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Small shop update announcement!

Hello everyone it’s been a while! I have a small shop update planned for Wednesday, April 30th! I’ll be previewing the sculptures before then, including this little white dragon. For all my northern hemisphere friends, I hope you are enjoying Spring!

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If I were filling this plot hole…

Perhaps, they are ageless, killable (maybe only by the lyrium dagger even) but otherwise don’t deteriorate. Spirits seem immortal in a similar way, in any case. Thus, Solas can maintain the veil, after all Mythal is also able to survive without an arch demon or physical body. Perhaps she had an arch demon at her first death, and was then split into the remnants we’ve met, or perhaps the evanuris didn’t kill her with the lyrium dagger/correct weapon (??) which allowed her soul to survive. Or maybe it was different for them before the veil?

As for what happened to the other 5, perhaps something to do with the arch demon being killed by a grey warden and then the grey warden dying. I think it’s meant to be a part of their soul that’s bound to the dragon to make it an arch demon, and that’s what’s transferring around via blight. Like, when the grey warden and soul piece die, the elven gods soul is permanently torn in a fatal manner. Maybe ghil and elg survive the deaths of their arch demons because the bit of their soul can get back to them, instead of being forced to jump into another dark spawn or inconvenient grey warden.

Or maybe even, that for the arch demon to wake up the elven gods had to tie more of themselves to the arch demon (in a bid to escape their prison?) and that’s what made it fatal (and also why the Blights did what they did).

The idea that all the other Evanuris are dead now makes no sense to me (although I'm aware that concepts in the art book indicate this). Killing an archdemon makes them mortal, in the specific sense that they can be killed, not that they lose their long lifespan (which apparently comes from being spirits or being connected to/immersed in the Fade). Because ancient elves, even naturally born ones, were all immortal, no archdemon required.

Even if we presume they became mortal and then the Veil drained them of their life, this makes the ending with Solas being tied to the Veil make no sense. Because Solas has no archdemon, and if the Veil is going to drain him to death, it's coming down in a while anyway. The game tries to present Solas being tied to it as meaning it's stable now.

The only explanation I could see for the Evanuris being dead would be if Solas had a failsafe trap in the prison so an Evanuris without an archdemon would be killed instantly, but again . . . why would he. The Veil, and the blight prison specifically, needs the Evanuris as batteries.

I like the idea better that maybe Solas already moved the other Evanuris before the ritual went wrong, although that doesn't explain why the two with archdemons were last in line to get moved. Unless they were last in line because that's how the seals on the prison were lined up?

(Maybe I'm just coping because I think the Evanuris are interesting and I want to see more of their drama).

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Just a few more hours

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This is what drew me to Hank in DBH that man holds his principles in higher regard than his thoughts lmao

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1) okay so? Having bastards never disqualified a man from inheritance 👀 nor disqualified the bastard from inheriting if the titled parent & king (queen) agreed

2) Leanor would be considered legally dead by our legal standards. ‘Ours’ being the European/roman legal code that’s the basis of the vast majority of legal systems today via colonization- just like Valyria. Seeing as he was presumed dead by literally everyone, he’d be ‘legally dead’. That she was able to legally remarry is proof Leanor is ‘legally dead’. Therefore even if Leanor was ever discovered alive, Rheanyra’s marriage would still be legitimate. It would certainly be a complicated legal situation, but the Targaryen kids wouldn’t be delegitimized. This is literally fanon theorizing without basis in the canon, the medieval Europe that influences the canon, or modern courts.

3) having illegitimate children is not inherently unintelligent. Yes there are negative consequences, but that doesn’t make it stupid. Rheanyra is in a near supreme position of power (even more so when she had the said illegitimate children), she rightly judged she had the political and social influence to maintain her children’s legitimacy (for a time). I’d argue is her mistake/flaw is lying not lack of intelligence.

4) if having bastards disqualified someone from the throne, Aegon and likely the majority of kings would be disqualified (and stupid). Including I think, every Targaryen male green and black have or will father a bastard.

Every character in this show is a bad person for better, actual reasons.

Not actors calling rhaenyra intelligent 🫠 she gave birth to 5 bastards. The girl is anything but intelligent

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My fav part of GOTD/HOTD is how antis come out with misogynistic takes, like no sorry modern feminism is for women you like 😂 Alicent v Rheanyra or Sansa v Arya, it’s all the same dog and pony show- trotting out old misogyny for a modern flavor.

