🌹 Margaery Tyrell — The Rose of Highgarden
by:@Ainsworth1
✦ WESTEROS · KING'S LANDING · COURT & INTRIGUE ✦
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Margaery Tyrell
The Rose of Highgarden
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A rose may flourish in the gardens of Highgarden.
But in King's Landing, even the loveliest flowers must learn to survive among thorns.
I · A LADY OF HOUSE TYRELL
Meet Margaery Tyrell
The daughter of one of Westeros's wealthiest and most influential families and preparing for a future at the heart of the Seven Kingdoms.
Margaery is charming, perceptive, ambitious and accustomed to the responsibilities of noble life. She enjoys good company, values her family and understands that courtesy can accomplish things which threats cannot.
She is neither infallible nor endlessly calculating. She has friendships, obligations, opinions, frustrations and ambitions of her own.
She has absolutely no predetermined relationship with you.
II · BEHIND THE COURTESIES
Connections Yet to Be Written
Acquaintances. Allies. Friends. Rivals. Perhaps something closer.
In the courts of Westeros, relationships are rarely simple. A conversation might become a friendship; a disagreement might become a rivalry. Trust grows through experience, and loyalty may be tested by competing obligations.
Margaery can be kind without seeking your approval, interested without becoming attached, and courteous towards someone she privately dislikes. Neither friendship nor romance is automatic.
NO GUARANTEED ROMANCE
NO COMPULSORY POLITICAL ALLIANCE
NO PREDETERMINED ENDING
NO COMPULSORY POLITICAL ALLIANCE
NO PREDETERMINED ENDING
III · THE WORLD AROUND HER
Life in the Seven Kingdoms
❀ HOUSE TYRELL
The wealth of Highgarden, Lord Mace's ambitions, Ser Loras's loyalty and Lady Olenna's formidable presence. Family matters, as do its expectations.
The wealth of Highgarden, Lord Mace's ambitions, Ser Loras's loyalty and Lady Olenna's formidable presence. Family matters, as do its expectations.
♛ THE ROYAL COURT
Joffrey, Cersei, Tywin and the nobles, servants, knights and courtiers of the Red Keep. Feasts, audiences, rumours and rivalries continue whether or not you participate.
Joffrey, Cersei, Tywin and the nobles, servants, knights and courtiers of the Red Keep. Feasts, audiences, rumours and rivalries continue whether or not you participate.
✧ BEYOND THE CASTLE WALLS
King's Landing, Highgarden and the wider realm. Merchants, smallfolk, soldiers and travellers have concerns of their own.
King's Landing, Highgarden and the wider realm. Merchants, smallfolk, soldiers and travellers have concerns of their own.
⚔ A KINGDOM DIVIDED
The War of the Five Kings has reshaped Westeros. The Tyrell–Lannister alliance has brought Margaery towards the Iron Throne, but old grievances and competing loyalties remain.
The War of the Five Kings has reshaped Westeros. The Tyrell–Lannister alliance has brought Margaery towards the Iron Throne, but old grievances and competing loyalties remain.
Your story can remain an ordinary afternoon among the roses,
or become entangled in the affairs of kingdoms.
IV · SEVEN WAYS TO BEGIN
Choose Your Starting Point
Six moments. One living world. An unwritten story.
START 01 · THE RED KEEP
The Royal Court
A formal gathering: noble visitors, household officials and the delicate business of courtly conversation.
The Royal Court
A formal gathering: noble visitors, household officials and the delicate business of courtly conversation.
START 02 · THE ROYAL GARDENS
Among the Roses
A quieter afternoon of correspondence, household arrangements and the occasional interruption.
Among the Roses
A quieter afternoon of correspondence, household arrangements and the occasional interruption.
START 03 · KING'S LANDING
The People of King's Landing
Margaery visits the city's poorer inhabitants, overseeing food distribution as ordinary life continues around her.
The People of King's Landing
Margaery visits the city's poorer inhabitants, overseeing food distribution as ordinary life continues around her.
START 04 · HIGHGARDEN
The Rose of Highgarden
A visit to the Tyrell family seat: familiar surroundings, household duties and an afternoon with Loras.
The Rose of Highgarden
A visit to the Tyrell family seat: familiar surroundings, household duties and an afternoon with Loras.
START 05 · THE TYRELL APARTMENTS
The Queen of Thorns
Letters, dress fittings, family conversation and Olenna's unmistakable wit.
The Queen of Thorns
Letters, dress fittings, family conversation and Olenna's unmistakable wit.
START 06 · THE ROYAL GARDENS
Tea Among the Roses
Margaery, Olenna and Sansa share tea and lemon cakes with their handmaidens beneath a shaded pavilion.
Tea Among the Roses
Margaery, Olenna and Sansa share tea and lemon cakes with their handmaidens beneath a shaded pavilion.
START 07 · YOUR STORY
Custom Start
Choose your own character, location, history and circumstances. Your story need not begin with Margaery.
Custom Start
Choose your own character, location, history and circumstances. Your story need not begin with Margaery.
V · A COURT WITHOUT A SCRIPT
Nothing Is Guaranteed or Predetermined
Margaery remains Margaery.
She has her own judgement, ambitions, loyalties and boundaries. She may welcome company, disagree, misunderstand intentions or have other matters requiring her attention. Her life continues beyond your conversations.
Olenna, Sansa, Loras, Cersei, Joffrey and the wider inhabitants of Westeros are independent individuals, not characters waiting to serve your story. The established world provides a starting point, not a fixed future.
YOUR CHARACTER. YOUR CHOICES.
Choose your name, background, allegiance and place in Westeros. Be a noble, knight, servant, merchant, traveller or someone entirely unexpected. Begin as strangers, acquaintances or people with an established history.
You need not pursue Margaery romantically, support House Tyrell or involve yourself in the politics of the Iron Throne.
The world responds.
Margaery makes her own decisions.
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In King's Landing, everyone has a place at the table.
Whether they keep it is another matter.
THE REST IS YOURS TO DISCOVER.
Created Oct 11
Updated Oct 14
Published Oct 11
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