#weirwood tree

[thewatcher0nthewall]

"Now my watch begins"

[cheryroseart]

⭑”The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I’m not dead either.”⭑◦

One of my favorite characters, my boy Bran(Brandon) Stark 🌱

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[karuselii]

Lyanna week 2026 Day Four ¦ Wolf Blood ¦

[oananovicov]

"The gods the children worshipped were the nameless ones that would one day become the gods of the First Men—the innumerable gods of the streams and forests and stones. It was the children who carved the weirwoods with faces, perhaps to give eyes to their gods so that they might watch their worshippers at their devotions.

Yet the First Men were less learned than we are now, and credited things that their descendants today do not; consider Maester Yorrick's Wed to the Sea, Being an Account of the History of White Harbor from Its Earliest Days, which recounts the practice of blood sacrifice to the old gods. Such sacrifices persisted as recently as five centuries ago, according to accounts from Maester Yorrick's predecessors at White Harbor." -TWOIAF -The Dawn Age

I've finished it ...at last . Children Of The Forest bringing sacrifice to the Old Gods .

[pompeianred]

The children of the forest carving a face in a weirwood tree by Chase Stone

[malleefies]

coming out as a ned stark appreciator a little cat as a treat too

[sweetsummermaester]

Hot take on the Justin Sweet calendar cover:

Everyone keeps sighing over “Rhaegar + Lyanna star-crossed lovers under a heart-tree! 😍✨ but y’all, that weirwood isn’t set dressing. It’s the point.

The heart-tree is basically a two ton neon sign that says “PROPHECY BUSINESS, NOT DATE NIGHT.”

 Weirwoods are the Old Gods’ data centers basically carved faces, red sap “bleeding,” greenseer wifi Rhaegar grew up drenched in Valyrian scroll-dust basically dragging Lyanna (a Stark, old-gods blood) to a heart-tree is him crossing the streams. Fire meets Ice in literal plant form.

 Sweet paints the roots like pale tentacles wrapping the couple. That’s not cozy romance. That’s destiny wrapping a choke chain.

Location, location, location (and why it matters more than smooches).

 Most likely setting = Harrenhal godswood: the only southern heart-tree big enough to dwarf them. It’s the same tourney site where Rhaegar crowned her Queen of Love & Beauty. Blue roses → blue rose crown → blue rose offerings in perhaps a snow vision he has. Foreshadowing? Scribbled in giant red letters.

Runner-up = Isle of Faces. Supercharged weirwood zone guarded by Green Men. If Rhaegar wanted a place to seal an old-gods marriage or get a cosmic confirmation on his “dragon has three heads” theory, that island’s basically the wifi router of Westeros myth.

What was going through silver-boy’s head? Probably this

If I bond Stark wolf-blood to dragonfire, prophecy = solved. Azor Ahai? Prince That Was Promised? Check, check. Visenya maybe (He did see dany when she was in the house of the undying I stand by that) The weirwood witnesses the oath, the old gods sign the contract, everyone goes home happy… eventually.

Translation: Rhaegar isn’t courting he’s making a sales pitch to the universe. Lyanna’s standing there open-palmed, half lit like dawn, half in shadow. He’s half turned, hand on the sword hilt, still a prince, still weighing risk vs. reward. Romance is the garnish the entrée is cosmic calculus.

Symbolic cheat-sheet for anyone who wants to stop calling it a “forbidden love scene”

Alright im going to get dragged i know..

[lonelymagpies]

Hallmark cheesy Christmas movies Aemond 🎄🎄🎄