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I drew a rough sketch of Missandei and Marselen for a request from @rainhadaenerys some time ago, and I decided to detail and clean it ❤️
#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#fan art#my art#missandei#marselen#Mossador#(implied cause it’s his helmet)
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Mirri Maz Duur, Quaithe, Missandei, Marselen, Skahaz Mo Kandaq the Shavepate and Hizdahr Zo Loraq artworks of Targaryen Heroes 3 box of ASOIAF TMG.
#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#got#game of thrones#wargames#house targaryen#mirri maz duur#quaithe#missandei#marselen#the shavepate#hizdahr zo loraq
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ADOS: Fancast for Marselen?
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It feels like Missandei did grow attach with Dany because she treated her different from other slaver. She had no where to go and her brothers are in Unsullied. Maybe she did think that Dany could be better but after ADWD she will start distrusting Dany. What do you think about Missandei relationship with Dany?
Hi there!
(I think it's complex.)
I think that Missandei may or may not have started out with certain hopes for Dany's motivations, but I absolutely do not believe that she ever fully trusted her or is as personally devoted to her or as sincere in her interactions as Dany or Barristan believe. They see what Missandei wants them to see: only a young girl. She is Arya's age and has arguably lived through worse from a much earlier point in time, and she is incredibly intelligent - why on earth would she unquestioningly trust anyone, even the person who massacred the slavers (and some other citizens and children) of Astapor to "free" the Unsullied, who went straight on to serve her as if she had bought them?
Missandei's priority have got to be her siblings, or rather, the one brother who still remains to her: Marselen. He is in service to Dany, so that is where Missandei is going to be too. What exactly that means in the long run remains to be seen. I don't expect we're in danger of seeing her be unquestioningly loyal to Dany's cause of gaining the Iron Throne, the way the show character was. The throne and Westeros mean nothing to her.
She is doing what Arya and Sansa have been doing. Playing along, trying to get by, biding her time, trying to survive. Her aims and goals are her own.
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Brown Ben muses that the two dragons are wild cards which could attack anyything on either side during the battle.
D@ny better pray Missandei´s Marselen stays alive
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Paralelos entre Cersei e Daenerys (Parte 3)
Daenerys se cerca de múltiplos pontos de vista para conciliar diversas demandas e tomar decisões informadas e justas.
" - Uma rainha deve escutar a todos. Os de nascimento alto e baixo, os fortes e os fracos, os nobres e os venais. Uma voz pode proferir falsidades, mas em muitas sempre é possível encontrar a verdade. - Lera aquilo num livro." - A Tormenta de Espadas // Daenerys I
"Dany reuniu seu conselho para ouvi-los. Verme Cinzento estava lá pelos Imaculados, Skahaz mo Kandaq pelas Bestas de Bronze. Na ausência de seus companheiros de sangue, um encarquilhado jaqqua rhan chamado Rommo, vesgo e de pernas arqueadas, falava pelos dothraki. Seus libertos eram representados pelos capitães das três companhias que ela formara: Mollono Yos Dob dos Escudos Robustos, Symon Costas-Listradas dos Irmãos Livres e Marselen dos Homens da Mãe. Reznak mo Reznak permanecia sentado ao lado da rainha e Belwas, o Forte, estava em pé atrás dela, com os enormes braços cruzados. Dany não teria falta de conselhos." - A Dança dos Dragões // Daenerys III
Cersei prefere ter conselheiros que apoiem tudo o que ela diz, porque ela só se preocupa que suas necessidades sejam atendidas e que suas opiniões sejam ouvidas.
" - Um governador fraco precisa de uma Mão forte, como Aerys precisou do pai. Um governador forte requer apenas um servo diligente para carregar ordens." - O Festim dos Corvos // Jaime
"Os meus conselheiros. Cersei arrancara todas as rosas, e todos aqueles com obrigações para com o tio ou os irmãos. Nos seus lugares encontravam-se homens cuja lealdade lhe pertenceria. Até lhes dera novos títulos, pedidos de empréstimo as Cidades Livres; a rainha não admitiria nenhum "mestre" na corte além de si própria." - O Festim dos Corvos // Cersei IV
Ilustração Daenerys: Drazenka Kimpel
Ilustração Cersei: Evans03
#housetargaryen#targaryendinasty#targaryen#daenerys#daenerystargaryen#daenerysstormborn#motherofdragons#dracarys#fireandblood#dragons#asoiaf#asongoficeandfire#hotd#houseofthedragon#westeros#queen#khaleesi#drogon#rhaegal#viserion#cersei#cerseilannister#lannister#houselannister#hearmeroar
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Missandei and Marselen grieving together over Mossador for @rainhadaenerys! I like to imagine he scratched a butterfly on his helmet 🥲
#fan art#my art#game of thrones#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf#missandei#marselen#mossador#missandei of naath#I definitely plan on cleaning this one up at a later date but I was excited with how it was going and wanted to share#as I was drawing this i was like I promise I’ll draw you guys in a happy scene next time
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Hey, ASOIAF artists, why exactly have I never seen a single fanart of Missandei with her brothers? Think about it: Missandei hugging her brothers after Dany frees them and celebrating being free and together again. Marselen comforting Missandei after Mossador’s death. All siblings as children in Naath. Marselen and Missandei returning to Naath together. I mean, look at the potential!
