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The best preserved 'Lorica Segmentata', Roman Plate Armour in the world to date, Corbridge Roman Site Museum, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland
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lionofchaeronea · 1 year
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Bronze portrait bust found in the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. The subject has been variously identified as Priapus, Dionysus/Bacchus, Plato, and Poseidon. Artist unknown; Roman copy after a Hellenistic original of ca. 100 BCE. Now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Photo credit: Allan Gluck/Wikimedia Commons.
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arthistoryanimalia · 9 days
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#TwoForTuesday:
Ancient Roman lions on display at RISD Museum
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1. LION'S-HEAD WATERSPOUT
c. 200 CE
Marble, 21.6 x 21.3 x 11.9 cm (8 1/2 x 8 3/8 x 4 11/16 in)
“This marble disk, carved in the form of a lion's head, would have functioned as an ornate waterspout in a fountain or nymphaeum (fountains with architectural settings for statuary) of a Roman House.
Embellishments such as this were popular in domestic gardens during the Roman era. The lion's features are now worn from centuries of weathering, and the calcium deposits around the mouth indicate a long period of use in antiquity. The back of the carved waterspout has been hollowed out into a funnel shape, which would have allowed a lead pipe (now lost) to stream water through the lion's open mouth.
In antiquity water displays were common in domestic settings — the sound of flowing water and the backdrop of a garden would have created a luxurious setting for entertaining guests.”
2. LION'S-HEAD HANDLE
2nd-3rd century CE
Bronze, 31.4 x 20.3 x 7.9 cm (12 3/8 x 8 x 3 1/8 in)
“The gaping jaws and bared teeth of this bronze lion's head convey the strength and ferocity that have made lions chosen guardian figures for millennia in both the Greek and Roman worlds. Representations of lions have been discovered in various contexts, appearing on gates and tombs in ancient Greece and on Roman sarcophagi (coffins), where they symbolize victory of the soul over death and evil. The four iron rivets visible in this lion's mane were the original attachments to a wooden door, chest, or perhaps a sarcophagus. This well-preserved handle, combining the artistic lion's head and the utilitarian swinging handle, is a stunning example of Roman decorative art.”
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charlesreeza · 10 months
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The Chapel of Saint Rosalia, patron saint of Palermo
Cathedral of Palermo, Sicily
Photos by Charles Reeza
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unexfunstuff · 2 months
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victusinveritas · 1 year
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The making of metal clamps that held giant stone blocks together in Ancient Rome. Note various bitching ironworkers' masks.
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wolha · 1 year
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LEE JOON-GI & MOON CHAE-WON as DO HYUN-SOO & CHA JI-WON FLOWER OF EVIL 악의 꽃 (2020) dir. Kim Cheol-Kyu
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In Greek and Roman mythology, there’s a god named Hephaestus. He was the god of metalworking. He was the ugliest god in Mount Olympus, and everyone hated him because of his nasty personality, so he always spent time in his workshop. But he had a wife whom he loved dearly. Her name was Venus. The planet. And another name for that is “the morning star”. You were always on my mind in this very space where I had spent most of my time.
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pazzesco · 7 months
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Department of Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Burgonet. Filippo Negroli (Italian, Milan ca. 1510–1579), Italian, Milan, dated 1543. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.1720) Photos: Paul Lachenauer @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
This masterpiece of Renaissance metalwork is signed on the browplate by Filippo Negroli, whose embossed armor was praised by sixteenth-century writers as "miraculous" and deserving "immortal merit."
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Formed of one plate of steel and patinated to look like bronze, the bowl is raised in high relief with motifs inspired by classical art. The graceful mermaidlike siren forming the helmet's comb holds a grimacing head of Medusa by the hair. The sides of the helmet are covered with acanthus scrolls inhabited by putti, a motif ultimately derived from ancient Roman sculpture and wall paintings.
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Picture taken at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A burgonet (a combat helmet) made of steel by Filippo Negroli, ca 1543
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chromaherder · 6 months
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And so it is finished! This might just be one of my favourite pieces I’ve ever done. I loved every step of the way making this, and I may have been a little sad to wrap it up.
