#moredo rogare

[ammmyturtle]

Classic meme time

[sarcasticsweetlara]

How House Rogare affected Larra's life and views and Westeros.

Obviously, House Rogare was greatly wealthy and full of clever people, they owned a bank and made trade agreements not only with the Targaryens but with the Martells as well, though obviously Aliandra did not have children with Drazenko as she must surely have married again after his death, maybe to a Wyl in order to show her subjects that Dorne will not bow to the Targaryens.

Larra was the youngest of Lysandro's trueborn children, and from what we know about all her legitimate siblings is that they were good warriors and seemed to value knowledge as Larra's oldest sister Marra owned many books and a library.

Even after the Lysene Spring it seemed Larra's brother Moredo and her sisters Marra and Lysara were fine and wealthy enough to receive Larra in her last days before her death.

I will not say they were pure with no ulterior motives, but that they were clever with their business.

Viserys' marriage with Larra emphasized they were all in with the Valyrian Customs as after all they had involved themselves not only through marriage but by finances.

Daeron the Young Dragon knew about the marriage of his uncle Viserys with Larra and at some point his plan was to do something similar and wed a wealthy noble either from Lys or Braavos (of Valyrian descent) whose family would not represent a threat to Westeros but still powerful enough to aid them in wars, just like Larra and her family did in the beginning; or who knows, maybe wed a Rogare but making it known he would not tolerate being fooled.

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I think maybe their sigil was a mermaid to symbolize their international trade and their alluring courtesans' uncommon appearance, as they were said to have white blond hair, which is said to be rare even among Valyrians.

Larra herself had a willowy appearance as well as white blonde hair alongside blue-violet eyes probably. This means that among the Lyseni the Rogares were quite unique.

Larra knew she was in a foreign land in which they were not exactly patient with foreigners, and as I said before, Valyrian seems to have had no influence nor similarities with the Westerosi Language and its dialects are of course different to it as well.

We don't know the details of her whole relationship with Viserys, but we know that life in King's Landing must have been really hard for her to drive her away in the end, like it happened with Mellario of Norvos.

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The Rogares raised Larra in a completely different way of how she was expected to behave in Westeros and the maesters may have ignored her subtle ways of assimilating and seen her retaining of her Lysene side as something bad thus making her more unpopular, just like they did with her mother-in-law Rhaenyra.

In a certain way Larra reminds me of Catherine de' Medici in that their lives were deeply marked by scandals and that at first both courts disliked them and that both of them married second sons who no one expected to become monarchs, if Larra had stayed in King's Landing she probably would have risen and helped her children, as well as introduce a new fashion and maybe Aegon IV would not have become so rotten, Aemon would not have felt he needed to make up for his brother's acts and married and had kids and Naerys would have been happier and maybe have had a better marriage.

Larra as a queen would have been so iconic and it would have helped later with the marriages done at different times of her great-great-grandsons Valarr and Daeron had with Kiera of Tyrosh and even make the court more inclusive and progressive, granted, it would have taken time but it could have worked.

As queen she could have created her own court, a difference between being the queen consort to being the wife of the Hand of the King (though we can say obviously that for a while as Aegon III seemed to have been absent as king, Viserys and Larra were the unofficial "First" Lord and "First" Lady of the Realm) and involved herself more with the Velaryons, Celtigars and Rhaena's daughters, as well as the old allies of the Blacks and slowly gain her own allies and loyalists. Larra's own father Lysandro reminds me of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, Larra's intelligence helping Viserys II would have made the Kingdom prosper.

As a queen Larra's words would have had more weight and thus gained more respect and truly discipline Aegon IV in a more efficient way than Viserys did, and by having her mother by her side Naerys' life could have been calmer, Naerys could have inherited the crown Larra would have used, and maybe even name a surviving child of hers after Larra. Naerys would have loved wearing the crown of her mother frequently to show she was proud of the woman who gave birth to her, and that Westeros owed a lot to Larra Rogare as she had been first the Second Lady of the Realm as the wife to the Hand of the King and later the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms who had been so resilient through all her life in King's Landing.

