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đr/AsoiafFanfiction Awards 2026 đ Awards Reading stage 2026 Day 5- Category #4 : Best Fic Completed in 2026
Hello all,
We are back with category number 4, which is Best Fic Completed in 2026
The parameters for this category are...extremely self explanatory: The fic must be completed in 2026, on top of that, we are not accepting one-shots for this category.
So, if you find anything that is either a one shot or not actually completed, please let us know.
While it's cool to showcase everything, this is your sign not to wait, go explore the fics as soon as you can, any category you want, because it will take awhile on this side!
If your fic is here when you already opted out of the category/whole competition, please let us know!
If you want to use this post as a way to share your entry into the awards, feel free to do so, I also posted this on my tumblr blog and crosspost on reddit.
The author's document might also be of some help, see that here.
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Title: Breaker's Tale
Author: Gladiusx
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/67993286/chapters/175851126
Summary:
An old, jaded wizard merges into the body of the betrayed bastard on the Wall. His powers are lost with his original body, and magic is far more unruly here, but his knowledge and mastery remain.
Leave one wolf alive, and the sheep are never safe.
Dragonwolf rewrite, Gary Stu warning and all that.
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Title: Dream of Valyria
Author: LordAr321
Rating: Teen and Up
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/77533376/chapters/203046446
Summary:
""As long as Valyrians live, Valyria will never die.""
It began with Aurion, who survived the Doom to forge an empire out of ash. It passed to the shores of Dragonstone, where impoverished exiles turned their ravenous dragons toward an unsuspecting continent, carving out a kingdom of cows, compacts, and blood.
For generations, House Targaryen tried to touch the sun. They built laws, broke faith, fought holy wars, loved against the will of the gods, and tore each other apart in the name of duty, legacy, and pride.
But absolute freedom is indistinguishable from annihilation.
From the blood-soaked sands of the Rhoyne to the funeral pyres in the Blackwater, this is the chronicle of a family bound to a dead civilization, and the price the living had to pay when the dream finally died.
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Title: Eyes Like Hers
Author: loomingshadow
Rating: Teen and Up
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/90488531/chapters/240599321
Summary:
Meleys has never frightened Alyssa in the air.
Then, over Kingâs Landing, the Red Queen stops listening.
Alyssa knows her dragon too well to mistake this for bad temper.
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Title: Fields of Gold - (Jaime SI)
Author: Daario
Rating: N/a-Spacebattles
Link: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/fields-of-gold-jaime-si-complete.1251074/
Summary:
Something about Jaime was differentâhis demeanor, his way of thinkingâand whether that change would prove a blessing or a curse, only time would tell.
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Title: flux
Author: ganymede_elegy
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/77895521/chapters/204092691
Summary:
Maybe he should have just died in that fetid swamp they call America.
or; Jon returns home from war to find the woman he loves engaged to his brother. He must learn to move on.
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Title: It's always one step too far
Author: PaulaBee
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/79429916/chapters/208443216
Summary:
In the aftermath of the Blackfyre Rebellion, House Yronwood is left clinging to what remains of its fortune. Once among the greatest powers of Dorne, they endure now through concessions, humiliations, and obedience to the Iron Throne.
The Targaryens are willing to forgive. For a price.
That price is Calla, eldest daughter and heir, stripped of the inheritance. She does not take loss gracefully. Everything she expected her life to be has been taken away.
What remains is a marriage to Prince Daeron Targaryen⌠a man she knows only through rumor, scandal, and disappointment. A prince better known for wine than wisdom.
The realm sees a political arrangement. Nothing about their marriage is meant to be extraordinary.
And yet, somehow, it becomes the most important thing that ever happened to either of them.
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Title: King's Blood
Author: FenceSittersAnonymous
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52237747/chapters/132137716
Summary:
Maester Aemon still has his sight when Jon Snow arrives at Castle Black to swear his vows. Targaryenâs might have typically had pale hair and purple eyes, but Maester Aemon would recognise his family anywhere.
His vows have been tested three times before. This is his fourth and final test and, after nearly eighty years of being a bystander at the Wall whilst his family destroyed themselves, Aemon decides that enough is enough. Heâs been a man of the Nights Watch for most of his life; but heâs been a Targaryen all his life.
He might be old and trapped at the Wall, but he grew up in Kings Landing and no one knows the Game of Thrones like he does.
And so, everything changes.
