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Redfort

The Vale and the location of Redfort

Redfort,




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The Redgrass Field is the site of the Battle of the Redgrass Field. It was an unnamed field before the battle. It was renamed the Redgrass Field after the battle for the color grass had been stained by the blood.

While its exact location has not yet been confirmed, the Redgrass Field is known to be located somewhere near King's Landing.




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Redpool is a place in the Seven Kingdoms; its location has not been revealed. Ser Malegorn, one of the queen's men, comes from Redpool.




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The Redsmiths are one of the Vale mountain clans of the Mountains of the Moon, according to Archmaester Arnel's *Mountain and Vale*.




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Redspots is a common childhood disease similar to chickenpox. It is harmless to anyone under the age of ten and once one has it, he'll be immune to it for the rest of his life. However, adults who do not contract it in childhood remain at risk for infection and may die from it. Redspots causes red dots to appear on the face and body and an itching which is soothed with salves.




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Redtusk was a supporter of Daemon I Blackfyre during the First Blackfyre Rebellion. At the battle of the Redgrass Field, Daemon ordered Redtusk to bring Ser Gwayne Corbray of the Kingsguard to the rear to see to his wounds after their fight. He was considered one of the finest knights of his time.




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Redwyn was a ranger of the Night's Watch.

History

He lived during the reign of Dorren Stark, the King in the North. He wrote an account of a ranging from the Shadow Tower to Lorn Point on the Frozen Shore. During that ranging they fought giants and traded with the children of the forest.




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The Redwyne Straits. © FFG

Redwyne Straits

Redwyne Straits

The Redwyne Straits is the body of water that lies between the Arbor and the mainland Reach. One must cross the straits to get from Oldtown to the Arbor.

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A Feast for Crows

The Redwyne Straits are filled with ironborn warships preying on defenseless trade vessels since the Redwyne fleet is at Dragonstone. After capturing a Tyroshi merchantmen in the straits, some ironborn tried to sneak into Oldtown but were stopped by the *Lady of the Tower*.




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Paxter Redwyne - by Lukasz Jaskolski. © Fantasy Flight Games

The Redwyne fleet is a fleet in the service of House Redwyne of the Arbor. The Redwynes have one of the three most powerful fleets of the Seven Kingdoms, the others being the Iron Fleet of the Iron Islands and the royal fleet of the Iron Throne.

It is the largest fleet in Westeros.

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History

Fleet from the Arbor - by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games

During the Andal invasion of Westeros, the Andals were prevented from landing in the Reach by the fleets of the Redwynes of the Arbor and the Hightowers of Oldtown.

Redwyne galleys blockaded Storm's End during Robert's Rebellion. The smuggler Davos evaded the cordon, however, and delivered onions and salt fish to Stannis Baratheon and his starving garrison within the castle.

During Greyjoy's Rebellion, warships from the Arbor served under Stannis when he smashed the Iron Fleet in the sea battle off Fair Isle.

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A Clash of Kings

With his sons Horas and Hobber held at the Red Keep by Cersei Lannister, Lord Paxter Redwyne refrains from supporting Renly Baratheon at the start of the War of the Five Kings.

A Storm of Swords

With the royal fleet largely destroyed in the Battle of the Blackwater, the Redwyne fleet is to sail from the Arbor to Blackwater Bay.

A Feast for Crows

The *Arbor Queen* - by Lukasz Jaskolski. © Fantasy Flight Games

While most of the westermen return home after the funeral of Lord Tywin Lannister, two thousand Lannister soldiers remain at King's Landing so they can eventually be transported by the Redwyne fleet to Dragonstone.

With most of the Redwyne fleet aiding in the siege of Dragonstone, King Euron Greyjoy sends his ironborn and the Iron Fleet to attack first the Shield Islands and then the Arbor.

Although Horas and Hobber are arrested through Cersei's plotting against Margaery Tyrell, the queen regent ensures they will be vindicated in order to keep the loyalty of the Redwynes and their navy.

A Dance with Dragons

Paxter, the lord admiral and master of ships,.

The Winds of Winter

At Ghost Hill Valena Toland tells Princess Arianne Martell she was wise not to come by sea. Since the Redwyne fleet passed through the Stepstones, those waters have been crawling with strange sails, all the way north to the Straits of Tarth and Shipbreaker Bay.




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Not to be confused with Ramsay Snow or Theon Greyjoy, who have both gone by the name "Reek" at some point.

Reek is a man-at-arms in service to House Bolton.

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History

According to Lord Roose Bolton, Reek always smelled appalling, apparently born with that condition.

When Ramsay's mother came to the Dreadfort and asked for a servant to help her raise her unruly and wild son, Roose gave her Reek as a jape. However, Ramsay and Reek became inseparable. According to Roose, Reek never had any training in arms, though he was Ramsay's tutor in martial prowess, which explains Ramsay's vicious and overly aggressive style of swordsmanship.

Reek stayed with Ramsay, even after Ramsay was brought to the Dreadfort in 297 AC and was made Roose's unofficial heir. From that time on, Ramsay and Reek became infamous in the region for the "hunts" they undertook together. They caught peasant girls, then set them free and told them to run for their lives. The pair chased after the girls until they caught them, with Ramsay raping and killing the girls, then Reek having his way with the dead bodies while they were still warm. Only a few of the girls escaped.

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A Clash of Kings

Lady Donella Hornwood arrives at Winterfell for the harvest feast. In a meeting with Ser Rodrik Cassel, Maester Luwin, and Bran Stark, she tells of Ramsay Snow massing men at the Dreadfort and mentions the stories of Ramsay and Reek.

On her way back to Hornwood, Donella is abducted by Ramsay and forced to marry him. Calling himself Lord of the Hornwood, Ramsay locks Donella in a tower, where she starves to death. It is said that Reek participated in the crime.

Ramsay and Reek are pursued by men sworn to Rodrik, and they are eventually caught during one of their "hunting" trips, which involved Ramsay raping and killing a girl. Reek's horse is lame, so both cannot escape. Ramsay, in an attempt to hide his true identity, pulls Reek off the dead body and gives him his own clothes and markings of identity, telling him to ride for help to the Dreadfort with the good horse. Rodrik's men kill Reek, believing him to be Ramsay. The dead girl had soiled herself before she died, so Ramsay smears the filth over himself and dons Reek's clothes. When Rodrik's men come back, they take Ramsay to be Reek and drag him back to Rodrik, who brings him as a prisoner to Winterfell.

