Aegon V Had Married For Love, Taking To Wife The Lady Betha Blackwood, The Spirited (some Say Willful)

Aegon V had married for love, taking to wife the Lady Betha Blackwood, the spirited (some say willful) daughter of the Lord of Raventree Hall, who became known as Black Betha for her dark eyes and raven hair.

make me choose: @buffystark asked Betha Blackwood or Melissa Blackwood

[6/20] ASOIAF power couples → Jaehaerys I Targaryen x Alysanne Targaryen

Though young to the throne, Jaehaerys revealed himself from an early age to be a true king. He was a fine warrior, skilled with lance and bow, and a gifted horseman. He was a dragonrider as well, riding upon Vermithor. Decisive in thought and deed, he was wise beyond his years, always seeking the most peaceable ends.

Among Jaehaerys’s accomplishments was creating the first unified code, so that from the North to the Dornish Marches, the realm shared a single rule of law. Great works to improve King’s Landing were also implemented, and the Conciliator began the construction of a great network of roads, understanding that to knit together the realm it must be easier to travel amongst its regions. Yet some say the most important achievement of the rule of Jaehaerys and Septon Barth was a reconciliation with the Faith.

His queen, Alysanne, was also well-loved throughout the realm, being both beautiful and high-spirited, as well as charming and keenly intelligent. Had she been a boy, she would surely have been sent to the Citadel to forge a maester’s chain, Septon Barth would say of her, for that wise man esteemed her even more than her husband. Some said that she ruled the realm as much as the king did, and there was some truth to that. It was at her behest that King Jaehaerys at last forbade the right of the First Night, despite the many lords who jealously guarded it. And the Night’s Watch came to rename the castle of Snowgate in her honor, dubbing it Queensgate instead, in thanks for the jewels she gave them to pay for the construction of a new castle.

Though the forty-six-year marriage of Jaehaerys and Alysanne was mostly harmonious, two estrangements are recorded. The Second Quarrel is of note, as it was due to Jaehaerys’s decision in 92 AC to pass over his granddaughter Rhaenys — the daughter of his deceased eldest son and heir, Prince Aemon — in favor of bestowing Dragonstone and the place of heir apparent on his next-eldest son, Baelon the Brave. “A ruler needs a good head and a true heart,” Alysanne famously told the king. “A cock is not essential. If Your Grace truly believes that women lack the wit to rule, plainly you have no further need of me.” And thus Queen Alysanne departed King’s Landing and flew to Dragonstone on her dragon Silverwing. She and King Jaehaerys remained apart for two years before being reconciled by their daughter, Septa Maegelle, but never reached accord on the succession.

ASOIAF meme: 1/6 legends

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The Lengii are a tall, slender people known for their beauty and having skin the color of oiled teak. In the four centuries since Leng threw off the yoke of Yi Ti, the island has flourished under the rule of a long line of god-empresses. The first of the current dynasty, still revered in the east as Khiara the Great, was of pure Lengii descent. 

Rakharo had grown almost half a foot during his time away from Meereen and returned with arms and legs thick with muscle and four bells in his hair. From his medallion belt hung the great curving arakh.

Argella barred her gates at the approach of Orys Baratheon and the Targaryen host, and declared herself the Storm Queen. Rather than bend the knee, the defenders of Storm’s End would die to the last man, she promised  when Queen Rhaenys flew Meraxes into the castle to parley. “You may take my castle, but you will win only bones and blood and ashes,” she announced.

[Elmar] liked to boast how he was the son of the Lord of the Crossing, not a nephew or a bastard or a grandson but a trueborn son, and on account of that he was going to marry a princess.

Arya didn’t care about his precious princess[…]. - Arya X, aCoK

AU picture of, what if the betrothal stayed, and Arya actually got married to Elmar Frey once they are both adults :) (Obviously the Red Wedding never happened in this AU)