Thank you so much! Actually your timing is so good because I was thinking of drawing Lyanna (a specific Lyanna) This is one of my favorite theories in this fandom and I’ll support it until it’s stated otherwise by grrm.
“Lysa had been a pretty girl, in truth; dimpled and delicate, with long auburn hair. Timid, though. Prone to tongue-tied silences and fits of giggles, with none of Cersei’s fire. Her older sister had seemed more interesting, though Catelyn was promised to some northern boy, the heir of Winterfell …”
“Thirty yards from shore, three black swans were gliding over the water, so serene … no one had told them that war had come, and they cared nothing for burning towns and butchered men. She stared at them with yearning. Part of her wanted to be a swan. The other part wanted to eat one.”
Queen Alysanne also wished to listen to the women of the North. When Lord Burley explained that there were no women on the Wall, she persisted… until finally, with great reluctance, he had her escorted to a village south of the Wall that the black brothers called Mole’s Town. She would find women there, his lordship said, though most of them would be harlots. The men of the Night’s Watch took no wives, he explained, but they remained men all the same, and some felt certain needs. Queen Alysanne said she did not care, and so it came to pass that she held her women’s court amongst the whores and strumpets of Mole’s Town… and there heard certain tales that would change the Seven Kingdoms forever.
a little piece for my squire-au where Lyanna Stark is the squire of Ser Arthur Dayne –maybe after losing a joust, or after a difficult duel, or maybe because i just wanted to draw him shirtless i don’t know ¯_(ツ)_/¯… but squires are always there to take care of their knights. (dev link)
It took her more than an hour to find the low narrow window that slanted down to the dungeon where the monsters waited… This time the monsters did not frighten her. They seemed almost old friends. Arya held the candle over her head. With each step she took; the shadows moved against the walls, as if they were turning to watch her pass. “Dragons,” she whispered.
A small tidbit that I remembered! A while back, when looking through ASOIAF related art, I came across the official website of artist Paolo Puggioni. He did the Tourney at Harrenhal piece for The World of Ice and Fire. While identifying the characters depicted, he talked about how GRRM was very particular about this specific art and briefed certain aspects of it to him, giving small descriptors for each character. This is some of what GRRM said:
“We’ve always imagined that the perfect image of the tourney at Harrenhal would kind of let you pick out all these figures in the stands, each with their different reactions when ‘the smiles died’. Jon Arryn and Robert and Lord Hunter joking a moment before what was happening dawned on them, Ned watching as Rhaegar was about to stop in front of his sister (who must have been seated quite close), mad Aerys glowering in the distance, Elia stiff-backed and trying to act as if nothing was wrong, Jon Connington probably looking vaguely sad (read: jealous), and so on.”
We’ve never actually gotten any indicator of Elia’s reaction to Rhaegar crowning Lyanna in the text (although we can imagine), so this is the first I’ve seen, as limited as it is. Stiff backed and trying to act if nothing was wrong. Oh, Elia. Giving nothing away, still playing her part and swallowing her humiliation as her husband disgraces her for all to witness. The dates we’ve been given tell us she was pregnant with Aegon at the time too. The argument that she might have agreed to this near unprecedented public display of humiliation has always been bizarre and baseless but this says all it needs to. Does this sound like someone who knew what Rhaegar was about to do? Someone relaxed and unfazed as her husband publicly announced his preference for another- in a world where it would ruin her- as she’s made to watch?
The moment where all the smiles died. Beautiful Elia, second on the left, watching as Rhaegar crowns another. An act so cruel that nobody could believe it was happening yet it’s still made into a romance at her expense, with her being made complicit in her own dishonour and suffering. Elia Martell deserved better.
Link to the artist’s page, where he also identifies all the characters in the piece, including Elia [x]
“First row, from the left: Ashara Dayne, Princess Elia Martell, Prince
Oberyn Martell, Brandon Stark, Lyanna Stark, Eddard Stark, and
(standing) Robert Baratheon.
Second row, from the left: Jon Connington, Prince Lewyn Martell, Lord Hunter, Jon Arryn.” – Paolo Puggioni
lyannas tumblr back up 
