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aforgeofdreams · 10 days ago

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This RP looks really interesting! Before I join, can you give out some character suggestions?

Of course! We offer a variety of characters across all the eras. For those that see this post and want to know how it works, view this blog to learn more about our server and our plot and to get the direct link to join the server. We have a LOT of canon characters that we are looking to be claimed for each of the available eras to write with in. We will also provide some general original character concepts for those that are interested in making OCs at the end of this post! The following list would be our top recommended characters per era, for those who are interested in joining the roleplay as a canon character. We have provided four names per gender, per era. As mentioned before, OC ideas will be at the end of the cut, and on our advertisement post, we provide a larger list of canon characters.

We are fully aware that some of these names will overlap with the eras. You would be free to write them in all eras they appear in. ———————————— The Century of Blood

�� Aegon Targaryen, son of Daenys

𖤓 Aenar Targaryen, the Exile

𖤓 Agnes Blackwood

𖤓 Argilac Durrandon, the Storm King

𖤓 Elaena Targaryen, daughter of Daenys

𖤓 Gaemon Targaryen, the Glorious

𖤓 Valaena Velaryon, mother of the Conqueror

𖤓 the many wives of Aenar the Exile

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The Dragon’s Conquest

𖤓 Argella Durrandon, Princess of Storm’s End

𖤓 Daemon Velaryon

𖤓 Deria Martell

𖤓 Orys Baratheon, the One-Hand

𖤓 Rhaenys Targaryen, the Conqueror

𖤓 Sharra Arryn

𖤓 Torrhen Stark

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The Sons of the Dragon

𖤓 Aegon Targaryen, the Uncrowned

𖤓 Alyssa Velaryon

𖤓 Ceryse Hightower

𖤓 Elinor Costayne

𖤓 Quenton Qoherys

𖤓 Rogar Baratheon

𖤓 Tyanna of Pentos

𖤓 Viserys Targaryen, son of Aenys

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The Long Reign

𖤓 Alaric Stark

𖤓 Baelon Targaryen, the Brave

𖤓 Gael Targaryen, the Winter Child

𖤓 Jaehaerys I Targaryen, the Conciliator

𖤓 Jocelyn Baratheon, the Dark Lady

𖤓 Maegelle Targaryen

𖤓 Rodrik Arryn

𖤓 Viserra Targaryen

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The Dance of the Dragons

𖤓 Aegon II Targaryen, the Usurper

𖤓 Alicent Hightower, the Queen in Chains

𖤓 Corlys Velaryon, the Sea Snake

𖤓 Criston Cole, the Kingmaker

𖤓 Jacaerys Velaryon

𖤓 Johanna Westerling-Lannister

𖤓 Nettles

𖤓 Rhaenys Targaryen, the Queen Who Never Was

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The Regency

𖤓 Aemon Targaryen, the Dragonknight

𖤓 Daena Targaryen, the Defiant

𖤓 Daeron I Targaryen, the Young King

𖤓 The Four Storms (Cassandra, Maris, Ellyn, and Floris Baratheon)

𖤓 Rhaena Targaryen, daughter of Aegon III

𖤓 Sandoq the Shadow

𖤓 Serenei of Lys

𖤓 Unwin Peake

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The Blackfyre Rebellions

𖤓 Bellanora Otherys

𖤓 Calla Blackfyre

𖤓 Daeron II Targaryen, the Good

𖤓 Maelys I Blackfyre

𖤓 Maron Martell

𖤓 Myriah Martell

𖤓 Ormund Baratheon

𖤓 Rohanne of Tyrosh

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

𖤓 Aegon V Targaryen, the Unlikely

𖤓 Aelinor Penrose

𖤓 Aelor Targaryen

𖤓 Betha Blackwood

𖤓 Duncan the Tall

𖤓 Dyanna Dayne

𖤓 Kiera of Tyrosh

𖤓 Maekar Targaryen, the Anvil

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Robert’s Rebellion

𖤓 Aerys II Targaryen, the Mad

𖤓 Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning

𖤓 Ashara Dayne

𖤓 Brandon Stark

𖤓 Catelyn Tully

𖤓 Elia Martell

𖤓 Genna Lannister

𖤓 Robert I Baratheon, the Demon of the Trident

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A Song of Ice & Fire

𖤓 Aegon VI Targaryen, Young Griff

𖤓 Arianne Martell

𖤓 Cersei Lannister

𖤓 Margaery Tyrell

𖤓 Petyr Baelish, Littlefinger

𖤓 Robb Stark

𖤓 The Sand Snakes

𖤓 Tywin Lannister

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Original Character Concepts / Suggestions

⠀┈⠀⠀Harwin Strong’s unnamed sisters from F&B ⠀┈⠀⠀Alicent Hightower’s unnamed brothers from F&B ⠀┈⠀⠀Ladies of the Court ⠀┈⠀⠀Courtiers of the Court ⠀┈⠀⠀Assassins ⠀┈⠀⠀Court Jesters ⠀┈⠀⠀Tourney Knights ⠀┈⠀⠀Septas, Maesters, etc. ⠀┈⠀⠀Lysene Valyrians ⠀┈⠀⠀Dragonseeds

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goodqueenaly · 1 year ago

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@kristinakyidyl reblogged your post “I love talking about Targaryen crowns (like all...”

You know what I wonder? Where did Aegon I's crown come from. It was valyrian steel 100 years after the secret of making it disappeared. Did they have some valyrian steel just hanging around dragonstone that was then reworked into the crown? Or did they have the crown just chilling and ready to go, having been purchased back in Valyria? Like a crown is a very specific thing with a specific purpose, not a generic piece of jewelry that happens to also serve as the marker of royalty. And the implication that they might have just had a valyrian steel crown hanging around waiting for a king is interesting what with the dreaming thing and all. Maybe Daenys was like "yeah, buy a crown before we go dad, we're going to need one some say". Or maybe they had a 3rd ancestral blade and they melted it down into the dagger and the crown (tho the Catspaw dagger being explicitly Targaryen is a TV show thing, it's not necessarily out of the realm of possibility for the books imo.). Like who knows, but it's just a weird thing I've always kinda wondered about.

For one, it's certainly not impossible that Aegon Targaryen had existing Valyrian steel worked into a new circlet. While no new Valyrian steel has been produced, so far as we know, since the Doom, the method of reworking Valyrian steel has not been completely lost to history (as evidenced by the work of Tobho Mott). Of course, most families would not have a surplus of Valyrian steel items to use for more (hence why Tywin was so willing to give Joffrey and Jaime swords made from the Valyrian steel blade he had stolen from the Starks), but it is not out of the realm of possibility that a Valyrian dragonlord family, among the very select elite in the Freehold, would have brought any number of Valyrian steel items out of the city into de facto exile (as indeed, Yandel reported that Aenar Targaryen sailed to Dragonstone with "all his wives, wealth, slaves, dragons, siblings, kin, and children"). If Aegon believed that he needed or wanted a Valyrian steel crown more than he wanted, I don't know, a random Valyrian steel knife or axe or whatever that was in the Targaryen treasury, then it's at least possible he would have sacrificed this item for the sake of creating a crown.

And that's even assuming he had to make the crown from scratch, so to speak, at all. The Valyrians do not appear to have limited Valyrian steel exclusively to blades and bladed items, given the existence of Euron's Valyrian steel armor, so it is at least possible that a the height of the Freehold the Valyrians created any number of non-weapon Valyrian steel pieces. Likewise, it is unknown whether the dragonlord families would have rejected crowns or the appearance of regality (especially considering that they appeared to see themselves as closer to gods than humans). In turn, it is at least possible that this and similar crowns existed in the Freehold prior to the Doom, worn by dragonlords as a sign of their power, wealth, and magnificence - a sort of "look how mighty we are, we can afford to spend money for the ultimate in Valyrian handiwork simply to glorify ourselves".

I don't see any evidence at this time that the crown was created specifically by the Targaryens as an act of prophetic preparation before the Targaryens left Valyria, whatever may or may not have been known or theorized about what would happen to the family in the future. (Friendly reminder not to bring The Show or That Other Show into my house.) Whether or not it existed before the Doom as a Targaryen/Valyrian decorative piece, or was created by or at the direction of Aegon Targaryen from some extant Valyrian steel piece he owned, remains for now unanswered.

#tumblr replies #crowns #aegon i targaryen

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presidenthades · 8 months ago

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since Aemond is a history nerd, what historical figures do you see him admiring the most?

Aemond seems like he would specifically enjoy mainstream history about battles, kings, knights, and such. I say this to contrast him with Jace, who probably enjoys “daily living” and women’s history, and Joff, who’s interested in mysteries and weird stuff like “who really built the Hightower?”

Aemond would also be interested in important legendary figures, even if it’s dubious whether they really existed, because their stories are so important to the mythos and culture of Westeros.