Anti- Blacks: How dare a woman with power and authority in a sexist & classist society, (who’s expected to produce heirs), have a multi year affair outside of her arranged, loveless marriage (when the husband approves regardless), and then have children with said long term lover. Audacity!!!

Anti-Greens: how dare a woman with power and authority in a sexist & classist society (who’s expected to produce heirs), work to secure her position as queen after being sold by her father into an arranged, loveless marriage. Audacity!!!

@ the antis, it takes $0 to not make sexist remarks, especially when there’s literally dozens of better, legitimate reasons to be a hater. Do better.

Not actors calling rhaenyra intelligent 🫠 she gave birth to 5 bastards. The girl is anything but intelligent

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Each of us could bring destruction to this world, but we chose to save it.

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“ you son of a bitch I’m in”

Dark Urge fixed some of the problems I had with act 3

This post has SPOILERS. BIG SPOILERS for both Baldur's Gate 3 and Dark Urge. If you check my tag dark urge I previously wrote an act 1 + act 2 summary of what to expect from it, without any spoilers. Without spoilers, very briefly: expect to have a past you cannot control (of course), your character will say some messed up stuff, you can give in the urges or resist but there are at least two scenes you have no control over, you do get loot for giving in the urges, the story has more mystery and lore, act 3 is the culmination of Dark Urge story too and you can have a happy ending.

Now with SPOILERS

I will go over the acts and write down what extra content happens when you compare Dark Urge to Tav, with BIG SPOILERS. If you want to see why I think Dark Urge is so much better for the story, skip everything and go directly to act 3. A general big change is that as Dark Urge you automatically get the "Baldurian" dialogue because you are from Baldur's Gate.

Act 1: In act 1 there is little Dark Urge content but an introduction. I kind of wish the game had just gone with DU (Dark Urge) instead of Tav directly, to hide the secret better, but I also like Tav a lot and I don't always want to play as an ex-murderer. Still, if you roleplay well the idea is that DU has these violent urges and think they are caused by the tadpole. So you will have to ask your companions about it, and the suspicion remains for half of act 1, at least until you give in the first obligatory urge. The narration oftens tells you that DU wants blood and carnage, wants to feel life slipping away and, well, wants to murder, and you can give in these urges (ex. attack people, bite someone's toe off, kill Gale?? or at least cut his hands) or avoid these urges. Everything else is exactly the same, a part from the fact that DU has a REASON for being on the Nautilus. While Tav is just one of the random people the Nautilus has taken, DU is the one who was put there on purpose.

There are two big events in act 1 and some smaller ones. You can kill a squirrel, but it did not trigger for me, so I don't think it is an obligatory event, but you will kill a bard. Alfira will come to your camp after you sleep a n amount of nights, and she will want to join your party. This happens even if you had not met Alfira in the game. During the night DU will brutally kill her and at this point you can hide the body, or confess your crimes, up to you how open with them. I always chose the option to confess. If you confess immediately you will have a group chat with your party and you can defend yourself (ex. I don't know how it happened but I must have been the one who killed her), or you can wash the blood and then volunteer the information the next morning when the body is found. There is actually a metagaming way to save Alfira… when you get the night scene, reload to the save before, go to Alfira, use the incapacitate instead of the killing option (in actions) and knock her out. Because she is knocked out, the next night a new bard NPC will come to your camp and will be murdered, but not Alfira.

After the murder you will meet the butler. It is immediately clear this is a magical being, and he knows you. He knows DU likes to kill, and he is surprised if DU refuses to give in the urges or even feels guilty for what he had done. You will also get an amazing cloak that turns a character invisible after a kill (it is great for Astarion's sneak attacks).

For the rest of act 1 there is little more content. You can talk minimally with your party about what happened or your urges, but that is it.

ACT 2: In the underdark and during the mountain pass there is no real content, but stuff starts happening at Moonrise Tower. You will meet characters who suddenly knows who you are. They are pretty cryptic about it, but they talk to you as if you were one of them who suddenly disappeared. It really feels like coming, well, almost home. Ketheric remembers you, even the jailer remembers you. There is also a cat in Moonrise Tower who is scared of you and if you talk with them DU WILL kill the cat, so be mindful to avoid talking with cats in the Tower. The skeleton dog from Ketheric room? He also remembers you and your smell.

