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Guys, I talk about the Targaryen Dynasty so my account has HOTD spoilers because I quote Fire and Blood. It's annoying to always have someone complaining and cursing me for it. If you don't feel comfortable with spoilers, just mute or block me. I promise I won't get mad ❤️🔥
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"Then Viserys of House Targaryen closed his eyes and went to sleep. He never woke. He was 52, and had reigned over most of Westeros for 26 years. Then the storm broke, and the dragons danced."
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"[Daemon Targaryen] was the grandson of a king, the brother of a king, husband to a queen. Two of his sons and three of his grandsons would sit the Iron Throne."
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"Your girls are the very image of their mother. A confort and an anguish, as I well remember."
- Viserys I Targaryen.
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"Even with Blackfyre in your hand, you are only one man," she told him,
"and I cannot always be with you."
- Visenya and Aegon Targaryen.
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"An eye for an eye, a son for a son," Prince Daemon wrote. "Lucerys shall be avenged."
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"I will
not spend a year upon a horse, sleeping in strange beds and trading empty
courtesies with drunken lords, half of whom would gladly see me dead if it
gained them a groat. If any man requires words with me, he will find me on
the Iron Throne."
- Aegon III Targaryen.
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"Queen Rhaenyra collapsed when told of Luke's death.
[...] As the black council sat to consider how to strike
back, a raven arrived from Harrenhal. "An eye for an eye, a son for a son," Prince Daemon wrote. "Lucerys shall be avenged."
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"Daenerys is our hope. Tell them that, at the Citadel. Make them listen. They must send her a maester. Daenerys must be counseled, taught, protected. For all these years I've lingered, waiting, watching, and now that the day has dawned I am too old. I am dying, Sam."
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"I have never known anyone so strong as my sweet nephews," he ended. "So let us drain our cups to these three strong boys."
- Aemond Targaryen.
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"I fed my last husband to my dragon. If you make me take another, I may eat him myself."
- Rhaena Targaryen and Dreamfyre.
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"Visenya drew dark sister and slashed him across the cheek so quickly the guards had no time to react. "Your guards are slow and lazy," she said. "I could have killed you as easily as I cut you." King Aegon, bleeding, had no choice but to
agree."
- Visenya and Aegon Targaryen.
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"It was written that king Aegon himself wept the first time his granddaughter [Rhaena] was placed in his arms, and thereafter doted upon the child…mayhaps in some part because she reminded him of his lost queen, Rhaenys, in whose memory she had been named."
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"[...] Aegon the Conqueror,
who was my brother, my husband, and my love."
- Visenya and Aegon Targaryen.
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"But Queen Alysanne firmly put the thought aside. "Alyssa is for Baelon," she declared. "She has been following him around since she could walk."
- Alyssa, Baelon and their boys Viserys I and Daemon Targaryen.
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"Lady Baela, who sent him on his way with a kiss, and the news that she was with child. "Name him Corlys, after my grandsire," Lord Alyn told her. "One day he may sit the Iron Throne." Baela laughed at that. "I will name her Laena, after my mother. One day she may ride a dragon."
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"the queen held the first of her women's
courts, [...] Only women and girls were welcome at these audiences; highborn or
low, they were encouraged to come forward and share their fears, concerns,
and hopes with the young queen."
- Alysanne Targaryen, also know as Good Queen
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"When Prince Maegor's turn came, Aenys drew him back to his feet, kissed his cheek, and said, "Brother, you need never kneel to me again. We shall rule this realm together, you and I."
- Aenys and Maegor Targaryen, both children of Aegon the Conqueror.
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“Though shattered by his loss [Alyssa], Baelon took solace in the two strong sons that she had left him, Viserys and Daemon, and never ceased to honor the memory of his sweet lady with the broken nose and mismatched eyes."
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"His daughter was his life’s great joy, he often said."
- Viserys and Rhaenyra Targaryen.
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"Rhaenyra Targaryen was a precocious child, bright and bold
and beautiful as only one of dragon’s blood can be beautiful. At seven, she
became a dragonrider, taking to the sky on the young dragon she named
Syrax, after a goddess of old Valyria."
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"When Viserys sold their mother's crown, the last joy had gone from him, leaving only rage."
- Viserys and Daenerys Targaryen
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"Their rivals saw their flight to Dragonstone
as cowardice. But Lord Aenar's daughter
Daenys, known forever afterward as Daenys the Dreamer,had foreseen the destruction of Valyria by fire. And when the Doom came 12 yrs later,the Targaryens were the only dragonlords to survive."
