Reviews for Game of Thrones: Rise of the Dragonborn
AbstractSurfer chapter 8 . 6/8
This is really good and has quickly become one of my favourite fics. There's a lightness and smoothness in your writing that makes it seem easy, and is something I strive for in my own writing. Really hope to see more chapters.
Guest chapter 8 . 5/16
This was by far one of my favourite Dragonborn-in-Westeros fics! I'm loving Lyra's Do No Evil But Take No Crap attitude, and I can't wait to see how Xerxes's adventure plays out in Essos - I've always been a fan of non-human dragonborns in places where their races are less known. Thank you for writing this, it was a wonderful read!
NoGoogleFuplease chapter 6 . 4/4
That's a stupid development.
A really stupid one.
You do know the Prophecy that's central to the Skyrim plot right? "The World-Eater wakes, and the Wheel turns upon the Last Dragonborn."
Ase Of SpADeZ chapter 8 . 3/7
I’m very impressed by this story
Fletcher Bamford chapter 8 . 2/20
Hello,
Luckily this is the first time I’ve had to wait in you fanfic, however, if waiting means that I get this awesome quality then I’m fine with that, never doubt yourself keep going! Please more though
DullReign82 chapter 5 . 11/11/2019
Lyra's way of traveling is sort of a slower version of fast travel.
DullReign82 chapter 2 . 11/10/2019
I didn't see any errors in this chapter, but that could be that they were so minimal that I didn't notice. I like Lyra and her confidence.
DullReign82 chapter 1 . 11/10/2019
I didn't find too many errors in this chapter. From what I've read so far, I'm hooked.
Guest chapter 8 . 11/7/2019
A dagger in the dark may be worth a thousand swords at dawn but winning a duel is not winning a battle is not winning a war is not winning peace

Incest more often than not can cause weakness and lack of intelligence but elsewise one's honor, wisdom, kindness and strength has nothing to do with when or whose cock and cunt you slithered out of it's about one's upbringing it's nature and nurture

On the battlefield you don't die a bastard or trueborn a commoner a royal or highborn you die because the adversary was stronger or faster or smarter or just luckier

Brandon and Wyla my alternative theory

It is unwise to judge others by preconceived notions or what they look like

We're human

We're in this together the world belongs to each and every one of us

It's fine to move to your own drum's beat it's all well and good

But when land is scarce you have to fall in line think of the greater good

Live by the old ways best be prepared to die by them

Trouble is coming sooner or later and when it does there will be no begging for help from those you've scorned and turned your back on

If it's between being part of something larger than myself and scraping by on my own I say screw tradition

You have the courage to do that trade the wilderness of your ancestors for a share in civilization or is your fellow man not worth the effort

Viserys is a mad dog by the time we get around to anything he'll bite someone who will realize what had to be done with him not Ol Yeller's fault he's a monster but there's only one thing to be done about it and that's what it is not being a hero or justice or even vengeance

Tywin is an evil man and a terrible father but he is an excellent ruler

Cersei only loves her children as an extension of herself like Catelyn completely incapable of understanding others love their husbands and wives, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, and mothers and fathers as much as she does

justice delayed is not justice denied

rules for rulers starving disconnected illiterate peasants do not make good revolutionaries

During her time as Queen Rhaella's lady-in-waiting, Joanna had befriended the Princess of Dorne, another member of the court. The Dornish Princess had two children, Oberyn and Elia Martell, who were not yet promised in marriage, so the two women planned to have their children be wed to each other.
In 273 AC, Joanna died birthing her youngest son, the dwarf Tyrion, while the Martells were on their way to Casterly Rock. Once confronted on the subject, Tywin bluntly refused all the offers (Jaime wed to Elia, Cersei wed to Oberyn, or both), and instead offered newborn Tyrion for Elia, an offer meant to be insulting

Everyone but Robert says Rhaegar was something out of a fairy tale kind and wise an incredible warrior and musician The Durrandons were always the greatest warriors in Westeros and Westeros has this idiotic idea that swords are best weapons the end even the Mad King wouldn't harm his own blood that is just how Westeros thinks

I think Shadow would be better than Shaggydog

Stannis was an old man even as a young boy, possibly autistic he excels at war and law but inept at social interaction maybe childlike in that the law is the law is the law the end

The Targaryeans were least among the forty families of dragonlords

Archon was the title for times of crisis ruler of nation elected by lord freeholders

All free men who owned land had a vote in theory in practice old, rich, and/or powerful sorcerous families and the forty families of dragonlords mightiest among them tended to dominate

They allowed freedom of religion as opiate of the masses one day things will get better but didn't believe in any themselves they may have paid lip service however

The Valyrians made slaves work themselves to death in countless numbers

Not all prophecies are useless, but none are certain, some are just self-fulfilling, and most are vague nonsense. People remember the prophecies that come true, not the ones that don’t

Tied to belief I always thought it was because so many royal families were founded by sorcerers, wargs, and etc.

Magic always has a price the incest you can only bend nature (even if to pre-industrial peoples is a ruthless, brutal, and cruel b word before modern medicine and transportation harmony with nature is a city dweller concept) in ways it wasn't meant to bend before it breaks akin to pollution and global warming it's your descendants who answer for your crimes, sins, ignorance, arrogance, and/or stupidity

As a writer, journalism major, and amateur reader of history, Martin knows basically nothing about even basic economic principles. It shows.

