For This Night, and All the Nights to Come (AU of At Lightning Speed)

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2024-11-12
Series Updated:
2026-06-01
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Inspired by llamallamaduck's Tyger Tyger burning bright, (--In the forests of the night:)

Same basic premise: Tobirama got isekai'd into Westeros, dropped into the godswood at Winterfell. A young wide-eyed Ned Stark was the first one to fish him out, and Tobirama later stuck to him like a wolf with a bone.

Only, it happens in the Age of Heroes.

AU of At Lightning Speed.

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Notes:

He could be Eddard or Edric or Edwyn, she could be Edda or Eithne or Eleanor, it is Ned Stark who has always sat the Moat Cailin... And millennia hence it has been the Stark of Winterfell trapped betwixt the twain.

Reincarnating! Ned Stark x Immortal! Night's Watch Lord Commander Tobi

The first child born to the royal of Moat Cailin was named Hagun Snow, born with bone-white hair and Stark-grey eyes and an affinity with wolves. As king-consort and Protector of Winter, he would go down in history as the Army-Breaker, for breaking the Boltons in the Dreadfort on his lonesome.

This was the first Stark, but not the last, of the Einherjar (Old Tongue, 'army/host of one').

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Points:
- All of the Night's Watch horror stories are known to be true - Danny Flint got Edo Tensei'd and gelded her former sworn brothers, and also followed Theon Stark the Hungry Wolf to burn Andalos; the Rat Cook is locked up in Sentinel Stand as a medical sample; the seventy-nine sentinels are under Danny Flint's eye in Long Barrow as undead reserves, etc.
- To date Tobirama had sunk three places: in order - Lonely Light, the Three Sisters, and the Free City of Lys. All three was revenge for killing (a) Ned Stark.
- The North is independent - on top of the challenge of trying to conquer the North while all dragons are terrified of the White Wolf, the first Egg had enough sense to decide against trying to renegotiate the Night Watch's relationship with the Realm of Westeros without a Ned Stark on his side after Tobi killed his elder sister and her dragon by accident.
- Maegor was butterflied out, replaced by devoted uncle Aerion Targaryen, but Targaryens being Targaryens, another family tussle over the Iron Throne can be expected amongst the later generations.
- Jaehaerys still became king; the process to get him there in the midst of a pandemic of Shivers was traumatic for every Targaryen involved
- Alysanne birthed their firstborn, the future Aegon the Second, in the North. Tobirama blessed the child with good health - the prosaic blessing that turned out to be exactly what the young egg needed to outlive all his siblings and ascend the Iron Throne, and created an obsession with future Targaryens to combine their blood with the Starks.

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