When you put your hand in the cracks of the wall and hear the brain you will also get new and different dialogue.

After you meet Isobel, you will see your butler again and he tells you that to have a real gif this time you will have to kill Isobel. The quest will be there but you do not need to complete it. If you do not complete it, the butler will come back at night after the Moonrise Tower fight. This is where he asks you to kill your lover (in my case it was Astarion). He tries to convince you and if you say no, this is also where you find out that you cannot really control the urge - you will have to pass a wisdom check to take enough control to wake up your lover and tell them what is happening. At this point, they will tie you up because you are not in control anymore. You can pass 3 wisdom checks to try and thank them, or you can give in the urge but it does not look like there is any difference here but dialogue. The next morning you will have an extra talk with your lover and the party as well.

At this point it looks like the butler abandoned you because you failed your Dark Urge quest.

Another small thing, while under Moonrise Tower you can explore a bit and you will find one of the pod that smells like your blood and other small traces and hints to the fact that someone wanted to get rid of you and that is why you ended up on the nautilus.

Act 3: Act 3 is where most of the stuff gets resolved and things really come together. Orin targets you because you are family, you are her brother. She hates you because you were the Bhaal chosen one. My favourite part is that this really explains why the Chosen three's plan is failing. You were supposed to be Bhaal's chosen, not Orin. Multiple characters (Gortash and Sarevok) comments on how you were such a better Chosen because Orin is fickle, that is why she turns against Gortash. Gortash and Orin against each other always confused me during my Tav game, mainly because it felt so unexplained - like, they were so close to their goal, why is everything crumbling? Because she was never supposed to assume that role. She grew jealous of DU, chosen of Bhaal, and got rid of him by inserting the tadpole in his brain and discarding him.

When you talk with Gortash you also gets even more insight. It is clear that Gortash likes you, that is why is asking for an alliance. Not to a random adventurer called Tav, but to his old ally and friend. You and Gortash basically devised the whole plan, YOU took the crown, you were a fundamental part of it. And suddenly you stopping it (or taking control of the brain) for me had so much more meaning. While playing Tav I always wondered why is Tav even in charge, but when I played DU it really seemed like this was THEIR mess to fix. The confrontation at the temple of Bhaal is the end of the DU storyline which also wraps up why Withers was even with you.

You confront Orin and after you kill her you will meet your father Bhaal, who will ask you to become his chosen again. You can agree, and then at the end you will be able to claim the brain in Bhaal's name. But if you refuse, and give in the guilt for having murdered so many people (before your amnesia), Bhaal will take back his blood and leave you dead on the ground. At this point Withers will come in (and we know Withers is Jergal, the god of death before the Three) and will revive you. You will be born anew, your past is lost because the urge in you had been taken away but the memories with it. You can ask him about those memories too and he says that he can show you the names of your victims if you so desire. You are also a blank slate, a new person born from what you have learnt in your journey instead of your past. So yeah, you can have a good hopeful ending.

More importantly, this fell so well in the themes of BG3 especially the ones of being born again, changing and gods fighting for their chosen. Like Selune and Shar were fighting for Shadowheart, your character was also in the middle of a play of gods. Given Withers was with you since the start, it really feels like he was aiding you not at random, but because you were an escaped chosen one who could be stolen from Bhaal. And being born again and getting rid of your master/tormentor/powerful god/dictator fits so well. ALL your origin companions are in a certain measure subjected to absence of freedom or imbalance of power.

(Also before the Bhaal mission, but after the lover's personal quest you will have the option to break up with them and worry about the danger of killing them, which gives you an extra cute scene).

After the Bhaal mission there is no more content for DU and everything else seemed the same!

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When will my husband (Ao3) return from war (is up again)

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Agreed it’s kinda batshit given the races of the casting LMAO at least in the books Leanor and Harwin look similar. It’d be an easy solution to legitimize them but the HOTD characters are not known for their emotional control smh

a thing that i really hate about team black is how they say that we can’t really be mad at Rhaenyra for having three bastard children as a woman, because men have been doing the same thing all the time and no one cared.

But they kinda always forget about a very important detail; Whenever men had bastard children, they pretty much never put them in line for inheritance. They were aware of the fact that some random children they had with some random women are somewhere out there living their lives. And they didn’t care. They didn’t put their lives in danger by saying “oh, yeah, they are my legitimate children” even though the children look nothing like their mother or something. And whenever they *do* have their bastards live with them, they always admit that they are their bastards and never put them higher than legitimate heirs to their house.

