#Quellon Greyjoy

[msphagime]

Promoting my Iron Islands = Viking Balkans agenda one post at a time

[duchess-of-oldtown]

One thing that always gets me, is Quellon Greyjoy. You got this ✨tall✨ scary dude who could have been a big fucking threat but decides to be a reformer. He tries to fix the reputation of the Iron Islands and the Greyjoys. And he dies in the most Ironborn way, in battle at sea, probably thinking at least "I did something to be proud of and the Islands are on the way to a better relationship with Westeros". But then his kids are literally an eldritch horror, a dumb thot, a religious fanatic and one short king and they just undo all of his work in like five mins. You cannot convince me that Quellon was not looking up from the depths of the Drowned God's watery halls like

[swallowtail-ageha]

Utterly fascinated by Quellon Greyjoy. Yeah he was a good and diplomatic lord but also. Look at all of his children. What the fuck was going on between closed doors

[death-of-cats]

Aeron 🤝 Theon

being weirdly obsessed with their father's loins

[sowthetide]

like a cradled creature lies | T | 2493 words

When Aeron is seven, his brother asks him what the sea is. When Aeron is thirty, he knows the answer.

[nanshe-of-nina]

Posthumous Characters GIF Sets → Quellon Greyjoy

Near the end of Haereg’s great work you will come to Lord Quellon Greyjoy, the wisest of the men to sit the Seastone Chair since Aegon’s Conquest. A huge man, six and a half feet tall, he was said to be as strong as an ox and as quick as a cat. In his youth he earned renown as a warrior, fighting corsairs and slavers in the Summer Sea. A leal servant of the Iron Throne, he led a hundred longships around the bottom of Westeros during the War of the Ninepenny Kings and played a crucial role in the fighting around the Stepstones.

[beyondmistland]

I know Euron was always going to be the fly in any proverbial ointment, but do you think Quellon Greyjoy had enough political capital to burn on the islands to get away with fostering his sons on mainland Westeros, to better ensure his reforms wouldn’t be immediately undone as soon as he was dead?

Without more information its hard to tell how much of Balon, Victarion, and Aeron's temperaments are nature versus nurture. That said, I'm honestly surprised Quellon didn't foster any of his sons out. If any Greyjoy lord could and would have done it, Quellon would be the one given his (for lack of a better word) progressive agenda as well as his contribution to the royal war effort against Maelys the Monstrous.

Thanks for the question, anon

[legitchild]

I find myself becoming intrigued by characters from ASOIAF who are mentioned once or twice in the narrative but have longer lasting implications.

Elbert Arryn has fascinated me for a while. He was Jon Arryn's nephew and was heir to the Vale. Until he joined Brandon Stark on that ill fated trip to King's Landing and was executed. It interests me to wonder what would have changed if he lived.

Would he marry Lysa instead of Jon? If so, would they have a happier marriage with more children (I think Lysa's fertility issues were actually Jon's, considering he had three wives but only one sickly son.)?

Or would there have been no need for a marriage with Lysa, seeing as Jon's marriage to her was motivated by the need for an heir, which Elbert surviving mitigates?

But then who would Elbert marry? He is the heir to House Arryn; there aren't many potential options for him. Possibly Asha Greyjoy? Or Arianne Martell?

Quellon Greyjoy is a new fascination for me. He was the Lord of the Iron Isles and the father of Balon, Euron, Victarion and Aeron. He was a reformer, discouraging raiding and the taking of saltwives, bringing maesters to the isles and more. He led the Iron Fleet in battle during Robert's Rebellion, on Robert's side, which is when he died.

The main question with Quellon is how did this guy, who by all accounts was attempting to make the Iron Isles a decent place, father four sons so unlike that? Balon's a bitter asshole, Euron an eldritch horror, Victarion's just dumb and Aeron's a religious fanatic. How did that happen?

I also wonder if Quellon had any impact/influence on Theon and Asha. Going by the dates, Theon was 5 and Asha 10 when he died. Theon's relative decency compared to the rest of the Ironborn could just be that he was raised partially by Ned 'Honourable' Stark but Asha also seems relatively decent by Ironborn standards. Grandpa Quellon's influence perhaps?

The eldest Dayne sibling, the elder brother of Arthur, Ashara and Allyria (personally I like to call him Alford, to complete the name scheme the Dayne parents were clearly going for), intrigues me.

What does he know? Does he know anything about Ashara and her supposedly stillborn baby? Or about Arthur and his prophecy plans with Rhaegar?