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Maybe Larra did try to keep in touch with her children but failed to keep going in the end.

For those who say Larra is a random person who appears out of nowhere, remember her family is the reason Viserys was able to get back to Westeros, it may have been far away from ideal circumstances but in the end it helped House Targaryen with making alliances with Essosi and reaffirm their Valyrian otherness; maybe in another world Viserys could have traveled willingly as a man to Lys and met Larra there and then get married under both a Lysene ceremony and a Westerosi Faith of the Seven ceremony.

With this marriage House Targaryen was showing Essos they could have more unions in the future if they were willing to support the Targaryen monarchs as well.

Also, this way the Rogares helped the Targaryens in not having to rely ever again on certain family from Oldtown as the Rogare Bank was wealthier, thus showing House Targaryen would not be lenient with them, and Lotho, Larra's brother founded the Bank of Oldtown.

Whether you like Larra Rogare or not, we can not deny that her existence does influence House Targaryen and Westeros, and if she had been able allowed to still communicate with and visit her children, things could have been vastly different. Her death also impacted her family as they had now officially lost her without any hope and she had been buried away in Lys, and now they could only hold on to the memories Larra had left them, and in the case of her children to paintings, the stories of Viserys II, Aegon III and Daenaera and maybe the own recordings of Larra.

House Rogare may have received and given refuge to Aegon IV and Aerion, as well as also presented them Rohanne and Kiera as possible brides for Daemon Waters and Valarr and Daeron Targaryen (son of Maekar I and Dyanna), as most likely they had Valyrian blood that may have or not have been Rogare blood; also, maybe one or the two of Larra's sisters Marra or Lysara married into Westerosi nobility to gain more leverage, and Marra probably was the great-grandmother of Aelinor Penrose, while Lysara was probably wed to a Velaryon, Moredo to Bethany Hightower probably as Samantha Tarly did not try to do anything to them, and Drako Rogare probably was wed to Ellyn Baratheon (as she is not mentioned living in Westeros when the fates of her sisters are revealed) in an effort to bind themselves together, and the Rogares also could have presented Serenei to Aegon The Unworthy as an affair as Serenei could have ended up living with the part of the Rogare family that had been sent to the Brother Perfumed Garden.

Aerys II maybe could have also hoped to wed a Rogare to his son Rhaegar at first.

House Rogare does have a big impact on the story.

[starryrosebud]

[grival]

My thoughts of chapter 192

The music master Vogarro loving viserys's voice "-sweetest voices a boy ever had for the last few times-" and then lamenting his voice will change due to puberty.

I like baela bad temper lmao

She is so real for saying this → "Are we not the sons and daughters of the Rogue Prince?! Are we not of the Blood of Aegon the Dragon as mother is?! I don’t fear my uncles"

Rhaenyra playing with her rings, but what do you mean she wore them on her toes omg 😕 🤷‍♀️ but who i am to judge my queen

it's so cute that Daemon sent little notes for his children in his letters

Rhaena asking for Moredo Rogare proclaiming she loves him and Addam Velaeryon and Baela being like 😒🙄

i like rhaenyra's reaction of the mere idea of one of her children marrying a Rogare. so i have an unpopular opinion and it's contradict everything in this house, i wouldn't mind viserys having a thing with larra rogare hear me out: viserys having his canon kids and the drama that would bring

Baela deciding Viserys must know something

Baela talks with Alyn was interesting, but THIS IS NOT A SAFE SPACE FOR HIM

She was such a badass for slitting Ser Arryk's throat. 

[goodqueenaly]

Why does Queen Alysanne look so different from her siblings and parents? She has blue eyes and blond hair instead of purple eyes and silver hair. I highly doubt she's a bastard, but I feel like there must be a reason for her distinct coloring? Thank you!

