#bethany ryswell

[amuelia]

Some of my fave characters to draw so i wanted to have a drawing with all of them in one place :)

unnamed lady (married to lord bolton), unnamed lord bolton, unnamed lady (married to lord ryswell), rodrik ryswell, roger ryswell, rickard ryswell, roose ryswell, roose bolton, bethany ryswell/bolton, barbrey ryswell/dustin, domeric bolton, willam dustin

[barbreypilled]

au where she puts a leech under a cardboard box propped up by a stick and traps Roose and puts him in some sort of contraption

don’t tag as racebending

[asongoficeandfancasts]

Tags continued: Part 1

NORTHERN LADIES:

Catelyn Stark / Donella Hornwood / Jyana Reed / Barbrey Dustin / Bethany Bolton / Lyessa Flint / Sybelle Glover / Maege Mormont

[vivacissimx]

roose bolton as a father figure to theon

the theon's disturbing relationship to paternalism beam is still shining bright. obviously the ned and balon and balon and ned Thing is happening but if we are going to embrace the horror of ADWD, let's lean all the way in.

the role of the father is molded as such to manufacture obedience from his children—generally speaking but also daughters in a specific way, sons in a specific way. filial duty is considered a virtue in westerosi society (even when your father fails to be virtuous himself) and it's the mode by which the father holds power over his children when they come of age. the father reproduces himself by claiming a son under his name & castle, the father reproduces his values by shaping behavior, the father punishes unsanctioned behavior not (merely) by criticizing the contents of the actions of the son, but by virtue of it being disobedient i.e. obedience to my instructions has within it an inherent Rightness / my instructions are Right because they are mine (circular i know!). this is probably doubled for those who follow the Faith of the Seven where the image of the father is a reflection of the Father aka disobedience flirts with blasphemy. sorry for the monologue—this is gonna be important later.

one of the reasons ned & balon come across as such supreme assholes in theon's ACOK storyline is because even outside the emotional reality of theon being a hostage from 10 years of age, he also pretty much does obey what they have to say. there is a time where he plays by their rules and they still don't approve of him or claim him fully. it's a social contract where ned and balon don't really fulfill their ends of the bargain, so it feels unfair. it feels willfully blind because ned and balon SURELY see the benefits they've accrued at theon's expense—ned lives in peacetime having experienced war, and balon keeps his life/lordship which if he were to have been executed for treason, would have all seemingly gone to a boy lord theon—yet they don't recognize the "theon's expense" part.

see how that works? "you are virtuous and right for following my commands" but theon follows their commands and doesn't get his Virtuous and Right headpats. and that rankles him deeply.

okay, now onto roose as theon's father figure in ADWD:

theon is part and parcel of roose's son ramsay. Reek belongs to Ramsay, and Ramsay belongs to Reek. in fact the original reek was a servant who roose gave to ramsay's mother as the first act of acknowledgement. it's through reek that ramsay became roose's bastard. we see that when roose demands ramsay give theon up (briefly), ramsay must oblige... hence, reek is still a form of reward/acknowledgement from roose to ramsay. theon is entangled in them and for roose to kill theon could very well be construed as killing off (ramsay as) his son

roose thanks theon for giving him the north via taking winterfell & (inadvertently) ruining robb's situation. roose is thanking theon for the ability to reproduce himself as lord of winterfell and warden of the north—a duty that a son owes his father

i wrote a post about theon's gender troubles that delves into his parallels with barbrey ryswell dustin—how roose treats them both with certain cares to insure their good behavior, and how they both see through the farce. however the difference in roose bolton's world of easy replacement (he replaces multiple wives, domeric with ramsay, reek with reek II) is that barbrey is warned of her fate via the example of bethany ryswell bolton, her sister and roose's dead wife, while theon is warned of his by the example of domeric bolton, roose's dead son.