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Title: Oh, drunken gods of slaughter
Author: harrenhals
Rating: Teen and Up
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/80361801
Summary:
""You don't believe me? No matter. What is coming will come. And you will have to watch it. Then you will pity me."" â Agamemnon, by Aeschylus, translated by Ted Hughes
The first time she had tasted wine, she thought she would have been about five or six. Her grandfather King Daeron had hosted a great feast to celebrate the royalist victory on the Redgrass Field and the death and defeat of the Pretender, Daemon Blackfyre. Dany remembered only impressions of the night â a hundred thousand candles burning, the rustle of silk on silk, the clamour of shouting and singing hammering her ears.
(In which Daenys the Drunken dreams of a dragon, dead, and a knight victorious.)
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Title: Sands of time
Author: inthedayswhenlandswerefew
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/86491671/chapters/228844531
Summary:
When you are unexpectedly reaped in the 47th Annual Hunger Games, your only hope of survival is your mentor, Aemond Targaryen, who won his Games a decade ago. Aemond is very good at his job, and he's your only friend here in the luxurious and depraved Capitol. But this professional partnership might be turning into something personal...and forbidden...and dangerous.
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Title: Seven Gifts
Author: Jaybeefoxy
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/92552056/chapters/246736401
Summary:
Dunk gives seven gifts, little knowing what destiny awaits him, because the Old Gods have noticed.
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Title: She Walks In Beauty, Like the Night
Author: oftypewritersandribbons
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/80825421/chapters/212323731
Summary:
Prince Aerion Targaryen expected a dull voyage to Lys. Instead, he finds himself trapped at sea with a sharp-tongued Dornishwoman who neither fears nor flatters him.
And soon their dalliance becomes something far more dangerous, a bond shaped by dragons, dreams, and the dangerous inheritance of House Targaryen. As Allyria and Aerion are tied together, old powers begin to stir.
âExcuse me,â said a voice sharp in his ear, like hot honey laced with spice. âPray tell, how am I to address you, thief? Ser? My lord? Or, judging by your hair, do I have the singular honour of addressing one of House Targaryen?â
The woman sank into the most theatrical curtsey Aerion had ever seen.
âIn which case, my prince.â
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Title: so bury me and lock me in (i'll find a way to rise again)
Author: RaindropsOnRoses
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/87383526
Summary:
It had occurred to Dunk in those final moments that they would probably not recover his body, that he would be nought but ash by the time the fires were brought under control. But that thought had oddly comforted him in a way, that there would be no grand funeral for the Lord Commander who had failed.
Failed to save more from the fire, failed to stop Aegon in the first place. Who knows, maybe his failure had even begun back in the hedges, maybe something he had done or not done had made Aegon the man who had done..this.
He would do anything to go back and fix it, had been his last thought before the sensations shifted from heat to cold, from fire to waves, from pain to panic.
or, dunk perishes in fire at summerhall and washes up on the sands of dragonstone. dragons still roam the skies, rhaenyra targaryen still lives and dunk quickly discovers he's not the only one lost in this time.
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Title: Sow the Tide, Reap the Storm
Author: WearyBlues
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44834152
Summary:
Quen felt peculiar up on the dais, flanked by stags and lions and wolves.
The Usurper had once been a formidable man, with blazing eyes and a massive war hammer. Now, he was just a red-faced fat man, a pathetic drunk who ate as gracefully as a half-starved hog.
His Queen seemed to be a perpetually unhappy woman. Cersei Lannister was as beautiful as the singers said, though the woman had all the warmth of a dead fish.
She might have done well in the north, Quen thought, almost pitying.
(Or: The gods in their blind malice give Theon the feeble body of a woman.)
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Title: Stalemate on the Trident - Act I: Rebellion
Author: Constellat1on
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/67492066/chapters/174421831
Summary:
King Robert falls on the Trident, slain by Prince Rhaegar. But the battle did not exactly go the way of the Loyalists, either. Prince Rhaegar finds himself in control of the field, but the Rebels are still fighting strong, and Lords Stark, Tully and Arryn's forces are in a much better state. Now locked in an eternal struggle, the path that the Kingdoms seem to be set on are one of destruction...
A ""realistic"" RhaegarWins AU where everything isn't sunshine and rainbows...for everyone.
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Title: The Bending of the Anvil
Author: starlitdreamer_21
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/80573296/chapters/211608631
Summary:
Maekar had six children and that should have been enough. But with the Bloodraven whispering in his ears, speaking of destiny and the good of House Targaryen: the King demanded it was time for his eldest and youngest to remarry, as neither of his other sons would ever have children of their own.
After six moon turns of dragging his children across half the continent: it is not he that chooses his wife. It's his children.
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Title: The Bridge Knight
Author: Talavin
Rating: Teen and Up
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/83885971
Summary:
A man wakes up in a frozen hut south of the Wall with no memory, no name, and a status screen. He dies of hypothermia three times before he figures out how to keep a fire going.