Well, to be pedantic about it, we’re not certain what all of Alysanne’s siblings looked like. We have a good idea about Jaehaerys and Rhaena of course, and given that at 15 Aegon the (future) Uncrowned “was said by many to be the very image of his grandsire at the same age”, it may be worth guessing that he shared the silver-gold hair and purple eyes of Aegon the Conqueror. However, we don’t have any idea what Prince Viserys looked like, nor the short-lived Princess Vaella, so it is entirely possible that they shared Alysanne’s honey-colored curls and/or blue eyes. Nor should we necessarily assume that Alysanne’s looks were entirely non-Valyrian, or owed nothing to her Targaryen/Valyrian heritage: after all, Gyldayn later goes on to describe Moredo Rogare as looking like “the very image of a warrior of Old Valyria” in part because of his “blazing blue eyes”, while Daenerys’ Lysene handmaiden Doreah is described as having “hair the color of honey, and eyes like the summer sky”. 

Anyway, to the extent GRRM wanted Alysanne to look less obviously Targaryen/Valyrian than her two longest-surviving siblings, perhaps GRRM depicted her this way to show Alysanne as more in touch with the common people of Westeros, befitting her eventual “good queen” moniker. As Alysanne looked less strikingly, indeed inhumanly beautiful than the common image of the Targaryens, so, perhaps, her appearance embodied the bridge she encouraged (through her good works and intercession with the king) between crown and people. Maybe the suggestion is supposed to be that Alysanne was not a faraway god-like figure who did not care for her people, but a queen who, for example, wished to hear the injustices of the women in her realm, end the terror of the right of the first night, and provide the citizens of her capital with clean water. But that’s just a guess, of course.

I also wonder the extent to which GRRM is again drawing from The Accursed Kings. (I know, it me.) Since I think Jaehaerys I in F&B pulls quite a bit from Druon’s depiction of King Edward III of England, it would hardly surprise me that GRRM would also be thinking about Edward’s (sometime) beloved bride, Philippa of Hainaut, when detailing Alysanne. While I don’t think personality-wise Druon’s Philippa and F&B’s Alysanne have much in common - Philippa is indeed barely a character in The Accursed Kings, likely a surprise to no one in that misogynistic series - and they don’t in fact look particularly similar, Druon is very insistent that the readers see his Philippa as not particularly beautiful (indeed referring to her multiple times as “chubby”, “stout”, and “fat”, and never as a compliment). More to the point, when Philippa marries Edward, Druon notes that while Philippa “was not even very pretty ... she had an attractive simplicity”, as “[w]ithout her royal adornments, she would have looked no different from any other red-headed girl of her age”; accordingly, in Druon’s opinion, Philippa “was essentially no different from the women over whom she was to reign”, and “[e]very stout, red-headed girl felt that she had, somehow or other, been personally complimented and honoured” as Philippa was made the king’s wife. (Did I mention how problematic this series is?) So maybe Alysanne being “oft described as pretty but seldom as beautiful”, yet nevertheless being mutually in love with her fair young king, is meant to recall this distinctly un-beautiful (in Druon’s opinion, anyway) princess falling mutually in love with her fair young king.

[horizon-verizon]