When I was first daydreaming about this, I only had a general vibe, a song, a whole lot of internalized struggles about my Italian heritage.At some point earlier this year after talking to a friend, I had realized I had a lot of reservations about my own heritage, and it got me to wonder why I had this love/hate relationship with it.So I resolved not to shrink away and to honour where I came from not only for my own mental sake but also to celebrate the people and the country I’m from, and I think this has helped in more ways that I can realize. Migrating to another country felt liberating at the time, and being in a culture I felt I fit in, somehow equated to relegating language and heritage and interests to the backstage.
So I put as much Italian-ness I could into this. From the traditional Taranta dance of the deep south, to pre-Catholic myths of Greco-Roman and pagan traditions about the sea, dance and the heavens, to the metalwork of the Roman era. And it was a great opportunity to try a hybrid approach between traditional and digital art! And as a lover of sci-fi, I feel stories about the future could also use a healthy dose of playfulness and a wider breadth of cultural settings. Enjoy some closeups below
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barbariankingdom · 6 days
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A medieval Roman chalice combining  the beauty of specialized Roman metalwork with a green glass of Islamic origin - the angular depiction of a hare in the glass isn’t “Byzantine” style.
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0mythical-bitch0 · 1 year
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Names that give Valyrian Vibes, Some I’ve made up. please someone use them.
Aedyn- English, Fiery, Little Fire
Aegarax- Valyrian god of all creatures that walk, run, swim or fly, creator of the first dragon
Aeisha- Aisha, Arabic, Alive and Well, Aye-E-Sha
Aelia- Ancient Roman, Sun
Aeliana- Latin, Sun
Aelicia- Spanish and German, Nobel
Aelita- Fictional, Starlight seen for the last time
Aella- Greek, means Whirlwind
Aelora- Elora, Greek, Sun Ray, My god is bright
Aelyx- South African, the Mountain of Strength
Aeolian- Latin or Greek, Of the wind, God of the winds, Lord of the winds, The Rapid, The Changeable, Quickly moving, Changeful, shifting, varied, of or Arising from the wind
Aeolus- Greek, Changeable, Varied
Aerian- of or belonging to the atmosphere or to the air, Aerial
Aeris- French, An earth full of flowers
Aerith- Earth, Flower, Flower-Like
Aerol- Greek, One who is of a Golden Heart
Aeruna- Aruna, Sanskrit and Hindu, Crystalline reddish-brown, Tawny, Dawn, Dawn Light or Rising Sun, Aye-rue-nuh
Aerwyna- English, Friend of the sea
Aeryn- Irish and Welsh, Daughter of Eire, Daughter of Ireland, Berry
Aesira- Arabic, Muslim, Islamic, Brave, Powerful, Fighter
Aether- Greek, Brightness, Bright upper sky
Aethel- Old English, Nobel
Aethra- Greek, The Upper pure air, the bright clear serene sky, the air heavens and sky, one of the Oceanids
Aetius- Latin and Greek, Eagle
Aetos- Greek, Eagle
Anaëlle- Hebrew, God answered
Andrea- Greek, Manly, Virile
Astraea- Greek and Latin, Star maiden, Starry night, Greek goddess of Justice, innocence, purity and precision
Aphaea- Goddess of fertility
Astraeus- Greek, Starry, Titan god of Dusk, stars, planets, the art of astronomy and astrology
Azaelea- Azalea, Greek, Dry, Flower
Azrael- Hebrew, Angel of God, Help from God, Helped by God, Help of God, Angel of Death
Braeden- Irish, Broad, Brave, Wise
Caelestis- Latin, Of the sky, heavenly
Caelius- Latin, Heaven
Caelum- Latin, Heaven, a constellation
Caelus- Roman, Latin, God of the Sky
Caesar- Greek, Head of hair, long hair
Celaeno- Greek, Black, also a Pleiad Nymph
Daedalus- Greek, Craftsman
Daegal- Anglo-Saxon, Dweller by the dark stream, Night dweller
Daelyn- small valley
Daemara- Damara, Greek, gentle, calf
Daemari- Damari, Greek, gentle, fertility goddess, eternal, strength
Daemeter- Demeter, Greek, earth lover, Greek goddess of the harvest
