For the fanart, could you do Val full shieldmaiden stlye, post-battle?
I am so proud of this! I love it, if I can say so myself.
I think that the equipment of the skjaldmær (shielmaiden) is quite historically accurate.
The swan feather cloak is not. I chose it because Val, shieldmaiden version, reminded me of Hervör (also a shieldmaiden from the Hervarar saga ok Heiðrek). And Hervör + Val reminded me of the homonymous valkyrie from the Vǫlundarkviða, also a swan-maiden.
"– Nós, o povo livre, sabemos coisas que vocês, os que ajoelham, já esqueceram. Às vezes, a estrada mais curta não é a mais segura, Jon Snow. O Senhor Chifrudo disse um dia que a feitiçaria é uma espada sem cabo. Não há maneira segura de pegar nela." - A Tormenta de Espadas // Jon X
People need to stop acting as if Dany’s forces were the only ones fighting in the Long Night. There were Northerners there. There were Knights of the Vale there. There were Freefolk there. There was the Brotherhood without Banners and the Night’s Watch there. Jaime Lannister was there. Stop acting like Daenerys was the savior just by merely existing.
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Promise me, she had cried, in a room that smelled of blood and roses. Promise me, Ned. The fever had taken her strength and her voice had been faint as a whisper, but when he gave her his word, the fear had gone out of his sister's eyes.
"Mother." There was a sharpness in Robb's tone. "You forget. My father had four sons."
"The Night's Watch will make for Hardhome. I ride to Winterfell alone, unless…" Jon paused. "… is there any man here who will come stand with me?"
The roar was all he could have hoped for, the tumult so loud that the two old shields tumbled from the walls.
okay so i had to consult the theory ice berg bc i forgot all of them.
1. Jeyne Westerling escaped with the Blackfish. Idk what anyone says I’m always going root for the survival of a teen girl. Plus I think there’s absolute comedy in the Blackfish adopting his grand-nephew’s teenage wife and hitting the road to get her to Greywater Watch.
2. Euron warged the dusky woman to have sex with/spy on Victarion. What else can I say except that Euron is absolutely perverted enough to do that
3. Ashara Dayne = Jyana Reed. There’s no disproving it, really, and I think the most desirable and beautiful woman in the world finding happiness in a quiet swamp with short king Howland Reed to heal after the Events of Everything is what she deserves.
4. Alyssa Targaryen is Alaric Stark’s daughter with Alysanne. Iffc, she was born right after Alysanne got back from the North. It doesnt really do anything for the plot except to poke another hole in Jaehaerys’ Pure Blood Exceptionalism
5. Renly Baratheon is Robert’s first bastard son. This is (unofficially) why he was left Storm’s End over Stannis and why Robert was sent to the Eyrie. Again, I dont think it changes/adds anything to the story, but I think it would be very interesting/ironic if Renly’s campaign for kingship did have more technical legitimacy than Stannis and neither of them realized
"Um dos gigantes que se aproximava deles parecia mais velho do que os outros. Sua pelagem era cinza e rajada de branco, e o mamute que montava, maior do que todos os demais, também era cinza e branco. Tormund gritou qualquer coisa para ele ao passar, palavras rudes e ressonantes, numa língua que Jon não compreendia. Os lábios do gigante separaram-se para revelar uma boca cheia de enormes dentes quadrados, e ele fez um som que era meio arroto, meio trovão. Após um momento, Jon compreendeu que estava rindo. O mamute virou sua enorme cabeça para dar uma breve olhada nos dois, fazendo uma gigantesca presa passar sobre a cabeça de Jon enquanto o animal avançava pesadamente, deixando grandes pegadas na lama mole e na neve fresca ao longo do rio." - A Tormenta de Espadas // Jon II
What tribe is your inspiration/headcanon for the Starks?
the očhéthi šakówiŋ nations <3 I fashioned Westeros after North America when reading the novels! And to me the Starks and all the northern houses just felt indigenous