Writing / roleplay prompts collected from the first half of the POV chapters of Jon Snow in A Dance with Dragons , the fifth book of the ASOIAF saga. Feel free to adjust pronouns / etc. as needed.
tw: dark & mature themes, death, violence, suggestive / sexual content
❝ Was the mother questioned? ❞
❝ Two kings to wake the dragon. The father first and then the son, so both die kings. ❞
❝ There is power in a king’s blood. ❞
❝ Better men than him have done worse things than this. ❞
❝ Only a monster would give a living child to the flames. ❞
❝ Do you take me for your thrall? ❞
❝ That bird is too clever by half. ❞
❝ His treasures were his tools, and the swords and knives he made. His life was at the forge. ❞
❝ He loves to fight, and he’ll teach his boys to love it too. ❞
❝ You drop your shield too low when pressing an attack. ❞
❝ You will want to correct that, or it is like to get you killed. ❞
❝ It’s too cold for most of them. ❞
❝ I promise not to hurt you. ❞
❝ She was named for my lord father’s sister. ❞
❝ I know how that game is played. ❞
❝ We know no king but the King in the North, whose name is Stark. ❞
❝ She presumes to scold her lawful king. ❞
❝ It is too late for such misgivings. You made your choice. ❞
❝ It is not happenstance that put a flayed man on their banners. ❞
❝ The North rode with him, bled with him, died for him. ❞
❝ They have supped on grief and death, and now you come to offer them another serving. ❞
❝ Some will look at you and see only another doomed pretender. ❞
❝ You spend your words as if every one were a golden dragon. I wonder, how much gold do you have laid by? ❞
❝ Perhaps he will fancy a wildling wife. ❞
❝ She would never have him. ❞
❝ Just once you might try to give me an answer that would please me. ❞
❝ I would hope the truth would please you. ❞
❝ If you force her to marry a man she does not want, she is like to slit his throat on their wedding night. ❞
❝ Suffer one deserter to live, and you encourage others to desert. ❞
❝ Laws should be made of iron, not of pudding. ❞
❝ The North will see how I deal with turncloaks and traitors. ❞
❝ He threw my offer in my face. ❞
❝ Just who do you imagine that you are? ❞
❝ You might want a warmer cloak. ❞
❝ I have my faith to warm me. ❞
❝ He’s growing fond of you. ❞
❝ He only threatened to behead me twice. ❞
❝ It is his silences you should fear, not his words. ❞
❝ I fear that I make you uneasy. ❞
❝ This is my place as it is yours. ❞
❝ It is not the foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back. ❞
❝ You would do well to keep your wolf close by you. ❞
❝ I cannot sign this. I will not sign this. ❞
❝ Dead men should be kept quiet. ❞
❝ You don’t need to take a knee for me. ❞
❝ I have something hard to tell you. ❞
❝ All he ever did was lead an army down upon the realm he once swore to protect. ❞
❝ It’s not him we need to talk about. It’s his son. ❞
❝ Only you can do that. ❞
❝ A mother can’t leave her son, or else she’s cursed forever. ❞
❝ Fire is a cruel way to die. ❞
❝ Your boy will be safe. ❞
❝ When he’s old enough, he will learn the truth of who he is. ❞
❝ Past time that you were back. ❞
❝ Did that wretch break the skin? ❞
❝ No letter will make them love us better. ❞
❝ It’s death and destruction I want to bring down upon them, not scorn. ❞
❝ The more you give a king, the more he wants. ❞
❝ Pleasing one king is difficult enough. Pleasing two is hardly possible. ❞
❝ Give me more time and I will find whatever there is to be found. ❞
❝ You’ve faced more things this past year than most men face in a lifetime. ❞
❝ I can’t command you to be brave, but I can command you to hide your fears. ❞
❝ You won’t try. You will obey. ❞
❝ Your own burden is a crueler one, I fear. ❞
❝ I think you have the strength in you to do the things that must be done. ❞
❝ Winter is almost upon us. ❞
❝ Kill the boy and let the man be born. ❞
❝ There will be eyes along the kingsroad, not all of them friendly. ❞
❝ Let him have his secrets. The gods know that I have mine. ❞
❝ The smells are stronger in my wolf dreams, and food tastes richer too. ❞
❝ He is more alive than I am. ❞
❝ The snowflakes are melting in your hair. ❞
❝ There is blood between us. This man helped slay my father and did his best to have me killed as well. ❞
❝ Do you think I cannot see what you’re doing? ❞
