Queen Sharra Of The Vale, Regent For Her Son Ronnel, Took Refuge In The Eyrie, Looked To Her Defenses,

Queen Sharra of the Vale, regent for her son Ronnel, took refuge in the Eyrie, looked to her defenses, and sent an army to the Bloody Gate, gateway to the Vale of Arryn. In her youth Queen Sharra had been lauded as “the Flower of the Mountain,” the fairest maid in all the Seven Kingdoms. Perhaps hoping to sway Aegon with her beauty, she sent him a portrait of herself and offered herself to him in marriage, provided he named her son Ronnel as his heir. Though the portrait did finally reach him, it is not known whether Aegon Targaryen ever replied to her proposal; he had two queens already, and Sharra Arryn was by then a faded flower, ten years his elder.

requested by @edythofhastings

The boy-king Ronnel Arryn and his mother Sharra Arryn, his Queen Regent, had ruled over the Kingdom of the Vale during the War of Conquest. Sharra was considered one of the most beautiful women of Westeros. When Aegon sought to conquer the Seven Kingdoms, she offered him her hand in marriage if he would declare Ronnel his heir. He refused, and in the battles that came after, Sharra stood firm. The Arryn fleet won against Targaryen ships at the Battle of Gulltown. In retaliation, Aegon sent his sister-wife Visenya. Riding Vhagar, her dragon, Visenya burned the Arryn fleet at anchor. Sharra refused to bend the knee. She amassed the strength of the Vale at the Bloody Gate, expecting an onslaught from the Targaryens. However, defeat was not in blood but in coercion: through the boy-king himself. With the army diverted from the Eyrie, Visenya flew Vhagar into the very heart of the stronghold. Sharra returned to her son sitting on Visenya’s lap, enchanted by the sight of Vhagar in the courtyard. Sharra bent the knee, and the Eyrie fell without a fight.

(with Rosamund Pike as Visenya Targaryen.)

A Clash of Kings Queens

Ser Kevan remembered the girl she once had been, so full of life and mischief. And when she’d flowered, ah… had there ever been a maid so sweet to look upon?

young cersei lannister (requested by anonymous)

the women of the dance:

“The great Lords would have given us another two years of war […] it was the women who made the peace.”

jodie comer as rhaenyra targaryen, natalie portman as alicent hightower, alexandra dowling as helaena targaryen, lucy griffiths as alysanne blackwood, rebecca ferguson as johanna lannister, juliet aubrey as jeyne arryn, alicia vikander as the unnamed lady tyrell, and jodhi may as elenda baratheon