#vaemond game me ned stark vibes last night..........
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kellyvela · 2 years ago
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That scene with Vaemond being murdered in court for speaking out about being robbed of their ancestral home was a sign of things to come for everyone. Don’t seek justice in Rhaenyra’s reign. No rules apply to them and they will continue to do as they wish and violently silence anyone who speaks the truth. I think there would have been a war even without the Greens. The Blacks created an environment where they gave anyone disenfranchised multiple justifications for rebellion against the Targs.
Vaemond's fate was worse in F&B:
That same year, across Blackwater Bay, the Sea Snake was stricken by a sudden fever. As he took to his bed, surrounded by maesters, the issue arose as to who should succeed him as Lord of the Tides and Master of Driftmark should the sickness claim him. With both his trueborn children dead, by law his lands and titles should pass to his eldest grandson, Jacaerys…but since Jace would presumably ascend the Iron Throne after his mother, Princess Rhaenyra urged her good-father to name instead her second son, Lucerys. Lord Corlys also had half a dozen nephews, however, and the eldest of them, Ser Vaemond Velaryon, protested that the inheritance by rights should pass to him…on the grounds that Rhaenyra’s sons were bastards sired by Harwin Strong. The princess was not slow in answering this charge. She dispatched Prince Daemon to seize Ser Vaemond, had his head removed, and fed his carcass to her dragon, Syrax.
Even this did not end the matter, however. Ser Vaemond’s younger cousins fled to King’s Landing with his wife and sons, there to cry for justice and place their claims before the king and queen. King Viserys had grown extremely fat and red of face, and scarce had the strength to mount the steps to the Iron Throne. His Grace heard them out in a stony silence, then ordered their tongues removed, every one. “You were warned,” he declared, as they were being dragged away. “I will hear no more of these lies.”
And you are right, there will always be war with Targaryens in the Iron Throne. F&B is a book full of wars and rebellions against them and between them.
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