#argella durrandon

[violetumbrellalover]

The Storm Queen 🦌 Argella Durrandon

“You may take my castle, but you will win only bones and blood and ashes.” - Argella Durrandon to Orys Baratheon

“She declared that Orys would win only bones, blood and ashes here. But her men were weaker than her, and that night Orys found Argilac's daughter delivered gagged, chained and naked to his camp.” ~ Varys

#a song of ice and fire #game of thrones #fire and blood #house of the dragon #argella durrandon #house baratheon #house targaryen #asoiaf #asoiaf art #got art #hotd art #asoiaf fanart #asoiaf fandom #got fanart #got fandom #hotd fanart #hotd fandom #aegon targaryen #orys baratheon #visenya targaryen #rhaenys targaryen #digital art #digital portrait

[amoratearte]

🐉 Argella Durrandon 🦌

Targaryen Family Tree

“declared herself Storm Queen […] “you may take my castle, but you will win only bones and blood and ashes”, she announced but soldiers of the garrison proved less eager to die.”

Spouse: Orys

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[asongoficeandfiresource]

For a few days it was feared that Storm's End might suffer the same fate as Harrenhal, for Argilac's daughter Argella barred her gates at the approach of Orys Baratheon and the Targaryen host, and declared herself the Storm Queen. Rather than bend the knee, the defenders of Storm's End would die to the last man, she promised when Queen Rhaenys flew Meraxes into the castle to parley. "You may take my castle, but you will win only bones and blood and ashes," she announced...but the soldiers of the garrison proved less eager to die. That night they raised a peace banner, threw open the castle gate, and delivered Lady Argella gagged, chained, and naked to the camp of Orys Baratheon.

#asoiafedit #gotedit #gotargelladurrandon #argella durrandon #twoiaf #valyrianscrolls #a song of ice and fire #house baratheon #pre asoiaf #asoiaf #by kaitlyn

[sansas-amythest-hairnet]

Argella Durrandon

#asoiaf #game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf fanart #asoif/got #asoif fanart #house of the dragon #house targaryen #argella durrandon #orys baratheon #house durrandon

[catofoldstones]

with the aegon's conquest show soon to grace our screens, i kindly remind everyone to remain open-minded about argella durrandon and what happened to her. She was a free princess/queen in her own right, and getting (forcefully) married to one of the attackers and forced to bear his sons never to be heard of again is not the love story everyone thinks it is. That too after being chained naked and presented to him as a peace offering.

#argella durrandon #aegon's conquest #game of thrones #prequel #call me anti romantic the way i shit on everything #house baratheon #i am team women's rights over “love stories” #asoiaf

[gotham-at-nightfall]

The Royal Families of The Seven Kingdoms: Part 1

By Jota Saraiva

#a song of ice and fire #house targaryen #aerion (father of aegon i) targaryen #valaena targaryen #visenya targaryen #aegon i targaryen #rhaenys (sister of aegon i) targaryen #orys baratheon #argella durrandon #aenys targaryen #maegor targaryen #alyssa velaryon #rogar baratheon #rhaena (daughter of aenys) targaryen #aegon (son of aenys) targaryen #viserys (son of aenys) targaryen #jaehaerys i targaryen #alysanne targaryen #aerea targaryen #rhaella (daughter of aegon) targaryen #aemon (son of jaehaerys i) targaryen #baelon (son of jaehaerys i) targaryen #alyssa targaryen #maegelle targaryen #vaegon targaryen #daella targaryen #fanart #artstation

[aifsaath]

@lemonhemlock

Not 100% finished but fuck it, i’m hungry. 

BEHOLD THE BARATHEON FOUNDERS, THE ANGRY AMAZON AND HER TWINK

#argella durrandon #orys baratheon #asoiaf #wip #aife draws!

[johannawesterling]

Lady Cassandra Baratheon of Storm's End

Heir to her warrior father Borros Baratheon, Lady Cassandra had a weapon in her hand the moment she could walk. Lord Borros knew that a son was unlikely to grace he and his lady wife, so he began to prepare his eldest for her one day ascension. Lady Cassandra eventually wed Bryndemere of Tarth, and they ruled the Stormlands when her father was away fighting in the Dance of Dragons under King Aegon II's banner. After Borros' death in battle, Cassandra ascended to the seat and assumed command of the armies alongside her husband. A strong and furious girl, every bit the Storm Queen that Argella Durrandon never had the chance to be.

