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𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐔𝐌 𝐃𝐔𝐋𝐂𝐄 by astervaleblack
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV), House of the Dragon (TV)
16 Jun 2025
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Summary
𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 paints Irene Tyrell as both martyr and heretic, though neither label fits easily.
She is a martyr in the sense that her life was sacrificed on the altar of ambition. She did not seek the power or adoration thrust upon her. She was a child who grew into a woman shaped by tragedy, a healer whose hands were stained not with blood, but with the consequences of those who loved her too much and too poorly.
Yet she is also a heretic, for her very existence defied the natural order. She was a figure who inspired devotion and destruction in equal measure, a girl whose intellect and beauty seemed almost otherworldly. To love her was to burn, to covet her was to invite ruin, and to be near her was to glimpse something that should not exist—a brilliance that the world could neither contain nor comprehend.
“The Stranger wears a crown of flowers, for only they understand their fleeting beauty." —Lady Irene Tyrell, the Scarlet Maiden
Series
- Part 1 of The Ballad of Irene Tyrell
Bookmarked by severelydelusional
12 Mar 2025