#bloodraven asoiaf

[nebulousfishgills]

I have slowly been making my way into the asoiaf lore but I’m curious where the backstory on blood raven is🤔

Okay, so I'm no expert or anything, but I'll provide a brief crash course:

Brynden Rivers, son of Melissa Blackwood and Aegon IV Targaryen, known as one of the many Great Bastards. His defining features are his white hair, pale skin, and red eyes caused by being born an albino. He also has a winestain birth mark on his cheek resembling a raven, some say, the origin of the nickname Bloodraven. He was legitimized with his other siblings on Aegon IV's death bed, causing a sucession crisis.

He was a Targaryen loyalist during the Blackfyre Rebellions, I believe a civil war between the Targaryens and the Blackfyres (like the Targaryens but Not) as a result of the sucession crisis. He loses one of his eyes during this war, but he almost never patched it, choosing to keep it out in the open.

He's the last known wielder of Dark Sister, sword of Visenya the Conquerer (currently in Daemon's possession in House of the Dragon) and is a skilled archer.

Under the reign of his half brother Aerys I Targaryen, he served as Hand of the King and Master of Whispers, and then as Hand of the King for Aerys' successor, Maekar I. Eventually he becomes Lord Commander of the Night's Watch until he (and Dark Sister) vanished one day beyond the Wall.

It's not the end for Brynden, though, as he is in fact, still alive during the events of Game of Thrones as the Three Eyed Crow/Raven, the last greenseer. Bran Stark's mentor.

I'm very fascinated by Bloodraven as a character and I think he might be one of the coolest characters in the ASOIAF universe.

His wiki provides more in-depth information:

[quiddling]

how many eyes does lord bloodraven have?

[grandkhan221b]

HOTD season 2 coming up got me re-reading ASOIAF again wooops

[pigeon-princess]

How many eyes does Lord Bloodraven have? A thousand eyes, and one. 

[cosmiart]

"How is that I come to find my cousin in this nest of adders, ser?"

[ohimart]

a thousand eyes, and one 👁️

[amuelia]

Brynden Rivers/Bloodraven and his full sisters Mya and Gwenys, + them as babies and their mom Melissa Blackwood. thought for the first pic that maybe bloodraven isnt so physically touchy but he loves his sisters so he expresses affection through his birds

[elcoffin]

Bloodraven x Shiera Seastar commission for lovely @feanors-silmarils 💗

[darks1ster]

bloodraven the type of guy to disappear after a bus passes when you see him on the other side of the street

[garnetislovegarnetislife]

begging hbo to make the opening sequence for dunk and egg (at least for the hedge knight) some sort of puppet show or at least involve puppets of some kind

[ekkkkey]

[danytheconqueror-jonthewhitewolf]

Me tuning in for the new episode of Hotd:

[quiddling]

yes or no?

[grandkhan221b]

Drawing Asoiaf Characters That Have An AI Generated Image On Their Wiki Page - part 2 : Maynard Plumm ! This one having no artwork is crazy because he's not even a minor character ? He's a key character in The Mystery Knight ????? also literally bloodraven

[arleniansdoodles]

I recently read A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and boy oh boy do I love Dunkin Eggs! XD So here's a scene from The Mystery Knight featuring Egg and Lord Bloodraven - it's not in explicitly the book but it's a scene that would've happened in the background (no doubt we would've seen it if we had an Egg pov loll)

I also went for my inky style this time, with a more stained-glass vibe; I figured it'd be fitting for the story's medieval setting, and I can also play around with the figures and composition without worrying about accurate anatomy hahaa

[khromuse]

Brynden Rivers aka Lord Bloodraven