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rhaegxr · 7 months
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Update of this post ↳ "Typical Targaryen features are silvery-gold or platinum hair and striking lilac or indigo or violet eyes, and is a famous proclamation of their heritage."
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coldraindropsss · 5 months
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Valyrians are famous for having silver-gold hair and violet-purple eyes, characteristics not found amongst any other peoples of the world. This can vary from white to silver-gold to blond hair, and from lilac, to deep purple, and pale blue eyes. The most noble of Valyrians were considered strikingly, some say inhumanly, beautifu
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sansa286 · 8 months
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On...Targaryen (Valyrian) Eye Colors!
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(I cannot for the life of me find the source of this GIF, if anyone knows pls lemme know. Source for the picture here.)
Since I did my post on the hair colors found among Valyrians, an anon gave me the idea to analyze the eye colors found among them as well. In Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon no one has purple eyes because they don't occur naturally in real life, and purple contacts can be really hard on actor's eyes and also affect their performance. However the majority of people of Valyrian descent have varying shades of purple eye colors in the books, which is what I will cover today.
Disclaimer: Not every single Targaryen/someone of Valyrian heritage has specific shades mentioned. Several, like Laenor Velaryon, are described as having simply "purple eyes." Mood boards are courtesy of Pinterest, sources to them are linked.
Violet
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The most common eye color among Valyrians is "violet." Daenerys and several other Targaryens are described with this eye color. Certain members of the Dayne family, like Ashara, also bear this shade despite the fact that they have no known Valyrian ancestry. Violet is a bright and vibrant purple color that leans blue. Note that many of the dragonseeds, like Bittersteel, are also born with violet eyes.
2. Lilac
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Rhaena (Aenys's daughter), Rhaenys (Aemon's daughter), and Viserys (Dany's brother) have lilac eyes. Lilac is frequently described as a light violet color, or simply a pale purple.
3. Indigo/Dark Purple
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Rhaegar was described as having indigo colored eyes, and Aegon III was described as having purple eyes so dark they were almost black. Indigo is a combination between blue and violet/purple. It's also called "blurple" (blue+purple) and "purplish blue."
4. Blue
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Not all Targaryens and Valyrians have purple eyes, especially if they were born of mixed heritage. Several had blue, like Queen Alysanne who was described as having "clear blue" eyes.
5. Brown
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Like with blue eyes, Targaryens born of mixed marriages can have brown eyes. Baelor Breakspear and Rhaenyra's children with Laenor/Harwin: Jacaerys, Lucerys, and Joffrey are examples of this.
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6. Multi-Color
A couple of Targaryens, Alyssa and Shiera Seastar, have a condition called heterochromia, which causes each pupil to be a different color. Alyssa had one violet and one green eye; Shiera had one blue and one green eye. I'll link to some fanart that depicts their heterochromia below.
Alyssa: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Shiera: 1, 2, 3, 4 (scroll down to the second picture), 5
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reignof-fyre · 11 months
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Colonizers impose their own cultural values, religions, and laws, making policies that do not favour the Indigenous Peoples. They seize land and control the access to resources and trade. As a result, the Indigenous people become dependent on colonizers.
Settler colonialization either rules as a minority group through oppression and assimilation of the indigenous peoples or by establishing themself as the demographic majority through driving away, disadvantaging, or outright killing the indigenous people.
Oh, I see...
The First Men came with bronze swords and great leathern shields, riding horses. As the men settled in the new land, carving out holdfasts and farms, they chopped down and burned the carved weirwoods that were sacred to the gods of the children of the forest. This provoked wars between the children and the First Men. Though the children fought with their greenseers, magic, and wood dancers, the First Men were larger, stronger, and more technologically advanced. The First Men cut down weirwoods as they believed that the greenseers could see through the eyes of the trees.
Hm
Brandon of the Bloody Blade is a legendary son of Garth Greenhand. He is credited with driving giants away from the Reach and warring against children of the forest, slaying so many at Blue Lake that it became known as Red Lake. In some tales, he is mentioned as the ancestor or father of Bran the Builder, making him a possible ancestor of House Stark.