barbrey steps into the role of domeric's caretaker and main maternal figure because her sister is dead. then ramsay kills domeric. roose allows it. barbrey puts it as: “The widow of Barrowton… and yes, if I so choose, I could be an inconvenience. Of course, Roose sees that too, so he takes care to keep me sweet.” sweet is not the best word for our barb but she plays along with roose's game despite there being no real endgame beyond a petty revenge against the starks. the writing is on the wall though. not to put too fine a point on it but: ramsay will kill any children walda frey has from roose, and barbrey will know precisely who did it

in theon's case, roose's manipulations go like this: “Serve us in this, and when Stannis is defeated we will discuss how best to restore you to your father’s seat,” his lordship had said in that soft voice of his, a voice made for lies and whispers. Theon never believed a word of it. He would dance this dance for them because he had no choice, but afterward… he will give me back to Ramsay then

roose actually tells theon the story of domeric. he describes domeric's relative capability and desire for brothers. he confesses that ramsay killed domeric and that he did nothing about it, that he fully anticipates ramsay to kill any children he has with walda. later, when theon is thinking about how roose will give theon back to ramsay, the conclusion is clear: ramsay is going to torture and abuse you, and i will do nothing—just like i will do nothing for any other sons i might have

theon co-victimhood with jeyne. does that make theon roose's sort-of daughter-in-law?

that last point was a haha joke... unless? after all, theon did canonically desire for ned to adopt him via marriage to sansa. so roose adopting him via "marriage" to ramsay, theon's use to roose being dependent on his subservience to ramsay, or more specifically, his role as legitimizing ramsay/reproducing roose in a similar way to marrying arya stark and having bolton children with her will... that is to say, haha

starks and boltons are foils, ned and roose are foils, ramsay's dogs and starkling direwolves are foils: if ned was a quasi-father figure AND simultaneously warden to theon then why would roose not be as well considering the stark/bolton relationship?

remember when i said that theon is intensely bothered by the fact that he "obeys" ned/balon but gets nothing for it? if you agree with that then consider this passage: Theon wondered if he might be allowed to fight. Then at least he might die a man’s death, sword in hand. That was a gift Ramsay would never give him, but Lord Roose might. If I beg him. I did all he asked of me, I played my part, I gave the girl away.

there's likely much more i could say here but those are a few points that i think are interesting as part of the larger discussion on theon as well as the social critique in ADWD theon POVs. i mean it really pulls the curtain back—stripped of all romanticism and in the dead of winter where nothing grows, what is a wife truly? a whore, jeyne says. what is a hostage? mine own face on their lie, not [even] a man, theon says.

what is a father? well in theon's decidedly horrifying case, it's the man who has use for you or else what's the point of you being alive

[sugarprincessbitch]

Yandere Ramsay Bolton x Half-Sister! Reader

Warning ⚠️ Incest/R*pe

You are the second child of Roose Bolton and Bethany Ryswell, The little sister of Domeric.

The relationship between you and your brother is a close one, with your mother too because of you being her only girl and also your passive nature was a great company for her sweet one.

Your father was absent through out your childhood, him believing that your mother and the septas were enough to raise you didn't help with the situation.

He paid more attention to your brother because of him being the heir and all, but beside of that, he wasn't very affectionate with him too.

The two of you met during one of Domeric's visits to his mother will mill, it took a lot of convincing from your brother to take you there to visit your suppose "bastard brother", you weren't very fond of the idea of going against your father back, you were very scared of him.

When Ramsay first saw you he didn't felt resentment or was annoyed by you, like he surely felt about your brother. No, he was mesmerized by you, and curious about the beautiful girl that Domeric claims to be his new sister.

In the other hand, Ramsay deeply disturbed you. The way he look at you with those colorless eyes appear hungry with something at the time you didn't know.

As the days passed and the visits became more frequent (you weren't always present in all visits, you couldn't be always there because of your embroidery classes with the septa), the looks turn into physical advances, like invading your personal space.

Also, Ramsay would touch you when your brother wasn't looking, you didn't stop him at first believing they were innocent and without malicious intentions.

When your father found about where you were going with your brother he strongly reprimanded the two of you, specially you, because a lady from a noble house doesn't do such things.

Knowing that his son would continue to visit Ramsay anyway he couldn't stop him, but instead prohibited him to take you with him. From that day on you didn't visit Ramsay anymore.

