#volantis

[bardsansa]

a cage.

saera targaryen in volantis, 131 AC

#mine #my art #saera targaryen #princess saera targaryen #procreate art #artists on tumblr #digital art #procreate #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #a song of ice and fire #fire and blood #f&b #valyrianladies #volantis #vhagar #caraxes #sunfyre #moondancer #seasmoke #tessarion

[game-of-style]

The Tiger of Volantis - Rahul Misra Couture Fall 2023

#volantis #the free cities #rahul mishra #haute couture #silver #black #a song of ice and fire #game of thrones

[racefortheironthrone]

The wiki says that Lady Nym was born in Volantis. Since her mother is a noblewoman, which I believe means she is from the Old Blood, and since she was born in the city, could Lady Nym enter the Black Walls even with her being a bastard and only half-Valyrian?

Yes, I think so. As far as I can tell, the only criteria for the Old Blood is that you be able to trace your ancestry back to Old Valyria; there's nothing there in the text about being of exclusively Valyrian heritage or being born within wedlock.

At least with the former, I think that it would almost have to be the case that there's no criteria of exclusivity, because otherwise you wouldn't see marriages between Volantene aristocrats and Westerosi nobles and those clearly exist, or for that matter I don't really see how the elephant faction could function within the Volantene electoral system (because how could merchants and moneylenders be eligible for office?).

As to the latter, the Valyrians seem to care less about bastardy than the Westerosi, which makes sense given their attitudes about religion in general.

#asoiaf #asoiaf meta #volantis

[thesunwillshineonusagain757]

𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗨- 𝗔 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗙 𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗘

So in the spirit of Christmas and the New Year’s, I decided to come back with a series that I love a lot. I have been thinking how I was gonna do this. Because Westeros is far more of a contained kind of thing than the rest of the world of a song of ice and fire, but I decided to separate Essos into three books, then I’ll do the rest of the continents one by one I guess but yeah you’ll have a lot of this serious next year. So those who like it you’re in luck for those who didn’t care well don’t know why you’re here.

BRAAVOS. PENTOS. MYR. VOLANTIS. LYS. TYROSH. STEPSTONES. QOHOR. LORATH.

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[vaegonposting]

thank you very much to everyone who suggested names, please welcome Saera, Saera, Saenora and Saelaena :-)

Or, if you're like me and find that the common comparison between Valyria and Rome results in hilarious traditional implications; Saera, Saera Prima, Saera Secunda, and Saera Tertia

#saera targaryen #house targaryen #asoiaf #pre asoiaf #fire and blood #volantis #canon ocs fuck yeah! #saera “my baby is an accessory” targaryen #digital art #artists on tumblr #my art

[hengedi]

Saera Targaryen Inspired by @lilith-kruger ‘s depiction of Saera burning her mother’s letters.

#saera targaryen #targaryen #fire and blood #volantis #lys #Illustration #digital art #dragon #house targaryen #valyrianscrolls #hotd

[shiesie]

I have not watched the show, so I’m genuinely asking - how the hell did the GoT writers explain away why Talisa - the noble, wealthy, girl from a powerful family in Volantis - never had her family coming after her killers?

Like, the Volantine are a tempestuous, vicious sort of people at the best of times, and you expect me to believe that one of the accomplished, beauties of their city who had just married the King in the North and was pregnant with his child didn’t have her entire city howling at the gates of King’s Landing for the heads of the Freys?

I know they had their hands full with Dany later on, but it still makes no sense!!!

Talisa’s family logically would’ve wanted vengeance

#talisa maegyr #talisa stark #robb stark #got #asoiaf #my ramblings #volantis

[fablepatron]

Hello Pater! For the OC asks, could I ask 14 ('If you had to narrow it down to 2 things that you MUST keep in mind while working with your OC, what would those things be?') for Loop? ' v '

This is hard cuz I feel like I’m always changing loop a little bit buuut for now;

1. Loop is Weird And Offputting(TM) she does the whole Professional Mature thing in front of people she respects or needs to respect, but never really grew out of the crawling up the stairs on all fours, type things some kids do sometimes. She very much leaned on Indie(Yves) for Normal Person Socialization etiquette, and then Sam after Yves died.

