Game of Thrones: The Bear in the North

When Chen Mo, a 28-year-old history graduate student, died suddenly while revising his thesis all night, he opened his eyes again to find the black bread he was eating carrying the rusty taste of the frozen tundra of the North. He had become "Karen," a character in the Mormont family of Bear Island who was never mentioned in the original series, and the brother of Lyanna Mormont whose soul was later replaced by his own after her early death.

Without the blessing of dragon blood, without any system cheats, only a head full of Game of Thrones plot and half-baked modern knowledge, Karen faced a bone-chilling winter, enough food to last only until spring, and the inevitable arrival of the White Walkers and the Red Plot. She gripped the rusty hunting knife left behind by the original owner of the body:

"Now that we're dressed as Mormont, we can't let the flag of Bear Island fall in winter."

He wanted to free his people from the days of "eating black bread until their teeth ached"; he wanted to tell Arya that "survival is more important than winning the sword"; he wanted to try to rewrite the Prime Minister's tragedy; and he wanted Robb to save the Northern army from total annihilation at the Red Wedding.

Some ridiculed him for "going against common sense in the North," while others questioned his "presumptuous remarks as a collateral descendant."

He witnessed Sansa grow from an innocent girl into the Lady of Winterfell, stood with Jon Snow on the Wall through the coldest nights, listened to Ygritte talk about the stars beyond the Wall, and fought alongside Daenerys's dragons against the waves of death.

This is the story of a time traveler in the Game of Thrones world who uses modern wisdom to strengthen his family, rewrite tragedy, and ultimately become the "Bear Lord" of the North—there is no instant gratification, only the warmth of step-by-step progress and the unyielding backbone of the North.