game of thrones meme | six locations (1/6)

“He remembered their godswood; the tall sentinels armored in their grey-green needles, the great oaks, the hawthorn and ash and soldier pines, and at the center the heart tree standing like some pale giant frozen in time. He could almost smell the place, earthy and brooding, the smell of centuries, and he remembered how dark the wood had been even by day. That wood was Winterfell. It was the north. I never felt so out of place as I did when I walked there, so much an unwelcome intruder. He wondered if the Greyjoys would feel it too. The castle might well be theirs, but never that godswood. Not in a year, or ten, or fifty.”

sansatullying:

game of thrones meme - four deaths (4/4): Maester Luwin

“No more than I want to leave you. I pulled you into the world. Both of you. I’ve seen both your faces almost every day since and for that I consider myself very, very lucky. Go now with Hodor, go on. I’ll be right here.”

game of thrones meme: six locations [2/6] → the godswood

ASoIaF Challenge | 01. Favorite location | Godswood in Winterfell

The gods of Winterfell kept a different sort of wood. It was a dark, primal place, three acres of old forest untouched for ten thousand years as the gloomy castle rose around it. It smelled of moist earth and decay. No redwoods grew here. This was a wood of stubborn sentinel trees armored in grey-green needles, of mighty oaks, of ironwoods as old as the realm itself. Here thick black trunks crowded close together while twisted branches wove a dense canopy overhead and misshappen roots wrestled beneath the soil. This was a place of deep silence and brooding shadows, and the gods who lived here had no names.

ASOIAF challenge — Faith you’d worship
→  The Old Gods

Who do you think sends the wind, but the Gods? They see you, they hear you.

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Game of Thrones 

“Winter is coming.”