#Cassandra baratheon #team green #house baratheon #asoiaf #hotd #fire and blood #game of thrones #argella durrandon #got #mine

[game-of-style]

Gown for Argella Durrandon, daughter of the Last Storm King and founder of House Baratheon - Dolce and Gabbana Alta Moda Fall 2022

#argella durrandon #house durrandon #house baratheon #the stormlands #dolce and gabbana #haute couture #A Song of Ice and Fire #Game of Thrones #silver #gold

[thewitchqueenofharrenhal]

Argella Durrandon: The Last Storm Queen

When Orys Baratheon came down the muddy hill with his own men, he found the old king holding off half a dozen men, with as many corpses at his feet. “Stand aside,” Baratheon commanded. He dismounted, so as to meet the king on equal footing, and offered the Storm King one last chance to yield.

Argilac cursed him instead. And so they fought, the old warrior king with his streaming white hair and Aegon's fierce, black-bearded Hand. Each man took a wound from the other, it was said, but in the end the last of the Durrandon got his wish and died with a sword in his hand and a curse on his lips. The death of their king took all heart out of the stormlanders, and as the word spread that Argilac had fallen, his lords and knights threw down their swords and fled.

For a few days it was feared that Storm's End might suffer the same fate as Harrenhal, for Argilac's daughter Argella barred her gates at the approach of Orys Baratheon and the Targaryen host, and declared herself the Storm Queen.

Rather than bend the knee, the defenders of Storm’s End would die to the last man, she promised when Queen Rhaenys flew Meraxes into the castle to parley. “You may take my castle, but you will win only bones and blood and ashes”.

#asoiaf #fire and blood #argella durrandon #house Baratheon #house targaryen #argilac durrandon #orys baratheon

[goodqueenaly]

There is a sense of historical parallel as well as irony in the stories of Shiera Blackwood and Argella Durrandon. Where once Lord Roderick Blackwood had attempted to use the Durrandons as a convenient shield against the tyranny of the Teague kings, three centuries later King Argilac Durrandon eyed Lord Aegon Targaryen to serve as a buffer against another marauding Riverlands king, Harren Hoare. Where Lord Roderick had called upon his nuptial ties to the Durrandons (specifically the marriages of his daughters to both King Arlan III Durrandon and his son) in order to defy King Humfrey Teague, Argilac offered a nuptial tie to Lord Aegon - specifically, the marriage of his daughter to Aegon himself - to bulwark his own state against King Harren. Neither Lord Blackwood nor King Argilac seems to have anticipated actually losing his crown (actual or expected) by utilizing such marital connections: Yandel cites epistolary evidence suggesting that King Arlan “planned to restore the crown to House Blackwood, in the person of his good-father Lord Roderick” after overthrowing the Teagues, while Gyldayn asserts that King Argilac “[p]lainly … meant to establish the Targaryens along the Blackwater as a buffer between his own lands and those of Harren the Black”. Yet in both cases, diplomatic unions resulted not in the strengthening of the native states, but in the annihilation of their independence and former political identities (following the deaths in battle of these respective aristocratic fathers): after Roderick Blackwood fell during the Battle of Six Kings, Arlan III assumed direct control over the Riverlands for House Durrandon, and after Argilac Durrandon was killed during the Last Storm, the former Stormlands kingdom became a feudal vassal of the new Targaryen domain. If both Roderick’s daughter Shiera and Argilac’s daughter Argella were briefly considered (or considered themselves) heiresses to their fathers’ geopolitical designs, Westerosi aristocratic misogyny lost the crown for each: “the riverlords spoke out against being ruled by a woman” when King Arlan contemplated acclaiming Shiera as queen, according to Yandel, while “the soldiers of the garrison” at Storm’s End, according to Gyldayn, “delivered Lady Argella gagged, chained, and naked to the camp of Orys Baratheon”. The very circumstances which had extended the Durrandon empire to its greatest reach had also marked its dissolution: just as Shiera Blackwood had received no crown and instead remained only a Durrandon princess by marriage, tied to the dynasty which had swallowed her father’s would-be dominion, so Argella found herself not the Storm Queen but Lady Baratheon, almost literally bound by marriage to the new lordly power which had assumed control of her ancestral inheritance. 

