Summary: Rhaegar Targaryen and his siblings have conquered the North with fire and blood. Lyanna Stark is left with no choice but to submit to save her family name– even if it means she must wed their bastard brother Arthur Dayne.
Rating: Mature
Archive Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence
Categories: F/M
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire – George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones
Relationships: Arthur Dayne/Lyanna Stark
Chapters: 16/?
“Lyanna was beautiful,” Arya said, startled. Everybody said so. It was not a thing that was ever said of Arya.
“She was,” Eddard Stark agreed, “beautiful, and willful, and dead before her time.”
Arthur/Lyanna, ESSOS AU (+ fic)
Lyanna did not love Braavos –she had grown up in the wild north, in Winterfell, riding in the Wolfswood, and out over wild moors. There were no trees, or open green spaces, and few people could afford to keep horses here –but
Arthur had been right. In a city, people can become lost as they cannot
in a small country town. x
ASOIAF meme: 2/4 songs or stories ♦ the Knight of the Laughing Tree
“There was one knight,” said Meera, “in the year of the false spring. The Knight of the Laughing Tree, they called him. He might have been a crannogman, that one.”
“Or not.” Jojen’s face was dappled with green shadows.[…]
“Oh.” Bran thought about the tale awhile. “That was a good story. But it should have been the three bad knights who hurt him, not their squires. Then the little crannogman could have killed them all. The part about the ransoms was stupid. And the mystery knight should win the tourney, defeating every challenger, and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.”
“She was,” said Meera, “but that’s a sadder story.”
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