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[anyataylorjoy]

house of the dragon | 2.01 | a son for a son

[valyriansource]

But the same blood flows through both your hearts.

Arya & Sansa + roleswap au

(insp.)

[asongoficeandfiresource]

Stark Ladies by Justin Sweet

The Winter Rose and Bael the Bard in the 2024 ASOIAF Calendar

"North or south, singers always find a ready welcome, so Bael ate at Lord Stark's own table, and played for the lord in his high seat until half the night was gone. The old songs he played, and new ones he'd made himself, and he played and sang so well that when he was done, the lord offered to let him name his own reward. 'All I ask is a flower,' Bael answered, 'the fairest flower that blooms in the gardens o' Winterfell.'" "Now as it happened the winter roses had only then come into bloom, and no flower is so rare nor precious. So the Stark sent to his glass gardens and commanded that the most beautiful o' the winter roses be plucked for the singer's payment. And so it was done. But when morning come, the singer had vanished . . . and so had Lord Brandon's maiden daughter. Her bed they found empty, but for the pale blue rose that Bael had left on the pillow where her head had lain." -- Jon VI, ACOK

Arya Stark in The World of Ice and Fire

This time the monsters did not frighten her. They seemed almost old friends. Arya held the candle over her head. With each step she took, the shadows moved against the walls, as if they were turning to watch her pass. "Dragons," she whispered. She slid Needle out from under her cloak. The slender blade seemed very small and the dragons very big, yet somehow Arya felt better with steel in her hand. -- Arya Stark IV, AGOT

Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen in the 2024 ASOIAF Calendar

Lyanna had only been sixteen, a child-woman of surpassing loveliness. Ned had loved her with all his heart. Robert had loved her even more. She was to have been his bride. -- Eddard I, AGOT Not ten leagues from Harrenhal, Rhaegar fell upon Lyanna Stark of Winterfell, and carried her off, lighting a fire that would consume his house and kin and all those he loved—and half the realm besides. -- The World of Ice and Fire

[kate-bridgerton]

Arya Stark's Endgame || Inspired by @buttercuparry 's Poll

[starry-aesthetic]

Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark, 278 AC.

[rhaenyrashightowers]

House Stark // Vikings AU

[dailymarvelstudios]

Iron Man 3 (2013), dir. Shane Black

[cinematv]

kit harington as jon snow in game of thrones 6.09 ‘battle of the bastards’

[hyacinths-bridgerton]

THE STARKS ARE BY FAR THE MOST PROLIFIC FAMILY IN THE UPPER ECHELONS OF SOCIETY

Arya Stark travels a lot. If interrogated on the subject, she’d justify saying that there’s just much more of the world then the eternal circle that the aristocracy lives on. The answer matches her personality so much that rarely ever someone second guesses it, even Gendry, who knows her better than most.

Frequenting the Starks manor for years now, he has spent a lot of time silently observing Arya, her easy-going way, her enchanting smile and her sharp tongue, inwardly scribbing a life where he could ever ask for her hand. However, as the bastard he is, he has to content himself with his quiet yearning.

It’s all bound to remain the same forever, until they spend more and more time together and their perception of each other start to change, making both of them question what they thought they knew about each other—and themselves. 

[harrenhals]

but the same blood flows through both your hearts. you need her, as she needs you…

[maestergirl]

ARYA STARK

‘Fear cuts deeper than swords.’

[samwpmarleau]

[10/20] ASOIAF power couples → Cregan Stark × Alysanne Blackwood

For six days, Lord Cregan Stark held sway at court, a period that came to be known as the Hour of the Wolf. Though Lord Stark made some concessions and compromises, on one point he remained adamant: the betrayers and poisoners of King Aegon II must pay the price. So fierce was his demeanor, so unyielding, that the others gave way before him and, having been empowered Hand of the King by the young King Aegon III, Cregan had more than twenty men arrested. “The city was his, to do with as he wished,” Septon Eustace says. “The northman had taken it without drawing a sword or loosing an arrow. Be they king’s men or queen’s men, stormlanders or seahorses, riverlords or gutter knights, highborn or low, common soldiers deferred to him as if they had been born to his service.”

Among those put down for death was Lord Corlys Velaryon, yet Lord Stark chose not to proceed with the execution, a decision that has intrigued scholars ever since. But the fool Mushroom claims it was a bargain struck with Lady Alysanne of House Blackwood that persuaded him. Huntress, horse-breaker and archer without peer, Black Aly had little of a woman’s softness about her. Yet in King’s Landing, while accompanying her young nephew Benjicot at court and council, she had met Cregan Stark and conceived a liking for the stern northman.

And Lord Cregan had responded in kind. Though Black Aly was no man’s queen of love and beauty, her fearlessness, stubborn strength, and bawdy tongue struck a chord for the Lord of Winterfell, who soon began to seek out her company in hall and yard. “She smells of woodsmoke, not of flowers,” Stark told Lord Cerwyn, said to be his closest friend. And so when Lady Alysanne came to ask that he let Aegon’s edict stand, restoring to Lord Corlys his offices and honors, Lord Cregan listened.

[...]

After resigning his position as Hand, Lord Stark marched south with a great host, made up in large part of men unwanted and unneeded in the North. Legend tells us it was Lady Alysanne who suggested an answer. The lands along the Trident were full of widows, she reminded him — with winter at hand, strong backs and willing hands would be welcome in many a hearth and home. For the most part, Lady Alysanne’s matchmaking was a great success. The resettled northmen not only strengthened the riverlords who welcomed them, but also helped revive and spread the worship of the old gods south of the Neck.

[valyriansource]

That night at the great castle, the storm lord and the knight of skulls and kisses each swore they would unmask him, and the king himself urged men to challenge him, declaring that the face behind that helm was no friend of his. But the next morning, when the heralds blew their trumpets and the king took his seat, only two champions appeared. The Knight of the Laughing Tree had vanished. The king was wroth, and even sent his son the dragon prince to seek the man, but all they ever found was his painted shield, hanging abandoned in a tree. It was the dragon prince who won that tourney in the end.

[rhcenyra]

                  When there was a Stark in Winterfell, a maiden girl could walk down the kingsroad in her name-day gown and still go unmolested, and travelers could find fire, bread, and salt at many an inn and holdfast. But the nights are colder now, and doors are closed...It was different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. But the old wolf's dead and young one's gone south to play the game of thrones, and all that's left us is the ghosts. The wolves will come again. And how would you be knowing, boy? I dreamed it.

[kate-bridgerton]

@pscentral event 15: favorite ship(s) ✦ Starkling Ships || Jon&Dany, Arya&Gendry, and Robb&Jeyne

[starry-aesthetic]

Lady Sansa Stark & Lady Margaery Tyrell.