#asoiaf culture

[helaenarts]

“Lord Aenar’s daughter Daenys of House Targaryen known forever afterwards as Daenys the dreamer, had foreseen the destruction of Valyria by fire.

When the Doom came twelve years later, the Targaryen were the only dragonlords to survive”

She has so much aura and she rode Balerion too 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

[melrosing]

tullys 🐟!

[wraithwen]

starklings (sans rickon)

finally started reading the books after a long time of being a wiki lurker :")

[fangrurin]

Fashion of the Great Houses of Westeros: House Tully of Riverrun

[witchthewriter]

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐡𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬:

Btw this is the best High Valyrian translator I've found.

a/n: some swears lol. If you really want to learn the language, then Duolingo is great!

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬?

After the "Doom of Valyria", High Valyrian transformed dailly language of an empire into more of a scholarly language kept alive by the elite nobles, poets, and scholars across Essos and Westeros.

𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧

Each of the Nine Free Cities developed their own distinct Low Valyrian tongue like the Braavosi, Lorathi, Lysene, Myrish, Norvoshi, Pentoshi, Qohorik, Tyroshi, and Volantene.

So while High Valyrian remained the sacred, elite lore language, these Low Valyrian offshoots became the common tongue.

It's probably why it's so difficult to get the exact wording right when there's so many different versions of one language.

𝑨𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚, 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒂 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒑𝒉𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒔!

Blood of the Dragon = Zaldrīzo ānogar

Game of Thrones = Tymptir Dēmalȳti

Freedom = Dāerves

Ñuhor līr gūrēnna = I will take what is mine.

Ao ynoma dīnilūks? = Will you marry me?

Valyrio muño ēngos ñuhys issa = Valyrian is my mother tongue.

My name is (name). = Ñuha brozi (name) issa

Seven Hells! = Sīkudi nopāzmi

I love you. = Avy jorrāela

Mother of Dragons = Muña Zaldrizoti

Prince = Darilaros

Twin = Idaña

Older Sister = Mandia

Younger Sister = Hāedar

Older Brother =Lēkia

Younger Brother = Valonqar

Wolves = Zoklī

Cats = Kēla

Small = Byka

𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 🔥

Dragon = Zaldrīzes

Dracarys = Dragon-Fire

Dohaeras = Serve

Lykirī= Be Calm

Naejot = Forward

Umbās = Wait

Ynot! = Come! (to me)

Daor! = No!

Vēzot! = Up!

Rȳbās! = Listen! Obey!

Ninkiot! / Parmot! / Tegot! = Land!

Gevī! / Hegnīr! = Good!

[praparuru-ume]

Young Daenys and baby Balerion

A sketch I did in class. I might color it since I quite like it

[15-lizards]

What are your ideas on what mourning attire is like in each of the Seven Kingdoms?

Everyone predominately wears black, but there’s still small regional differences. In the riverlands, women make their silhouette as flat as possible so as not to draw attention out of respect for the dead. On a similar note, they also cover their hair to some degree or at least braid it to avoid flaunting it. It’s considered to be disrespectful to wear decorative clothing, so nobles will wear basic and loose dark garments, while small folk will wear unfitted and undyed wool and cotton as a sign of their grief being so strong they are unable to do any sort of labor.

Whether a person wears black out of grief or colors out of celebration of life differs in Dorne depending on their specific subculture. Many who are still traditionally worship the Rhoyne might exclusively red (in ancient Egypt red was seen as the color of dry sand and death, while black was the color of soil, and thus fertility and life) However there is a general consensus among the population to cover their head and/or face (how much depends on their proximity to the deceased) out of respect and grief. There is an idea that a person should be shielded from the living world while they’re in mourning.

Both the northern nobles and smallfolk alike have (for the most part) not bent to southern andal values and culture, so most of the population wears white. Bc in the tradition of the old gods, white = winter snows = death. Usually, on the sleeves and hems of the outfits of the mourners, are embroidered rushnyks, which symbols tell the story of the deceased’s journey through life. Usually red, and if someone can afford it, they will also wear a piece of red ornamentation as a symbol of their connection to the dead.

[salialenart]

Valyrian fashion sketch

Happy Birthday to George Martin. I am so grateful to read his books, they had so much impact on me. Forever loving his universe and characters 🌞💖 wish him great health and happiness. I hope to read more books from him🤭

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

Tropes, in and of themselves, are not bad. They exist for a reason, and have served as necessary story-building blocks since the dawn of time. A fantasy story leaning into a chosen one or hidden prince trope is not inherently a bad thing. I think a lot of people underestimate GRRM's very deep relationship with the genre and misunderstand how he engages with it in the text.

[ladyofthevalley]

People who don’t understand the Arya and Sansa sibling bond obviously didn’t have WWE style brawls in the middle of the living room floor with their sibling.

You can hate each other, say heinous things, full on battle until first blood.

But you’re still siblings,

all the Arya-antis and Sansa-antis are placing too much weight on the events of kings landing.

[death-of-cats]

the Lannister twins insisting to themselves that they are the same person in two bodies, Jaime and Cersei both thinking that they’d be each other if their genders were swapped, all this despite their very different personalities, the divergence invisible to each other but obvious from the outside. meanwhile Asha and Theon are basically the same person but don’t know each other well enough to realize it.

[helaenarts]

Aegon, Visenya and Rhaenys marriage ceremony on Dragonstone beach, 6 BC

I like to imagine that in this marriage they were all equal and Rhaenys and Visenya were were as married to each other as they were to Aegon 🤭

!!!!! I Hope yall will enjoy this piece as much as i enjoyed drawing it !!

This is my take on Valyrian fashion preconquest already a bit tainted by westerosi culture !

[cheryroseart]

Daenys the Dreamer 🔮

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Please don’t repost without credits❕

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[spacerockfloater]

“The Targaryens/ Valyrians are not white supremacists and can’t be compared to European Colonisers!”

Oh? My bad then. I must have them confused with some other white folks who thought their appearance made them superior, brought whole continents to heel, exploited the lands of others for their own greed, destroyed whole civilizations and enslaved vulnerable people who unfortunately lacked the advanced weapons of mass destruction they possessed.

“Well, the Andals and the First Men were also colonisers, so they deserved it!”

No way! Are you actually telling me that every race has a history of violence because human nature itself is corrupt and we’re no better than animals fighting for their place on this earth? That’s so crazy and original. By the way, are you saying that people deserved to get colonised and enslaved because they were fighting other people in order to survive? Are you suggesting these “savages” should have been contained by the righteous white folks who came there to better their lives? Not to mention that the Andals and the First Men came to Westeros 12,000 and 6,000 years ago respectively, while the Targaryens attacked Westeros barely 130 years ago (literally just 3 - 4 generations) from the Dance of the Dragons? So are you comparing the morality of the people who migrated here, who were so primitive that barely even possessed weapons of steel, with that of the most advanced civilization ever built in the ASOIAF universe? That’s so interesting! It’s almost as if the Andals and the First Men didn’t know any better until it was too late and were trying to find a land that could accommodate their millions of people, so they were essentially fighting for survival, whereas the Targaryens who came from a race that had evolved philosophically, politically, academically and technologically wise, possessed enough wealth and land to sustain their little family, yet still chose to go to war against the land that nurtured them out of pure greed! Hmmm. Do you also believe that the Greeks had it coming when they were enslaved by the Ottomans and should just let go of the past because it’s been so long since they regained their freedom (barely 200 years ago btw, after 4 centuries of slavery), because their Ancient Ancestral Tribes migrated to Greece and conquered the land 3,500 years ago, a little after the age of bronze? No? Then you might see why that kind thinking is flawed.

Stop defending these inbred bastards with your full chest. We get it. They look badass. We all have a fave war criminal but all of the Targs need to be put to the sword, along with their fucking lizards. Purposely denying the parallels between the Targaryens/ Valyrians and the Colonisers/ Conquerors of our world screams white saviour complex.

[fromtheseventhhell]

Arya learned the Braavosi language and culture well enough to pass as someone "born and bred" there while interacting with actual native Braavosi, but I'm supposed to think she's going to have difficulty navigating Westerosi noble life...as someone who was actually raised as a Westerosi noble? The way you can tell that people don't think before they "theorize" about Arya will always crack me up

[thewatcher0nthewall]

The fat Magister of Pentos.