Each passing day you were not there to visit him, he grew more and more annoyed. The explanation from his brother about your whereabouts didn't calm him down a bit, instead he become angry.

He wanted to be with you, not with the pitiful thing you call your brother. That's was the reason to pressure Domeric in taking him to the castle, in were he could pester you all day long as he pleases.

In the weeks your brother brought him against your mother and father pleadings, he died from an "illness", but everyone knew Ramsay poison him out of jealousy.

Destroy by your brother and mother sudden passing (she took her life out of grief days after Domeric died) you found solace in Ramsay, for his gratification.

He was the only one that open his arms for you instead of ignoring you like your father did. That is were he became more and more possessive with you, isolating you from everyone, specially any man that wasn't him (if one of them were that stupid to come near you, the next day a new body was found unrecognizable near the forest).

Everything became worse when he was legitimized by the king. That is when his touches became more than the affection a brother and sister show.

Scared by his threats of what he would do to you if you denied him, you let him kiss you and touch your chest or back as he pleases against your modesty as a lady.

One night he entered your chambers and tried to force you into something more, alarmed you forced your way out and ran to your father's study. He slap you after hearing your accusations, telling you to never say such things to anyone.

That same night was the one where your life as you knew ended, Ramsay rape you as a form of punishment of conspiring against him and told you that he was going to take great care of the bastard he will put in your belly.

Months after, your father was killed by him. Now everything was his, even you, no one could stop to get what he wanted.

For his joy, the baby you had with him was a boy, your little Claude.

[bravelittlescrib]

The curse of being a based and Bolton-pilled asoiaf fan is that you can’t just say shit like “well my favorite characters are probably Bethany Ryswell and the miller’s wife”

[trogthefrog]

Waitaminnut, more on my what are the feudal politics in the north?

political connections and plotting

I just realized something about Bolton’s marriages. They all- almost all- connect him to the Stark family.

1.

Rickard Ryswell was plotting for Barbrey to marry Brandon Stark.

Roose Bolton married Bethany Ryswell, judging by Domeric Bolton’s potential age the timing of the marriage fits with Barbery’s affair with Brandon. If Rickard Ryswell had this scheme and Roose knew, a reason for the marriage could have been to marry the sister of the next Lady of the North before the politcal scandal of Brandon and Barbrey and other opportunists for Ryswell marriages.

Even after Brandon’s betrothal Lord Ryswell wanted Barbrey to marry Eddard, unpromised until Brandon’s death

It ended up connecting Roose to house Dustin, a marriage that wasn’t planned by the Ryswell marriage plotting

Other ideas

Roose is just connected to the Ryswells for poltical reasons

Bolton isn’t known for jumping the gun, if this was a real plot Roose might have waited for a something more concrete like a betrothal

Or Yknow could have been marrying Bethany anyways and maybe known about the conspiracy as a plus (pure speculation)

2.

Roose Bolton marries Walda Frey after Robb Stark and Arya are betrothed to marry Freys.

The marriage would have connected him with the future royal family. Without real knowledge of the Frey family politics Roose wouldn’t have known about all the “only full blooded sibling loyalty” and “cousin rivalry”. From the outside House Frey is a political unit.

Other Possibilities

This is more solid since Robb and Arya were firmly betrothed

If he did know about house Frey’s internal politics well maybe he was looking for a claim on house Darry or smth or maybe he really just wanted lots of silver

Or since “Fat” Walda is the older sister of Little Walder being fostered at Winterfell, she’s a good pick for influence in Roose’s mind for influence Bran Stark (then heir to Robb).

3. Ramsay-“Arya”

Roose takes Tywin’s offer to murder Robb in exchange for marrying his heir to Arya

He gets to be warden of the north & trying to have Ramsay (Bolton) produce a kid with “Arya” (“Stark”)

But

It is also the case here that Roose would be trying to do a different thing than 1 & 2 instead of trying to get connections to his overlord he’s trying to assume their position.

Counter-evidence

We never hear about Roose trying to marry Domeric Bolton to a Stark,

we do not hear about Roose himself trying to marry a Stark

We know nothing about his first marriage

There aren’t that many examples in asoiaf where the married house gets more marriage offers because the King made a marriage with them. The only one is Bolton-Frey and Velaryon-Targaryen marriages-kinda-sorta similar but really different.

