#edric storm

[imjustapoorwayfaringgeek]

jett black hair, deep blue eyes, that square jaw... you must be one of Robert's

#fan art #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf fanart #asoiaf art #gendry waters #mya stone #bella rivers #edric storm #robert's bastards #my art.

[laurellerual]

Whose your favorite Baratheon?

Ok, first of all, how dare you?! I love all my children equally Stan:

The one true king of my heart and his sweet and doomed fawn.

My rays of sunshine

My personification of all self-destructive tendencies out there

My strong girl and my dashed hopes for the future

Them obv...

And the rest too!

#asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #stannis baratheon #shireen baratheon #edric storm #renly baratheon #robert baratheon #mya stone #barra #barra waters #bella #bella rivers #gendry #gendry waters #the other 11 nameless bastards #house baratheon #storm’s end #our is the fury #grrm

[goodqueenaly]

Love your tumblr! One question: do you think that stannis would really have burned edric storm if Davos hadn't smuggled him to lys?

Unfortunately, yes. Stannis makes this very clear, along with his reasoning for doing so, to Davos in "Davos V" ASOS (emphasis added):

“Edric—” he started. “—is one boy! He may be the best boy who ever drew breath and it would not matter. My duty is to the realm.” His hand swept across the Painted Table. “How many boys dwell in Westeros? How many girls? How many men, how many women? The darkness will devour them all, she says. The night that never ends. She talks of prophecies … [sic] a hero reborn in the sea, living dragons hatched from dead stone … [sic] she speaks of signs and swears they point to me. I never asked for this, no more than I asked to be king. Yet dare I disregard her?” He ground his teeth. “We do not choose our destinies. Yet we must …[sic] we must do our duty, no? Great or small, we must do our duty. Melisandre swears that she has seen me in her flames, facing the dark with Lightbringer raised on high. Lightbringer!” Stannis gave a derisive snort. “It glimmers prettily, I’ll grant you, but on the Blackwater this magic sword served me no better than any common steel. A dragon would have turned that battle. Aegon once stood here as I do, looking down on this table. Do you think we would name him Aegon the Conqueror today if he had not had dragons?” “Your Grace,” said Davos, “the cost … [sic]” “I know the cost! Last night, gazing into that hearth, I saw things in the flames as well. I saw a king, a crown of fire on his brows, burning … [sic] burning, Davos. His own crown consumed his flesh and turned him into ash. Do you think I need Melisandre to tell me what that means? Or you?” The king moved, so his shadow fell upon King’s Landing. “If Joffrey should die … [sic] what is the life of one bastard boy against a kingdom?”

This is the terrible tragedy of Stannis, or maybe the tragic terror - not simply that he was willing to burn his nephew, his ward, his only daughter's playmate and friend alive, but that he did so without a drop of sadistic pleasure or Snidely Whiplash-style villainy, because he genuinely believed that this was what he needed to do to save the world. Stannis knew, or believed he knew, that in being acclaimed as Azor Ahai Reborn he was being doomed to his own level of sacrifice; as he wryly noted to Davos, the burning crown was hardly a Delphic vision in its advertisement of his, Stannis', future destruction. Yet as Stannis also told Davos, he would not shirk away from what he believed to be his duty, temporal or apocalyptic. If "[t]he night that never ends" was (and is) threatening all of his people, then, so Stannis argued, he had to do what would save the greatest number of those people; he could not, by this logic, prioritize the life of one boy over the lives of so many boys and girls whose own lives were imminently threatened by a humanity-level crisis.

Further, Stannis demonstrated his commitment to this course of action by attempting to wring more guarantees from Melisandre immediately before Davos' surprise reveal:

Melisandre moved closer. “Save them, sire. Let me wake the stone dragons. Three is three. Give me the boy.” “Edric Storm,” Davos said. Stannis rounded on him in a cold fury. “I know his name. Spare me your reproaches. I like this no more than you do, but my duty is to the realm. My duty … [sic]” He turned back to Melisandre. “You swear there is no other way? Swear it on your life, for I promise, you shall die by inches if you lie.”

Here, Stannis clearly indicated to Davos that he had neither the time nor the patience for another philosophical debate on the morality of burning Edric Storm. Instead, Stannis repeated his brief, blunt thesis - "My duty is to the realm" - before allowing a moment of final conscience-clearing courtesy of Melisandre. Once again, Stannis shows that he was driven not by cruelty or hatred toward Edric the boy - indeed, not by any personal emotions at all - but a genuine belief that this, and nothing else, could save his realm from total destruction. His willingness to confirm with Melisandre that "there [was] no other way" illustrates how close Stannis came to the brink, already attempting to validate the conclusion even before the deed was done.

Of course, Stannis did not burn Edric, thanks to Davos' intervention. Yet his attempt, and more specifically his mindset for that attempt, hint at another, and likely more successful (in only the sense of being completed), sacrificial move. When the peril of the Others and the danger of another Long Night are at hand, I think Stannis will finally cross that line, burning not his nephew but his own daughter, believing, though I think completely wrongly, that only this sacrifice can save the world.

