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• Green Tides by evespearl

  Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  21 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen/Original Female Character(s)
  • Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen/Original Character(s)
  • Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen
  • Original Female Character(s)
  • Alicent Hightower
  • Aegon II Targaryen
  • Helaena Targaryen
  • Daeron Targaryen (Son of Viserys I)
  • Criston Cole
  • House Manderly Characters (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Desmond Manderly
  • Torrhen Manderly
  • Medrick Manderly
  • Elmo Tully
  • Grover Tully
  • Kermit Tully
  • Oscar Tully
  • Rhaenyra Targaryen
  • Daemon Targaryen
  • Otto Hightower
  • Tyland Lannister
  • Grand Maester Orwyle (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Larys Strong
  • Cregan Stark
  • Alys Rivers of House Strong
  • Ormund Hightower
  • Sabitha Vypren
  • Corlys "The Sea Snake" Velaryon
  • Baela Targaryen
  • Rhaena Targaryen (Daughter of Daemon)
  • Arra Norrey
  • Cassandra Baratheon
  • Borros Baratheon
  • Alternate Dance of the Dragons | The Greens Win (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Arranged Marriage
  • Marriage of Convenience
  • Period-Typical Sexism
  • Possessive Behavior
  • Warning: Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen
  • Explicit Sexual Content
  • Eventual Smut
  • Westerosi Politics (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • House Manderly (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Religious Guilt
  • Slow Burn
  • Angst
  • Alicent Hightower Deserves Better
  • Manipulative Alicent Hightower
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • Mutual Pining
  • Morally Grey Characters
  • Loss of Innocence
  • House Targaryen (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • anti-war
  • complex female characters
  • King Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen
  • Eventual Happy Ending

  Summary

  When Prince Aemond Targaryen arrives in White Harbor to secure an alliance with House Manderly, Lady Cordelia's fate is sealed. Guided by an ambitious father and a brother who see her as a means to settle old scores with the Starks, she is bound to a man she fears and drawn into a war that threatens to tear the realm apart.

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  English

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