On the morning of the twelfth day of the secret siege, Thaddeus Rowan was brought forth in chains to confess to his offenses. Septon Bernard detailed Lord Rowan’s alleged crimes: he had taken bribes in the form of gold and girls (exotic creatures from the Mermaid, says Mushroom, the younger the better), had sent Moredo Rogare to the Vale to dispossess Ser Arnold Arryn of his rightful inheritance, had conspired with Oakenfist to remove Unwin Peake as the King’s Hand, had helped to loot the Rogare Bank of Lys, thereby defrauding and impoverishing many “good and leal men of Westeros of noble birth and high station,” had appointed his own son to a command “for which he was manifestly unworthy,” leading to the death of thousands in the Mountains of the Moon. Most terrible of all, his lordship was accused of having plotted with the three Rogares to poison King Aegon and his queen, so as to place Prince Viserys on the Iron Throne with Larra of Lys as his queen. “The poison used is called the Tears of Lys,” Bernard declared, an assertion that Grand Maester Munkun then confirmed. “Though the Seven spared you, sire,” Bernard concluded, “Lord Rowan’s foul plot took the life of your young friend Gaemon. When the septon had completed his recitation, Ser Marston Waters said, “Lord Rowan has confessed to all these crimes,” and beckoned to the Lord Confessor, George Graceford, to bring the prisoner forward. Manacled at ankle with heavy chains, his face so bruised and swollen as to be unrecognizable, Lord Thaddeus did not move at first, until Lord Graceford pricked him with the point of his dagger, whereupon he said in a thick voice, “Ser Marston speaks truly, Your Grace. I have confessed to all. Lotho promised me fifty thousand dragons when the deed was done, and another fifty when Viserys took the throne. The poison was given to me by Roggerio.” So halting was this speech, so slurred the words, that some upon the battlements thought his lordship must be drunk, until Mushroom pointed out that all his teeth were missing. The confession left King Aegon III bereft of speech. All that the boy could do was stand and stare, with such despair upon his face that Mushroom feared His Grace might be about to leap from the battlements onto the spikes below, to rejoin his first queen.” It fell to Prince Viserys to make answer. “And my wife, Lady Larra,” he shouted down, “was she a part of this plot too, my lord?” Lord Rowan gave a heavy nod. “She was,” he said. “And what of me?” asked the prince. “Aye, you as well,” his lordship answered dully...an answer that seemed to surprise Marston Waters, whilst greatly displeasing Lord George Graceford. “And Gaemon Palehair, ’twas he who put the poison in the tart, I’ll venture,” Viserys went on glibly. “If it please my prince,” mumbled Thaddeus Rowan. Whereupon the prince turned to the king his brother and said, “Gaemon was as guilty as the rest of us... of nothing,” and the dwarf Mushroom called down, “Lord Rowan, was it you who poisoned King Viserys?” To which the old Hand nodded, saying, “It was, my lord. I do confess it.” The king’s face grew hard. “Ser Marston,” he said, “this man is my Hand and innocent of treason. The traitors here are those who tortured him to bring forth this false confession. Seize the Lord Confessor, if you love your king...else I will know that you are as false as he is.” His words rang across the inner ward, and in that moment, the broken boy Aegon III seemed every inch a king.

Fire and Blood, by George R.R. Martin, pg 688-690

[encirclet]

⟨ giorgio belli. cis male. he/him. 24. ⟩ we welcome ser victario to king’s landing , the sellsword from lys. keep an eye out for their cynical nature, they tend to cover it up by acting unwavering. rumor has it they are neutral to the peace treaty, and their loyalties lie with houses targaryen and tarth. you’ll know it’s them when you get flashes of the lingering scent of lysene perfume almost worn off, treating your blade as if it’s your own flesh and blood, and eyes the colour of the darkest plum.

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name:  ser victario truthbearer title: household knight, sworn protector of princess pimchanok targaryen nickname(s): vic, although no one has called him that since his childhood in lys alias(es):  truthbearer, he carries the valyrian steel longsword called truth, long owned by house rogare and famously wielded by moredo rogare before the original fall of the wealthy lysene banking house. upon it’s fall, the rogares were scattered across lys and their riches sold to pay off the debts that they owed. moredo ended up attacking lys with braavosi sellswords to avenge what had happened to his family, but there is little knowledge of what came of that. born in lys to a mother from house rogare, victario does not carry the rogare name — but he does wield truth, and has for almost ten years.  age:  twenty four traits:   cynical, observant, unwavering, unsympathetic, vengeful height:  6 foot or 5 foot 11 depending on the day notable features: lysene people are descended from old valyria, but the only valyrian feature that victario possesses is eyes the colour of very dark plum. their violet hue is only really noticeable in direct sunlight, however. 

