And now it begins.

PERSEPHONE was the goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god Haides (Hades). She was also the goddess of spring growth, who was worshipped alongside her mother Demeter in the Eleusinian Mysteries. This agricultural-based cult promised its initiates passage to a blessed afterlife.

“Oh, but history moved in such vicious circles.”

The little crannogman was walking across the field, enjoying the warm spring day and harming none, when he was set upon by three squires. They were none older than fifteen, yet even so they were bigger than him , all three. This was their world, as the saw it, and he had no right to be there. They snatched away his spear and kicked him to the ground, cursing him for a frogeater.“

“Were they Walders?” It sounded like something Little Walder Frey might have done.

“None offered a name, but he marked their faces well so he could revenge himself upon them later. They shoved him down every time he tried to rise, and kicked him when he curled up on the ground. But then they heard a roar. ‘That’s my father’s man you’re kicking,’ howled the she-wolf.”

“A wolf on four legs, or two?”

“Two,” said Meera. “The she-wolf laid into the squires with a tourney sword, scattering them all. The crannogman was bruised and bloodied, so she took him back to her lair to clean his cuts and bind them up with linen.

HOUSE DAYNE OF STARFALL is a noble house from Starfall in Dorne. They are among the principal houses sworn to House Martell. The Sword of the Morning is a title given to a Dayne knight who is considered worthy of wielding the greatsword Dawn, a blade said to be created from the heart of falling star. Their blazon is a white sword and a falling star, crossing on a lavender background. A cadet branch of the family are the Daynes of High Hermitage.

Years after the War, when winter has waned, Arya pays a visit to Dorne.

          She’d issued the Lord of Starfall a challenge, after all.

Sarah Fier and Hannah Miller || Deena Johnson and Sam Fraser in Fear Street Part 3: 1666 (2021)

Sophokles, from Elektra; translated by Anne Carson in An Oresteia

Are you a sheep? No. You’re a dragon. Be a dragon.

Rhaenyra Targaryen & her children

For a few days it was feared that Storm’s End might suffer the same fate as Harrenhal, for Argilac’s daughter Argella barred her gates at the approach of Orys Baratheon and the Targaryen host, and declared herself the Storm Queen. Rather than bend the knee, the defenders of Storm’s End would die to the last man, she promised when Queen Rhaenys flew Meraxes into the castle to parley. “You may take my castle, but you will win only bones and blood and ashes“ ― The World of Ice and Fire.

Visenya/Daenerys: A dragonrider. A warrior, comfortable in both silk and ringmail.

I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go

What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world? Only a monster god, a demon of the darkness.

Aegon Targaryen The perfect prince but still half a boy for all that, with little and less experience of the world and all its woes.

Arya Stark I am a direwolf, and done with the wooden teeth.

HOUSES FROM THE NORTH ↳ House Mormont of Bear Island :  Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is Stark.