Oh...
Andals first landed in the Fingers and attacked the First Men living in the Vale. They burnt out the weirwood groves, hacked down the faces, and slaughtered the children of the forest that they came across. Everywhere, they proclaimed the triumph of the Seven over the old gods. A hill, now known to the Westerosi as High Heart, was sacred to the children of the forest. There, the Andal king Erreg the Kinslayer cut down the children’s grove of thirty-one weirwoods. It is said that the First Men killed half of the children of the forest with bronze blades, and the Andals finished the job with iron
Interesting....
The Westeros of Aegon's youth was divided into seven quarrelsome kingdoms, and there was hardly a time when two or three of these kingdoms were not at war with one another. [Fire & Blood]
Aegon the Conqueror brought fire and blood to Westeros, but afterward, he gave them peace, prosperity, and justice
Aegon's first established law was the King's Peace, which forbid conflict in the realm without the leave of the Iron Throne. Aegon treated the defeated lords with respect and allowed each region to retain its own laws and customs and for the lords to retain both the right of pit and gallows and the first night. Aegon often travelled the realm with six maesters who educated him on each region's local customs and history.
...Aegon ignored the suggestions of making the ironborn vassals to the Tullys of Riverrun or the Lannisters of Casterly Rock, as well as the suggestion to exterminate the ironborn by dragonflame. Instead, Aegon allowed the ironborn to name their own lord paramount, for which the ironborn chose Vickon Greyjoy as Lord of the Iron Islands.
The remaining twenty-four years of Aegon's reign were peaceful, so much that the last two decades of his reign were later called the Dragon's Peace by the maesters of the Citadel. He spent much of his time consolidating his power by travelling throughout the Seven Kingdoms and building his capital at King's Landing.
Oh, really.
If the Valyrian's truly were the colonisers many in the fandom claim they are, Westeros would be extremely different.
For one, the predominant faith would be the Old Gods of Valyria, and the Faith of the Seven and the old gods of the north & children wouldn't exist. People would be forced to intermarry siblings/relatives and perhaps even keep slaves according to pre-Doom Valyria (even though the Targaryens stopped slavery once they left Valyria) or forced to marry Valyrian people to dilute their First Men or Andal blood so, eventually, most great houses were mostly Valyrian.
Temples dedicated to the Fourteen Flames would be built, dozens of dragons hatched and left to roam freely and hunt as they please, blood magic and sorcerers aplenty.
The Valyrians didn't do any of that. Aegon I ensured that the separate Kingdoms kept their culture and traditions and respected the Faith. It even says that many Targaryens gave up their faith in the Old Valyrian Gods (or so they say) to worship the Faith of the Seven or Old Gods of Westeros.
Tl;dr; the first men and andals colonized westeros to suit them, slaughtering the natives (children of the forest and giants) and the Targaryens (Valyrians) indeed conquered westeros but respected the land and people and only brought their ways of dragon riding and incestuous marriages who hurt no one :)
And also all the Targaryen's since Daenys's children's era were born on Westetosi soil, Dragonstone/Kings Landing, and thus were in actual fact westerosi but culturally and ethnically Valyrian.
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witchofvalyria · 2 years
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The three black brides of Maegor I Targaryen.
They all lost their previous husbands to war against Maegor himself
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starryrosebud · 2 years
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I am so tired of “Westerosi culture” “Northman culture” “dornish culture” when we can finally talk about the Valyrians??! Without demonising them or whitewashing the “poor Westerosi”?!?
Let’s talk about:
- how the Valyrian,ghiscari and summer islanders were already trading with the children of the forest before the first man invaded westeros?
- the beginning of Valyria, they went from being shepherds to a incredible empire!
- how apparently the High Valyrian have four grammatical genders!! How this work for spells?
- The massive sexual objectification they receive from both Westeros and Essos.