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alliances: pimchanok targaryen, house tarth (related on his mother’s side) mother:  alaiya rogare, deceased 9 years ago father:  unknown siblings:  none that are known to him marital status:  unmarried, unbetrothed

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last heard of in 138 AC, house rogare had lost its prolific riches — the banking dynasty that could trace its lineage back to old valyria had been reduced to paupers, earning money in the same pillow houses they had once owned and operated. their wealth was scattered throughout the free cities, sold off to pay the debts lysaro rogare had accumulated in his blind ambition. since, house rogare has dwindled in size, its remaining members marrying into houses across the free cities and even westeros as a way to regain a semblance of the status they once had.

victario’s mother held a high position in lys’s perfumed garden, a famed pleasure house that was once owned by her family hundreds of years ago. he was raised amongst those who made their living there, running messages for his mother through the perfumed streets of lys, and watching as westerosi people came and went on their travels, only those who had been exiled from their homeland staying longer than a few weeks. according to his mother, his father was among them — a westerosi traveller that had blown through lys and left before his mother had even known she was pregnant. a second born lord from a smaller house, alaiya had no way of knowing how to contact him, and so he was never made aware that he had fathered a son. 

murder tw: victario did not carry the rogare name, a decision made by his mother to protect him from the disdain that the lyseni had for the family that had defrauded and attempted to siege them. playing messenger for his mother through the streets of lys, victario encountered many that knew him a rogare just by his features, those whose ancestors had lost everything to the rogares, and those that wanted their debts paid in blood. at 15, his mother was murdered by a sellsword, presumably hired by someone who still carried disdain for her house.

left without the only family he had ever known, victario began to train so that he may avenge his mother — but also so that he would not follow in her footsteps. he could no longer stay at the perfumed garden without her, so he sought work as a sellsword in the free cities, joining the legion of swords for hire that lurked the streets of his hometown and others. victario did not relish the act of violence, but became adept at blending in, deciphering the whispers of the lower streets of lys so that he may discover the location of the man who killed his mother. this goal was accomplished when he followed rumours of the man working off of a lysene pirate ship to the stepstones, where he killed the man as he slept — not willing to offer him the valiance of a death in battle.

it was while he remained in the stepstones that he discovered an abandoned pirate’s den, and inside of it, amongst other treasures, a longsword — long abandoned, suffering wear and tear from lack of maintenance, but undeniably the sword his mother had spoken of in his youth. it was truth, the valyrian steel ancestral sword of house rogare, a sword which had been sold off long ago when the rogare bank collapsed. its discovery spurred him to connect with his maternal aunt — whom he knew was now a tarth, living somewhere in south of westeros. he sailed there on a merchant’s ship passing through the redwyne strait, following word of mouth to locate his aunt.

now residing in king’s landing, he serves as pim’s sworn sword, knighted by them upon offering his service despite the fact that he has never earned his spurs in the westerosi traditional sense. he is prepared to lay his life down for his princess, the one person that he has found true kinship with during his time in westeros. she reminds him of his mother, a person with cunning deeper than most can fathom — someone who has made themselves in an image they could admire.

however, he is very adamant that he does not serve house targaryen. he serves pim, and thus only cares for the members of their house that they do. he cannot forgive what the king has done to house tarth, and has talked so much shit on aedar that he could’ve been executed for treason seven times by now. he will never serve as a knight of the kingsguard as long as aedar breathes, that he has sworn time and time again.

he is very quiet, very observant, as much of a spy for pim as those hired to do that job specifically. he is not terribly fluent in the common tongue, and thus says very little in conversation — though he speaks the lysene tongue, high and low valyrian fluently. most people view him as kind of .... creepy and off putting. he isn’t afraid to stare at those he finds suspicious, and isn’t opposed to following people for answers, either.

always smells good, he still practices the lysene tradition of perfuming his hair — oftentimes, the only way you’ll know he entered a room is the smell of lysene perfume.

