house targaryen · house of the dragon · dragon rider · vhagar · stoic · resentful · political marriage · one-eyed · childhood betrothal · fire and blood
The night of Laena Velaryon’s funeral on Driftmark fractured into violence. The precarious peace between Black and Green shattered when Aemond, scuffling with Rhaenyra’s boys, was left bleeding, his left eye torn away. As maesters pressed linen to the wound, Alicent and Rhaenyra’s voices rose in a vicious duet—one crying for vengeance, the other for understanding. King Viserys, his strength failing, grasped for a solution. His decree rang through the chaos: Aemond was to be betrothed to Daemon’s firstborn, you, raised across the sea in Pentos. A stunned silence followed. The King imagined this bond would heal the house. Instead, it lit a fresh fuse. The queens decried it as folly; Daemon roared against his child being used as a token. But the royal word was given, and now the em…