Authors note: sadly I don't have the time to continue winter has come, it started as a bundle of character allusions and a DAO play through as Jon cousland, a two handed sword wielding Templar/champion who cured the werewolves, sided with the mages, put Behlen on the throne without the anvil, romanced an unhardened Leliana but married Anora for the sake of the realm before letting Loghain kill the archdemon. This fic was initially planned as a diary of his adventures but soon expanded out of control to a point beyond my meager writing skills.
I hope that someone more skilled then I can do the concept justice.
Winter has come storyboard
Format, diary entry's from jon as the primary narrative but the other characters journals. forming stuff that jon cant know about.
Cast of characters
Jon Cousland age 18 at the start : the human noble and primary protagonist, he tells the story via his diary, written in camp immediately after events occur. He is the bastard son of Bryce Cousland and tries to overcome his heritage. He is honorable to a fault and very conservative. He lacks charisma and is sheltered from the harsh realities of the world. brother of Fergus and uncle of arya and siblings, wielder of Ice, a summer child, he knows not the winds of winter, he is proud to be ferelden born and raised and dislikes orlesians on principle
Ghost: an albino mabari who comforts jon and fights at his side, if need be we can see jon through his eyes for a dog's eye view through him we see jons weaknesses/confessions (jon talks to his dog)
Arya cousland age 12 : (a preteen) survives highever (secretly) (I want to tie her plot in with the crows and zevran, because jon would just execute him) she is the one that eventually kills walder but I don't think she will join the main party she is jon and fergus's little sister, it would also be cool to have her get pulled into the city elf storyline after highever
Her plot with zev: she meets and befriends him during
Bronn/Brosca: male dwarf commoner origin, pardoned/hired by tyrion pre banishment (fem dwarf commoner is leske)
Zevran ariani: the crows get a serious badass upgrade from the faceless men, zev appears in the first arya pov as a cameo "antivan duelist" training arya
Leilanna age 45 : to similar a name to lyanna to not be significant, she is jons mother by Bryce and an orleasian bard to boot, she is reluctant to tell jon in light of his dislike of orlesians and she belives he has enough on his mind, she approves of dany, she went to the lothering chantry after jon's birth and the rebellion, she recognizes jon when he passes through,
Stannis mac tyr age 65, well-intentioned extremist, a strong beliver in the ends justifies the means, he is rumored to have killed cailain and leads the army away from the wall when he dies, abandoning the wardens, father of Anora and brilliant general, jon see's him as the hero of the river dane but belives the rumors, stannis accuses the wardens of incompetence and calls them traitors for failing to hold the wall, we see the civil war from his strategy reports, he makes the ultimate sacrifice
Cailan Theirin age 16, king of Fereldan and covert gay, son of the late Robert theirin, husband of anora, their meeting is recorded in the diary, he dies mysteriously while jon is ranging (not a pov)
Tyrion Aeducan age 25, a veteran of orzammar game of thrones, tyrion killed his father and sister before being banished to the wardens, favoring the crossbow (called tysha) after the disaster at the wall tyrion follows takes a shine to jon and advises him in intrigue in a manner similar to young griff, he is characterized over chess games in the diary, he was recuited by duncan on the way to highever, he is our poltitican and we see the game of thrones through him
Fergus age 17: legitmate son of Bryce and husband to sansa, father bran, and rickon, fast friends with jon he is sent to lead the men to the wall before the attack and disappears on a ranging before the wall falls (not a pov)
Duncan halfhand age 80, lord commander of the wardens and friend of Bryce, he drags Jon away from the buring castle but dies in the attack on the wall, surrounded by darkspawn, (not a pov)
Walder Howe age 95: Evil bastard who's men sack highever (not a pov)
Edric Surana
Morrigan age ?, a wildling mage and jon (who is utterly luddite about magic) avoids her if at all possible and mistrusts her, ( we see dark magic and her visions in the fires during her pov)
Alistair age 35: this grizzled warden introduces the story and talks about the coming blightwinter, he dies at the hands of the others but kills a few with his flame runed sword first
Bann teagan: john uncle and reasonable authority figure
Danerey's amell age 15: a pyromancer of unheard of skill though she doesn't look it, she has an unrequited crush on jon (who is clueless about it), she is incredibly naive as a result of growing up in the circle. She is viseries sister but lies about her heritage to jon in light of his dislike of orlesians
