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Elissa Farman 🧭
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It is one thing to leap upon a dragon and quite another to bend him to your will, particularly a beast as old and fierce as the Black Dread. From the very start we have asked, “Where did Aerea take Balerion?” We should have been asking “Where did Balerion take Aerea?”
I really wanted to finish this piece today and get started on Targaryen Thursdays/Targvember. I’m posting it early because after having no power for a week I have been itching to do some art.
I am very happy with the result! If anyone is wondering why I elected to have one of Balerion’s horns broken off, that was just a design choice and absolutely not canon. I did it for another drawing of him back in 2016, and a lot of people really enjoyed the look, so I thought I’d bring it back! Poor, poor Aerea. What a little badass though, jumping on the back of Balerion!!! and even though she met a terrible fate I am so curious about what she saw while in Valyria!!!! I hope someday we’ll find out.
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56 AC: the death of princess Aerea Targaryen.
It has been three days since the princess perished, and I have not slept. I do not know that I shall ever sleep again. The Mother is merciful, I have always believed, and the Father Above judges each man justly… but there was no mercy and no justice in what befell our poor princess. How could the gods be so blind or so uncaring as to permit such horror? Or is it possible that there are other deities in this universe, monstrous evil gods such as the priests of Red R'hllor preach against, against whose malice the kings of men and the gods of men are naught but flies? I do not know. I do not want to know. If this makes me a faithless septon, so be it.
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In 93 AC, Prince Baelon’s sixteen-year-old son, Viserys, entered the Dragonpit and claimed Balerion. The old dragon had stopped growing at last, but he was sluggish and heavy and hard to rouse, and he struggled when Viserys urged him up into the air. The young prince flew thrice around the city before landing again. He had intended to fly to Dragonstone, he told his father afterward, but he did not think the Black Dread had the strength for it. Less than a year later, Balerion was gone. “The last living creature in all the world who saw Valyria in its glory,” wrote Septon Barth.
A serie of commissions by the lovely rhaenyrasimp on twt about the death of Aerea Targaryen and the events following it 1 of 4: Aerea seeing the outline of Valyria
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♦ AEREA TARGARYEN: Balerion’s shadow swept across the yards and halls of the Red Keep as he came down, his huge wings buffeting the air, to land in the inner ward by Maegor’s Holdfast. Scarcely had he touched the ground than Princess Aerea slid from his back. Even those who had known her best during her years at court scarce recognized the girl. She was near enough to naked as to make no matter, her clothing no more than rags and tatters clinging to her arms and legs. Her hair was tangled and matted, her limbs as thin as sticks. “Please!” she cried to the knights and squires and serving men who had seen her descend. Then, as they came rushing toward her, she said, “I never,” and collapsed.
A serie of commissions by the lovely rhaenyrasimp on twt about the death of Aerea Targaryen and the events following it 1 of 4: Aerea seeing the outline of Valyria
the death of aerea targaryen
It has been three days since the princess perished, and I have not slept. I do not know that I shall ever sleep again. The Mother is merciful, I have always believed, and the Father Above judges each man justly… but there was no mercy and no justice in what befell our poor princess. How could the gods be so blind or so uncaring as to permit such horror? Or is it possible that there are other deities in this universe, monstrous evil gods such as the priests of Red R'hllor preach against, against whose malice the kings of men and the gods of men are naught but flies? I do not know. I do not want to know. If this makes me a faithless septon, so be it.
happy harlaween char @princeofstories!