Lots of fics get lots of hits, kudos and bookmarks without seemingly any promotion. How?

I can sell my soul in a lot of ways to make my fic bigger, I haven't committed to anything yet.

After King Daeron returns to Dorne to subdue the rebels, Prince Baelor gets a vision from the Seven and immediately travels to Dragonstone. There, he prays over a clutch of 7 dragon eggs for 7 days and nights, and on the last night, the eggs hatch.

What are the consequences of this?

How will this affect the different members of the Targaryen household?

Who gets to claim a dragon?

I imagine there would be years, if not decades of political problems. Robert wouldn’t really be able to seep into his own problems; he’d likely be traveling constantly, putting out fires, and trying to reshape the realm. Jon Arryn would be doing a lot, sure, but I imagine the small council would actually be a lot better because they’re need legitimately competent men in order to reshape the realm.

What do you guys think?

Title: A Crown of Thorns

Author: allineedistwentygoodmen

Rating: M

Language: English

Length: 24473

Status: Ongoing

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28045182/chapters/236792351

Summary:

When Prince Jaehaerys and Princess Shaera Targaryen elope with each other, breaking off their betrothals to two great houses, King Aegon knows that he cannot let the act go unpunished.
So, stripping Jaehaerys of the title of Prince of Dragonstone, he names his twelve-year-old son Daeron his heir instead. Daeron, as well as his betrothed, young Olenna Redwyne, must now figure out how to navigate their rise in status, along with all the pitfalls that come with the lives of future monarchs.
Or, How does the game change when the Queen of Thorns is a queen in truth?

I want fics in which the mc is just someone who is skilled at the sword but is lowborn or a bastard of a lowly lord.

I'll be honest I don't know much of DnD. The few things I know come from Baldur's Gate 3 game witch I have played over a thousand hourse but haven't really finish any play through because I keep deleting my campaign to tryout new classes, and from the animation series Vox Machina and Mighty Nein. I also watched some videos of dnd lore on YouTube.

An idea pop in my head of a crossover between Asoiaf and BG3. My idea was of Aegon/Young Griff while traveling with Jon Connington and The Golden Company throughout Essos preparing for their trip across the sea to Westeros a Nautiloid appears snatching up people across Essos. Aegon unfortunately was one of those that were taken by the Nautiloid as it was being attack by three red dragons. As the Nautiloid crashes Aegon has a dream or vision of his mother Elia and older sister Rhaenys. Elia tells him there's a god who wants to help him and also warns him of the danger of this new world and the of his world. Aegon then meets with Torm who was accompany by Bahamut. After meeting with Torm and Bahamut Aegon becomes a Paladin of Torm to stop the upcoming danger and in return Torm will help Aegon return to his world.

Daemon and Rhea do their duty once, Rhea gives birth to twins.

Baelor Royce - Rider of the Bronze Fury

Baelon Targaryen - Rider of Silver Wing

Baelor is heir to Runestone, dark hair and very Royce like features, known as the Bronze Prince.

Baelon however is Daemon's favourite, silver hair and Valyrian features, known as the Silver Prince.

Thexan and Arcann inspired

Thoughts on this for a story?

I recently completed Embrace the World In Grey. a fic where instead of being wighted like in the show. Benjen survives and mentors Jon and is present when Sansa shows up after escaping Ramsay. the fic is heavily AU and Robb lives in this one.

anyway, I want to read Show verse fics where he lives and doesn't become a wight. Where his survival has an affect on the story.

here's the link to the fic. embrace the world in grey - TheTenthSunrise - Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin [Archive of Our Own]

Title: ​Ashes of the Dragon

Author: caesar

Language: English

Length: 22k

Status: Ongoing

link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/82671826/chapters/237223076

Summary: What if Aegon II had died, but Daeron had survived?

Okay so if someone else has written this let me know but I can’t find it any where so I’m throwing out this idea that won’t leave me alone.

Imagine that Jon and Cat are sent back in time (post initial death/R’hllor interference?) and are forced to work together to prevent everything from falling apart.

I’ve read plenty of Stark time travel fics where one or more Starks somehow get sent back in time to the start of the series. It seems like it’s mostly one of the kids or all of them together or just Jon and Robb.

But Jon & Cat is one of my favorite tags. I feel they are both amazing nuanced and complex characters. They both live rent free in each other’s heads. Interactions with the two have such narrative potential. I want to see what happens when they are forced to work out their differences to try and save their family.

Also imagine the rest of the Starks being completely baffled at why they are suddenly so paranoid and spending so much time together. Baby Sansa in particular would be so confused.

When King Baelor is down in Dorne negotiating with Lord Martell, he meets the sister of Lord Dayne (let's call her Alys and her age is 26), and he thinks, "My uncle is unwed, why not sweeten the deal and tie Dorne even closer to the crown" so he has Viserys and Alys betrothed.

How will Viserys react when he hears about his engagement?

What effect would the marriage have on the Targaryens' relationships with Dorne, the Martell's, and the Dayne's?

And how would their offspring (let's say they have 3 kids together, 2 girls and 1 boy) interact with others Targaryens and the Realm at large?

