Line #13 Fanfic/DawnComesOnTheSunsetSea


1	''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/dawn-comes-on-the-sunset-sea-asoiaf-got-civilization-beyond-earth-crossover.807428/ Dawn comes on the Sunset Sea]]'' is a {{Fanfic}} by [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/bravewolven.431130/ Bravewolven]]. It is a crossover between ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' and ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth''.
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3	The story follows the Confederation of Arctic Nations, an OriginalFlavor sponsor, as they try to find a new home in Westeros, while dealing with all the problems the world has to offer.
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5	* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Theon is more isolated in this story, due to the Ironborn 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).
6	* AdaptationalJerkass: Catelyn comes off as this, mostly due to the fact that her interactions with the CAN is through Jon, Ned's bastard son (at least as far as she knows).
7	* AmbiguousSituation: The Ironborn have been engaging in reaving again as of late, but it's not specified if they are doing so under Balon's orders or are striking out on their own.
8	* ArmorPiercingQuestion: During their adventures in the catacombs underneath Winterfell, Marcus bluntly asks Robb if he thinks Theon is suited to rule the Iron Islands. As much as Robb loves Theon, he can only remain silent knowing that the Greyjoy is not really suited for ruling.
9	* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Invoked word for word regarding a corrupt Councilor's attempt to hold Jon's true parentage against Eddard.
10	* BoringYetPractical: Yes, there's gold to mine in the North but the mines aren't in the Mollen and Hornwood lands. What these lands ''do'' have is an abundance of maple trees, which allows for maple syrup exploitation. After tasting the syrup and learning how to use it for cooking, Lord Mollen is perfectly happy with this liquid "gold".
11	* BreakTheScientist: In-universe, the CAN researchers are clutching their pearls and shrieking over the fact that Westeros managed to evolve in such a manner it looks very much like Earth. At least one had a nervous breakdown and another one needed a stiff drink onscreen.
12	* BrutalHonesty: Marcus gives a lot of this toward Robb in Chapter 14, pointing out, in order, that Theon is unsuited to be the ruler of the Iron Islands, that Theon's relationship with Ros is not love, and that there is a possibility that Robb might not end up in a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage.
13	* ChildlessDystopia: One of the things that Ned's scouting party is unnerved by is that the CAN colony has no children among its numbers (likely because children were not allowed on the Seeding mission).
14	* CultureClash: Mostly {{Averted\|Trope}}, but there are a few instances where this comes into play, namely that the CAN is lead by a women while Westeros is deeply patriarchal.
15	** 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). Cat ironically makes this worse because, due to what has been taught to her about being a proper lady, she doesn't speak up and try to clarify what Aurora is doing that makes her mad.
16	** The whole knighting business completely bemuses the CAN as they have grown beyond the KnightInShiningArmor stick. Still, they accept it in order to integrate -- only for Marcus to shock Robb by mentioning the Terran knighting involves ''slapping'' the recipient.
17	** The Westerosi mindset tends to consider people as "pawns" -- yup, even in the North. Several lords would be interested by an ArrangedMarriage with Aurora Everett, and no one bats an eyelash over Ned Stark sending his bastard son to Whitehaven to be a page.
18	** Westerosi see nothing wrong with punishing (and potentially executing) Theon for [[SinsOfOurFathers the crimes of the rest of the Iron Islands]], something that unnerves William.
19	** Westeros is a society where social class is everything. The CAN believe in equality for all. Even [[NiceGuy Eddard Stark]] finds this odd.
20	** Catelyn assumes Aurora is deliberately mocking her by having [[HeroicBastard Jon]] greet her at Arkholme.
21	* DeathByAdaptation:
22	** Septa Mordane, who died in the Winterfell fire.
23	** Denys of House Druum ends up being killed by gunfire from the CAN naval vessel ''Arctic Tern''.
24	* DontCallMeSir: CAN colonists tend to awkwardness when the Northmen bestow the title "ser" (for a knight) upon them. It's worse for Aurora -- as the Commander, she's designated as "Lady".
25	* DramaticIrony: Marcus questioning Robb over whether Theon is fit to rule the Iron Islands becomes this when one considers that Balon had written off Theon as an heir in favor of Yara/Asha, as the boy had spent too much time around "Greenlanders".
26	* {{Expy}}: InUniverse, Aurora Everett is called Nymeria Reborn as she's leading a people of refugees who underwent a long and perillous travel to find a safe haven in Westeros.
27	** Lilian Ward is an obvious one to [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Mei Hatsume]], down to how she enters the story and her penchant for making her inventions explode.
28	* FirstContact: The North engages in an extremely civil example with the CAN.
