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blackbyrenflowers · 3 months
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I have an irrational hatred for the eyrie. It's the stupidest castle in the whole series. To even get up to it, you have to navigate on winding steep narrow paths too small for even horses, hoping you dont break your neck. Then you have to climb up six hundred feet in handholds, or if you prefer, baskets that are 2 seconds away from smashing against the rocks and killing you.
And unlike Storm's End or Casterly Rock which have to be surrounded by land and sea to be sieged, the Eyrie has only one entrance to make it really convenient for would-be invaders to cut their food supplies. How do they haul up food? They use oxen! They haul up several hundred pound mammals (how??) to bring up other food and other supplies. Then they kill the cattle and leave them for the falcons once winter rolls around, because they can't take them down with them and you can't survive in the Eyrie once winter hits. Because for some reason, Roland I Arryn decided that a castle he wouldn't be able to inhabit for years at a time would be a great idea.
Sure the view's pretty, but that's all they have going for them. The garden's too thin for a weirwood tree (maybe because you're trying to plant trees several thousand feet in the air) so it kind of sucks anyways. Want a change of scenery? Hope you don't snap your neck coming down from your mountain.
And let me be clear, this has nothing to do with the Arryns. Fine house, I like Jon Arryn, I like sweetrobin, etc. They just have the worst castle in Westeros. I would rather live in Harrenhal. Sure I might die, but at least at least it'd be of an unavoidable curse and not the abomination of logistics that is the eyrie.
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rhiannonnouveau · 5 months
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"The bad little man," Lord Robert said, giggling. "Mother, can I make him fly? I want to see him fly."
Tyrion on trial at the Eyrie
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sunfyre-targaryen · 22 days
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House Arryn
of The Vale
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As High As Honor
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credits: divider created by @zaldritzosrose 💙
next is house baratheon!
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westerosiladies · 1 year
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wpmorse · 2 months
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"Only Cat" He gave her a short sharp shove. Sansa Page 1115
Admitting that her sister Cat was the only woman he ever loved, Littlefinger pushes Lysa out the Moon Door to her death.
Lysa is a hard woman to pity, She was arrogant, paranoid, and selfish. But Mr. Martin gives enough information to see the sad, pathetic, person she is. So I'll give her a sad farewell as we end Sansa's story.
I couldn't get Littlefinger's hand to fit into the picture properly. But, I think the look of surprise on Lysa's face is what makes this work.
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𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗨- 𝗔 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗙 𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗘
Have you ever asked yourself what a book for tourist traveling to Westeros would look like ? Well, my intrusive thoughts and lack of sleep helped me come up with this idea. It's just the first part of 9 I'll do one for each region of the land of Westeros, but I already have plan to do it to the region's of Westeros too. I based myself not just on the cultures of the real world but also Westeros, and what they would look like in a modern setting, so yeah enjoy my crazy shit because I sure did when I woke up today and decided to do this.
NORTH. RIVERLANDS. WESTERLANDS. REACH. STORMLANDS. CROWNLANDS. IRON ISLANDS. DORNE.
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raffaella-cerullo · 3 months
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“I am not going back to sleep, Sansa realized. My head is all a tumult. She pushed her pillow away reluctantly, threw back the blankets, went to her window, and opened the shutters. Snow was falling on the Eyrie. Outside the flakes drifted down as soft and silent as memory. Was this what woke me?” - SANSA VII, A STORM OF SWORDS
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catofoldstones · 30 days
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Boy is this a Checkov’s gun waiting to go off.
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teen-spirited-away · 1 year
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House Arryn
"As High As Honor"
Sigil: Falcon and Moon
Colors: White and Blue
Seat: Eyrie
The Falcons of the East
A true Arryn embodies honor, arrogance, class, isolation, pride, close-mindedness, fairness, and nobility.
House Arryn values being above it all, integrity, and honor.
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asoiaffasion · 3 months
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A gown for the lady of the Eryie
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unexpectedasoiaf · 1 year
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« The stone was cold beneath her feet, and the wind was blowing fiercely, as it always did up here, but the view made her forget all that for half a heartbeat. Maiden’s was the easternmost of the Eyrie’s seven slender towers, so she had the Vale before her, its forests and rivers and fields all hazy in the morning light. The way the sun was hitting the mountains made them look like solid gold.
