Recent content by Sword of the Morning

"A direwolf will rip a man's arm off his shoulder as easily as a dog will kill a rat."

A man may prefer the taste of wine, yet if you set a tankard of ale before him, he will quaff it quick enough.

There's no wine half so sweet as wine taken from a beaten foe.

It is no easy thing to slay a dragon, but it can be done.

"some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all."

Children are a battle of a different sort ... A battle without banners or warhorns, but no less fierce ...

The finest knight I ever saw was Ser Arthur Dayne, who fought with a blade called Dawn, forged from the heart of a fallen star. They called him the Sword of the Morning...

Fools are meant to be laughed at, where is the harm in that?

Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.

"That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Knight instead." Happy name Day Ser.

"Doves and pigeons can also be trained to carry messages, though the raven is a stronger flyer, larger, bolder, far more clever, better able to defend itself against hawks ..."

"The things I do for love"

"What a man sows on his name day, he reaps throughout the year"