- blood magic and glass candle
-Sphinx and dragons in Valyrian architecture
- the thousands gods they worshipped
-their dances and music
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bbygirl-aemond · 11 months
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bbygirl-aemond, I have thoughts, I will reread chapter 32, but I do have thoughts if you dont mind me asking them. I think initially, my question is, how do you balance the role of Valyria historically with the nature of their colonialism? Only because it seems like the picture presented is that ultimately Valyrianness is a good thing? It seemed like despite the Firstmen not wanting Valyrian conquerors who desecrated their land with fire, Harrenhal did? And that seems off to me? I mean if your pro-valyrian then totally disregard this but I had got the impression that you were rather critical of them but maybe I was conflating your critique of Viserys with your critique of Valyria and the Valyrian Freehold? Also, side note I very much enjoyed the complex relationship everyone had with Viserys and how it wasn't reconciled and that Helaena stood her ground. Your interpretation of her is my absolute favourite because she is a fully fleshed woman with her own motivations, and her distance from Rhaenyra is that wonderful icing on the cake. Coming from someone who doesn't like my own half-sister, it's very understandable Helaenas weariness but also her stubbornness not to forget what Rhaenyra put her and her brothers through. It's just chefs' kiss.
No that's a fair question! Ultimately, I think my answer is that my opinion on morality of canon is separate from what I choose to play around with for fun. For example, I don't think we're meant to read ASoIaF and come away like "yes monarchy is good actually." I'm very anti-monarchist in my everyday life, but it's tons of fun to lean into the grand imagery related to monarchy and divine right in a fantasy world. This applies to the themes of colonialism and feudalism as well.
Stormbreak is, fundamentally, a Targaryen Restoration fic, so it's not going to be doing any heavy lifting related to concepts of monarchy, feudalism, and colonialism. I do address parts of these themes, but not in full, and it shouldn't be taken as a perfect mirror of my own views outside of the Stormbreak sandbox.
As for Harrenhal--I think there isn't necessarily a moral endorsement of the Valyrian magic there. Just because something exists doesn't mean that it's good that it exists, but it is a reality. Jace's Valyrian-ness is useful in its ability to protect the members of House Strong from a curse that would otherwise kill them off. Jace's arc here also isn't finished, and we haven't seen the final form of the agreement(s) he'll have with the land he rules. This is because the First Men are, you guessed it, also originally colonizers! They invaded Westeros, slaughtered the children of the forest in spades, and destroyed their sacred spaces. They were eventually forced to stop and coexist, but only after a massive display of force (the children of the forest literally broke Westeros and Essos into two separate continents), so it wasn't out of realization that their colonizing was wrong, and they still successfully stole most of Westeros from the children of the forest, relegating them to small patches of land here and there where Weirwood trees grew. I can't spoil too much here, but let's just say the Valyrians weren't the first ones to think of imbuing the land with spells to drive out the First Men… and that Stormbreak will ultimately treat the children of the forest as the only true natives of Westeros.
I'm glad that Helaena's characterization has resonated with you! She's been so fun to write. In general, I've had so much fun with the female characters in this fic, particularly ones like Helaena, Baela, and Alys whose personalities were kind of neglected in the book and/or the show. I also have this pet peeve around the idea that women inherently always have to like each other because of girlboss solidarity, so I deliberately called attention to Rhaenyra's mistake in thinking that Helaena would side with her because they were both women. Helaena isn't necessarily always going to agree with Rhaenyra on things, which is understandable. They had vastly different upbringings, and Helaena's experience with dreaming gives her an entirely unique perspective. In this chapter, Helaena doesn't try to stop Aemond and Aegon, because she agrees with them! Regardless of how much fear she personally felt (since I think her dreams provide a lot of reassurance to her that others aren't able to access), she still spent her entire life surrounded by her family, who were very much impacted by that fear.
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lookatthethrones · 2 years
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horizon-verizon · 1 year
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I know it really doesn’t matter in the long run and that many people were fine with it or got used to it.
