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at eight, princess rhaenyra was placed into service as a cupbearer… but for her own father, the king. at table, at tourney, and at court, king viserys thereafter was seldom seen without his daughter by his side.
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in rhaenys targaryen, daughter of the old king’s eldest son and heir, lord corlys had found his perfect match, a woman as spirited and beautiful and proud as any in the realm, and a dragonrider as well.
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king aerys had become aware of the belief that he himself was but a hollow figurehead and tywin the true master of the seven kingdoms. he became determined to disprove them and to humble his “overmighty servant” and “put him back into his place.”
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“alysanne’s relationship with king jaehaerys was always very close. she was his most trusted counselor and his right hand, and often wore a slimmer, more feminine version of his crown at court.”
— george rr martin
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princess rhaenyra gave her uncle daemon a second son, named viserys after his grandsire. the child was smaller and less robust than his brother, aegon, and his velaryon half-brothers, but proved to be a most precocious child…
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“my little flower,” was how the queen described her. like alysanne herself, daella was small and there was a childish aspect to her that led everyone who met her to think she was younger than her age.
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king daeron the good had four grown sons, three with sons of their own. the line of the dragonkings had almost died out during his father’s day, but it was commonly said that daeron II and his sons had left it secure for all time.
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all were in accord. baelon was better suited for rule than the eighteen-year-old princess rhaenys or her unborn babe.
some dissented. rhaenys herself was the first to raise objection. “you would rob my son of his birthright,” she told the king.
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she [dany] would rather have drifted in the fragrant pool all day, eating iced fruit off silver trays and dreaming of a house with a red door, but a queen belongs to her people, not to herself.
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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 that same year princess alyssa bore her prince a second son, daemon.
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