#they do have a baby though! but maegara put the baby in the care of one of her maids and then the maid just disappears into history

[darkestspring]

What would Alexsander and Maegara be known as throughout the histories when it passes down to Daenerys? What were their accomplishments during the Dance of the Dragons?

If it ain’t too much to spoil

Aleksander is known throughout history as the executioner. when i say that aleksander's loyalty resides only with maegara, it's not a lie.

aleksander wasn't abused by his hightower family but he was the middle child, the need to prove his worth by basicaslly selling himself was imposed on him heavily. what he wanted to do and what he liked didn't matter, all that mattered was to prove himself useful and worthy of the hightower name in the eyes of his father, uncle and other family members.

daemon was heavily against having him as his daughter's personal guard, dismissing him as nothing more than an eyesore. even rhaenyra disliked him, seeing him as a spy put there by otto. maegara was the first person to show him an ounce of kindness, so his devotion towards her is something that's basically unbreakable.

he followers her every command and order and even takes her suggestions to heart. he becomes increasingly more harsh as war breaks out between targaryens, everyone who aims for maegara's head, will end up dead by aleksander's hand.

aleksander and maegara live in peace for a few months before news of lucerys' death reaches them and maegara mourns terribly.

aleksander takes extreme offense to this, disliking the death of the boy and disliking the pain it put his princess is in and basically vows to bring her aemond's head.

which he kind of does. after the battle between aemond and daemon, he brings daemon's body to rhaenyra and aemond's head to maegara.

maegara and aleksander live in relative peace for a few years, maegara traumatized by being forced to watch sunfyre eat her stepmother's body, develops very frail health which she eventually passes from about five years after rhaenyra's death and aleksander basically dies from a broken heart.

their story is passed down as a bedtime story for other targaryens, about the pureblooded dragon princess and her loyal executioner. about a princess who kindness outweighed everything and a man who would have set the world on fire if there was the chance that the fire would have warmed her.

its one of the many stories that viserys iii tells to daenerys.