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Chalk mural of Daenaerys Targaryen I (c. 300s AC) discovered on an Essosi wall fragment

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Please go read Paranatural. It is such a good webcomic.

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Catelyn Tully///Catelyn Stark

I know wearing metal near the skin would be uncomfortable in the North, but I really wanted to echo her father's beard jewelry! Maybe it's an unusually warm day. The kissing wolf/fish cloak pin is a bit flirty, but thankfully NedCat are sweet enough to handle it. The little glass beads little Cat's overdress are made of sand from Riverrun.

Drawing the same character at different ages was such a fun exercise!

Rickard-Lyarra Brandon Ned Lyanna Benjen Jon Arya Minisa Hoster Catelyn Edmure Lysa Robb Sansa Bran Rickon Robin

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Lyanna Stark

Lya above ground...and below

Rickard---Lyarra Brandon Ned Lyanna Benjen

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Sylvanian Family Wilson and House! ♡♡♡

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Robb Stark Marrying Jeyne Westerling

This wedding might be one of the more peaceful ones in ASOS, but I've always found it interesting, an impromptu "Sand Wedding" on the western shoreline. Was there a weirwood in the Crag, or did they say their vows in front of an oak or in a Sept? I'd like to think that just for a moment, they weren't old before their time and bent by duty and just two young people finding love.

Robb's outfit is based on southern Finnish gakti that I unfortunately dimmed the beauty of by using Stark colors. They're so vivid and beautiful! I guess the Starks camouflage well, at least...

Jeyne's head covering is based on the headcoverings in this illustration from the 1220s (https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848/0595) it looked too much like a shell not to add!

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Lysa Tully/// Lysa Arryn

◇ house stark ◇ house tully ◇

Lysa! Her drip is immaculate in the books, and I think she's always loved the pageantry of selecting fabrics and trimmings for new clothes. I'd bet she was constantly giving Cersei a run for her money in the style department.

As always, the eldest kid/heir wears the "purest" version of their succeeding house (as their future representative). Meanwhile the younger kids have more freedom to shift up house colors/hybridized sigils (partly because I love throwing these symbols together animorphs-style).

The little patterned ribbons bb Lysa is wearing are little Whent-Tully bat fish! There a transparent pattern for them below.

P.S. there have to be giant direfish in the riverlands right??? like full on 20 foot highly intelligent long-living monstrosities...anyway vampire fish are now canon.

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Arya "Underfoot" Stark (AGOT)

She's babie!! I gave her Lyanna's face structure, her grandmother Arya Flint's curly hair, and Ned's eyes and coloring. Her forehead is a little higher, her face is a little wider, and Catelyn + Edmure Tully have gaps in their front teeth just like hers (because she had to get something from her mother's side)

Rickard-Lyarra Brandon Ned Lyanna Benjen Jon Arya

Minisa-Hoster Catelyn Edmure Lysa Robb Sansa Bran Rickon Robin

I think embroidering house imagery on clothes is a VERY important for hierarchical power dynamics. Firstborns or "heirs" to a house often feature the most unaltered "pure" versions of their house's sigils, but those further down in succession (or those whose mothers are "higher" in standing) can mix and match without too much pushback (Royces and their different colored horses, Brynden Blackfish, etc.).

I think anyone in Catelyn Tully's position would ensure her firstborn and oldest daughter dressed as Northern and traditionally "Stark" as possible, but I feel like Ned's lookalike Arya and the youngest kids would've had a little more leeway.

As for highborn bastards, I highly doubt Jon's clothes ever featured any direwolf imagery, even if they were just as well-made and warm as the other Stark kids. Theon had the opposite treatment, the Greyjoy kraken was always prominently on display, but that might have been interpreted as more alienating than enabling pride for his roots.

Arya reminds me of one of my younger cousins, I'd painstakingly braid her hair in the mornings so it was out of the way (she wasn't allowed to cut it :') but she'd always come home with her hair all tangled and the ribbons in her pocket or lost. I think Arya hates embroidery but is pretty decent at simple mending by AGOT due to having to repair her own clothes whenever she tears them.