[thehightower]

Though the court and city still doted on the king’s brother, that clever, gallant boy Viserys, the same could not be said for his Lysene wife. Larra Rogare had taken up residence in the Red Keep with her husband, yet in her heart she remained a lady of Lys. Though fluent in High Valyrian and the dialects of Myr, Tyrosh, and Old Volantis in addition to her own Lysene tongue, Lady Larra made no effort to learn the Common Tongue, preferring to rely upon translators to make her wishes known. Her ladies were all Lyseni, as were her servants. The gowns she wore all came from Lys, even her smallclothes; her father’s ships delivered the latest Lysene fashions to her thrice a year. She even had her own protectors. Lysene swords guarded her night and day, under the command of her brother Moredo and a towering mute from the fighting pits of Meereen called Sandoq the Shadow. [...] Sandoq the Shadow had come from Lys with Lady Larra, a gift from her father the Magister Lysandro. Black of skin and black of hair, he stood almost seven feet tall. His face, which he oft kept hidden behind a black silk veil, was a mass of thin white scars, and his lips and tongue had been removed, leaving him both mute and hideous to look upon. It was said of him that he had been the victor of a hundred fights in the death pits of Meereen, that he had once torn out the throat of a foe with his teeth after his sword had shattered, that he drank the blood of the men he killed, that in the pits he had slain lions, bears, wolves, and wyverns with no weapon but the stones he found upon the sands. Such tales grow in the telling, to be sure, and we cannot know how much of this, if any, is to be believed. Though Sandoq could not read or write, Mushroom tells us he was fond of music, and would oft sit in the shadows of Lady Larra’s bedchamber playing sweet sad notes on a queer stringed instrument of goldenheart and ebony that stood near as tall as he did. “I could sometimes make the lady laugh, though she did not understand more than a few words of our tongue,” the fool says, “but the Shadow’s playing always made her weep, and strange to say she liked that better.” — Fire & Blood

Larra Rogare and Sandoq the Shadow, by Doug Wheatley, for Fire & Blood (paperback edition) by George R.R. Martin

[thesevenkingdomschroniclesrol]

Qyle nació un año después que su hermana Aliandra, y por ello, sabe que no es su labor gobernar Dorne. Desde pequeño le gustaba asistir a su padre y éste le intentó inculcar que algún día, también tendría que asistir a su hermana.

Por mucho tiempo Qyle no comprendió de qué modo podía serle útil a una niña tonta como Aliandra, pero un día mientras su padre cabalgaba y un grupo de bandidos les cayó encima, observó como él y su tio Lewyn combatían lado a lado para repelerlos y mantenerle a salvo; su padre era quien dirigía a los hombres y su tío tomaba la acción.

Este episodio de su vida le hizo comprender lo importante que era ser hábil con la espada y cómo podía asistir a su hermana si era ella quien le daba instrucciones y él las seguía.

Con ocho años de edad comenzó un riguroso entrenamiento con el maestro de armas de Lanza del Sol, concentrado en convertirse en un guerrero de renombre que pudiese mantener a salvo a sus hermanas frente a cualquier peligro, incluso acompañando a Aliandra como su escolta armada durante su viaje al norte de Dorne cuando tenía tan sólo once años.

Aunque era demasiado joven aún para haber sido tomado muy en serio como “escolta”, Qyle se sintió sumamente orgulloso de poder proteger a su hermana durante el viaje y aprendió de varios señores Dornienses la importancia de ser un buen guerrero. Debido a esto, y con el consentimiento de su padre, se quedó en Wyl siendo escudero de Lord Wyl. La casa de los Wyl era la más adentrada en las Marcas de Dorne por el Sendahueso.

En su estadía en el lugar aprendió rápidamente la diferencia entre combatir con un maestro de armas y pelear por su vida con acero en mano. En esos años conoció a Wyland Wyl, el hombre más hábil con quien combatió después de su tío Lewyn; le enseñó todo sobre las armas que debía usar y de Lord Wyl, en cambio, aprendió cómo envenenarlas.

Durante el 130, con trece años de edad, volvió a Lanza del Sol por orden expresa de su padre que había recibido noticias del alzamiento de un nuevo Rey Buitre; Qoren Martell deseaba mantener a los miembros de su casa lo más lejos de los conflictos de los reinos del Norte.

