I haven't posted in a while, but lately I haven't much time for drawing. So I stole my Targaryen Prince Jon from my previous fanart and dressed him up in his canon look 😅 So here is…

Jon Snow, the Bastard of Winterfell ⚔️ 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch.

Who do you ship Jon Snow with? ❤️

The theory that Bloodraven wargs Mormonts raven is so funny if you think about it.

A 200 or whatever year old man literally fused to a tree is just out there warging a dead mans companion and annoying the fuck out of said dead mans teenage successor.

You walk into the Night’s Watch in 300 AC and THIS is the first thing you see, wyd?

Could you draw Patchface please? Your art is incredible and I think he’s the scariest character in asoiaf 😵‍💫

SUCH an excellent suggestion.. drawing patchface hadn’t even crossed my mind but this was a really fun challenge :)

"Longclaw"

998th

Lord Commander of Night's Watch Jeor Mormont and his pet raven who is demanding corn.

Songs of Ice

By ViaEstelar

semi-finished sketch of my favourite boy and his feathered menace

✨Jon Snow Pelo Pantene Edition✨ Based on this.

Credits for @buildoblivionthenwewilltalk for the Jon art.

Actual picture of Jon Snow's "pets" trying to get along:

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"From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king."

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Day 10 - Echoes of the Past

Listen I got stuck on the idea of Odin- ‘but why?’ You ask and the answer is i saw a meta on it once and thought it was nice

underrated duo. their disney-princess-and-her-animal-sidekick slay

Night's Watch by Stefan Kopinski

More ASoIaF art at the link.

Is there any significance to the words mormonts/jons Raven says or is it just simply a clever bird

Oh, I very much believe that Mormont's raven is specifically being skinchanged into by Bloodraven. I won't claim that everything the raven says is meaningful (because I don't think it is), or that I can even necessarily always tell when the raven's words are indicative of Bloodraven voicing a specific opinion versus are used by the author to make a narrative or thematic point in the scene, but I do believe that Bloodraven left himself a way to spy, so to speak, inside the Night's Watch even after he "disappeared". After all, Bloodraven in his political life was well known, and widely feared, for his rumored (at least to some extent accurately) intelligence network: "how many eyes does Lord Bloodraven have" went the familiar contemporary phrase, and he was certainly not above using supernatural means, such as glamours, to obtain information (as demonstrated in "The Mystery Knight"). If we suppose that at some point around or after 252 AC, Bloodraven realized that his mission was to prepare the world for the coming of the Others and find and train the greenseer champion of humanity, which I think is generally right, then why should we suppose that Bloodraven would have forgotten all his strategies and lessons as the all-seeing Hand, and left the Watch and the Wall - the key line of defense against the Others - out of his supervision once he was no longer Lord Commander? Familiar as he clearly is with skinchanging into ravens, Bloodraven I think decided that the best way to keep an eye (pun fully intended) on the Watch was to plant his agent there, one he could slip into whenever he chose to observe the actions of the Lord Commander, and one which, if a great need arose, he could use to deliver information without a "that talking coyote was really just a talking dog" type of reaction (since ravens can talk, in a very limited extent, in this universe)

Of course, sometimes I think Bloodraven-as-the-raven is just having some fun with his unsuspecting listeners, too:

Winter is coming. The Stark words had never sounded so grim or ominous to Jon as they did now. "My lord," he asked hesitantly, "it's said there was a bird last night …" "There was. What of it?" "I had hoped for some word of my father." "Father," taunted the old raven, bobbing its head as it walked across Mormont's shoulders. "Father."

Again, this is the same guy who, while guised as "Maynard Plumm" quipped that they might all be Aegon IV's bastards. It's the same wry sense of humor here - he knows, and he knows that Mormont and Jon don't, that Jon's biological father is not Eddard Stark.