#alleras sand

[sare11aa11eras]

Okay hi I did the color wheel meme

Clockwise starting from Red: Genna Lannister, Alleras and his bow, Shireen, Cersei, Tyene, Brienne in the Rainbow Guard, Arianne and Arys, and Margaery with a rhododendron.

[ancientannoyance]

i haven't been part of the asoiaf fandom in years, but i've been rereading parts of a feast for crows lately and it turns out you never leave the house martell/dorne fandom

[askmeaboutmyoctopustheory]

the sphinx is the riddle not the riddler

[daenystheedreamer]

this is from GRRM’s early manuscripts for AFFC, recently discovered by a redditor after visiting cushing library (where his work is archived). it’s an early alternate AFFC prologue told from the point of view of rosey, the daughter of the tavern keeper. WE LOST SO MUCH!! alleras rosey babes know i am your number 1 fan

[imjustapoorwayfaringgeek]

i am so attracted to alleras/sarella and i gender envy him/her

[tgrlwtfr]

Some random asoiaf floating heads of varying quality

[jedimaesteryoda]

"I'm Sam the Scared, not Sam the Slayer." "Scared? Of what? The chidings of old men? Sam, you saw the wights come swarming up the Fist, a tide of living dead men with black hands and bright blue eyes. You slew an Other."

-AFFC, Samwell I

Sam admittedly is not a warrior as he was repeatedly reminded by his abusive father, but we see him kill an Other with a knife, slay a wighted Small Paul who was already big and strong in life and beat up Dareon for abandoning their party and the Night’s Watch. Without realizing it, he actually is brave and tough, especially on behalf of those he cares about. 

"In the Age of Heroes it was supposedly the stronghold of a pirate lord who sat here robbing ships as they came down the river."

. . .

"They will take anything these days. Dusky dogs and Dornishmen, pig boys, cripples, cretins, and now a black-clad whale. And here I thought leviathans were grey."

-AFFC, Samwell V

Behind the dais a kraken and grey leviathan were locked in battle beneath the painted waves.

-ADWD, Davos III

Having fought a brawl, and killed in one-on-one, when Euron inevitably attacks Oldtown, it would be the first battle Sam participates in as a combatant, especially if Euron attacks through the Honeywine that flows through the Citadel after carrying the longships overland to the river like Harwyn Hardhand did. 

Sam, as often befits his story arc, would find himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, shoved by fate into a fight he doesn’t want. 

**Slight The Winds of Winter Spoiler**

Euron Crow’s Eye stood upon the deck of Silence, clad in a suit of black scale armor like nothing Aeron had ever seen before. Dark as smoke it was, but Euron wore it as easily as if it was the thinnest silk. The scales were edged in red gold, and gleamed and shimmered when they moved. Patterns could be seen within the metal, whorls and glyphs and arcane symbols folded into the steel.

Valyrian steel, the Damphair knew. His armor is Valyrian steel.

-TWOW, The Forsaken

When Euron attacks Oldtown he will likely be wearing that Valyrian steel scale hauberk that will make him impervious to any weapon directed at his torso, giving him a significant advantage in combat. One could aim for his head, but he would likely be wearing a good helmet. Even Lazy Leo, skilled with a bravo’s blade and dagger, could try to slay him but fail to get past the armor. 

However, there is likely one weak spot that his armor wouldn’t cover: his eyes. The black eye that gave Euron his sobriquet of “Crow’s Eye,” itself evokes the term “bullseye,” the black spot in the middle of the target an archer intends to hit. “Crow” is also a nickname for a member of the Night’s Watch. 

Sam saw the sense in the decree, but he hated longbow practice almost as much as he hated climbing steps. When he wore his gloves he could never hit anything, but when he took them off he got blisters on his fingers. Those bows were dangerous. Satin had torn off half his thumbnail on a bowstring.

-AFFC, Samwell I

She captained the ship's red archers too, and pulled a double-curved goldenheart bow that could send a shaft four hundred yards. When the pirates had attacked them in the Stepstones, Kojja's arrows had slain a dozen of them whilst Sam's own shafts were falling in the water.

-AFFC, Samwell IV

She waited till the longship came within two hundred yards before she gave the command to loose. Sam loosed with them, and this time he thought his arrow reached the ship. One volley was all it took. The longship veered south in search of tamer prey.

-AFFC, Samwell V

Sam showed a steady progression in his skills at archery. When he came to Oldtown, he already made a friend in Alleras, who himself (or perhaps herself) proves to be an expert marksman when first introduced. Alleras will likely help Sam improve further. It’s noted in the last chapter, Sam manages to reach his target, which just so happens to be an Ironborn longship.