You could use this evidence to speculate all kinds of stuff- like instead of politics Roose is doing ooooo Magic

Anyways hope it makes people think & get ideas and theories. Wait, If Roose were really trying to do this kind of marriage wouldn’t he want to marry Lysa, PFF Lysa-Bolton ship is a true rare pairing!

My other Bolton-North politics posts are here and here

[snow-blower]

whats this new fic you're on about writing?

Buckle in mother fuckers cuz I'm about to talk more than anyone's ever talked before.

So, it's an OC x Jon Snow kinda slow burn fic?? I don't have everything figured out yet, so bare with me.

The OC, Kaelith Bolton, is the second oldest child of Roose Bolton (that lived longer than his others lol) and her mother, Bethany Ryswell. Kaelith has an older brother, Domeric, who is mentioned in the books. And then obviously, Ramsay exists.

I could rant on about her backstory before she meets Jon but you didn't ask for that lol.

It'll probably start off after Theon and Sansa escape, Kaelith escapes with them. With her father being dead, she was left more vulnerable due to being older than Ramsay and technically Roose's true heir.

With Ramsay having killed her father and suspected to having killed Domeric, Kaelith has an odd obsession with wanting to rid of Ramsay for his crimes against her family. Hence, her allying with the Starks. She knows the ins and outs of her brother's army, and essentially uses that knowledge to win the battle of bastards. She gets to kill Ramsay.

She also has a deep obsession with keeping Sansa safe, the two having become good friends whilst Sansa was married to Ramsay. Said obsession tenfolds when she becomes somewhat friends with Jon. She's also besties with Tormund. And Ser Davos is her father figure. (Need to give the old man something after he looses Shireen 😭✋)

I'm not sure where I want to go from there and how close I want to keep it to canon.

But yeah, new series coming soon, hopefully I actually write this lol

[rise-my-angel]

really random but whenever i hear the strangers song by ethel cain- “am i making you feel sick” i always think of the scene where lord bolton tells the reader that his wife is pregnant with a boy 😩 he took that from her and now he has it and it breaks my heart, you truly are such a talented writer

I tried to look at that scene in terms of what it originally was about. Ramsay has always had a power struggle with his father to be seen as his true son, in the books going as far as to possibly poison Roose's only son from Bethany Ryswell so that he has to be front and center, since he is all that remains of Roose's blood. They don't go into that detail in the show, but my assumption is that it still happened since we saw no details that would get in the way of that narrative.

So from there, I did what I do a lot of looking at canon plots and scenes, and ask myself, what does adding a new person into the mix turn it into? And in mostly unexplored context, Tywin had given specific orders that Roose kill Robb and the Reader, but that he was to kill you first, as to dispose of Robb's unborn child. Him killing the reader the way he did was specifically to murder her along with your unborn child.

So when that moment rolls around, yes he and Walda announce the news in a way that allows Roose to gauge Ramsay's reaction, but now with the reader there, it changes. He keeps that dagger on his person as a reminder of what he is capable of, especially for the reader to scare her into staying in line. Let the blood of her, her son, and Robb stay dried on it to always say "i was capable of this when i was your ally imagine what i could do now if you step out of line".

Announcing that Walda's unborn child seems to look like it would be a boy is just another twist of the same knife. "Watch me and my young wife get what you know I purposely stole from you."

Knowing that by then, you are so broken that all you could do was congratulate Walda and sit in silence. Truth be told you had gone to spy on Roose and Ramsay that night with intent to kill at least one of them, fully accepting you probably wouldn't survive in the process, and if Roose was the one who survived, my only question is:

WHAT WAS YOUR GREAT PLAN THEN, BUDDY?