Daemetrius- Demetrius, Greek, follower of Demeter
Daemitri- Dimitri, Greek, earth lover, follower of Demeter
Daemian- Damian, Greek, To tame, Subdue, Day-me-in
Daenali- Denali, Native American, The high one, the great one
Daenyra- Made-up, Great light, the bright one, Dae, Korean, great, big, the great one, shining, Nyra, Arabic, light, light of god, Day-near-uh
Daera- Greek, Gift of God, Sanskrit, Place of Worship
Daere- Welsh, Fiend
Daeriel- Idealism, intuition, romance, generosity, creativity, wisdom and tolerance
Daerius- Darius, Persian, maintains possession well
Daeryn- Made-up, Great ruler, Given ruler, Dae, Latin Give, Korean Greatness, Ryn, Welsh Ruler, Day-rin
Daevina- Davina, Scottish and Hebrew, Beloved, Day-Vee-nuh
Danae- Greek, Hebrew, She who Judges, God is my judge
Elaena- Greek, Shining Light
Esmael- Spanish, God will hear
Feyre- Beautiful, Fairy, Elf, Fair, Fey-ruh
Gaea- Greek, Personification of the Earth
Gaelithox- Valyrian God of fire, stars, moon, sun, and the dawn, rival of meraxes
Haedrian- Made up, leader, sea-lover, wanderlust, Guide of sea-travel, Hae, Chinese, Sea, Drian, Christian, One who takes initiative and loves to travel, H-adrian. Hey-drEE-in.
Hael- Angel of kindness
Haera- Hera, Greek, Goddess of marriage, Air-uh
Helios- Greek, Sun
Hephaestus- Greek, God of Artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture and volcanoes
Heron- Hero
Hyperion- Greek, He that walks high, the god above
Icarus/Ikarus- Greek, Latin, Follower, the one who reaches the sky
Ikaerys- Ikarus, Greek, Latin, the one who reaches the sky, Ick-Kay-Reeze
Jaella- Arabic/Muslim, Hebrew, Prominent, mountain goat
Jaelynn- American, May god protect, Supplanter
Kaeden- American, Fighter
Kaelum- Latin, Chisels the Sky, one who chisels the stars in the heavens
Kaeya- Indian, Monsoon Flower
Laela- Arabic, Dark Beauty
Maegara- Megara, Greek, Grudge, May-Gar-uh
Maëlle- French, Chief, Prince, Ambitious
Maeve- Irish, Intoxicating
Megaera- Greek, The jealous one, one of the furies, deities of vengeance
Mikael- Scandinavian, Who Resembles God
Mikaela- Michaela, Hebrew, Who is Like God
Nevaeh- American, Heaven
Naela- Quranic, Indigenous Australian, Winner, Go getter, Gracious, Charitable, Of Wide Eyes
Phaedra- Greek, Bright
Raphael- Hebrew, God has Healed
Saelena- Salena, Greek, Moon Goddess, Say-Lee-Nuh
Saera- Muslim, A New Star
Salaena- Salena, Greek, Moon Goddess, Suh-Lay-Nuh
Samael- Hebrew, Venom, Poison of God, King of Demons, The Angel of Death
Selaena- Selena, Greek, The Moon, See-Lay-Nuh
Solaena- Solana, Spanish, Sunshine or Eastern Wind, Soul-Lay-Nuh
Vaelencia- Valencia, Latin, Roman, Spanish, Srong, Healthy, Valor, Vay-len-C-uh
Vaella- Old Norse, a lament or cry
Vaellia- Made up, Embrace the unknown, Vael; to dive into the unknown, Lia; relaxed, weary, gentle, Vay-Lee-Uh
Vaelor- Made up, Valor, Brave, Courage, Vay-Lor
Vaelora- made up, Honored one, Victorious Ruler, Vae, Germanic, mighty ruler, Lora, crowned with laurel, honor, victory, Vay-Lore-uh
Vaelyra- made up, Harmonic Ruler, Vae, Germanic, mighty ruler, Lyra, Greek, Lyre, harp, also a Star, Vay-Lie-ruh
Valera- Latin, Valiant
Vallea- Italian, Valley, also a tree in South America
Xaeden- Greek, Flourishing in abundance with god
Xaevion- Xavion, African, Fighter
Zaeden- Arabic, Growth
Zael- Hebrew, house of god, habitation of the lord
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thesilicontribesman · 9 months
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Bronze Cup With Leopard Handle With Silver Spots, Abergavenny, 50 to 100CE, St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales
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lionofchaeronea · 3 months
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Bronze head from a life-size statue of the Roman emperor Trajan (r. 98-117 CE), from the settlement of Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum = present-day Nijmegen, Netherlands. Now in the Museum het Valkhof, Nijmegen. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.
