Hello guys! What's up? I have made my Game of Thrones fanfic story titled "Winter's Daughter", a story of Aneira, a half-White Walker conceived by the Night's King and Queen who've only known cold and loneliness throughout her whole life for 8,000 years in isolation after being raised by the ancient Starks in the Age of Heroes until she have met the generation of Starks (Rickard's family with Ned, Lyanna, Benjen and Brandon) in the time long before the series' start.
Oneshot story just in case.
Disclaimer: I own nothing of Game of Thrones or any of the characters involved in the story. It belongs to George R.R. Martin, the author of the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and to D & D who worked on the production on the television hit HBO series.
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8,000 years ago at The Wall, The Nightfort
As the combined forces of the King-Beyond-The-Wall Joramun and the King in the North Brandon Stark the Breaker marched against The Nightfort, one of the nineteen castles of the Night's Watch to free the ancient military order of The Wall from the corrupting influence of the Night's King and Queen who have been ruling over the black brothers of the Watch in enslavement through sorcery and performing human sacrifices in that very castle as the free folk and the northmen have battled against the enthralled black brothers of the Watch side-by-side.
The two Kings stormed in the chambers of The Nightfort where they encountered the Night's King in a horrifying ice form that of the White Walkers, who was once the thirteenth Lord Commander of the Night's Watch before his fall to cold and darkness, facing them defiantly at his throne room and fought fiercely against Brandon and Joramun with his skills of the sword and sorcery in a long and terrible fight before he eventually died at their hands and the Night's Queen is next.
After impaling the Night's Queen brutally with his spear that ended her life in their violent clash between live steel and sorcery, Brandon the Breaker heard a feint whelping cry and made his way to see what he had heard after removing the spear out of the ice woman's bloodied corpse to fall on the ground dead.
Within a small cradle lay a baby girl wrapped in warm fur blankets crying for her mother who's no longer alive in this world after dying at the King in the North's hands.
The fallen thirteenth Lord Commander of the Watch have truly given his seed to the cold woman with blue eyes as well as his soul in their love when he had first met her in the Haunted Forest, resulting the product of their unholy union before the King in the North's eyes.
A half-White Walker and half-human.
Looking at the babe, Brandon was surprised that the newborn daughter of Night's King and Queen looks more human than a White Walker but still has her mother's cold blue eyes and probably the power of the cold itself. Such union between man and White Walker is abominable that it would be mercy enough to do the realms of men a favor to kill the baby rather than let it live and may cause greater trouble in the future.
But... Stark was not the person who murders children and felt pity towards the child inside him when the babe with tears in her eyes looked at him in innocence that moved him when he was about raise his spear to kill the Night's King's daughter. After a few moments of hesitation, he put away his spear and took newborn in his arms wrapped around to keep her out from sight.
Although he had considered throwing Joramun and his forces out beyond the Wall again just as they did many years ago but if the White Walkers are as dangerous as they seemed, Brandon the Breaker realizes that the free folk may suffer their freezing wrath of winter if they're driven out again and doesn't deserve to die out there in the cold outside the protection of the Wall his ancestor Brandon the Builder created after the First Men and the Children of the Forest drove them back to the Land of Always Winter in the uncharted borders of far Beyond the Wall.
"My bannermen may not like this... but it's the only way I can think of. Winter is coming...", the King in the North said to himself while looking at the small babe who stopped crying and fell asleep later on.
"Your Grace, the black brothers of the Watch has stopped fighting moments after you and the King beyond the Wall killed the Night's King and his Queen. The Night's Watch has been cleansed from their dominion.", a Stark commanding officer reported to his king.
Surveying the scenes in the aftermath of the conflict with the Stark forces tending to their wounded and disposing of the dead, the black brothers recovering from the horrifying ordeal they've gone into and the Free Folk were forcefully sent back to beyond the Wall with Joramun protesting of such actions despite their help to depose the Night's King and his Queen.
Brandon the Breaker stopped his men from forcing the free folk out resulting the many protests of his Northern lords who rallied behind him but remained true to his word as he said, "I will discuss with the King-Beyond-The-Wall in that issue. The free folk have helped us in freeing the Watch despite their enmity towards them and they deserve better than being thrown out of the Wall. Right now, cease your men from forcing the wildlings out and give them food and shelter until I reach my final decision! Is that understood!"
The Northern lords and bannermen were reluctant and hesitant at first but soon relented and allowed the free folk back into the Wall on their King's orders. Joramun and the free folk were somewhat grateful and didn't expect someone like Stark to let them stay for now instead of throwing back to beyond the Wall where the White Walkers dwell there as if something changed him.
Moments later at the small encampment built outside The Nightfort for the resting Starks and free folk where the Kings in the North and Beyond the Wall discuss in terms of negotiations that may benefit both sides to settle the matter with Brandon allowing the free folk to pass through the Wall and settle in the Gift to live among the people of the North as part of the Kingdom of the North and Joramun accepted in gratefulness in a condition that they may not kneel but will pay tribute to the Starks and rally to their cause should they call so long as they keep their word that the free folk held great importance.
Pouring wine to two cups, Joramun asked in a playful jest. "So, what's with the change of heart Stark? Gone soft lately? I thought you would have tossed me and my people back beyond the Wall after we helped dispose of the Night's King and his Queen for you."
Brandon laughed at the man's joking remark and replied, "If I did, you wouldn't be here by now, Joramun. Ever since my ancestor, Brandon the Builder built the Wall to protect the realms of men from the White Walkers, I believed that the free folk like you are born on the wrong side of the Wall and deserved to be living here south. And I assure you, I'm still hard as a rock."
"I see. I thank you for that Stark. My people have suffered long enough enduring the cold beyond the Wall and needed to seek shelter from your ancestor's Wall for protection and place to settle and live without fear in our lives.", the man said with a laugh as he sipped his wine.
"Winter is coming...", Brandon muttered his House's words of warning as he sipped his wine as well before asked in wonder towards his former foe. "Why did you rally your people against the Night's King?"
"As much as I hated the crows for keeping us from passing through the Wall to escape the White Walkers for many years, they don't deserve such horrible fate should the Night's King have lingered on. You've seen the display of human sacrifices inside that castle left after battle at The Nightfort, too horrifying to describe. It made even your bannermen, the Boltons and their flaying practices look sane.", the King beyond the Wall explained.
"I know that. It's so disgusting that I had my men clear whatever remains of the Night's King and his queen's work out of The Nightfort as soon as the battle is over and I already have the Night's Watch destroy all records of him for his crimes against the realms of men and the breaking of his vows he swore his oath to. His name will be forgotten and forbidden to spoken of ever again in history.", Brandon said.
"Good. Can't have your precious Watch and its crows soil their glorious reputation in Westeros as 'the shield that guards the realms of men' as it was meant to be.", Joramun joked with the two respective King shared a laugh together.
"This event may well end up in stories and legends of the Night's Watch for many generations to come, my friend.". the King in the North commented to which the King Beyond the Wall agreed to that.
Hearing a baby's whelp shortly after their negotiations, Joramun took notice of the small babe being tended and fed with milk by a young wetnurse assigned to take care of her well-being and asked in curiosity. "What is this Stark and whose babe belongs to?"
"The offspring of the Night's King and his Queen...", Brandon replied bluntly in response.
"W-what?! An unholy union of man and White Walker... Are you sure?...", the King beyond the Wall said in shock.
"Yes, Joramun. I found her soon after I killed the Night's Queen by my own hand. The fallen Lord Commander has given his seed to her and conceived their daughter as you see before you.", the Stark King explained.
"But would it be best to kill it and be done with it, Stark? That traitorous crow and his White Walker wife have caused enough damage to the Watch in their reign at that time before we killed them. This... abomination should not exist.", the free folk leader spoke in worry.
"'Her', Joramun. Not 'it'. She may be the daughter of the Night's King conceived by his Queen but she is innocent of the crimes committed by her parents and doesn't deserve to be killed for their sins. And I am not someone who kills children regardless of their origins.", Brandon said.
"But she's an abomination...", Joramun repeated his statement.
"Abomination she may be but she's a human being. When I looked into the babe's eyes, I didn't see a monster but a person in her who wants to live a life not die just like her parents did by our hand. I also don't want the Night's Watch find out about the child's existence and kill her for her parents' sins if they do. Besides she looks more human than a White Walker if you look more closely.", the Stark King insisted.