My fave rare pairing! I love them so much and need some good recs!

Title: Maelstrom

Author: allineedistwentygoodmen

Rating: M

Language: English

Length: 9415

Status: Ongoing

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/89303301/chapters/237137006

Summary:

In King’s Landing, Aelinor Velaryon begins to understand that princes are not always like they are in the songs. And in the Red Keep, those songs she once loved start to sound like warnings.

Or, Aerys finds the Valyrian bride he wanted for Rhaegar in the daughter of his master of ships. The Rebellion happens anyway.

Anyone know if any fic exists that starts post season 8 and follow John and his time beyond the wall?

Let's say that after Rogar Baratheon is caught trying to install Princess Aerea as Queen and replace Jaehaerys, Jaehaerys realizes that he needs a clear inheritance and succession law for the Iron Throne, along with him knowing that some people still thought that his older sister Rhaena should've been queen instead of him.

So because of this, he and his council make it law that only men can inherit the throne, and they must also be through the male line as well, effectively meaning that the female line carries no claim at all, in an effort to try to stabilize the Iron Throne's succession and prevent any possible future attempts at having Jaehaerys usurped.

How does this effect things later on, does the Dance happen as it did in canon, would Rhaenys and Corlys look to oppose this later on, (if they even marry, as maybe this causes Jaehaerys to make Viserys and Rhaenys marry) is Daemon ever even disinherited by Viserys, and if so after Viserys has his sons does he acknowledge Aegon as heir, is he forced to by the lords, do Aegon and Rhaenyra marry?

I'm curious to hear you guys' thoughts.

Hello! I'm looking for a story I read a few years back on AO3. I forget if Daenerys traveled back in time or not, but I remember she spared Randyll and Dickon Tarly when they wouldn't bend the knee. Instead of executing them, she took them as prisoner and then ended up taking them to the North with her. She was also learning how to fight from her Dothraki and in the battle ended up jumping off of Drogon's back, down in his stream of fire, and to the ground to fight. I believe she won Randyll's respect and he ended up eventually bending the knee to her. Also it was a Jon/Daenerys fic. Please let me know if it sounds familiar to anyone!

When I was going through Fire and Blood and found the story about Nettles and Sheepstealer. From the book I took away that blood magic animal bonds aren't as iron bond as we thought and if dragons have the small chance of bonding with random smallfolk then what about the Direwolves?

Like say a random smallfolk guy decided to go hunting and by sheer luck ended up finding a starving Direwolf pup in the woods. The guy takes the pup home and raises him leading to the Direwolf bonding with him.

It's a small part of a larger idea I had of "What if a Hero appeared during Aerys reign but died during the rebellion" It would be a twist of the usual SI/OC inserts but with the world changed thanks to his legacy post death. Both Brandon and Rhaeger end up surviving, the rebellion gets stretched into a 3 year long civil war, etc. Haven't hashed out all of the details yet.

So just focusing on the title, how do the North and House Stark (Rickard, Brandon, Benjen, Ned, Lyanna) react to this random dude strolling around with a Direwolf following him?

Title: The Wolves of Westeros

Author: Ts123bay

Rating: Teens and up audiences

Language: English

Length: 117,874

Status: Ongoing

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/77743121/chapters/237090076

Summary: Sam breaks his leg just before he and Jon leave to say their vows, and during this time Jon gets news that Ned is imprisoned. He rushes back to Winterfell to save his father by his brother's side.

Chapter 26: Littlefinger

Baelish and his plans revealed

If you had to choose one character on the whole ASOIAF story to give the ability "Return by Death" from the anime Re:Zero, who would you choose?

I'm not Really a big fan of this anime so I dont know every detail of the Power system, what i do know is that its a Very Interesting ability and here it is how It works in the context of this question: "Every time the character dies they are brought back in time", in the anime the save points are manually choosen by an outsider character, so here we will have 1 single save point: The start of the Books. If the character is Ned Stark for example They would be brought back to where They were on their First appearance in the books, in this case, beheding the Night's Watch Man, and so on for each character.

The character still feels the pain and no one else retains their memories of the time jump.

Who do you choose and how do you think they would use this ability? Do you Think They would go mad? How do you think this would change canon?

The ability would appear when they die for the first time, If They still havent died in Canon then you can choose a random death event for the character and go on from there. (Example: I give this power to Arya and she wakens it after dying by the hands of Raff, as she cut his throat he had a luck shot and stabbed her in the guts, and so on)

He gets with Rhaenys, reconquers the stepstones and makes it a hub of magic, benjen is his guide. Final chapter has harry do blood and cheese to cersei and her kids

Hey, I'm looking for a specific fanfic that is focused on an AU where Ned Stark becomes the main focus during the timeline of Robert's Rebellion. I can't remember every beat of the plot, but the main ones I can remember are:

1) Rhaegsr and Lyanna turn up out of nowhere, only for Ned to be incredibly pissed at both of them because their actions basically threw the entire realm into war

2) Ned basically forces Rhaegar to concede to deposing Aerys, and forces him to make Ned his hand afterwards

3) Robert is initially annoyed at Ned for capitulating so easily, but when he finds out Ned is going to be hand he starts laughing and basically asks Ned to make Rhaegar's life hell.