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"It was bad weather for flying, even
for a dragon [..] Prince Aemond
mounted Vhagar and went after him. Had the sky been calm, Prince
Lucerys might have been able to outfly his pursuer, for Arrax was younger
and swifter…but the day was "as black as Prince Aemond's heart"
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"It has been written that while Daeron warred and Baelor prayed, Viserys ruled. For fourteen years he served as Hand to his nephews, and before them he served his brother, King Aegon III. It is said he was the shrewdest Hand since Septon Barth"
- Viserys II Targaryen
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"You were made for battles, and I was made for this. Viserys and Daemon and Aegon, that's three. As soon as I am well, let's make another. I want to give you twenty sons. An army of your own!"
- Alyssa and her husband Baelon Targaryen.
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"Women were drawn to him, but he remained ever faithful to his sisters. As king, he put great trust in his small council and his sisters, leaving much of the day-to-
day governance of the realm to them."
- Visenya, Aegon and Rhaenys Targaryen.
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"Prince Baelon had not ceased smiling since his marriage. When not aloft, Baelon and Alyssa spent every hour together, most oft in their bedchamber."
- Alyssa and Baelon Targaryen. They had 3 boys: Viserys, Daemon and Aegon Targaryen.
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[…] Though far from blind to his brother's flaws, he cherished his memories of the free-spirited, adventurous boy that Daemon had been. His daughter was his life's great joy, he often said, but a brother is a brother."
- Viserys and Daemon Targaryen.
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"Rhaenyra has already declared that she is to have a sister. She even named her. Visenya."
"The dead girl had been named Visenya, Princess Rhaenyra announced the next day, when milk of the poppy had blunted the edge of
her pain."
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"Aegon the Conqueror brought fire and blood to Westeros, but afterward he gave them peace, prosperity, and justice."
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"In 77 AC Alyssa gave her brave prince a son they named Viserys. [...] Against all advice, his mother clapped the boy in swaddling clothes,
strapped him to her chest, and took him aloft on Meleys when he was nine
days old. Afterward she claimed Viserys giggled the whole while."
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"Lady Baela, who sent him on his way with a kiss, and the news that she was with child. "Name him Corlys, after my grandsire," Lord Alyn told her. "One day he may sit the Iron Throne." Baela laughed at that. "I will name her Laena, after my mother. One day she may ride a dragon."
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"No true warrior, Rhaenys loved music, dancing, and poetry,
and supported many a singer, mummer [...] Yet it was said that Rhaenys spent more
time on dragonback than her brother and sister combined, for above all things she loved to fly."
- Rhaenys Targaryen and Meraxes
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"Lucerys Velaryon died with his dragon. This is undoubtedly correct. The prince was thirteen years of age. His body was
never found. And with his death, the war of ravens and envoys and
marriage pacts came to an end, and the war of fire and blood began in
earnest."
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"It is said that when he saw his mother again, he fell into her arms and
wept. "I slew a thousand of them," he said, "but it will not bring him [his brother Aemon] back."
And the queen stroked his hair and said, "I know, I know."
- Baelon and his mother Alysanne Targaryen.
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"Dear brother. I had hoped
that you were dead."
"After you," Aegon answered. "You are the elder."
"I am pleased to know that you remember that," Rhaenyra answered. "[...] My leal lords will find me."
"If they search the seven hells, mayhaps," the king made answer
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"Dear brother. I had hoped
that you were dead."
"After you," Aegon answered. "You are the elder."
"I am pleased to know that you remember that," Rhaenyra answered."
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"Over the centuries, House Targaryen has produced great men and monsters. Prince Daemon was both. [...] He was made of light and darkness in equal parts. To some he was a hero, to others the blackest of villains."
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"Daenerys is our hope. Tell them that, at
the Citadel. Make them listen. They must send her a maester.
Daenerys must be counseled, taught, protected. For all these years
I've lingered, waiting, watching, and now that the day has dawned I
am too old. I am dying, Sam."
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"Viserys was a child, and the queen sheltered him as much as she could."
- According to Ser Barristan Selmy, Queen Rhaella did her best to protect her son Viserys from Aerys's abuses.
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"In 47 AC, Maegor took three women to wife in a single ceremony— all women of proven fertility, and all widows who had lost their husbands to Maegor's wars or at his command. They were: Elinor Costayne, Rhaena Targaryen and Jeyne Westerling."
- The Black Brides
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"One of my ancestors had the Water Gardens built to please his Targaryen bride and free her from the dust and heat of Sunspear. Daenerys was her name [...] it was her marriage that made Dorne part of the Seven Kingdoms."
- Daenerys Targaryen and Maron Martell
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"Though his fifteenth nameday was still half a year away, Prince Jacaerys proved himself a man, and a worthy heir to the Iron Throne."
- Jacaerys Velaryon, son of Rhaenyra Targaryen and Laenor Velaryon.
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"Visenya, eldest of the three siblings, was as much a warrior as Aegon himself, as comfortable in
ringmail as in silk. Even those who loved her best found
Visenya stern, serious, unforgiving, and some said that she played with poisons and dabbled in
dark sorceries.
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"[...] Their older
siblings Baelon and Alyssa had become inseparable, and plans were already
being made for them to wed."
- Alyssa and Baelon Targaryen. They got married and had 3 boys: Viserys, Daemon and Aegon ❤️
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"Viserys's return did much to lessen the king's loneliness as well [...] Only when Viserys was restored to
him did Aegon seem once more alive and whole."
- Viserys II was taken captive and presumed dead during the Dance. He returned early in the reign of his brother, Aegon III.
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"As the year waned, she [Rhaenyra] brought forth a
small but robust son, a pale princeling with dark purple eyes and pale
silvery hair. She named him Aegon. Prince Daemon had at last a living son
of his own blood."
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"Her most ardent admirer was her half-brother, Bloodraven, who proposed marriage to her half a hundred times. She gave him her bed, but never her hand. It amused her more to make him jealous."
- Shiera Seastar and Brynden Rivers, both bastard children of King Aegon IV Targaryen.
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"Daemon was the name Daena gave to this child, for Prince Daemon had been the wonder and the
terror of his age, and in later days that was seen as a warning of what the boy would become."
- Daemon Waters/Blackfyre. He was the son of Daena Targaryen and King Aegon IV Targaryen.
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"House Targaryen will end with me." That made her sad. "You must be my children," she told the dragons, "my three fierce children. Arstan says dragons live longer than men, so you will go on after I am dead."
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"Save mayhaps for twins, no
brothers could ever have been closer than the sons of Jaehaerys Targaryen. As soon as he grew old enough to walk, Baelon followed his brother,
Aemon, everywhere, and tried his best to imitate him in everything he did.
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- Aemon and Baelon Targaryen.
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"[...] but Alyssa Targaryen was as bawdy a wench as
any barmaid in King's Landing, as she herself was fond of boasting. "I
mounted him and took him for a ride," she declared the morning after the
bedding, "and I mean to do the same tonight. I love to ride."
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"She was a wild almost from birth, lithe and athletic, a runner, a climber, and an expert horsewoman. "I was born to ride a dragon," she liked to say, but the dragons were dead."
- Daena Targaryen known as Daena the Defiant
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"Thousands died. Yet none of these losses were
felt so deeply as that of Jacaerys, Prince of Dragonstone and heir
to the Iron Throne [...] It is
written that when the Sea Snake was congratulated on his victory, the old
man said, "If this be victory, I pray I never win another"
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"Rhaenyra did have the silver-gold hair of the Targaryens, which she wore long and braided in the manner of Aegon the First's warrior wife Visenya."
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"Baela remained on Dragonstone. Long betrothed to Prince Jacaerys, she refused to leave him, insisting that she would fight beside him on her own dragon [...]"
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"You've known queens and princesses. Did they dance with demons and practice the black arts?"
"Lady Shiera does. Lord Bloodraven’s paramour. She bathes in blood to keep her beauty."
- Shiera Seastar, daughter of king Aegon IV Targaryen.
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"Flying was the second sweetest thing in the world, she would oft say, and
the very sweetest thing could not be mentioned in the company of ladies.
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- Alyssa Targaryen. Mother of Viserys I, Daemon and Aegon Targaryen.
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"Prince Aenys was three when his mother, Queen Rhaenys, and her
dragon, Meraxes, were slain in Dorne. Her death left the boy prince
inconsolable. He stopped eating, and even began to crawl as he had when
he was one, as if he had forgotten how to walk."
