#godric borrell

[wodania]

round four of the six character challenge from twt!!!

[lopata-four]

Godric Borrell 🦀

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Game of Thrones: The Board Game - Godric Borrell by Borja Pindado

[rosaluxembae]

"The Freys were bringing the fat fool a bag of bones. Some call that courtesy, to bring a man his dead son's bones. Had it been my son, I would have returned the courtesy and thanked the Freys before I hanged them, but the fat man's too noble for that."

You're right, he's too noble to kill *guests*

[beyondmistland]

Considering noblewomen aren’t expected to cook in Westerosi society, is it therefore implied it would be embarrassing for Lord Borrell to brag about his granddaughter being a great cook if he were talking to a proper lordly lord, and not Davos of House Seaworth? Like, the equivalent of bragging that she really knows how to dig a ditch or something?

Its more of a sign that House Borrell is pretty far down the pecking order and thus closer to smallfolk than your traditional mainland lord. Also, keep in mind, the Borrells are Sistermen. They probably don't give two f*cks what some snotty-nosed blueblood from the Vale or savage northron thinks.

Edit: Can you blame him for being proud though? Sister's stew sounds utterly delicious.

Thanks for the question, anon

[oathkeeperoathbreaker]

“Storms.” Lord Godric said the word as fondly as another man might say his lover’s name.

DAVOS I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS

“And what do you want, my sweet Reek?” Ramsay murmured, as softly as a lover.

Reek II, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS

[amuelia]

Now the version with tumblr requests! :D

Dacey Mormont for Anonymous, Qarl the Maid for @dagongreyjoy , Godric Borrell for @rougeam , Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alys Karstark for Anonymous, Stannis Baratheon for @isamajor

[goodqueenaly]

House Words Wednesdays: House Borrell

Hey everyone!

I have a feature on the Tumblr called House Words Wednesdays. Each week, I take a House without known canon or semi-canon words and present what I think could make sense as that House’s motto. You’re free to suggest more as well, if your favored House has not yet been suggested; take a look at this link to see what has already been suggested, and shoot me a tweet or ask through Tumblr if you have another House you’d like to see

House Borrell of Sisterton is a noble House of the Three Sisters, a small set of islands between the North and Vale (but owing allegiance, after many years of struggle, to the latter). The Borrells themselves are bannermen of the Sunderlands, masters of the Sisters, but House Borrell maintains control over all of Sweetsister, including the port of Sisterton. We met a Borrell in Davos’ very first ADWD chapter - Lord Godric, with whom Davos treats and who allows Davos to continue to White Harbor instead of reporting his wanted presence. Godric takes a fierce pride in ancient Sistermen independence, but agrees not to turn Davos over to the Lannisters, recalling the story of his father doing the same for Eddard Stark during Robert’s Rebellion. The Borrell sigil is a white spider-crab on a gray-green field.

The Sisters, including Sweetsister, are a tough, poor land. Lord Borrell might be better off than his smallfolk, but make no mistake, his is genteel poverty with emphasis on the poverty. Even his liege has to scrape for every gold dragon, with seven sons all determined to be knights. The islands have long been dismissed as dens of sin and avarice, and Godric Borrell has not dispelled that reputation: he shows no love for Davos’ liege Stannis, who made him hang a dozen of his smuggler friends while Stannis was master of ships. So with the Borrell words, I wanted something that was equally tough, equally defiant.

That’s why I picked as the Borrell words Break Upon Us. The Borrells, defiant in their Sistermen independence, would invite the men of the North and the men of the Vale to land on their shores - and then, these words would promise, they would break upon the ferocious fighting of the native Sistermen. These words reflect as well a darker side to the Borrells (and indeed many Sistermen). One of Godric Borrell’s titles as Lord of Sisterton is “Keeper of the Night Lamp”. The Night Lamp is a beacon tower that burns along the shore of Sisterton, designed (at least ostensibly) to warn nearby sailors of shoals and rocks and lead the way to safety. However, some Sistermen - including, as he hints, Lord Godric himself - use false lights on foggy night to lure unknowing captains to crash upon the shore, and thereafter help themselves to their cargo.

Let me know what you think of these Borrell words. Next week moves from the dreary and ill-rumored Sisters to the verdant and fertile Reach, and a family with skinchanging in its blood.

The Queen Regent (NFriel)