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First of Her Name

#a song of ice and fire #fire and blood #house targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen

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"…How did you kill Robert?" "He did that himself. All we did was help. When Lancel saw that Robert was going after boar, he gave him strongwine . His favorite sour red, but fortified, three times as potent as he was used to. The great stinking fool loved it. He could have stopped swilling it down anytime he cared to, but no, he drained one skin and told Lancel to fetch another. The boar did the rest. You should have been at the feast, Tyrion. There has never been a boar so delicious. They cooked it with mushrooms and apples, and it tasted like triumph." "Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow."

#a clash of kings #a song of ice and fire #house lannister

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A card I painted about a year ago for the W.i.t.c.h tarot project

#witch #irma lair #the chariot tarot

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Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎉

#happy new year #ballet #the nutcracker

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"…the servants returned with a plate of food fresh from the kitchen. There was much more than she'd asked for: hot bread, butter and honey and blackberry preserves, a rasher of bacon and a soft boiled egg, a wedge of cheese, a pot of mint tea. And with it came Maester Luwin. "How is my son, Maester?" Catelyn looked at all the food and found she had no appetite."

#a song of ice and fire #a game of thrones #house stark

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"She had outlived all of her children and spent the last year of her life confined to her apartments, with no company but her septa, the serving girls who brought her food, and the guards outside her door. Books were given to her, and needles and thread, but her guards said Alicent spent more time weeping than reading or sewing. One day she ripped all her clothing into pieces. By the end of the year she had taken to talking to herself, and had come to have a deep aversion to the color green." (the composition is inspired by Flavitsky's "Princess Tarakanova")

#a song of ice and fire #fire and blood #house hightower #house targaryen #alicent hightower

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#a song of ice and fire #house martell #sand snakes #tyene sand #nymeria sand #elia sand #obella sand #obara sand #ellaria sand #dorea sand #oberyn martell #sarella sand

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"Even on the dais they were closer than Catelyn would have liked. She had been placed between Ser Ryman Frey and Roose Bolton, and had gotten a good noseful of both. Ser Ryman drank as if Westeros was about to run short of wine, and sweated it all out under his arms. He had bathed in lemonwater, she judged, but no lemon could mask so much sour sweat. Roose Bolton had a sweeter smell to him, yet no more pleasant. He sipped hippocras in preference to wine or mead, and ate but little. Catelyn could not fault him for his lack of appetite. The wedding feast began with a thin leek soup, followed by a salad of green beans, onions, and beets, river pike poached in almond milk, mounds of mashed turnips that were cold before they reached the table, jellied calves' brains, and a leche of stringy beef. It was poor fare to set before a king, and the calves' brains turned Catelyn's stomach. Yet Robb ate it uncomplaining, and her brother was too caught up with his bride to pay much attention."

#a storm of swords #a song of ice and fire #house frey #house stark #house tully

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"…Mattheus departed four days later for Oldtown. Too corpulent to sit a horse, he traveled ina gilded wheelhouse, attended by six guardsmen and a dozen servants. Legend tells us that whilst crossing the Mander at Bitterbridge, he passed Septon Barth coming in the other direction. Barth was alone, riding on a donkey."

#septon barth #septon mattheus #fire and blood #a song of ice and fire

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“Whilst Princess Rhaenyra misliked her stepmother, Queen Alicent, she became fond and more than fond of her good-sister Lady Laena. With Driftmark and Dragonstone so close, Daemon and Laena oft visited with the princess, and her with them. Many a time they flew together on their dragons, and the princess’s she-dragon Syrax produced several clutches of eggs. In 118 AC, with the blessing of King Viserys, Rhaenyra announced the betrothal of her two eldest sons to the daughters of Prince Daemon and Lady Laena. Jacaerys was four and Lucerys three, the girls two. And in 119 AC, when Laena found she was with child again, Rhaenyra flew to Driftmark to attend her during the birth.” Another redraw of an old artwork

#house targaryen #house velaryon #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targaryen #laena velaryon #fire and blood #a song of ice and fire

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#color wheel challenge

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"...Princess Rhaenyra poured for her stepmother at the feast, and Queen Alicent Kissed her and named her "daughter". The princess was amongst the women who disrobed the king and delivered him to the bedchamber of his bride. Laughter and love ruled the Red Keep that night..."

#house targaryen #house hightower #viserys targaryen #viserys i targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #the realm's delight #alicent hightower #fire and blood #a song of ice and fire

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“Cersei set a tasty table, that could not be denied. They started with a creamy chestnut soup, crusty hot bread, and greens dressed with apples and pine nuts. Then came lamprey pie, honeyed ham, buttered carrots, white beans and bacon, and roast swan stuffed with mushrooms and oysters. Tyrion was exceedingly courteous; he offered his sister the choice portions of every dish, and made certain he ate only what she did. Not that he truly thought she'd poison him, but it never hurt to be careful. ...Serving men cleared away the swan, hardly touched. Cersei beckoned for the sweet. "I hope you like blackberry tarts."”

#a clash of kings #a song of ice and fire #house lannister

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“We thank you for the sun that warms us. We thank you for the stars that watch us. We thank you for our hearths and for our torches, that keep the savage dark at bay.”

#red priest #r'hllor #lord of light #moqorro #melisandre #melisandre of asshai #thoros of myr #a song of ice and fire

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#ballet #giselle

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"Given the traditions and practices of House Targaryen, a match between his two eldest children must have seemed the obvious course to King Aenys. The affection between Rhaena and Aegon was well-known, and neither raised any objection to the marriage... ...The storm that greeted the king's announcement took them all by surprise, though the warning signs had been plain enough for those with the wit to read them. The Faitn had condoned, or at the very least ignored, the marriage of the Conqueror and his sisters, but it was not willing to do the same for their grandchildren."

#house targaryen #aegon the uncrowned #aegon targaryen #rhaena the black bride #rhaena targaryen #fire and blood #a song of ice and fire

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"...And best of all, Lord Nestor’s cooks prepared a splendid subtlety, a lemon cake in the shape of the Giant’s Lance, twelve feet tall and adorned with an Eyrie made of sugar. For me, Alayne thought, as they wheeled it out. Sweetrobin loved lemon cakes too, but only after she told him that they were her favorites. The cake had required every lemon in the Vale, but Petyr had promised that he would send to Dorne for more."

#the winds of winter #a song of ice and fire #house arryn #alayne stone