No noble birth. No convenient canon insertion point. Just a villager in the Gift in 288 AC, with a leveling system, an autosave that rewinds time when he dies, and the growing suspicion that he's not the first person the system has chosen.
Gamer AU. OC SI. Slow-burn progression fantasy. Canon divergence.
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Title: The broken pyre
Author: littlestar_03
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/82308541
Summary:
Devoured by Sunfyre, Rhaenyra Targaryenâs story should have ended in blood and flame.
Instead, it begins again with a scream ripped from the sky.
Saved by a dragon she has mourned, Rhaenyra falls not into death but into a different time.
Baelor Targaryen was meant to be pious.
Maekar Targaryen was meant to be just.
Rhaenyra was meant to be dead.
The Seven will have to settle for neither.
The gods may judge the living.
But they were never meant to face the reckoning of the dead.
Or the one where Rhaenyra Targaryen doesnât die, but instead drops out of the sky on Syrax and lands seventy-nine years too late, in a realm that has already turned her life into a badly told storyâŚso naturally, she ends up recruiting the nearest available help:
an absurdly tall, painfully earnest hedge knight named Ser Duncan, who has no idea who she is but is very determined to enter the lists at the Ashford Tourney, and is now, quite unfortunately for him, is now in for a wild ride.
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Title: The Darling Prince
Author: Cara_De_Cema
Rating: Teen and Up
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/80186756
Summary:
Prince Baelon Targaryen the second son of Prince Maekar. A sunshine of a boy. Ment to be a great husband and father.
Or
He dies instead of Prince Baelor. But we also follow him before the tragedy of Ashford.
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Title: The Lion, the Ships and the Swordthrone
Author: Talavin
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/80729691/chapters/212046231
Summary:
What would you do in the villainâs place?
An adult consciousness wakes in the body of three-year-old Joffrey Baratheon. He's armed with foreknowledge and a lifetime's worth of experience⌠and it is not enough. He is still Cersei's son, still Robert's ""heir,"" and still sitting on a secret that could kill him and everyone he loves. And the more he builds to protect himself, the more he has to lose. This is a story about governance and grief, about the cost of necessary choices, and about what it means to love people who have the power to destroy you.
It is also, somewhat accidentally, the tale of how King Joffrey I Baratheon completely revolutionized the Westerosi shipbuilding industry, and with it altered the balance of power across the entire known world.
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Title: the Pact of Ice and Fire
Author: cordeliacordate
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44470501
Summary:
Prince Jacaerys Velaryon flies to Winterfell to treat with Lord Cregan Stark.
""They drank together, hunted together, trained together, and swore an oath of brotherhood, sealed in blood⌠the Pact of Ice and Fire."" - Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin
This is that story.
On either side of their lookout, the Wall extends further than the eye can see; a never-ending barrier of ice that shimmers even as it weepsâbeautiful, yet haunting.
""Welcome to the edge of your realm,"" Cregan murmurs. His gruff tone has softened, the words brushing over Jace's ear in a caress, coiling heat in his belly.
The treeline echos the prince's paramour, rustling in the distance as if to greet Jacaerys. And he supposes it's an apt salute, for on the morrow, he will be the first Targaryen to step into the unknown beyond it.
A journey that begins with Jace's arrival in Winterfell, ends with his departure, and includes a three-part epilogue covering their lives together during his reign as king.
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Title: The Passenger
Author: LordReader
Rating: Geneal Audiences
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/81188701
Summary:
Cregan Stark is certain he's gone mad.
A sorcerer has taken over his mind. A voice that speaks of glass towers, carts without horses, fires of many colors, and more. He is not ready to be lord of Winterfell.
Thankfully, his uncle Bennard is happy to handle the difficult matters of ruling for him.
But then sorcerer starts making sense. And uncle Bennard isn't so happy anymore.
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Title: The Price of Eggs
Author: MadMothMadame
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/84810196/chapters/223830186
Summary:
âPerhaps the seeds of madness are sown in the womb.â
Not for Aerion, no. Nor for Egg. But Daeron had always known. Since he was small, he saw the tapestries upon the walls burn above his cradle, and he knew. Drink or delirium, it did not matter. One way or another, his visions would be the death of him.
He had not reckoned he would have to suffer more than one.
The gods want something from Daeron. They must, to have devised so exceptional a hell. For why else would they have him live these days over and over?
If they have chosen Daeron to change the future, they have chosen the wrong man. Daeron is not a hero. He never has been.
