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ASOIAF fancasting --> The Stormlands: Brooke Williams as Johanna Swann

Amongst those thus enslaved was Lady Johanna Swann, a fifteen-year-old niece of the Lord of Stonehelm. When her infamously niggardly uncle refused to pay the ransom, she was sold to a pillow house, where she rose to become the celebrated courtesan known as the Black Swan, and ruler of Lys in all but name.

Yet another victimized woman who was completely let down by her male relatives, I bet she at least gave a smirk when the realm of Westeros erupted into the Dance of the Dragons.

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ASOIAF fancasting –> The Dothraki: Zoë Robins as Jhiqui

“ ‘You are too skinny for him,’ Jhiqui was saying. ‘You are almost a boy. Rakharo does not bed with boys. This is known.’ Irri bristled back. ‘It is known that you are almost a cow. Rakharo does not bed with cows.’ ”

Ms Robins matches really nicely with my fancast for Irri, in my quest to provide a face for female characters who are far too easily relegated to the background.

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ASOIAF fancasting –> Beyond Westeros: Gina Torres as Kojja Mo

‘There is the coast of Dorne. Sand and rocks and scorpions, and no good anchorage for hundreds of leagues. You can swim there if you like, and walk to Oldtown. You will need to cross the deep desert and climb some mountains and swim the Torrentine. Or else you could go to Gilly.’

‘You do not understand. Last night we...’

‘... honored your dead, and the gods who made you both. Xhondo did the same. I had the child, else I would have been with him. All you Westerosi make a shame of loving. There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world? Only a monster god, a demon of the darkness.’

I know Kojja is supposed to be a full Summer Islander... but I like Gina Torres in this role in my head so much that I’m willing to headcanon her as having slightly mixed blood. After all, her father is a trader and a sailor.

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ASOIAF fancasting --> Dorne: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as Queen Nymeria

“When Mors Martell took Nymeria to wife, hundreds of his knights, squires, and lords bannermen also wed Rhoynish women. To celebrate these unions, and make certain her people could not again retreat to the sea, Nymeria burned the Rhoynish ships. ‘Our wanderings are at an end,’ she declared. ‘We have found a new home, and here we shall live and die.’ ”

Probably the most influential lady in the history of Westeros thus far, she established an entire system of government as well as a set of customs that grew to influence her entire kingdom. She is by far the coolest ancestor of all the ruling Houses of the Seven Kingdoms.

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ASOIAF fancasting --> House Mormont: Ray Winstone as Jorah

“The knight smiled. Ser Jorah was not a handsome man. He had a neck and shoulders like a bull, and coarse black hair covered his arms and chest so thickly that there was none left for his head. Yet his smiles gave Dany comfort.”

One of my favorite actors to feature on the historical-movie circuit, he combines all the aspects of Jorah except, possibly, being a little too fair of complexion. This is definitely the face of Dany’s “bear” and a man who has fought against fierce enemies in exile lands.

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ASOIAF fancasting --> People of Dorne: Deobia Oparei as Areo Hotah

“Areo Hotah did not know what to say to that. He was only a captain of guards, and still a stranger to this land and its seven-faced god, even after all these years. Serve. Obey. Protect. He had sworn those vows at six-and-ten, the day he wed his axe. Simple vows for simple men, the bearded priests had said. He had not been trained to counsel grieving princes.”

The Watcher fulfils his purpose very well, giving us several of the more memorable chapters from Dorne.

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ASOIAF fancasting --> Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Osmund Kettleblack

“Alas, Tyrion could not say the same for Cersei’s second choice. Ser Osmund Kettleblack looked formidable enough. He stood six feet and six inches, most of it sinew and muscle, and his hook nose, bushy eyebrows, and spade-shaped brown beard gave his face a fierce aspect, so long as he did not smile. Lowborn, no more than a hedge knight, Kettleblack was utterly dependent on Cersei for his advancement, which was doubtless why she’d picked him. ‘Ser Osmund is as loyal as he is brave,’ she’d told Joffrey when she put forward his name. It was true, unfortunately. The good Ser Osmund had been selling her secrets to Bronn since the day she’d hired him, but Tyrion could scarcely tell her that.”

Wild and scraggly as any hedge knight, this actor definitely has the dangerous look of a sellsword Kettleblack.

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ASOIAF fancasting --> Beyond Westeros: Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Bellegere Otherys, the current Black Pearl of Braavos

“She was so lovely that the lamps seemed to burn brighter when she passed. She had dressed in a low-cut gown of pale yellow silk, startling against the light brown of her skin. Her black hair was bound up in a net of spun gold, and a jet-and-gold necklace brushed against the top of her full breasts. As they watched, she leaned close to the envoy and whispered something in his ear that made him laugh. ‘They should call her the Brown Pearl,’ Mercy said to Daena. ‘She’s more brown than black.’ ”

From an ancient line renowned for beauty, I don’t think it surprises anyone that Bellegere is considered one of the most beautiful women in Braavos. A fitting fancast is this beautiful actress.

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