History Fanfic / DawnComesOnTheSunsetSea

* CanadaEh: The main part of the CAN is made of up of Canadians, though there are also members from Finland and several other Arctic nations ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hence the name]]).

** Theon's thoughts show that he thinks that the CAN is crazy for having a woman in charge, with his thoughts turning toward the Dance of the Dragons.[[labelnote:For those who haven't read the books]]The Dance refers to the conflict between Rhaenyra Targaryen and her brother Aegon for the Iron Throne after their father proclaimed Rhaenyra to be his heir despite her being a girl on the grounds that she was his eldest child, with Aegon being egged on by Ser Cristian Cole of the Kingsguard (implicitly because Rhaenyra rejected his advances) and his mother, Allicent Hightower. The ensuing civil war ended with Rhaenyra's son on the throne, but also made the Targaryens decidedly more patriarchal, with a formal ruling making it so that a more distant male claim could override a closer female one.[[/labelnote]]

* AmbiguousSituation: The Ironborn have been engaging in reaving again as of late, but it is not specified if they are doing so under Balon's orders or are striking out on their own.

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Aurora was perfectly happy as an archivist and as such is deeply stressed by her newfound responsabilities as Commander. Adding to that is the fact she was granted the position because her father ''died'' and some of her advisors dismissing or blatantly rebelling against her.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** CAN resources are limited following their crash-landing, so it's better for the colony to cooperate with the local authorities if they don't want the natives to steamroll them after hounding CAN to exhaustion.
** Right after learning of the brand-new colony in the North, Renly Baratheon points they have no leader as the Iron Throne would know them and as such can't be made to swear fealty unless his royal brother wants to have a whole legion of smallfolk to come down and swear one at a time.
** Lord Mollen is initially astounded to learn of maple syrup and wondered how it was possible that his family had never learned of it. It turns out that his ''smallfolk'' had their own version, but they only prepared it in very limited fashion as a sort of treat after securing the winter provisions, never realizing they could use it as their main product or how much money they could make off it.
** [[spoiler: When the CAN and the Starks find a massive amount of ancient gold and treasure down in the catacombs...they decide to use it to help pay for repairs and renovations to Winterfell. While it's all very pretty and historically important, Ned values having the seat of Northern power being fully intact to a bunch of gold just sitting around.]]

* RealityEnsues:
** CAN resources are limited following their crash-landing, so it's better for the colony to cooperate with the local authorities if they don't want the natives to steamroll them after hounding CAN to exhaustion.
** Right after learning of the brand-new colony in the North, Renly Baratheon points they have no leader as the Iron Throne would know them and as such can't be made to swear fealty unless his royal brother wants to have a whole legion of smallfolk to come down and swear one at a time.
** Lord Mollen is initially astounded to learn of maple syrup and wondered how it was possible that his family had never learned of it. It turns out that his ''smallfolk'' had their own version, but they only prepared it in very limited fashion as a sort of treat after securing the winter provisions, never realizing they could use it as their main product or how much money they could make off it.
** [[spoiler: When the CAN and the Starks find a massive amount of ancient gold and treasure down in the catacombs...they decide to use it to help pay for repairs and renovations to Winterfell. While it's all very pretty and historically important, Ned values having the seat of Northern power being fully intact to a bunch of gold just sitting around.]]

* StayInTheKitchen: Catelyn unfortunately plays with this role. Since she's used to presenting a perfect, prim lady, she's paralyzed when others' actions don't jibe with her worldview. When Aurora discusses trade with the Mallisters and the Lannisters, which she considers it a violation of the feudal agreement and a terrible idea in general, respectively, she stays silent and seethes (since it's not a lady's role to get mixed up in politics), not realizing that the idea was presented mainly out of pragmatism and a relative value of innocence, respectively, instead of immediately clarifying the misunderstanding.

** Catelyn is left aghast when the CAN considers trading with House Mallister over House Tully, as the former are sworn to the latter and not making this agreement without the Tully's approval is a major breach of feudal conduct. She's further enraged when the CAN expresses interest in trading with the Lannisters (though given what the audience knows about the Lannisters, this is more forgiveable).

** Westerosi see nothing wrong with punishing (and potentially executing) Theon for [[SinsOfTheFathers the crimes of the rest of the Iron Islands]], something that unnerves William.

** Catelyn assumes Aurora is deliberately mocking her by having [[HeroicBastard Jon]]greet her at Arkholme.

* DeathByAdaptation: So far, Septa Mordane, who died in the Winterfell fire.

* InfantImmortality: A dozen of children managed to hide from the Ironborn raiders that destroyed their village, being taken to safety by the CAN Explorers. One of them later comes down with [[spoiler: grayscale]] only to be fully cured, and barely-a-teen Sansa is rescued from a fire.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: When Ned tells Howland Reed that Aurora knows about John not being his bastard, Howland suggests killing her before she tells anyone. Ned tells him no because she has shown him she can be trustworthy and killing her would cause more problems than it solves with the CAN. Howland agrees but still silently promises to kill her against his lord's orders if she gives him a reason to.

* InfantImmortality: A dozen of children managed to hide from the Ironborn raiders that destroyed their village, being taken to safety by the CAN Explorers. One of them later comes down with [[spoiler:grayscale]] only to be fully cured, and barely-a-teen Sansa is rescued from a fire.

* LovingAShadow: Marcus tells Robb that Theon only 'thinks' he's in love with Ros, when really he's just physically attracted to her and that if they were truely in love then he wouldn't need to pay her for her affection.

* NamedWeapons: Aside from Ned's Ice, Denys Drumm, leader of the group of Ironborn attacking the Mormont fleet, carries a Valyrian Steel sword he calls Red Rayne. Maege Mormont initially thinks her daughter Dacey killed Drumm, giving her the chance to claim it, but Dacey confesses that though she was fighting Drumm at the moment of his death, he was actually killed by CAN gunfire. Maege agrees to keep it for them so its succesion can be sorted out.

* ParentalSubstitute: Jon Snow is hinted to consider Commander Aurora Everett as this. [[spoiler:It's made even more poignant by the fact he's actually Lyanna Stark's child and is gravitating towards her doppelganger.]]
* PetTheDog: Septa Mordane is rather hostile towards the CAN for being heathens with dangerous ideas, so much that her sincerely praying for a child to recover from [[spoiler:grayscale]] surprises them.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Theon is more isolated in this story, due to the Ironborne engaging in a small bit of reaving in the opening chapters, which turns the North against him (remember that he is being used as a hostage).