So lovely. The snow-clad summit of the Giant’s Lance loomed above her, an immensity of stone and ice that dwarfed the castle perched upon its shoulder. Icicles twenty feet long draped the lip of the precipice where Alyssa’s Tears fell in summer. A falcon soared above the frozen waterfall, blue wings spread wide against the morning sky. Would that I had wings as well. »
—A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
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slaymondoneeye · 1 year
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Great houses of Westeros - House Arryn of the Eyrie
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agentrouka-blog · 9 months
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I had a thought, and I’d love to hear your take on it. This is an unpopular opinion for sure, but I really think Sansa is going to kill LF in the Eyrie. Aside from the small amount of time we have left in the books (the Eyrie is a powder keg ready to blow, and Sansa will definitely be there for whatever that conflict is), the GOHH’s prophecy alludes to it happening there.
“I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow.”
(ASOS, Arya VIII)
Winterfell, from what I could find, has never been referred to as a castle built of snow (I searched “Winterfell” and “of snow”/“made of snow”/built of snow” in asearchoficeandfire, but I couldn’t find anything close).
On the other hand, the Eyrie has.
“The Eyrie shrank above them. The sky cells on the lower levels made the castle look something like a honeycomb from below. A honeycomb made of ice, Alayne thought. A castle made of snow.”
AFFC, Alayne II
If it means anything extra, Sansa further refers to the Eyrie with snow-like terms in the same chapter.
“The Eyrie was built of fine white stone, and winter’s mantle made it whiter still.”
“In winter this will be a cold white prison.”
“The Eyrie was wrapped in an icy mantle”
“They had weathered three snowstorms, and an ice storm that transformed the castle into a crystal for a fortnight.”
AFFC, Alayne II
Also kind of cool, but “Snow” is one of the waycastles that defends the Eyrie!
I'm going to have to disagree there mainly for the practical reason that the Eyrie has been abandoned for the winter. They've been down at Gates of the Moon for months now and there is no safe way up anymore until winter is over. The steps are covered in slippery snow and ice, as would be the narrow stone bridge. No one is walking up there, not mule nor human.
Unless Dany avails her dragons as handy airlifts, there is no way anything at all is happening up in the Eyrie for us to see, unless someone wargs into a falcon and lets us witness the Freezing Of The Oxen Carcasses.
Besides, while not directly referred to as such, the castle made of snow is Winterfell. Sansa literally builds it from snow with her own hands. It's the largest part of an entire chapter. Highly symbolic. She stands inside it and refers to it as Winterfell several times. "I am stronger within the walls of Winterfell." She beheads a doll referred to as a giant and sticks its head on the Walls of the snow Winterfell. Littlefinger laughs about it, specifically.
I don't think the text could be any clearer here.
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atopvisenyashill · 2 months
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we JUST had that post about the eyrie chapters being annoying bc they spend like 60% of the chapter traveling up and down that damn mountain and then i get to an alayne chapter and WHAT DO YOU KNOW it’s mostly alayne going down the mountain
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wpmorse · 2 months
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She raised the walls of the glass gardens while Littlefinger roofed them over, and when they were done with that he helped her extend the walls and build the guardshall. When she used sticks for the covered bridges, they stood, just as he had said they would. The First Keep was simple enough, an old round drum tower, but Sansa was stymied again when it came to putting the gargoyles around the top. Again he had the answer. "It's been snowing on your castle, my lady," he pointed out. "What do the gargoyles look like when they're covered with snow?"
Sansa Page 1103
Sansa makes snow castles of Winterfell with Littlefinger's help.
Ever since I saw Michael Komarack's picture of it, this has been one of my favorite scenes in the series.
Of course, like most of the beautiful scenes in this book, they are fleeting. This picture is where things begin to go downhill. But not before it gets really bad with Sweet Robin smashing the castle.
On a side note, I find myself overthinking Littlefinger's upcoming skeevyness. I'm not saying he's not going to be skeevy, but I think he will do it to deliberately trigger Lyssa rather than merely molest his "daughter".
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