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to this very day some call prince aemon the noblest knight who ever lived and one of the most storied names to ever serve in the kingsguard.
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lady joanna, the daughter of lord tytos’s late brother ser jason, was already in king’s landing; she had been serving as a lady-in-waiting and companion to rhaella since 259 AC.
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“aemon and i [egg] used to pretend that our eggs would be the ones to hatch. if they did, we could fly through the sky on dragonback, like the first aegon and his sisters.”
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“bloodraven is a shade under six feet tall and very thin, gaunt, with a grim unforbidding aspect and a sinister reputation as a sorcerer and spymaster.”
— george rr martin
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in rhaena targaryen, however, lady elissa found a like-minded companion, and in her the queen found a new confidant.
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in her youth, good queen alysanne had loved her subjects, lords and commons alike. she had loved her women’s courts, listening, learning, and doing what she could to make the realm a kinder place.
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“give me dragonstone and one thing more, and i shall trouble you no further.”
“one thing more?” jaehaerys asked.
“i want my daughter restored to me.”
“done,” the king said… and the queen in the west at a stroke became the queen in the east.
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house velaryon had been passed over once again, lord corlys’ daughter, laena, scorned just as his son, laenor, had been scorned by the great council, and his wife by the old king back in 92 AC. only lady laena herself seemed untroubled.
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though king aegon had acquired a distaste for the valyrian custom of incestuous marriage, prince jaehaerys was of a more traditional bent, for from an early age he had loved his sister shaera and dreamed of wedding her in the old targaryen fashion.
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duskendale was the principal westerosi port on the narrow sea, and had grown fat and wealthy from trade. visenya did not allow the town to be sacked, but she did not hesitate to claim its riches, greatly swelling the coffers of the conquerors.
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