I cracked open my copy of “The World of Ice and Fire” to get some names to answer this Ask:

The usual Westerosi legends like Brandon the Builder, Garth Greenhand, Lann the Clever, and Durran Godsgrief. And of course, Symeon Star-Eyes.

Artys Arryn, who rode a falcon to slay the Griffon King and found his own royal dynasty of kings.

Garin the Great of the Rhoynar, who was an enemy to the Valyrians but faced them bravely, though it ultimately led to the destruction of his people.

Aenar the Exile, who listened to Daenys’s visions and saved his family by doing so.

The Conqueror and Visenya, of course.

Orys Baratheon, who was a great warrior, chivalrous, and loyal to his king. He also harbored a years-long desire for vengeance against the person who maimed him. 👀

John the Oak, the First Knight ever in Westeros.

Lymond “the Sea Lion” Hightower, the last Hightower king, who built the Hightowers’ great fleet.

#my writing #ask me anything #aemond

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lemoncakesandwine · 1 month ago

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Crowns & Jewelry of House Targaryen

This is a list of House Targaryen jewels I compiled for my “Fall of the Stag AU”. Some crowns are already mentioned in canon, while the others I came up with myself. Please credit if you make use of this list.

A/n: Chameleon stones – Alexandrite

Notable crowns and other jewelry still in the possession of House Targaryen during the reign of Rhaegar I Targaryen:

Crown of Aenys I – A large and ornate crown of yellow-gold. It is inlaid with jade and pearl, and the faces of the Seven are etched onto the seven sides of the crown. Due to the loss of the crown of Aegon I, this crown was and is still worn by kings on the day of their anointing.

Crown of Aegon III – A simple circlet of yellow-gold. Rhaegar I favors it over the others, as it is the least cumbersome of the crowns worn by kings.

Crown of Aegon IV – A large and heavy crown made of red-gold. It has seven points. Each point is topped with a dragon’s head with dragon-glass beads for eyes.

Crown of Maekar I – A band of red-gold with sharp black iron points.

Crown of Queen Visenya – A band wrought of pure Valyrian steel, unornamented. This crown has not been worn by other queens after her death, due to its association with her.

Crown of Queen Rhaenys – A Valyrian diadem wrought of yellow-gold. It is ornamented with golden dragons engraved into the metal. Rubies make up their eyes. It is worn by queen consorts during their anointing.

Coronet of Queen Alyssane – A slender red-gold crown adorned with sixteen inverted pieces of dragon-glass carefully shaped and polished into pear-shaped stones. This coronet was commissioned by Jaehaerys I himself, as a gift in honor of Alyssane’s sixteenth name-day. After her death, it was worn by queen consorts during formal occasions.

Crown of Queen Alyssane – A copy of the circlet worn by her husband, Jaehaerys I, with seven jewels of seven different colors. Alyssane often wore this when carrying out her day-to-day duties.

Rogare Festoon Necklace – A necklace commissioned by the wealthy Lysene banker, Lord Lysandro Rogare, and presented as a gift to his daughter, Larra, upon her marriage to Prince Viserys Targaryen in 134 AC. Five strands of rare platinum and flawless amethysts make up this spectacular necklace, and it was left for Naerys when Larra returned to Lys. Her daughter never wore it when she became queen, and her husband, Aegon the Unworthy, presented it to Lady Bethany Bracken as a gift after she agreed to become his mistress. When she was later found abed with Ser Terrance Toyne, a knight of the Kingsguard, Aegon took back the necklace after he had Bethany and her father executed. It remained in the Targaryen family vault, unused, until Aegon V encouraged his wife, Queen Betha Blackwood, to wear it for feasts.

Medallion Collar of Aegon III – A collar of matched medallions, unadorned, save for a golden three-headed dragon resting in the center.

Medallion Collar of Princess Daena Targaryen (Also known as Daena the Defiant) – A copy of the collar worn by her father, Aegon III. Her collar, however, has rubies adorning every medallion. A golden three-headed dragon rests in the center.

Dragon’s Eye Diadem – A red-gold Valyrian diadem studded with six dragon’s eye rubies, man-made gems crafted by mages and smiths in Valyria before the Doom. It was commissioned by Lady Naehra Targaryen, the grandmother of Aenar the Exile, and it was given to him on the occasion of his marriage to his third wife, whom his grandmother personally approved of. The skill and knowledge that went into the making of these stones were jealously guarded secrets that died with the destruction of Valyria. No one knows how many there are still in existence, save for the few seen on this diadem and in rings adorning the fingers of a small group of high-born women in the free cities. All new attempts to make these gems have ended in failure. The diadem was once hidden away during the reign of Aegon the Unworthy, after he began giving away treasures to his mistresses. It was returned to the crown after the death of the king, and it was set aside for the use of queens.

Crown of Naerys – A simple white-gold circlet, unadorned. Naerys rarely wore it.

The Stars of Winter set – A queen’s crown wrought of platinum, adorned with large and small platinum snowflakes studded with tiny diamonds. The crown came with a matching necklace, also of platinum snowflakes studded with diamonds. They were commissioned by Aegon I, to be presented to his sister-wife and Queen, Rhaenys, as a gift after she had been safely delivered of Prince Aenys during the Wintermonth of 7AC. Aegon the Unworthy gave the crown and necklace away to his legitimized bastard daughter, Shiera Seastar. She never wore them, and she did not give them away, either. They were retrieved after her death in 211 AC. Only a queen or a crown princess may wear them.

The Sunburst Tiara – A yellow-gold tiara ornamented with yellow-gold suns studded with a yellow topaz in the center of each sun. It was first worn by Princess Myriah Martell during her wedding ceremony to Prince Daeron Targaryen in 152 AC.

The Menagerie necklace – A heavy bib-like necklace wrought of yellow-gold, and adorned with interconnected pendants, each fashioned to look like one of the many exotic animals prominent families of the Free Cities keep in their walled and caged gardens. It was gifted to Queen Alyssane by envoys from Braavos during the first Seventh Day Feast in 51 AC.

The Dragon of Summer diadem – A white-gold Valyrian diadem Aegon I commissioned for his sister-wife, Queen Visenya, after she had been safely delivered of a son, Prince Maegor, during the Midsummer of 12 AC. The diadem has been shaped to look like a twisting dragon in flight, with scales edged with mother of pearl. Visenya rarely wore it, and it, too, remains unworn after her death due to its association with her.

The Dragon’s Wings tiara – A delicate white-and yellow-gold circlet adorned with a dragon’s wing on either side and studded with diamonds. It was gifted to Rhaella by Aerys just before their wedding. There are some who claim that it was Jaehaerys II who had secretly commissioned the making of the tiara and that it was he who insisted that his son present it to his bride on the day of their wedding.

Queen of the Night Diadem – A Valyrian diadem wrought of Valyrian steel and adorned with crescent moons fashioned out of moonstones. It belonged to Lady Maelera, chief wife to Aenar the Exile, and it was presented to her as a gift by her husband to mark the occasion of their wedding. Another rare and precious heirloom from Valyria before the Doom, it was once hidden away by a Maester after he was instructed to do so by Aemon the Dragonknight after Aegon the Unworthy began giving away treasures to his mistresses. The diadem was returned to the vault after the death of the king, and it, too, was set aside for the use of queens.

Notable jewelry that belongs to Princess Vaesella Targaryen:

Ulosi diadem and necklace – The diadem is a small crown made of yellow-gold, and it is adorned with rare, oval-shaped chameleon stones that are a vibrant green in daylight, and a brilliant reddish-purple in candlelight. The necklace that was presented with it is wrought of yellow-gold also, and another chameleon stone the size of a raven’s egg hangs in the center. This set was a gift that was presented to Princess Vaesella in 280 AC when emissaries from the isle of Ulos returned with Jarran Rykker, as it was her financial support that made the captain’s journey and his subsequent meeting with the inhabitants of Ulos and Ulthos proper possible. Unlike traditional tiaras, crowns, and diadems, the Ulosi diadem is worn around hair that has been arranged into a high bun.

The Holly tiara – A yellow-gold tiara frame studded with emeralds carved to look like holly leaves and rubies shaped to look like berries. This tiara is part of a set: a pair of earrings, a wrist cuff, and a splendid necklace. They are all made of yellow-gold, with emeralds shaped like holly leaves and rubies shaped like berries. It was given to the princess as a gift by her mother, Queen Rhaella, on the day she turned eight and ten.

Ears of Wheat set – A tiara, wrist cuff, and clasp set wrought of silver and yellow-gold fashioned to look like ears of wheat. They are studded with diamonds shaped to represent wheat kernels. This set was commissioned by the princess herself, to wear for a harvest feast at the Red Keep in 279 AC.

