History Fanfic / NymeriasWar

** It is not outright stated, but this is a problem Lord Morgan Allyrion has to face. His only son, Emmett is [[AmbiguousDisorder lack-witted]] and likely wouldn't make a good lord, whereas the rightful heir, his nephew Emerson, is someone he isn't fond of in any way.

* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Due to a lack of a proper diagnosis, Emmett Allyrion is only described as a lackwit by those around him. His mannerisms seem to imply that he is somewhere on the autistic spectrum, but this condition is obviously unheard of in the medieval society of Westeros.
** Similarly, the true extent of Albin Manwoody's madness is not specified, though he displays a megalomaniacal and psychopathic personality with severe and heavy mood swings and a sick pleasure in dominating others.

** His father Vorian also qualifies himself, as the [[OneHundredPercentAdorationRating most well-loved]] king of Dorne, famous for his virtues, his skills as a knight and his honour.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Malcolm Dayne has such a problem. He is TheWisePrince, but very much in the shadow of his father, who is TheGoodKing and [[HundredPercentAdorationRating absolutely loved by his people]]. Unlike his brother Jamison, he is not much of a fighter, gaining far less fame than him and therefore being less well-liked by the smallfolk. His paternal cousin, Naemon, also overshadows him by being almost as famous as Jamison as a knight.

* AnAxeToGrind: Being Ironborn, a number of Bjorn's men are shown to fight with these.

* WeaponOfChoice: Swords seem to be the weapon favoured by the utmost majority of characters in the story. There are some minor exceptions, but other than that, SwordsAreHeroic is played straight.

It can mainly be read on [[http://web.archive.org/web/20170901184424/https://telltale.com/community/discussion/105743/interactive-got-story-nymerias-war/ the Telltale forums]], which is also where new updates to the story are published first and where readers can vote on the course of action they wish the Point-of-View characters to take. The first book of four planned is also currently updated on [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cba1oJ5VMPv2FDMn5Kr-q5LqtFx07IFvE-pOzqJAl64/edit google docs]].

It can mainly be read on [[https://telltale.com/community/discussion/105743/interactive-got-story-nymerias-war the Telltale forums]], which is also where new updates to the story are published first and where readers can vote on the course of action they wish the Point-of-View characters to take. The first book of four planned is also currently updated on [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cba1oJ5VMPv2FDMn5Kr-q5LqtFx07IFvE-pOzqJAl64/edit google docs]].

* AwesomeMcCoolName: A number of characters have undeniably cool sounding names, among them being Lucifer Dryland, Benedict Blackmont and Emerson Allyrion.

* EvilCounterpart: Aisha is this to Desirea, her R'hllor counterpart. While R'hllor has moral ambiguity going on, the same can't be said for Aisha's god, the Great Other. However, the two women have some similarities at second glance. Both have come to Dorne to make a move against the enemies of their god, they are both TheFundamentalist and both are in a position of such power at a very young age, although [[AChildShallLeadThem Desi]] puts this UpToEleven.

* RantInducingSlight: Part of his PsychopathicManchild traits is that Albin Manwoody is very prone of doing this.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Halfway through Book 1, the story features far over a hundred named characters, most of them with their own distinctive personality traits and many more to be introduced.

* ActionGirl: The Rhoynar culture treats men and women equally, therefore generally accepting women as fighters. With their influence spreading over Dorne over the course of the story, there's guaranteed to be some even outside the Rhoynar ranks:
** Nymeria herself is a slight subversion of this. Despite being capable of combat, she is mostly famous for being a military leader and tactician as opposed to a mere warrior.
** Among the Rhoynar, there are Nymeria's captains Dianna and Farrah. The former is actively fighting in Nymeria's campaign to end the threat of the bandit lord Efran Sand, whereas the latter has been introduced as a respected soldier from the army of Nymeria's predecessor, Prince Garin, and her reputation is enough for her to be chosen as the leader of the royal guard of House Martell.
** Outside of the Rhoynar, there is Nealia Sand, the [[HeroicBastard bastard daughter]] of King Vorian Dayne. After leaving her home in favour of a more simple life, she has taken up sellsword work and is shown to be quite capable at it.
** The sellsword company Nealia works for, the Company of the Rose, also employs other women as fighters, among them the [=YiTish=] sisters Lien and Ying Yu.
** Dalia Sand is good enough of a fighter to have taken control of her own sellsword company, the Wild Suns.