#asoiaf#valyrianscrolls#missandei#marselen#mossador#i looked on tumblr and on deviantart and on artsation and on google and i found nothing
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I don’t go here but apparently melancholy codas are things I like to write? Vague spoilers for all of GoT S8.
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After many weeks of nothing but water as far as the eye could see, the sight of land elicits shouts of joy, even among the Unsullied. Grey Worm looks through his spyglass, unsure of what he’ll find waiting for them on the shores of Naath. There are people gathering on the beach, but it is too far to see if they had weapons.
“May I?” Marselen holds his hand out for the instrument. Grey Worm hands it over, and he looks through the glass for a long moment before taking a deep breath.
“What do you see?”
“Something I remember, from before we were taken.” Marselen’s voice is thick with emotion. “The-- my people give hospitality to all who arrive on the island. It is small and remote, and the water is the only way trade and news comes.”
“Also slavers,” Grey Worm mutters.
Marselen tilts his head. “They would come whether we gave hospitality or not, and this way, we have satisfied the obligations the Lord of Harmony has placed upon us.”
Grey Worm frowns. “To violate guest right is truly heinous.”
“In addition to the slavery? Indeed.” Marselen’s lips twist in a not-quite smile.
Grey Worm reaches out, touches his shoulder. “It will never happen again. We will see to that. Not just for us, but for your sister and brother.” Marselen nods, squeezing Grey Worm’s hand before departing to order preparations for dropping anchor.
The Naathi gathered on the beach greet them like old friends long unseen, and share breadfruit and salt. Somebody hands Grey Worm a cup of something. He does not recognize the taste, but it is cool and refreshing after weeks of flat water and dried meat.
After they have been greeted and fed, a woman of middling age approaches them. “What is your business here?”
“For some of us, it is return, to a land from which we were cruelly taken,” Marselen replies.
The woman stares at him for a long moment. “Your face is familiar to me. You had a brother and sister.”
Marselen nods, his eyes bright. He describes what he remembers of his village, and the woman confirms the details.
“It was razed to the ground, and naught of it stands. But we took in those who were left, made them part of our houses and homes.” She takes Marselen’s hand in both of hers. “And if it is something you wish, we shall welcome you and your men the same way.”
“That is a generous offer, my lady,” Grey Worm replies. “We hope to prove worthy of belonging, perhaps after we earn our keep.”
She looks skeptical. “We grow or make most of what we need. The rest we trade for when a ship passes by. What else could you offer?”
Grey Worm shows the hilt of his dagger. “The gentle ways of your people are known to me. We will not ask you to take up arms yourself, but rather let us do so on your behalf.”
The woman looks out at the water, where ships crowd in the harbor so closely the shimmer of water can barely be seen. “How many men have you?”
“Many, many hundreds. Perhaps thousands. Our numbers were vastly reduced before we came here.”
She looks thoughtful. “With protection and ships, there are things we can do again without fear.” She holds her hand out to Grey Worm, and they clasp arms.
As they watch the rowboats ferry Unsullied from the ships, the woman turns to him. “Tell me, what was your impetus for coming such a distance?”
“I met somebody from Naath. If the land she was from was a fraction as beautiful, clever, and strong as her, I would be content to live there the rest of my days.”
She pats his shoulder. “Do you miss her?”
He thinks for a moment. “I do, but being here helps lessen the ache.”
She smiles. “Our land is good for that.”
#game of thrones#grey worm#marselen#i wrote a thing#me: you should write about this minor character#me: and also this even more minor character who's barely mentioned#me: and read too much about languages in essos#me: also you should calculate the distance between king's landing and naath#none of this will actually make it into the thing you're writing#but you'll feel better knowing it's grounded in lore
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“Mhysa, they called her. Someone told him that meant Mother. Soon the silver queen would come forth from her city, smash the Yunkai'i, and break their chains, they whispered to one another. And then she'll bake us all a lemon pie and kiss our widdle wounds and make them better, the dwarf thought. He had no faith in royal rescues.”
(Tyrion X, ADWD)
“Sometimes he wanted to slap her, shake her, scream at her, anything to wake her from her dreams. No one is going to save us, he wanted to scream at her. The worst is yet to come.”
