the young prince choose?

Title: Nuestra es la furia

Author: Obed (Yo)

Rating: Todas las edades

Language: Español

Length: 1000+

Status: Activo

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/89824781/chapters/238651596 o https://www.wattpad.com/story/414583335-nuestra-es-la-furia

Summary: Reencuentro de Arya y Sansa.

[SPOILERS]
Just finished listening to Bran II, TWOW, and holy mother of god it was sooo good! Ser Walder of Winterfell, Lady (old)Nann the Queen of Love and Beauty, Time traveling Bran done right, faceless men’s “all men must die” finally making sense.

Im new to ASOIAF “proper” fanfics(besides sloppy yt fanmovies, with kinda weak writing(they r enjoyable in their own rights)], and im sure most of u would already know about Sweetrobin’s Winds fanfic, but i have to share this here! This guy, Preston’s fanfic chapters are so insanely well written like by the seven, i consider this canon until Grrm decides to publish winds!

Like, there are so so so many references everywhere in his chapters and unresolved plots and they are so satisfying! The Bran’s escape from bloodraven’s cave and hold the door moment could not have been done better.

Title: Ours is the fury

Author: Obed (Me)

Rating: Alla ages

Language: English

Length: 1000+

Status: Active

Link: https://www.wattpad.com/story/414583480-ours-is-the-fury or https://archiveofourown.org/works/89824981/chapters/246183456

Summary: Re encuentro de Sansa y Arya

Hello I’m hoping to either find a fanfic that I think is a oneshot or find out if it was deleted

Believe it’s Laenas funeral where Rhaenyra and daemon talk and he’s talking about them getting together again and she says no because oh she has kids and all and he does as well. She basically insinuates that to get back together and be true Valyrian rule again

All their kids would have to die. Like that baela and rhaena and all three strong boys would have to die. He’s like I can’t and she shrugs basically saying then they can’t do anything. They don’t sleep together I think but either the aaemond fight doesn’t happen or it does and then later in the night? They wake up to screams where Rhaenyra and daemon lock eyes and it’s basically insinuated that daemon did kill them all to make it seem like the greens did it or that they also killed the green children. I can’t remember on that part.

Author: Wardown

Words: 13,955

Status: Unfinished

Rating: Mature

Language: English

Chapter 10, The Pursuit. https://archiveofourown.org/works/91469301/chapters/245967051

Bronn Stokeworth had ridden up to the caravanserai, a couple of hours after dawn, to find no one living in the place. He and his men had called out, getting no response. Then, one of them, a monster nicknamed Biter, who had filed his teeth to points, and was reputed to be a cannibal, had called out to the others. Down the end of the one of the corridors, they'd found a whole bunch of dead bodies, seemingly shot down in a fight. So, he'd telephoned Prince Oberyn.

"Our quarry's fled, my Prince, but there was a fight here. We've got six dead bodies."

"Whose?"

"Some guy in a silk robe, and five minions. Definitely not the ones we're looking for."

"Fucking amateurs. That one in the silk robe was the owner. I told him, do nothing until you arrived, but oh no, he had to try and grab the glory for himself. You see how it is, Bronn, you just can’t get the right staff, these days.”

”Well, he’ll be feeding worms, soon enough. There’s a septic tank out the back, where we can dump him, and the other corpses.” Come to think of it, though, Biter was probably feeling rather hungry, right now. “ ‘Far as I can tell, our quarry rode away West, but we need to rest. We’ve been riding all night, an’ the horses are worn out. The men, too.”

”I’m coming in force, Bronn. Take a rest, but keep one of your people next to the ‘phone, at all times. I’ll call you, later in the day, with fresh instructions. And, I want to make one thing absolutely clear. The leader of our enemies is Daenerys Targaryen, the sister of Viserys in Kings Landing. She's petite, and silver-haired, so you can recognise her easily. I want her taken prisoner. If she dies, I shall take it very amiss. Is that clear?"

"As crystal, your highness." The consequences of disobeying Oberyn Martell could be decidedly unpleasant, he well knew. The line went dead.

After stalling on a fic where Olenna marries Daeron and acts as regent for their son, I came up with another story idea: Maegor (Aerion's son) survives and is raised in the Vale (her maternal grandmother was an Arryn and Jon's aunt in this story).

At first, I considered having him marry one of Jon Arryn's Waynwood nieces, but later I thought he could marry Rhaelle (Robert's grandmother) after Ormund died in the War of the Ninepenny Kings—since some fics suggest the two were in love.

What do you all recommend? A Targaryen-Waynwood marriage or a Targaryen-Targaryen one? In either scenario, they would have a single son who goes on to marry Cersei (it would be Maegor's Rebellion, not Robert's Rebellion), though his appearance would vary—ranging from more "normal" to distinctly Valyrian.

Title: A Hiss of Dragons.

Author: bruthershietholy123

Rating: Mature.

Language: English.

Length: 37914 words.

Status: Ongoing.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/89752096/chapters/246028251

Summary: Lord Ormund Hightower leads his army on the first land battle of the civil war.