However, it will always annoy me that HotD and GoT did not put all different shades of purple, violet, strange and normal shades of blue on their Targaryen and Velaryon characters (yes the same for the black actors--why not? no racism). It takes me out of the story sometimes. They don't really seem like a different people by appearance alone with just their hair, while in the books (and not just the story POVs of AGoT) they are emphasized time and again how their looks are one of the reasons why the Targaryens are felt by others as "diifferent".
 It lends to their mystique in the narrative.
I have seen film and shows that give their characters different contacts or edited their eyes in post-production: the Witcher and Twilight for example (even if that last one had some bogus contacts at times). Imagine if Geralt didn't have his signature yellow eyes? People would riot.
The hair colors, too, since it's described as "silver w/gold" for many Valyrian-descents (and even then, where's the variety of that particular feature?). The hair in the two shows tend to be more bleached blonde than "different"-blonde. And the conditions of the wigs placed on the actors aren't always the best, which lowers the immersion enough where I get distracted sometimes.
 (Except for Matt Smith's braided look of episode 3 and his short hair of episode 4-5. Those appeared to have more effort put into them to characterize him and his state of mind. Also, all of Emma's hair looks actually looked like it grew out of their head and never looked dry.) 
The great beauty of the Valyrians—with their hair of palest silver or gold and eyes in shades of purple not found amongst any other peoples of the world—is well-known, and often held up as proof that the Valyrians are not entirely of the same blood as other men. Yet there are maesters who point out that, by careful breeding of animals, one can achieve a desirable result, and that populations in isolation can often show quite remarkable variations from what might be regarded as common. (A World of Ice and Fire, 13)
It also points out the problem with GoT not allowing the colorfulness of Essoi cities like Tyrosh, Norvos, Qohor, etc have their individuals have dyed hair and multicolored clothing. A Tyroshi in GoT named Daario Naaharis--also Dany's lover--was supposed to have blue-dyed hair, since that is part of the Tyroshi culture.
The diversity from the canon world was dulled, so part of the allure of the ASoIaF's world was lacking in the shows.
But I also do understand that it takes a lot to even create, supply, shoot, and edit TV shows, so I can never feel all the way offended. It’s like I should be, with all my reasoning above always a weight, but the shows’ existence will forever jsut be as they are. Sigh.
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Nemesis- Chapter One
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Title: Nemesis
Pairing: OCxJacaerys Velaryon
Wordcount: 1132
Summary: Danae never thought her life could end because of a bunch of slavers and her temper. Luckily, she gets saved by some white-haired sailors and a dark haired prince.
Warnings: attempted sexual abuse (multiple times), a lot of mentions of slavery, kinda confused POV bc I’d like to see you being absolutely understandable after two months of suffering, beatings, death (but he’s an asshole), I swear it will be clearer in the next chapter, PLEASE TELL ME IF I FORGOT ANYTHING
How long had passed?
Mere seconds, agonizing days, long months, an entire year?
Danae wasn’t entirely sure, and she had no way of finding out.
She was mad, and she knew her anger management could get better. Many things could be said about her, but stupidity wasn’t among those. A boat had carried her to Naath, just to find some peace that at home was missing.
Unfortunately, the slavers found her first.
It was a sour irony. Her people had started an empire based on slavery. The Valyrian Freehold, just like the Ghiscari Empire before it, was based on slavery. The Fourteen Flames were digged by slaves, and even if the Lords of the Dragons convinced themself that only the worst got that fate, nothing could change the truth: the source of their power was in the hands of mere slaves.
Just like she was now in the hands of slavers.
Her family survived by minding their own damn businesses.That much was clear to her. But she was only seven-and-ten. She thought herself invincible and a warrior of justice, which was funny, considering where it had brought her.
In the hold of a slaver’s ships. 
Honestly, she was starting to wish she had Daerves with her. That would have defeated the ‘’not being found purpose’’ of her entire trip, but it would have saved her a lot of trouble.
It started in the night.
