#valena toland

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participating in the challenge(?) crusade(?) that @grandkhan221b has started against ai art on the asoiaf wiki with sisters Valena and Teora of House Toland, some of Arianne's allies in Dorne! With their not-at-all ominous sigil!

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Valena Toland and her sister Teora Toland

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Valena is not as quick as maester Toman to dismiss her sister Teora's dreams as just dreams. In fact, she can quickly tell if she just woke up from one - even without Teora telling her so directly; Her thoughtful expression tells her enough, cue to her asking: did you dream them again ? with them referring to the dragons that are so oft the subject of her dreams.

Ah, these dreams of Teora's… dreams where dragons dance, or fly towards destinations unknown… What are they trying to tell her sister ? Their mother, lady Nymella, is doubtful they are trying to tell her something yet, especially with the way Teora tells them, Valena is quite certain they are, and takes them rather seriously; So seriously, in fact, that, since the maester is set on dismissing them, the sisters have started to wonder about the dreams together, trying to find the meaning that the dragons have so carefully hidden away.

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possibly incomplete list of asoiaf characters described as having red or even "ginger" hair (or red-gold as opposed to red-brown or ghiscari red-black), never auburn:

mycah, the butcher's boy*

beric dondarrion (red-gold hair)*

lharys, member of the three stooges men-at-arms (wild rust-colored hair)**

unnamed and unfortunate mother of robert baratheon's doomed youngest child, barra (light red-haired mother of black-haired baby)*

tomard aka "fat tom", stark guardsman (with his ginger whiskers)*

horas "horror" redwyne (orange hair)*

hobber "slobber" redwyne (orange hair)*

unnamed red-haired whore leaning out a window the day of ned's execution (presumably not the same as above since she was joking about the king's death)*

melisandre of asshai (deep burnished copper. red and terrible and red.)*

a man called jaqen h'ghar (red on one side, white on the other)*

pug-nosed dancy from chataya's brothel (described as red-haired by tyrion in acok but honey-blonde in asos, so presumably hair dye must have been involved between those book mentions.)**

addam marbrand (hair the same copper color as his horse's mane)*

"ginger-headed" maester frenken*

unnamed beardless ginger youth among theon's crew at winterfell*

ygritte, a spearwife "kissed-by-fire" (bright red)*

arryk aka "left" or "right", lady olenna's red-mustached guardsman*

erryk aka "left" or "right", lady olenna's other, identical, red-mustached guardsman*

lord paxter redwyne (tufts of orange hair)**

anguy the archer of the bwb*

a red-bearded karstark rapist dead in a crow cage at stoney sept*

tansy, innkeeper of the peach in stoney sept*

meryn trant (rust-red hair)*

"red" ronnet connington

mero, "the titan's bastard", former commander of the second sons (bushy red-gold beard)

a red-headed soldier who came with stannis to the wall

shadrich "the mad mouse" (bristly orange hair)*

lord rykker's red-mustached maester

marwyn belmore, lysa's former guard captain (ginger-headed)*

lord benedar belmore with a beard that was "a ginger-grey horror"*

lord orton merryweather (reddish-orange hair)

"the red oarsman", one of euron greyoy's followers (fiery red hair)

unnamed red-haired sailor arriving at port in braavos*

lord clement piper

and his son lewys "little lew" piper, who served as squire to jaime lannister in the riverlands

unnamed red-haired youth who first escaped northward with varamyr from the battle at the wall

one of illyrio's washerwomen (dull red hair)**

jon connington (once red hair gone to grey, still red at the roots and eyebrows even when the rest was dyed blue. also had a bright red beard as a younger man.)**

rolly "duck" duckfield (a shock of orange hair)**

a young man among the wildling refugees at mole's town whose red hair reminded jon of ygritte*

the "sunset kingdoms" girl raped by tyrion in the brothel where he was captured by jorah**

hagen's daughter, only other woman among asha greyjoy's crew

roggon rustbeard, one of asha's men

mully of the nw (greasy orange hair)*

bloodbeard, commander of the company of the cat (fiery red whiskers)

"ginger" jack, a toungeless sellsword of the windblown sent to dany, face nearly covered by his bristly, orange beard

gerrick kingsblood*

and his son*

and gerrick's daughter #1*

and gerrick's daughter #2*

and gerrick's daughter #3*

ronald storm, son of ronnet connington

one of the 7 "choicest" enslaved girls from the yunkish ship who were sacrificed by victarion (red-gold hair)

an enslaved redhead boy in line for a well, asking tyrion about dany**

nail, apprentice to hammer, the armorer for the second sons**

maester tybald, redhaired maester from the dreadfort serving arnolf karstark

valena toland, heiress to ghost hill (bright red hair)

teora toland, valena's younger sister with the same hair

uther shett, knight arriving for sweetrobin's tourney (ginger-haired and whiskered)*

*characters whose hair is described in the povs of starks (or jon snow) who only use the terms auburn or red-brown for catelyn, robb, sansa etc. and do not compare said characters to said tully-haired relations

