#twoiaf

[vazdelart]

Daemon I Blackfyre's death on the Redgrass Field (196 AC). Commission for lake_fingers.

[malleefies]

Viserys II and Aegon III as The Princes in the Tower I've had this sitting in my procreate for months but i finally got around to finishing it

[mercyalayne]

snowstorm week day 2 ✦ parallels

“Daemon Blackfyre loved the first Daenerys, and rose in rebellion when denied her.”

“What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms…”

✎ art by the lovely @karuselii , collab comm 🫶

⤵︎ alt version

[murmel-malt]

thinking about house gardener again and that one queen. george I need to know more about her (and house gardener in general).

[amuelia]

Brynden Rivers/Bloodraven and his full sisters Mya and Gwenys, + them as babies and their mom Melissa Blackwood. thought for the first pic that maybe bloodraven isnt so physically touchy but he loves his sisters so he expresses affection through his birds

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

This might be the most obvious red herring, but I’m pretty sure the fortune teller telling Egg that he’ll die in a hot fire and everyone will celebrate his death is a misdirect. It’s not that he becomes an evil tyrant like the Mad King, it’s that he becomes such a good king to the commoners that the entire upper class turns against him. The people cheering his death are the nobles affected by his reforms.

“But didn’t he go crazy at Summerhall with trying to hatch a dragon-” until proven otherwise, I maintain that he and Dunk got assassinated and that the ones responsible began spreading the dragon hatching stuff as propaganda. You know, to discredit him.

[pompeianred]

Princess Argella Durrandon was the daughter and only child of Argilac the Arrogant, the last Storm King. After her father was killed in Aegon's Conquest, she married Orys Baratheon, the first Lord of Storm's End, founding the new House Baratheon.

ASOIAF as historical paintings (41/∞) La Reine Clothilde by Thomas Cooper Gotch (1854–1931)

[moompl]

I’ve talked a little about Egg and how I think his mental health was declining at the end of his life up until Summerhall, but I’ve never really talked about how I think his son Daeron’s early death contributed to that.

In the World of Ice and Fire, it says that Egg grieved deeply for his fallen son, and I can see Daeron’s death being a huge contributing factor towards his father’s fervent search for a way to hatch dragons. We can’t forget that Daeron died fighting against an insurgence lead by the same people who were rumored to have a hand in Egg’s own cousin Aelora’s death, which no doubt caused Egg a whole mess of feelings.

To have a family member die not once but twice to the same people multiple decades apart would be a hard thing to handle, and Egg likely thought (and knew) that if he had just had dragons, the multiple rebellions that occurred during his reign wouldn’t have happened—if he had just had dragons his son wouldn’t have died.