The Naathi knew her by now, and were quick to accept that weird but peaceful girl from the Dragon Kin. She had her own place to sleep whenever things got rough at home. A little girl had shaken her when the moon was high in sky, her golden eyes shining with terror.
Triple damned slavers.
They caught them both. Danae could have escaped quickly- hiding was what she did best, after all- but Abeni? She was ten years younger than her, and she was shaking with fear. First, they beat Danae, not that she blamed them. She had killed three of them with her twin blades, but when they pointed a knife to the child’s throat, she had to surrender. 
Of course, they were separated. The slavers spoke a bastard Valyrian, but she understood them well enough. 
They were wondering what in the good gods was a Valyrian girl doing in Naath. After a quick confrontation with the captain, it was resolved by a ‘’She’ll be worth a lot of money’’, and that settled the matter.
It was him, the captain, that she swore to kill first. The bastard- no, that was a compliment to the children born out of wedlock. The piece of scum chained her in his personal cabin first, then made sure to spend a couple of hours playing with her swords. 
Unfortunately for Danae’s spirit, that wasn’t the only thing that belonged to her that he was planning to play with.
When he started tearing up her clothes, it wasn’t panic that took ahold of her.
It was pure rage. 
She spit in his eye.
When he tried again, she kicked him in the crotch.
Then used her elbow to break his nose.
Only then did he beat her for the first time and left her to bleed on the wooden floor.
After some time- she had gained and lost consciousness more times than she cared to count- he grunted something in his bastard Valyrian and tried touching her again. She broke his nose again. 
He chained her on the deck of the ship, without any water or bread. For two days, only moving her down in his cabin during the night. Perhaps he hoped to break her spirit with some sun. Fool.
Danae cursed him under her breath every time he passed near her, until she was allowed to drink and eat.
She passed quite some time like that. Chained in the dark, then in the sun again.
One night, he made the mistake of letting her stay up in the night. She saw the moon. At least one month had passed, if not more.
But most of all, she saw the moon and prayed. The gods that were her mother’s and her mother’s mother before hers.
When her gods answered, it was midday, and she had fainted from the heat.
Apparently, the gods worked through her kin from Old Valyria. 
A white-haired warrior- no, there was more than one, or was she seeing double?- was piercing the man that pointed the knife at Abeni’s throat through his belly. And another one was going downstairs to check if there were more.
‘’Wait’’ she tried to say, although her voice was faint from the lack of water. She was lying down on the deck, but her head was suddenly settled on something comfortable.
‘’Grandfather! She’s alive!’’ Yelled a young man- the only brown haired that looked important. He kneeled by her side, and purple met reassuring brown while he helped a water bottle to her broken lips.
‘’No- there are more under. U-unchain me. There’s another way they won’t expect you to take’’ she explained in Westerosi. The young man that helped talked in that language, after all.
‘’Grandfather, it sounds important. Which way?’’ he asked her, and only then did she realize her head was on his legs. But he had brought her water, and she didn’t care.
‘’There is a second trapdoor. The man with a golden ring, spare him. Please’’ she didn’t care for the piece of scum’s life. She simply wanted her revenge.
‘’I’ll stay with her. We have no reason to doubt her.’’ The darkly skinned man, that her savior had called Grandfather, nodded, and yelled a command to his men, that changed their path.
‘’Are you- well, you are definitely not fine, sorry. Do you want more water?’’ her savior asked, brushing some white hair off her face.
‘’Unchain me. Please.’’ she begged. The chains of iron held her down, making it impossible to properly stand, and her wrists were starting to feel the weight of them.
‘’Right. Sorry. Mitchard! Will you come here for a second? Perfect. Mind breaking one link of the chain, please?’’ The man, a dark haired foot soldier, by her judging, obeyed without asking questions. She sighed in relief, taking her hands to her chest.
Her relief was short-lived when the Grandfather of her savior came up again, carrying the piece of scum. Hesitant, she stood up, and limped until she was staring him in his eyes.