#asoiaf meta #stannis baratheon #edric storm

[barelyanartblog]

Shireen, Edric and Devan give Ser Davos tips on how he can improve his reading

#this is why maester pylos separates his lessons with davos and the kids #davos seaworth #shireen baratheon #devan seaworth #edric storm #maester pylos #asoiaf #my art

[matrose]

shireenposting 💛

#(lesson with maester pylos...) #❤️💓 #asoiaf #art #shireen baratheon #edric storm #devan seaworth

[pixiecactus]

the baratheons of storm's end:

#yeah i added brienne bc i wanted to the other post to be mirrored #a 5 vs 5 type of thing #and bc i wanted to post brienne #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #house baratheon #house tyrell #house tarth #renly baratheon #margaery tyrell #loras tyrell #brienne tarth #brienne of tarth #edric storm

[asoiaf-fancasts]

Edric Storm - Fancasts

Age: 12 - 13

Appearance: He has a strong and solid build. He’s an attractive youth with deep blue eyes and jet-black hair. He takes after his father with his previously mentioned eye and hair colour but also in his cheekbones and square jaw. He gets his big ears from his mother.

Character: Mordred [Younger]

Actor: Asa Butterfield

Show: Merlin BBC [2008] [Season 1 and 2]

[He’s 11 during this show so the right age for him in book one even though he doesn’t appear in story beyond a brief mention . He’s unfortunately skinny and small so he doesn’t have his build.He doesn’t have jet-black hair but he does have dark brown hair. He has greyish blue eyes instead of deep blue. He does have a square jaw. His ears are also a bit big and stick out slightly. He wears medieval ish clothes.]

Character: Uthred of Bebbanburg

Actor: Tom Taylor

Show: The Last Kingdom [2015] [Season 1, Episode 1]

[He was 13 during this episode so better suited for him in Essos age wise although the scenes make more sense for him at Storm’s End and Dragonstone. He has a slightly stronger and more solid build than the pervious cast. He has a square jaw but his red ish brown hair and his eyes are only a blue ish green. His ears aren’t big but do stick out slightly. He wears Saxon clothes pre-capture which is when he has the most useful scenes for Edric.]

Character: Oswald

Actor: N/A

Show: The Last Kingdom [2015] [Season 3]

[Unkown Age, looks to be between 13 - 15 years old so around the right age for Edric in future books. He is handsome with a square jaw and relatively big ears that stick out. He unfortunately only has dark brown hair and not black. I’m unsure of his eye colour. He wears Norse/Saxon ish clothing.]

#please suggest other fancasts #edric storm #edric storm fancasts #asoiaf fancast #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #fancast resource #game of thrones

[teen-spirited-away]

House Baratheon

"Ours is the Fury"

Sigil: Stag

Colors: Gold and Black

Seat: Storm's End

Copper, Iron, and True Steel

A true Baratheon is stubborn, headstrong, relentless, impulsive, powerful, just, and often of quick temper.

House Baratheon values strength, chivalry, and determination.

#house baratheon #baratheon #game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #got #robert baratheon #stannis baratheon #renly baratheon #shireen baratheon #gendry waters #edric storm #mya stone #orys baratheon #steffon baratheon #cassana baratheon

[reddslym]

Yall ever think about how Shireen and Edrick Storm are like, double cousins

#asoiaf #edric storm #shireen baratheon

[coldraindropsss]

Devan Seaworth and Edric Storm

#Devan Seaworth #Edric Storm #digitalart #asoiaf #asoiaffanart #gotfanart #hotd #housetargaryen #housetargaryen🐲 #valyrianscrolls #asongoficeandfire #got #asoif/got #asoif fanart #a song of ice and fire

[atopvisenyashill]

do u think house baratheon is gonna go extinct?

i actually think robert did one good thing for house baratheon and that was having so many bastards that his house will be probably be fine lmaooooo

i think edric storm is being set up to take over house baratheon. there’s a few kind of pointed examples of bastards inheriting when there’s no one else left - lord hornwood’s bastard and bran explicitly thinking of jon, robb putting jon into the northern line of succession, alyn and addam of hull being legitimized and addam’s grave saying “loyal”, i think even the waters twins starting their own house considering how long that’s been in the canon is relevant here - and when all four of the kinda “main” houses (lannister, stark, targaryen, baratheon) have this issue of “there’s no one left to inherit but illegitimate sons, daughters, and disabled people” it seems to me that the author is Saying Something about the ableist, classist, and misogynistic ways that inheritance often works.

for the baratheons in particular, i think their story ending where the bastard who was considered a huge sleight just for existing (never mind that it was ROBERT who did the disrespecting and not edric), is almost human sacrificed on a pyre to serve another baratheon and is only saved due to the morality of a low born man and a distant relative (the castellan who literally dies trying to protect edric. and davos), it makes narrative sense that edric would then go on to inherit the stormlord’s seat.

i also think there might have been a dropped story here wrt edric being a leader of sorts that got axed by the discarded time jump - something about the bastard baratheon son AND the young lord of starfall both being named edric, and both having something to do narratively with the ongoing theme of bastards (people compare davos’ “everything” to ned protecting jon A LOT and with good reason! it’s similar moral reasoning that a child should not pay a blood price for merely existing), it all is just very interesting to me and i THINK there would have been something a lil deeper there when edric storm got older. but that’s just speculation on my part - even if the davos bit was all we’d get from edric before it’s revealed he’s inheriting storm’s end, i would call that narratively satisfying.