During the capture of Winterfell by Theon Greyjoy, his men find Ramsay, still posing as Reek, in the dungeons.

"Reek" brings the Dreadfort's garrison to Winterfell and betrays Rodrik's host in a battle at Winterfell. "Reek" uncovers his true identity as Ramsay to Theon and orders the sack of Winterfell.

A Dance with Dragons

Ramsay imprisons Theon at the Dreadfort and insists upon calling him Reek. Theon's identity is lost to pain and torture; only "Reek" remains.

Quotes about Reek

The boy is a sly creature by all accounts, and he has a servant who is almost as cruel as he is. Reek, they call the man. It's said he never bathes. They hunt together, the Bastard and this Reek, and not for deer. I've heard tales, things I can scarce believe, even of a Bolton.

- Donella Hornwood to Rodrik Cassel

The smell was something he was born with. A curse, the smallfolk said. The gods had made him stink so that men would know his soul was rotting.

- Roose Bolton to Theon Greyjoy

I do wonder, though ... was it Ramsay who corrupted Reek, or Reek Ramsay?

- Roose Bolton to Theon Greyjoy

Notes

  1. Having a bad odor not caused by lack of hygiene is a disease called Trimethylaminuria.



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Regenard Estren is the Lord of Wyndhall and head of House Estren.

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Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Lord Regenard is a part of Ser Jaime Lannister's force besieging Riverrun. He is captured at the Battle of the Whispering Wood.

A Storm of Swords

Lord Regenard is held captive at the Twins.

A Feast for Crows

Regenard is released following the Red Wedding.




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The regency ends as sixteen year old King Aegon III enters the small council chambers and dismisses all of the regents and his Hand.

The regency of Aegon III lasted from 131 AC to 136 AC while King Aegon III Targaryen was in his minority. It was a period of numerous political conflicts that occurred among the council of regents and several Hands of the King.

Aegon ascended the Iron Throne at the age of eleven, after losing most of his family to the unprecedented internal conflict and civil war that came to be known as the Dance of the Dragons. Several regents and Hands ruled in Aegon's name for the first five years of his reign until the king came of age. During the regency numerous political schemes, plots and assassinations happened as the regents and their supporters vied for political power.

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History

Beginning of the Regency

After witnessing the horrific death of his mother, Rhaenyra Targaryen, late in the war, Aegon had become a quite sullen, melancholic boy who spent days alone brooding. He was used as a pawn as the lords and regents of the small council all sought to gain a political stronghold.

The regency of King Aegon started with seven individual regents, who became known as a council of seven. Of these seven regents, only Grand Maester Munkun served during the entire regency. Other regents and Hands of the King resigned, were replaced, or died. Aegon's reign began in the second year of a harsh winter, which would last until 135 AC. Winter Fever took several of Aegon's regents.

The first of Aegon's regents to pass was Lord Corlys Velaryon, who died in 132 AC of old age. His grandson and successor, Lord Alyn Velaryon, hoped to take his grandfather's place on the council but was denied. That same year, Lord Royce Caron gave up his place on the council. Ser Torrhen Manderly gave up his place on the council as well that year, to return home to White Harbor, following the deaths of his father and brother from Winter Fever.

In 133 AC, Winter Fever took Ser Tyland Lannister, who had returned from the Free Cities the year before, and had been named Hand of the King, a position which he held and fulfilled capably, despite his mutilations. Lord Roland Westerling, one of the regents, died in 133 AC of Winter Fever as well, and was subsequently replaced by Lord Thaddeus Rowan.

Lord Unwin Peake had felt slighted when he had not been amongst the original seven regents. Yet in 132 AC, he was given Lord Corlys Velaryon's position. He rose to the position of Hand in 133 AC, following the death of Ser Tyland Lannister. In his position of power, he saw his kin hold many high office, and endeavored to weaken his rivals by any means at hand.

King Aegon III had married his cousin, Princess Jaehaera Targaryen, the sole surviving child of King Aegon II Targaryen, following the end of the civil war. She apparently killed herself in 133 AC, when she threw herself out of her window and was impaled on the spikes of Maegor's Holdfast. Whilst officially named a suicide, there are some who question the manner of her death. Some whisper that Jaehaera had been murdered, and one of the suspects named was Ser Mervyn Flowers of the Kingsguard, the bastard half-brother of Lord Unwin, who had been the guard at Jaehaera's door when she died. Court-fool Mushroom suggests that Mervyn did not do the deed himself, but had allowed for someone else to push her out of the window. Maester Yandel speculates the assassin was Tessario the Tiger, a sellsword of the Free Cities in Lord Unwin's service.

Following the death of Queen Jaehaera, Lord Unwin attempted to marry his own daughter to King Aegon. When the regents stopped his attempts, the Hand arranged a ball during which a thousand maids were presented to the king. Ladies Rhaena and Baela Targaryen presented a cousin of theirs, Lady Daenaera Velaryon, at the time only six years old. Aegon choose her as his new queen, which greatly frustrated Lord Peake. He attempted to have the king's choice put aside, but the other regents, as well as Aegon, opposed him. Unwin threatened to resign as Hand of the King in an attempt to bend the other regents to his will, but they were only happy to oblige. Thus Lord Peake's resignation was accepted and he was replaced as Hand by Lord Thaddeus Rowan in 134 AC.

The Red Kraken

Lord Dalton Greyjoy, the Red Kraken, had joined the Dance of the Dragons on the side of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, and had been allowed to raid the western coasts. did not.

Lord Alyn Velaryon, denied Lord Corlys Velaryon's place on the council, was made to sail against the Stepstones. Against the hopes of the then-Hand Lord Unwin Peake, Alyn was victorious in the Stepstones. When he returned to King's Landing, his newborn fame proved divisive. The regents, despite Unwin's protests, gave Alyn honors and rewards. Lord Peake in the end convinced the regents to dispatch Alyn to the westerlands to deal with Dalton, almost certainly hoping it would result in Alyn's death or defeat. Instead, it became the first of six great voyages by Alyn.