The Feathers of Paradise necklace – A yellow-gold necklace adorned with feathers of the same metal. Each feather is studded with jewels of a different color to represent the birds found on the Summer Isles. It was gifted to the princess after her wedding to Rhaegar Targaryen.

Notable jewelry that was lost, sold, or bequeathed to others:

Crown of Aegon I – A Valyrian steel circlet set with large, square-cut rubies. It was lost in Dorne after the death of Daeron I in 161 AC. No one truly knows what became of this circlet, though some claim House Martel took it as a war prize.

Crown of Jaehaerys I – A slender yellow-gold band set with seven jewels of seven different colors. It was sold by Rhaenyra in order to buy passage on a Braavosi ship after she fled King’s Landing.

Crown of Queen Alyssa Velaryon: A delicate white-gold crown adorned with seahorses. It became an heirloom of House Baratheon after Alyssa wed Rogar Baratheon, and it was later gifted to their daughter, Lady Jocelyn Baratheon, after she came of age.

The Hightower Tiara – A yellow-gold tiara studded with diamonds and a dozen inverted pear-shaped emeralds. It was worn by Alicent Hightower when she was queen. She gave this crown to her daughter, Helaena, when she became queen. After the death of his first wife, Jaehaera, Aegon III sent it to House Hightower because he wanted no reminder of Aegon II.

The Hoar Frost Tiara – A white-gold circlet with cloudy white diamonds that had been cut, shaped, and arranged to look like hoar frost. It was commissioned by Rhaenys, wife of Aegon I, and she wore it when she attended her first winter solstice feast as Queen of Westeros. Aegon the Unworthy gave it away to one of his unacknowledged mistresses in return for her allowing him to bed her. It has not been found or even seen since then.

Lilies-of-the-valley set – A necklace, ring, and wreath-like tiara set made for Rhaella by her mother and father for her eighteenth name-day. They are made of white-gold, with white mother-of-pearl pieces shaped to look like the petals of the flower, and green enamel leaves. After Rhaella’s death, the necklace was passed onto Princess Vaesella, the ring was passed onto Prince Viserys, and the tiara was kept for Princess Daenerys, to wear after she came of age.

#fall of the stag au #asoiaf #asoiaf au #house targaryen #house targaryen au #worldbuilding #headcanon #my headcanons

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morningflew · 5 months ago

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very rough bullet points for the vampire verse - if you saw this a couple hours ago, no you didn’t (i tweaked some things lol)

the targaryens are an old vampire family that began during the period of norman kings in england. they trace their mortal ancestry back to the time of ancient rome.

unlike the other covens, the targaryens rarely take in outsiders and are mostly composed of their own. their methods may be frowned upon by other vampires, but they're rarely challenged due to the size and strength of their coven.

upon being turned, aenar the exile sired dhampir* (half-vampire, half-human) children, gaemon and daenys, both of whom he eventually turned once they had children of their own. this started the tradition of the targaryens starting out as dhampirs to be able to continue their bloodline before becoming vampires themselves.

*dhampirs age normally until they reach maturity and then their ageing starts to slow considerably (ie. one could look like they're in their 20s for the next 20 years).

this is subject to change depending on who i'm writing with, but to make room for all the other targs who come after her, rhaena was born in the early 1700s. when a feud broke out between her stepmother and her half-brother and lasted years, her father turned her and her twin sister much earlier than they traditionally did to ensure their safety as the coven grew divided. rhaena hasn't aged since she was nineteen.

#v. even death may die

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catofadifferentcolor · 2 years ago

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Terrible Fic Ideas #45: Game of Thrones, but make it Reincarnation

I am a huge fan of eternal recurrence in media - the idea that all this has happened before, all this will happen again. I therefore have a tendency towards seeing patterns in works that were not perhaps intended by their authors, or, if they were, taking them to the utmost extreme.

Or: What if Jon Snow and Daenerys Stormborn are the latest incarnations of doomed Targaryen lovers?

Aka: The Aelor the Accursed Fic

Bear with me:

Prince Aelor was married to his twin sister Princess Aelora and died because of a mishap at her hand.

Before that Baelor Breakspear died of a mortal blow struck by the future King Maekor during the Tourney at Ashford Meadow.

Before that Prince Lucerys fell into Shipbreaker Bay during a fight with Prince Aemond...

...and because we know next to nothing about Aegon the Conqueror's forebears, there's no reason that, say, his ancestor Aenor the Exile couldn't be responsible for the death of his unknown great-grandmother through some mishap.

And since Game of Thrones is a world of magic, where the blood of kings can preform miracles and the dead can come back to life, there's no reason why all these tragedies can't have occurred between the same two reincarnated souls throughout history.

Or: Jon Snow is the reincarnation of Prince Aelor, Baelor Breakspear, Prince Lucerys, and Aenar's unknown wife, while Daenerys is the reincarnation of Princess Aelora, King Maekor, Prince Aemond, and Aenar the Exile.

Just imagine it:

Events proceed as per canon, but Jon and Dany are haunted in dreams by memories they shouldn't have and can't fully recall upon waking. Jon, on some level, is always afraid he will be killed by the one he loves - and believes this has come true when he's killed by brothers of the Night's Watch after narrowly escaping death at Ygritte's hand. Dany, similarly, always feels like she is responsible for the death of the ones she loves - and believes this has come true with her mother, brother, first husband, and son.

Yet these dreams become worse when they finally meet.

The War for the Dawn is fought against the backdrop of an endless series of memories - Jon and Dany growing closer and falling apart as new memories coming to the forefront.

Jon wants to trust Dany, but all his dreams tell him that he must kill her before she kills him, whereas Dany is afraid about being the death of yet another person she loves.

The revelation of Jon's parentage is tangled up in the revelation of their reincarnations.

As Jon and Dany try to reconcile all of their past lives and all of the terrible things their past lives have done to each other, they reunite the Seven Kingdoms. Even as they marry and are crowned the co-rulers of Westeros - Jon taking the dynastic name Aelor I - they're still trying to overcome the actions of their past selves.

They spend the rest of their lives trying to break the cycle, with at least three notable near-misses. They succeed in the end, but have a relationship far more fraught than bards who tell the story of their meeting make out. Later historians are baffled by the dynamic, but place it down as Targaryen oddity.

Bonuses include: 1) Jon having an instinctual knowledge of High Valyrian because of the dreams and not realizing it until the first time Maester Aemon slips into the language in his presence; 2) The inherent complication that comes from having five sets of memories - perhaps even more from before the Doom - that tell you not to trust your lover, who will destroy you even if they don't intend it, and plunge the country you've just rebuilt into war; 3) The inherent complication of having five sets of memories - perhaps even more - that tell you that you can't be trusted, that you destroy everything you touch, and will inevitably lead the country you've just rebuilt back into war; and 4) A whole host of concerned friends and family members looking at Jon and Dany's relationship from the outside and being very concerned about their strange dynamic.

...and that's all I have. As always, feel free to adopt this bun, just link back if you ever do anything with it.

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butterflyintochains · 8 months ago

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What's In A Name?

Just a little fun thing for my Desert Dragon AU.

''Of all the common names for Targaryen daughters, one has loomed largest in the air... Shaena. A name only given out twice to two very important Targaryen women. Old Valyrian for 'she who sees all'.

The first Shaena was Lady Shaena Targaryen, the first Dreamer of the house, sister and wife to Lord Aenar The Exile. Mother to his two children, Gaemon the Glorious and Daenys the Dreamer. A powerful seer, dragonlady, and astute politician. A loving wife and mother, who did not hesitate to fly her family west once her daughter warned of the impending eruption of the fourteen flames. Her name survives in Valyrian written records nestled deep within the vaults of Dragonstone. Some say she left her soul there when she died.

The second Shaena is still living, Princess Shaena Targaryen. Born to King Aerys the Mad. Married to The Red Viper, mother of eight, including a Daenys of her own. Equally skilled with her Valyrian gifts, the best archer in the realms, a dragonlady, and expert stateswoman. Not Azor Ahai reborn - her sister and nephew sharing said role. But, of equal import for the wars to come. Not named for her grandmother, Queen Shaera, as many have suspected. Rather, Queen Rhaella named her for the first Dreamer in the family five centuries ago. The most connected to the homeland of her current family, her grace is tipped to take on an ancient and elite title as The Voice of Valyria.

Archmaester Marwyn.''

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Just a little George styled take on where in the family lexicon Shaena's name comes from.

#asoiaf #game of thrones #house targaryen #the desert dragon

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sebeth · 2 years ago

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The World Of Ice And Fire: House Targaryen (Pre-Conquest)

Warning, Spoilers Ahead…

I will be bouncing between “the World of Ice and Fire” and “Fire and Blood” to cover the early years of the Targaryen’s reign in Westeros.

