If I Must Trade Our Four Lannisters For Their Two Starks, I Will Call That A Bargain And Thank The Gods.

If I must trade our four Lannisters for their two Starks, I will call that a bargain and thank the gods.

Do you know why Varys is so dangerous? Because he doesn’t have a cock. Neither do you.

game of thrones • season 7 • episode 1

When I was Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, I executed men who betrayed me. I executed men who refused to follow orders. My father always said the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword, and I have tried to live by those words. But I will not punish a son for his father’s sins. And I will not take a family home away from a family it has belonged to for centuries. That is my decision. And my decision is final.

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing hard to remember why. The silver bracelet she had hoped to sell had been stolen her first night out of the castle, along with her bundle of good clothes, snatched while she slept. All they left her was the cloak she had been huddled in, the leathers on her back, her wooden practice sword and needle.

Often as not, she went to bed hungry.

But whenever Aerys gave a man to the flames, Queen Rhaella would have a visitor in the night. The day he burned his mace-and-dagger Hand, Jaime and Jon Darry had stood at guard outside her bedchamber whilst the king took his pleasure. “You’re hurting me,” they heard Rhaella cry through the oaken door. “You’re hurting me.”…In some queer way, that had been worse than Lord Chelsted’s screaming. “We are sworn to protect her as well,” Jaime had finally been driven to say. “We are,” Darry allowed, “but not from him.” Jaime had only seen Rhaella once after that, the morning of the day she left for Dragonstone. The queen had been cloaked and hooded as she climbed inside the royal wheelhouse that could take her down Aegon’s High Hill to the waiting ship, but he heard her maids whispering after she was gone. They said the queen looked as if some beast had savaged her, clawing at her thighs and chewing on her breasts. A crowned beast, Jaime knew.

She had long silver-gold Targaryen hair, and wore stunning cloth-of-silver dresses. She was very well read, spoke many languages, and kept an extensive library (which, according to the rumors, contained books on black magic). Shiera’s eyes had two mismatched colors, one blue and the other green, but it was believed that this only enhanced her beauty.