[lazuli-writes]

What if Benjen Stark married?

summary: So if Benjen Stark married, how different would his story be?

pairing: Benjen Stark x Female OC

genre: rabbit hole rambles

estimated word count: 1600 words

a/n: Hey y’all, this is a very old ramble of mines that I wanted to reshare and wanted to throw out there again for the public to theorize with me. Remember folks, copying other people’s works is plagiarism and that’s illegal. Don’t be that kind of person. Anyways, hope you all enjoy it :)

©little-lazuli. Do not copy, repost, or translate without permission

Hey y’all, so the topic of today’s rabbit hole discussion is: what if Benjen Stark married? Imma just run through the idea and the au I had in my mind with the issue. The three points I wanted to touch upon would be: who does he marry, his familial life as a husband and his au story I made in my mind.

For starters, I am 99.99% sure if Benjen were to marry it would be within the North because 1) politics 2) I don’t have a number two, I just felt bad that #1 was all alone.

Before I get into the potential brides, the decision of when is to be answered. I just figured he would marry some time after Robert’s rebellion, after growing tired of Winterfell and all the memories he had of it, talks of him joining the wall would occur between him and Ned and Ned mentions the chance of maybe Benjen starting his own family.

Benjen dismisses it but eventually finds love, that’s the au I had in mind. Yes it’s a cliche, “love thaws his frozen heart” blah blah blah but anyways… on to the why it would have to be a northern. I truly believe in that sentiment that the North is more inclined to marriages within the North. So when Rickard Stark dismissed his own bannermen, I think he was unintentionally saying that the northerners weren’t prestigious enough to marry his children. That is destined to spread some ill will to the starks.

And now there’s Ned who literally married a Southerner who not only is lowkey out of place with her gods and her pov towards social etiquette, but also, I’m sure some northerners weren’t as thrilled with a southern lady. Granted they eventually respected Catelyn for the sole fact that Ned was mostly loved across the North.

So I would think Ned would make it clear to Cat that if their kids (and also by default Benjen because Benjen was lowkey still Ned’s responsibility) if they were to marry, it would be in the best interest of the North for them to marry into the North. Damn I hope I’m making sense.

Anyways onto the “who” would Benjen married. I accumulated four main choices that I thought would suit best for Benjen and I am under the impression that all of them are around the same age range as Benjen as well. Benjen was born in 267 ac so I tried to find women who I thought were also born around that time. The options were Jonelle Cerwyn, Bethany Ryswell, Lyessa Flint or OC northerner.

Now I can see a bunch of scenarios with each one. For Jonelle I would think it’s a fifty fifty chance. House Cerwyn would be happy with any Stark marriage, but I think Ned wouldn’t really see the need in a marriage between their two houses. Marriages meant alliances, and Ned wouldn’t see the need in an alliance with a house presumably as super loyal to the Starks as the Cerwyns.

For Bethany Ryswell, this one would be a cool story I think. Bethany Ryswell in canon marries Roose Bolton and died not long into their relationship. House Ryswell was possibly already miffed by house Stark with the whole Brandon+Barbrey issue. So either lord Ryswell would be totally against Bethany and Benjen or completely for it, either seeing it as a sorry attempt by Ned to appease him or as an apology gift for Rickard’s and Brandon’s insult.

Lyessa Flint is the matriarch of house Flint, to my knowledge. She is the lady of Widow’s Watch on the east coast of the North. Her son, Robin Flint was the lord of Flints Fingers until his death at the red wedding. Lyessa was ill during canon but also pregnant. Idk her hubby’s name or if he was even alive. But assuming Benjen could marry her, I think that would bring up many political strides to the Starks. For a Stark male marrying into house Flint all but ensures Stark claims over much of house Flint’s wealth, but mostly the lands of house Flint. Two strategic fortresses on opposite sides of the North as well as ties to the presumably the largest clan of Flints, the Flints of the mountains (who are also the first flints or the flints of Breakstone Hill). I’m pretty sure some houses *cough* Bolton *cough* would not be happy with the power moves of Benjen marrying Lyessa, but he wouldn’t really say anything out loud I think.

Lastly, an OC from another northern house. I like to think Benjen wouldn’t really care about the political side of his marriage and would genuinely look for love when the chance arrives. So for my oc I decided to have her be from a smaller northern house. So maybe a Tallhart, a Skagosi lady or a lady from the northern mountain clans.