* AdultFear:
** A recurring theme for Dalia is the deep fear she has for her daughter's safety.
** [[spoiler: Benedict Blackmont has to deal with his daughter Gwendis, his [[ParentalFavouritism favourite child]] running away from home to avoid a marriage he has arranged for her, with her whereabouts being unknown to him at first.]]

** Lyla Sand, one of Benedict's close advisors and an assassin in his service is at the very best AmbiguouslyEvil, but also, due to her line of profession, a clear ActionGirl.

* MamaBear: Dalia's love for her daughter, Desirea is absolute and she is also a badass ActionGirl and therefore more than capable of giving in to her MamaBear tendencies.

* PintsizedPowerhouse: Nealia is a bona fide ActionGirl, yet also a slim and petite young woman.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Myke's journey through the Kingdom of Blackmont shows the destruction the Manwoody invaders have caused, to show the reader just how dire the situation truly is.

* OutnumberedSibling: Isabella Fowler is the youngest and only girl among four siblings. The same with Jaena Yronwood, who's the oldest of four but also the only girl. Lord Jeremie Gargalen is the youngest child of Lord Jorvian and the only son (he has three sisters). Lena Wells is the middle child of Lord Wells but also the only girl among three brothers.

* BiggerBad: In a way, the Great Other is this to Aisha, making him (or it) the driving force behind the fight between his followers and the followers of R'hllor, which is a major storyline in Book 1.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The most prominent of the freaks, Tom the Animal and Larry the Kind.

* InsaneEqualsViolent: Just what exactly the extent of Albin Manwoody's madness is is not quite revealed, but one thing is for sure, he loves violence, as shown with his treatment of poor Missy.

** Trentan follows Aisha loyally, but even he is shown to have some sort of a moral conscience, when he gts visibly uncomfortable whenever she does something involving her god.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Quite a large number of characters is introuced in such a way.

** The very same part also introduces Naemon as the more carefree and easy-going sibling, who instead of attending this important meeting, rathr goes out to hunt with his friends.

* BaldOfAwesome: Forovos Norvoshi combines this with a [[BaldOfEvil Bald of]] [[AmbiguouslyEvil Ambiguously]] [[BaldOfEvil Evil]].

* BadassBeard: Several of the male characters sport one. Special mention goes to Bjorn Harlaw and his brother Hargan, as well as to Alester Upton and Laroy Ladybright.

* BadassMustache: Myke sports one, paired with impressive mutton chops.

** The story also expands on the belief system of the Great Other, making him seem as NotSoDifferent to R'hllor, if undoubtedly less AmbiguouslyEvil. Like followers of R'hllor, the followers of the Great Other worship him as the one true god and see the counterpart as evil.

* NotSoDifferent: There are quite a number of similarities between Aisha and her R'hllor counterpart, Desirea, even if Desi is generally the less evil person.

* BigBadWannabe: Albin Manwoody is a dangerous man for sure, yet in his madness, he has bit of more than he could ever chew, by declaring war on four powerful kingdoms at once, three of which form an alliance to crush him and making his victory look as good as [[UnwinnableByInsanity impossible]].

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: Kortney Caron's desire to start a new life with her lowborn lover Norano is brutally cut short when they are captured by Manwoody troops just after they entered Dorne. In the following it is shown quite heavily what happens to noble girls with such naive dreams in Westeros, when Norano gets tortured to death, whereas she gets tortured into insanity, forced to accept the name "Missy" as her own and forced to be Albin Manwoody's concubine.]]