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Finished product first, held by my wonderful spouse. Northshield is a kingdom big on the power of light. Our motto includes illumination as a virtue. We have a star named Griffin's Light. On top of the society A&S badge being a candle, our A&S awards are the Black Flame and Brigit's Flame. Since about year two of my tenure in the SCA I've dreamed of making a lantern scroll to honor that aspect and now I've done two. I'm so grateful to be surrounded by people who inspire me to push my boundaries and make cool art.
As such, these are lantern scrolls for Brigit's Flame awards, the GOA level Northshield arts and science award. One is for my wonderful friend Thegn Samson Muskovich (aka Samii), who does so much for the arts and sciences of the SCA. From metalworking with bronze and silver, to leatherwork and armoring, to teaching about existing as a trans person in the SCA and deep diving into the experience of the Gullah Geechee and making sure we know that the experience of Africans trafficked to America is as period as their resilience and resistance. I'm so proud that he's my cousin in the Choctaw tribe. The second is for the magnificent Dame Katerinka Lvovicha (aka Kat), who received her Brigit's Flame in 2015 but never got the scroll for it. She also does so much for Northshield, especially in the realms of heraldry and scribal arts, and she blasts a path for all Northshielders to feel safe by being extremely proactive about pronouns, cultural touchstones, and literally offering housing and travel assistance to people.
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The inspirations for the project include these four lanterns and Morgan Donner's lantern build video. In the top row are two illustrations from period showing lanterns. The red lantern is from Book of Hours, MS M.972 fol. 1r, and has a bit of a splayed shape with a wider base and a turned dome at the top. It also has horn panels that aren't quite perfect fits for each side panel, as evidenced by the uneven horizontal lines. The second lantern, held by a crotchety dragonesque beast, is from Breviary, MS M. 8 fol. 158r and has a flat top with straight sides.
The second row shows two lantern awards made by other SCAdians. The first was made by Brig Ingen Erennaigh for a baronial service award called the Coill's Beacon, and the second is an Award of Arms by Northshield's own Tatiana Melville.
My original plan was actually to make a couple of so-called Viking lanterns like the kind you see all over Etsy. These usually consist of a top and bottom disc of wood, with dowels in between, and parchment or rawhide wrapped around the exterior. Extremely simple, and the parchment provides the perfect scroll text surface, but thanks to Morgan Donner's video, I now know those are dated to the 1800s. The idea of illuminated parchment stuck with me though and I decided to make a lantern more along the lines of the Breviary lantern but with simulated parchment in place of horn panes. I felt this was a good compromise between my original plan and a documentably period shape.
I didn't leave myself enough time to make this scroll, between the shield I made for Crown Tournament and Halloween festivities. Thinking fast, I ran out to my local hardware store for some precut 6 inch rounds. The ones I got have an ahistoric Roman ogee routed into the edge, but they'll add some nice visual detail to the scrolls.
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Splitting my poplar side beams to width was vaguely harrowing on my radial arm saw. It would've been better to use my bandsaw but it's really not set up for use yet, so I made a janky jig and stood off to the side.
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I was successful, and began the annoying process of carving 24 dowel tips.
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Tools of the trade, and five doweled supports installed in the first base.
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The coping saw did a great job of parting off each dowel end.
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Dog bless the Shinso rasp. This thing makes my woodworking experience so much easier.
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I got one set done and checked my progress. This looks really, really good so far.
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I then grabbed some copper and went to town making the candle holders. I wanted these to have some give for different diameters of candles, including electric candles. These were made entirely off of Morgan Donner's video and aren't based on anything I personally researched, so I can't say anything to their historocity beyond knowing that sheet copper definitely wasn't the material of choice back then. I used a spare fat poplar dowel to form both holders.
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I then used sidecutters to make the flanges, and bent them out flat. I used some brass brads to nail the holders to the bases, and pressed them through with my drill press just as I did with the tacks to the targe I made last month.