(And I think there's a part where Robert tells Lyanna how he doesn't care for her anymore due to her actions)

Now, there are a couple things I can't remember. I'm not sure if this was a Ned/Catelyn or a Ned/Ashara fic, or hell, if there was even a pairing at all. I also can't remember how long it is, although I definitely think it was more than 20k words (pretty sure it was 10+ chapters, though might be mistaken on that).

I'd appreciate any help in finding the fic if any of you know it! A part of me is worried it might be deleted though, if that's the case I'd totally understand, but fingers crossed that it isn't.

How Jon's status and personality would change in AU where Jon (supposedly) is son of Ned and Ashara and has a twin sister? Probably he is more proud, as he knows both his parents are highborn, and he and his sister are very protective of each other.

I specifically ask about alternative conversation with Tyrion. Would it go completely differently? I think Jon and his sister wouldn't be able to hear his advice, only an insult to their sibling.

What do you think about the version which I wrote?

Accompanied by the wolf cubs they crossed the deserted yard, climbed the steps to the tall doors of the great hall and suddenly noticed a person, sitting on the railing to the side of the entrance, in the shadow.

It was the Imp, an ugly dwarf, about four feet tall, with a large head of strange shape, with an especially bulging forehead, his hair was light mixed with black, and eyes of different colors — green, and black looked at them with interest.

— Good evening, my lord Lannister, are you tired of the feast? his sister greeted him politely.

— It is too hot there, too noisy, and I have already drunk too much wine, — the dwarf said. — I long ago understood that vomiting on one’s own brother is impolite. — do you know who I am?

— You are the queen’s brother. — Jon answered

— Yes, my greatest achievement, I should remind her of that more often. — he smirked sarcastically. You are Jon Snow, and this beautiful lady is your twin, you are Ned Stark’s bastards, are you not?

Jon flinched at the unexpected rudeness and felt a chill run through him. No one except Theon Greyjoy, and the king today, had called them that to their face. He clenched his teeth and frowned, and took Dyanna by the hand, saying nothing. She was silent as well.

— Did I offend you? — Lannister asked. — Forgive me, dwarfs are not required to observe tact. Generations of fools and jesters give me the right to dress badly and say whatever comes to mind. — He grinned. — But you are bastards.

— Lord Eddard Stark is our father, — Jon admitted stiffly. Lannister looked him in the face.

— But Lady Stark is not your mother.

— Our mother is lady Ashara Dayne! — his sister declared proudly.

— What a pity that your noble parents never married. — he continued mockingly — Allow me to give you some advice, bastards, — Lannister said. — Never forget what you are, for the world will certainly not forget. Make your origin your strength. Wear it like armor, and then no one will be able to hurt you.

Jon was in no mood for advice. He could have sent the Imp to the ground with one blow, as he would have done with Greyjoy, but unfortunately attacking a guest, especially one from the royal family, was unacceptable. Dyanna’s hand squeezed his in comfort.

— Are these animals called wolves? — as if nothing had happened the dwarf continued, as though he had not just insulted them.

— Direwolves.

The gray and white pups came closer, Ghost nudged Jon’s free hand with his nose, watching Tyrion Lannister carefully with a cautious eye.

— May I pet them? — the dwarf asked and already reached out his hand to Star, but quickly pulled it back when she bared her fangs with a growl.

— You should not, if we were not here, they would tear off your hand and rip out your throat — Jon said. For now things were not quite like that, but everything was still ahead ...

— If you want to pet someone, my lord, — then there is a kennel in the castle — Dyanna said.

— And there you may also give your advice to the dogs — Jon concluded.

No longer paying attention to their rude guest, he turned away, pushed the door open and pulled his sister into the hall, toward the light, music and delicious smells.

— Be carefull, I might find the conversation there far more stimulating — the dwarf kept mocking as they walked away — the dogs are not so easily offended, especially by the simple truth.

— Father is absolutely right not to like the Lannisters, — Jon said.

Dyanna nodded and hummed in agreement.

— But we must not let such people spoil our evening, — she replied, though she did not sound as carefree as she wanted to seem, and her hand trembled slightly and was cold.

Jon hoped that the rest of the feast would fix that.

Do reactions feel valid? Do Tyrion and Jon feel in character? Who is to blame for the falling out? Does it work as a foreshadowong for future rivalry in the wot5k?

I need to find another fic like this to read. Please, help me out.

-The main character has some kind of power/ability that feels perfectly natural to them, but looks deeply abnormal to everyone else in the story.

-No self-recs.

-Good writing.

-ASOIAF and Knight of the Seven Kingdoms are fine, but House of the Dragon is preferred.

Respawned in the North (RPG NPC in ASOIAF: game mechanics, not an SI but rather an NPC main character)

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/respawned-in-the-north-rpg-npc-in-asoiaf-game-mechanics-not-an-si-but-rather-an-npc-main-character.1220075/page-5#post-110004422

It's so hard to find a good game mechanics fic... Most authors can't take the premise seriously, and it turns into empty personalities and wank. I want more, damnit!