#valyrianscrolls #edric storm #twow speculation #there’s a Lot to say about inheritance actually but it’s only tangentially related to edric lol

[wpmorse]

He found the maester seated at his long wooden table covered with books and scrolls, across from the three children. Princess Shireen sat between the two boys. Davos - pg 732

Davos walks into Pylos's chamber where he is still giving the Shireen, Edric, and Davos's son Devan, their lessons. Not counting one character study, I believe this is the first time I've drawn Pylos in this series.

He's one of the few characters the narrative doesn't imply anything bad about, and It's always nice to draw the relatively happy moments in this cruel book. For some reason, this scene always reminds me of a scene from Terry Pratchett's Thief in Time, where the headmistress enters Susan's classroom having heard something strange going on only to see the children sitting around Susan like "supplicants around some sort of altar of knowledge "politely waiting for her to go away.

#asoiaf #a storm of swords #pen and ink #illustration #maester pylos #shireen baratheon #devan seaworth #edric storm

[queenaryastark]

Repeatedly in fandom its been claimed that Jon Snow's existence would have been a threat to his legitimate siblings, Aegon and Rhaenys, had they lived. This requires ignoring the fact that Jon grew up with the Starks as his siblings and was not in a position to replace them. This also requires ignoring all royal bastards in real world history who weren't a threat to their siblings. Sometimes those illegitimate children lived in the same castles as their siblings and were given high ranking positions and honors and marriages when they grew up, while not threating those legit siblings.

But the most damning evidence against this claim in the books is Edric Storm, a royal bastard raised in his father's seat who was born to a noble woman. He is not a threat to Robert's "true born children". Even when Ned discovers that Joff, Myrcella, and Tommen aren't biologically Robert's, he doesn't think of replacing them with Edric, but with Robert's brother Stannis (uncles are statistically more dangerous than a half sibling). And even Stannis doesn't see Edric as a threat but as a tool to be used:

"There's proof of a sort at Storm's End. Robert's bastard. The one he fathered on my wedding night, in the very bed they'd made up for me and my bride. Delena was a Florent, and a maiden when he took her, so Robert acknowledged the babe. Edric Storm, they call him. He is said to be the very image of my brother. If men were to see him, and then look again at Joffrey and Tommen, they could not help but wonder, I would think." -- Davos I, ACOK

So the idea that a royal bastard existing automatically means that that bastard will be a threat to legitimate children is incorrect.

Daemon Blackfyre was a special case that Jon Snow and Edric Storm can't come close to replicating. Why? Because 1) they're the bastards born of noble women while Daemon was the bastard of a princess who legally should have been a queen regnant, 2) he also had the benefit of his legitimate brother's paternity being questioned while no one doubts the paternity of Rhaenys and Aegon and most don't even believe Stannis' accusations against Cersei's children, and 3) he was favored by his father over his brother while one of the few quotes from Rhaegar has him referring to Aegon as a future king and Robert doesn't favor anyone.

So claiming that Jon Snow could have been Daemon Blackfyre reborn is as incorrect as saying that 1+2=765,087,865.

Also, Elia was likely in on Rhaegar’s plans 😇

#edric storm #jon snow #aegon vi targaryen #rhaenys targaryen (daughter of rhaegar) #elia martell #rhaegar targaryen #asoiaf

[aforgottenpride]

Shireen, Edric and Devan as children of the Big Three

Edric, son of Zeus

Devan, son of Poseidon

Shireen, daughter of Hades

#shireen baratheon #edric storm #devan seaworth

[grey-joys]

@ship-ambrosia : Only Gendry and Renly get rights

Me: WHAT ABOUT MYA AND BELLA AND EDRIC AND SHIREEN AND-

#don’t worry we’ve corrected this statement #stupid squid thoughts #game of thrones #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #gendry waters #renly baratheon #mya stone #bella rivers #shireen baratheon #edric storm #barra waters #asoiaf barra #robert baratheon #house baratheon #ours is the fury

[pixiecactus]

the not baratheon bunch

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #house baratheon #but not really #house florent #mya stone #bella #gendry #edric storm #the unnamed twins #barra #and the nine others that they have never been mentioned currently in the narrative #let's be honest the only good thing that robert baratheon ever did was giving us and the narrative his bastards