#pinkmaiden

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Rhaena Targaryen losing another on her roster.

I just had to try out a concept of the Pinkmaiden attire for Melony Piper.

The red hair wasn't working out.

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Rallying Aegon’s forces at Pinkmaiden Artwork by René Aigner

Lord Lannister dared not openly oppose Maegor in the field, but Lord Jon Piper—encouraged by his sister Melony, Rhaena’s closest friend and companion—allowed Pinkmaiden Castle to serve as a rallying point. Thousands of lords and knights, largely from the westerlands and the riverlands, joined their cause. Among them were five hundred men from Lannisport, commanded by Ser Tyler Hill, the bastard son of Lord Lyman. Melony personally led the Piper levies. By the time they departed for King’s Landing, fifteen thousand men marched beneath Aegon’s banner—though Princess Rhaena and Dreamfyre were not among their number, as she had remained at Pinkmaiden with her daughters. None of the great houses had dared to openly support Aegon, but Queen Tyanna’s spies claimed that the Baratheons, Arryns, Starks, and Lannisters had all informed Queen Alyssa that they would proclaim for Aegon, provided he won a victory against his uncle.

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What are the advantages Pinkmaiden castle holds for House Piper, based on its location? Meaning militarily and how productive it would be as a fief?

I haven’t done a Medieval Home and Gardening write up in a few months. We don’t know a lot about Pinkmaiden proper, but it did seem to play an important part in the War of the 5 Kings.

Militarily, it’s very important considering it guards the Westerlands/Riverlands border. That’s how the military hostilities of Wot5k start, by Jaime Lannister’s men defeating Lords Vance and Piper, thus opening up the Riverlands to the army. Following the Red Fork north it’s straight to Riverrun, which Jaime Lannister’s men was able to besiege. It’s also likely Pinkmaiden guards the Mummer’s Ford, which is a critical crossing point and site of another battle with Tywin’s forces. In turn, the Golden Tooth is the securest way to attack the Westerlands from the east (barring any goat paths), and Pinkmaiden is the closest large Riverlands settlement, so it’d be ideal for launching that attack. Apparently Tywin thought so as well, because he had Gregor burn the Piper lands, which have aforementioned strategic importance; but he either didn’t do that good of a job or Pinkmaiden is very sturdy (contrast poor Stone Hedge) because by ASOS several highborn westerland captives (Antario Jast, Lyle Crakehall) were held there. I guess it makes sense Pinkmaiden is sturdy, as it’s a border castle that guards the west entrance of the riverlands by Red Fork.

Economically, Pinkmaiden seems to have the living of at least the town at Mummer’s Ford, which is a cross point (good if they can charge tolls to cross), and is near running water which is good for building mills. It also seems like there are floodplains there before the hilly territory of the Westerlands, which would be good for planting wheat et al (though hard to defend). Considering it’s listed as one of the more significant settlements in the Riverlands, it probably makes a decent though not outstanding (like the Freys who can field more men than the Tullys) income.

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What are the advantages Pinkmaiden castle holds for House Piper, based on its location? Meaning militarily and how productive it would be as a fief?

All we really know about Pinkmaiden is that it's close to the border with the Westerlands. It doesn't appear to be specifically denoted as a march territory or anything. We also don't know how productive it is as a fief, we know that Marq has a decent sized band of outriders and was given a position of honor at Hoster's funeral, so it's probably no meager house, but all that gives us is a range.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[westerosenvogue]

Riding cloak for a lady of House Piper

Franck Sorbier 

[gotcasting]

Marq Piper

Hugh Dancy - 42 years old, English.

[chineseghostlygirl-archive]

@pinkxmaiden like for starter

┊ ✿ ┊GHOSTLY GIRL.

Those foods were too DELICIOUS! especially those noodles she just eaten,  its been a long time since she haven’t tried them goodies in years before hunting the dark. Maybe she need a break handling those darkstalkers. The ghostly girl laugh slightly after eating the food.

“Hey, you got some great taste of cooking y’know? “

[agameofclothes]

What the Lady of House Piper would wear, Alfazairy