#people know rhaegar as rhaegar the matchmaker because damn bro

[west1rosi]

THE REIGN OF THE DRAGON VERSE: RHAEGAR LIVES AU.

The rebellion starts after Rhaegar takes Lyanna Stark and King Aerys takes the lives of Brandon Stark and his father. Robert Baratheon and Ned Stark rise their banners and go to war. But instead of dying at the hands of Robert, Rhaegar arrives to a new accord; deposing his father Aerys as the new King in the realm, and mantaining his marriage with Elia. However, Lyanna still dies in a bed of blood and Ned Stark, finding his sister after childbirth, takes the child as his own, no one doubting the boy's Stark looks and the news that Lady Ashara had been pregnant. Now, with a Kingdom in a shaking state and the dragon's head having been cut to one (or so he thinks), Rhaegar plans to arrange political marriages in order to mantain peace in the realm.

a few key details:

viserys would still marry dorne to reinforce that alliance after the disaster that happened with lyanna. viserys would marry arianne.

robert and cersei are still married. and while the marriage is not as sour as in the main storyline,they are both unhappy.

cersei and jaime still did the targ and had the three children. however, jaime was pardoned by rhaegar under the conditions he became the lord of casterly rock.

he was bethroded to orysa baratheon (oc), robert's youngest sister and when she became of age, two moons past, they got married, once again to settle the baratheon alliance.

robb stark becomes engaged to princess daenerys targaryen to solidify the northern alliance.

direwolves are still appearing on the south of the wall and dragons will show up eventually, via dany's hand.

theon greyjoy was politically engaged to roslin frey however, he deicded to iniciate another political incident by marrying jeyne poole instead, breaking off her alliance with ramsey bolton (because fuck that guy).

prince aegon and sansa stark are to be wed.

joffrey baratheon is engaged to princess rhaenys, however, he has fallen"mysteriously" ill and soon dies. the rumors is that dorne via oberyn martell kill him.

to solidify the northern alliance once more, rhaegar legitimizes jon snow (unaware he is his son still) as a stark and sets an engagement with myrcella. jon is. . .not thrilled.

cersei still has her main fantasy man rhaegar alive so she is scheming to get close to that dragon's scale wink wink.

ned stress level must be always above 80% in any universe. with rhaegar legitimizing jon, that stress is peak.

robert suspects of the death of his son and rhaegar's cover up of it all and is one bad day away from starting the rebellion 2.0.

daenerys found three dragons eggs digging in the dragonpit. there is still a secret fourth dragon egg at winterfell, but shhh.

littlefinger would absolutely find out jon is rhaegar's son by lyanna.

my wifey mari made this flow chart: