re: DoD Princess and the Queen discussion (SPOILERS!!!)

Wasn't there talk that Littlefinger had Dark Sister hidden in the tapestries?

Kind of skimming here to avoid spoilers, but I'm part of the way through and had to mention the part where Rhaenyra has her stillborn daughter who is "a stillborn girl, twisted and malformed, with a hole in her chest where her heart should've been, and a stubby scaled tail". Sounds eerily similar to Dany's childbirth in the tent.

And especially interesting knowing that Rhaenyra has other children (if I've read correctly).

You can search for Dangerous Women ePub and find it through one of those links. I linked to a good link that you can download to iBooks through in the Crackpot ASOIAF thread.

This was an okay read, the story was very abruptly ended I thought. But, I enjoyed the narrated sort of style. It's hard to believe that another house didn't take advantage of the weakened state that House Targ was in after most of their dragons were dead and the majority of their heirs dead and dying.


Here's another question:

If you were a player in the Game of Thrones and you came upon and read this story. Would you be more or less scared of Dany with her three dragons?

I would be far less scared...unless Dany had a century to raise her dragons (and immortality also) her dragons will always be whelps, not big enough to do much damage as a fully grown dragon, in ASOIAF. But it does seem that Dany's have or will grow into a major force, perhaps quickened by the magic that seems to have blossomed all over the world?

And did y'all catch that Aegon the son of Rhaenyra was the Aegon that eventually killed all the dragons.

He hated them because he saw his mother get eaten by one. We've heard that story since Game of Thrones but now we know why she was eaten

Aegon II was in poor health with no heirs and no wife. He only ruled for a couple more years before his death

He was kept alive in the dungeons of Dragonstone. Aegon II had one 3 year old son at the end of DoD, who must have later died. I've read elsewhere the Aegon II didn't die long after Rhaenyra was eaten, plus his wife was dead. Rhaenyra supporters ended up winning the war in some fashion, and Aegon III was released and crowned as the only living Targ.

That was a better alternative than allowing the Targ line to end altogether

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That was a better alternative than allowing the Targ line to end altogether

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There were so many bastards in the story, that I lost track. I just assumed that there had to be a half Targ from Aegon II's line that he could legitimize before his death.

I went through the story pretty quickly and haven't reread it yet but I'm fairly certain that Aegon III married one of Aegon II's daughters. Perhaps there was some agreement between both Aegons in regards to the succession and the marriage to maintain the purity of the Targaryen lineage while also uniting those who fought for both sides?

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There was only one free dragon killed by humans that whole war and that was by a navy that was accustomed to fighting them on the step stones and only after sustaining massive casualties. They're fricking dragons and not a single soul on Westeros has any inkling of an idea on how to fight them.

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You make a good point here, but a dome with several was overtaken by a bunch of drunk, angry small folk. Of course there were several hundred people that did this in a confined space against chained up beasts...

We're any of y'all rooting for the dragons to escape and kill all of the people?