The World of Ice and Fire was written by Maester Yandel and Fire and Blood was authored by Archmaester Gyldayn.

Yandel’s tome was a gift for the Baratheon kings while Gyldayn’s book is a history of the Targaryens in Westeros.

“Aegon’s Conquest” contains material I’ve covered in the “World of Ice And Fire” so a quick recap:

· Dates in Westeros or AC (After the Conquest” or BC (Before the Conquest).

· Such dating is imprecise as there is no specific ending date for the Wars of Conquest.

· Aegon the Conqueror dated the start of his reign from “the day he was crowned and anointed” and not the day he began his conquest two years earlier.

· Most of the actual Conquest took place in 2 – 1 BC.

· Valyria was the greatest city in the known world, the center of civilization.

· Dozens of rival houses “vied for power and glory in court and council”.

· The Targaryens were pure-blooded Valyrian dragon lords of an ancient lineage but far from the most powerful of the lords.

· Twelve years before the Doom of Valyria (114 BC), Daenys “the Dreamer” Targaryen had a dream that foretold the destruction of Valyria.

· Aenar Targaryen, the father of Daenys, sold his holdings in the Freehold and the Lands of Long Summer, gathered all “his wives, wealth, slaves, dragons, siblings, kin, and children” and moved to Dragonstone, an island off the coast of Westeros.

· Dragonstone had been the “westernmost outpost of Valyrian power for two centuries”. The Targaryens along with the Velaryons of Driftmark and the Celtigars of Claw Isle (two Valyrian houses of lesser descent) used Dragonstone to dominate the trade traffic of the middle reaches of the Narrow Sea.

Did Aenar forewarn anyone else of the upcoming destruction of Valyria? Was he doomed to be a Cassandra-type figure – warning of destruction only to be ignored? Or did he simply not care and used the future destruction of Valyria as the most ruthless move in the “game of thrones” ever?

Were the Velaryons and the Celtigars located on Driftmark and Claw Isle before the Aenar’s migration of did they arrive with him?

Back to the recap:

· The hundred years after the Doom of Valyria is called the Century of Blood. House Targaryen ignored Westeros.

House Targaryen’s leadership during the Century of Blood was as follows:

1. Aenar “the Exile” Targaryen

2. Gaemon “the Glorious” Targaryen & Daenys “the Dreamer” Targaryen (Aenar’s children)

3. Aegon & Elaena Targaryen (Gaemon & Daenys’ children)

4. Maegon Targaryen (Aegon & Elaena’s son)

5. Aerys Targaryen (Aegon & Elaena’s son)

6. Aelyx Targaryen (Aerys’s son)

7. Baelon Targaryen (Aery’s son)

8. Daemion Targaryen (Aery’s son)

9. Aerion Targaryen (Daemion’s son)

Aerion would wed Lady Valaena Velaryon, who was half-Targaryen on her mother’s side. They would have three children: Visenya, Aegon, and Rhaenys.

Aegon wed his elder sibling, Visenya, as custom dictated, and Rhaenys, his youngest sibling, because he felt like it.

“The custom amongst the dragonlords of Valyria to wed brother to sister to keep the bloodlines pure.” I understand the reason for the post-Doom inbreeding (lack of Valyrian options) but why was it the custom pre-Doom? Wouldn’t another non-related pure-blooded Valyrian dragon lord work as well as a sibling minus the nasty inbreeding aspects? Was it really a custom in Valyria or was it simply a falsehood stated by the Targaryens to justify the ongoing sibling marriages?

· Only one of the five dragons that accompanied Aenar to Dragonstone survived to the beginning of the Conquest: Balerion the Black Dread. Vhagar and Meraxes hatched on Dragonstone.

· A common myth states Aegon never stepped foot on Westeros before the Conquest but it is untrue. There are reports of Aegon and Visenya visiting the Citadel of Oldtown and as guests of Lord Redwyne on the Arbor. Aegon may have visited Lannisport as well.

Up next, the differences between Aegon, Visenya, and Rhaenys.

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dragcnlxrd · 3 years ago

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Amethyst hues fixed upon the banner. Crimson with the golden lion roaring. Dragonstone was secured and yet the island was merely that, an island. The mainland fallen back to treacherous hands. Like cockroaches it seemed these Westerners were, they seemed to constantly survive, he could admire that.

The island belonged to him though, to Valyria of Old. Aenar the Exiled had taken it because he’d run away. The only reason he maintained it was because Valyria had fallen. He was the last of Valyria now, he would finish what the Dragon Queen had started, but first he needed to secure the island as his and now he found himself aboard the Balerion sailing towards Kings Landing. The farther from his dragon he was the less safe he felt.

The Red Keep itself was impressive if one cared for such man made things. Where Dragonstone itself had been fashioned by both slave, sorcery and dragonfire, the Red Keep was merely something fashioned by man though impressive. He was cautious though, the guard around him vigilant. The rose gold dragons that crowned his head jeweled with the fire opals that belonged to his family alone.

“Lord Lysander Moonshadow of House Balaur, First of his Name, Lord of the Shadows, Lord of Dragons, sovereign of Dragonstone”, his title announced to the woman fixed upon what monstrosity he could only imagine was a throne.

#gcldenlioness #Last of the Dragonlords [ a s o i a f ]#//i didnt' know how they would meet but hope this is okay for you.

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dragonmartellstark · 4 years ago

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AU Targaryen: Best destinations for the children of Jaehaerys I & Alysanne (2/13)

Daenerys I (53 a. C.-125 a. C.) Queen of Seven Kingdoms

Daenerys Targaryen was the second daughter of Kings Jaehaerys I and Alysanne Targaryen. She was considered the closest to her mother with whom she spent her afternoons playing, studying and walking around the Red Keep. The princess had a good relationship with her older brother, Aegon and with her younger brothers who little by little came to the world.

In 59 a. C., she spread a disease known as chills rapidly affecting all of Westeros. The princess contracted that disease being a real pain for her and for her parents who feared for her possible death. King Jaehaerys looked for all the ways to make his daughter feel better, but he quickly demanded a dragon egg for his daughter, this one being as white as porcelain with a light blue beta in the center. Daenerys slept as she could day and night with that egg & it is known that her health improved little by little as the days passed by being almost a miracle due to the high mortality rate that was due to the plague.

Shortly after her egg was delivered to him, the White dragon was born, a creature with white scales and melon eyes. After her birth, little Daenerys began to recover even though her parents decided not to let her leave her rooms for fear of collapse. By the end of 60 a. C., the princess had already left her chambers showing herself as the happy, energetic and mischievous girl that she used to be.

After the plague ceased, the kings formalized the engagement between Daenerys and her older brother, Aegon in 62 a. C. Daenerys and her brother had a good relationship and it was thought that they could be similar to the same parents as hers. Three years later, the wedding of the princes took place, which made Daenerys the princess of Dragonstone and future queen of the Seven Kingdoms.

In 67 a. C., Daenerys rode her White dragon for the first time from the Capital to the Valley of Arryn with her mother Queen Alysanne & since then the princess developed a passion for flying.

After a couple of years of marriage, Aegon and Daenerys became parents in 71 a. C., of a girl, Alysanne who would be Lady of Brightwater Keep. The birth of her daughter was a great joy and she is described as a loving & caring mother. Two years later her second daughter was born, Daena, who would be her favorite and her husband's, even though this pregnancy disappointed many courtiers who were waiting for the arrival of a boy.

In 74 a. C., the expected son of her, Aegon, was born, but he died after two months being a painful death for Daenerys who spent three days mourning the death of her little one.

Two years after the death of her little Aegon of hers, a Maerys girl was born who would become Lady of Rock Casterly, but this birth was disappointing to the court. It took Daenerys two years to get pregnant again and this time she had a child, Aenar, who seemed to be in good health, this birth being very celebrated by all.

The couple's life changed suddenly when in 81 a. C., her little girl Daena died of tuberculosis shortly after having delivered her dragon egg. The death of the princess destroyed her entire family, especially her parents who did not get the idea of having lost her little girl. This event distanced the princes, but they quickly sought to reconcile and continue living a normal life, being born in 84 a. C., a boy named Daeron who would be Counselor of the Currency.

After a trip to Dorne to visit her little sister Saera, together with her parents they decided to commit the young Maerys to Lord Tymond Lannister, achieving alliances with the West after various tensions between the two Houses. A year later Daenerys gives birth to her last daughter, Shaera, who would marry Lord Arryn, son of Rodrik Arryn.

Her life remained quiet for ten years until 100 a. C., her mother Alysanne passed away, her death being very painful for her children and Westeros, but her father was broken when her great love died. Daenerys became the most important woman in the Capital and both she and her husband were in charge of the regency of the kingdom as her father was very ill and even hurt by the death of her wife.

