Crazyredcoat's Crazy Compendium of Collected Creativity
"I was born a Tully and wed to a Stark. I do not frighten easily."
Next up is Catelyn Stark, and with it a real chance to play around with some colours diving into the lore around weddings in Westeros.
Primed here in Citadel's Mechanicus Standard Grey spray primer...my favourite, if you hadn't noticed, yet...So to elaborate on that last point, weddings in Westeros (between noble families, at least) involve the removal of the lady’s family cloak and the placement of the husbands family cloak. I THINK this showed up once in the series, but seeing as they only vaguely followed marriage practices (cough…Sansa’s polygamy…cough) I don’t 100% recall. Either way it gives us a very handy opportunity with Catelyn thanks to the Tully colours.
In this case, the heraldry is second to the colours themselves, but the blue and red of the Tullys makes a nice contrast to the white of the Starks I used on Robb.This is also very useful if I ever get any of the Tully units at a later date because there will be a nice tie-in through Catelyn. Following the wedding tradition, the cloak will be in the Stark colours (with a possible dark fur colour on the edge) where the gown will be split between red and blue. My plan is to have the lower part blue and the upper part red with the belt forming a nice split line. The auburn hair will make a return as well and, as a courtly lady, I will give a clean look to her skin like I did with Cersei. This should give some nice bright colours to an otherwise dour Northern force that should look rather striking.
Imagine something like this but with the red and blue split through the middle of her dress. Also Arya looks like an elf in this picture...
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