Like Ned Stark has always been like “hey, that’s my bastard son, Jon, he is living with us at Winterfell. We raised him, fed him and treated him right, but when it comes to inherit Winterfell, my legitimate son with my wife Caitlyn, Robb, who is the true heir to house Stark, will become the next Lord, not Jon”

Rhaenyra, well, did the exact opposte.

And if you say “oh, but she’s a woman, she can’t do that, since people will get angry if she admitted to having bastard children with a man that is not her husband!” I will say, as a woman myself, no matter how cruel that might sound: that’s Rhaenyra’s problem. She knew damn well that when a man and a woman have sex, it’s the woman that gets pregnant. And if she really wanted to have children, she could’ve had sex with someone that slightly looks like her husband. Like, what the hell did she, a blonde white woman, expect her children to look like, having sex with a dark haired white man?

Because that’s the world she lives in. A cruel and unfair patriarchal world. And she does absolutely fucking NOTHING to change it. She doesn’t fight for women’s rights, doesn’t call out this patriarchy that somewhat caused the war itself, she doesn’t do anything to get rid of it. So that’s on her

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Couples things… several men in the books and (many men) IRL put their bastards before their legitimate children to certain degrees of success. It depends entirely on the public perception of the parent and child when determining the success of that move. Fire and Blood mentions, especially early in the dance that Westeros was split, which I can gather means the whole bastard thing isn’t as important to the Common Folk or the lords who back Rheanyra, as it is to the greens (for obvious reasons). But the statement that men almost never put their bastards in the line of succession is factually incorrect irl and in the book. (This is a digression but the difference between an unfavored bastard and a favored bastard often times was the affection or political placement of the parent, by that logic, it would be Very typical for Rheanyra to try to legitimize her children). Also it ignores the presence of legitimized bastards in a society in which infant mortality, death in child birth, etc will make heirs harder to come by, making bastards necessary. Secondly, the consideration of Rheanyras bastards becomes unimportant when we consider a couple outside forces. First, Rheanyra is of royal targaryen blood, IRL and in the book the problem men have with bastards is they aren’t theirs, it’s about the continuation of a blood line. This is why a man’s bastard could be placed in the line of succession and a woman’s bastard wasn’t, the woman’s blood and line were worthless. In Rheanyras case, she is the noble and inheriting blood, meaning it doesn’t matter who the father of her children is, because they all carry the noble blood through her. Adding Targaryen purity just means that Rheanyra is an even better option because Alicents children are less inbred than Rheanyra.

Meaning on the question of do Rheanyras bastards inherit would be complicated, but only because Laenor claimed them as his own, meaning they have legal rights as his legit children even if we the viewers know they are not.

All of this to say, the bastard question doesn’t matter. Rheanyra is the succession in question, who takes the throne, Rheanyra or Aegon? (Whether or not her bastards inherits doesn’t matter cause she has like 10 kids that’s a BONUS in the Middle Ages lol, also half are gonna die before 20 anyways from just the risks of medieval life but I digress) Both are legitimate children of the king, Rheanyra is from the first wife, Targaryen blood on both sides, and was appointed heir by viserys, three points in her favor. Aegon is the first born son, which is one point, but is the strongest point. (The second strongest point is Rheanyra is chosen by the king, which + the first born + established older family = full blown 50/50 civil war)

We the viewers focus on the question of Rheanyras bastards because the show does. The greens rightfully pick that as the weakest link in Rheanyras claim to slander her as many women were and will be slandered. Aegons support comes from his legal rights and the way the people of Westeros look down upon Rheanyras perceived infidelity, not because her bastards somehow take away from her legal right to the throne. Which she has. ALL of viserys children legitimate or not have a claim to the throne, see Maegor, the blackfyre rebellions. Whether or not her children are bastards only effects Their inheritance. (If this were a man the fact that he sired bastards would be a bonus = fertile, masculine, powerful)

So really the whole debate about Rheanyras children is irrelevant because it’s a smear campaign by her political adversaries, and doesn’t have legal bearing on HER inheritance.

And really the whole debate is unneeded because from maegor and the blackfire rebellions we also learn the truth, which is it doesn’t matter who your daddy is, it matters if you can win the war. So inheritance is a scam because if I can force, it I can get it.