Dalton was eventually killed on Fair Isle, when a girl named Tess opened his throat with a dagger. As Dalton had never married, a bloody struggle began within hours of his death. Lady Johanna Lannister extracted revenge for all the suffering of the westerlands in 134 AC, when a Lannister force, with the aid of Ser Leo Costayne, attacked the Iron Islands.

Return of Prince Viserys

Aegon III's younger brother, Prince Viserys Targaryen, was believed dead by many. His return to King's Landing was one of the few joys of Aegon's reign. Having been found in Lys by Lord Alyn Velaryon, a huge ransom was paid and the prince was allowed to return to King's Landing. With him, he brought his new wife, Larra Rogare, a wealthy daughter of the powerful and ambitious Rogare family. Larra's family owned the Rogare Bank, so powerful at the time that it was greater than the Iron Bank of Braavos.

The Rogare family soon became involved in the conflicts of this period. Accusations of wrongdoing were spread back and forth by many parties. Lord Thaddeus Rowan was accused of treason and being involved in a plot with the Rogare family and was tortured for information. After these affairs, Ser Marston Waters of the Kingsguard became Hand of the King, and sent men to arrest Lady Larra after he arrested her brothers, Lysaro and Moredo. The young king Aegon defended his brother and his brother's wife and family, however, and refused to give her up, which led to a siege in Maegor's Holdfast for eighteen days. Eventually, recalling his duty, Marston attempted to fulfil his king's command and arrest those who falsely implicated the Rogares and Lord Rowan. Ser Marston himself was killed attempting to arrest his sworn brother, Ser Mervyn Flowers.

End of Regency

Grand Maester Munkun briefly took over as Hand of the King and restored order until new regents were appointed. Lord Torrhen Manderly was made the new Hand, and Willam Stackspear, Marq Merryweather and Lorent Grandison were chosen by a Great Council to serve on the council in 136 AC.

The regency ended on the day of King Aegon III Targaryens sixteenth name day, when the king entered the small council chambers and dismissed all of the regents and his Hand.

Council of Regents

The regency council of Aegon III, as originally constituted, consisted of:

Subsequent replacements:

Regents chosen by lot at the Great Council of 136:

Hands of the King:




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A regent is in charge of ruling a realm when a king or lord is underage or incapable of ruling due to injury or illness. The regent's service ends on the the ruler 's sixteenth name day or when the ruler recovers from his injury. Royal regents have also taken the title "Protector of the Realm", a title usually reserved for the king.

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History

Septon Robeson acted as regent for the newborn son of the late Lord Damon Hightower.

Sharra Arryn was the regent of the Vale for Ronnel Arryn, King of Mountain and Vale, during the War of Conquest.

Queen Alyssa Velaryon served as Queen Regent during the first two years of the reign of her son, King Jaehaerys I Targaryen.

Prince Aemond Targaryen became Prince Regent after his brother, King Aegon II Targaryen, was severely wounded and incapacitated for a year after the battle at Rook's Rest during the Dance of the Dragons. The mother of young Lord Lyonel Tyrell was regent for the Reach at the start of the civil war.

The regency of Aegon III featured a council of seven regents. Regents were replaced as they resigned or died, the last three being chosen by the Great Council of 136.

Gerold Lannister briefly served as regent for Lady Cerelle Lannister.

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A Game of Thrones

Lady Lysa Arryn rules the Vale of Arryn as regent for her young son, Lord Robert Arryn.

In the will of King Robert I Baratheon, Lord Eddard Stark is named Lord Regent to Joffrey I Baratheon,

A Clash of Kings

Cersei's control over Joffrey is tempered by her father Tywin, Joffrey's Hand of the King, and her brother Tyrion, Tywin's representative in King's Landing.

A Feast for Crows

Cersei continues serving as Queen Regent for the new king, Tommen I Baratheon, after the deaths of Joffrey and Tywin and the flight from the capital by Tyrion. Ser Kevan Lannister rejects the office of Hand of the King when Cersei refuses to make him Regent.

A Dance with Dragons

Kevan Lannister is made Lord Regent to Tommen by Ser Harys Swyft and Grand Maester Pycelle after Cersei's imprisonment by the Faith of the Seven.

Quotes

"The Hand serves," the young knight informed him airily. "The regent rules until the king is of age."

- Ser Lancel Lannister, to Tyrion Lannister




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Reginald Lannister is a member of House Lannister of Lannisport and one of Tywin Lannister's bannermen at Harrenhal. The character was created specifically for the TV series and he is played by Patrick Fitzsymons.

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Game of Thrones

Background

Reginald Lannister fights for Lord Tywin in the War of the Five Kings. However, Tywin has made him an officer in the Westerlands army solely due to his name, and actually views him with contempt. He is married and his wife remains in the family seat of Lannisport.

Season Two

Reginald is present at a war council held by Lord Tywin inside Harrenhal. Reginald suggests that the Starks have stretched their lines too thin and will struggle to sustain their army with winter imminent. Tywin rejects this notion, saying that the Starks are more capable than they are of coping with cold. Tywin asks how they will stop Robb and Reginald ignores the question to say that they have been working through the night and would benefit from sleep. Tywin says that he believes Reginald would and that because they are cousins he might let Reginald wake from his sleep. He orders Reginald to return to his wife in Lannisport before he decides to send her his head. He adds that Reginald is only an officer because of his birth and otherwise would be scrubbing out pots in the cook’s tent.




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This page provides an overview of the regions of Westeros.

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Beyond the Wall

North

Iron Islands

Riverlands

Vale of Arryn

Westerlands

Crownlands

Reach

Stormlands

Dorne




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Raven-feeder redirects here. For the ship, see Ravenfeeder.

Regnar Drumm, known as Raven-feeder, was a High King of the Iron Islands from House Drumm.

History

Regnar was chosen at a kingsmoot after Erich I Greyiron was cast down from power. Erich had unlawfully seized the crown of his father, Urras Greyiron, upon Ironfoot's death and declared himself High King, despite the command that kings may only be made by kingsmoot.




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The setting of *A Song of Ice and Fire* is one where there are many faiths, and many faithful. Belief in high powers and supernatural threats runs deep through the culture of the known world and influence most aspects of life. In The Seven Kingdoms nearly all children are raised praising either the new gods or the old. Across the narrow sea children are often given to be raised to priesthood of one of the many deities worshipped there. Little is known about the actual deities and their powers, so far only R'hllor has been shown to possess real power and influence the world directly.