A pesar de su edad, cuando volvió al palacio, Qyle ya se sentía un hombre. Había matado y había follado por igual, ya nadie podía decir que era un niño y la inocencia de sus ojos se había perdido en la dura vida marqueña. En Lanza del Sol volvió a sus labores como hijo del príncipe recibiendo dignatarios extranjeros junto a sus hermanas y en varias ocasiones asistió a su padre con asuntos de gobierno.

Qyle comenzó a destacar por lo sincero que se había vuelto, llegando a irritar a Aliandra en varias ocasiones con comentarios sobre sus pretendientes y lo inadecuado que era que ella les coqueteara a esos sujetos indignos.

A medida que crecía, también comenzó a mostrar gusto por lo refinado y el buen vivir de un miembro de la realeza dorniense; las damas de la corte empezaron a lloverle sin que tuviese que hacer mucho más que mostrarse en los salones, algo que nunca desaprovechó. 

Cerca de sus dieciséis años era común que viajara a Lys por invitación de la pudiente familia de banqueros de los Rogare, lugar en donde le echó el ojo a Larra Rogare, aunque nunca se convenció de pedirla para algo más serio que sus usuales coqueteos. En Lys se hizo amigo también de Moredo Rogare y su tío Drazenko, a quienes constantemente invita al a corte de Lanza del Sol.

A pesar de sus viajes de placer, Qyle es un guerrero y sigue retando a quienes aparecen por Lanza del Sol. Desde la muerte de su padre y el alzamiento de Aliandra como una figura pública de poder, se siente cada vez más irritado con todos los pretendientes que hay a su alrededor y está pensando seriamente en retar a muerte al próximo hombre que se atreva a posar las manos sobre su hermana como si fuese una vulgar cortesana.

[asongofsilks]

House Targaryen fancasting --> Diane Kruger as Larra Rogare

“Larra Rogare had taken up residence in the Red Keep with her husband, yet in her heart she remained a lady of Lys. Though fluent in High Valyrian and the dialects of Myr, Tyrosh, and Old Volantis in addition to her own Lysene tongue, Lady Larra made no effort to learn the Common Tongue, preferring to rely upon translators to make her wishes known. Her ladies were all Lyseni, as were her servants. She even had her own protectors. Lysine swords guarded her night and day, under the command of her brother Moredo and a towering mute from the fighting pits of Meereen called Sandoq the Shadow. She would have no part in the worship of the Seven, nor the old gods of the northmen. Her worship was reserved for certain of the manifold gods of Lys: the six-breasted cat goddess Pantera, Yndros of the Twilight who was male by day and female by night, the pale child Bakkalon of the Sword, faceless Saagael, the giver of pain.

Her ladies, her servants, and her guards would join Lady Larra at certain times in performing obeisances to these queer, ancient deities. Cats were seen coming and going from her chambers so often that men began to say they were her spies, purring at her in soft voices of all the doings of the Red Keep. It was even said that Larra herself could transform into a cat, to prowl the gutters and rooftops of the city.”

Now it would be way cool if Larra could actually have turned herself into a cat… but she was much more flesh and blood, an interesting character with intriguing contradictions.

[ammmyturtle]

Rhaena: 🥰🥰🥰😘😘😘😍😍😍

Baela: 😦😦😦😨😨😨😐😐😐

Visenya: XD ❤️ 🐦‍⬛

[sarcasticsweetlara]

Aelinor Targaryen

I think it's more than obvious to say we're all curious about Aelinor Penrose Targaryen.

Maybe some people confused her as the sister-wife of Aerys I Targaryen due to her closeness and proximity to the Royal Family as she could have been a protégée or a Lady-in-waiting to Queen Myriah Martell.

Another way Aelinor may have been related to the Targaryens could be from being the niece of Ronnel Penrose, the husband of Princess Elaena Targaryen.