I’m ready for season two so people stop discussing misconceptions on the blending of fantasy and medieval inheritance laws which are already The Most Confusing, and instead on what really matters, the horrors of war. In this essay I will-

a thing that i really hate about team black is how they say that we can’t really be mad at Rhaenyra for having three bastard children as a woman, because men have been doing the same thing all the time and no one cared.

But they kinda always forget about a very important detail; Whenever men had bastard children, they pretty much never put them in line for inheritance. They were aware of the fact that some random children they had with some random women are somewhere out there living their lives. And they didn’t care. They didn’t put their lives in danger by saying “oh, yeah, they are my legitimate children” even though the children look nothing like their mother or something. And whenever they *do* have their bastards live with them, they always admit that they are their bastards and never put them higher than legitimate heirs to their house.

Like Ned Stark has always been like “hey, that’s my bastard son, Jon, he is living with us at Winterfell. We raised him, fed him and treated him right, but when it comes to inherit Winterfell, my legitimate son with my wife Caitlyn, Robb, who is the true heir to house Stark, will become the next Lord, not Jon”

Rhaenyra, well, did the exact opposte.

And if you say “oh, but she’s a woman, she can’t do that, since people will get angry if she admitted to having bastard children with a man that is not her husband!” I will say, as a woman myself, no matter how cruel that might sound: that’s Rhaenyra’s problem. She knew damn well that when a man and a woman have sex, it’s the woman that gets pregnant. And if she really wanted to have children, she could’ve had sex with someone that slightly looks like her husband. Like, what the hell did she, a blonde white woman, expect her children to look like, having sex with a dark haired white man?

Because that’s the world she lives in. A cruel and unfair patriarchal world. And she does absolutely fucking NOTHING to change it. She doesn’t fight for women’s rights, doesn’t call out this patriarchy that somewhat caused the war itself, she doesn’t do anything to get rid of it. So that’s on her

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Now THATS a big dog

So apparently Slither Wing is 10 feet and 6 inches. This makes it merely 1 foot and 8 inches smaller than Regigigas, though I guess that depends on how you measure it. From head to tail? Wingspan? How tall it is standing?

that's big enough to use as a fluffy pillow. delightful

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Hey, I was just wondering if you knew anything about where Lafayette lived throughout his life? Such as the different châteaus? Thanks :)

Hello Anon, The Marquis de La Fayette lived at many addresses during his live. I have tried to comply them here as neatly as possible. He was born in the Château Chavaniac in the Auvergne on September 6, 1757 and he lived there until his mother took him with her to Paris. In Paris he first lived with his mother and her family in the Palais de Luxembourg before moving into the Collège du Plessis to receive an education. He attended the College for two years. Afterwards he moved in with his future family-in-law, the Noailles family, in the Hôtel de Noailles in the Rue St. Honoré 135. He stayed there when he was not away with the army to train in the city of Metz. Even after the marriage La Fayette and his young wife Adrienne did not quit the Hôtel de Noailles – in fact staying with the Noailles family for some time was a part of their wedding-contract. Whenever La Fayette joined the French Court at Versailles he would either stay in the apartments that his maternal family had there in Versailles. Later, after the death of his mother and grand-father and his subsequent moving-in with the Noailles family he stayed at their apartment in Versailles. The only exceptions were the times La Fayette stayed in Versailles for a military matter with his regiment. La Fayette departed France in order to sail to America on March 25, 1777. In America his living arrangements were mostly dependent upon the movements of the army. He lived and travelled with the army, as it was to be expected from a General, and his places of residence were far too many as to list them all here in this context. Rather notable is thought, that he spend the winter 1777/1778 encamped with the army in Valley Forge. He also spent a rather “long” time at the house of the Van Brinckerhoff family in Fishkill to recuperate from a high fever that even threatened his life during certain episodes. This illness also delayed his return to France. (Fun Fact: the house of the Brinckerhoff family is today a luxurious Bed and Breakfast and the room that La Fayette (allegedly) stayed in more than 200 years ago can be booked). Upon his return he lived again with his in-laws. Back home in France and after the war the bought a house in the Rue de Bourbon 81. That was his address while in Paris but he also delighted in staying at the Château La Grange in the country side. He still used the de Noailles apartment when at Versailles. As the years went by and the French Revolution caught on speed, he also spend more and more time away with the army. Then on August 19, 1792 he and a few friends and fellow officers tried to travel to America to escape the growing madness and violence brought on by the French Revolution. He was arrested by Austrian-Flemish troops in the city of Rochefort in the Auberge du Pélican, an inn at number 87, rue Jacquet. For the next five years he was a prisoner of war. He was first brought to Namur and from there to a prison in Wesel where he stayed from September 19, 1792 to December 22. He then was taken to the prison in Magdeburg. There he stayed from January 4 1793 until January 4, 1794 before again being relocated, this time to Neisse. La Fayette stayed in Neisse from January 16, 1794 until May 17. On May 18 he arrived at his final prison, then infamous prison in Olmütz. There he stayed before being freed on the morning of September 19, 1797. He travelled from Olmütz to Brünn to Prague to Peterswalde and from there to Dresden and Hamburg. In Hamburg, La Fayette was handed over to the U.S consul John Parish. The reason behind that was somewhat funny. General Napoléon Bonaparte (yes, that Napoléon) secured La Fayette’s release from prison after he utterly defeated the Austrian Army. The Austrians insisted afterwards that they released La Fayette as a “diplomatic token” towards America – that sounded just way nicer than admitting defeat. From Hamburg he went into exile in Danish-Holstein (modern-day Germany), more precisely in the small villages of Lehmkuhlen and Wittmoldt (first Lehmkuhlen and then to Wittmoldt before going back to Lehmkuhlen). From

