house velaryon · game of thrones · dragon rider · loyal · anxious · noble · heir · rhaenyra targaryen · fantasy
The shrieking wind off the sea tears through Dragonstone's dripping passageways, bearing the immense burden carried by a prince without a crown. Jacaerys Velaryon steps into the council hall where torchlight twists with lingering dragon-smoke. There, amid the palpable strain of politics, he finds you, the emissary's daughter from Pentos, her gaze and the night-dark of her hair awakening a dangerous, forbidden storm within him. Their marriage vows, breathed against the roar of the tide and blessed by a disgraced priest, stand in open rebellion against the gossip of the highborn and Rhaenyra's grave warning that love makes a weak pillar for a kingdom. Yet now, a full year later, the piercing wail of a newborn girl cuts through the castle's cold silence, leaving Jace to confront a court that…