Three years later her father died and the princes were crowned a few months after the death of her father. The couple was applauded and praised by the people who expected a lot from the children of the Conciliator and La Kindness. Daenerys was involved in the care of her children forever, but she also focused on her personal relationships and foreign politics. The queen founded a small women's association called "women's convent" where a group of noble or low-status women met in the queen's rooms dressed in some white garment to talk about all kinds of topics, especially intrigues & political problems. happening in the Seven Kingdoms.

In 108 a. C., was born his grandson, Aenys Targaryen, son of his heir Aenar Targaryen. This birth made the kings who had the succession assured very happy, but it is known that this tense closure added to the relations between Daenerys & Aegon with her daughter-in-law Jocasta Lannister who had a great desire for power. Four years after she passed away, her son, Aenar, supposedly from puerperal fever, and her death completely destroyed her, she had lost her "little dragon" and would never see him again.

The death of her son frightened her husband because if he died suddenly and her grandson was still a child, his mother could take the regency for her and it could be chaos. Aegon II in the end made the decision to declare his own wife as his heir, making him swear that when Prince Aenys reached the age of majority, she would retire from the throne & Daenerys accepted.

The next five years of her husband's reign were uneventful and Daenerys continued to meet with different women to be able to talk to what she was called "Politics" because of her great knowledge and the passion with which she had them. In 118 a. C., Aegon II passed away at the age of 65 and this death also hurt Daenerys since they had always been together through thick and thin. Following the funeral of her husband, Daenerys was crowned Daenerys I Targaryen, being the first queen regent in history.

After being crowned, one of her first decisions was to take her grandson away from her mother, Jocasta, and she was exiled shortly after her when she tried to kidnap her own son to force her mother-in-law. from her to leave the crown. Despite this great matter, Daenerys' reign was calm and without so many problems in between, focusing on acts of charity, giving Westeros a cultural growth and also focusing on caring for her grandson whom she loved as if he were her own. own son.

In 125 a. C., Daenerys I began to present various health problems having to stay in bed during the last days of her. In her agony, she was accompanied by Prince Aenys, whom she came to call by the name of her son, Aenar, thinking that he was reunited with her little one. After three months of illness, the queen she died that same year of heart problems at the age of 72, being cremated and her ashes were buried next to those of her husband.

Long before her death, she dictated a will where she declared Aenys, who was only 16 years old, to be of legal age and to marry her cousin, Saera Targaryen, who was the second daughter of Prince Valerion. In the end his conditions were approved and Aenys was crowned as Aenys II Targaryen, in addition to marrying her cousin who gave him five children including Daenerys who was named in honor of the queen.

Daenerys I (53 d. C.-125 d. C.) Reina de los Siete Reinos

Daenerys Targaryen era la segunda hija de los reyes Jaehaerys I y Alysanne Targaryen. Era considerada la mas cercana a su madre con la cual pasaba sus tardes jugando, estudiando y paseando por la Fortaleza Roja. La princesa tenia una buena relación con su hermano mayor, Aegon y con sus hermanos menores que poco a poco llegaban al mundo.

En 59 d. C., se propago una enfermedad conocida como escalofríos afectando rápidamente a todo Poniente. La princesa contrajo aquella enfermedad siendo un verdadero dolor para ella y para sus padres que temían por su posible muerte. El rey Jaehaerys busco todas las formas de hacer sentir mejor a su hija, pero rápidamente exigió un huevo de dragón para su hija siendo este uno tan blanco como la porcelana con una beta de color celeste en el centro. Daenerys dormía como podía día y noche con aquel huevo & se sabe que su salud mejoro poco a poco mientras los días pasaban siendo casi un milagro debido a la alta taza de mortalidad que había por la peste.

Al poco de serle entregado su huevo de este nació el dragón Blanca, una criatura con escamas blancas y ojos melón. Tras este nacimiento la pequeña Daenerys empezó a recuperarse aun que sus padres decidieron no dejarla salir de sus habitaciones por miedo a un colapso. Para finales del 60 d. C., la princesa ya había salido de sus aposentos mostrándose como la niña alegre, energética y traviesa que solía ser.

Tras cesar la peste, los reyes oficializaron el compromiso entre Daenerys y su hermano mayor, Aegon en 62 d. C.. Daenerys y su hermano tenían una buena relación y se llego a pensar que ellos podrían ser parecido a sus mismos padres. Tres años después se celebro la boda de los príncipes lo que convirtió a Daenerys en princesa de Rocadragón y futura reina de los Siete Reinos.

En 67 d. C., Daenerys monto por primera vez a su dragón Blanca desde la Capital hasta el Valle de Arryn junto a su madre la reina Alysanne & desde entonces la princesa desarrollo una pasión a volar.

Después de un par de años de matrimonio, Aegon y Daenerys se convirtieron en padres en 71 d. C., de una niña, Alysanne la cual sería Señora de Aguasclaras. El nacimiento de su hija fue una gran alegría y se le describe como una madre amorosa & atenta. Dos años después nació su segunda hija, Daena la cual sería su favorita y la de su marido, aun que si bien este embarazo decepciono a muchos cortesanos que esperaban la llegada de un varón.

En 74 d. C., nació el esperado hijo, Aegon, pero este falleció a los dos meses siendo una muerte dolorosa para Daenerys que paso tres días llorando la muerte de su pequeño.

Dos años después de la muerte de su pequeño Aegon, nació una niña Maerys que sería Señora de Roca Casterly, pero este nacimiento fue decepcionante para la corte. Daenerys tardo dos años en volverse a quedar embarazada y esta vez tuvo un niño, Aenar que parecía tener buena salud siendo este nacimiento muy celebrado por todos.

La vida de la pareja cambio repentinamente cuando en 81 d. C., falleció su pequeña Daena de tuberculosis poco después de haberle entregado su huevo de dragón. La muerte de la princesa destrozo a toda su familia en especial a sus padres que no se hacían la idea de haber perdido a su pequeña. Este suceso distancio a los príncipes, pero rápidamente buscaron reconciliarse y seguir viviendo una vida normal naciendo en 84 d. C., un niño que se llamo Daeron que sería Consejero de la Moneda.

Tras un viaje a Dorne a visitar a su hermana pequeña Saera, junto a sus padres decidieron comprometer a la joven Maerys con Lord Tymond Lannister logrando alianzas con el Occidente después de diversas tensiones entre ambas Casas. Un años después Daenerys da a luz a su ultima hija, Shaera la cual se casaría con Lord Arryn, hijo de Rodrik Arryn.

Su vida siguió siendo tranquila por diez años hasta que en 100 d. C., falleció su madre Alysanne siendo su muerte muy dolorosa para sus hijos y Poniente, pero su padre quedo roto al morir su gran amor. Daenerys se convirtió en la mujer mas importante de la Capital y tanto ella como su marido se encargaron de la regencia del reino al estar su padre muy enfermo y aun dolido por la muerte de su esposa.

Tres años después falleció su padre y los príncipes fueron coronados unos meses después de la muerte de su padre. La pareja fue aplaudida y elogiada por el pueblo que esperaban mucho de los hijos del Conciliador y la Bondadosa. Daenerys se involucro en el cuidado de sus hijos desde siempre, pero también se centro en sus relaciones personales y en la politica exterior. La reina fundo una pequeña asociación de mujeres llamada “convento de mujer” donde un grupo de mujeres nobles o de bajo estatus se reunían en las habitaciones de la reina vestidas con alguna prenda blanca para hablar de todo tipo de temas en especial intrigas & problemas políticos que sucedían en los Siete Reinos.

En 108 d. C., nació su nieto, Aenys Targaryen, hijo de su heredero Aenar Targaryen. Este nacimiento alegro mucho a los reyes que tenían la sucesión asegurada, pero se sabe que este acotecimiento tenso mas las relaciones entre Daenerys & Aegon con su nuera Jocasta Lannister que tenia un gran deseo de poder. Cuatro años después falleció su hijo, Aenar supuestamente de fiebres puerperales y su muerte la destrozo por completo, había perdido a su “pequeño dragón” y no volvería a verle.

La muerte de su hijo atemorizo a su marido debido a que si el fallecía repentinamente y su nieto aun era un niño, la madre de este podría tomar la regencia para ella y podría ser un caos. Aegon II al final tomo la decisión de declarar como su heredera a su propia esposa haciéndole jurar que cuando el príncipe Aenys cumpliera la mayoría de edad, ella se retiraría del trono & Daenerys acepto.

Los siguientes cinco años del reinado de su marido fueron tranquilos y Daenerys siguió reuniéndose con diferentes mujeres para poder conversar a lo que fue llamada “La politica” por sus grandes conocimientos y la pasión con la que los contaba. En 118 d. C., Aegon II falleció a los 65 años por vejez y esta muerte también le dolió a Daenerys ya que ellos siempre habían estado juntos en las buenas & en las malas. Tras el funeral de su marido, Daenerys fue coronada como Daenerys I Targaryen siendo la primera reina regente de la historia.