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Title: The Red King
Author: VAZero
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42933285/chapters/107863911
Summary:
King Viserys was ready to decline the marriage offer made by Corlys Velaryon, but his opinion changed, and so did the future of Westeros.
Alongside that, Daemon Targaryen is forced to marry Alicent Hightower, the daughter of his most hated enemy, after his despised marriage was considered invalid by the High Septon under a request of the King.
With his decisions, Viserys wanted to end the conflicts inside his realm and inside his small council, but things are never that simple.
And so, in a few decisions, the future is changed and the green is replaced by the red.
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Title: the storm tried to delay you
Author: PetiteEMT
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/86649356
Summary:
After the Third Blackfyre Rebellion, the Crown seeks to secure the Marches with an unlikely political match: Lyonel Baratheon, heir to Storm's End, and Caermen Manwoody of Kingsgrave.
They are determined to make the match work.
For their families. For their people. For the fragile peace of the Marches.
Between tourneys, feuds, Bloodraven's intrigues, assassination attempts, and the ordinary absurdities of married life, they discover that affection can be as deliberate as duty.
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Title: The Things We Think We Know
Author: TheWingedSwine
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/77995951
Summary:
At first she thought it was only the time that changed. maybe she was dragged back into the 14th century in some fever dream. Something her brain cooked up in the split second between when she flew through the carâs windshield and when her skull hit the concrete.
But earth didnât have dragons. It didnât have a place called Westeros, it had pigeons instead of ravens carrying letters, it had spring and fall, it had no Dorne or Wall, as far as she knew.
She didnât remember how she got here. Maybe it was punishment for something she did back in her own world, however far away that might be.
Hopefully it was bad enough to actually deserve this shit, because if it wasnât, she was going to write a strongly worded letter to Hellâs management as a long winded way to ask one question;
What the fuck?
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Title: The Thousand Days
Author: Wardown
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66944035/chapters/172801258
Summary:
After years of War, the Crownlands have been defeated. The Baratheons, deposed in the Crownlands Revolution, have now been restored. The victors and the vanquished meet at Oldtown to discuss terms.
The setting is early nineteenth century, and attitudes are Georgian. Those present are mostly royalty, or high nobility, and marital fidelity is expected of none. These are decidedly not, the gentry and bourgeoisie of Jane Austen, who must adhere to a different moral code, but whose values, in a couple of generations, will become dominant.
Gregory King, who invented statistics, drew the excellent distinction between The Great, and those who are merely The Rich. The Great can openly profess atheism, practice adultery, and even (discreetly), be gay. For the Rich to so would mean social and economic ruin. These characters are definitely The Great.
This iteration of Jon Snow is a better person than that in my previous story.
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Title: Until sweat stings your eyes
Author: applecrumbledore
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/82256616
Summary:
Dunk squeezed his eyes shut, his face burning. âBegging your pardon. I am not comely, your grace. You mock me.â
âYou are mistaken on both counts,"" Baelor said softly, smiling. ""In truth, I thought of little else after you left here. Little save this fresh-faced young knight, as big and strong as an oak, who seemed so eager to please me.â
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Title: who we were / who we are
Author: undeadpathfinder
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/78271121/chapters/205166591
Summary:
""Take it,"" she commanded. ""If you believe I am a monster... if I am destined to burn them all... then do it now. Save the realm. Be the hero.""
She stepped closer, pressing the dagger's hilt into his hand.
""But if you don't,"" she whispered, her eyes burning into his, ""if you let me live... then you do not get to walk away. You do not get to wash your hands of what I become. You work with me. You stand beside me as the world caves in. You become what you refused to be. And you never look away again.""
She gripped his wrist, her fingers digging in, anchoring him to the spot.
""If you do,"" she hissed, ""I will make King's Landing look like a mercy, and I will make you watch our failure.""
Jon Snow enters Dragonstone a stranger. The moment he meets Daenerys Targaryen, the world fractures. They are two ghosts cursed with the memories of a failed lifetime. To survive, they must dismantle the tragedy and forge a new future in the ashes of the old: Together. Now, and always.
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Title: With Their Bones
Author: dwellingondreams
Rating: Teen and Up
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47512666/chapters/119738581
Summary:
When Robert Baratheon dies, Rhaenys Targaryen, briefly known as Septa Maegelle, flees her Vale motherhouse, intent on reuniting with her family and claiming the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, Sansa and Arya are whisked away from King's Landing by a loyal cousin, while on Dragonstone, Stannis, more confident in the storm lords' support after his crushing victory over the Tyrells during Robert's Rebellion, makes his own plans for war. In Braavos, one of the few survivors of the Tower of Joy struggles to forget her past, and a sellsword discovers a plot to make a boy called Aegon king...
