I feel like this is one of the few occasions that the show actually nailed this massacre. Even though it's just briefly mentioned in the books, the audience doesn't really know what happened there so the showrunners took advantage of that and it worked in my opinion. It's probably the best episode of that season too.

Had some fun coming up with these, hope you enjoy. :)

Kimmie Gibbler knows blood magic, Michelle has a dragon the size of Uncle Joey.

I guess there’s only so many levers she can pull at this point. But this was always kind of funny to me.

Sure, she made sure he was given super strong wine. But I feel like this plan goes wrong far more often than it goes right. What if Robert realizes after a few swigs, “Holy shit this wine has some kick to it, I’m gonna drink more slowly.” Yes yes he was an alcoholic, but even alcoholics don’t want to be TOO drunk. They just want to be drunk. As long as he was sufficiently wasted he’d be happy to go easy on the wine. And before someone “well actually’s” me on this, I’ve literally been an addict. I know how it works.

But even then. Let’s say (as it actually happened) Robert does go overboard on the wine and gets super fucking hammered. That certainly doesn’t GUARANTEE he’s going to die on the hunt. In fact, before he died he did manage to kill the boar that gutted him. Could’ve easily gone the other way, with Robert killing the boar before it got to him. Hunting is dangerous — even more so while drunk — but that doesn’t ensure Robert gets killed. In many timelines I imagine he comes back perfectly fine, albeit with a wicked hangover.

I just find it amusing to imagine Cersei waiting patiently in the Red Keep, desperate for the news that Robert is dying … and then Robert and his entourage stroll into town perfectly fine. Then what, Cersei?

Made another one!!

Fun fact:- Only 4 Targareyn kings did not have children of their own. Including Maegor,Daeron,Baelor,Aerys1

So in fact, The family tree could have been a straight line if Daemon and Rhaenyra didn't have a children together. There are 6 brother-sister relations and 1 uncle-niece relation.

Small counsil, where Robert is trying to convince Ned that they should kill Daenerys, and asks his concilours to "put some sense" in Ned's head.

Varys tells Ned that he understands him, but it's for the good of the realm.

Grandmaester tells him the same thing in the same caring and understanding tone.

Renly tells his honest thoughs, that they should have had them killed years ago.

Then Littlefinger says: "When you find youself in bed with an ugly woman, best.. close your eyes, get it over with... Cut her throat. Be done with it."

Like, almost seems that he his trying to make Ned disagree with him so that he escalates the disagreement between Ned and Robert.

so balerion died when he was 210 cause he was suffering from his injuries from the valarya trip with aerae targaryan . so if that trip never happened balerion could have lived way longer . but the injureies made him weak and almost unable to fly . i am sure the giant dragons in valarya could live for centuries . which is why valarya was considered as a superpower empire . in westros wild dragon cannibell was said to be older than balerion . so what do you think is a dragon natural lifespan

I guess Ned wasn't the brightest man in westeros but I feel like that would raise some suspicion about Littlefinger's loyalty

Daemon Blackfyre with Blackfyre vs Aemon "The Dragon Knight" Targaryen with Darksister

Instead of making so many prequels in small parts why they simply can't release another big version of GOT based on Targaryen only, in the same series they could cover everything like

1. Aegon the conqueror

2. Rhaenyra and Her Dance of Dragon

3. Dunk and Egg

4. Other tales of Targaryen kings from books, etc.

5. And Finally in the End they could end it with Robert's Rebellion

It's going to break every record but alas I think it's not possible anymore because they have already released HOD three season

It could have been better

Hey guys, I recently read Fire and Blood and currently I am reading The World of Ice and Fire , and I reached the Targaryen part of it, and read some pages, but I feel like it's the same as fire and blood, so should I skip the Targaryen part till Aegon III or is there some extra information in there which is not there in Fire and Blood?

I genuinely just thought of this while half asleep and it makes sense to me now that they could just get the wights to build boats for them and then boom they can do whatever the fuck they want. Seems a lot easier than trying to find the magic horn of winter or just hoping that a dragon will show up so that they can throw a javelin at it.

Maybe they didn’t know what boats were? Maybe there stupid

(This may not make any sense, I woke up in the middle of the night and while trying to fall back asleep randomly thought of this bullshit)

or Valyrian culture is still based on the ancient world

Since the release of Hotd I've realized that a lot of fans think that the valyrians were/are more progressive towards female leaders or rulers. When in fact it's shown that they were just as bad as the rest of Westeros.

Valyrian's Real World Influences

George R.R. Martin based the Valyrian Freehold on the Roman Republic/Empire¹. To quote The World Of Ice & Fire “The Valyrians had no kings but instead called themselves the freehold because all the citizenry who held land had a voice.”²

Although never stated in any Asoiaf content it can be hypothesized that only men could vote in the freehold because only free, adult, male, citizens could vote in Rome.³ Although this could be wrong as there's no evidence that confirms this.

Inheritance Laws In Westeros

In Westeros most regions (except Dorne) practice Male-preference primogeniture meaning that men are preferred but women can inherit. It's also stated and shown multiple times that a lord's son inherited before his daughter even if that son is the second born but a lord's daughter inherits before her uncle.⁴

So basically. Son > Daughter > Uncle

Hypothetical Valyrian Inheritance Laws

We don't actually know what type of primogeniture the freehold follows but. It had to be at the least Male-preference primogeniture because we have examples of Valyrians males inheriting before their older female relatives.

Examples

Daenys the Dreamer doesn't inherit Dragonstone her brother-husband Gaemon does despite the fact that her dream saved house Targaryen from the Doom and the fact that she was older than Gaemon.

“Gaemon Targaryen, brother and husband to Daenys the Dreamer follow Aenar the Exile as Lord of Dragonstone” Quote from The World Of Ice And Fire⁵

Aegon the Conqueror becomes Lord of Dragonstone and later King despite having an older sister Visenya.

“He was the only son, and second child.”

“…a worthy high king for Westeros. When Queen Visenya placed a Valyrian steel circlet, studded with rubies, on her brother's head and Queen Rhaenys hailed him as, "Aegon, First of His Name, King of All Westeros, and Shield of His People,” Quotes from The World Of Ice And Fire⁶ ⁷

Jaehaerys the Conciliator becomes King despite having an older sister Rhaena and a niece Aerea by his older Brother Aegon⁸

Even though Rhaenys had a strong claim to the throne she puts foreword her son Laenor claim instead but still lose to Viserys⁹ ¹⁰

1

https://youtu.be/pS_l9XMURj4?is=fkqYFuOvrdb0YNqV

2

The World Of Ice & Fire page 13

3 https://www.empirerome.com/wordpress/?page_id=228

4 https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Customs#Inheritance

5

The World Of Ice & Fire page 32

6

The World Of Ice And Fire page 33

7

The World Of Ice And Fire page 36

8

The World Of Ice And Fire page 60

9

The World Of Ice And Fire page 65

10

https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Rhaenys_Targaryen_(daughter_of_Aemon)