She Is A Common Thing, With The Stink Of Sorcery Upon Her.

She is a common thing, with the stink of sorcery upon her.

The World Of Ice And Fire meme ↳ 6/6 Moments: The Tragedy of Summerhall

What became the dream of dragons was a grievous tragedy born in a moment of joy.  

58 AC: Queen Alysanne visit to the North

“Above all else, a queen must know how to listen,” Alysanne Targaryen often said. At Castle Black, she proved those words. She listened, she heard, and she won the eternal devotion of the men of the Night’s Watch by her actions. She understood the need for a castle between Snowgate and Icemark, she told Lord Burley, but the Nightfort was crumbling, overlarge, and surely ruinous to heat. The Watch should abandon it, she said, and build a smaller castle farther to the east. Lord Burley could not disagree…but the Night’s Watch lacked the coin to build new castles, he said. Alysanne had anticipated that objection. She would pay for the castle herself, she told the Lord Commander, and pledged her jewels to cover the cost. “I have a good many jewels,” she said.

Tywin Lannister … had never weakened in his resolve to bring these overmighty vassals to heel. Late in the year 261 AC, he sent ravens to Castamere and Tarbeck Hall, demanding that Roger and Reynard Reyne and Lord and Lady Tarbeck present themselves at Casterly Rock “to answer for your crimes.” The Reynes and Tarbecks chose defiance instead, as Ser Tywin surely knew they would. Both houses rose in open revolt, renouncing their fealty to Casterly Rock. House Tarbeck was the first to feel Ser Tywin’s wroth. … In a short, brutal battle, the Tarbecks were broken and butchered. Lord Walderan Tarbek and his sons were beheaded, together with his nephews and cousins, his daughters’ husbands, and any man who displayed the seven-pointed blue-and-silver star upon his shield or surcoat to boast of Tarbeck blood. … To the ignorant eye, Castamere seemed a modest holding, … but those who knew its secrets knew that nine-tenths of the castle was beneath the ground. It was to those deep chambers that the Reynes retreated now. … Once all his folk were safe inside the tunnels, Ser Reynard sent word to Ser Tywin above, offering terms. But Tywin Lannister did not honor Ser Reynard’s offer with a reply. Instead he commanded that the mines be sealed. … Once that was done, he turned his attention to the small, swift stream that fed the crystalline blue pool beside the castle from which Castamere took its name. … The earth and stone that sealed the mine had no gaps large enough to allow a squirrel to pass, let alone a man… but the water found its way down. Ser Reynard had taken more than three hundred men, women, and children into the mines, it is said. Not a one emerged. (The World of Ice and Fire)

asoiaf meme (minor characters): the reyne-tarbeck rebellion against casterly rock (1/3 events)

Seventeen and new to knighthood, Rhaegar Targaryen had worn black plate over golden ringmail when he cantered onto the lists…

Drawing Rhaegar in armour was long overdue. I initially went with a full suit of armour but got overwhelmed every single time, so I cut back and decided to draw something more manageable😊

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shallicomparetheetolagrenouille asked: House Bracken or House Blackwood?

“Yet as I was riding up, I saw Tully banners flying from the castle walls, and the direwolf of Stark as well. That would seem to suggest that Lord Tytos has not been subdued.”