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The White Worm

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"Her ladyship shows far more interest in flying than in boys."

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ARYA STARK APPRECIATION WEEK 2024 ↳ Day 3: Magic → R'hollr

He laid a finger on her lips. "Three lives you shall have of me. No more, no less. Three and we are done. So a girl must ponder." He kissed her hair softly. "But not too long." *** I'm the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.

A Clash of Kings, Arya VII

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ARYA STARK APPRECIATION WEEK day 1: favourite quote

"The Lannisters are proud," Jon observed. "You'd think the royal sigil would be sufficient, but no. He makes his mother's House equal in honor to the king's."

"The woman is important too!" Arya protested.

Jon chuckled. "Perhaps you should do the same thing, little sister. Wed Tully to Stark in your arms."

— Game of Thrones Arya I

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arya stark appreciation week → day 2: family (bran stark)

The world moved dizzily around him. White trees, black sky, red flames, everything was whirling, shifting, spinning. He felt himself stumbling [...] A cloud of ravens was pouring from the cave, and he saw a little girl with a torch in hand, darting this way and that. For a moment Bran thought it was his sister Arya … madly, for he knew his older sister was a thousand leagues away, or dead. And yet there she was, whirling, a scrawny thing, ragged, wild, her hair atangle. Tears filled Hodor’s eyes and froze there.

A Dance with Dragons, Bran II

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ARYA STARK APPRECIATION WEEK 2024 ↳ Day 2: Her pack

And then, far far off, beyond the godswood and the haunted towers and the immense stone walls of Harrenhal, from somewhere out in the world, came the long lonely howl of a wolf. Gooseprickles rose on Arya's skin, and for an instant she felt dizzy. Then, so faintly, it seemed as if she heard her father's voice. "When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives," he said. "But there is no pack," she whispered to the weirwood. Bran and Rickon were dead, the Lannisters had Sansa, Jon had gone to the Wall. "I'm not even me now, I'm Nan." "You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the north. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in you." "The wolf blood." Arya remembered now. "I'll be as strong as Robb. I said I would." She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought it down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. I am a direwolf, and done with wooden teeth.

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History calls the struggle between King Aegon II and his half-sister Rhaenyra the Dance of the Dragons, but only at Tumbleton did the dragons ever truly dance.

Artist: @asoiafattherite

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House of the Dragon: Season 2 Opening + References [*book/show]

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Alone of the four dragons on the field that day, Seasmoke had a rider. Ser Addam Velaryon had come to prove his loyalty by destroying the Two Betrayers and their dragons, and here was one beneath him, attacking the men who had joined him for this fight. He must have felt duty bound to protect them, though surely he knew in his heart that his Seasmoke could not match the older dragon. This was no dance, but a fight to the death.

Artist: Jota Saraiva (deviantart/instagram)

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Daenerys’ (future) baby girl. I believe!

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𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐗𝐄𝐒, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐖𝐘𝐑𝐌

Caraxes, called the Blood Wyrm, was a dragon ridden at first by Prince Aemon Targaryen and later by Prince Daemon Targaryen. Caraxes was red, huge, and lean. In battle he was formidable, fearsome, and experienced. By the end of his life, Caraxes was considered an old and cunning dragon. During the Dance of the Dragons, Caraxes was about half the size of Vhagar, the oldest and largest dragon alive at the time. Daemon used Caraxes during the War for the Stepstones (106–115 AC). During those years, Daemon divided his time between the Stepstones and Dragonstone where he would often fly with his niece, Princess Rhaenyra, and her dragon Syrax. After Daemon remarried to Lady Laena Velaryon, the newly wed toured the Free Cities of Essos with their dragons Caraxes and Vhagar. Huge crowds came to see both dragons everywhere they went. At the start of the Dance of the Dragons, Daemon landed Caraxes atop Kingspyre Tower during the assault on Harrenhal. He has red scales, yellow eyes, a beard of horns, and wing-like membranes on his legs to support the aerodynamics of his body, which is long and serpentine in physique. Caraxes serpentine like features are accentuated by his neck, long and always on move, due to the dragon having a deviated septum which also causes him to have a unique roar when in combat.

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PRINCESS RHAENYS TARGARYEN, THE QUEEN WHO NEVER WAS:

Born in 74AC on the seventh day of the seventh moon of the year, Rhaenys was the only child of Lady Jocelyn Baratheon & Prince Aemon Targaryen, Prince of Dragonstone and Heir to the Iron Throne and, the eldest grandchild of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen. A clever, capable, spirited, proud, fierce and fearless woman with a fiery temperament, Rhaenys was a great beauty with black hair and lilac eyes. Following the death of her father in 92AC, Rhaenys would be passed over as Princess of Dragonstone and Heir to the Iron Throne by King Jaehaerys I Targaryen in favour of her uncle, Prince Baelon Targaryen. During the Great Council of Harrenhal in 101AC, Rhaenys’s claim for the Iron Throne would again be rejected on account of her sex.

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“With ax or lance or flail, he was as good as any knight I ever saw, but with the sword he was the Warrior himself. “When Prince Daemon had Blackfyre in hand, there was not a man equal him ... not Ulrick Dayne with Dawn, no, nor even the Dragonknight with Dark Sister.””

— commissioned by nevaehh on instagram ♥️

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“But Alyssa Targaryen was as bawdy a wench as any barmaid in King’s Landing, as she herself was fond of boasting. “I mounted him and took him for a ride,” she declared the morning after the bedding, “and I mean to do the same tonight. I love to ride.””

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“The truth is plain enough. Even Aenys sees it. Why else would he have given Blackfyre to my son? He knows that only Maegor has the strength to rule.”

Psycho boy-mum Visenya and Maegor commissioned by the lovely @jaehaeryshater ❤️‍🔥

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a song of ice and fire: lyanna stark

beautiful, and willful, and dead before her time.