''Nymeria's War'' by [=WildlingKing=] is an ongoing ElsewhereFic set in the world of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Taking place around 700 years before the events detailed in the popular novel series and the [[Series/GameOfThrones HBO series]], it revolves around the titular character, the rhoynish princess Nymeria, who has led her people away from their homelands in Essos to the continent of Westeros, to find them a new home after the Valyrian Empire destroyed their former lands in a long and bloody war. Eventually, the Rhoynish fleet lands in Dorne, the southernmost region of Westeros, where Nymeria marries the Dornish lord Mors Martell. Soon after her marriage, she sets her eyes on uniting the entire region, up to then split into several smaller kingdoms, under her banner, therefore starting a years-long war for the control of Dorne.

** The sellsword company Nealia works for, the Company of the Rose, also employs other women as fighters, among them the Yi Tish sisters Lien and Ying Yu.

* AerithAndBob: Being set in Westeros, the naming rules can be a little bit odd. It is partially justified due to the presence of several distinctive cultures in one place though. There are rhoynish names such as Nymeria, valyrian names such Eraehra and westerosi names, such Albin and Vorian, next to more common names that wouldn't look out of place in the real world, such as Benedict and Walter.

** Aisha, the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dark Priestess]], might be a ManipulativeBitch and a devoted servant of the closest thing the Ice and Fire world has to [[ReligionOfEvil the devil]], yet she is a perfectly affable, seemingly even helpful person, who manages to occasionally even cross into AmbiguouslyEvil territory. It is unclear if anything about her persona is genuine or just the result of clever manipulation, but at least outwardly, she even cares for her travelling companions, Trentan and Gwendis, the former of which she even enters a relationship.

** Just as Nymeria starts her war against the other kings of Dorne, having the backing of the entire surviving Rhoynar and the moderately powerful House Martell, the kings of Dorne fall into fights between each other instead of uniting against their commong enemy.

* BastardBastard: Regardless of wether or not his claim is actually rightful, there is no doubt that Efran Sand is a genuine bastard in every sense of the word, using brutal violence even against the innocent smallfolk to get the title he wants.

* BlackSheep: Jamison embraces this trope an turns it into his strength. Being the son of a great KnightInShiningArmour and the brother of a virtuous WisePrince, his open disdain for knightly traditions mark him as the odd one in his family. Interestingly, he is also visually different from them, having dark hair where his father, brother and half-sister all have the platinum blonde of the Valyrians.

* TheConspiracy: An early plot point for Nymeria revolves around her having to deal with a conspiracy in her own ranks. The ones behind it are dissatisfied Martell bannermen who don't want to wish to be dragged into her war, as well as remnants of the old rhoynish military, that wish to keep their people safe instead of following her into a seemingly hopeless fight.

''Nymeria's War'' by [=WildlingKing=] is an ongoing ElsewhereFic set in the world of [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire A Song of Ice and Fire]]. Taking place around 700 years before the events detailed in the popular novel series and the [[Series/GameOfThrones HBO series]], it revolves around the titular character, the rhoynish princess Nymeria, who has led her people away from their homelands in Essos to the continent of Westeros, to find them a new home after the Valyrian Empire destroyed their former lands in a long and bloody war. Eventually, the rhoynish fleet lands in Dorne, the southernmost region of Westeros, where Nymeria marries the dornish lord Mors Martell. Soon after her marriage, she sets her eyes on uniting the entire region, up to then split into several smaller kingdoms, under her banner, therefore starting a years-long war for the control of Dorne.

* HateSink: Albin Manwoody has just about zero redeeming traits. He is a cruel madman, a PsychopathicManchild and a warmonger, who is terrifying towards his family, his household and th surrounding kingdoms who have to live with the threat he poses. He is, at this point, by far the most easily hateable charactr in the entire story.

* DeadlyDecadentCourt:

* BadassGay: Nealia, who has earned her badass credentials through years of sellsword work and even manages to impress hardened killers with her skills, is shown to be exclusively into other women.

* {{Adorkable}}: Emmett Allyrion is slightly mentally challenged and a lot of his actions come off as awkward as a result, yet he is a lovable guy, who is shown to treat others with kindness, even his cousin Emerson, who is a threat to his title as the heir to Godsgrace.