I Want To Stay With Ser, Said Podrick. I Mean, My Lady.

“I want to stay with ser,” said Podrick. “I mean, my lady.”

top 20 pre-asoiaf characters as voted by our followers: → #16: rhaenyra targaryen (95 votes)

The singers dubbed her the Realm’s Delight, for she was bright and precocious—a beautiful child who was already a dragonrider at the age of seven as she flew on the back of her she-dragon Syrax, named for one of the old gods of Valyria.    

The queen your mother was always mindful of her duty.

Be brave, she told herself. Be brave, like a lady in a song.

top 20 pre-asoiaf characters as voted by our followers: → #15: visenya targaryen (99 votes)

Visenya, eldest of the three siblings, was as much a warrior as Aegon himself, as comfortable in ringmail as in silk. She carried the Valyrian longsword Dark Sister, and was skilled in its use, having trained beside her brother since childhood. Though possessed of the silver-gold hair and purple eyes of Valyria, hers was a harsh, austere beauty. Even those who loved her best found Visenya stern, serious, unforgiving, and some said that she played with poisons and dabbled in dark sorceries.

129 AC - 131 AC: the Dance of the Dragons, a war of succession between Aegon II and his half-sister Rhaenyra over their father Viserys I’s throne.

Dear brother. I had hoped that you were dead.