Westeros

Westeros has relatively few significant religions. They include:

Additionally, the Lady of the Waves and the Lord of the Skies were worshiped on the Three Sisters before the Andals introduced the Seven.

Essos

In Essos across the narrow sea, there are numerous different religions. In Braavos, one can find temples and shrines to almost every god one can imagine. Named religions include:

Influences and Theology

See also: Themes in A Song of Ice and Fire

Unlike J. R. R. Tolkien's *The Lord of the Rings, *A Song of Ice and Fire addresses religion in some detail and portrays several competing religions. More than any other novel in the series, *A Dance with Dragons* explores the different religions of Westeros and Essos. Each of the religions reflects its culture's temperament. George R. R. Martin based the series' faiths on real religions, tweaking or expanding them a little. However, no religion is presented as the true faith, although there are displays of power on many sides, nor do any have a monopoly on virtue.

Known influences include:

Martin tries to slowly reveal in how the many different kinds of magic in the Ice and Fire world may be manifestations of the same mysterious supernatural forces. This leaves readers free to wonder about the validity, teachings and supernatural power of the competing religions, allowing for a sense of wonder, for things that escape the net of explanation in terms of the physical sciences. Martin regards any religion's claim to truth with suspicion, as he does the claims of real religions. The series' gods, he said, are unlikely to appear deus-ex-machina in Westeros.

Prophecy




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Remnants of the Dragonlords is a work written by Archmaester Gramyon. In it, he claims that the Temple of the Lord of Light in Volantis is three times larger than the Great Sept of Baelor in King's Landing.




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Renfred Rykker is Lord of Duskendale and head of House Rykker, a noble house of the crownlands.

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A Feast for Crows

When Brienne of Tarth appears at the Dun Fort to talk to Lord Rykker, she is told by his castellan that Renfred is with Lord Randyll Tarly at Maidenpool and left Ser Rufus Leek as castellan to look after his wife and his children.




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Renly and his peach - art by Amok©

Renly's peach is a peach offered by Renly Baratheon to his elder brother Stannis during a parley.

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Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

During their meeting near Storm's End during the War of the Five Kings, Renly Baratheon offers his brother Stannis a peach as they are parlaying. As his brother's hand slides into his cloak Stannis reaches at once for the hilt of his sword, but before he can draw steel Renly produces a peach. Smiling, Renly offers the peach to Stannis, promising him he has never tasted anything so sweet. When Stannis refuses the peach, Renly advises him,

A man should never refuse to taste a peach. He may never get the chance again. Life is short, Stannis. Remember what the Starks say. Winter is coming.

Following Renly's death, Stannis is vexed by the offering of the peach.

A Storm of Swords

The memory of Renly with his peach continues to haunt Stannis.

Quotes

Renly offered me a peach. At our parley. Mocked me, defied me, threatened me, and offered me a peach. I thought he was drawing a blade and went for mine own. Was that his purpose, to make me show fear? Or was it one of his pointless jests? When he spoke of how sweet the peach was, did his words have some hidden meaning? Only Renly could vex me with a piece of fruit. He brought his doom on himself with his treason, but I did love him, Davos. I know that now. I swear, I will go to my grave thinking of my brother’s peach.

Stannis Baratheon to Davos Seaworth

Renly and his peach. In my dreams I see the juice running from his mouth, the blood from his throat. If he had done his duty by his brother, we would have smashed Lord Tywin. A victory even Robert could be proud of.

- Stannis Baratheon to Melisandre

The peach represents... Well... It's pleasure. It's… tasting the juices of life. Stannis is a very marshal man concerned with his duty, and with that peach Renly says: “Smell the roses”, because Stannis is always concerned with his duty and honor, in what he should be doing and he never really stops to taste the fruit. Renly wants him to taste the fruit but it's lost. I wish that scene had been included in the TV series because for me that peach was important, but it wasn't possible.

- George R. R. Martin




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*"Renly" redirects here. For another character called Renly, see Renly Norcross.*

Renly Baratheon is the Lord of Storm's End and Lord Paramount of the Stormlands. The younger brother of King Robert I and Lord Stannis, Renly serves as master of laws on Robert's small council.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Renly Baratheon

Renly is a handsome and charismatic man, winning friends easily, but he also strikes some people as frivolous.

Renly is twenty-one years old, a tall man with black hair falling to his shoulders.

Unbeknownst to the realm at large, and despite the many women who are attracted to him, Renly is homosexual.

History

Born in 277 AC,

Renly grew up at Storm's End. Only a boy of six at the time of Robert's Rebellion, he spent the war under siege in Storm's End, together with his older brother, Stannis, where he was witness to the desperation of the starving garrison.

As a boy, Renly loved bright colors and fabrics. He loved games as well, and would run laughing through the halls of Storm's End.

By his older brother Robert, Renly was eventually granted the seat of Storm's End and named Lord Paramount of the Stormlands, upsetting Stannis, who felt that, as the elder of the two, Storm's End was his by right.

When Renly turned sixteen, he made a lord's progress across the stormlands to mark his coming of age. During this progress, he also visited the isle of Tarth, where Renly courteously danced with Brienne of Tarth.

Princess Arianne Martell recalls that Renly also visited Sunspear once. She had tried her best to seduce Renly, but remembers that he had seemed more bemused than inflamed by her attempts.

During his time as Lord of Storm's End, Renly took Loras Tyrell as his page and squire.

Renly was eventually named to the small council, where he occupied the position of master of laws.

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A Game of Thrones

Renly Baratheon as depicted in TV series

While King Robert I Baratheon's procession is returning from Winterfell, Renly meets up with them, accompanied by Ser Barristan Selmy, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, and the King's Justice, Ser Ilyn Payne.

Renly performs well in the Hand's tourney, losing to the Hound, Sandor Clegane.

While Robert lies dying after being wounded in the kingswood, Renly approaches Eddard and suggests they seize control of the royal children before Queen Cersei Lannister can strike. Eddard refuses the offer, and Renly flees King's Landing along with Loras.

After Robert's death, Renly manages to win the support of powerful House Tyrell and many of their bannermen through a secret love affair with Loras and a marriage to his sister Margaery. Renly is crowned Lord of the Seven Kingdoms at Highgarden.