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"It hurts," the princess screamed through half the night. "It hurts so much." But it is said she smiled when her daughter [Aemma] was laid against her breast."
- Daella Targaryen died after giving birth. A few years later, Aemma had the same fate as her mother.
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"And
Orys Baratheon he proclaimed to be "my shield, my stalwart, my strong right hand." Thus
Baratheon is reckoned by the maesters the first King's Hand."
- Aegon I Targaryen and Orys Baratheon
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"Once she [Cersei] had drawn a picture of herself flying behind Rhaegar on a dragon, her arms wrapped tight about his chest. When Jaime had discovered it she told him it was Queen Alysanne and King Jaehaerys."
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"Rhaenys was a child too. Prince Rhaegar's daughter. A precious little thing, younger than your girls. She had a small black kitten she called Balerion, did you know? Rhaenys liked to pretend he was the true Balerion, the Black Dread of old."
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"A precious little thing, younger than your girls. She had a small black kitten she called Balerion, did you know? [...] Rhaenys liked to pretend he was the true Balerion, the Black Dread of old,"
- Rhaenys Targaryen, daughter of Rhaegar and Elia Martell
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"Say the word, my sweet, and I will send you from this awful place. I will find a ship somehow and send you home. To Naath."
"I would sooner stay with you. On Naath I'd be afraid. What if the slavers came again? I feel safe when I'm with you."
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"She became known as "Daena the Defiant" when she turned up pregnant, and refused to name the father. Her son was born robust and healthy, with the purple eyes and silver-gold hair of the Targaryens. Daena named him Daemon."
- Daena Targaryen and Daemon I Blackfyre
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"He became known as the Dragonknight for the three-headed dragon crest wrought in white gold upon his helm. To this very day some call him the noblest knight who ever lived and one of the most storied names to ever serve in the Kingsguard."
- Aemon Targaryen. Son of Viserys II
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"You are a fool and a weakling, nephew. Do you think any man would ever have dared speak so to your father? You have a dragon. Use him. Fly to Oldtown and make this Starry Sept another Harrenhal. Or give me leave, and let me roast this pious fool for you."
- Visenya Targaryen
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"Our uncle calls us Strongs, but when the lords
see us on dragonback they will know that for a lie. Only Targaryens ride
dragons." Mushroom tells us that the Sea Snake grumbled at this, insisting
that the three boys were Velaryons, yet he smiled as he said it."
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"Jaehaerys loved all
three children fiercely, but from the moment Aemon was born, the king
began to speak of him as his heir, to Queen Alysanne's displeasure.
"Daenerys is older," she would remind His Grace. "She is first in line; she should be queen."
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"I have my own ghosts, Bran. A brother that I loved, a brother that I hated, a woman I desired. Through the trees, I see them still, but no word of mine has ever reached them. The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it"
- Brynden Rivers / Bloodraven
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"One Dornish knight, brought before Queen Visenya as a captive, insisted that Meria Martell would sooner see her people dead than slaves to House Targaryen. Visenya replied that she and her brother would be glad to oblige the princess."
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"Yet that did not
stop Princess Rhaena from riding up to them to say, "You are fearless when
facing a girl on a horse, I see. The next time I come, I will be on a dragon.
Throw dirt on me then, I pray you."
- Rhaena Targaryen and Dreamfyre
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"Aegon the Conqueror brought fire and blood to Westeros, but afterward he gave them peace, prosperity, and justice."
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"The birth of Prince Viserys only seemed to make Aerys II more fearful and obsessive, however. Kingsguard knights were commanded to stand over him night and day to see that
no one touched the boy. Even the queen herself was forbidden to be alone
with the infant."
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"Rhaenys, at six-and-ten, was a fearless young beauty, and more than a
match for her mariner. A dragonrider since the age of thirteen, she insisted
upon arriving for the wedding on Meleys, the Red Queen, the magnificent
scarlet she-dragon that had once borne her aunt Alyssa."
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"Like Maegor before him, Jaehaerys for a time possessed both blades, but eventually granted Dark Sister to his second son, Prince Baelon, and then later to Baelon's son Daemon."
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"I will leave the making of law to you brother," Prince Baelon declared,
whilst drinking to Aemon's appointment. "I would sooner make
sons." And that was just what he did, for later that same year Alyssa bore her Spring Prince a second son, who was given the name
Daemon."
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"You must rule the realm now, until your brother is strong enough to take
the crown again," the King's Hand told Prince Aemond. Nor did Ser
Criston need to say it twice, writes Eustace."