Knives and bow and arrows are the tools for a huntsman, the sigil of House Tarly. Sam already killed with a knife with the Other, and killing with a bow and arrow, he would become the striding huntsman of his sigil.

In a dose of irony, Euron is killed not by an axe wielded by some tough, armored warrior or a sword wielded by a gallant knight in shining armor, but by an arrow to his crow’s eye from an overweight scholar. Then again, at Oakenshield, the Reader showed Euron was never good at dealing with those kinds of people. lol. 

Euron’s death will have left the Ironborn at Oldtown leaderless and they will likely be crushed when an aiding army arrives at around the same time. Like Bloodraven, Sam’s deed of slaying the rebel king with his bow may win the battle, but may likely be overlooked by the singers. He would be the unsung hero.

On a side note, Euron’s Valyrian scale armor is too valuable to miss given even Aeron admitted it is the only one that exists in Westeros. I think Sam might keep it, and if it likely doesn’t fit him, he’ll probably give it to Jon, especially after learning about the assassination attempt against him. 

“Here Jon, this will make you less vulnerable to daggers.”

It would fit with the comment Jon mentioned to Sam of wanting to be “Valyrian steel,” and symbolically would serve as a mark of progression for Jon’s character. The red gold and black steel are also Targaryen house colors.

[agentrouka-blog]

@rya and Alleras/Sallera have pararels stories, what if @lleras is a stand in or a foreshadowing of @rya vs D@ny more than a stand alone?

I suspect Sarella/Alleras has more than one role to play.

She certainly has parallels to Arya (posing as male, undercover mission, learning magical things from a questionable mentor, concerned with the smallfolk, strong connection to her maternal ancestry, both meet and help Samwell) but unlike Arya she is on a deliberate path of her own and much more centered, self-directed and purposeful. We'll see what her specific role will be. As a child of Dorne and the Summer Isles, I don't expect she'll be welcoming the Targaryens or dragons, which she would also have in common with Arya.

In terms of her role on foreshadowing, there's probably many angles. The most obvious is how she subverts Westerosi gender roles.

The image of the sphinx, Alleras' nickname, is related to old Valyria from AGOT on, and brought up specifically by Maester Aemon, who also brings up the mirror of variable sexes:

Dragons are neither male nor female, Barth saw the truth of that, but now one and now the other, as changeable as flame. The language misled us all for a thousand years. Daenerys is the one, born amidst salt and smoke. The dragons prove it." (AFFC, Samwell IV)

GRRM plays around a lot with softening up the divide between the sexes in the later books. From mere interests that don't fit feudal gender norms, to people who pose as the other sex for specific purposes, to people who openly live outside the prescribed role, to "role reversals" in terms of power dynamics between the sexes, to characters with deliberately ambiguous looks and actual intersex characters.

Sex, as well, is described in terms of changing sexes as well as powerplay, in a way that seems uncomfortable with the idea of a "male" and "female" sexual role by placing them in adversarial positions. Especially when the act itself involves two people of the same sex.

I can't really speculate what exactly he is aiming for with this, but it seems very deliberate. Potentially, it's meant to signify how Westeros is in for an era in which the rigid norms of patriarchy are about to be shaken. Female rulers, matrilineal inheritance, bastard rights, women's rights, power for the disabled... I imagine a lot of powerful precedents are going to be set in the scope of the endgame. A world in which the divide between male and female (or between power and insignificance) becomes much more porous.

[sare11aa11eras]

TFW you went to the pub to read this cool new book in peace and enjoy a pint or two but unfortunately your lab partner is there and he is drunk and The Worst

[dragon-queensguard]

Alysanne in the afterlife stoked by Daenerys and her journey but also excited about alleras/sarella who’s also her descendant being at the citadel!!!!!

[stromuprisahat]

Sunny morning at Sunspear...

Sarella: Dad, I'm leaving for Oldtown. I'm gonna become a maester.

Oberyn, not lifting his eyes from morning paper: Have fun and good luck, son!

Alleras: *waves goodbye and disappears*

[nogoodsheepstealing-greatgrandma]

[valyriansource]

top 20 favourite book-only asoiaf characters (as voted by our followers) ⤷ #4. sarella sand

"If only it worked that way with apples, no one would ever need go hungry," said Alleras with one of his soft smiles. The Sphinx was always smiling, as if he knew some secret jape. It gave him a wicked look that went well with his pointed chin, widow's peak, and dense mat of close-cropped jet-black curls.

[venusintheblindspots-blog]

“An acolyte. Alleras, by some called Sphinx.”

“Sarella turned over rocks, brushed sand off the mosaics, and wanted to know everything there was to know about the people who had lived here.”

The sand snakes, men called his daughters..., Prince Oberyn had never fathered a son.

The Sand Snake; Sarella.