2. She really likes following orders. Making decisions is hard and she’d rather just do what she’s told then decide something for herself

#ask #volantis #thank youuuu :] #floodworld #oc loop

[allovesthings]

GRRM isn't really subtle with his parallels to real history in a song of ice and fire. It's very obvious. But, for Volantis, he doesn't even try.

It's like he is screaming at the top of his lungs, hitting on pans to wake us up: THIS IS ANCIENT ROME !! LOOK AT IT ! SO ANCIENT ROME.

And I have to laugh every time I think about that.

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #volantis #woah: a city where free citizens votes for theirs leader with slaves all around AND that one senator who got murdered by the others because #he was trying to say he would be senator for life #so subtle

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Daenerys I

They had wandered since then, from Braavos to Myr, from Myr to Tyrosh, and on to Qohor and Volantis and Lys, never staying in any one place. Her brother would not allow it.

The Usurper’s hired knives were close behind them, he insisted, though Dany had never seen one.

At first the magisters and archons and merchant princes were pleased to welcome the last Targaryens to their homes and tables, but as the years passed and the Usurper continued to sit upon the Iron Throne, doors closed and their lives grew meaner.

Years past they had been forced to sell their last few treasures, and now even the coin they had gotten from Mother’s crown had gone.

In the alleys and winesinks of Pentos, they called her brother “the beggar king.”

Dany did not want to know what they called her.

#a game of thrones #daenerys i #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #daenerys targaryen #viserys iii targaryen #essos #free cities #braavos #myr #tyrosh #qohor #volantis #lys #robert baratheon #house targaryen #the iron throne #rhaella targaryen #pentos #the beggar king

[goodqueenaly]

@twicelivedsummer reblogged your post “Volantis Is Doomed”

So polite of the Volantenes to put all their high-born slave-owning nobles in one convenient high-walled spot. ☺

Indeed, continuing the idea that Volantis is the heir to virtually everything about Valyria (including its impending Doom), the very concentration of the Old Blood in Volantis within the Black Walls echoes the almost absolute concentration of dragonlords within Valyria (the city) prior to the Doom. Just as the dragonlords lived pretty much exclusively in the Freehold's capital "as was their wont" (save those few in Lys and Tyrosh, the would-be Emperor Aurion, and of course the Targaryens on Dragonstone), so the aristocratic neighborhood encircled by the Black Walls is populated by "those who can trace their ancestry back to Old Valyria". Here, just as in Valyria of centuries past, the Valyrian gods continue to be worshipped; here, just as in Old Valyria, the most powerful potentates of the city keep their palaces and households (and, of course, their many slaves). As Valyria the city was the heart of the Valyrian empire, the first dwelling place of the ancient Valyrian shepherds, so this city-within-a-city is the "black-walled heart of Old Volantis", the first toehold of the Freehold at the mouth of the Rhoyne, and the center of everything (in the minds of its denizens, at least).

Yet just as Doom came for Valyria and its dragonlords, so Doom is coming for Volantis - and just as Valyria's destruction came from its surroundings, so too will Volantis be destroyed by the very thing which surrounds it. Whether or not Valyria was literally ringed with volcanoes (as suggested in Ted Nasmith's picture), the city certainly seems to have been located near enough to them; indeed, Yandel describes the Valyrians as being "[s]heltered there [i.e. on the Valyrian peninsula], amidst the great volcanic mountains known as the Fourteen Flames". Nestled in the shadow of these volcanoes, cheerfully sending legions of enslaved people to horrible deaths within them, the Valyrian dragonlords little if ever considered how these people might retaliate against their imperial program of cruelty and human misery. If, as the kindly man suggests, the Faceless Men brought the "gift" of death to the Valyrian slave masters, and if, as Yandel offers in TWOIAF, "the assassinations of too many of the reputed mages who renewed and maintained the rituals that banked the fires of the Fourteen Flames" led to the Doom, then it may be supposed that the Fourteen Flames erupted precisely as a punishment on the Valyrians for centuries of slavery - that the very mountains which had concentrated the Valyrians and their power would now be the instrument of their total destruction, wielded by those who had suffered so long under the Valyrian yoke.