A Clash of Kings

Renly with his wife Margaery - by Amok ©

Through his charisma with and ties to House Tyrell and familiarity with his stormlands bannermen, Renly's claim to the Iron Throne is backed by the largest army in the War of the Five Kings, despite his elder brother Stannis having the better claim.

He also takes to wearing the stag of Baratheon but in the colors of House Tyrell.

Renly spends a great deal of time moving through the Reach, gaining support and men at castles such as Horn Hill while waiting for the right moment to strike.

Robb Stark, the young King in the North, sends his mother Catelyn to Bitterbridge to negotiate an alliance with Renly against Lord Tywin Lannister, who is fortified at Harrenhal.

Renly's plan goes awry, however, when Stannis unexpectedly besieges Storm's End, forcing Renly to respond.

Loras's brother, Ser Garlan Tyrell, wears Renly's armor in the Battle of the Blackwater to make it appear that Renly's ghost has returned for vengeance against the kinslaying Stannis.

A Storm of Swords

Following King Joffrey I Baratheon's wedding to Margaery, Hamish the Harper performs "Lord Renly's Ride" during the wedding feast. Hamish sings of Renly's ghost repenting from his attempt to usurp his nephew, returning to this world to defend the realm from Stannis and then returning to Highgarden to see his true love's face one last time, which brings tears to Margaery's eyes.

Ser Loras tells Ser Jaime Lannister that he buried Renly in a place they knew from when he was a squire at Storm's End, where no one else could ever find and disturb his remains.

A Feast for Crows

Taena of Myr tells Cersei Lannister that she was in attendance for Renly's wedding to Margaery Tyrell at Highgarden, and she questions Margaery's claim that the marriage was never consummated.

Sexuality

Although this is never explicitly stated, there are a number of oblique references that imply those who are close to him are aware of Renly's orientation and, more, that he and Loras Tyrell are involved. When Stannis and Renly are trading barbs in anticipation of battle at Storm's End, Stannis calls Renly's wedding to Margaery Tyrell a "mummer's farce" and in response to Renly's comment, "You'll be pleased to know she came to me a maid," Stannis replies, "In your bed she's like to die that way."

When Jaime stops Loras from confronting Brienne, he threatens Loras: "Now sheathe your bloody sword, or I'll take it from you and shove it up some place even Renly never found."

While contemplating Margaery's maidenhood, Cersei reflects on Margaery's marriage to Renly: "A man may prefer the taste of hippocras, yet if you set a tankard of ale before him, he will quaff it quick enough;" the implication being that although Renly prefers the company of men, he may nonetheless have bedded Margaery because she was available.

Quotes by Renly

The matter seems simple enough to me. We ought to have had Viserys and his sister killed years ago, but His Grace my brother made the mistake of listening to Jon Arryn.

– Renly to the small council

Renly: Give me an hour and I could put a hundred swords at your command.

Eddard: And what should I do with a hundred swords, my lord?

Renly: Strike! Now, while the castle sleeps. We must get Joffrey away from his mother and take him in hand. Protector of the Realm or no, he who holds the king holds the kingdom.

- Renly and Eddard Stark

Renly: Every moment you delay gives Cersei another moment to prepare. By the time Robert dies, it may be too late ... for both of us.

Eddard: Then we should pray that Robert does not die.
Renly: Small chance of that.
Eddard: Sometimes the gods are merciful.

Renly: The Lannisters are not.

– Renly and Eddard Stark

Renly: I propose that you dismount, bend your knee, and swear me your allegiance.

Stannis: That you shall never have.
Renly: You served Robert, why not me?
Stannis: Robert was my elder brother. You are the younger.
Renly: Younger, bolder, and far more comely ...
Stannis: ... and a thief and a usurper besides.

Renly: The Targaryens called Robert usurper. He seemed to be able to bear the shame. So shall I.

– Renly and Stannis Baratheon

Stannis: Do you think a few bolts of cloth will make you king?
Renly: Tyrell swords will make me king. Rowan and Tarly and Caron will make me king, with axe and mace and warhammer. Tarth arrows and Penrose lances, Fossoway, Cuy, Mullendore, Estermont, Selmy, Hightower, Oakheart, Crane, Caswell, Blackbar, Morrigen, Beesbury, Shermer, Dunn, Footly . . . even House Florent, your own wife's brothers and uncles, they will make me king. All the chivalry of the south rides with me, and that is the least part of my power. My foot is coming behind, a hundred thousand swords and spears and pikes. And you will destroy me? With what, pray? That paltry rabble I see there huddled under the castle walls? I'll call them five thousand and be generous, codfish lords and onion knights and sellswords. Half of them are like to come over to me before the battle starts. You have fewer than four hundred horse, my scouts tell me-freeriders in boiled leather who will not stand an instant against armored lances. I do not care how seasoned a warrior you think you are, Stannis, that host of yours won't survive the first charge of my vanguard.

– Renly and Stannis Baratheon

Why the oldest son, and not the best-fitted? The crown will suit me, as it never suited Robert and would not suit Stannis.

– Renly to Catelyn Stark

Quotes about Renly

The bold little boy with wild black hair and laughing eyes was a man grown now, one-and-twenty, and still he played his games. "Look at me, I'm a king," Cressen thought sadly. Oh, Renly, Renly, dear sweet child, do you know what you are doing? And would you care if you did? is there anyone who cares for him but me?

Cressen's thoughts

What has Renly ever done to earn a throne? He sits in council and jests with Littlefinger, and at tourneys he dons his splendid suit of armor and allows himself to be knocked off his horse by a better man. That is the sum of my brother Renly, who thinks he ought to be king.

Stannis Baratheon to Cressen

The youngest of Lord Steffon's three sons had grown into a man bold but heedless, who acted from impulse rather than calculation. In that, as in so much else, Renly was like his brother Robert, and utterly unlike Stannis.

Cressen's thoughts

My brother is young and strong, and he has a vast host around him, and these rainbow knights of his.

Stannis Baratheon to Selyse Florent

Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he's copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day.

Donal Noye to Jon Snow

He knew how to dress and he knew how to smile and he knew how to bathe, and somehow he got the notion that this made him fit to be king.

Olenna Redwyne to Margaery Tyrell

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

- Loras Tyrell to Tyrion Lannister

I will defend King Tommen with all my strength, I swear it. I will give my life for his if need be. But I will never betray Renly, by word or deed. He was the king that should have been. He was the best of them.

