MY FAVOURITE ASOIAF HOUSES → [8/10] » House Baratheon of Dragonstone

↳ House Baratheon of Dragonstone is a cadet branch of House Baratheon of Storm’s End. Its seat is Dragonstone, an island that sits off the mainland to the northeast of King’s Landing. Its founder and current head is Lord Stannis Baratheon, who seized the island at the end of Robert’s Rebellion and received it as a reward from his brother, King Robert Baratheon.

benshaws:

Game of Politics: It’s 2014 and Robert Baratheon is Prime Minister of Westeros.

Idris Elba as Robert Baratheon, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Stannis Baratheon and Anthony Mackie as Renly Baratheon.

wildlingvals:

George R. R. Martin:

“The peach represents… Well… It’s pleasure. It’s… tasting the juices of life. Stannis is a very marshal man concerned with his duty, and with that peach Renly says: “Smell the roses”, because Stannis is always concerned with his duty and honor, in what he should be doing and he never really stops to taste the fruit. Renly wants him to taste the fruit but it’s lost. I wish that scene had been included in the TV series because for me that peach was important, but it wasn’t possible.”