❝ I am giving you a chance. It is more than you ever gave my father. ❞
❝ That was a command, not an offer. ❞
❝ He still sees me as a boy. ❞
❝ You’re refusing to obey my order? ❞
❝ Go on. Show your steel. Give me cause to do the same. ❞
❝ The mark of the beast is on him, that wolf of his. ❞
❝ I have friends in King’s Landing. ❞
❝ They could have let him keep his cloak. ❞
❝ He knows the forest better than any ranger. ❞
❝ Man or woman, young or old, lord or peasant, our choices are the same. ❞
❝ We choose light or we choose darkness. We choose good or we choose evil. ❞
❝ Here stands your king of lies. ❞
❝ If the Wall falls, night falls as well, the long night that never ends. ❞
❝ He is stone and she is flame. ❞
❝ She will not weep nor look away. ❞
❝ She will curse me with her dying breath, but I saw no other way. ❞
❝ I meant to keep them safe. ❞
❝ Is this the power of king’s blood? ❞
❝ If you choose life, come to me. ❞
❝ If you would not freeze or starve, submit. ❞
❝ A piece of the Old Gods to feed the new. ❞
❝ Behind us is only cold and death. Ahead is hope. ❞
❝ A small, malicious, treacherous man, as stupid as he is cruel. ❞
❝ It’s too cold for this mummer’s show. ❞
❝ Let them keep their pride, and they will love you better. ❞
❝ It is swords I need from them, not kisses. ❞
❝ What would you know of honest men? ❞
❝ He was always the more dangerous of the two. ❞
❝ She never leaves his side for long. ❞
❝ We must make common cause with them. ❞
❝ A rebel and a turncloak, aye. A bastard and a warg as well. ❞
❝ It is not my intent to choose any side. ❞
❝ He took my hand and named me friend. ❞
❝ The lion in King’s Landing is a cub, and the Iron Throne has been known to cut grown men to ribbons. ❞
❝ I promise you, I will think on all you’ve said. ❞
❝ You have your gods and she has hers. Leave her be. ❞
❝ A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgment on them, or send them forth to die. ❞
❝ She looks lonely. Lonely, and lovely. ❞
❝ Lonely and lovely and lethal, and I might have had her. ❞
❝ I am a man, not a wolf. ❞
❝ I’ll give you sage counsel or sing you pretty songs, as you prefer. ❞
❝ He has Stark blood in him. The blood of Winterfell. ❞
❝ Do I have your word that you will keep our princess closely? ❞
❝ Why should I beg for what is owed me? ❞
❝ I meant to send them to safety. ❞
❝ Neither you nor I can know what he would or would not have done in my place. ❞
❝ See that no one tells her. ❞
❝ She sees things in those fires. ❞
❝ They are broken men. The wights are not the only sort of living dead. ❞
❝ There are wolves amongst these sheep, still. ❞
❝ I’ve seen them too, fought them, sent one to hell. ❞
❝ No one is asking you to take our vows, and I do not care what gods you worship. ❞
❝ My own gods are the old gods, the gods of the North. ❞
❝ I have no need of blushing maidens looking to be protected. ❞
❝ Disobey an order, and I’ll have your head off. ❞
❝ They don’t care how you style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man. ❞
❝ These women have knives and know how to use them. ❞
❝ No one ever said you had to like your brothers. ❞
❝ Feels good to have a horse under me again. ❞
❝ All my memories are poisoned. ❞
❝ That will leave a bruise. ❞
❝ He’s quick, but he needs to get stronger. ❞
❝ I hate it when dead men get up. You’ll feel the same the day you meet a wight. ❞
❝ We all do what we have to do. Even kings. ❞
❝ You flatter yourself. I never broke a sweat. ❞
❝ No matter how afraid she is, she will not show it. ❞
❝ Would that I could crush his throat as easily. ❞
❝ You will freeze your fingers off. ❞
❝ Night’s powers cannot touch one whose heart is bathed in god’s holy fire. ❞
❝ Your heart does not concern me. Just your hands. ❞
❝ The heart is all that matters. ❞
❝ What do you know of my heart? ❞
❝ May I touch your . . . wolf? ❞
❝ Warmth calls to warmth. ❞
❝ There is power in you, if you will use it. Power in you, and in this beast. ❞
❝ You resist it, and that is your mistake. Embrace it. Use it. ❞
❝ And how would I do that? ❞
❝ In our joining there is power. ❞
❝ Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. ❞
❝ The moon has kissed you and etched your shadow upon the ice twenty feet tall. ❞
❝ Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it. ❞
❝ You do not believe me. You will. ❞