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TARGARYEN WEEK Day 6: Favorite Family Dynamic - THE GREAT BASTARDS

While on his deathbed, Aegon legitimized his bastards and placed them in his line of succession after his firstborn, Daeron II.

Daemon Blackfyre  

Daemon I Blackfyre, born Daemon Waters, was the bastard son of Princess Daena Targaryen and King Aegon IV Targaryen. Daemon when denied Princess Daenerys he rose up and  swayed half the kingdom to support his claim to the Iron Throne against King Daeron II in a war called the Blackfyre Rebellion. He was the first and greatest of the Blackfyre Pretenders.   

Aegor ‘Bittersteel’ Rivers  

Ser Aegor Rivers, often called Bittersteel, was a renowned knight. In the First Blackfyre Rebellion, Aegor sided with Daemon against King Daeron II.  Bittersteel fled Westeros after Daemon’s death at the end of the rebellion to the Free City of Tyrosh.  Aegor founded the Golden Company, a famous mercenary organization, to stop the loss of support for the Blackfyres.  

Brynden 'Bloodraven’ Rivers  

Lord Brynden Rivers, called “Lord Bloodraven”. Brynden was a Targaryen loyalist during the Blackfyre Rebellions, the Hand of Aerys I and Maekar I Targaryen, and Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch. Shiera Seastar, another bastard of Aegon IV, was his mistress. His half-brother Aegor “Bittersteel” Rivers desired Shiera also, which served in increasing the enmity between the two. Bloodraven was thought to be a sorcerer. He disappeared while ranging beyond the Wall in 252 AC. He is discovered to be The Three-Eyed Raven by Bran Stark.  

Shiera Seastar  

Shiera Seastar was the last of the Great Bastards of King Aegon IV Targaryen.  Shiera never married, but took many lovers, and numerous duels were fought for her favor. Her half-brother Brynden Rivers repeatedly proposed marriage to her. Although she refused to marry him, she did share her bed with him.Her other half-brother Bittersteel, was said to have also desired her, which only served to increase the hatred between Bloodraven and Bittersteel. There were rumors that she bathed in the blood of maidens to retain her beauty.  

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TARGARYEN WEEK • day 3: favorite monarch → Rhaenyra Targaryen

“The first Viserys intended his daughter Rhaenyra to follow him, do you deny it? But as the king lay dying the Lord Commander of his Kingsguard decided that it should be otherwise.”

- Arianne Martell

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@targaryensource Targaryen Week 2023 || Day 1: Favourite Targaryens- Daenerys Targaryen, Aegon i Targaryen, Rhaegar Targaryen and Rhaenys Targaryen❤️

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Targaryen Week 2023 || Day Two: Favorite Dragons

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@targaryensource’s Targaryen Week 2023 || Day 2: Favorite Dragon - Drogon

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@targaryensource’s Targaryen Week 2023 || Day 3: Favourite Targaryen monarch - King Aegon I Targaryen & Queen Daenerys I Targaryen

No one was calling her Daenerys the Conqueror yet, but perhaps they would. Aegon the Conqueror had won Westeros with three dragons, but she had taken Meereen with sewer rats and a wooden cock, in less than a day.

Daenerys Targaryen is no maid, however. She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats. 

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Targaryen Week 2023 || Day One: Favorite Targaryens

Alysanne Targaryen ~ Queen Consort of Westeros Daenerys I Targaryen ~ Queen of Meereen, Queen of Westeros Rhaena Targaryen ~ Queen in the East and West

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@targaryensource’s Targaryen Week 2023 || Day 1: Favourite Targaryens - Daenerys Targaryen + book quotes that show that she has all the characteristics that (according to her creator) define a good king (in/s/p.)

GRRM at the “House of the Dragon” Comic-Con panel: A good king is someone who regards being king as a duty rather than a privilege that they are entitled to. A duty to the realm to dispense justice and peace, and occasionally do boring things like building roads and sanitation in King’s Landing and all that.

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GRRM to History of Westeros: I  mean, it’s… you know, I had a lot of input in the beginning of Game of Thrones, partly cause I had these books out there. Um, but at a certain point, as the show went on, I, I found I had less and less influence uh, until by the end, I really didn’t even know what, what was going on. I, I… Some of these things I watched like everybody else, and ‘oh, okay.' 

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Targaryen Week 2023: ↳Day 1: Favorite Targaryens

Daemon / Rhaenyra / Rhaegar / Daenerys / Jon

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Targ Week day 1: Favorite Targaryens! I began making this yesterday to have it ready today annnnnnd its 1am where I live so technicallyyyyyy Targ week has begun lol...Rhaena (Queen in the West/East), Brynden Rivers, Dany and Aemond!!!

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“i’m no ordinary woman—my dreams come true.”

the mother of dragons, the unburnt, the breaker of chains, mhysa, khaleesi of the great grass sea, and stormborn herself for the first #targaryenweek of favorite targaryen. words aren’t enough to describe how i love this gal 🐉

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TARGARYEN WEEK • day 1: favorite Targaryens

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Targaryen Week• Day 1: Favourite Targaryens

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TARGARYEN NOVEMBER 2021 ↳ Day 16: The Dance of the Dragons

Queen Alicent’s greens enjoyed an advantage; the longer Rhaenyra remained ignorant of the king’s death, the slower she would be to move. “Mayhaps the whore will die in childbirth,” Queen Alicent is reported to have said … Her first act as queen was to declare Ser Otto Hightower and Queen Alicent traitors and rebels. “As for my half brothers, and my sweet sister Helaena,” she announced, “they have been led astray by the counsel of evil men. Let them come to Dragonstone, bend the knee, and ask my forgiveness, and I shall gladly spare their lives and take them back into my heart, for they are of my own blood, and no man or woman is as accursed as the kinslayer.”

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129 AC - 131 AC: the Dance of the Dragons, a war of succession between Aegon II and his half-sister Rhaenyra over their father Viserys I’s throne.

Dear brother. I had hoped that you were dead.  

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Super excited to be doing my second art trade with the brilliant @riotarttherite of Rhaenyra and her sworn shield Harwin "Breakbones" Strong! This was so much fun!!

Please go check Elena's page for her drawing of Corlys and Rhaenys!!!😍😍😍

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Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) Rhaenyra Targaryen’s death - Art by Doug Wheatley

Yet neither Waters nor any of the other knights and lords present in the yard spoke a word of protest as King Aegon II delivered his half-sister to his dragon. Sunfyre, it is said, did not seem at first to take any interest in the offering, until Broome pricked the queen’s breast with his dagger. The smell of blood roused the dragon, who sniffed at Her Grace, then bathed her in a blast of flame, so suddenly that Ser Alfred’s cloak caught fire as he leapt away. Rhaenyra Targaryen had time to raise her head toward the sky and shriek out one last curse upon her half-brother before Sunfyre’s jaws closed round her, tearing off her arm and shoulder.