Melisandre Of Asshai - Tumblr Posts
pov you’re about to be burned alive but this is the last thing you see so it’s fine
“The war continues, Davos Seaworth, and some will soon learn that even an ember in the ashes can still ignite a great blaze.”
So I had a thought in the shower today, which was: why is Dany so reviled by her haters for using blood magic to hatch her eggs but Stannis isn't for, at the very least attempting, blood magic through Melisandre to kill his rivals? Like Dany, at least in the books, is very clearly planning on using Mirri Maz Duur as a sacrifice ("Only death pays for life") but it's not 100% clear if she really knows that much about blood magic aside from what little Mirri told and the Dothraki told her. Like as for as we know, she doesn't even know about Old Valyria's connected to blood magic! But Stannis has Melisandre as his advisor, he knows enough to think around the whole sacrifice thing for that spell. However, we know from ACOK that he has no problem with Melisandre sacrificing people, so he really only had an issue with sacrificing Edric Storm. Meaning that if he and Melisandre ever planned on using more blood magic, he'd probably be fine with sacrificing someone, as long as they weren't his blood. All that to say, why does Dany get so much more hate for one instance of (granted it is a horrifying thing to do to someone even once) human sacrifice, while Stannis gets no hate whatsoever? And Dany has shown that she probably won't be down to do that again, especially since hatching her dragons was pretty obviously a special circumstance. Meanwhile Stannis has sacrificed how many people? What is this fucking double standard? I mean that's pretty rhetorical, since we all know it's because "Dragon Lady bad" and the raging misogynists in this fandom.
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Cersei & Jaime
Arya in Braavos
Melisandre & Davos
Euron Greyjoy
Sansa Stark
John Snow & Ghost
Lady Stoneheart
Craster with wives-daughters
Aegon with Balerion
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Someone on a stream mentioned the theory of "melisandre trying to resurrect stannis but accidentally resurrects jon instead" and I became obsessed with the idea
It took me months to get back to it but I think it’ll be finished soon!
FIRE!!!
Lady Melisandre wore no crown, but every man there knew that she was Stannis Baratheon’s real queen.
When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.
asoiaf modern au without magic thats completely normal aside from melisandre who is still a crazy red priestess who does magic burns people alive and spouts prophecies and nobody ever comments on it
something that it true but i haven’t thought about yet: melisandre and thoros are coworkers.
diversity win! the dragonstoners are
+ bonus sal saan
man i love that team dragonstone member with the weird creepy thing around their neck who thinks stannis is their divine saviour and doesn't hesitate to murder following religious visions... mel is cool too i guess
