ASOIAF Source

A blog dedicated to novel series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, as well as the companion material for the series.

[asongoficeandfiresource]

“Yes,” Mance said. “The Horn of Winter, that Joramun once blew to wake giants from the earth.” -- Jon X, A Storm of Swords

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[asongoficeandfiresource]

“A sword of fire!” shouted Queen Selyse. Ser Axell Florent and the other queen’s men took up the cry. “A sword of fire! It burns! It burns! A sword of fire!” Melisandre lifted her hands above her head. “Behold! A sign was promised, and now a sign is seen! Behold Lightbringer! Azor Ahai has come again! All hail the Warrior of Light! All hail the Son of Fire!”-- Davos I, A Clash of Kings

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[asongoficeandfiresource]

I tell you, these Tyrells are only Lannisters with flowers. -- Sansa II, A Storm of Swords

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[asongoficeandfiresource]

Victarion Greyjoy turned back toward the prow, his gaze sweeping across his fleet. Longships filled the sea, sails furled and oars shipped, floating at anchor or run up on the pale sand shore. The Isle of Cedars. Where were these cedars? Drowned four hundred years ago, it seemed. Victarion had gone ashore a dozen times, hunting fresh meat, and had yet to see a cedar. --The Iron Suitor, A Dance With Dragon

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[asongoficeandfiresource]

“He was good as dead,” Bronn said, “and his moaning was bringing them down on us. Chiggen would have done the same for me … and he was no friend, only a man I rode with. Make no mistake, dwarf. I fought for you, but I do not love you.” “It was your blade I needed,” Tyrion said, “not your love.” He dumped his armful of wood on the ground. -- Tyrion VI, A Game of Thrones

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[asongoficeandfiresource]

“It would seem there were only the two of … of those creatures, whatever they were, I will not call them men. And thank the gods for that. Any more and … well, that doesn’t bear thinking of. There will be more, though. I can feel it in these old bones of mine, and Maester Aemon agrees. The cold winds are rising. Summer is at an end, and a winter is coming such as this world has never seen.” -- Jon VIII, A Game of Thrones

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[asongoficeandfiresource]

Then the septry erupted, the Mummers boiling out like angry ants. Two Ibbenese rushed through the door with shaggy brown shields held high before them, and behind them came a Dothraki with a great curved arakh and bells in his braid, and behind him three Volantene sellswords covered with fierce tattoos. Others were climbing out windows and leaping to the ground. Arya saw a man take an arrow through the chest with one leg across a windowsill, and heard his scream as he fell. The smoke was thickening. Quarrels and arrows sped back and forth. Watty fell with a grunt, his bow slipping from his hand. Kyle was trying to nock another shaft to his string when a man in black mail flung a spear through his belly. She heard Lord Beric shout. From out of the ditches and trees the rest of his band came pouring, steel in hand. Arya saw Lem’s bright yellow cloak flapping behind him as he rode down the man who’d killed Kyle. Thoros and Lord Beric were everywhere, their swords swirling fire. The red priest hacked at a hide shield until it flew to pieces, while his horse kicked the man in the face. A Dothraki screamed and charged the lightning lord, and the flaming sword leapt out to meet his arakh. The blades kissed and spun and kissed again. Then the Dothraki’s hair was ablaze, and a moment later he was dead. She spied Ned too, fighting at the lightning lord’s side. It’s not fair, he’s only a little older than me, they should have let me fight. -- Arya VII, A Storm of Swords

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[asongoficeandfiresource]

Ramsay Bolton smiled. “I ride to war, Reek. And you will be coming with me, to help me fetch home my virgin bride.”-- Reek I, A Dance With Dragons

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[asongoficeandfiresource]

Five knights of the Kingsguard—all but Ser Jaime and Ser Barristan—were arrayed in a crescent around the base of the throne. They were in full armor, enameled steel from helm to heel, long pale cloaks over their shoulders, shining white shields strapped to their left arms. Cersei Lannister and her two younger children stood behind Ser Boros and Ser Meryn. The queen wore a gown of sea-green silk, trimmed with Myrish lace as pale as foam. On her finger was a golden ring with an emerald the size of a pigeon’s egg, on her head a matching tiara.-- Eddard XIV, A Game of Thrones

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[asongoficeandfiresource]

"Do it! The gift of mercy … avenge your little Michael …” “Mycah.” Arya stepped away from him. “You don’t deserve the gift of mercy.” The Hound watched her saddle Craven through eyes bright with fever. Not once did he attempt to rise and stop her. But when she mounted, he said, “A real wolf would finish a wounded animal.” Maybe some real wolves will find you, Arya thought. Maybe they’ll smell you when the sun goes down. Then he would learn what wolves did to dogs. “You shouldn’t have hit me with an axe,” she said. “You should have saved my mother.” She turned her horse and rode away from him, and never looked back once. -- Arya XIII, A Storm of Swords

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[asongoficeandfiresource]

The largest of her three was shiny black, his scales slashed with streaks of vivid scarlet to match his wings and horns. “Khaleesi,” Aggo murmured, “there sits Balerion, come again.” “It may be as you say, blood of my blood,” Dany replied gravely, “but he shall have a new name for this new life. I would name them all for those the gods have taken. The green one shall be Rhaegal, for my valiant brother who died on the green banks of the Trident. The cream-and-gold I call Viserion. Viserys was cruel and weak and frightened, yet he was my brother still. His dragon will do what he could not.” “And the black beast?” asked Ser Jorah Mormont. “The black,” she said, “is Drogon.” -- Daenerys I, A Clash of Kings

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[theloreweaverpodcast]

I made a video analyzing how Arya Stark’s storyline with Jaqen H’ghar and the Faceless Men is structured like a fairy tale, but one George R. R. Martin deliberately twists and deconstructs.

The video explores:

Arya’s “three deaths” bargain as a Three Wishes story

How she traps Jaqen using his own oath

The role of names and magical rules in Braavos

The House of Black and White as a system built on identity and exchange

Why Arya repeatedly unsettles the supernatural figures around her

Needle as memory, identity, and resistance

One thing I found especially interesting is that Arya survives less through physical strength and more through understanding systems faster than the people around her expect her to.

Even when dealing with magical bargains, assassins, and face-changing cults, the pattern stays the same:

Arya adapts.

And unlike a traditional fairy tale, outsmarting the supernatural doesn’t fix the world. It just keeps her alive long enough to keep moving through it.

[theloreweaverpodcast]

Cinderella in ASOIAF

[mercyalayne]

"When we were crossing the Neck, I counted thirty-six flowers I never saw before, and Mycah showed me a lizard-lion."

ˋ°•*⁀➷ Arya Stark on the kingsroad

art by the lovely @vhdart_ on X

[eddie-redcliffe]

"You have no chance." "She had no chance."

[rhaenyraloversblog]

“Robert will never keep to one bed,” Lyanna had told him at Winterfell, on the night long ago when their father had promised her hand to the young Lord of Storm’s End. “I hear he has gotten a child on some girl in the Vale.”

Ned had held the babe in his arms; he could scarcely deny her, nor would he lie to his sister, but he had assured her that what Robert did before their betrothal was of no matter, that he was a good man and true who would love her with all his heart. Lyanna had only smiled. “Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man’s nature.”

— AGOT, Eddard IX

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Different lyanna stark

Olivia hussey/Florence hunt/anamaria vartolomei/Millie brandy as lyanna stark