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goodqueenaly · 8 months

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I really love one parallel between Aegon and Visenya during the Conquest, in how they approached the Riverlands and Crackclaw Point.

In both regions, the native populace had spent much of their respective histories (or at least relatively recent history, in the case of the Riverlands) under the imperial thumbs (or would-be thumbs) of foreign conquerors. While the Teague dynasty may never have been well-loved among the lords of the Trident, its extinction following the Battle of Six Kings had ended the political identity of the Riverlands entirely. Under the Durrandon kings, the riverlords existed merely as subjects of a faraway liege; under the final three Hoare kings, the men of the Riverlands were lower-class citizens, lesser than born ironborn and eventually forced labor for the ego project of Harren the Black. Similarly, Crackclaw Point had been eyed by various local dynasties since the days of the Andal Invasion. If the Darklyns, Mootons, and Celtigars had never gained permanent control over the region (to the boastful delight of people like Dick Crabb), the intent for each family was to bring the fiercely autonomous, proudly First Men families of Crackclaw Point under the subjugation of the Andal aristocrats of Duskendale or Maidenpool or the Valyrian expatriates at Claw Isle.

In turn, both Aegon and Visenya appealed to these regions by restoring them, at least within the Targaryen feudal context, to a sense of political independence and self-governance. Although Aegon did not specifically direct Edmyn Tully to lead his fellow riverlords in rebellion against their erstwhile liege lord, following the burning of Harrenhal Aegon confirmed Lord Edmyn as Lord Paramount of the Trident. In a brilliant diplomatic stroke, Aegon recreated the Riverlands as a state in its own right; if the Tullys would need to bend the knee at King’s Landing, they would be no lower in standing than former kings like the Starks and Lannisters, each one liege lord of his own land. Likewise, while the terrifying sight of Vhagar proved enough to cow the men of Crackclaw Point into submission to the Targaryens, Visenya was clever enough to frame that surrender into the context of their native pride. Far from assigning Crackclaw Point to the domain of, say, the Tullys or Arryns, Visenya elevated the Crabbs, Brunes, and their neighbors to the level of the Houses which had tried to conquer them in the past. Just as the lords of the Trident would be free, under the Targaryens, from the officers and tax collectors sent by the Durrandon and Hoare kings, so the men of Crackclaw Point would never again need to acknowledge a Westerosi lordly outsider as their governor. Each region would operate on its own, invested with respect and responsibility by the dragons and subject only to the dragons.

#asoiaf meta #targaryen conquest #aegon i targaryen #visenya targaryen

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witchofvalyria · 2 years

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"Visenya, eldest of the three siblings, was as much a warrior as Aegon himself, as comfortable in ringmail as in silk. Even those who loved her best found Visenya stern, serious, unforgiving, and some said that she played with poisons and dabbled in dark sorceries. "

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paparinka · 26 days

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Mother of the dynasty

#queen rhaenys targaryen #house of the dragon #asoiaf #fan art #asoiaf art #game of thrones #meraxes #rhaenys the conqueror #rhaenys targaryen #the conquerors #the conquest

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laurikarauchscat · 3 months

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Visenya glaring daggers at the moon eyed stranger approaching her wife.

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My Conqueror's headcannons.

Rhaenys ... gets around. A Certified heartbreaker.

Visenya hates everyone except Rhaenys and Maegor.

Balerion was drawn to aegon's dreams, Vhagar was drawn to Visenya's loneliness, Meraxes was drawn to Rhaenys' boredom.

Balerion is cool, and can be fearsome as fuck, but during the conquest Vhagar did the most damage.

Of the three dragons, Balerion is the most "housetrained", Meraxes the least.

Of the three dragons, Meraxes is the worst at understanding human behaviour, which is what caused their death.

All dragons are theoretically able to lay eggs.

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littlest-gemini · 3 months

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POV you are about to be Conquered™️

#a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #asoiaf art #aegon the conqueror #aegon targaryen #rhaenys targaryen #queen rhaenys #rhaenys the conqueror #visenya targaryen #visenya the conqueror #queen visenya #aegon’s conquest #pre asoiaf #house targaryen #game of thrones

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duchess-of-oldtown · 2 months

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Visenya and Ronnel Arryn is something so precious to me, but it often gets me thinking what she was thinking when she found Ronnel alone in the courtyard. Did she see just a little boy amazed by a stranger and her dragon? Did she see Aegon at that age? Did she imagine a son of hers in the future? Was it strategy or just maternal or big sister instincts kicking in? Because Visenya could have taken the Eyrie as a show of strength and reminded the world of fire and blood. Perhaps that was the plan. But she changed her mind. She chose kindness.

#Visenya never gets to be a woman #She never gets to be thought of how rhaenys is beautiful and gentle and kind #She's the warrior the scary one #But she was the one who won by peace by compassion #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #house of the dragon #asoiaf meta #visenya targaryen #queen visenya #visenya the conqueror #Pre asoiaf #The Conquest #aegons conquest

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fallenrosepettals · 2 months

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Love is the Death of Duty

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burninghousepress · 28 days

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The conquerors💖 here are my designs or Visenya, Aegon, and Rhaeneys

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erasine · 3 months

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THESE FACES ARE LITERALLY GIVING TARGARYEN FACE CARD

Never shutting up about them <3333

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goodqueenaly · 10 months

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If House Durandon had bent the knee to Aegon and Argillac had a male heir, would Aegon have given Harrenhal to Orys Baratheon?

