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[swordmaid]

by love undone by suzanne enoch??

OOOOH considered! that’s a good one and def the Vibe im after

[rhaella]

i'm literally listening to wasteland baby and scrolling through his instagram just as im reading this girl i am JEALOUS!! also happy birthday in advance!

it’s so good, i’ve listened to nothing but this album since it dropped tbh. and thank you!!! 💕

[sansarya]

Someone came and broke you right in half So that you can't fly away, that you can't fly away

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[joekeerys]

happy birthday!! hope its as gay as ever

thank you sdjfnsdjkfns god i hope so too 

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Hi Butterfly! A random question, but do we know anything about the funeral customs of other Westerosi houses? We know the Tullys burn their dead in a river pyre and that the Starks (at least the significant ones) are kept in the crypt below Winterfell, but how about the Lannisters? Tyrells? Is there a norm of burial rites in Westeros or is it every house to themselves, so to speak? Thank you in advance!

Funeral customs in Westeros vary. For most, it is standard earth burial. A body is often given to the Silent Sisters to be prepared for the grave. If it is to lie in state at any time, they will remove the blood and organs and stuff the body with salt and herbs to delay decomposition. If transport is needed, they will reduce the body down to bones. When a body is buried, if a person follows the Faith of the Seven, sometimes a crystal is placed on the grave.

We do know that some Great Houses have specific burial customs, as you mentioned.

House Targaryen: cremation, in a pyre. (If a dragon is available, its flames light the pyre.) The ashes of some Targaryens are interred beneath the Red Keep, but presumably some were also interred at Dragonstone and Summerhall.

House Tully: the Hollywood “Viking funeral” – the body is placed on a boat sent out on to the Trident river, and then a flaming arrow is shot to light the pyre.

House Stark: the family is interred in tombs within the crypts beneath Winterfell. (Every Stark, not just the significant ones.) A King in the North or Lord of Winterfell is given a stone statue outside his tomb, depicting him seated, a sword (a real iron sword) across his lap. Also, faithful servants are buried in the lichyard near the First Keep.

House Lannister: interred in the Hall of Heroes beneath Casterly Rock. We don’t have many details, but presumably it’s some kind of crypt, where the armor of hundreds of Lannister knights, lords, and kings stands guard.

We don’t have any details for the Arryns, Baratheons, Greyjoys, Martells, or Tyrells, I’m afraid. But I could see the Arryns preferring sky burial, especially because of the limited amount of room on the mountain (the Eyrie is the smallest of the great castles), the difficulty of burial in the stony soil, and their association with falcons. Those who follow the Drowned God believe a death at sea is a good death, and believe that “no true son of the sea would want to rot beneath the ground”, so I could see the Greyjoys (and other ironborn) preferring burial at sea, perhaps with the body sewn in sailcloth, to be sent down to the Drowned God’s watery halls. As for the others, I really couldn’t say – but perhaps we’ll get more information about them as well as the Arryns and Greyjoys, and further info about the Lannisters, in future books.

Hope that helps!

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[princessdany]

season pastels or landscapes? → season 1

…We’re no longer a house to be feared! Your mother’s dead, before long I’ll be dead, and you and your brother and your sister and all of her children. All of us dead, all of us rotting in the ground. It’s the family name that lives on. It’s all that lives on. Not your honor, not your personal glory, family. Do you understand? 

[lady-arryn]

The Lion King // The Force Awakens

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