Young Aegon, Gaemon, and Valerion all died as infants. Instead, Jaehaerys’s children showcased the breadth of ways to die young in this brutally grimdark world.
You’d think they could’ve found a successor among the baker’s dozen, right? Wrong. Jaehaerys and his sister-wife, the Good Queen Alysanne, had 13 kids. Jaehaerys ruled for more than half a century but lacked an heir near the end of his life, which takes us to the Great Council at the start of Dragon. Thus, another precedent was set early: Jaehaerys had an older sister but was himself the oldest male candidate for the throne, so he ascended mostly unopposed. Once Maegor died in 48 AC, Jaehaerys-Aenys’s last surviving son, and thus Aegon the Conqueror’s grandson-became king. Maegor’s epithet was Cruel for all sorts of reasons, and he was an awful king-but he proved in the early days of the Targaryen dynasty that a rival claimant’s strength can be sufficient to scuttle plans of succession. When Aenys died young in 42 AC, his brother Maegor wrested control of the crown, eventually defeating Aenys’s eldest son and named heir in battle. That’s because he was boring, and maybe also because who needs a nickname with a name like Aenys? Unlike most Targaryen sovereigns-such as Aegon the Conqueror or Aerys the Mad King or Maegor the Cruel-Aenys didn’t have an epithet.
I’ll give a quick rundown of the Iron Throne’s journey from its forging under Aegon to the time of House of the Dragon: Aegon died in the year 37 AC (After the Conquest), after which his eldest son, Aenys, became king. Along with Rhaenys and Visenya, his two sister-wives-incest is a key theme whenever Targaryens are concerned-Aegon used his dragons to conquer all of Westeros north of Dorne and south of the Wall about 300 years before the events of Thrones, thereby transforming a set of disparate kingdoms into one unified (again, except Dorne) realm. I don’t know much about the Targaryens before Daenerys the one guy I remember is Aegon the Conqueror. The Targaryens will dominate the ranks of major characters. Members of the two families most central to Thrones will be present on the new show, but more as peripheral characters than central protagonists or villains.Įarly Thrones was about a civil war between two families Dragon is about a civil war within a family. You’ll note that none of the four characters above are Starks or Lannisters.
That’s two questions in one you’re off to a tricky start, but I’ll allow it. Let’s consider 20 questions that may be on your mind, and I’ll keep my answers spoiler-free beyond what’s already been revealed in trailers. So with Dragon set to premiere this Sunday, you might have some questions about HBO’s new story set in Westeros. (I liked it! But it received significant negative reviews The Verge responded to news about the prequel show by quipping that HBO planned to adapt “George R.R.
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And those who picked up F&B might not have finished, given some fans’ frustration with the lack of progress in the main series or F&B’s history textbook-style narrative structure. Yet Fire & Blood, the 2018 source text for House of the Dragon, is far less widely read, with fewer than 10 percent of the number of Goodreads reviews of any of the five core books. Millions of people read the A Song of Ice and Fire books that formed the basis of Thrones, and millions more watched the show. Most Game of Thrones fans probably don’t know much about what to expect in that show’s first spinoff, the prequel series House of the Dragon.
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