Tras ser coronada, una de sus primeras decisiones fue alejar a su nieto de su madre, Jocasta y esta fue exiliada poco después cuando trato de secuestrar a su propio hijo para obligar a su suegra a dejar la corona. Pesé a este gran asunto, el reinado de Daenerys fue tranquilo y sin tantos problemas de por medio centrándose en los actos de caridad, en dar un crecimiento cultural a Poniente y también se centro en el cuidado de su nieto al que amaba como si fuera su propio hijo.

En 125 d. C., Daenerys I empezo a presentar diversos problemas de salud teniendo que permanecer en cama durante sus últimos días. En su agonía fue acompañada por el príncipe Aenys al cual llego a llamar por el nombre de su hijo, Aenar pensando que se reencontro con su pequeño. Tras tres meses de enfermedad, la reina falleció ese miso año de problemas del corazón a los 72 años de edad siendo incinerada y sus cenizas fueron enterradas al lado de las de su esposo.

Mucho antes de su muerte dicto un testamento donde declaraba a Aenys de solo 16 años como mayor de edad y que se casase con su prima, Saera Targaryen que era la segunda hija del príncipe Valerion. Al final sus condiciones fueron aprobadas y Aenys fue coronado como Aenys II Targaryen, además de casarse con su prima la cual le dio cinco hijos entre ellos Daenerys la cual fue nombrada en honor a la reina.

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madaboutasoiaf · 5 years ago

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Balerion, called the Black Dread, was ridden by Aegon I Targaryen during the Conquest. He was one of five dragons who had flown with Aenar the Exile from Valyria, the only one to survive until Aegon’s day. Other known riders of Balerion were King Maegor I Targaryen (known as the Cruel), Princess Aerea Targaryen and Viserys I Targaryen. Balerion died of old age in 94 AC, during the reign of Jaehaerys I Targaryen, at around 200 years old.

#gotedit #asoiafedit #valyrianscrolls #house targaryen #A Song of Ice and Fire #targaryenthursdays #balerion

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beyondmistland · 5 years ago

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Fire & Blood Rewrite: Daella Targaryen

Though frail and somewhat simple-minded, Daella had a gentle heart, becoming a constant fixture at her mother's charities and women's courts alongside the Lady Jocelyn, whose daughter, Rhaenys, she doted upon. Thus, it came as no surprise that when the princess turned sixteen (80 AC) she chose Rodrik Arryn to be her future husband. (Given her small size, the king and queen agreed that Daella should not be wed before her eighteenth nameday. They also agreed that she should wed outside of the family. "To show the realm that Our Favor is not unjust," Alysanne explained to one of her ladies-in-waiting.)

Though new to King's Landing Rodrik had quickly grown popular with court and commons alike for he was both a loving husband and a good father. (His first wife, Alyssa of House Dutton, had died that same year of an evil growth inside her heart.)

All agreed they were a fine match and so two years later they were wed on Dragonstone. The bride and groom's closest kin were the only ones in attendance. (To everyone's confusion, Vaegon deigned to appear.)

Ø Vaegon developed an odd friendship with his older sister, Septa Maegelle, over the issue of Greyscale when both were sent away in 73 AC. As a result, he failed to recover from the shock of her untimely death in 96 AC, growing so pale and frail that many mistook him for a ghost when Jaehaerys summoned him to King's Landing late in 101 AC. Alas, the journey back proved too much for Vaegon to endure and so the youngest Archmaester Oldtown had ever known died at Tumbleton that same year. He was thirty-eight years old.

On the last day of the year (82 AC) Daella gave birth to her first child following a long and difficult labor. Two years later (84 AC) she gave birth to her second child though the labor left her bedridden for well over a fortnight. Upon recovering, she told her lord husband "two is enough" and he agreed.

Ø Aemma Arryn grew to be a bold and beautiful woman who "knew her answer to any question before it was even asked". At her own request, Aemma wed her cousin, Viserys, late in 97 AC. Aemma possessed the blonde hair of House Arryn and the purple eyes of House Targaryen. (After Prince Baelon's death in 105 AC, she drowned herself in Blackwater Bay. The queen was twenty-three years old.)

Ø Aenar Arryn grew to be a polemic knight full of "queer thoughts". He had one child, Alysanne (or "Alys" for short), who married Prince Aegon Targaryen in 119 AC. (She died of a chest cold in 128 AC. The lady was twenty-seven years old.) Aenar possessed the brown hair of House Shett and the purple eyes of House Targaryen. (His paternal grandmother was from Gulltown.) In 100 AC he married the only child of Philip Reyne and Arra Kenning: Asha (or "Lady Ash" as he preferred to call her). The wedding attendants included Queen Alysanne, Princess Aemma, Princess Rhaenys, Lady Jocelyn, and Prince Baelon. (Queen Alysanne died a fortnight later.) Aenar's wife died of Greyscale in 118 AC. (The lady was thirty-five years old) He was one of the princess's fiercest partisans but also an enemy of her paternal uncles. He was exiled from King's Landing for inciting a riot against Queen Alicent's brothers, who were accused by him of having poisoned Queen Aemma. Aenar died of a sudden fever in 111 AC. He was twenty-seven years old. His grandson was born in 121 AC. His grandson was named for Lord Aerion. His grandson's mount was named Seath. (Previously claimed by Alysanne. Seath had blue eyes and white scales.) Prince Aegon's mount was named Smough. (Red of eye. Black of scale.)

Ø During her brief tenure as Lady of the Eyrie the princess became famous for commissioning translations of The Seven-Pointed Star and for sponsoring the Septons who went abroad to bring heathen souls into the light of the Faith. In this Daella was undoubtedly inspired by her older sister, Septa Maegelle, who she frequently corresponded with. (Septa Rhaella, on the other hand, became one of the Most Devout, attending the Great Council of 101 AC as well as the coronation of Viserys I before dying of old age in 105 AC.)

Ø Though she found Alyssa frightening Daella sent her older sister many gifts upon hearing of Prince Aegon's birth late in 83 AC. (In return, Alyssa visited her sister while on her first progress in 84 AC.)

Ø When Princess Alyssa and her namesake both died late in 84 AC Daella comforted her mother by coming back to court.

In 89 AC Daella built a new motherhouse for bastard children to honor her sister and grandmother's memory. While observing the builders at their work a tile fell from the rafters, knocking her insensate. The princess died three days later without ever waking up. She had counted five-and-twenty years on this earth. (As the queen lit her funeral pyre, she said, "Now comes the winter of Our Heart". Though the king's response was blunter, it was no less genuine. "We have lived too long.")

Ø A dirge was sung for her by Lady Jocelyn and Princess Gael.

Ø Rodrik Arryn died the following year (90 AC) of a broken heart. He was forty-six years old.

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nobodysuspectsthebutterfly · 6 years ago

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Was it GRRM's mistake when he said Aegon was originally the Lord of Dragonstone, and he mean't prince, or did the Targaryens never seek to claim Dragonstone as their own little kingdom? True, there was not much to rule in that island, but why did they decide to stay as dragon lords instead of saying "We're kings of this island now"

Not a mistake. When Aenar Targaryen moved from Valyria with all his family (including daughter Daenys the Dreamer), dragons (including Balerion), and possessions to Dragonstone in 126 BC, he didn’t set himself up as a king or prince, but rather the lord of the island.

In this, Aenar was continuing the standards of Valyrian society and government, which was not a monarchy, but rather a “freehold”, where every freeborn landowner (“freeholder”) had a say in its governance. (Technically. In practice, the Valyrian Freehold was actually ruled by the Lords Freeholder, the heads of the forty noble families of dragonlords.) See also the former Valyrian colony Volantis, where every freeborn landowner – male or female – elects the three Triarchs. See also how several other colonies were ruled by an archon, basically a governor elected by the Lords Freeholder, a tradition that continues today in the Free City of Tyrosh with its own freeholders. Note that even after the Doom of Valyria, none of the Free Cities went monarchial (the Prince of Pentos is an elected position, as are the three princes of Lorath). And the one surviving dragonlord in Essos, Aurion, who declared himself Emperor of Valyria, disappeared with his dragon and entire army after attempting to claim what remained of Valyria, proving to be a very bad example for any other surviving Valyrians with monarchial ambitions. (See also attempted-triarch-for-life Horonno.)