Following the au in my mind, Benjen Stark marries a Skagosi noble lady he meets while visiting Eastwatch by the sea when considering to join the Night’s Watch. He marries a lady from House Stane of Driftwood Hall. Many mainland northerners silently scoff at marriage considering the Skagosi have a bad rep. Ned wouldn’t be all that thrilled but still loves his brother enough to trust Benjen and allow the marriage.

Now for his family life, I can totally see Benjen having his story being centered around loss and how he deals with it. I think his relationship with his wife would be at first feel rushed because of the heat and quick passion that prompted them to get married quickly and joyously. I think having a wife so unexpected and different from what he would expect out of typical northern women would be a rollercoaster for Benjen and eventually genuine love versus extensive lust and attractions would build between the two.

I like to think that Lady Stane (for the sake of the explanation this is what we will address her as) would play a large role in opening Benjen’s eyes to a whole new world. Like maybe he talks about the feast of Skane and she just rolls her eyes and tells him different story about how, maybe Skane was a battle field between the ancient first men and the people who attacked Hardhome. I truly think it was the Valyrians who attacked Hardhome and ruined it. Skane is right there so maybe they tried to fight back and the Skagosi came to save the day. In the end Skane wasn’t able to sustain the survivors so the Skagosi brought them to Skagos leaving a deserted Skane.

I think Lady Skane would enjoy fixing Benjen’s perspective on Skagosi:

“Do you all practice the first night, I heard y’all do?” “No we don’t my love, if that was the case you wouldn’t have been my first.” “Oh”

“Do y’all have unicorns?” “Maybe, maybe not.” “It’s a yes or no.” *she proceeds to shrug her shoulders with a smile*

“Do the Skagosi perform human sacrifices?” “Wtf no we don’t benjen.” “But why did old nan say-“ “that hag can’t even tell her left from her right. Ask me smn like that again I’ll be sure to make you become a human sacrifice Ben.” “Yes my lady.”

“Wait so y’all aren’t cannibals?” “Idk you tell me, I mean I eat you every now and again don’t I?” “SHUSHHHHH we are out in public” “oh shut it I’m sure the whole village has heard your moans Ben.”

I just enjoy the thought of Benjen and Lady Stane being a crazy funny duo whose actions are always keeping the local peoples on their toes.

Now when it comes to children, I think he and his wife aren’t as lucky as Ned and Cat with having children so when Benjen does have a child, regardless of their gender he would fkn adore them. I think Benjen would at max have two children. I like the idea of him having an older daughter and a younger son and the two being slightly at odds similar to Aegon and Rhaenyra or Theon and Yara/Asha. The sister is simply a bad ass who’s stuck in a world with men and their brother isn’t the brightest tool in the shed but is treated like a fkn diamond or gold for simply being a dude.

I think the big issue in Ben story is the emotional divide that occurs between him and Ned that could have been. Ned was basically raised in the south at a young age and for sure would have grown up with just the slightest emotional separation from Ned. Maybe Ben and Ned’s shared daddy issues would result in them not really connecting as much as they could have if they grew up together. And now with Benjen in Skagos, Benjen is now growing even older without the interference of Ned’s presence.

The idea of a more reserved Stark then even Ned for Benjen’s character is what is cool to me because if it was a story, the reader would know Benjen is actually a very chill and pretty fun person to be around, and he’s possibly like that with his wife and kids and maybe the Skagosi. But he isn’t like that around Ned, he’s calm, caring, loving but reserved. And that’s the ‘stark’ contrast between Benjen’s two personalities. (Hahaha see what I did there, holy fuck I’m funny.)

Anyways, thank you for listening to this excessive brain dump, and if you want share your thoughts on a married Benjen, who would you want him to marry and why or how many kids would you think he should have and anything else about Benjen. Thank you for reading, have a beautiful day ✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽

[barbreypilled]

silly ahh Cursed Subway AUverse Barb and Beth I will probably post this silly fic soon idk anyway

[ao3feed-tywin]

The Red Queen

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/E8zSntU

by 10868letsgo

A story of love and lust, seduction and deception, betrayal, and murder, it is uniquely told through the perspective of three different, yet equally relentless members of the House of Bolton-Berenice Bolton, Bethany Ryswell, and Domeric Bolton.

