Author: lyannastarks

booksansastark:

“If I could I’d take his ugly head off. Sansa would be a widow then, and free. There’s no other way that I can see. They made her speak the vows before a septon and don a crimson cloak.”

Catelyn remembered the twisted little man she had seized at the crossroads inn and carried all the way to the Eyrie. “I should have let Lysa push him out her Moon Door.”

jonerya:

Although she married twice more after the death of Prince Mors Martell, Nymeria herself remained the unquestioned ruler of Dorne for almost twenty-seven years, her husbands serving only as counselors and consorts. She survived a dozen attempts upon her life, put down two rebellions, and threw back two invasions by the Storm King Durran the Third and one by King Greydon of the Reach.  

favorite pre-series ladies: princess nymeria of ny sar

How old were rhaegar and elia at the time of their wedding? I received an asshole anon telling me that rhaegar had all the right to cast elia and her kids(this is a tendency I’ve noticed a lot, they never refer to them as rhaegar’s kids) aside because he was seventeen when he was forced to marry the old crown elia. My calculations say he was at least ninteen, and wasn’t elia only two years older than him?

Elia was older, but not much older. Rhaegar was 20/21 at the time of their wedding, and Elia was 22-24. That’s not a big age difference at all.

I’m curious now tho… you think Rhaegar’s choice of Lyanna to deliver his third head of the dragon was just because she was there (she was a noble lady who wanted an out of her engagement to Robert and she was his warrior Visenya, also he might have liked her and she liked him) or that it was deliberate because it has to be ice and fire and there’s an old magic in the Stark blood? Like, if Elia had been able to deliver a third child, you think Rhaegar wouldn’t have still taken Lyanna?

We don’t know if there is a mystical reason behind choosing Lyanna, such as her Stark blood, old magic, etc. What we do know is that Lyanna was unhappy in her betrothal and that Rhaegar must have had some sort of contact with her prior to and/or before he crowned her the queen of love and beauty. He chose her at Harrenhal for a reason– but again, there is nothing that details that reason, and thus we can only speculate.

The fact that Rhaegar waited until after Aegon was born says to me that he was also waiting on a verdict for the feasibility of Elia being able to have another child soon. Rhaegar appeared to have wanted to act fast, perhaps fearful that the final battle was coming soon and anxious to fulfill his prophecy. 

So no, I don’t think he would have chosen Lyanna if he had been told that Elia was fit enough to carry another child basically immediately. It all happens very quickly, and with Lyanna being highborn, desperate to escape her betrothal, and having made herself memorable to him in some way, she was his best pick.

aban-asaara:

sasskarian:

sasskarian:

In honor of my beloved friend, @aban-asaara, I allowed myself the distinct joy and privilege of commissioning another friend to do a psuedo cover-art for Asaara’s fic. 

Many thanks to the fantastic and talented @antivancorvo, I’m proud to present a dedication to the achingly haunting For What Binds Us, a love letter to the Amell family, and the tradition of tragedy that dogs their heels as surely as their favor binds their lovers together.

A strange burden, her affection. Fenris, even in the best
garments he could find—wrinkled, undyed wool and stiff, coarse linen—feels out
of place. Is it nothing more than her insatiable desire to right wrongs that
should turn her gaze towards a man so broken as he, a shadow amidst the shadows
that stretch behind the pillars and under the overhangs of the ballroom?

His gaze comes to rest on the scarlet silk at his wrist. You don’t have to keep wearing that, you know, she said once, and if not for the crest stitched on a corner,
he might have removed it for good already. 

But every time he has come close, he
pictured Hawke— whose hands were made to call forth flames and storms— with
needle and thread and her tongue sticking out from the corner of her mouth,
embroidering a scarf while thinking of him; every time he remembered how those
same hands trembled as she handed him the square of folded silk, and every time
he tied it back around his wrist, where his blood now beats against the crest
of the Amell house.

If any of my followers and friends are looking for a fantastic, beautifully rendered portrait of Hawke and Fenris, I cannot recommend this fic enough. I have seen the effort and the worldbuilding gone into it, and every time I read it, there are still sections that give me chills and make me openly weep. 

And if you’re looking for an amazing artist, I can’t recommend @antivancorvo enough, either. I adore you both! ❤ 

I feel like @aban-asaara could do with seeing this again today ❤

Indeed! ❤ Thank you again, so much!

I feel like ashara was the bride aerys should’ve given rhaegar. Why didn’t he? She, with her dark hair and purple eyes, would have complemented his beauty more than e/*a ever could hope to. And targaryens had previously married Daynes, so she had valyrian blood too, hence her eyes. She was also healthy, she would’ve been able to give rhaegar his dragon heads. I’m very interested to know why aerys apparently didn’t even consider ashara. Can you please tell a sensible reason for this? I’m puzzled.

Ashara would have been a good match, but not as good as Elia. There is a post out there that I remember reading (and reblogging) that made a case for Ashara, but I’m having trouble finding it now (help me pls).

Despite the Daynes having classic Valyrian features, they are not actually of Valyrian descent, as confirmed by GRRM himself:

I would have to consult my notes to tell you the Dayne arms. Offhand I don’t recall. As for the violet eyes …look, Elizabeth Taylor has violet eyes, and she’s not of Valyrian descent (that I know). Nor is she related to Aegon the Conquerer. Many Swedes have blue eyes, but not all those with blue eyes are Swedes, and not all Swedes have blue eyes. The same confusions exist in the 7 Kingdoms.

When Aerys looked abroad for a wife for Rhaegar, he was looking among ethnic groups that may have possessed Valyrian blood. They found such women, but they weren’t highborn enough, and thus Aerys abandoned the idea of an Essosi wife for his son.

House Martell, on the other hand, is an appropriately highborn house and have had previous Targaryen-Martell marriages, both of which have direct lines to the current generation of each house. in addition to being a wealthy, stable, and well-connected house, there really was few reasons to refuse such a match, even if Elia Martell was sickly.

Aerys was also a racist, and possessed anti-Dornish sentiments that he even reflected onto his own granddaughter. If Aerys has to choose between a non-Valyrian Dornishwomen of lower nobility and a Martell princess with Targaryen lineage, he is going to choose the latter, despite his own racism.

I’ve so far laid this out without addressing your own prejudices, which are obvious. Elia Martell was regarded as beautiful. Those who disagreed are people had reason to hate her, such as Jon Connington and Cersei Lannister. Beauty is subjective.

Secondly, it’s not Elia’s fault that she was too sick to give Rhaegar three kids. She gave him two. It wasn’t as if she was obligated to give him more; Rhaegar wanted more, and when he found that she was unlikely to give him more, he looked elsewhere. That’s Rhaegar’s problem, not Elia’s. Citing her health in this case is ableist and unnecessary.