Back to Westeros. Please further note that those minor Valyrian families who had earlier come to Westeros, such as the Celtigars and Velaryons, had set themselves up as lords of their islands in the Narrow Sea. So when Lord Aenar Targaryen moved to the two-centuries-previously Valyrian-conquered island of Dragonstone, keeping his title of lord – but becoming a lord of Westeros rather than Valyria – was only natural. And after Valyria’s Doom twelve years later, Aenar the Exile continued as the Lord of Dragonstone. (The Celtigars and Velaryons became his bannermen.) Aenar’s son Gaemon was lord after him (with Daenys as his lady), followed by their son, and so on for more than a hundred years. Though the Targaryens during this century didn’t involve themselves much* in Westeros affairs, preferring to focus their attention on their own islands and on Essos. *(We know at the very least that they became allies with the lords of Massey’s Hook, growing closer to them than the Storm Kings were.)

So Aegon was born the son of Aerion Targaryen, Lord of Dragonstone, and became Lord of Dragonstone in his turn after his father died. (What kind of succession model the Targaryens used when they first came to Westeros we don’t know, but by Aegon’s time it was evidently male-preference primogentiture like the rest of Andal-tradition southern Westeros, as Visenya was the eldest of the three siblings.) As the lord of Dragonstone, Aegon visited various places in Westeros, dealt with a war between the Free Cities, and was approached by King Argilac Durrandon of the Stormlands. (Argilac the Storm King offered Aegon to take his daughter Argella as another bride, with the lands that comprise much of today’s Crownlands as her dowry. The fact that this would require Aegon to fight King Harren Hoare for possession of those lands was a plot he instantly recognized.)

Whether it was Argilac’s see-through “dowry” offer and the insult he returned to Aegon’s counter-offer, the constant wars between the Seven Kingdoms, some lesson Aegon learned in the Free Cities, or perhaps some other reason that made Aegon the Conqueror declare that he would be the sole king in Westeros from then onward, GRRM has yet to completely confirm. Nevertheless, whatever turned the so-called “imperialist” Valyrian expatriate Targaryens – who had been happy to be isolationist and non-interventionist, Essos-focused only, ruling only a couple of square miles for a whole century – into the conquerors of an entire continent (albeit ones who didn’t enforce any of their own customs on Westeros)… Well, alas, I doubt Fire & Blood will tell us anything more specific than what we already know. And especially if there is anything the maesters don’t know or would dismiss as Aegon’s motives (e.g. anything Septon Barth theorized), that truth will be in the books…

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Fire and Blood - German Preview Translation Part 1.

Disclaimer: it's been a while since I studied German, there's bound to be a few mistakes, any corrections are appreciated.

The Maesters of the Citadel, who preserve the history of Westeros, have been using Aegon's conquest as the starting point of their era for three hundred years. Births, deaths, battles and other events are either dated before Aegon's Conquest or after Aegon's Conquest.

The true scholar knows how imprecise such information is. Aegon Targaryen's Conquest of the Seven Kingdoms did not take place in a single day. More than two years elapsed between Aegon's landing and his coronation in Oldtown... and even after that the conquest was not yet complete because Dorne was not yet subjected. Occasional attempts were repeated during King Aegon's reign, even during the reign of his sons. Therefore, it is impossible to give an exact date for the end of the Wars of Conquest.

Even the start date is based on an erroneous idea. It is often mistakenly assumed that the reign of King Aegon I Targaryen began the day he landed at the mouth of the Black Water, at the foot of the three hills around which the city of King’s Landing would later rise. That's not true! The day of Aegon's Landing was celebrated by the king and his descendants, but the conqueror himself actually counted the years of his reign after the day he was anointed and crowned king in the Starry Sept of Oldtown by the High Septon of Faith. This coronation took place two years after Aegon's Landing, some time after the Targaryens defeated and won the three major battles in the Wars of Conquest. As you can see, most of Aegon's actual conquest took place one to two years before Aegon's conquest.

The Targaryens came from the purest Valyrian blood and were dragonlords of an old sex(?). Twelve years before the Doom of Valyria, Aenar Targaryen sold his possessions in the Free Hold and in the Land of the Always Summer and moved with his consorts, his possessions, slaves, dragons, siblings, children and relatives to Dragonstone, a desolate island citadel under a smoking mountain in the Narrow Sea.

At its peak, Valyria was the largest city in the known world, the center of civilization. Behind its glittering walls, forty rival houses vied for power and glory in court and council, and rose and fell in the endless, volatile and often violent struggle for dominion. The Targaryens were by far not the most powerful of the Dragon Lords, and their rivals condemned their flight to Dragonstone as an act of capitulation and cowardice. But Lord Aenar's virgin daughter, Daenys, who forever made history as Daenys the Dreamer, had foreseen the Doom of Valyrias by fire. And when, twelve years later, the fatality came over Valyria, the Targaryens were the only dragon lords to survive.

Dragonstone had been the westernmost outpost of Valyrian power for two centuries. It’s position across the throat allowed it’s masters to strangle the Blackwater Bay, so both the Targaryen and their close allies, the Velaryons of Driftmark (a lower house of Valyrian origin), were able to enrich trade in the region. The Velaryon fleet, along with another Valyrian house, the Celtigars of Claw Island, controlled the middle area of the Narrow Sea, while the Targaryen ruled the sky with their dragons.

Nevertheless, for most of the first hundred years after the Doom (which is aptly called the Century of the Blood), Targaryen's eyes turned eastward rather than westward, showing little interest in Westeros. Gaemon Targaryen, brother and consort of Daenys the Dreamer, followed Aenar the Exile as Lord of Dragonstone and became famous as Gaemon the Glorious. Gaemon's son Aegon and his daughter Elaena reigned together after his death. They were followed by their son Maegon, his brother Aerys and Aerys' sons Aelyx, Baelon and Daemion. The last of the three brothers was Daemion, whose son Aerion eventually became Lord of Dragonstone.

Then Aegon, known to history as Aegon the Conqueror and Aegon the Dragon, was born in 27 B.C. on Dragonstone. He was the only son and second child of Aerion, Lord of Dragonstone, and Lady Valaena of House Velaryon, who was half Targaryen through her mother. Aegon had two siblings, an older sister, Visenya, and a younger sister, Rhaenys. For a long time it had been the custom of the Valyrian Dragonlords to marry brother to sister to keep the blood pure, but Aegon took both sisters to wife. By tradition, he would only have had to marry his older sister Visenya; Taking Rhaenys as a second wife was unusual, if not without historical precedent. Some said Aegon married Visenya out of duty, but Rhaenys because he desired her.

All three siblings had already proved themselves as Dragonlords before their wedding. Of the five dragons that had flown with Aenar the Exile to Dragonstone,only one lived in Aegon's days: the great beast Balerion the Black Dread. The other two, Vhagar and Meraxes, were younger and first hatched on Dragonstone.

Among the ignorant, is the myth that Aegon Targaryen never set foot on the continent's soil before the day he set sail to conquer Westeros, but this cannot be true. Years before this voyage, at Lord Aegon's behest, the painted panel had been carved and decorated: a huge wooden panel, about fifty feet long, in the shape of the landmass of Westeros, painted with all the forests and rivers and cities and castles of the Seven Kingdoms. Apparently, Aegon had long been interested in Westeros long before the events that drove him to war. There are also reliable accounts of a young Aegon and his sister Visenya's stay in the Citadel of Oldtown, as well as a visit to hawk on the Arbor as guests of Lord Rothweyn. He could have also visited Lannisport. Here contradict the sources.

In Aegon's youth, Westeros was divided into seven contentious kingdoms, and there were hardly times when two or three of these kingdoms did not wage war against each other. The wide, cold and stony north was ruled by the Starks of Winterfell. In the deserts of Dorne, the word of the princes of the House Martell was law. The gold-rich Westerlands dominated by the Lannisters of Casterly Rock, the fertile expanse the Gardener of Highgarden. The Vale, the Fingers and the Mountains of the Moon belonged to House Arryn. But the most wary kings of Aegon's times ruled the two kingdoms closest to Dragonstone - Harren the Black and Argilac the Arrogant.

From Storm’s End, the Storm Kings of House Durrandon once ruled the eastern half of Westeros from Eagle Cape to Crab Bay, but their power had been dwindling for centuries. The Kings of Reach had taken over areas in the west, the Dornish pressed them to the south, and Harren the Black and his Ironborn drove them away from the Trident and from the lands north of the Blackwater. King Argilac, the last Durrandon, was able to stop this decline for some time as a boy when turning back a Dornish invasion. Then he crossed the Narrow Sea, where he joined the great alliance against the "Tigers" of Volantis; Twenty years later he killed Garse VII, the King of the Reach, in the battle of Summerfield. But then age had caught up with Argilac: his famous black mane had turned gray and his strength in the fight had diminished.

