History ASongOfIceAndFire / TropesJToR

** Sharra Arryn also fits as well. Despite fortifying her land defenses, it didn't matter when Visenya Targaryen simply flew over them all and landed at the Eyrie. [[She rushed out to find her son sitting on Visenya's knee asking for a ride. The two Queens simply exchanged pleasantries and Sharra surrendered then.]]

%%** Ned Stark and Catelyn Tully.
%%** Khal Drogo and Daenerys.

** [[PuppyLove Myrcella Baratheon and Trystane Martell.]]

** Hints we get: The Crown loans money from Iron Bank of Braavos. The Crown loans money to lords of the realm or pays debt to Lannisters, at interest (or just spends it on such things as tourneys, most of which magically ends up in Littlefinger's pockets, because he owns almost all brothels and eateries in King's Landing and beyond). The Crown loans money from Lannisters to pay to Iron Bank. And in circles we go. Until a point in later book when Cersei defaults on payments to Iron Bank. The end result for the kingdom is Iron Bank refusing to lend to anyone from Westeros, calls already outstanding debts from them and starts looking to fund a different king who would pay Crown's debts once he sits on the throne, namely Stannis. The end result for Littlefinger: he gets to change his gold into a lot of political power by loaning (or gifting) the money to lords to pay their suddenly urgent debts to Iron Bank, pushes some of his rich merchant friends into nobility by marrying off their daughters and sons into noble houses and generally tightens his political grip on society.

** Even the happier Stark family suffer from this as Ned Stark treats his daughter Arya preferentially over his daughter Sansa.

* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Played for drama given the horrible consequences it caused. Elia Martel had been visited by numerous suitors, the best of whom was Baelor Hightower. However, her brother Oberyn had a habit of making fun of them all, and when Baelor farted in their presence, Oberyn dubbed him "[[EmbarrassingNickname Baelor Breakwind]]", and after that, Elia couldn't look at him without laughing, which put the chances of them wedding at zilch. Elia ended up marrying Rhaegar Targaryen instead, with [[FromBadToWorse negative consequences]]. In the present, Tyrion idly wonders [[ForWantOfANail how many lives were snuffed out by that fart]].

** The [[TheMessiah prince that was promised]] is a prophecy made in High Valyrian at least 5,000 years ago, and has become central to at least one religion (which is why the red priests call him "Azor Ahai reborn"). The prince that was promised will be "born amidst salt and smoke, beneath a bleeding star." Candidates include Rhaegar Targaryen (born during the Tragedy at Summerhall; the "smoke" is from the tragedy, and the "salt" the tears of those weeping for King Aegon V Targaryen, who perished during it), and then Rhaegar's son Aegon (born whilst a comet was overhead). However, there's a linguistic twist that no one could have seen coming -- especially because it relies on a detail of Martin's {{Fictionary}}: ''Valyrian pronouns are gender-neutral''. The prince could be a girl.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Ned has this reaction when hearing Bran's life was saved by his direwolf, as he realises the direwolves were sent by the Old Gods to protect his children, only now one's been killed by his own hand and the other driven away. Sure enough the fate of his daughters mirror that of their direwolves; Sansa is at the mercy of the queen, while Arya becomes a fugitive in the Riverlands.

** Ned Stark and Catelyn Tully.
** Khal Drogo and Daenerys.

* MosesInTheBulrushes: [[spoiler:Aegon VI Targaryen.]]

* NonHumanSidekick: The Stark's direwolves and [[spoiler:Dany's dragons]].

** Lancel Lannister is also said to resemble a younger Jaime.

** Robb Stark, who fails for the most part.

* PsychopathicManchild: Viserys.

* ARealManIsAKiller

* RecruitedFromTheGutter: Smuggler Davos Seaworth delivered a lifesaving ration of onions to Stannis Baratheon while his fortress was under siege and starving. As repayment, the lawful Stannis raised him to knighthood and [[RestrainedRevenge shortened the fingers of his left hand]] to punish him for his smuggling. Davos remains one of Stannis' most loyal servants.

** Warging into a sentient mind is described this way. Bran later does it to Hodor , and both of them find it intensely unpleasant.

* MeaningFulGift: Jon gives his {{Tomboy}} half-sister Arya a specially sized sword as a going-away present, knowing that she envies her brothers their swordsmanship training. It remains a cherished heirloom of her old life for long after.

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** When Tyrion [[spoiler:murders his father in cold blood, he clearly crosses a moral line, but his victim is such a jerk that it's hard not to cheer him on.]]
** While it's quite clear that Arya becomes increasingly morally grey every time she kills someone or is involved in causing a death, it's compensated for the fact that [[AssholeVictim all of them more or less deserve it]].
** Amory Lorch (a child-murderer) gets fed to a bear by the sociopathic Brave Companions.
** What Ramsay did to Theon completely turns this trope on its head. While Theon had committed horrible atrocities previously, the retribution delivered by Ramsay was so extreme and cruel that it ends with the reader sympathizing with Theon again and despising Ramsay even more than before.

