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Donna was worried. She could not help being worried. Ally rocked back and forth on the balls of her feet, beaming as she waited for Aunt Elia to let them in. Donna smiled softly and patted her daughter’s head, causing her to look up at her with a big grin. Donna loved seeing her excited, happy. 

Donna wished she could share the sentiment, but the worry gnawed at her. Perhaps she worried too much, was she always this much of a worrywart? She wondered. All she wanted was to make sure that everything was alright. 

As the door cracked open, Donna put on a big smile, “hey! are you going to let us in? Getting tired of carrying this pie,” she joked. 

Elia frowned, watching the way Rhaenys pushed her spoon through her lunch. Elia had made her favorite, creamy tomato and basil soup with grilled cheese. She’d even cut the grilled cheese into little stars. Rhaenys had always loved that. But, she hadn’t touched a speck of food on her plate.

Her daughter had been quiet since the night before. Quiet in a way that Elia didn’t like. Each time her phone rang with a call or chimed with an incoming text, Rhaenys’ eyes would mist over and she would disappear up into her room. It broke Elia’s heart to see her in such a way.

When the doorbell rang, Rhaenys’ spoon clattered back into her bowl. Before Elia could call after her, she was darting out of the kitchen and up the stairs. Elia heard her bedroom door close from there in the kitchen.

She hadn’t been expecting visitors. That, much like Rhaenys’ reactions, made her worry even more. As Elia made her way to the front door and opened it for her visitors, she gave them a shaky smile. “Sorry,” she sighed, moving aside so Donna and Ally could come inside. “We were finishing lunch.” Elia motioned them into the kitchen. “You can set the pie on the counter if you’d like. Let me go get Rhaenys. She just went upstairs.”

Maybe seeing one of her friends would help her daughter.

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The Targaryens were far from the most powerful of the dragonlords, and their rivals saw their flight to Dragonstone as an act of surrender, as cowardice. But Lord Aenar’s maiden daughter Daenys, known forever afterward as Daenys the Dreamer, had foreseen the destruction of Valyria by fire. And when the Doom came twelve years later, the Targaryens were the only dragonlords to survive.

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Consorts to the Iron Throne ♕ Queens Not of House Targaryen (insp)

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Rumored to have been the natural daughter of a Pentoshi magister, she had been a tavern dancer who rose up to become a courtesan. She was said to practice sorcery and alchemy. 

favorite pre-series ladies: tyanna of the tower

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She is a common thing, with the stink of sorcery upon her.

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Larra Rogare had taken up residence in the Red Keep with her husband, yet in her heart she remained a lady of Lys. Though fluent in High Valyrian and the dialects of Myr, Tyrosh, and Old Volantis in addition to her own Lysene tongue, Lady Larra made no effort to learn the Common Tongue, preferring to rely upon translators to make her wishes known. Her ladies were all Lyseni, as were her servants. The gowns she wore all came from Lys, even her smallclothes; her father’s ships delivered the latest Lysene fashions to her thrice a year.

Her ladies, her servants, and her guards would join Lady Larra at certain times in performing obeisances to these queer, ancient deities. Cats were seen coming and going from her chambers so often that men began to say they were her spies, purring at her in soft voices of all the doings of the Red Keep. It was even said that Larra herself could transform into a cat, to prowl the gutters and rooftops of the city.

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House Nymeros Martell: Myriah&Maron, the suns who married dragons

Myriah was the eldest daughter of the Prince of Dorne during the reign of King Daeron I Targaryen.

After King Daeron I had been killed in Dorne in 161 AC, King Baelor I Targaryen freed the Dornish hostages in King’s Landing and returned them to Dorne personally, walking barefoot. Once he reached Sunspear, he spoke with the Prince of Dorne, and agreed upon a peace, which included the betrothal of Myriah to Baelor’s cousin, Prince Daeron Targaryen. The two would marry once they were both of age.

In 184 AC, after the death of King Aegon IV Targaryen, Daeron succeeded him as King Daeron II Targaryen and Myriah became queen.

Myriah’s marriage opened the door for Prince Maron to, more than two decades later, accept a marriage proposal between himself and Prince Daeron’s (by then, King Daeron II) sister, Princess Daenerys Targaryen. This marriage formally made Dorne part of the Seven Kingdoms.