(Tyrion XI, ADWD)
Dany tended Ser Jorah's wound herself, and it began to heal. (Daenerys I, ACOK)
She kissed Irri's hand where Drogon had bitten it. “I'm sorry he hurt you. Dragons are not meant to be locked up in a small ship's cabin.” (Daenerys II, ASOS)
Yesterday a wagon had been overturned and two of her soldiers killed, so today the queen had determined that she would bring the food herself.
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Dany walked right past him. There was an old man on the ground a few feet away, moaning and staring up at the grey belly of the clouds. She knelt beside him, wrinkling her nose at the smell, and pushed back his dirty grey hair to feel his brow. “His flesh is on fire. I need water to bathe him. Seawater will serve. Marselen, will you fetch some for me? I need oil as well, for the pyre. Who will help me burn the dead?” (Daenerys VI, ADWD)
“You swore to me that the fighters would be grown men who had freely consented to risk their lives for gold and honor. These dwarfs did not consent to battle lions with wooden swords. You will stop it. Now.” (Daenerys IX, ADWD)
Lions. They were going to set lions on us. It would have been exquisitely ironic, that. Perhaps he would have had time for a short, bitter chortle before being torn apart. (Tyrion XI, ADWD)
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Gorgeous comic that I commissioned from @pepelinkri depicting Dany’s visit to the Astapori refugees. This is a very underrated book scene that encapsulates who Daenerys Targaryen is: a compassionate and selfless leader who is determined to go to any lengths to help her people (despite not receiving anything in return for it) and who inspires her allies to do better in the process.
Every day she sent them what she could, but every day there were more of them and less food to give them. It was growing harder to find drivers willing to deliver the food as well. Too many of the men they had sent into the camp had been stricken by the flux themselves. Others had been attacked on the way back to the city. Yesterday a wagon had been overturned and two of her soldiers killed, so today the queen had determined that she would bring the food herself. Every one of her advisors had argued fervently against it, from Reznak and the Shavepate to Ser Barristan, but Daenerys would not be moved. “I will not turn away from them,” she said stubbornly. “A queen must know the sufferings of her people.”
[...] What kind of mother has no milk to feed her children?
[...] “You should not linger here overlong, Your Grace. The Astapori are being fed, as you commanded. There’s no more we can do for the poor wretches. We should repair back to the city.”
“Go if you wish, ser. I will not detain you. I will not detain any of you.” Dany vaulted down from the horse. “I cannot heal them, but I can show them that their Mother cares.”
[...] There was an old man on the ground a few feet away, moaning and staring up at the grey belly of the clouds. She knelt beside him, wrinkling her nose at the smell, and pushed back his dirty grey hair to feel his brow. “His flesh is on fire. I need water to bathe him. Seawater will serve. Marselen, will you fetch some for me? I need oil as well, for the pyre. Who will help me burn the dead?” By the time Aggo returned with Grey Worm and fifty of the Unsullied loping behind his horse, Dany had shamed all of them into helping her. Symon Stripeback and his men were pulling the living from the dead and stacking up the corpses, while Jhogo and Rakharo and their Dothraki helped those who could still walk toward the shore to bathe and wash their clothes. [...]
Before midday a dozen fires were burning. Columns of greasy black smoke rose up to stain a merciless blue sky. Dany’s riding clothes were stained and sooty as she stepped back from the pyres. (ADWD Daenerys VI)
#daenerys targaryen#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf art#valyrianscrolls#targnation#asoiaf fanart#adwd#a dance with dragons#barristan selmy#skahaz mo kandaq#reznak mo reznak#adwd dany#adwd dany vi#meereen#daenerys stormborn#userleah#useralessia#userneve#asoiafsource#pepelinkri
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Artwork for Marselen, Missandei, Mirri Maz Duur, Quaithe, Hizdahr Zo Loraq and Skahaz Mo Kandaq from ASOIAF TMG.
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A Dream of Spring Chapter 135-138
Marselen VI
Rickon XVII
Jon XXIII
Celia XXII
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A RULER NEEDS A GOOD HEAD AND TRUE HEART
— Good Queen Alysanne
They shoved him down every time he tried to rise, and kicked him when he curled up on the ground. But then they heard a roar. ‘That’s my father’s man you’re kicking,’ howled the she-wolf. The she-wolf laid into the squires with a tourney sword, scattering them all. The crannogman was bruised and bloodied, so she took him back to her lair to clean his cuts and bind them up with linen.
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"Arry, come on! Lommy's gone, leave her if she won't come!" Stubbornly, Arya dragged all the harder, pulling the crying girl along.