In the three examples from the Targaryen Conquest IOTL where pre-Conquest male heirs of established ruling dynasties bent the knee to the Targaryens - Ronnel Arryn, Torrhen Stark, and Loren Lannister - Aegon the Conqueror allowed each established ruler to retain his (subsequently non-royal) ruling position and continue the dynasty already in place in that region. As such, it may well have been the case that, had Argilac Durrandon already had a son at the time of the Conquest who (perhaps following some version of the Last Storm) acknowledged the Targaryens as his overlords, the Targaryens would have in turn acknowledged this Durrandon prince as Lord of Storm’s End and House Durrandon as the crown’s ruling vassal family in the Stormlands.

Of course, it’s worth pointing out that such a scenario would have completely changed one of the, well maybe not quite immediate inciting incidents of the Conquest, but an important political exchange that occurred shortly before it IOTL. King Argilac himself had, of course, reached out to the Targaryens prior to the conquest, “offering Lord Aegon his daughter in marriage, with all the lands east of the Gods Eye from the Trident to the Blackwater Rush as her dowry” according to Gyldayn. When Aegon Targaryen made a counteroffer, demanding more land and substituting Orys as the bridegroom, Argilac angrily rejected what he saw as an insult to his daughter and dynasty (a rejection that I think the narrative wants to suggest was poetically resolved by Orys’ (and Rhaenys’) victory and the subsequent Orys-Argella marriage). While I very much doubt Aegon solely based the decision of the Conquest on King Argilac’s refusal, I do think Argilac would have been that much less likely to even consider carving off some of his son’s inheritance to create a Targaryen buffer state.

Anyway, what would Aegon have done with Orys Baratheon in such a scenario? It’s possible that Aegon would have installed him as Lord of Harrenhal, although I think the great unknown factor here is to how and what extent Aegon wanted Orys to wield power. Having already accepted House Tully as the ruling dynasty of the Riverlands, Aegon would have been relegating Orys as Lord of Harrenhal to a secondary geopolitical role, which the king may or may not have wanted to do. Perhaps instead Aegon would have installed Orys as Lord of Highgarden (maybe married to some Gardener princess, any of whom could presumably have existed after the Field of Fire but none of whom, of course, we know anything about). It’s possible Aegon would have installed Orys as Lord of the Iron Islands (although maybe Aegon would have remembered the historical folly of Aubrey Crakehall in just such a role). It’s possible Aegon would have made Orys governor of Dorne, or even offered to marry Orys to Princess Deria Martell, as a means of incorporating Dorne into the kingdom of the Iron Throne. It’s possible that Aegon would have built Orys a new castle (as Aegon IV would promise to do later for another Targaryen-fathered bastard, Daemon Blackfyre). Or perhaps Aegon would simply have kept Orys on as his champion and strong right arm, without necessarily making him a great lord in the bargain.

#asoiaf meta #alternate universe #orys baratheon #aegon i targaryen #targaryen conquest

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ginny-anime · 2 months

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My mothers

#fire and blood #house of the dragon #house targaryen #alicent hightower #house hightower #house martell #princess meria martell #dorne #unbowed unbent unbroken #we light the way #hotd #game of thrones #aegons conquest #team green

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alex-iltempo · 1 year

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By @boomdafunk

Daemyra inspired by BRUTAL CONQUEST

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ecoamerica · 2 months

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linaartsblogsworld · 5 months

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AEGON THE CONQUEROR And His SISTERS

"Aegon Targaryen changed the rules, that's why every child alive still knows his name, three hundred years after his death ”

_“Aegon and his sister ”

Aegon The Conqueror and his Queens are here!

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laurikarauchscat · 1 month

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Reference pose : https://www.instagram.com/p/C5jUomCxAoG/?igsh=M3RqbzlnYXl5ZDN3

Rhaenys the conqueror loved music, and dancing. She spent more time on dragonback than either of her siblings.

I drew Rhaenys as Aphrodite. This idea is from @charlottegospocic, who suggested Rhaenys as Hera. That was the original plan, but I ultimately think Hera fits better with someone like Rhaenyra, and the more I thought about it, the more Aphrodite fit better for Rhaenys.

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tronodiferro · 1 year

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Rhaenys and Meraxes Ertaç Altınöz

#Ertaç Altınöz #A Song of Ice and Fire #The Conquest #ASOIAF #Westeros #George R.R. Martin #dragon #Rhaenys #Meraxes #House Targaryen

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duchess-of-oldtown · 1 year

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The thing that drives me crazy about people's opinion of Visenya in-universe is that they generalise her as "the stern one" or the "evil sister". Visenya may have been aloof but she loved with every bone of her body. She won the Vale banking on a mother's love for her son. She kept her word to a small boy despite a tense situation and grieved his death years later. She went to extreme lengths to form the Kingsguard to protect Aegon. She risked her own life to torch Dorne after it claimed Rhaenys. She counselled Aenys wisely throughout his reign. She counselled Maegor despite how close he came to bringing down House Targaryen, the legacy her bother and sister helped her build and left her with. Visenya helped build House Targaryen into what it was, not out of fire and blood but out of love.

#Visenya wasn't soft but she wasn't made of ice either #She fucking loved every one of her family #visenya the conqueror #visenya targaryen #aegon the conqueror #rhaenys the conqueror #maegor the cruel #maegor targaryen #aenys i targaryen #ronnel arryn #Sharra Arryn #House Targaryen #valyrianscrolls #Asoiaf #pre asoiaf #The Conquest

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ecoamerica · 2 months

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