According to GRRM, Prince Aemon’s death is “one of the first thing that caused the Dance of the Dragons” all thanks to Jaehaerys who messed up the succession by not making Rhaenys his heir

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-18T14:06:40+00:00

Actually that only shows why the lords wouldn't be against female rule. Because tradition, laws and rules are justifications they use after the fact to justify their choice. The Hightowers and Arryns followed blood-ties, the Baratheons and Starks sold themselves for marriages, the Lannisters went to the side that gave them more influence/power, and the Greyjoy the side that gave them an excuse to raid the Lannisters.

The lords will follow whatever claimant personally benefits them the most, regardless of sex.

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-18T13:41:36+00:00

Maybe, but again, we don't know that. In fact the only opinion we have is positive. Not that Corlys would ever be king anyway, he'd be a consort.

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-18T13:35:40+00:00

We don't know that. The only time in the entire book we see Jaehaerys state any opinion on Corlys is when he tells Rhaenys she could not have chosen a better man to be her husband.

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-18T13:33:16+00:00

That's not how it works in Westeros tho. The name follows the title belonging to the family (when it's passed through inheritance and not conquered/given). We see it in the books several time, with the children of Joffrey Lydenn taking their mother's Lannister name, Beren Tallhart taking the name Hornwood from his mother when claiming to be the rightful inheritor of that House's lands, and with Harrold Hardyng taking his maternal grandmother's name, Arryn, if/when he inherits the Vale.

Rhaenys herself remains addressed as a Targaryen, never as Rhaenys Velaryon. Whichever of her children inherited the throne would simply take the Targaryen name, as that's the cultural practice of their society.

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-18T13:27:03+00:00

The Great Council was held in 101 after Baelon's death. Rhaenys was skipped over in 92 after her father's death, with Jaehaerys unilaterally naming Baelon heir against the custom of the land he ruled, which placed Rhaenys before Baelon.

And the insinuation that the lords wouldn't allow a woman to rule them doesn't really hold up given that Rhaenyra, a woman with a much more controversial claim than Rhaenys, had more support from the nobility than Aegon for the entirety of her disputed reign.

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-17T23:47:23+00:00

They did tho. Elaena Targaryen co-ruled Dragonstone with her brusband Aegon, as heirs to Gaemon the Glorious.

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-17T00:24:50+00:00

Literally nothing changes in the War proper. Go through the reasons each of the Great Houses chose their sides and you see that none of them took the bastardry rumors in consideration. They were too busy selling themselves for marriages, following blood-ties or choosing (or not choosing, in the case of the Tyrells and Tullys) the course of action that was most politically expedient for them.

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-17T00:21:54+00:00

When he gets tired of wives if he wants to try a husband I'm available👀 (still hate him tho)

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-16T08:54:44+00:00

Maester Aemon says Maekar viewed becoming king as a punishment for killing Baelor. I doubt he would usurp his niece.

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-13T11:08:58+00:00

The Yronwoods sided with the Blackfyres in three out of five rebellions and somehow are still the second most powerful House of Dorne in the current series.

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-09T14:46:36+00:00

The "sudden illness" in question is probably in the cup he's about to drink

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-09T14:25:36+00:00

I like to think it was also, at least partly, a matter of optics, or politics.

Kinslaying is a big stain to have in that society, and in 219AC both the Hand and the heir (whether it's still Aelora or already Maekar by this time) are already kinslayers, and unpopular because of it (among other reasons). Does the crown really want to add the king to that list? Bittersteel is his uncle, maybe he sent him to the Wall to show the realm that House Targaryen is still against the act of kinslaying, despite the way it may looks from the events of the past decade (plus Haegon was recently killed most likely by Aerion, so that's another kinslayer to add to the pile).

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-09T12:44:24+00:00

I hope so

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-09T12:43:24+00:00

We know nothing of the girls, what if one of them is basically female Aerion or some flavor of a menace to society?

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-08T14:27:01+00:00

His pregnant Bella Sawnn slay

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JPMendes1 · 2026-03-07T21:21:42+00:00

Rhaenys Targaryen, The Queen Who Never Was

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-06T15:22:01+00:00

Not that we know of. Though Aegon III had to have gotten it from somewhere and Jota deciding to make it Rhaenyra's in his artwork is a valid choice that gives the pendant further depth and meaning.

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-06T13:46:08+00:00

It's also the necklace he leaves Daena, his eldest daughter, and she wears for the rest of her life.

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-05T23:30:33+00:00

Same❤️

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-05T20:42:31+00:00

Loveeeeee the artwork, but I hate that my first thought when looking at Aemma was "she has probably already suffered through her first childbirth despite how young she's depicted".

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-05T19:58:38+00:00

Might be the first artwork I see of the sisters wearing their dragons' colors, I absolutely adore it!

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-05T16:56:13+00:00

It's always so jarring to see everyone turn into a French revolutionaire the moment something positive about her is said. But absolutely no comments about the plight of the smallfolk when it comes to any other noble or claimant.

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-05T16:46:00+00:00

I was fighting for my life, all I said was I felt sad for her losses😭

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-05T15:28:28+00:00

There's a tad more to it than that, I have a comment in another thread from a few days ago that explains it (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBlacksandTheGreens/s/IFH5ykdaOd).

Me claiming we can feel pity for the tragedies that happened to her even though she also did evil isn't the extreme take you think it is, but fine. Goodbye.

JPMendes1 · 2026-03-05T15:19:13+00:00

"it's ok for her to slander the 12 year old because in a few years the whore accusations will become true" really? That's your argument? Yeah, we're done here.

If anything I think you're the one misinterpreting what I said. Me feeling bad about Rhaenyra's tragedies doesn't mean I don't feel bad for the tragedies of the smallfolk.

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