GOT/ASOIAF AU ♔ The Night’s Watch, a Sisterhood
When the wall was erected in the North after the Long Night thousands of years ago, no men volunteered to guard it. In the warmest Summer, it was cold, and ice and snow threatened to hide the wall and all its posts, even when the Night’s Watch was in its former glory and all castles stood guarding the realm. And why would a highborn son give up land, glory and honor for the cold, lonesome Night’s Watch?
Of course, with no other volunteers, few lowborn men and a handful of fifth or sixth born sons volunteered to hold the Watch and its posts, but as the years passed and Summers and Winters came and went, the Long Night that had inspired the once glorious Night’s Watch was long gone, and to the men of Westeros the Watch had lost its purpose.
But where there were no sons or men to guard it, there were always the women. It began with those who were lowborn and grew up on or just South of the wall, who had known Winter, been told the stories their mothers and mothers’ mothers had told them as they had done their wifely chores and needlework—a time where dead men had came in the darkness. They eventually forged and took up their own swords as the Brotherhood dwindled in number, and after time had passed and no men had been left at the wall, took it upon themselves to defend it.
Two hundred years later, they had become a Sisterhood. And while the agreement in Westeros was silent, the silence was as good as compliance.
In the present day, the Sisterhood of the Night’s Watch allows any willing woman to take the black, whether their reasons be their will to defend the realm, an escape from lowborn life, an escape from an arranged marriage, or even as a means to reclaim her independence. Regardless, the Night’s Watch still stands, guarding the realm from what still lurks beyond the wall.…
Lady Sansa, before your mother’s death, I was her sworn sword. I gave my word I would find you and protect you.
My mom keeps calling Game of Thrones “Kings N’ Things” and I don’t know if she’s doing it to annoy me or if she genuinely can’t remember the name of the show but either way I hate how much better of a title it is
it sounds like a convenience store
“KINGS ‘N’ THINGS: WE PAY THE IRON PRICE SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO!”
GoT 5x02 | Arya Stark in Braavos
the only thing better than 10 yr old lyanna mormont sending hate mail to stannis is the fact that stannis was genuinely 100% offended by it
Game of Thrones - Asian recast: Michelle Yeoh as Catelyn Stark
“I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.”
#margaery tyrell literally hands out little tyrell sigils #she gives toys to the children replete with her own house colors #lest they forget who their savior was #she reminds them daily who it is they have to thank that they’re alive #and she does it while empowering them to fight for her some day #to fight for her family #the best game player in westeros ladies and gentlemen #a golden rose on a green field
Arianne Martell Appreciation Week: [Day 2] Favorite Quote → A woman on the Iron Throne? Arianne thought about that for a moment and decided it was all to the good.
