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paintb0x · 4 months

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can’t stop thinking about aemond in godswoods…

here’s, lil winter art of the most precious war criminal babygirl 🐉❄️

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oananovicov · 2 months

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"The fires that ran along the blade were guttering out,and Jaimie remembered what Cercei had said. No. Terror closed a hand about his throat. Then his sword went dark, and only Brienne's burned, as the ghosts came rushing in" ASOS - Jaimie VI

#asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #lannister things #weirwood tree #kingslayer #cercei lannister #jaime x brienne #brienne of tarth

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salialenart · 21 days

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“They were a people of the Dawn Age, the very first, before kings and kingdoms. In those days, there were no castles or holdfasts, no cities, not so much as a market town to be found between here and the sea of Dorne. There were no men at all. Only the children of the forest dwelt in the lands we now call the Seven Kingdoms.”

—Luwin, to Bran Stark

#children of the forest #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #fanart #game of thrones #fire and blood #house of the dragon #illustration #fantasy #character design #weirwood tree

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dreamfyrie · 8 months

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“Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them.”

#my edit #game of thrones #house of the dragon #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #jon snow #ned stark #sansa stark #arya stark #bran stark #rhaenys targaryen #house stark #house targaryen #saw this edit in my dream and had to make it #hotd #got #winterfell #weirwood tree

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kaoribriefs · 1 year

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The first time Dany saw the weirwood tree at Winterfell

#jonerys #snowstorm #daenerys targaryen #jon snow #weirwood tree #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #jon x dany #dany x jon #my art #game of thrones #got #asoiaf fanart #pencil sketch #winterfell #jon snow x daenerys targaryen #george r r martin

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thewatcher0nthewall · 8 months

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The Broken Prince of Stark.

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teen-spirited-away · 2 months

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House Blackwood

-Words Unknown-

Sigil: Dead Weirwood surrounded by Ravens

Colors: Red/Black

Seat: Raventree Hall

"There is Blackwood blood in every Bracken"

House Blackwood is one of the few houses in the South that still worship the Old Gods. Ancient traditions tell that it once was part of the North. House Blackwood claims their lands were taken by House Bracken, igniting an eternal feud between the two houses.

#house blackwood #raventree hall #brynden rivers #bloodraven #melissa blackwood #alysanne blackwood #black aly #benjicot blackwood #bloody ben #betha blackwood #tytos blackwood #ravens #weirwood tree #aesthetic #asoiaf #got

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targvelar · 18 days

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wish i were here

#asoiaf art #house stark #winterfell #weirwood tree #illustration

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befooremoonrisee · 11 months

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what do you think is the importance of weirwood trees in hotd and with rhaenyra's and alicent's relationship in particular?

the weirwoods are used as a "knowledge" and "nature" motif in asoiaf and neither rhaenyra nor alicent can be associated to that themes.

the idea of being watched is also present with the weirwoods, and all about their relationship can be interpreted as the fear of being watched. the weirwood is their safe place, but they're still watched there. their roles are their curses and they can never escape them, even when they think they're alone.

also, we have criston's suicide attempt inthe godswood. weirwoods are associated with blood magic and alicent took a sacrifice away from them. that may have angried the old gods, but we don't really know if they work that way. we still don't know enough about them to say.

it's interesting how the dagger who killed the night king in got is also a dagger heavily associated with rhaenyra and alicent. their relationship and connection to the old gods is fortified that way, but i really don't get why.

mostly, i think, the weirwood represent their love for each other. we know the weirwood is cut sometime before the current timeline and the most dramatic sense would be if it was cut during the dance of dragons. the weirwood being cut represents alicent and rhaenyra's relationship being damaged beyond the point of no return. and cutting a weirwood tree is sacrilege, it's a crime towards the old gods, whoever orders its cutting will be punished. because in the end, the biggest crime was destroying a beautiful bond because of male hubris and greed.

#i don't know if i make sense #putting thoughts into words is confusing #hotd #house of the dragon #rhaenicent #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #weirwood tree #the old gods

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wpmorse · 2 months

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#asoiaf #watercolor #portrait #bran stark #summer #direwolf #godswood #weirwood tree #heart tree

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jedimaesteryoda · 8 months

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Aegon's Garden had a pleasant piney smell to it, and tall dark trees rose on every side. There were wild roses as well, and towering thorny hedges, and a boggy spot where cranberries grew. -ASOS, Davos II The night the bird had come from Winterfell, Eddard Stark had taken the girls to the castle godswood, an acre of elm and alder and black cottonwood overlooking the river. The heart tree there was a great oak, its ancient limbs overgrown with smokeberry vines; they knelt before it to offer their thanksgiving, as if it had been a weirwood. Sansa drifted to sleep as the moon rose, Arya several hours later, curling up in the grass under Ned's cloak. All through the dark hours he kept his vigil alone. When dawn broke over the city, the dark red blooms of dragon's breath surrounded the girls where they lay. -AGOT, Eddard V

Nothing emphasizes how much the Targaryens are still relatively recent arrivals than by observing their godswoods in their castles.

Dragonstone has no godswood, and instead has Aegon's Garden, having been built as a Valyrian outpost. The royal castle of the Red Keep has a godswood, but doesn't have a weirwood but instead on oak. Weirwoods are trees native to Westeros, and are essential to the Old Gods worshipped by the children of the forest, the original inhabitants of Westeros, followed by the First Men, the first human inhabitants of the continent. Even with the Andal invasion with the majority of the realm turning towards the Seven, godswoods were still a necessity for every castle, complete with a weirwood except for the Eyrie due to its stony soil.

The lack of a weirwood in either of their royal castles shows how they are in some ways still essentially foreigners with their "blood of the dragon" philosophy keeping them apart from the rest of Westeros, not having set deep roots into the land.

I think by the end, in contrast to "dragons plant no trees" we will see a Targaryen plant a weirwood in the godswood of their new capital after the old one is burned in wildfire.

#asoiaf #house targaryen #a storm of swords #a game of thrones #weirwood tree #godswood #dragonstone

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lookatthethrones · 2 years

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