Loras Tyrell to Jaime Lannister

I would have given my life for King Renly, and died happy.

- Brienne Tarth to Illifer and Creighton Longbough

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Renly Norcross is the second son of Ser Hosman Norcross and lady Delena Florent. He is the younger brother of Alester Norcross.

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Rennifer Longwaters is the chief undergaoler of the dungeons beneath the Red Keep. He is a bowed old man. He is descended from Ser Jon Waters, the bastard son of Princess Elaena Targaryen and Alyn Velaryon. He keeps the counts of the prisoners in the cells.

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History

He first came to work in the Red Keep twelve years past.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Ser Jaime Lannister enquired into Rennifer's role in the escape of Tyrion Lannister. Rennifer explained how the cells work.

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I have a little dragon in me.

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Annotations from item #46269288:

Ser Reynard Reyne was a knight of House Reyne and the younger son of Lord Robert Reyne.

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Appearance and Character

Ser Reynard was charming, cunning, and less headstrong than his older brother, Roger the Red Lion.

History

Reynard and his elder brother, Lord Roger, were often at Casterly Rock once their sister Ellyn married Tion Lannister, the son of Lord Gerold Lannister and heir to the Rock. The brothers returned to Castamere after Tion's death, however, as Gerold began to groom Tytos Lannister for leadership. Ellyn was later rewed to Walderan Tarbeck, Lord of Tarbeck Hall.

Ca. 255 AC, House Tarbeck angered King Aegon V Targaryen through their territorial demands, according to a semi-canon source.

After the War of the Ninepenny Kings, Tytos's heir, Ser Tywin Lannister, attempted to bring order to the westerlands. During the ensuing crisis, Reynard oversaw the safe exchange of hostages held by the Lannisters and the Tarbecks at Roger's seat, Castamere.

During the Reyne-Tarbeck rebellion, Tywin extinguished the Tarbecks by killing Lord Walderan in the field and burning Tarbeck Hall. The outnumbered army of House Reyne then attacked Tywin's host, but were forced to flee after the Lannisters withstood the charge. Reynard took command of the Reynes since Roger became feverish after a crossbow wound and was no longer capable of leading.

Reynard abandoned the surface fortifications of Castamere and led the survivors into the mines of the Reynes. According to a semi-canon source,

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Lord Reynard Webber was Lord of Coldmoat and head of House Webber.

History

Lord Reynard was the lord of Coldmoat during the time of Ser Eustace Osgrey's father.




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The Reyne-Tarbeck revolt was an uprising in the westerlands in 261 AC. Houses Reyne and Tarbeck renounced fealty and rose against their Lannister overlords due to the perceived weakness of the Lord of Casterly Rock, Tytos Lannister. The revolt was crushed by Tytos's heir, Ser Tywin Lannister.

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Prelude

Lord Robert Reyne, the Lord of Castamere, was succesful in arranging a betrothal between his daughter Ellyn and Tywald Lannister, the heir of Lord Gerold Lannister of Casterly Rock. However, both Ellyn's betrothed and father were slain during the Peake Uprising in 233 AC. Ellyn, strong-willed and hot-tempered, was not willing to give up on her dream of becoming Lady of Casterly Rock, something which she had been anticipating for years. She convinced Lord Gerold's second son, Tion, to break his own betrothal and marry her instead. In this she was succesfull; Ellyn and Tion were wed in 235 AC, causing Ellyn to become the Lady of Casterly Rock in all but name, as Lord Gerold was widowed.

Ellyn used her position to support the position of her own family. In 236 AC, she became a widow when Tion died in the Fourth Blackfyre Rebellion. Ellyn's influence dwindled as Lord Gerold assumed more control over Casterly Rock and began to prepare his younger son Tytos for his future lordship. According to a semi-canon source, Ellyn at first claimed to have been pregnant shortly after Tion's death, but as time passed and her belly remained flat it was concluded the pregnancy had been a lie. The rivalry between Ellyn and Jeyne, which had begun years past, would continue for many years to come.

Tytos became the Lord of Casterly Rock and Warden of the West in 244 AC at the death of Lord Gerold. Tytos desired to be loved, and as such was willing to forgive people quickly. Many saw this as a weakness, and as such, many of Tytos's bannermen and merchants from Lannisport and Kayce borrowed money from him without paying their debts. Through her brothers, Lady Ellyn borrowed gold from House Lannister as well, which she used to restore the crumbling Tarbeck Hall. The power of House Lannister grew less, and even beyond the westerlands people began to realize the Lannisters were no longer to be feared.

Lord Tytos's eldest three sons left to fight in the War of the Ninepenny Kings in 260 AC. When Tywin, Tytos's heir, returned from the Stepstones with his brothers, Kevan and Tygett, he took upon himself to restore the power of House Lannister, despite Tytos's reluctance. Tywin demanded repayment of his father's loans and all who could not pay were ordered to send hostages to Casterly Rock. Kevan formed a new company of five hundred veterans to aid Tywin. Lord Roger Reyne, Ellyn's older brother, laughed when he read Tywin's edicts and advised his friends and vassals to do nothing. Lord Walderan Tarbeck hoped to convince Tytos to rescind Tywin's edicts and traveled to Casterly Rock, but was instead imprisoned by Tywin.

Revolt

Ser Tywin Lannister remained determined to defeat the disloyal vassals of House Lannister. In 261 AC, less then a year after the exchange of captives, Tywin sent ravens to Tarbeck Hall and Castamere demanding answers for their crimes at Casterly Rock. As he had expected, Lord Roger and Ser Reynard Reyne, as well Lord Walderan and Lady Ellyn Tarbeck, rose in rebellion, renouncing their fealthy to Casterly Rock.

Without the permission of Lord Tytos Lannister, Tywin marched against the upstart vassals with three thousand men-at-arms and crossbowmen and five hundred knights.

The fall of Tarbeck Hall

Because the Lannisters marched on Tarbeck Hall so suddenly, Lord Walderan Tarbeck had no time to rally his banners. As such, he met the Lannister host in battle with only his household knights. A short bloody battle ensued in which the Tarbecks were butchered.

