Preasoiaf Appreciation Week ( @preasoiafsource): Day 4 (couples) Rohanne Webber And Duncan The Tall

preasoiaf appreciation week ( @preasoiafsource): day 4 (couples) ➸ Rohanne Webber and Duncan the Tall

If Dunk was shy an inch of seven feet, the archer was shy an inch of five. He could have spanned her waist with his two hands. Her red hair was bound up in a braid so long it brushed past her thighs, and she had a dimpled chin, a snub nose, and a light spray of freckles across her cheeks. “You are the Red Widow?” he heard himself blurt out. “But you’re too — ” “Young?” The girl tossed her longbow to the lanky lad he’d seen her shooting with. “I am five-and-twenty, as it happens. Or was it small you meant to say?” “ — pretty. It was pretty.” I’ll bet she’s freckled all over.

Pre-A Song of Ice and Fire Appreciation Week:

↳ Day 6: Monarchs → Aegon the Dragon

Aegon Targaryen was an enigma.

Armed with the Valyrian steel blade Blackfyre, he was counted amongst the greatest warriors of his age, yet he took no pleasure in feats of arms and never rode in tourney or mêlée. His mount was Balerion the Black Dread, but he flew only to battle, or to travel swiftly across land and sea. His commanding presence drew men to his banners, yet he had no close friends, save Orys Baratheon, the companion of his youth. Women were drawn to him, but Aegon remained ever faithful to his sisters.

As king, he put great trust in his small council and his sisters, leaving much of the day-to-day governance of the realm to them… yet did not hesitate to take command when he found it necessary. Though he dealt harshly with rebels and traitors, he was open-handed with former foes who bent the knee.

When Queen Visenya placed a Valyrian steel circlet, studded with rubies, on her brother’s head and Queen Rhaenys hailed him as, “Aegon, First of His Name, King of All Westeros, and Shield of His People,” the dragons roared and the lords and knights sent up a cheer… but the smallfolk, the fisherman and field hands and goodwives, shouted loudest of all.

In this manner did the First Blackfyre Rebellion begin, in the year 196 AC. Reversing the colors of the traditional Targaryen arms to show a black dragon on a red field, the rebels declared for Princess Daena’s bastard son Daemon Blackfyre, First of His Name, proclaiming him the eldest true son of King Aegon IV, and his half brother Daeron the bastard.

happy birthday @dalekofchaos! :)

14th- and 15th-century medieval fashions by Tom Tierney

a song of ice and fire aesthetics:

THE N O R T H

for the anon yesterday who wanted victarion and euron height difference…. second one is them when they were younger during the greyjoy rebellion/a thor raganrok reference, third is how vic masterfully comes up with all his own plans