The Black Walls, in turn, may be thought as a sort of artificial successor to the Fourteen Flames: not housing dragons but made of "dragonstone", not actively burning with the fire of earth and dragons alike but "fused" using (presumably) dragonflame, but nevertheless great and imposing, just as much the physical symbol of Volantene elite power as the Fourteen Flames had been of Valyrian draconic might. As the Fourteen Flames had shadowed Valyria, marking a sort of border between the city's glory and the world of the Freehold's subjects and slaves beyond (as well as within the volcanoes themselves), so the Black Walls isolate the top tier of Volantis' aristocracy from the "[o]utlanders, foreigners, and freedmen" - and, of course, slaves not assigned to those aristocratic households - who inhabit the rest of the city (especially on the far side of the Long Bridge). Yet as the Valyrians condemned thousands upon thousands of slaves to the fires of the surrounding volcanoes to satisfy their lust for the ore of the mountains, so the Volantene elites consigned the people they deemed unsavory to dwellings outside their city-within-a-city, there to serve the specific labor functions the Volantene Old Blood expect from them. Consequently, just as the slaves of Valyria may well have looked to the Fourteen Flames as apocalyptic punishment on the dragonlords, so the slaves and freedmen outside the Black Walls look to the fire-worshiping priests of R'hllor - and, through them, to the chain-breaking Daenerys and the fires of her dragons. If the Black Walls will not literally erupt and Doom the inhabitants of the city-within-a-city, then I nevertheless expect that, as the Valyrian dragonlords, nestled in the valley of the some or all of the Fourteen Flames, were caught all around by the destruction they themselves had caused, so the Old Blood of Volantis, slumbering in the shadow of the Black Walls, will be surrounded on all sides by the fires of vengeance (literal and metaphorical) when Daenerys comes.

#tumblr replies #volantis #valyria #speculation

[game-of-style]

Saera Targaryen, daughter of Good Queen Alysanne and Jaeherys I - Zuhair Murad Haute Couture Spring 2023

Saera was a courageous and clever, girl, in her own way as clever as her brother Vaegon. She was just as strong, quick and spirited as her sister Alyssa. Saera was tempestuous, demanding, and disobedient. Her first word was "no", which she said often and loudly. 

It was difficult to resist Saera when she wanted to be charming. Saera quickly learned how to get anything she wanted from her father. However, she could not as easily manipulate her mother, Queen Alysanne.

She was also given to mischief and pranks. Saera always sneaked cats into the bedchamber of her sister Daella, knowing that Daella was afraid of cats, and once filled Daella's chamberpot with bees.When she was ten years old, Saera slipped into White Sword Tower, stole all the white cloaks of the Kingsguard that she could get her hands on and dyed them pink. When she was seven, Saera learned when and how to slip into the kitchens, making off with all kinds of treats. Before she was eleven, she had taken to stealing alcoholic beverages instead. By the time she was twelve, she was often drunk when she was summoned to the sept.

After her flowering, Saera took to the men at the royal court. When she was fourteen years old, Saera told her father that she wanted to become a queen like her mother, by wedding the Prince of Dorne or the King-Beyond-the-Wall. When she saw a trader from the Summer Islands, she declared that she might wanted to marry him as well. 

Eventually her parents had given her to the Faith, but Saera's wishes were elsewhere. She fled the motherhouse when she was a novice, and fled beyond the Narrow Sea. She stayed in Lys for a while, before going to Old Volantis, where she eventually became the owner of a famous pleasure house.

#saera targaryen #house targaryen #King's Landing #volantis #pink #zuhair murad #Haute Couture #A Song of Ice and Fire #game of thrones

[racefortheironthrone]

Hi, I have a question about Volantis.

The only people who can became Triarchs are the citzens of Volantis with unbroken Valyrian descent, the so called Old Blood, which leads me to believe that both Tiger Triarchs and Elephant Triarchs are form the Old Blood. However, the Tigers defend military conquest, while the Elephants defend a comercial conquest, and it is said that "The Old Blood favored the sword, while the merchants and moneylenders advocated trade."

So, for all of that to make sense, The Elephant party has to be composed of merchants and moneylenders (as well as any other freeborn property owner citzen who agrees with their policy) as well as some of the Old Blood, with the Old Blood members being the only ones allowed to run for office.

If so, do you think that, in the begining, the Elephants were composed only by the merchants and moneylenders, with some of the Old Blood jumping in when they realised the war was lost, or do you think that, for the Elephants to exist as a party in the first place, they needed to have someone from the Old Blood with them from the begining, since this is the only way for them to compete in the election for Triarch?

Sorry for the long question.

Sorry for the delay in answering your excellent question!

I think the elephants always had a leadership drawn from the more forward thinking minority among the Old Blood, similarly to how the Populari faction in the Roman Republic was mostly led by men with populist beliefs who were themselves nobiles (like the Gracchi brothers or Marcus Livius Drusus) more often than they were led by "novus homo" like Gaius Marius.

Keep in mind, the "Old Blood" just means that you can trace your ancestry back to Valyria - and Valyria was not composed entirely of noblemen; it had its merchants and craftsmen and the like. Given that Volantis spent most of its history as a trading outpost of the Valyrian Empire, I imagine that quite a few of the "Old Blood" came from the middling classes of Valyria - especially since it doesn't seem like Volantis had any native dragonlords - rather than the aristocracy.

#asoiaf #asoiaf meta #volantis

[multiverseofstrangeness]

Jorah Mormont x stark!OC (Oneshot)

A/N: Guys, it is time for my third Jorah Story (He is my favorite one to write about). This time with a Stark. We will see. Hope ya enjoy it and have a great evening/day.

This Story sets in the 5th Season of Game of Thrones! Minor Spoilers ahead!

Warnings: minor spoilers of S5, fluff, mentions of sexual content (not necessarily in it)

Words: 719

She sighed. The heavy breath of the whore on her lap was warm and the only sound you could hear. The room was filled with complete silence.

The whore in her arms was asleep. She tried to put her down.

She was kind of heavy and she didn´t want to wake her up.

She got out of bed and put her clothes on. Once again, she did it and regretted it. The hall was filled with laughter and some special sounds. At one Table at the end of the room, in the darkness of shadows, she could see a pair of blue eyes staring at her or at some point behind her. She didn´t know it, it was too far. She couldn´t move she was in a stare and captivated by the urgency that emanated from those eyes.

"Ann, we should go now. You had your fun long enough."

A deep voice behind her raised as she were in other dimensions.

"Chris, please tell me: Who is this man, down there in the dark corner?"

"Some People say he is a sailor or probably a widower. But in my opinion, he looks like a lost soldier. Have you seen the blazon on his belt? A bear. If you know the house from behind the sea you will know him."

"A Mormont."

"Yes, most of the male Mormonts are dead. Jeor Mormont died behind the wall. He doesn´t seem so old. Probably his son. There are stories about him. He should have sold slaves and got banned by Eddard Stark so he had to leave."

"Chris I know the stories."

Chris smiled at her.

"I forgot, My Lady, you are a Westeron."

She smiled.

"We should go now."

She nodded and gave him a sign that she will follow him in a few seconds.

The man still stared at her. Once again, she felt like he was watching her.

She turned around as she felt a strange hand on her back. She let a little scream out.

"My Lady, I don´t wanna scare you. You Probably know my name. An old friend of mine wanna see you."

A master of Meeren was behind her. An old customer. She nodded.

He pushed her right to the strange man.

"My Lord."

The Master curtsied and left.

"My Lady, I didn´t wanna scare you."

"But you did."

"I know, and I am very sorry about that. Please take a seat."

She sat down, and her view flowed over him. His blond hair was tousled, and under his eyes, he had dark circles. He looked like he had less sleep in the last weeks.

