For those who would hold honor in their breast,
Thou shalt be brave in the name of the Warrior
Thou shalt defend the innocent in the name of the Mother
Thou shalt be just in the name of the Father
Thou shalt shield all women in the name of the Maiden
Thou shalt be steadfast in the name of the Smith
Thou shalt guide the lost in the name of the Crone
Thou shalt uphold thine oaths from this day until thy last in the name of the Stranger
And so rise, a Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Commentary below the cut
While my giftee is no longer involved their prompt was illuminated manuscript with a kneeling Dunk (amazing line up with my own offer), and I knew just the Codex Manesse image.
Though the 'plot' veneer here is after Ashford, Ser Arlan's coat of arms (with the black diamond of a funerary hatchment) gets a top spot as part of Dunk's lineage.
Dunk's arms are simplified to be a little more real world heraldic.
The Targaryen arms are not the show version again for real world heraldry - where the important part is a consistent blazon (written description) rather than a absolutely consistent image. So unless the dragon was specified as in annulo (in a circle), these are can still be described as Sable, a thee-headed dragon Gules.
The little arm beasts are also Dunk & Baelor. I like to imagine them curled up together like the weirdest little cat things.
Dunk-beast is pointing specifically at the 'hold honor in their breast' line as an "I remembered my vows, did you?"
The helmet Baelor is presenting has the Targ color torse (fabric twist) as livery for a knight sworn to the house - the similar twist on Dunk's arm is absolutely his King's ✨favour✨. Winged crests in shield colors were very common in Germanic heraldry though it also double up here as a trace of Ser Arlan again.
Baelor's little cape has a pattern called vair which is supposed to look like a squirrel's winter fur. Royal mantles and all that.
besides the fun haaland hype this truly is the world cup from dante's hell like all they got is countless boring games (limbo), proven rapists still having careers and endless screen time (lust), the camera only caring about celeb footage fodder (gluttony), commercial breaks and money ruining skilled teams (greed), washed old players hogging all the attention and not delivering while zero new stars are born resulting in resentment (anger), underdogs being fed false hope while hosts and former greats flop (heresy), absence of fair play and even a gun incident (violence), corrupt refs (fraud), and goal keepers carrying the entire tournament while no one else does (treachery). the only cool positive new thing that came out of this was that mbappé has solid personal views and lucas bergvall is beautiful i mean yes he is but unlike infantino even satan is confined to one hell circle while the world cup is populating all nine of them like a speedrun of sports evil. the women's world cup in brazil can't come fast enough
We should let Kon be more unstable I’m tired of this self actualization bull in fanfics, he should be allowed to snap on everyone and regret it deeply later and internalize all his guilt into more self destructive habits at least once. Like actually he needs to be worse in general before the greatest emotional comeback ever and that’s my guilty desire.
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