** A simple LoveTriangle for contrast: Prince Aerys Targaryen and his HeterosexualLifePartner Tywin Lannister both had a thing for Tywin's cousin Joanna. Tywin got her. (TriangRelations Type 10). This may have been the StartOfDarkness for The Mad King's [[TheResenter resentment]] of his Hand and (now former) best friend.

* OurWyvernsAreDifferent: Wyverns, mentioned and described in supplemental material, resemble dragons but cannot breathe fire, and inhabit the swamps and jungles of Sothoryos. There is speculation in-universe that the Valyrians may have bred the first dragons from wyvern stock.

* MedievalPrehistory: We're shown mammoths and dire wolves living beyond the Wall, and a case could be made for the giants being the extinct ape, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus Gigantopithecus]]. The unicorns of Skagos have also been theorised to be the extinct [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasmotherium Elasmotherium]]. At one point a reptile from the jungles of Sothoryos that sounds an awful lot like a ''Velociraptor'' is also described.

* {{Precursors}}: Valyria.

** Although the evidence is the TheGodsMustBeLazy, several people who pray to the Old Gods nevertheless have their prayers answered, albeit not in the way they expect. [[spoiler:Sansa prays for a knight to rescue her -- she gets Ser Dontos and the Hound. Arya's prayer for vengeance appears to summon the assassin Jaqen H'ghar. Theon begs a chance to be the man he once was, then finds himself facing the wildling women who've been sent to rescue "Arya Stark". That the weirwoods they pray to are revealed to be an information network for Bloodraven also blurs the issue.]]

* NoPronunciationGuide: GRRM is of the opinion that you should be allowed to decide on pronunciations for yourself. This is probably because he didn't ''want'' to have to decide how to say "Xaro Xhoan Daxos" or "Jaqen H'ghar". The visibility of the TV series means most fans use its pronunciations, but some of GRRM's in interviews are still noticeably different (e.g. Baratheon: series "Ba-RATH-eon" vs. GRRM "Bara-THEE-on") and the various audiobooks also follow their own rules (e.g. Petyr: show "Peter" vs. Dotrice audiobooks "Pee-TYRE").

* OfficerAndAGentleman: The Kingsguard...in theory. Robert began changing this, and Cersei finished it.

** Renly is married to Margaery but spends a lot of time "[[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow praying]]" with her brother Loras, and in the meantime is being crushed on by Brienne of Tarth, who later seems to have developed (possibly reciprocal) feelings for Jaime Lannister, who is in a secret relationship with his sister Cersei.

* KillEmAll: As a phrase, ''A Feast For Crows'' really sums up the series' plot and theme. By the end of ''A Dance With Dragons'', [[spoiler:all but one of the original "Five Kings" are dead though new players have of course taken their places.]]

** The relationship between Tyrion and his father has broken down so much by ''A Storm of Swords'' that Tyrion doesn't pass on that Littlefinger tried to frame him for the attempted murder of Bran Stark (Tyrion may also have been trying to protect Jaime, given ''why'' he threw Bran out the window). This means Littlefinger is free to claim both the Vale and the Riverlands in the belief that he's no threat to House Lannister.

** Just about the only time Tyrion ever really loses his temper with Shae (well, apart from [[spoiler:that one other time]]) is when she makes fun of his height and compares him to a child. Clearly something of a [[BerserkButton berserk button]].

** The trope is clearly alive and well in-universe, as the primary interest in dwarf slaves in Essos is as circus freaks.

** The Lannisters, who rule primarily by fear, are despised by the small folk. On the other hand, the small folk completely adore the Tyrells, with Margaery at the forefront, who spend time with them, hand out food donations and the like. Sansa also comes to this conclusion after spending time with paranoid queen mother Cersei.

** Then there are the various Northern Houses, who love their liege lords the Starks. They loved the Stark family so much that they, lord and commoner alike, are prepared to march through blizzards or bone-chilling cold in a state of near starvation, or keep on fighting even when all hope is faded, for the sake of the Starks. Even after being [[spoiler:usurped by the Boltons, the North would not bend the knee to them, and House Manderly[[labelnote:*]]Which actually was originally an Andal noble house that was adopted by the Starks into the North after being usurped from their homelands further south[[/labelnote]] are conspiring against the Boltons to bring the Starks back as liege lords]].

** Averted when [[spoiler: Tyrion and Sansa]] get married. For all his faults, [[spoiler: Tyrion]] is mostly a decent guy, and despite his father's insistence that he consumate the wedding(since even if there are no children, an unconsumated marriage can be set aside), he flatly refuses to do so, knowing that [[spoiler: Sansa]] doesn't trust or want him.

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