29	* GivingRadioToTheRomans: The [=CAN=] give certain small advancements to the North as goodwill gestures, though they deliberately avoid giving them technology that is too advanced for them.
30	* HeKnowsTooMuch: When Ned tells Howland Reed that Aurora knows about Jon 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.
31	* HonestyIsTheBestPolicy: Eddard, while livid at the revelation of the plot of several CAN councilors to blackmail him regarding Jon's parentage, deeply appreciates Aurora's willingness to immediately march to him and tell him.
32	* IdenticalStranger: Aurora Everett and her brother William are ''strikingly'' similar to Lyanna and Brandon Stark, something that deeply unsettled Ned Stark when he first met them. Also, Aurora's Finnish assistant Kalle could impersonate Rhaegar Targaryen with only some minute details wrong.
33	* IgnoredExpert: Not much of an expert, but the spirit of the trope comes up when Luwin asks the wise woman of the little village the CAN helped why she didn't go to a Maester and show him the immense healing abilities of the liquid she'd discovered; it turns out she'd ''tried'' that with Sea Dragon Point's Maester, only to be kicked out every time.
34	* ImprobableInfantSurvival: 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.
35	* IOweYouMyLife: After William rescued his daughter Sansa from burning alive in Winterfell's accidental fire, Ned Stark makes the Starman a knight.
36	* LightIsGood: CAN uses white and gold in their flag, their Commander is named ''Aurora'', and they want to peacefully integrate with and uplift Westeros.
37	* 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 truly in love then he wouldn't need to pay her for her affection.
38	* MadScientist: Lilian Ward, nicknamed Lily. The most optimistic projection regarding her ability to not explode anything in her lab is three days.
39	* 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 succession can be sorted out.
40	* NervesOfSteel: Ned, as evidenced by the fact he successfully kept his cool even when presented with a [[IdenticalStranger dead-ringer]] for Rhaegar Targaryen, the man who indirectly got most of his family killed.
41	* 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.]]
42	* 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.
43	* PoorCommunicationKills: Catelyn's hit by this when discussing trade with the CAN, and contrary to her expectations, considers initiating trade with Houses Mallister and Lannister. This is both borne of relative naiveté and pragmatism, since they have are new to the local politics and seeking the easiest and most productive trade routes (the Mallisters control the best non-Ironborn port in the Sunset Sea side of the Riverlands, and they have no idea of what the Lannisters are considered like), and not helped at all by Catelyn's silence.
44	* RankUp: [[spoiler:After the fire at Winterfell, Eddard officially raises House Cassel to a Lordly House, giving them command of King's Crossing.]]
45	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Once they hear of the colony being set up in the North Stannis demands that they swear fealty to the Iron-Throne. Renly however claims such a thing is unnecessary, as the colonists aren't exactly squatting on Ned's land. They are paying taxes and trading with the North, which will all go to the kingdoms banks regardless. Telling his [[BlackAndWhiteMorality brother]] that they already allow such things with foreign traders and that they shouldn't have to start a war just because the only thing they haven't done is bend the knee.
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47	* SecretSecretKeeper: Arya accidentally is privy to a conversation in which she learns [[spoiler:her beloved bastard half-brother is actually her ''cousin'']]. She's so stunned by the implications that she decides to keep mum.
48	* SheIsAllGrownUp: Part of the reason why Arya enjoys shadowing Aurora so much, as both of them are said to look like Lyanna Stark. Seeing how graceful and beautiful Aurora can be helps the young girl to feel less insecure about her own features.
49	* ShownTheirWork: Marcus mentions that his knighting ceremony included being slapped afterwards. This was a part of certain knightings, with the blow supposedly meant as the final insult the knight could take without fighting.
50	* StayInTheKitchen:
51	** 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.
52	** 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 Criston Cole of the Kingsguard (implicitly because Rhaenyra rejected his advances) and his mother, Alicent 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]]
53	* ThroughHisStomach: Shireen is floored when her infamously dour and grim father smiles after tasting a maple syrup cookie.
54	* ValuesResonance: InUniverse, Jon Snow departing for Whitehaven to integrate within Aurora's cadre is well received by both sides -- the CAN see it as recruiting a native to smooth the tensions with the local people, the Westerosi are used to lords making alliances by sending their children as pages or squires to each other.
55	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Aurora flatly refuses to use [[spoiler:the knowledge that Jon Snow is Ned Stark's ''nephew'']] to blackmail the Warden of the North, instead confessing her discovery to him.
56	* YouAreInCommandNow: Following her father's demise in the botched landing, a dismayed Aurora finds herself the Commander of the expedition.

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