Danish-Holstein he went to Utrecht in modern-day Holland before returning to France in 1799. His wife Adrienne went ahead and tried to re-gain the ownership of some of the families properties  – with great success. La Fayette and his family retired to La Grange. La Fayette left the public stage for some time (this was in parts voluntary, in parts forced). When he returned to the public stage he also took up residence in Paris again. Prior to 1827 he stayed in number 35, rue d’Anjou. In 1827 he moved into number 6, rue d’Anjou (today number 8) where he also died. I can not safely say that he stayed at no other address prior to his home at number 35. In 1824/25 La Fayette returned once again to his beloved America where he toured all states and stayed at different (private) establishments. These is a short collection of La Fayette’s most important official addresses. I am currently working on a list, detailing every day in La Fayette’s life (at least as far as that is possible). Something similar has already been undertaken by @thelafayettetrail. I really do recommend their project.

I hope I could help you with your question. Have a nice day/evening! :-)

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hilda and lysithea

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Maesters say in response to Vaemonds excellent suit for the Driftmark, king Viserys pulled a permit from his robes that read “I do what I want”

But it doesn’t matter if her kids are bastards because she’d inherit as the named heir regardless. Allicent’s kids were cut out of the inheritance and so that sucks for them. Once Rheanyra died then inheritance would be split among Her children. “Her kids are bastards” the sound of the tears of so many medieval men has deafened me, alas. The only verifiable law I see in Westeros is that the King can do as he pleases so they should cry about that instead of the legitimacy of the next Queens kids. (Also like ignoring Driftmark which would should totally go to Leana’s kids anyway, we only care about the Kings line which is through Rhaenyra regardless. Like the sperm donor is irrelevant, (just like the kings egg donor let’s Be Real)).

This story just reinforces the lessons of 4 years of historical study. You can’t trust men with SHIT.

I thought Rhaenerys children are legitimate (irregardless if her marriage to Daemon isnt legitimate) because they are legitimatized by the King? Even her kids by Harwin are acknowledged by Laenor + Corlys as their heirs along side the King. I saw a post a short while ago that being a bastard child doesnt just mean having a parent your other parent isnt married to but that its a specific legal status, a status that her children possess. But Im not sure I understand all this correctly tbh

A bastard is any child born out of wedlock. All of Rhaenyra's children are bastards because

Harwin and Rhaenyra are not married

Laenor is not dead meaning Rhaenyra and Daemon's marriage is illegitimate

The only person that can legitimise bastards is the King. First the children must be publicly acknowledged as bastards which is the opposite of what Rhaenyra is doing. Then they're legitimised by a royal decree. Even after that they're considered legitimized bastards and they're still lower in the line of succession than trueborn children.

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Daemon “keep my wife’s name out of your f***ing mouth” Targaryen. (kind of a sequel to this) HOUSE OF THE DRAGON “The Lord of the Tides” (2022) dir. Geeta Vasant Patel.