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"I will not turn away from them," she said stubbornly. "A queen must know the sufferings of her people." “Khaleesi, no.” The bell in his braid rang softly as he dismounted. “You must not get any closer. Do not let them touch you! Do not!” Dany walked right past him. There was an old man on the ground a few feet away, moaning and staring up at the grey belly of the clouds. She knelt beside him, wrinkling her nose at the smell, and pushed back his dirty grey hair to feel his brow. “His flesh is on fire. I need water to bathe him. Seawater will serve. Marselen, will you fetch some for me? I need oil as well, for the pyre. Who will help me burn the dead?”
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It feels like Dany projects onto Missendei a lot and dots on her. She see herself in her. Dany herself was being raised by her brother who later started abusing her. Do you think at one point Dany will try to Missendei? I do think Missendei is going to survive as she will choose peace and will refused to become another Dany.
I do think Dany heavily projects onto Missandei and tries to access a sense of childhood through her. I've seen people describe it as motherly because she occasionally "takes care" of Missandei like the child she is, but I don't think that's a proper fit, mostly because Dany very much expects "mothering" in return. It's not mother and child, it's child and child.
The repeated image of storytelling in bed does reflect her few positive memories of Viserys, another child-and-child relationship.
Viserys had been stupid and vicious, she had come to realize, yet sometimes she missed him all the same. Not the cruel weak man he had become by the end, but the brother who had sometimes let her creep into his bed, the boy who told her tales of the Seven Kingdoms, and talked of how much better their lives would be once he claimed his crown. (ASOS, Daenerys I)
I think it's less likely that we will see Dany slip into some kind of abusive dynamic with Missandei as much as that she will feel extremely betrayed by her should Missandei taint her role as a childhood fantasy role play vehicle. It will not merely constitute a disappointment but also the loss of her projection surface, robbing Dany of that outlet.
That it will happen seems inevitable to me. Not only are we shown just how intelligent and sneaky Missandei already is, we also have heavy hints that her true loyalty is based on the presence of her brothers in Dany's personal army, of whom only Marselen remains alive now. At the same time, the later ADWD chapters suggest a soft rift opening between them. Missandei criticizes her decisions, they both stop correcting when she uses depersonalized "slave" language to describe herself, there is a descreasing enthusiasm in their interactions, their final interaction is a dismissal of her concerns by Dany.
Then there are the parallels between Missandei and Arya, and the deceptively dangerous butterflies of Naath.
And Dany did demand a promise that Missandei would never betray her. I mean. That's a pretty heavy hint that we should maybe watch out for a conflict coming up.
Does that mean Missandei will die? No idea. That highly depends on the nature of their conflict. But it will certainly mean another wedge driven between the sweet child Daenerys used to be and the ruthless person she has become.
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Hi Stumpy, I'd really like to hear (read!) your thoughts on the names of the trebuchets, esp. in Tyrion's WoW chapters. It seems to me that sth is going on there. Is it foreshadowing? Is M. trolling us? Are the names random? What do you think?
I wish I had more thoughts than I do, anon.
The six sisters:
Dragonbreaker
Ghost of Astapor
Harpy's Daughter
Harridan, the largest of the trebuchets
Mazdhan's Fist
Wicked Sister
I can see how Dragonbreaker, Ghost of Astapor, and Wicked Sister might be hints at Bran, Jon, and Arya.
"The girl's. Ser Grandfather is making for the Harridan, but she's afraid he'll turn toward Wicked Sister next. The Ghost is already down. Marselen's freedmen broke the Long Lances like a rotten stick and dragged it over with chains. The girl figures Selmy means to bring down all the trebuchets." - Tyrion I, TWOW
Ghost (Jon) falls first, and they fear Wicked Sister (Arya) will be Selmy's next target.
"I will not be part of murder, Robert. Do as you will, but do not ask me to fix my seal to it."
[...]
Ned bowed, and turned on his heel without another word. He could feel Robert's eyes on his back. As he strode from the council chambers, the discussion resumed with scarcely a pause. "On Braavos there is a society called the Faceless Men," Grand Maester Pycelle offered. - Eddard VIII, AGOT
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"My lord is good to care so much, but I am well protected." Dany gestured toward where Barristan Selmy stood with one hand resting on his sword hilt. "Barristan the Bold, they call him. Twice he has saved me from assassins." - Daenerys III, ADWD
But, you know, I can also see why someone might think this is a bit of a stretch.
The real question is whether these trebuchets will kill a dragon or not.
Tyrion almost grabbed his dragon but thought better of it. Last game he had brought her out too soon and lost her to a trebuchet. - Tyrion IV, ADWD
My gut tells me no. She'll probably have all three dragons when she arrives in Westeros, but I won't be shocked if Dragonbreaker gets a solid hit in. :)
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