**characters whose hair is described by tyrion lannister, who spent significant time with sansa and exclusively referred to her hair as auburn (without anyone else telling him her hair color as catelyn told brienne)

the only asoiaf characters ever described as having auburn hair:

catelyn tully stark

robb stark (red-brown/auburn tully hair "so like" his mother's, with a beard redder than his hair)

sansa stark (auburn hair lighter than her mother's, most reddish glowing in candlelight)

brandon "bran" stark (hair not bright red enough for him to distinguish himself from young benjen at first glance in a weirwood flashback)

rickon stark

brynden "the blackfish" tully (once auburn hair gone to grey)

edmure tully (auburn hair with a fiery beard, likely brighter than his hair like robb's)

lysa tully arryn baelish

known tully descendants never described as having auburn hair

arya stark (darker brown stark-colored hair)

hoster tully (hair and beard gone from brown to brown streaked with grey to white as snow)

robert "sweetrobin" arryn (fine brown hair, thought by sansa to be his best feature)

fun fact: the only other character that i can find to ever even be descibed as having red-brown hair in the main series is rowan, one of the spearwives who accompanied mance on his mission to winterfell. (described by theon, who had psychological reasons not to think of any hair-resemblance to robb and co.)

tl;dr i suppose my point here is that auburn hair in the real world may be a term thrown around wildly as a fancier way of saying red hair, but grrm and his westerosi creations seem to keep to a much more specific (true) definition. not just specific, almost entirely unique to a certain family, a weird mutation passing down their line somewhat inexplicably, like the magic platinum hair of the targaryens. (ned stark's 4 tully-haired kids being sorta like alicent hightower's 4 targ-haired kids where nobody can really explain why it was so dominant.) except it's actually more unique to the tullys than either black hair to the baratheons or silver hair to the targaryens, with the velaryons also having valyrian hair as well as some people in the essosi free cities too. which i guess makes rowan the wildling the equalivent of an unknown dragonseed or a lysene woman who could pass as a targ, and regular brown-haired hoster and sweetrobin the equivalent of regular blonde-haired alysanne and alyssa targaryen. so the next time someone calls the tullys lame or whatever, just remember that in-universe they're actually more special than the dragonriders, at least hairwise.

[redwolf17]

How do you go about making small side OC characters like many of the ladies that Sansa has? Do you create them to fit the story, or move the story around them? As an aspiring writer, any advice would be appreciated, your work is exemplary and worthy of study

Awww, thanks 🥰

Hmmm, it's a bit of both? I wanted Sansa's ladies to be spread across the regions of Westeros. I began by considering which houses Sansa would want to honor/keep close, houses who were not already on the small council or represented amongst Olyvar's knights/pages/squires. I had plenty of options for each kingdom; for the Reach, I picked a Hightower as a nod to a reader who is fond of them.

Denyse Hightower and Valena Toland aren't technically OCs; they exist in canon. Usually ladies-in-waiting were unmarried and young-ish, but as I didn't want a pack of teenage girls and women in their early 20s, I killed off Denyse Hightower and Valena Toland's husbands. Lady Waynwood canonically has multiple unnamed granddaughters; after checking the wiki, I found that her granddaughters could plausibly be anywhere from 1-30ish, and decided to make her namesake Anya a maid of 20. Gael Celtigar, Roelle Cafferen, and Elaine Lydden were made up from whole cloth, and are also more typical ages for ladies-in-waiting.

At that point, I just sort of mused over what range of personalities I wanted to include. Denyse Hightower being a bit scholarly/academic was irresistible, and Valena's characterization is based on the limited stuff we get in TWOW sample chapter. In TWQ, Roelle had been briefly mentioned before at the masked ball; I decided she would be stuck on Red Ronnet despite him being a fuckboy. The Waynwoods are noted to be homely, hence Anya getting that short end of the stick; her personality is relatively steady/mild.

Gael Celtigar ended up being a bit on the hormonal/horny end of the teenage girl spectrum because I did *not* want Elia Uller to stick out as the only female member of the retinue with an "improper" sexual appetite. (Thanks for that, btw, GRRM, it was totally necessary to have 13-14 year old Elia actively lusting after and pursuing grown men in the TWOW sample chapter, not like you've already made a bad habit of oversexualizing the Dornish UGH). Gael is otherwise a perfectly lovely young lady; god forbid teenage girls experience normal desire :/ dang medieval setting

I don't have any arcs planned for any of the ladies; their characterization will naturally expand/deepen as they pop up in future chapters and their personalities unfold to me, so to speak. It will be a mix of what suits the character and what is necessary for the story, if that makes sense?