Viseries amell age 25: takes the role of uldered and runs with it, but viseries is no abomination, he has enough pride and madness without one. He truly believes that he is the rightful king: being the son of the orleasian ruler of ferelden he might have a point brother to dany but the opposite in every other way, he didn't grow up in the circile and longs for freedom
Sten: is sten (I can imagine him with dothraki motifs)
Seireis of events
Prologue: "winter is coming" it starts with Alistair talking about the coming winter and the origin of the others before his death,
Jon 1: Jon's pov describing the events of a normal day in jons life (human noble orgin pre attack) everthing is at peace, he gives arya needle and see's Fergus off to the wall
Jon 2, jon describes the events of the attack, he is traumatised and in denial, having seen the corpses of sansa, bran and rickon, Bryce and not having found arya afterwards, he manged to save ice though and takes solace in the desire to take vengacne on Howe, Cat motivated by revenge drops her grievance with jon and kills walders men ,tyrion is introduced as a traveling companion but jon is to self absorbed to pay attemtion to him
Chapter two Day after the joining, he records his meeting with the king and introduces alistair, and morrigan is introduced during the ranging (which takes some time and cost the lives of jory and daveth) in order to get darkspawn blood, he records the warden/night watch oath but his writing is cut short when three blasts of the warhorn sound before the ritual
Three, jon is writing while recovering at flemiths hut, describing the catastophy at the wall and the heroic deaths of cameo characters (before his rescue) and describes the intial reaction to tyrion and Alistair, it also introduces magic into the crossover and establishes jon's Templar mindset, when jon only accepts her "help" after pressuring by tyrion and Alistair,
Four set after lothering jon justifyies the recruitment of sten and leilania by saying the watch accepts all comers despite shunning morrigan, jon explains his tactical plans for dealing with the blight, first to redcliff to call for aid from his grandfather)
5 jon is writing after redcliff village, it is attacked by wights and the battle turns pear shaped, there are survivors thanks to jon's arrival and preparation
6, jon writes after redcliff castle, he kills bran (who had escaped to redcliff ) and executes jowan for blood magic without mercy, hoster is still sick though, and nothing short of a mirical will save him
upon hearing news of abominations in the ciricle tower he resolves to assist the Templars in their holy duty
7, written in amound the surviving mages at the base of the tower, arrives at the circle tower and initially approves of the rite of annulment before seeing the mages fighting against the abominations ( in defence of children and lead by Dany) he refrains from annulling them
revised chapter three storyboard: jon witnesses the start of the sack of highever by walder howes forces in ghost's skin while sleeping, ghost escapeds the slaughter to wake his master (alongside several of his packmates) killing an assassin entering jons chambers being injured in the process
jon wakes up and searches and rescue for jons nieces and nephews: of them sansa (jons sister in law) is found dead alongside her son rickon. Neither arya nor bran are found (arya's assassin is dead with a knitting needle, summer pulled a heroic sacrifice to save bran)
revised chapter four story
enter the amell siblings, dany describes growing up in the circle trying to avoid the attentions of the merciless templars. The veil in the circile tower is virtually nonexistent and the mages are under constant threat from the unwilling possession from demons (should their willpower fade). Mages are going critical on a regular basis without warning and attempt to kill their brothers as well as the templars. In this environment of constant danger dany forms an unlikely friendship with Edric Surana and Jowan Her big brother viseries is constantly fighting to protect her from demons and Templar abuse both. but in the face of repeated failures gradually grows frustrated and rebellious over the mages station in life and falls into darker humors, first using excessive retribution out on those who harm her before blaming her for being the victim in the first place,
In contrast to her brothers eye for an eye mentality dany finds a comforting mother figure in wynne who tries to teach dany creation magic, unfortunately despite how much she wants to learn how to heal she lacks the knack for creation magic (though edric is a prodigy), instead being so proficient with fire magic as to scare herself to the point of hiding her talents out of fear that she will hurt someone.
We see the harrowing through her perspective, the fade is a twisting place of illusions like the house of the undying, instead of being sent to fight a demon the objective is to resist temptation, it is a test of will not of magic.
Jowan asks dany to help him escape but refuses, scared of Templar retribution and anxious about leaving her home. Edric, the troublemaker goes along with it, unaware that jowan had learned blood magic from viseries, dany witnesses the confrontation and watches as her only freids run out the door while she hide