At Tarbeck Hall, Lady Ellyn expected a long siege. She sent ravens to Castamere, asking her brothers Roger and Reynard for help. According to a semi-canon source, when Ser Kevan arrived under a peace banner demanding her surrender, she laughed at him, telling him: "You are not the only lions in the west, ser. My brothers are coming, and their claws are just as long and sharp as yours".

The Red Lion and the Gold

Lord Roger Reyne of Castamere arrived with two thousand hastily-gathered men following an exhausting march in time to witness Tarbeck Hall aflame. Most reports claim the Lannisters had three times as many men as the Reynes (a few unreliably claim five times as many). Roger hoped that surprise would give him the advantage and sounded the attack. The Lannister army was quick to recover from the first shock, and when the higher numbers of the Lannisters began to tell, Lord Roger saw no other option than to flee. As he fled back to Castamere, half his men had already died. Roger was wounded by a crossbow bolt between the shoulders as he fled and had to be carried back to Castamere.

The fall of Castamere

With Lord Roger feverish and weak due to his injuries, his younger brother, Ser Reynard Reyne, assumed command of the remaining Reyne forces. The Reynes took refuge at Castamere, and Reynard led all his men down into the mines of the castle. Ser Tywin Lannister arrived at Castamere three days after the burning of Tarbeck Hall,

Tywin ignored Reynard's terms and instead ordered his men to seal the entrances of the mines. When all entrances were blocked with tons of stone, earth, and soil, leaving no way in or out, Tywin had his men dam a nearby stream and divert it to the nearest mine entrance. Water easily found its way though the tiny gaps in the rubble that blocked the mouth of the entrance. Lannister men stationed at the most distant entrances claimed they could hear faint screaming and shouting, but by daybreak, there was nothing but silence. None of the three hundred men, women, and children within ever emerged from the mines again. As commanded by Tywin, the castle on the surface was set ablaze.

Aftermath

By the end of the campaign the rebellious Houses Reyne and Tarbeck were completely obliterated. The ruined, blackened, and crumbling castles of Castamere and Tarbeck Hall stand empty to this day as a reminder to those who dare scorn the power of the Rock.

Tywin's manner of dealing with the revolt had made him respected and feared throughout the Seven Kingdoms.

Tywin's actions to restore House Lannister's power are immortalized in the song "The Rains of Castamere", and he is known to have used the song as a threat against troublesome bannermen.

Quotes

The lion has awoken.

Harys Swyft regarding Tywin Lannister

Roose: The curse of Tywin Lannister. Our goat should have consulted the Tarbecks or the Reynes. They might have warned him how your lord father deals with betrayal.

Jaime: There are no Tarbecks or Reynes.

Roose: My point precisely.

Roose Bolton and Jaime Lannister

Jaime: My father had a saying too. Never wound a foe when you can kill him. Dead men don't claim vengeance.

Hoster: Their sons do.

Jaime: Not if you kill the sons as well. Ask the Casterlys about that if you doubt me. Ask Lord and Lady Tarbeck, or the Reynes of Castamere. Ask the Prince of Dragonstone.

Jaime Lannister and Hoster Blackwood

Notes

  1. According to the semi-canon, unabridged version of "The Westerlands" from *The World of Ice & Fire*, House Tarbeck had five hundred household knights
  2. Tywin Lannister "rode forth himself with five hundred knights and three thousand men-at-arms and crossbowmen behind him", and compared to the two thousand men of Roger Reyne, was said to have "three times his strength", according to most accounts (*The World of Ice & Fire, The Westerlands: House Lannister Under the Dragons), thereby demonstrating that Tywin had three thousand men-at-arms *and three thousand crossbowmen, bringing his total to sixty-five hundred men, roughly three times as many as Lord Roger's two thousand.
  3. According to the semi-canon, unabridged version of "The Westerlands" from *The World of Ice & Fire*, Tywin's host had doubled in size upon arrival at Castamere
  4. *The World of Ice & Fire* states that Tywin's host, identified as "five hundred knights and three thousand men-at-arms and crossbowmen", was three times as large, according to most counts, as Roger Reyne's two thousand men. That indicates that Tywin had three thousand men-at-arms and three thousand crossbowmen, giving him 6,500 compared to Roger's 2,000. As the addition of soldiers from Houses Prester and Marbrand are ommitted from the printed edition, it is possible these men are amongst Tywin's aforementioned host.



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Reysen is one of the recruits for the Night’s Watch found by Yoren

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Appearance

Reysen is old and uses a tall hardwood walking staff.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

A group of gold cloaks carrying an arrest warrant for Gendry catches up with Yoren's band at an inn on the kingsroad. When one of the gold cloaks asks them whether they are the group headed for the Wall, Reysen answers that they would rather join the City Watch as they heard it is cold at the Wall. Yoren refuses to hand anyone over and the gold cloaks threaten to use force, prompting Yoren's band to offer resistance, including Reysen who says that everyone of the group is ready to take on the men of the City Watch, snatching his tall walking staff to use it as weapon. In the end, the gold cloaks retreat without violence breaking out.

Avoiding the kingsroad after this encounter, the band moves north- and westwards on side streets in the direction of the Gods Eye. One day they come across a brook, but the water tastes funny, prompting Lommy Greenhands to announce that this comes from dead bodies rotting in the water upstream. This comment nearly leads to Hot Pie hitting Lommy, but Reysen keeps them apart.

The band arrives at the eastern side of the river running south from the Gods Eye and move northwards from there. They come to an abandoned cottage and Reysen, Yoren and Dobber search it but find nothing.

They move on to a town on the southern shore of the Gods Eye, where Yoren wants to rent boats for crossing the lake, but the town is deserted and no boats can be found. Yoren decides to spend the night in the town's holdfast. When men under the command of Ser Amory Lorch surround the holdfast that night and order Yoren to open its gate in the name of the king, Reysen demands in which king's name, which earns him a cuff by Woth.

Nothing further is known about his fate, but when Arry and Gendry, who escaped via a tunnel, return to the holdfast the next evening, they find out that all who remained have died.




Annotations from item #46269292:

Reznak mo Reznak is the Ghiscari seneschal of the city of Meereen.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Reznak mo Reznak

Reznak is a small man, fleshy and bald from age. He wears lots of perfume. He speaks the local form of bastard Valyrian with a thick accent.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

After Daenerys Targaryen takes Meereen, Reznak serves her as seneschal, though Dany is often mistrustful of the man. Her suspicion grows after Quaithe's warning to "beware the perfumed seneschal"; following Hizdahr's own arrest.