Why did he nickname his son Ned, after Ned Stark killed his brother and was potentially involved in his sister's death via knocking her up with the aforementioned stillborn babe? I sure as hell wouldn't be giving my child the same nickname as the man who was involved in the deaths of two of my three siblings. So why did he?

[ironbornsource]

Ironborn Character Bracket

Welcome to the Ironborn Character Bracket where your ironborn faves face off against each other and you get to vote to pick the winner!

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Characters will face off against each other in a poll in pairs as shown in the bracket above. The winner of each pair will progress to the next round, until there is a final winner. Basically, like a regular single-elimination bracket. Voting will start on September 22, 2023 and each poll will run for one week. Once all round of 16 polls close, the quarter final polls will open within 24 hours and each of those will also run for one week. Rinse and repeat for the semifinal and final rounds. We encourage you to follow the blog to not miss any new polls!

Where are Theon and Asha?

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Only 16 contestants? Such a small bracket!

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[warsofasoiaf]

Quellon really rolled 4 gutter balls with his kids. Balon is a petty traditionalist, Euron is a psychopathic narcissist, Victorian is dumb as a stump, and Aeron is former Drunkard turned religious fanatic. Where did the great reformer go wrong?

If I really knew the answer to that question, I'd have written a final, conclusive book on the nature-nurture debate and either I'd go to sleep on a pile of money given to me by psychologists and parents, or we'd all live in a Minority Report-esque hellscape where bad behavior is predicted via algorithm. He's hardly the only person in Westerosi history to have a terribly disappointing son - just look at Viserys II with his own son.

Balon really seemed to like the idea that he can simply take what he wants. As a young man, he grew greatly in wealth and acclaim by raiding, so it's unsurprising that he gravitates to that as a lifestyle; the fact that the Old Way also tells him he's a superior class of being that deserves to plunder the rest of the world for sex and coin further rationalizes that belief. If Quellon wanted to stop him, he'd have had to keep him busy to raid, but even then, there's always going to be people willing to do anything to make it big, that's why get-rich-quick schemes always find buyers.

Aeron is a drunkard, so if Quellon wanted to stop him, he'd have to straighten him up, disciplining him and instilling a healthy respect for drink. Plenty of people experience religious awakenings in times of great stress to include life-threatening circumstances, such as what happened to Aeron, so I doubt that even if Quellon was alive to handle that, he'd be able. Surviving a life-threatening experience is deeply personal, and people rationalize it and come away from that entirely differently.

Victarion appears to have gravitated to the Old Way out of admiration for Balon and enjoying the venal rewards, so Quellon would have needed to be the dog that puppy Victarion imprinted on, I guess.

Euron though, is a straight-up psychopath. Whether he's Bloodraven's bad seed or just a magically-induced psycho with ubermensch streaks, I don't think there's anything Quellon could have done with that.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[dontbotherwiththepronunciation]

@/team-mom-wannabe made this interesting poll a while ago and @theostrichsdaughter and I have spent a majority of the day having very shitpost-type debates about stuff surrounding the Iron Islands.

My reasoning is under the cut, it's not much, but I stand by it.

Euron

Out of all his living kids, he is the least traditional one. He is the one who is trying to integrate the Iron Islands more to the Seven Kingdoms (albeit, very differently than Quellon intended), he is fascinated by the world outside of the islands, kind of a globalist, is seeking a non-islander, multi-cultural wife for himself and is very much into the motion of getting more religious diversity in the Islands.

[darthdoffyyyyy]

Why are Quellon Greyjoys boys like that

My guess is that Quellon was so busy trying to reform the ironborn and connect with the greenlanders he left his children to there own devices and to other ironborn

[cregan-starks]

Reblogs are encouraged

[alleyskywalker]

NEW FIC: Defiance (Quellon, Balon)

Title: Defiance Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire Characters/Pairings: Quellon; Balon/Alannys Rating: PG-13 Word Count: ~800 Warning: (off-screen) teenage sex and pregnancy Summary: “You were not to consummate your marriage, Balon. We discussed this...You defied me intentionally. Why?”

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[empressofmankind]

Magic mirror on the wall,

Who's the fairest one of the worst of them all?

[aeriondripflame]

burgeoning jaehaerys-quellon comparative: choosing ‘progress’ over family with their children as the sacrifice that peddles them forward

the specific flavor of greyjoy family trauma starts with quellon greyjoy and i know it. you will not sit there and tell me that balon, euron, victarion, and aeron were just like That and it didn’t begin with him. i know what you did quellon you can’t hide