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At this stage I needed to do a test fit, and boy was I happy with the way it looked so far. Now, I must say that this is not enough spacing between the candle and the lantern roof. It'll probably be alright, but it could also get pretty dang hot and risk a fire in there. A shorter candle would be better, but I have a hundred of these beeswax candles so I'm gonna give them away as gifts whenever I can.
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Since the Book of Hours lantern is red and Samii's livery colors are red and gold, I painted his lantern red. I used a few different paints mixed together to achieve this shade, and then I sprayed the whole thing with matte polyurethane sealant.
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I decided to make Kat's a nice golden oak color in contrast to the red lantern, based on so many being light colored in the various illustrations and illuminations I saw. It was down between this and painting it blue to match her arms, but I think I'm glad I did two very different finishes. The poplar is so green that the oak stain couldn't really compensate, but it's not bad. This lantern was sealed with finishing wax.
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At this point Kim stepped in to get the scrolls done. This is Pergamenata, a perennial favorite of SCA scribes for having a similar surface feel and translucency to animal parchment. Usually I do illumination and word smithing while they just do the hand writing, but this time they took on all three of those tasks, much to my joy.
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Here's Kat's scroll panes before color. You can see Kim used a template made off my test fit of the lantern to get the spacing correct. They used Speedball india ink and matched the hand to the calligraphy in CNM XXIII.C.124 Velislavova Bible, which they also took the design of the torch from.
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Both scroll panes inked, painted and drying. We chose these scrolls to try tempera paint for the first time and the translucency of the tempera on the translucency of the perg is just so good.
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Here's Kat's scroll panels with the oak-stained side supports.
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Here's Samii's scroll panels with the red side supports.
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The final assembly process. I had to cut the scroll panels into individual panes, because the spacing wasn't perfect. I used wood glue to affix the perg panes to the backside of each support, holding or clamping alternately to keep everything in place as the glue-wet perg curled away from the supports and then uncurled as the adhesive cured. It was a pain in the ass but it worked out. I then had to form two bronze rings for the tops of each lantern, and install hooks and loops to close the back pane, which has one end loose and wrapped around a thin piece of basswood.
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Here is the final assembly completed, showing the door hooks made of bronze and the eyelet screws made of brass. This is not a very historic door shape, but it's what Morgan Donner hacked together for her lanterns and if it worked for her it'll work for me.
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Kat's scroll completed as well, and here's the only view I have of the top suspension ring.
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And of course it's not a lantern if you don't see it illuminated. I gave both recipients a beeswax candle and an electric candle, and this photo was taken with the electric candle in place. I had to wrap gaffer tape around the base to make it fit. The electric candle is actually pretty bright! Look at that pretty red paint, and not the fact that the support is slightly angled.
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charlesreeza · 10 months
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Detail of the brass gate enclosing the Chapel of St. Rosalia
Cathedral of Palermo, Sicily
Photo by Charles Reeza
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rikakore · 6 months
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Minisa Whent-Tully
The Whents are such a fun house, they live in a HAUNTED CASTLE and their sigil is a BAT. The Whents are vampires headcanon confirmed (there's a Lady Stoneheart vampire theory here somewhere) .
I didn't really want to portray Minisa as sweet or diminutive. I can't see anyone who grew up in Harrenhall of all places to not have some fangs. You can be a beloved wife and mother and also be creepy AF.
The Riverlands pre-rebellion to me are the epitome of Post-Roman Pre-Anglo Saxon fashion in the Scottish isles. Gallic influences mingling with drapery, rich dyes, and fine metalwork. Post-Rebellion, there's less of an anti-Targ backlash style-wise, simply because there's less of a stark (ha) difference between the Riverlands and KL. Nobles begin to prefer less draping in favour of tighter tailoring and heavier embroidery, but that's about it.
I feel like if anyone would preserve a stylistic time capsule like Druidic face paint for centuries after the conquest, it would be vassal houses surrounding a superstitious and mystical place like Harrenhall.
Rickard-Lyarra Brandon Ned Lyanna Benjen Jon Arya
Minisa Hoster Catelyn Edmure Lysa Robb Sansa Bran Rickon Robin
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