Then, with a quick movement, she took the knife from the handle on Grandfather’s waist, ant plunged it into the fucker’s heart.
‘’Die knowing you did not break me. May you find no peace in whatever afterlife you believe in.’’ she hissed, watching the life draining from his eyes, until her savior softly pulled her away from him.
‘’Now, would you mind answering some questions, my lady?’’.
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I think one of my personal most disliked takes people have on the Targaryens (and Valyrians in general) is that they are supposed to be the elves of asoiaf... Like, children of the forest are right there?
Nothing about Valyrians except their affinity to magic points me to connect them with elves, and even the magic thing doesn't hold up when you think about it in the grand scheme of things because a lot of fantasy worlds have those ancient civilization that weren't elves (and weren't necessarily human but that's beside my point) that wielded big magical might but faced ruin one way or the other.
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asoiafreadthru · 10 months
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THE OLD DYNASTY
HOUSE TARGARYEN
The Targaryens are the blood of the dragon, descended from the high lords of the ancient Freehold of Valyria, their heritage proclaimed in a striking (some say inhuman) beauty, with lilac or indigo or violet eyes and hair of silver-gold or platinum white.
Aegon the Dragon’s ancestors escaped the Doom of Valyria and the chaos and slaughter that followed to settle on Dragonstone, a rocky island in the narrow sea. It was from there that Aegon and his sisters Visenya and Rhaenys sailed to conquer the Seven Kingdoms.
To preserve the blood royal and keep it pure, House Targaryen has often followed the Valyrian custom of wedding brother to sister. Aegon himself took both his sisters to wife, and fathered sons on each.
The Targaryen banner is a three-headed dragon, red on black, the three heads representing Aegon and his sisters.
The Targaryen words are Fire and Blood.
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legitchild · 1 year
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So something I see a lot on theory channels is the idea that, seeing as Valyrian steel can kill Others, somehow the Valyrians were involved in the Long Night/War For The Dawn. Related to this, there’s this fused black stone that’s made with dragonfire- it’s what Dragonstone castle is made out of- that makes up the base of the Hightower in Oldtown. Only that predates the Targaryen invasion and colonisation of Westeros. So the thought there is Valyrians must have been involved somehow.
My theory there is that both techniques- Valyrian steel and fused black stone- were invented by the peoples of Essos. When the Valyrians colonised Essos and built their empire off of exploiting and enslaving the Essosi, they simply stole these techniques and claimed they invented them.
Par for the course for colonising imperialist empires.
That way, the colonising, purity obsessed imperialist slavers don’t get any credit for anything other than being the absolute worst and there’s more positivity for the Essosi, who desperately need it.
(Also, if theory channels could stop suggesting the Valyrians are anything akin to the First Men, who predate the Valyrians by thousands of years, that would be great, thanks.)
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miss-nymphetamine · 1 year
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Some time ago I made a post about me learning High Valyrian in Duolingo because I wanted to write a story where characters used it, and I wanted dialogues to sound "realistic".
This story -which I still plan on writing- was set in Valyria and followed the last years of the Empire through the eyes of a high born lady who has visions through dreams and the gift of premonition: Maelya.
Maelya, unlike most Valyrian aristocrats, worships a set of gods and is troubled since childhood by fire-related visions that no one believes -not even priests at the temple, and especially not her own family. Maelya abandoned hope a long time ago, but still feels bitter and resentful of a luminous world built on suffering and agony that deliberately decides to ignore the portents and signals that mark its dark fate.
Until one day, her dear Daenys of House Targaryen -vassal to her own House- and herself have the same dream. And that's when everything starts falling down, with Valyria nearing its Doom and Maelya doing the impossible to save the love of her life and to provide a new beginning for those that really deserve it.
...so what do you think? Should I write this madness?
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witchofvalyria · 1 year
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First Daemyra lockscreen for you all <3
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starryrosebud · 2 years
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Me after receiving CRUMBS of Valyrian culture:
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Rhaenyra’s headdress 🛐🛐
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Pls give me moreeeeee
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