Or Marra Rogare could have married into House Penrose after the Lysene Spring and helping her siblings Moredo and Lysara restore its wealth, Marra seemed to have been an erudite so she could have loved becoming the Lady of the Parchments and having descendants whose inheritance would not be threatened.

Aelinor also seemed to be politically aware, like her great-grandmother Marra, since she knew she needed heirs to consolidate her position, and Aelinor seemed to have been good with the smallfolk since they never complained about her unlike with Aerys I Targaryen.

Image credits to @tumbledrylowwest and @alaynasansa

[starryrosebud]

Me: i’m fine

What I actually think: Moredo Rogare is hot

[wepurge-rpg]

Alguien me puede contar bien lo que paso en 7kingdoms?, si ya se que es un foro de got y todo lo que eso implica, pero cuenten bien el chisme por favor || No se a que chisme te refieres lo único que se es que se fue el toxico de Moredo Rogare pero en cambio aparecieron un par que se acusan a gritos como folliroleros, tanto así que la tipa usa a una actriz porno de pb. Seven va de mal en peor aunque al menos tienen un toxico menos

Moredoo

R.

[racefortheironthrone]

Whta was the Lyseni Spring?

It’s not entirely clear, but from context, the Lyseni Spring seems to have involved a popular uprising against the Rogare family in Lys and an elite coup against the Rogare family in Westeros, partially because of the overweening power of the Rogare family which threatened the oligarchical republic and partially because the Iron Bank does not like competition:

“In the end, it was Larra Rogare and her wealthy, ambitious family who helped break the power of the regents and, almost certainly, that of Lord Peake. It was an inadvertent role they played, however, caught up as they were in the Lyseni Spring. This was a time when the Rogare Bank waxed greater than the Iron Bank, and so fell prey to the plots to control the king; they were blamed for many more acts than they were actually guilty of. Lord Rowan, then the Hand and one of the last regents, was accused of being complicit in their crimes and was tortured for information. Ser Marston Waters, now somehow Hand of the King in his place (Munkun, the only regent at this time besides Rowan, is reticent to discuss this in the True Telling), dispatched men to seize Lady Larra after having arrested her brothers. But the king and his brother refused to give her up, and were besieged in Maegor’s Holdfast by Waters and his supporters for eighteen days. The conspiracy eventually unraveled as Ser Marston—perhaps recalling his duty—attempted to fulfill his king’s command to arrest those who had falsely implicated the Rogares and Lord Rowan. Waters himself was killed by his own sworn brother, Ser Mervyn Flowers, when he attempted to arrest him.

… the Lady Larra Rogare of Lys. She was a great beauty of Valyrian descent, and seven years the prince’s elder when she wed him at nine-and-ten. Her father, Lysandro Rogare, was the head of a wealthy banking family whose power waxed even greater following the alliance to the Targaryens. Lysandro assumed the style of First Magister for Life, and men spoke of him as Lysandro the Magnificent. But he and his brother Drazenko, the Prince Consort of Dorne, died within a day of one another, beginning the precipitous fall of the Rogares both in Lys and the Seven Kingdoms.

Lysandro’s heir, Lysaro, spent vast sums in pursuit of power and fell afoul of the other magisters, even as his siblings became embroiled in plots to control the Iron Throne. After his fall, Lysaro Rogare was scourged to death at the Temple of Trade by those he had wronged. His siblings received less fatal punishments, and one among them—Moredo Rogare, the soldier who carried the Valyrian sword Truth—eventually led an army against Lys.” (WOIAF)

So this reads a lot like the rebellion against Piero II Medici after the death of Lorenzo Il Magnifico, which led to the expulsion of the Medici from Florence, combined with a bit of the Pazzi Conspiracy, combined by some of the intrigues during the regency of Henry VI. However, there’s a lot of detail we’re missing here about how the Rogare tried to control the Iron Throne, what role the Peakes played in all this, what Marston Waters was about, and so on. 

Hopefully when Fire and Blood Volume I comes out, we’ll get a fuller explanation of this incredibly complicated binational political event. 

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