The marriage took place in King’s Landing, and afterwards, when he had kneeled before the Iron Throne, Prince Maron and King Daeron went to pay their respects to the statue of the late King Baelor at the Great Sept. To celebrate the wedding, which took place in 187 AC, a tourney was held.

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daella targaryen, lady of the eyrie and princess of the seven kingdoms

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Baelor Hightower was no longer young, but he remained Lord Leyton’s heir; wealthy, handsome, and a knight of splendid repute. Baelor Brightsmile, they called him now. Had Elia Martell wed him in place of Rhaegar Targaryen, she might be in Oldtown with her children growing tall around her.

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[15/20] ASOIAF power couples → Aegon V Targaryen × Betha Blackwood

King Aegon, called the Unlikely, was forced to spend much of his reign in armor, quelling one rising or another, most notably the Fourth Blackfyre Rebellion. Though beloved by the smallfolk, Aegon made many enemies amongst the lords of the realm, whose powers he wished to curtail. He enacted numerous reforms and granted rights and protections to the commons that they had never known before, but each of these measures provoked fierce opposition and sometimes open defiance amongst the lords.

The most outspoken went so far as to denounce him as a “bloody-handed tyrant intent on depriving us of our gods-given rights and liberties.” A student of history and lover of books, Aegon was oft heard to say that had he only had dragons, as the first Aegon had, he could have remade the realm anew, with peace and prosperity and justice for all.

Even his sons proved a trial to this goodhearted king, where they might have been a strength. Aegon V had married for love, taking to wife the Lady Betha Blackwood, the spirited daughter of the Lord of Raventree Hall, who became known as Black Betha for her dark eyes and raven hair. When they wed at Summerhall in 220 AC, the bride was nineteen and Aegon twenty, so far down in the line of succession that the match provoked no opposition.

It had long been the custom of House Targaryen to wed brother to sister to keep the blood of the dragon pure, but Aegon had become convinced that such incestuous unions did more harm than good. Instead, he resolved to join his children in marriage with the sons and daughters of some of the greatest lords of the Seven Kingdoms, in the hopes of winning their support for his reforms and strengthening his rule.

With the help of Queen Betha, a number of advantageous betrothals were made and celebrated in 237 AC while Aegon’s children were still young. But Betha Blackwood’s children proved to be as stubborn as their mother, and like their father, chose to follow their hearts when choosing mates.

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THE QUEENS WHO NEVER WERE

Lady Dyanna Dayne was Prince Maekar Targaryen’s wife and the mother of Daeron the Drunken, Aerion Brightflame, Maester Aemon, Rhae, Daella and King Aegon V Targaryen. She died at some point between 201 AC and 209 AC, long before her husband became King in 221 AC.

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DAEMON I BLACKFYRE & ROHANNE OF TYROSH

Daemon was not so much opposed to wedding Rohanne of Tyrosh as he was convinced that he could follow in the footsteps of Aegon the Conqueror and Maegor the Cruel and have more than one bride.

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→ The great houses of Westeros during the Dance of the Dragons (129-131 AC) : House Targaryen.

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The World of Ice and Fire - The Brides of Maegor the Cruel

L [top to bottom]: Ceryse Hightower, Tyanna of the Tower, Alys Harroway

R [top to bottom]: Elinor Costayne Jeyne Westerling, Rhaena Targaryen

Artist: Magali Villenueve

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preasoiaf meme | 5 preasoiaf characters: dyanna dayne

Dyanna Dayne was a member of House Dayne, the wife of King Maekar I Targaryen and the mother of Daeron, Aerion, Aemon, Aegon, Daella and Rhae Targaryen. She died before 209 AC, well before Maekar’s ascendance to the Iron Throne in 221 AC, thus she never became Queen Consort.

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everything asoiaf ♕ romantic pairings (insp.)

Rhaella Targaryen & Ser Bonifer Hasty || “ He put away his lance the day your lady mother wed your father. Afterward he became most pious, and was heard to say that only the Maiden could replace Queen Rhaella in his heart. His passion was impossible, of course. A landed knight is no fit consort for a princess of royal blood. ”