dead before their time

This blog is dedicated to Robert's Rebellion. I love love love to learn more about it and to fangirl a lot about it, so if you do too, join me!

[meyourforestlass]

Robert’s Rebellion → King of Salt and Rock

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“I was with her when she died,” Ned reminded the king. “She wanted to come home, to rest beside Brandon and Father.” He could hear her still at times. Promise me, she had cried, in a room that smelled of blood and roses. Promise me, Ned. The fever had taken her strength and her voice had been faint as a whisper, but when he gave her his word, the fear had gone out of his sister’s eyes. Ned remembered the way she had smiled then, how tightly her fingers had clutched his as she gave up her hold on life, the rose petals spilling from her palm, dead and black. 

[remusjohnslupin]

50k giveaway winner: queenargelladurrandon ↳ arya/lyanna parallels + anna popplewell as lyanna stark

[thenorthern-girl]

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pre-asoiaf meme: Robert Baratheon and Lyanna Stark

You want to know the horrible truth? I can’t even remember what she looked like. I only know she was the one thing I ever wanted… someone took her away from me, and seven kingdoms couldn’t fill the hole she left behind.

[eliaamartell]

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Daughters of the North

[asianamidala]

character parallels ;; brandon & oberyn {2/?}

[fat-walda]

pre-game of thrones meme: five events → robert’s rebellion [1/5]

The war had raged for close to a year. Lords great and small had flocked to Robert’s banners; others had remained loyal to Targaryen. The mighty Lannisters of Casterly Rock, the Wardens of the West, had remained aloof from the struggle, ignoring calls to arms from both rebels and royalists. Aerys Targaryen must have thought that his gods had answered his prayers when Lord Tywin Lannister appeared before the gates of King’s Landing with an army twelve thousand strong, professing loyalty. So the mad king had ordered his last mad act. He had opened his city to the lions at the gate. […] “You avenged Lyanna at the Trident,” Ned said, halting beside the king. Promise me, Ned, she had whispered.   “That did not bring her back.” Robert looked away, off into the grey distance. “The gods be damned. It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown… it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe… and mine again, as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown? The gods mock the prayers of kings and cowherds alike.

[eliaamartell]

(requested by anonymous)

[alishenciya]

Princess Elia was a good woman. She was kind and clever, with a gentle heart and a sweet wit.

Sonam Kapoor as Elia Martell

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She was more beautiful than that. Ah, damn it, Ned, did you have to bury her in a place like this? She deserved more than darkness ..

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insp.

[sansalayned]

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Preasoiaf meme: 3 historical events/legends [3/3] → The Tourney of Harrenhal

With that simple garland of pale blue roses, Rhaegar Targaryen had begun the dance that would rip the Seven Kingdoms apart, bring about his own death and thousands more, and put a welcome new king upon the Iron Throne.

[ladyblackfish]

the she-wolf and the wolf pup

[joannalannister]

The World of Ice and Fire:

The False Spring of 281 AC lasted less than two turns. As the year drew to a close, winter returned to Westeros with a vengeance. On the last day of the year, snow began to fall upon King’s Landing, and a crust of ice formed atop the Blackwater Rush. The snowfall continued off and on for the best part of a fortnight, by which time the Blackwater was hard frozen, and icicles draped the roofs and gutters of every tower in the city.

As cold winds hammered the city, King Aerys II turned to his pyromancers, charging them to drive the winter off with their magics. Huge green fires burned along the walls of the Red Keep for a moon’s turn. Prince Rhaegar was not in the city to observe them, however. Nor could he be found in Dragonstone with Princess Elia and their young son, Aegon. With the coming of the new year, the crown prince had taken to the road with half a dozen of his closest friends and confidants, on a journey that would ultimately lead him back to the riverlands. Not ten leagues from Harrenhal, Rhaegar fell upon Lyanna Stark of Winterfell, and carried her off, lighting a fire that would consume his house and kin and all those he loved— and half the realm besides.

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PRE ASOIAF CHARACTERS: LYANNA STARK (267AC - 283AC)

Lyanna Stark was the younger sister of Lord Eddard Stark and was betrothed to Ned’s childhood friend, Robert Baratheon. Her abduction by Rhaegar Targaryen was the event that ultimately triggered Robert’s Rebellion and led to the downfall of the Targaryen dynasty. Lyanna is described by all who knew her as beautiful, with the dark hair, grey eyes, and long face that characterize the Starks. Ned refers to her, like their brother Brandon, as “wolf-blooded” — headstrong, willful, courageous and hot-tempered.

[lyannas]

(listen: 8tracks | spotify) for lyanna stark: beautiful, willful, and dead before her time.