Words: 314, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Original Female Character(s), Aegon Targaryen (Son of Elia), Bethany Bolton, Roose Bolton, Barbrey Dustin, Jon Connington, Ned Stark, Catelyn Tully Stark, Petyr Baelish, Lysa Tully Arryn, Tywin Lannister, Olenna Tyrell, Margaery Tyrell, Oberyn Martell, Doran Martell, Edmure Tully, Hoster Tully, Brynden "Blackfish" Tully, Cersei Lannister, Jaime Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, Loras Tyrell, Willas Tyrell, Garlan Tyrell, Varys (A Song of Ice and Fire), Daenerys Targaryen, Stannis Baratheon, Renly Baratheon

Relationships: Aegon Targaryen (Son of Elia)/Original Female Character(s), Talisa Maegyr/Robb Stark, Domeric Bolton/Sansa Stark, Catelyn Tully Stark/Ned Stark

Additional Tags: Drama & Romance, Action/Adventure, Politics, Political Alliances, Inspired by The White Queen (TV)

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/E8zSntU

[muadweeb]

The jape was that the Ryswells could not even agree upon the color of their arms.

[amuelia]

“She was fond of my late son and suspects you of having some part in his demise. Lady Barbrey is a woman who knows how to nurse a grievance.” - Reek III, aDwD

Young Barbrey Dustin + Domeric Bolton, and Bethany Domeric and Barbrey

[trogthefrog]

ASOIAF- The North's political context

Northern political-familial connections prior to the War of the Five Kings

Bolton-Ryswell-Dustin block + Redfort connection, Domeric Bolton’s fostering, Roose’s marriage to Bethany Ryswell and Barbrey Ryswell’s marriage into the Dustin name (283). 

Hornwood-Karstark betrothal- Alys Karstark to Daryn Hornwood (Hornwood heir)

Hornwood-Manderly marriage- Halys Hornwood to Donella Manderly 

Hornwood-Tallhart Marriage- Leobald Tallhart to Berena Hornwood 

Glover-Hornwood fostering- Lawrence Snow (son of Lord Hornwood) at Deepwood Motte

Glover-Locke marriage: Sybelle Locke-Robett Glover

Glover-Mormont marriage- Jorah Mormont- a Glover, ended after ten years of marriage 

Mormont-Hightower marriage- Jorah Mormont-Lynesse Hightower marriage 289

Three House Flints (connections?)

Events & consequences for the North

“Southron ambitions”

Brandon Stark fostered at Barrowton

Eddard Stark fostered with Jon Arryn in the Eyrie

Catelyn Tully betrothed to Brandon Stark 276-277

Lyanna-Robert Baratheon betrothal (280?)

Failed Ryswell scheme to marry Brandon Stark & later Eddard Stark

Ryswell-Dustin marriage (283)

Robert’s rebellion intervention- deaths of Rickard Stark, Brandon Stark, Lyanna Stark, Martyn Cassel, Willam Dustin, Ethan Glover, Mark Ryswell, Theo Wull

Roose Bolton counsels Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon to kill Barristan Selmy post Trident battle

Greyjoy rebellion intervention- Jorah Mormont knighted, victory at Tourney at Lannisport, Hightower marriage,  Theon to Winterfell as a ward and hostage

With Theon Eddard Stark visits house Glover several times and house Tallhart. Ned visits the mountain clans who call him The Ned. Hosts Rickard Karstark when he wants to betroth Alys Karstark to Robb aged 6. Maintains relations with the Night’s Watch.

Jorah Mormont flees the north and Eddard Stark’s justice for slaving, 293

Poltical context for Roose Bolton? Geopolitically looks like he's being surrounded by Hornwood and Karstark. Hornwood also has a bunch of connections. Breaking the Hornwood poltical block may or may not be Roose's reason for Ramsay being so violent towards House Hornwood.

Lemme know if I missed anything, here's my Roose Bolton evidence post

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Everyone’s favorite family from the North <3333 the Boltons!!!!! Love to see them winning :)