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.

[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

[rhaenyraloversblog]

Different lyanna stark

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

[preasoiafsource]

I should be dreaming of Tanselle. Tanselle Too-Tall, they called her, but she was not too tall for me. She had painted arms upon his shield and he had saved her from the Bright Prince, but she vanished even before the trial of seven. She could not bear to see me die, Dunk often told himself, but what did he know?

— The Sworn Sword, George R.R. Martin

[rhaenyraloversblog]

Lyanna had only been sixteen, a child - woman of surpassing lovelines . Ned had loved her with all his heart. Robert had loved her even more . She was to have been his bride.

Whoever Jon's mother had been, Ned must have loved her fiercely, for nothing Catelyn said would persuade him to send the boy away.

—Agot, eddard i/catelyn i

[nanshe-of-nina]

Posthumous Characters GIF Sets → Melony Piper

The princess had been most loath to be parted from her dragon, Dreamfyre, and her latest favourite, Melony Piper, a red-haired maiden from the Riverlands. It was only when her mother, Queen Alyssa, sent for Lady Melony to join them on the progress that Rhaena finally put aside her sullenness to join the celebrations.

[remusjohnslupin]

asoiaf sigils → the iron islands (part 1/2) | You may dress an ironman in silks and velvets, teach him to read and write and give him books, instruct him in chivalry and courtesy and the mysteries of the Faith, but when you look into his eyes, the sea will still be there, cold and grey and cruel.

[rhaenyraloversblog]

Lyanna had only been sixteen, a child - woman of surpassing lovelines . Ned had loved her with all his heart. Robert had loved her even more . She was to have been his bride.

~agot//eddard i

[preasoiafsource]

He could vanquish Ser Duncan the Tall, but not Dunk of Flea Bottom. The old man had taught him jousting and swordplay, but this sort of fighting he had learned earlier, in shadowy wynds and crooked alleys behind the city's winesinks.

— The Hedge Knight, George R.R. Martin

[arya-jon]

every jonrya & ceslu parallel (4/?)

You know nothing, Jon Snow. He thought of Arya, her hair as tangled as a bird's nest. I made him a warm cloak from the skins of the six whores who came with him to Winterfell... I want my bride back... I want my bride back... I want my bride back... "I think we had best change the plan," Jon Snow said.

A Dance with Dragons, Jon XIII

[rhaenyraloversblog]

And thus it was there at Casterly Rock that Princess Rhaena gave birth to Aegon’s daughters, twins they named Aerea and Rhaella. From the Starry Sept came another blistering proclamation. These children too were abominations, the High Septon proclaimed; fruits of lust and incest, accursed of the gods. The maester at Casterly Rock who helped deliver the children tells us that afterward Princess Rhaena begged the prince her husband to take them all across the narrow sea to Tyrosh or Myr or Volantis, anywhere beyond their uncle’s reach, for “I would gladly give up my own life to make you king, but I will not put our girls at risk.” But her words fell on stony ears and her tears were shed in vain, for Prince Aegon was determined to claim his birthright.

~fire and blood~

Rhaena Targaryen (daughter of aenys ) book scenes

[remusjohnslupin]

asoiaf sigils → the iron islands (part 2/2) | According to their faith, the ironborn are a race apart from the common run of mankind. "We did not come to these holy islands from godless lands across the seas," the priest Sauron Salt-Tongue once said. "We came from beneath those seas, from the watery halls of the Drowned God who made us in his likeness and gave to us dominion over all the waters of the earth."

[theloreweaverpodcast]

Dunk and Brienne might be the clearest example of what a “true knight” actually is in ASOIAF

[durrandon]

THE ARBOR, The Reach

The Arbor is a golden island off the southwestern-most part of Westeros, ruled by House Redwyne. It is considered part of the Reach, and is separated from the mainland by the Redwyne Straits. It is protected by the Redwyne fleet, the largest fleet of the Seven Kingdoms.