#old valyrian

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House of Old Valyria

I'm watching Romeo + Juliet (1996) to get in the Shakespeare mood to tap into some minds of Old Valryians.

If you want to join us in making some fun OC houses of Old Valryia that may (or may not) die in the Doom just for the fun of throwing our characters at each other, come join in~ @rainwingmarvel7 and I have been chatting and it’s already a wild ride 😈

Bahaha, get ready for some trash! This is first thought worst thought rules, everything could change, so throw muses and ideas at me lol

Thoughts So Far

Beginning a few years, or a decades before The Doom of Valyria

Because Targcest into our thing, one way to go around it could be: the younger generations thinks its so "old school" and "so out of fashion MOM—" to marry your siblings, and rather marry into other families. The older generation gets to complain about 'back in my day, win win for everyone

The House I'm currently thinking on will be very patriarchal, or at least will have a firm separation of genders socially.

The men of these families are "real men" as in — they have a full face beat to the gods before walking out the door, they believe that to show their true status, they spend their time and resources on makeup, wigs, and fashions. This is not uncommon for the High Society of Valyria but...

This family will be in the upper middle class, but desperate to break into the Upper Class of Valyria society. They are currently bargaining their way for a seat at the big boy's table.

This family needs a name help meeee

I think with the focus on male groom/fashion, the younger generation is a lot more "layabouts" than their forefathers, the older generations worked hard and played hard, the younger generation plays all day

Valyria Freehold at its strongest was build on blood magic, slaves and incest, so...I wanted to think up some creep nonsense for this family to get up to.

Perhaps, they are not dragon lords, or perhaps they only have one/few

I think they are in the business of acquiring more slaves for the mines that power Valyria, under the city and in the volcanos

We wanted our Houses to potentially have connection to House Targaryen. So, This House has given House Targaryen money to "scout" Westeros as a potential place to conquer, what This House doesn't know is the Targaryens moved to Westeros to escape the Doom, which would make them the laughing stock of Valyria High Society.

House Targaryen swindled This House out of their gold, but the sun part it when the house find out lol

Maybe they wear powdered wigs because they won't have naturally white Valyrian-common hair? They don't want to get picked on?

AND maybe other houses color their hair brightly! For the aesthetic

Or pivot, maybe they make dragon armor? Or weapons? Like a forge focused house? Hmmm

Oh oh, what about the lore of the Dragon Keepers? I wonder if those were displaced High Society Valyrians crawling to the Targs for help after the Doom lol

Random stuff I forgot I wrote when I watched that new Anthony Hopkins Rome Show — Valyrian Vaestal Tradition

[annachum]

A collage of Old Valyrian fashions in GOT Universe

Valyria has nods to Rome btw.

Known for its legacy of dragons and battalions, Valyria boasts as one of the Ancient powerhouse civillizations in GOT Universe. The Valyrians are a brave people, with immense connections to dragons. Having founded the Valyrian Empire centuries before Daenerys was born, Aegon I Targaryen, and the Valyrian Empire has helped shape the course of the GOT Universe history for centuries to come.

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Alicent's learning high Valeryian snd being BETTER at it would be the best revenge for all the head aches those Targaryens caused.

Like, her pronunciation is on point, how she rolls her letters are good and she knows when to make the letters longer or shorter, which ones are silent, and is very good at singing old Valeryian songs.

Like, she'd just be the shit at it, and the fact that she doesn't have a dragon and knows how to speak high Valeryian like a dragon rider would stir them so wrong.

Her pronunciation is better than most dragon riders who are ALIVE, she's better than her children, her words are certainly smoother than theirs and alot more. Maybe I'll make a short fic here or something about it.

[courttneyyy]

Dracarys!

[writingwenches]

In Fair Valyria...

...we lay our scene

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. Do with their death bury their parents' strife. In a world where the ruling class is told to marry their destiny, what if love prevails? Two of the most powerful ruling families of the Valyrian Freehold are mortal enemies, they have shed blood through the centuries. What happens when their most spirited youths, both set to marry against their wishes, mind one another in this chaotic world of murder and mayhem and build something...together Old Valyrian/Doom Shakespeare AU; Romeo + Juliet inspired; who wants to join in making some fun characters? We don't even have to formally write it all, we can just throw characters and muse at each other hehe

These violent delights have violent ends,

And in their triumph die like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume~