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"At fifteen, Viserra was the most beautiful of all Alysanne's daughters.
Though willful, Viserra never showed interest in exploiting men's bodies as
her sister had done; instead, she preferred to play with their emotions."
"Though she never wed, she had many offers, and several lovers through the years. Her most ardent admirer was her half-brother, Bloodraven, who proposed marriage to her half a hundred times. Shiera gave him her bed, but never her hand. It amused her more to make him jealous."
"Once he woke up weeping. "The dragon must have three heads," he wailed, "but I am too old and frail to be one of them. I should be with her, showing her the way, but my body has betrayed me."
"Bloodraven proved to be a capable Hand, but also a master of whisperers who rivaled Lady
Misery, and there were those who thought he and his half sister and paramour, Shiera Seastar, used
sorcery to ferret out secrets. It became common to refer to his "thousand eyes and one."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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.
"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
"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."