Hope that helps! 💕💕💕

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new updated bios:

prince daeron targaryen (dance)

lady floris baratheon (dance)

ser gwayne hightower (dance)

princess aliandra martell (dance and post dance)

ser percival dayne (dance, oc)

lady morgan dayne (dance oc)

princess lyandra saan of lys (dance oc)

prince commander morthen vagnaron of lys (dance oc)

lady regent of highgarden, lea tyrell (dance)

princess scylla qoerthys of myr (dance and after oc)

king aegon iii targaryen (after the dance)

princess baela targaryen (dance and after)

princess myrmadora haen of lys (dance and after)

lord daeron velaryon (dance and after)

prince rhaegar targaryen (rebellion)

king robert baratheon (asoiaf)

ser osney kettleblack (asoiaf)

ser atlas celtigar (asoiaf oc)

lady odessa celtigar (asoiaf oc)

prince doran martell (asoiaf)

prince oberyn martell (asoiaf)

princess elia martell (asoiaf rebellion)

lord gwayne dayne (asoiaf oc)

lady valena toland (asoiaf)

lord tremond gargalan (asoiaf)

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Reading Arianne’s tWoW chapters, and again, the people of Dorne are so real :

“House Toland has a dragon on its banners." "A dragon eating its own tail, aye," Valena said. "From the days of Aegon's Conquest. He did not conquer here.”

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Arianne and Sansa’s chapters in TWOW. I just think it’s cute how they’re both racing and having fun with their friends.

[asongoficeandfiresource]

Arianne Martell Week 2022 || Day Three: Female Relationships

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House Toland

"House Toland has a dragon on its banners."        "A dragon eating its own tail, aye," Valena said.  "From the days of Aegon's Conquest.  He did not conquer here.  Elsewhere he burned his foes, him and his sisters, but here we melted away before them, leaving only stone and sand for them to burn.  And round and round the dragons went, snapping at their tails for want of any other food, till they were tied in knots."      "Our forebears played their part in that," Lady Nymella said proudly. "Bold deeds were done, and brave men died.  All of it was written down by the maesters who served us."

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House Toland, sworn to Sunspear - Elie Saab Haute Couture Spring 2019

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Valena Toland of Dorne

Heiress of the Toland House

[aliadayne]

Daughters of Dorne

Valena Toland, eldest daughter and heiress of Lady Nymella Toland. She is tall, beautiful and fierce, with a blaze of bright red hair tumbling about her shoulders.

Teora Toland, her younger sister. She is short, plump, and shy, but with the same red hair as her big sister. She seems to have prophetic dreams.

[marblecarved]

the characters’ list has been updated, here’s what’s new ! 

I have added a couple of new characters, namely Bianca Cattaneo, an original vampire character; Maryana Celtigar, an original character for A Song of Ice and Fire, and Dacey Mormont, from A Song of Ice and Fire.

There also characters I’m considering adding, or bringing back, in the future, such as Alys Karstark, from A Song of Ice and Fire; Genna Lannister, from A Song of Ice and Fire; Harriet Smith, from Emma; Cerlina Lannister ( the name is temporary, and I might change it if i do end up adding her ! ) one of the unnamed sisters of Joanna Lannister, from A Song of Ice and Fire and Valena Toland, also from A Song of Ice and Fire.

[astormofsilk]

Tag Drop

the prince’s most trusted: alyse ladybright threads

heir to ghost hill: valena toland threads

witnessed his death: jynessa blackmont threads

smells of woodsmoke not flowers: alysanne blackwood threads

the witch queen: alys rivers of harrenhall threads

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Ladies-in-Waiting

Lady Selyse Florent - Senior Lady-in-waiting to Queen Rhaella

Lady Sylvina Waynwood - Second Lady-in-waiting to Queen Rhaella

Lady Ynys Yronwood - Third Lady-in-waiting to Queen Rhaella

Lady Gwin Goodbrother - Fourth Lady-in-waiting to Queen Rhaella

Lady Barbara Bracken - Fifth Lady-in-waiting to Queen Rhaella

Lady Mina Tyrell - Senior Lady-in-waiting to Queen Elia

Lady Gysella Goodbrother - Second Lady-in-waiting to Queen Elia

Lady Valena Toland - Third Lady-in-waiting to Queen Elia

Lady Falia Flowers - Fourth Lady-in-waiting to Queen Elia

Lady Joanna Swyft - Senior Lady-in-waiting to Queen Cersei

Lady Jeyne Westerling - Second Lady-in-waiting to Queen Cersei

Lady Lollys Stokeworth - Third Lady-in-waiting to Queen Cersei

Lady Wynafryd Manderly - Fourth Lady-in-waiting to Queen Cersei

Lady Ysilla Royce - Senior Lady-in-waiting to Princess Daenerys

Lady Margaery Tyrell - Second Lady-in-waiting to Princess Daenerys

Lady Talla Tarly - Third Lady-in-waiting to Princess Daenerys

Lady Sansa Stark - Fourth Lady-in-waiting to Princess Daenerys

Lady Lyra Sand - Senior Lady-in-waiting to Princess Rhaenys

Lady Roslin Frey - Second Lady-in-waiting to Princess Rhaenys

Lady Myranda Royce - Third Lady-in-waiting to Princess Rhaenys

Lady Cerenna Lannister - Fourth Lady-in-waiting to Princess Rhaenys

Lady Mira Forrester - Senior Lady-in-waiting to Princess Alyssa

Lady Jorelle Mormont - Second Lady-in-waiting to Princess Alyssa

Lady Alynne Connington - Third Lady-in-waiting to Princess Alyssa

Lady Nymeria Sand - Fourth Lady-in-waiting to Princess Alyssa