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"What demon possessed him none could say. Even today, some give thanks that his tyranny was a short one, for who knows how many noble houses might have vanished forever simply to state his desire."
- Maegor Targaryen, also known as Maegor the Cruel. Aegon I and Visenya's son.
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"In 77 AC Alyssa gave her brave prince a son they named Viserys. [...] Against all advice, his mother clapped the boy in swaddling clothes,
strapped him to her chest, and took him aloft on Meleys when he was nine
days old. Afterward she claimed Viserys giggled the whole while."
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"Rhaenyra did have the silver-gold hair of the Targaryens, which she wore long and braided in the manner of Aegon the First's warrior wife Visenya."
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"An inch shy of six feet tall, Jocelyn would have towered over most of the lords of Westeros, but the Prince had three inches on her. "There stands the future of the realm," Ser Gyles Morrigen said when he beheld the two of them side by side, the
dark lady and the pale prince."
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"Princess Rhaena begged the prince her
husband to take them all across the narrow sea to Tyrosh or Myr or
Volantis, anywhere beyond their uncle's reach, for "I would gladly give up
my own life to make you king, but I will not put our girls at risk."
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"Alyssa strapped him to her chest, and took him aloft on Meleys when he was nine days old. Afterward she claimed Viserys giggled the whole while."
"She took Daemon into the sky on Meleys within a fortnight of his birth, just as she had done with his brother, Viserys."
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"I will
not spend a year upon a horse, sleeping in strange beds and trading empty
courtesies with drunken lords, half of whom would gladly see me dead if it
gained them a groat. If any man requires words with me, he will find me on
the Iron Throne."
- Aegon III Targaryen
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"Queen Visenya suddenly announced that she was carrying the king’s child. A son, she proclaimed
confidently, and so he proved to be. [...] Prince Maegor remained with
his mother, sitting by her side when she held court."
- Visenya and her son Maegor Targaryen.
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"Queen Visenya suddenly announced that she was carrying the king's child. A son, she proclaimed
confidently, and so he proved to be. The prince came squalling into the
world in 12 AC. No newborn was ever more robust than Maegor Targaryen,
maesters and midwives agreed."
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"Lady Aemma had suffered several miscarriages and the death of one son in
the cradle over the course of her marriage, but she had also given birth to a healthy
daughter, Rhaenyra (born 97 AC). The new king and his queen both doted
on the girl, their only living child."
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"Many a night she [Cersei] had watched Prince Rhaegar in the hall, playing his silver-stringed harp with those long, elegant fingers of his. Had any man ever been so beautiful? He was more than a man, though. His blood was the blood of old Valyria, the blood of dragons and gods."
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"I will not fight you" Princess Meria told Rhaenys, "nor will I kneel to you. Dorne has no king.
Tell your brother that."
"I shall," Rhaenys replied, "but we will come again, Princess, and the next time we shall come
with fire and blood."
- Rhaenys Targaryen and Meria Martell
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"Yield now, and your sons will live to rule after you."
"Those
walls are strong and thick."
"But not so high as to keep out dragons. Dragons fly."
"I built in stone," said Harren. "Stone does not burn."
To which Aegon I said, "When the sun sets, your line shall end."
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"[…] Though far from blind to his brother's flaws, he cherished his memories of the free-spirited, adventurous boy that Daemon had been. His daughter was his life's great joy, he often said, but a brother is a brother."
- Viserys I and Daemon Targaryen.
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"Drogon looped his neck around to nip at her hand. His teeth were
very sharp, but he never broke her skin when they played like this.
Dany laughed, and rolled him back and forth until he roared, his tail
lashing like a whip."
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"Visenya Targaryen proclaimed that her son Maegor
had come to be their king. "A true king, blood of Aegon the Conqueror,
who was my brother, my husband, and my love. If any man questions my
son's right to the Iron Throne, let him prove his claim with his body."
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"All ravens carried the same message: from this day forth
there would be but one king in Westeros. Those who bent the knee to
Aegon of House Targaryen would keep their lands and titles. Those who
took up arms against him would be thrown down, humbled, and destroyed."
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"The oldest of the three heads of the
dragon, Visenya was to outlive both of her siblings, and it was rumored that
in her later years, when she could no longer wield a sword, she delved into
the dark arts, mixing poisons and casting malign spells."
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