At the same time, there is a meta tragedy to both the story of Shiera Blackwood and that of Argella Durrandon. In each case, the narrative importance, and indeed existence, of each woman terminates at the moment her proposed rule is rejected: Yandel only mentions Shiera in a few brief sentences following his description of the Battle of Six Kings, while Argella completely disappears from Fire and Blood following Gyldayn’s note on her marriage to Orys Baratheon. These women exist exclusively or virtually exclusively to be betrayed by their own neighbors and sworn men. Shiera could not rule as Queen of the Trident because the riverlords - at least some of whom had presumably fought beside Roderick Blackwood during his last battle - would not support their liege being a woman, while Argella was kidnapped, stripped, bound, gagged, and physically handed over to the enemy commander by the soldiers of her own familial castle - and this after Gyldayn had underlined the loyalty of King Argilac’s vassals. If Argella receives the barest characterization - in that the author actually gives her a few direct quotes - neither she nor Shiera have any real interiority, and certainly not after losing their kingdoms. How these women felt about not becoming queens in their own right, what their relationships were like with the husbands who had helped take over their own lands, what these women made of the conquests of their homelands, how they reacted to their respective betrayals - these and all other questions about them go completely unanswered by the author. Having introduced them as gendered victims turned dynastic conduits, the author disposes of each woman in turn; they seemingly only matter as characters to the extent they can be ignored. 

#asoiaf meta #shiera blackwood #argella durrandon

[warp-speed]

Orys Baratheon, The Hand/best friend/bastard brother of Aegon I "The Conqueror", charming the Storm Queen herself Argella Durrandon.

There are limits to my crayola watercolor set (that red is horrible and they're both supposed to be wearing black) but I think it looks ok. I don't want to "fix" it and end up doing the opposite.

#asoiaf #asoiaf art #asoiaf fanart #valyrianscrolls #house baratheon #argella durrandon #orys baratheon #illustration #characterdesign #my art #art #drawing #fire and blood

[joncons]

stannis is soo girl coded <333

in order of appearance: argella durrandon, rhaena targaryen, rhaenyra targaryen, rhaelle targaryen

#valyrianscrolls #asoiaf art #i will elaborate later i promise #stannis baratheon #argella durrandon #rhaena targaryen #rhaena the black bride #rhaenyra targaryen #rhaelle targaryen

[salialenart]

Argella barred the gates of Storm's End and declared herself Storm Queen. When Queen Rhaenys flew Meraxes into the castle to parley, Argella announced that the defenders of Storm's End would die to the last man. However, her garrison refused to share the fate of Harrenhal and revolted, raising a peace banner and delivering Argella to Orys's camp, gagged, chained, and naked. Orys, however, removed the chains with his own hands, wrapped his cloak around her, and gave her food and wine. He spoke to her gently, telling her of her father Argilac's courage in death.

#argella durrandon #fireandblood #a song of ice and fire #fanart #asoiaf #house baratheon #fantasy

[faircastle]

the durrandons really started with a goddess cast out but choosing love and beginning a royal bloodline and ended with the forced marriage of their last remaining member that took away their name, kingdom and autonomy...

elenei and argella just frame this line and break it down to that simple fact, huh? once you were kings and we were queens, and now we're only legends and isn't that so much worse?

#i'm just full of asoiaf thoughts today wtf is this #anyway i blame jules for this one #emspeak #argella durrandon #elenei #valyrianscrolls #text

[ludcake]

of all of its great innovations for asoiaf lore, the one great expansion to the mythos of the series that we must accredit to it is its vast expansion of the dead ladies club. before, we only had but a few women with barely a name and maybe a single phrase to make up a whole personality for; now we've dozens of women whose character we've no idea what gurm intended, beyond the inherent attractiveness of putting Guys Into Situations and maybe some implied drama. from a handful, we've an army. in this essay, i will posit that the combined might of the dead ladies club could murder the entire patriarchy-

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #dead ladies club #sabitha frey #jaehaera targaryen #helaena targaryen #argella durrandon #aemma arryn #so many others #.txt #fire and blood