Looking at the babe's innocent face with blue eyes staring and then smiling at him in a clueless and adorable look, the free folk king relented in defeat with a sigh and said, "Very well, I will keep the babe's secret for her sake and yours as well. I pray to the old gods that you're not wrong in sparing her life."
Nodding in agreement, Brandon the Breaker said. "My thanks Joramun. I will raise this child as a normal person and my ward in Winterfell. She'll be passed off as one of your own people who lost her parents beyond the Wall and raised under my roof until she's old enough to be living a life here in the North. Well, then let's rally your free folk you've gathered and get them south to settle at the Gift before I changed my mind. Hahahaha."
"My thanks again Stark. The free folk will be forever in our debt to you and your family and will repay that debt eventually. Perhaps this babe here must be the one who gave you a change of heart after all. Hahahaha.", the King beyond the Wall said heartily.
"Yes, as much as I acknowledge the fact that the Night's King was once my brother of my family who is no longer the one I know of or even the man he once was, the babe is of my blood, Joramun. Kinslaying is looked down upon by the old gods and men that stayed my hand if she wasn't a fully-blooded White Walker. No one must know of this, my friend. No one. Not even her. She must not know of this.", the King in the North declared that the conversation about the daughter of the Night's King and Queen had never existed and even made the wetnurse, who is taking care of the baby, swear an oath to keep the secret too as well.
The two Kings both descent of the blood of the First Men shook hands signifying the peace made between the northmen and the free folk with no need of the latter bending the knee to the the former at all as they despise kneeling but if they're going to live behind the Wall south, they'll have to learn to tolerate and get along their new neighbors if they have to.
After the Kings of Winter and Beyond the Wall have settled the negotiations between both sides in agreement, the free folk were allowed passage through the Wall to settle in the Gift and other unoccupied lands of the North much to the surprise of the Night's Watch and the northern lords he called upon to call their banners who thought of their King mad to do such thing but eventually relented to allow so, and the gratefulness of the free folk who then pledged their allegiance to the Starks without even the need to kneel before the ruler of the North.
As the whole ordeal with the Night's King has ended, the Stark armies were allowed to return back to their lands and families as the northern lords and bannermen returning back to their castles, villages and keeps, and the free folk under former King Beyond the Wall Joramun heading to settle the Gift filled with abandoned villages due to their constant raid a long time ago as their new home south of the Wall, officially becoming part of the Kingdom of the North.
Somewhere else at some point of time, he had also secretly buried the deceased Night's Queen with a proper burial somewhere in the far deep in the wolfswood as a respect to the dead even if it was a White Walker for the babe's sake before catching up with his group of Stark men-at-arms heading home to Winterfell.
"What will be your name, little one?", Brandon wondered out loud to himself as he held the small babe while riding horse on his way back to Winterfell to return home to his family as if she was his own blood while secretly knowing the fallen thirteenth Lord Commander of the Night's Watch was actually his brother who was lost forever which makes technically his bastard niece. "Hmm... I think I'll name you Aneira. That's your name from now on, daughter of Winter."
This gave the child of the Night's King and Queen a warm smile at the name given to her by the King in the North with glowing blue eyes dissipated into normal grey color of the Stark trait as if they have never existed at all...
Author's Note: Phew! The prologue chapter is done and the next update may come around soon if the story is good enough. This idea came to me when I looked at the story of the Night's King and Queen in Game of Thrones' HBO Documentary of the Night's Watch and its history. In that story mentioned of that man giving his seed and soul to the woman cold as ice. In the first chapter, it'll be set on the time long prior to Robert's Rebellion where Aneira meets the Starks (Ned and his siblings) again in several or more centuries of isolation from civilization later after being raised as a ward of Brandon the Breaker. It'll be revealed later. ;)
Just for now, it'll be a oneshot just in case.
Not sure about the White Walkers' physiology and age in the books by GRRM, I think they are very long-lived up to 8,000 years and time for them seemed short in their time perspective until the current timeline set in the Game of Thrones tv series. So I guess Aneira must be over at least 8,000 years old but looked like some young beautiful woman lol.
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