#casella vaith

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Mistresses of the Unworthy

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What do you think about Casella Vaith?

Hi there!!

As her wiki page rightfully suggests, she is most likely identical with the aged Lady Vaith of the Dunk and Egg tale "The Sworn Sword". And a tragic figure.

LADY CASSELLA VAITH Daughter of a Dornish lord After the Submission of Sunspear, Aegon escorted the hostages that the king had gathered from the lords of Dorne back to King's Landing. Among them was Cassella Vaith, a willowy maid with green eyes and pale white-blond hair, whom Aegon ended up keeping "hostage" in his own chambers. When the Dornishmen revolted and murdered King Daeron, all the hostages were to be killed, and Aegon—by then bored of her—returned Cassella to her place with the other prisoners. However, the new king, Baelor, pardoned all the hostages and personally took them back to Dorne. Cassella never wed, and in her old age she was consumed by the delusion that she had been Aegon's one true love and that he would soon send for her. Children by Cassella Vaith: None. (The World of Ice and Fire - The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV)

She was taken hostage in 158 AC during king Daeron I's Conquest of Dorne, old enough to be considered a maid, and was treated as spoils of war and sexually assaulted by a then 23-year-old Prince Aegon (later crowned The Unworthy). In 161 AC, she was turned over to the hostages awaiting execution for the death of king Daeron, but ultimately pardoned and returned home by the new king Baelor. That's around 3 years in captivity as Aegon's "mistress" aka. victim.

Next we hear of her, she is an anecdote of Dunk and Egg's time in Dorne. Dunk was rude to her, likely in part because he was still grieving the loss of his horse Chestnut.

The stot had died on the long thirsty crossing between the Prince's Pass and Vaith, with Egg upon his back. [...] Chestnut had died on the long dry ride to Vaith, that part was true. [...]  "I don't know how to talk with highborn ladies," he confessed as they were pouring. "We both might have been killed in Dorne, on account of what I said to Lady Vaith." "Lady Vaith was mad," Egg reminded him, "but you could have been more gallant. Ladies like it when you're gallant. [...] Dunk had doubts. "She's outlived four husbands, she must be as old as Lady Vaith.  (The Sworn Sword)

And another mention in The Mystery Knight, having impressed Dunk in some unspecified way enough to be worth remembering in this context.

Voices echoed in his head, and faces drifted past him—old Ser Arlan, Tanselle Too-Tall, Bennis of the Brown Shield, the Red Widow, Baelor Breakspear, Aerion the Bright Prince, mad sad Lady Vaith. 

He met her in 209/2010 AC, so this was 52 years after she was abducted from Dorne as a girl, and she is still around and kicking, even as she is old and "mad". We don't know how old she was when she was kidnapped, but likely a teenager rather than an established adult woman. Perhaps the experience was so traumatic that she had to reframe reality in order to cope with it, a mechanism we have seen employed in similar situations, with Daenerys and Drogo, Sansa and Joffrey, Jon and Ygritte. In a different take, she might be more similar to Falia, who is equally delusional about her true status with the man who captured her family, though with a more malicious bend. Then there's Lysa with Littlefinger, though the power dynamics are reversed.

Either way, it's not surprising that she never married and stayed locked inside her traumatic youth for the rest of her life.

A tragic figure.

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👑"The King’s Ladies: Bellegere Otherys and Casella Vaith"👑 Two more ladies complete and I love how they turned out! Still 5 more ladies to finish in this series, I can’t wait!

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Cassella Vaith

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Do you have a list of women who remained unmarried and childless through their lives? It just seems as though there are so few that do, except for probably Shiera Seastar and Elissa Farman

I can’t say that’s something I’ve ever even considered but I’ll see what I can come up with. Note that any such list is going to be unavoidably limited by the fact that some women just disappear from the text, and that the information we have about some of them is laughably minimal so it’s subject to a bit of speculation.

Off the top of my head, I can recall:

Lady Jeyne Arryn, the Maiden of the Vale.

Lady Cassella Vaith.

Shiera Seastar.

Samantha Stokeworth, Queen Rhaena’s favorite who reportedly had no interest in children. We didn’t hear of any previous marriage for her.

Alayne Royce, Queen Rhaena’s favorite who reportedly had no interest in children. We didn’t hear of any previous marriage for her.

Melony Piper, Queen Rhaena’s favorite. Melony died relatively young though so we don’t know if she might have married at one point.

Jessamyn Redfort, Jeyne Arryn’s favorite. Maybe. We know very little about her to say for sure, but it’s possible that she didn’t marry either.

Lady Jonelle Cerwyn is still unmarried in her 30s, thought she is still alive so she could still marry especially since she is currently the Lady of Cerwyn after her father and brother’s death.

Elissa Farman. Maybe. The narrative loses sight of Elissa after her voyage with the Hightower brothers, but it’s possible that she did not marry. In addition to her relationship with Rhaena, Elissa scared off two previous betrothed which could indicate her disinterest in men and/or disinclination for marriage. Though this could be because of her dreams of adventure and exploration that marriage would have impeded.

There’s also those who joined the Faith including Septa Rhaella daughter of Aegon the Uncrowned, Septa Maegelle daughter of Jaehaerys I and Septa Rhaena daughter of Aegon III. Also, Alysanne, Lily, Willow, and Rosey, daughters of Aegon IV Targaryen by Megette, though we don’t know what happened to them after Visery II sent them to the Faith.

There might be others that I missed but those are the ones I can remember. Hope that helps!

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Leo Tyrell vibes and some outfits

Casella Vaith vibes and some outfits

Hc: Leo I Tyrell's father is the late Lord Basil Tyrell and Lady Teraesa Tyrell ( nee Merryweather )

Casella's parents are Lord Corentyn Vaith and Lady Mehrima Vaith ( nee Toland )

Casella has dark reddish hair which is a genetic mix of her parents' hair colors ( a number of the Tolands have reddish hair ) and her father's golden eyes ( a number of Vaiths have golden eyes ), and she also has tanned skin.

Casella basically looks kinda like a mix of Princess Rudabeh from Epic of Shahmaneh and Rachel Weisz but with gold eyes

And actually Teraesa has golden brown hair

I can see Casella being kinda like a mix of Mihrimah Sultan, Olenna Redwyne and book Ellaria in spades

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Leo Tyrell and Casella Vaith ( A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms )

I can see Casella looks a bit like Rachel Weisz but with golden eyes

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If Aegon IV is a clear Henry VIII parallel, would Lady Elizabeth Blount be the corresponding Cassella of Vaith?

I think Aegon IV is more closely Augustus the Strong, actually, with Casella Vaith mirroring Fatima, later Maria Aurora of Spiegel.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

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