"I saw you, and I just wanted to talk with you. My name is Ser Jorah Mormont. Please tell me what a Northern woman does here in Volantis?"

She looked puzzled.

"How does an old man like me know things like that? Very easy: I saw the blade of your sword as you put it back in its sheath. You are a Stark? aren´t you?"

She nodded and looked down. With this gesture, she looked like a little child.

"I was born as a Stark and was raised as a Stark, but I was never a real Stark."

His eyes widened, and his grip around his beer tightened.

"You are the twin of Jon Snow."

She hadn´t to say anything. He knew it.

"I sailed down to the east after the death of my father. I was hired as a mercenary. I was trained by the best soldiers in the north, so they took me. I got into a group of beginners, and we had the mission to stay alive and do what our customers wanted. We did everything. A few weeks ago I heard about the last Targaryen and that she wanted to get to the Iron Throne. I wanted to see her. We traveled to Volantis. So here we are."

He smiled.

"My Lady Stark, I think you've found a new companion."

He smiled a huge smile and his eyes sparkled.

"My friends won't appreciate you."

"They will I promise."

Both smiled a huge smile. For the first time in centuries, her eyes sparkled again. For the first time, she thought she got a friend. For the first time, she felt a new feeling, something out of friendship.

#jorah mormont #jorah x reader #game of thrones #stark!reader #volantis

[thefirstknife]

Something im confused about is that in tje lore books after they managed to beat back the Vex from Europa Banshee wanted to destroy the Vex portal while Elsie wanted to keep it intact but shutoff.

She mentiones that they might need it again but I dont understand?

Its later mentioned in the Glassway that again she only wants it shutoff not destroyed (despite that if it was destroyed Eramis wouldn't of been able to use it)

So the big question is..why? What's so special about the Glassway portal that Elsie would risk keeping it intact despite Banshee's drive to destroy it & Eramis use of it? Especially when there's like so many Vex portals elsewhere on Sol?

In this lore tab, she explains it as such:

"Clovis. You, me, and every other Exo… we deserve the life we were promised. If this portal falls, and we die, we lose that life. And if we're gone, and the Vex find some other way back, humanity is doomed. So, let's shut it down. Hell, let's swallow the damn key. But the portal stays."

This implies, possibly, that Exos can't be made using ANY radiolaria; it has to be from Volantis. That's at least what I'm getting from this. Despite everything, Exos deserve to live now that they've been made (which is true!) and Elsie seems to be implying that they need Vex specifically from Volantis.

I'm not entirely sure why that would be, but also, when Clovis was messing around in the Golden Age, he was specifically told that he needs to build a Vex gate. And when he stole a Vex, the Vex built the gate that leads to Volantis. For whatever reason, the instructions were to build a specific gate and the Vex obliged. If Clovis could've used any other Vex, he would've just been told to harvest the Vex. But instead, he was led to Volantis in particular and all Alkahest was made from Volantis Vex.

In one of the dialogues for Glassway strike, she also says:

Destroying it loses us a vital link to the Vex... a story for another time, perhaps.

This seems to be confirming that there's something special about the Vex specifically from Volantis and that they might be needed. I've been hoping for Elsie to find time to tell us this story, but it seems we'll have to wait a little longer. Possibly when Vex are fully back in the picture again. We've gotten a brief reintroduction in Spire of the Watcher and there will be more in Lightfall.

I fully expect for this to be picked up at some point and for us to eventually go to Volantis.

#destiny 2 #vex #elsie #volantis #ask

[thesilvertargaryens]

Just me doing the Lord of Light's work and getting my work friends on the Daenerys Resurrection train

#what like it's hard? #doing the lords work #game of thrones #got #hbo #daenerys targaryen #targaryen #a song of ice and fire #daenerys #house targaryen #asoiaf #hbo game of thrones #house of the dragon #daenerys resurrection #daenerys resurrection week #daenerys deserved better #queen daenerys #dragon queen #volantis #drogon #lord of light #pro daenerys #anti got