Supposedly knowledgeable characters treat Robert and Littlefinger's massive spending as a detriment to a realm, with Ned in particular citing the lack of gold in the royal vaults (as opposed to when Aerys ruled) as evidence of Robert's mismanagement. In real life, loaning and investing money is what a government is supposed to do, and keeping everything locked up is simply wasting it. Robert's investments had a demonstrably great return (Littlefinger increased the crown's incomes ten-fold, King's Landing is more prosperous than ever a mere decade after Tywin brutally sacked it, the Royal Fleet is back to over a hundred war galleys and tens of thousands of men after it got wiped out by a storm a decade earlier and further reduced in the Greyjoy Rebellion, maritime trade is booming to the extent that Stannis can seize hundreds of traders' ships on short notice at the secondary port of Dragonstone), and the debt he accumulated was explicitly not enough that he couldn't easily pay it off (it's stated in the fourth book that payments were still being made on time even in the middle of the brutal continent-wrecking War of the Five Kings), so really, he's the most economically competent king Westeros ever had.

Speaking of loans, a debt of 2 million gold dragonsnetover 15 years to the Iron Bank is treated as a significant burden. Not only does this totally ignore the massive positive effects on the crown's credit of making 15 years of consistent payments, it's also not consistent with previous figures given: Robert could afford to casually give away 100,000 gold dragons as a reward for a jousting tournament, yet a mere twenty times that is supposedly a big deal for a continent to pay off.

The gold dragon in general arbitrarily changes value depending on the chapter. A mercenary fleet under Sallador Saan (29 ships and thousands of men) costs Stannis 30,000 a month to operate, and yet Anguy the archer manages to spend 20,000 in a couple weeks on whores, booze, a nice pair of boots and a good dagger.

Braavos is somehow a significant trade city despite being totally isolated from all known trade routes. Its position on the map roughly parallels that of St. Petersburg, Russia (far in the northeast with the only convenient sea connection being to the North), for a city that's supposed to be in the position of Venice, Italy (which was located at the heart of the Mediterranean and Europe in general).

The Twins are supposed to have made the Freys very wealthy, due to giving them the only overland route to the North, ostensibly a major trade node. Ignoring the North's lack of tradeable goods due to its poverty or the fact that it's a thousand miles through taiga and swamp from the Twins until you reach the nearest city, a miniscule amount of trade in the medieval era took place by land (less than 10%), so control over this point should really offer the Freys very little.

Tywin Lannister is somehow the richest man in Westeros because he owns many gold mines and has produced vast quantities of gold for literally generations, and yet he has more objective wealth than Mace Tyrell, who controls a population three times as large and produces most of the realm's food, in a world where winters can last for years and where storing vast amounts of food for winter is the difference between life and death. The Lannisters also never seem to suffer the logical consequences of churning out limitless amounts of gold for over a thousand years, which would be hyperinflation and a drop in value of said gold (cf. the result of the Spanish stumbling across an effectively infinite supply of silver in the form of the New World).

Slaver's Bay sustains itself by buying slaves, training them, and reselling them. Given that they must pay for at least a decade of the slave's shelter and provisions, this is completely impossible. Particularly for the Unsullied, which are raised from childhood and have an 80% death rate in training.

Dull is the blade of the lazy warrior hesitate to call a warrior at all, a blowhard and a braggart perhaps but a warrior I think not

I always wanted armies of their chimeras dragon/wyvern/wolf/shadowcat/avian/snakescorpion tails/fauna/crusta/floramen and wood(straw/leather scarecrow)/stone(gems)/magma valyrian steel/aetherium golems with swords tridents and shields electoo finger laserguns that would be better workforce and soldiers
Guest chapter 8 . 11/7/2019
Maybe should have fed Nymeria first
Guest chapter 1 . 11/7/2019
Skyrim can't beat Thalmor by itself
Guest chapter 8 . 11/7/2019
Real life must come first

This was awesome
The Sithspawn chapter 8 . 11/8/2019
Great chapter! Glad to see more of this fic :)

Love that you've used calm on Nymeria and I hope they run into Arya (though she might be already in Braavos?) or the Brotherhood sometime soon. Can't wait till they get to King's Landing! ;)

And her words about the Wall are down right prophetic :D ;D lol

Good luck with school and I hope you update again soon please! :D

btw also really interested to see how the other Dragonborn and Dany are getting along! :)
BrutusPrimus chapter 8 . 11/7/2019
It’s good work! Keep it up!
Light Lord Cybergate chapter 8 . 11/7/2019
I am nearly expecting Arya to suddenly jump out of the forest.
Will Nymeria be following Lyra around a bit?
Probably not since they are going to Kings Landing...but still...might be nice.
Now I'm looking forward to the reunion with Mira...preferably before she gets her head chopped off.
Who knows...Maybe we might even get to see Joffrey Fus Ro Da' D off the Keeps roof.

Oh how I wish we could see Lyra enter Kings landing in full deadric armour and then blast everything with a Cyclone...or maybe even Alduins meteors while using her dragon aspect. It would be so epic...legendary...godlike even...
Yet.. very possible...if she knows the shouts.

Ven Nos Gar and Mul Qah Diiv... and nobody would ever forget it.
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