#argella baratheon

[spacerockfloater]

Anyways, we stan house Baratheon for going up against the crown not once, but twice in the history of Westeros and winning both times. Borros really said “Fuck these Targaryen inbreds” and Robert was like “Word, lemme finish what you started” and completely wiped them out of this earth, lol. The OG Baratheon boy, Orys, is probably rolling in his grave while miss princess Argella Durrandon is smiling down upon her descendants.

[ubegese]

Queen Argella Durrandon! posted it again because I hated the background lol (i still do)

[violetumbrellalover]

The End and The Beginning 👑🦌

House Durrandon and House Baratheon

The Storm King Argilac the Arrogant Durrandon

The Storm Queen Argella Durrandon

Lord Orys Baratheon, Lord Paramount of the Stormlands

[asoiafficlynda]

Laura Berlin as Queen Argella Durrandon

[almondtargoolian]

queen argella

stickers n stuff

[catofoldstones]

with the aegon's conquest show soon to grace our screens, i kindly remind everyone to remain open-minded about argella durrandon and what happened to her. She was a free princess/queen in her own right, and getting (forcefully) married to one of the attackers and forced to bear his sons never to be heard of again is not the love story everyone thinks it is. That too after being chained naked and presented to him as a peace offering.

[amoratearte]

🐉 Argella Durrandon 🦌

Targaryen Family Tree

“declared herself Storm Queen […] “you may take my castle, but you will win only bones and blood and ashes”, she announced but soldiers of the garrison proved less eager to die.”

Spouse: Orys

[asongoficeandfiresource]

For a few days it was feared that Storm's End might suffer the same fate as Harrenhal, for Argilac's daughter Argella barred her gates at the approach of Orys Baratheon and the Targaryen host, and declared herself the Storm Queen. Rather than bend the knee, the defenders of Storm's End would die to the last man, she promised when Queen Rhaenys flew Meraxes into the castle to parley. "You may take my castle, but you will win only bones and blood and ashes," she announced...but the soldiers of the garrison proved less eager to die. That night they raised a peace banner, threw open the castle gate, and delivered Lady Argella gagged, chained, and naked to the camp of Orys Baratheon.

[august-diehl]

ARGELLA DURRANDON + ORYS BARATHEON

The birth of House Baratheon

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Honest question, how is what Orys Baratheon did (claim a house and words changing the name) allowed? I guess that since it was a conquest nobody would question it, but yes

Allowed? It happened. Aegon, the king, approved of it. Where else does the law come from?

"From the people!" some might say, and indeed in a feudal society the ruler only remains ruling through the support of his lords. Evidently the lords of the Stormlands accepted Argilac's defeat by Orys as well as his and Argella's marriage, since we never hear anything about "overmighty vassals" in the Stormlands complaining afterwards (unlike in the Reach with the Tyrells or in the Riverlands with the Tullys). Acceptance = "allowed" as well.

And in main ASOIAF, we can look to the Darrys, whose male line died out in the War of the Five Kings, and Lancel Lannister married Amerei Frey, whose mother is a Darry. So we have House Lannister of Darry, whose sigil quarters the Darry plowman and the lion of Lannister. Again, perfectly "allowed", with the king's approval and the vassals not complaining (much). Mind you, since Lancel's annulling his marriage, this situation may change, so we may see a plum/plowman or boar/plowman sigil in the future. There's also the example of Tyrek Lannister and Ermesande Hayford; the fact that Tyrek is missing and Ermesande is a baby is probably the only reason we didn't get a "Lannister of Hayford" situation. Ditto Sansa's disappearance (and Tyrion's arrest) re Tywin's "Lannister of Winterfell" plans. And Genna Lannister is hoping that Roslin has a girl for her grandson Tywin Frey to marry, to cement the House Frey of Riverrun situation amongst their new vassals-- would that include a quartered sigil, castles and trout? Perhaps, though in the end it's unlikely to happen considering the Second Red Wedding and all.

And there's other examples where marriages and sigils takeovers must have been a thing in the past. Whether quartered or fully... Joffrey Lydden changed his name to Lannister when he married the Lannister king's only daughter, but presumably because this was not a conquest but arranged while Gerold III was alive. And as for Lannisters themselves, the Casterlys had a lion sigil before them, along with the Rock. Was it red-and-gold, did they also use "Hear Me Roar"? That we don't know.

But suffice it to say, Orys Baratheon's taking on the Durrandon sigil and words was meant to honor Argilac's valor. To promote the continuity of rule, to tell the people of the Stormlands that their noble traditions would not end with a new lord and new name. And that's all there is to it, really.

[ophelias-lamentation]

Argella Durrandon

[sasha-naell]

ASOIAF Christmas Calendar

Day XII

The Baratheon men all have a curse : They fall in love with their male best friend while marrying a saphix wife.

-Orys, loving Aegon, being married to Argella Durrandon ( clairly saphix )

-Steffon, loving Aerys, being married to Cassana ( how could she be straight with women like Lady Martell, Lady Joanna Lannister and Queen Rhaella as friends ?? )

-Robert, loving Ned, being married with Cersei ( who slept with women on the books )

-Stannis, loving Davos, being married with Selyse ( my lesbian queen idc. )

-Renly, loving Loras, being married to Margaery

[violetumbrellalover]

The Storm Queen 🦌 Argella Durrandon

“You may take my castle, but you will win only bones and blood and ashes.” - Argella Durrandon to Orys Baratheon

“She declared that Orys would win only bones, blood and ashes here. But her men were weaker than her, and that night Orys found Argilac's daughter delivered gagged, chained and naked to his camp.” ~ Varys

[franzoarts]

The Conquers- Games of thrones.

Visenya, Aegon and Rhaenys with their dragons, Vhagar, Balerion and Meraxes.

Maegor, Aenys + Alyssa Velaryon.

Orys Baratheon and Argella Durrandon.

[cregan-starks]

Fic Recs (July 22-28)

My feedback can be found on my fic rec blog @missionaria-protectiva

@sunkendreams - northern attitude (ao3) [cregan stark x reader, nsfw]

@harley-kwinn - chapter 1 of winter storm [cregan stark x oc]

@aemondtargaryen - the last storm queen [orys baratheon x argella durrandon]

@vestales - el origen del viejo del norte [cregan stark x arra norrey, written in Spanish]

gifmaker shoutout: @calirph

[florisbaratheons]

Lady Cassandra Baratheon of Storm's End

Heir to her warrior father Borros Baratheon, Lady Cassandra had a weapon in her hand the moment she could walk. Lord Borros knew that a son was unlikely to grace he and his lady wife, so he began to prepare his eldest for her one day ascension. Lady Cassandra eventually wed Bryndemere of Tarth, and they ruled the Stormlands when her father was away fighting in the Dance of Dragons under King Aegon II's banner. After Borros' death in battle, Cassandra ascended to the seat and assumed command of the armies alongside her husband. A strong and furious girl, every bit the Storm Queen that Argella Durrandon never had the chance to be.