North of the Blackwater, Harren the Back from House Hoare, the king of the Iron Islands and the Rivers, dominated the Riverlands with a bloody hand. Harren's grandfather Harwyn Hoare, an Ironborn, had taken over Trident from Argilac's grandfather Arrec, whose ancestors had cast down the last River King centuries before. Harren's father had extended his rule east to Duskendale and Rosby. Harren himself dedicated nearly forty years of his rule to building a huge castle on the God’s Eye, but as Harrenhal neared completion, the Ironborn were ready for new conquests.

No king in Westeros was more feared than Harren the Black, who was known in all Seven Kingdoms for his legendary cruelty. And no king in Westeros felt more threatened than Argilac the Storm King, the last Durrandon - an aging warrior whose sole heir was his virgin daughter. And so it came about that Argilac turned to the Targaryens on Dragonstone and offered Lord Aegon the hand of his daughter, with a dowry of all land east of the God's Eye from the Trident to the Blackwater.

Aegon Targaryen rejected the offer of the Storm King. He already has two wives, he explained, and do not need a third. In addition, the offered dowry of the lands had already been part of Harrenhal for over a generation, so Argilac could not give it away. Obviously, the aging Storm King wanted the Targaryens on the Blackwater to be a buffer between his own lands and those of Harrens the Black.

But the Lord of Dragonstone made him a counter offer. He would take the lands offered to him if Argilac additionally left him Massey's hook and the forests and plains south of the Blackwater to the Wendwater and the Manders. The pact was to be sealed by the marriage of Argilac's daughter to Orys Baratheon, Lord Aegon's knight and childhood friend.

Argilac angrily rejected this proposal. It was rumored that Orys Baratheon was an illegitimate half-brother of Lord Aegon of low birth. The Storm King did not want to dishonor his daughter by giving her hand to a bastard. But the suggestion angered him beyond measure. Argilac cut off the hands of Aegon’s messenger and sent them back to him in a box. "These are the only hands your bastard will get from me," he wrote.

Aegon did not answer. Instead, he called his friends, vassals, and allies to Dragonstone. Their numbers was small. The Velaryons of Driftmark were bound by oath to House Targaryen, as well as the Celtigars of Claw Isle. From Massey's Hook came Lord Bar Emmon of Sharp Point and Lord Massey of Stonedance, both of whom were bound to Storm’s End by oath, but had closer ties to Dragonstone. Lord Aegon and his sisters conferred with them and even visited the castle sept together to pray to the Faith of the Seven, though Aegon had not been known for his piety until then.

On the seventh day, a flock of ravens flew from Dragonstone's towers, carrying Lord Aegon's word into the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. The birds flew to the Seven Kings, to the Citadel of Oldtown, to lords large and small. All of them carried the same message: From that day on, there would only be one king in Westeros. Anyone who would bend the knee to Aegon Targaryen will keep his lands and titles. Those who raise arms against him will be cast down, humiliated and destroyed.

The reports of the number of men that started with Aegon and his sisters on Dragonstone are contradictory. Some call three thousand, others count only hundreds. This modest Targaryen army landed at the mouth of the Black Water, on the north shore, where three wooded hills rose above a small fishing village.

In the days of the One Hundred Kingdoms, many petty kings had claimed control of the estuary, including the Darklyns of Duskendale, the Masseys of Stonedance and the Ancient River Kings, whether Mud, Fisher, Bracken, Blackwood or Hook. Time and again, towers and festivals crowned the three hills, only to be destroyed in this or that war afterwards. Now only broken stones and overgrown ruins welcomed the Targaryens. Although both Storm’s End and Harrenhal claimed the estuary, it was not defended, and the next castles were held by lesser lords without great power or military strength, and Lords, who had little reason to love their lord, Harren the Black.

Aegon Targaryen fortified the highest hill with a wood and earth palisade and sent his sisters to subjugate the neighboring castles. Rosby surrendered to Rhaenys and her gold eyed Meraxes without a fight. At Stokeworth, some crossbowmen shot bolts at Visenya until Vhagar's flames set fire to the roofs of the castle. After that, they also surrendered.

The first real challenge for the Conqueror was represented by Lord Darklyn of Duskendale and Lord Muton of Maidenpool, who banded together and marched southward with three thousand men to throw the invaders back into the sea. Aegon dispatched Orys Baratheon, who was supposed to ambush her while he was on the move, while he himself plunged from the air with the Black Dread. Both Lords fell in unequal battle. Then Lord Darklyn’s son and Muton's brother handed over their castles and swore their swords House Targaryen. At that time, Duskendale was the most important port of Westeros on the Narrow Sea and rich in trade. Visenya Targaryen forbade the plunder of the city, but did not hesitate to claim its riches, which filled the conquerors' chests.

This passage might be worth a few words about the different characters of Aegon Targaryen’s his sister-wives and queens.

Visenya, the eldest of the three, was as ferocious a warrior as Aegon himself, and felt as much at home in a chain mail as in silk. She wore a Valyrian steel longsword, Dark Sister, whom she could handle with great expertise because she had been practicing weapons with her brother since early childhood. Although she was blessed with the silver-gold hair and violet eyes of Valyria, her beauty was rather harsh. Even those who loved her described Visenya as stern, serious and vindictive. Some even said that she played around with poisons and was involved with dark magic.

Rhaenys, the youngest of the three, embodied the exact opposite of her sister. She was playful, curious, impulsive, and was fond of reverie. Rhaenys was not a true warrior, but she loved music, dance and poetry and supported singers, mimes and puppeteers. Still, it is said that Rhaenys spent more time on the back of her dragon than her brother and sister together, because she loved flying over everything. Once she is said to have said that before she died, she wanted to fly to Meraxes over the Sunset Sea to see what lay on its west coast. While no one ever questioned Visenya's loyalty to her brother's consort, Rhaenys surrounded himself with handsome young men and, it was whispered, had fun in bed with some of them when Aegon spent the night with her older sister. Despite these rumors, observers at court did not fail to notice that for every night Aegon spent with Visenya, he spent ten with Rhaenys.

Strangely enough, Aegon Targaryen himself was just as much a mystery to his contemporaries as he is to us. He was one of the greatest warriors of his time and wielded Blackfyre, a blade of Valyrian steel. Nevertheless, he had not much love for weapon acts and rode neither in the tournament, nor he fought in buhurt. His dragon was Balerion the Black Dread, but he only rode it for battle or to travel over land and sea. Thanks to his commanding manner, he found it easy to gather men to his banners, but apart from Orys Baratheon, the companion of his youth, he had no close friends. Women were attracted to him, but Aegon remained faithful to his sister-wives. As a king, he entrusted many tasks to his Small Council and his sisters, leaving them with much of the day-to-day affairs of government, but he did not hesitate to take matters into his own hands whenever he thought necessary. He went to court with rebels and traitors, but he was always generous to former enemies who bent the knee.

He proved this for the first time in the Aegonfort, the simple wooden and earth ramp he had erected on the mountain, which was now to be called Aegon's High Hill. After taking a dozen castles and securing the mouth of the Blackwater on both shores, he commanded the defeated lords to his side. They laid their swords at his feet, but Aegon helped them up and confirmed them in their lands and titles. He gave his oldest followers new honors. Daemon Velaryon, Lord of the Tides, called him Master of the Ships and gave him command of the Royal Fleet. Triston Massey, Lord of Stonedance, was appointed Master of Laws, Crispian Celtigar the Master of Coin. And he called Orys Baratheon "my faithful shield and retainer, my strong, right-hand man." Therefore, Orys Baratheon is considered the first Hand of the King.

Coat of arms had long been a tradition among the Lords of Westeros, but the Ancient Lords of Valyria had never used such a thing. When Aegon's knights unrolled his great battle standard of silk, showing a red, fire-breathing dragon with three heads on a black background, the lords took this as a sign that he had truly become one of their own, a worthy High King of Westeros. When Queen Visenya set her brother a ruby-studded Valyrian steel hoop on his head and Queen Rhaenys proclaimed him as "Aegon, the first of His name, King of all Westeros and Shield of His people," the dragons roared, and the lords and knights cheered ... but the loudest among them were the fishermen and field workers and women.

Only the seven kings Aegon intended to dethrone the dragon did not rejoice. In Harrenhal and Storm’s End, Harren the Black and Argilac, who had already called the arrogant, called the banners. In the west, King Mern rode from the Reach up the Ocean Road northward to Casterly Rock, to meet King Loren of House Lannister. The Princess of Dorne sent a raven to Dragonstone and offered support to Aegon in the fight against Argilac the Storm King ... but as an equal ally, not a subject. Another alliance offer came from the child king of the Vale, Ronnel Arryn, whose mother offered to support Aegon against Harren the Black, and in return demanded all lands east of the Green Fork of the Trident. Even in the north, King Torrhen Stark of Winterfell sat with his lords and advisors late into the night and discussed how to deal with this would-be conqueror. The whole kingdom was anxiously awaited Aegon's next move.

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