“Zaldrīzes buzdari iksos daor. “A dragon is not a slave.” Of note here: the [Valyrian] word for dragon, zaldrīzes. Also, buzdari is stressed on the second syllable even though the a is not long because this isn’t actually a High Valyrian word: It’s an Astapori word that Dany is using on purpose. The High Valyrian word for slave is dohaeriros (whose root you may recognize), but the word they use in Astapor is buzdar, which has its roots in Ghiscari.”
— Game of Thrones language developer David J. Peterson, on Daenerys Targaryen subtly demonstrating her intelligence and power through linguistics. [x] (via itsinthetrees)
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“Your mother’s dead. Before long I’ll be dead, and you and your brother and your sister and all of her children, all of us dead, all of us rotting underground. It’s the family name that lives on. It’s all that lives on. Not your personal glory, not your honor… but family.”
In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.
“She had lost her home, her place in the world, and everyone she had ever loved or trusted. Winter is coming, warned the Stark words, and truly it had come for them with a vengeance.”
