All major character deaths in Game of Thrones Season 5: Selyse Baratheon
5x10: Mother’s Mercy
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All major character deaths in Game of Thrones Season 5: Selyse Baratheon
5x10: Mother’s Mercy
The night is dark and full of terrors.
When you were an infant, a Dornish trader landed on Dragonstone. His goods were junk, except for one wooden doll. He had even sewn a dress on it in the colors of our house. No doubt he had heard of your birth and assumed new fathers were easy targets. I still remember how you smiled when I put that doll in your cradle. How you pressed it to your cheek. By the time we burned the doll, it was too late. I was told you would die. Or worse, the greyscale would go slow. Let you grow just enough to know the world before taking it away from you. Everyone advised me to send you to the ruins of Valyria to live out your short life with the Stone Men before the sickness spread through the castle. I told them all to go to hell.
Stannis being kind to/protective of Shireen (& the nonsense) - requested by Anonymous
Stannis Baratheon, the way it should have happened
I have shown you the power of king’s blood.
Everyone advised me to send you to the ruins of Valyria to live out your short life with the stonemen before the sickness spread through the castle. I told them all to go to hell.
Do you know this wretched girl? Lyanna Mormont. Lady of Bear Island, and a child of ten. I asked her to commit her house to my cause. That’s her response.
And through the smoke another wedge of armored riders came, on barded horses. Floating above them were the largest banners yet, royal standards as big as sheets; a yellow one with long pointed tongues that showed a flaming heart, and another like a sheet of beaten gold, with a black stag prancing and rippling in the wind. Robert, Jon thought for one mad moment, remembering poor Owen, but when the trumpets blew again and the knights charged, the name they cried was “Stannis! Stannis! STANNIS!"
Renly: “You’ll be pleased to know she came to me a maid.”
Stannis: “In your bed she’s like to die that way.”
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Bowen Marsh: “Who better to command the black cloaks than a man who once commanded the gold, sire?”
Stannis: “Any of you, I would think. Even the cook.”
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Maester: “The rules of my...