#braavos

[kleoshe]

The house with the red door. Daenerys has picked a lemon for her big brother Viserys :)

Or, a rare moment of happiness for the exiled Targaryen siblings before their feeling home is ripped away from them upon the death of Ser Willem Darry.

[helaenarts]

Arya if the faceless men robes were slaying

[tonyloom]

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[oananovicov]

I wanted to make these portraits of Mercy ( Arya Stark) and Alayne Stone ( Sansa Stark) -which are inspired by Vermeer's " Girl with pearl earing" - because for a lot of time I thought that girl in the painting has something of Sansa Stark and by extension with Arya ..at least in my head😊 I don't know why 🤷‍♀️ 😊

[lupiiny]

Ser Willem Darry

[hylora]

Narha and Bellenora Otherys daughters of Aegon IV and Bellegere Otherys.

I was still figuring my new painting style when I did this but it's decent enough

[goodqueenaly]

After reading @turtle-paced's response (well-written, as usual) to the question of the future importance of the Sealord of Braavos, I wanted to add some thoughts of mine on the potential narrative impact of the current Braavosi political situation. I very much agree that the Sealord, as an individual, will likely not be a central character in the third act, so to speak, of ASOIAF; the novels’ primary focus on Westeros and Westerosi characters, along with the escalation of events both politically and apocalyptically in Westeros, undermine both the time and opportunity the story has to spend with the Sealord himself. Nevertheless, I do think that GRRM has signaled his interest in storylines culminating in Braavos, including the identity of the Sealord. Therefore, I believe it is very likely that the Sealord will be directly involved in plot developments early in TWOW, and I even think we as readers may meet the Sealord himself. (Long, more under the cut)

Indeed, AFFC and ADWD include points of both politico-economic tension and collaboration between Braavos and Westeros, as well as suggestions of internal Braavosi conflict. When Cersei meets with Noho Dimittis, she blithely ignored Pycelle’s earlier warning - “The Iron Bank will have its due” - and instead confirms that the Iron Throne will not repay the Iron Bank until “this rebellion has been put down”. With expected mercenary swiftness, Noho Dimittis then (per the WOIAF app) “convinces the Iron Bank to demand loan repayment from many merchants in the Seven Kingdoms and to refuse to extend any more credit to those same merchants” (a situation Cersei learns of once those merchants petition her, in vain). Meanwhile, another Iron Bank representative, Tycho Nestoris, meets with Stannis in the hope of treating with a rival royal claimant who could honor the debts very obviously being ignored by the Baratheon-Lannister regime. At the same time, across the Narrow Sea, Arya’s directive to gather information for the kindly man has highlighted internal Braavosi politics: while Arya acknowledges the rumors that the Sealord is sick or dying and that there is active speculation on his potential successor, she also reports that the Sealord was active enough to seize the Lyseni slaver ships Elephant and Goodheart. 

Moreover, GRRM has continued to develop these storylines in the Arya and Theon TWOW preview chapters. In “Theon I” TWOW, Tycho and Stannis sign an agreement by which Stannis pledges to repay the Iron Throne’s debts to the Iron Bank in exchange for the support of the Iron Bank in claiming the Iron Throne. Upon signing the agreement, Stannis dispatches Justin Massey (and Jeyne-as-Arya, of course) to Braavos to draw funds from the Iron Bank and hire sellswords (little guessing that his preferred choice of the Golden Company is otherwise occupied). Arya, for her part, uses the coming of Ser Harys Swyft - the envoy of the Iron Throne sent by (the now late) Kevan Lannister to negotiate with the Iron Bank in person - to remove Raff the Sweetling, recently made one of Ser Harys’ guards, from her list by killing him - a move she understands, using the parlance of her Mercy character, “would make trouble for the Sealord and the envoy with the chicken on his chest”. We have yet to see it of course, but I’ve already speculated that Justin Massey and Jeyne-as-Arya, detouring away from the chaos at Castle Black, will literally and figuratively run into Arya herself on the streets of Braavos.

All of this is to say that as TWOW opens, whoever the new Sealord is - and I do believe there will be a new one, given the mentions of the old one being in failing health- will have to make some pretty immediate decisions with direct impact on Westerosi and our Westerosi characters. Bumbling, nervous Harys Swyft will, I think, undoubtedly complain to the Sealord’s court that his guard was murdered - but with the Iron Bank openly turning its back on the Baratheon-Lannister regime, I doubt the new Sealord would favor Cersei’s government and its envoy over the interests of his own Iron Bank. The arrival of Justin Massey may instead prove quite the political opportunity for the new Sealord: with Justin already in the city to draw on the credit extended by the Iron Bank to Stannis (and thereby hire sellswords for his king), the Sealord may decide that the time has come to commit Braavos militarily as well as economically to Stannis’ cause, against the Baratheon-Lannister government. At the same time, with a legitimate claimant to Winterfell in Braavos (at least believed by Justin Massety to be the only remaining living, extant, legitimate child of Ned and Catelyn), the new Sealord also has the chance to rid himself of the freefolk unexpectedly arrived on the impounded Goodheart, placing them under the charge of the “rightful” Lady of Winterfell. (We'll have to leave it to Dany to free those on the Elephant.)

I could in turn see TWOW including an Arya chapter featuring a meeting between the new Sealord, Arya, and Justin Massey (and maybe Jeyne Poole and Alysane Mormont too, who knows). Perhaps this is wish fulfillment as much as speculation, but I want to see Arya enter the Sealord’s Palace and remember Syrio telling her about his own interview with the then-Sealord that made him First Sword. I want GRRM to fulfill Jon’s wish to rescue the refugees at Hardhome through his own beloved little sister, using Braavosi resources Jon himself unsuccessfully tried to utilize for the mission. I want to underline that connection between Arya and Nymeria begun with the naming of her wolf - to have Arya be another princess rescuing people fleeing slavery by leading them to a homeland in Westeros. I want the Sealord to smooth over the transitions for Arya’s story, not only away from Braavos (and, presumably, the Faceless Men) but also back to Winterfell (and reunion with her siblings). I want to get a glimpse into the highest echelons of Braavosi power, and more worldbuilding in this corner of the world in which GRRM clearly loves playing. All I'm saying is, if "Arya II" or "Arya III" TWOW features a conference with the Sealord, I will feel validated.

[ilreleonewikiart]

After some iuatus here there is the new part of this well beloved series!

It took me sometime before finding all the material and the images for this new project, but here we are!

As I said in my story in this new serie I will explore most, but not all, of the most important places of Essos and the first location is Braavos.

The layout for this new fashion studies will folow the one I used for the Lys/Old Valyria studies, so instead of some big families, I will explore the many social ranks of the city.

For this reason I decided to draw some key figures:

 a Moonsinger, a noble woman, a courtesan, the Sealord, a First Sword and a magister.

Essos Fashion Studies: Braavos

"Braavos is the wealthiest and likely the most powerful of the Free Cities.It is located in the Great Lagoon on the northwestern end of Essos, where the narrow sea and the Shivering Sea meet. Braavos is also known as Braavos of the Hundred Isles and the Secret City, a name also attributed to the city Nefer, the last remaining city of N'ghai.  Braavos is sometimes referred to as the "bastard daughter of Valyria"