Annotations from item #46269293:

Princess Rhae Targaryen was a member of House Targaryen, the second daughter and youngest child of King Maekar I Targaryen and Lady Dyanna Dayne.

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History

Rhae was the youngest child of Prince Maekar Targaryen and his wife, Lady Dyanna Dayne. She had four older brothers, Daeron, Aerion, Aemon and Aegon, and one older sister, Daella.

Once, in their youth, Rhae gave a love potion to her youngest brother, Aegon, so he would marry her instead of Daella,

Later in life, Rhae was married, and had children.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

While on his way from Braavos to Oldtown, Maester Aemon wonders if, when he dies, he will hear Rhae and her sister sing to their children.

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Rhaegal - by Marc Fishman ©

Rhaegal is one of the dragons born on the Dothraki Sea, along with Drogon and Viserion. Commanded by Daenerys Targaryen, he was named for her brother, Rhaegar Targaryen.

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Appearance

See also: Images of Rhaegal

Rhaegal has green and bronze scales. His eyes are bronze, brighter than polished shields, and they glow with their own heat. His flame is orange-and-yellow fire shot through with veins of green.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Rhaegal's egg is a deep green, with burnished bronze flecks that comes and goes depending on how Daenerys turns it.

The maegi Mirri Maz Duur proclaims that in order to bring new life one had to give life. Daenerys burns Drogo's body, along with Mirri Maz Duur herself and the three eggs to give birth to Rhaegal, along with his brothers, Viserion and Drogon.

A Clash of Kings

In the Red Waste, Daenerys names the green dragon Rhaegal, after her brother Rhaegar.

When Daenerys arrives in Qarth, Rhaegal and the other dragons are a marvel in the ancient city.

When Daenerys receives the news of the Usurper's death, Rhaegal is with her. Beneath her fingers he stares at Quhuru Mo with eyes of molten gold. When his mouth opens, his teeth gleam like black needles.

During her visit to the Hall of a Thousand Thrones to petition the Pureborn, Daenerys takes Rhaegal with her on her shoulder.

A Storm of Swords

Rhaegal is about the size of a small dog. At Astapor, Jhiqui frees Rhaegal to attack the Good Masters when Daenerys has the Unsullied attack their former masters.

A Feast for Crows

Tales start to reach Westeros of dragons.

A Dance with Dragons

Rhaegal and the other dragons begin to misbehave. Rhaegal snaps at Irri.

When Drogon allegedly kills the young girl Hazzea outside Meereen, Daenerys has Viserion and Rhaegal chained in a makeshift "dragon pit" in the Great Pyramid.

When Quentyn Martell tries to tame the dragons, Rhaegal mortally burns him with dragonfire., where he hulks in the gloom like a fat woman bedecked with glowing orange jewels. The Pyramid is now a smoldering ruin, and its former occupants are either dead or in flight.

Ser Barristan Selmy notes that thus far Rhaegal has shown himself to be more dangerous than his brother Viserion.

The Winds of Winter

As the Second Siege of Meereen begins, Rhaegal and Viserion are both drawn to the battle. Tyrion Lannister sees Rhaegal circling above the bay, banking and turning as longships and galleys clash and burn below him. When Ben Plumm and his companions come galloping back from the camp of Malazza, the Girl General, Rhaegal is still prowling, soaring in wide circles above the city and the bay on great green wings.

Quotes

The green one shall be Rhaegal, for my valiant brother who died on the green banks of the Trident.

Daenerys Targaryen




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Rhaegar Frey is a member of House Frey and the second son of Ser Aenys Frey and Tyana Wylde, who died in childbirth. A widower, Rhaegar was married to Jeyne Beesbury and had three children with her, Robert, Walda, and Jonos.

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Appearance

Around thirty years wold, Rhaegar is round shouldered and kettle-bellied. He has a silky beard and a sardonic smile.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

Along with Ser Jared Frey and Symond Frey, Rhaegar travels on the *Lionstar* to White Harbor via Sisterton to return the bones of Ser Wendel Manderly, who was killed in the Red Wedding, to his father, Lord Wyman Manderly.

The widower Rhaegar is betrothed to Lord Wyman's granddaughter, Wynafryd. They also offer Wyman a Frey bride and the betrothal of Little Walder Frey to Wyman's other granddaughter, Wylla Manderly.

When Lord Davos Seaworth arrives in White Harbor to persuade House Manderly to support Stannis Baratheon, the three Freys are already present. The Freys insult Davos and the memory of Robb Stark, the King in the North. Rhaegar explains that Robb abandoned the north and the riverlands, and that all must support King Tommen I Baratheon.

The angered Wyman pretends to agree with Rhaegar, as the Iron Throne holds hostage his surviving son and heir, Ser Wylis Manderly, at Harrenhal. Wyman fakes Davos's death by having a criminal with similar features executed and his head dipped in tar so the Freys falsely believe him to be Davos.

Wyman gives Rhaegar, Jared, and Symond palfreys as guest gifts[N 1] when the three Freys depart White Harbor for the wedding of "Arya Stark" to Ramsay Bolton.

At Winterfell after Ramsay's wedding, Wyman presents three huge pies at the wedding feast while requesting a song from the singer Abel about the Rat Cook.

Quotes by Rhaegar

The Young Wolf? He was a vile dog and died like one.

- Rhaegar to the Merman's Court

Robb Stark betrayed us all. He abandoned the north to the cruel mercies of the ironmen to carve out a fairer kingdom for himself along the Trident. Then he abandoned the Riverlords who had risked much and more for him, breaking his marriage pact with my grandfather to wed the first western wench who caught his eye".

- Rhaegar to the Merman's Court

Wynafryd: Wylla has always been a willful child. I fear that she will make a willful wife.
Rhaegar: Marriage will soften her, I have no doubt. A firm hand and a quiet word.

- Wynafryd Manderly and Rhaegar

Quotes about Rhaegar

That smirking worm who wears a dragon's name.

Wyman Manderly, to Davos Seaworth

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Notes

  1. Guest gifts are usually given when a guest leaves, making them no longer under the protection of guest right.



Annotations from item #46269296:

Prince Rhaegar Targaryen was the firstborn son of King Aerys II Targaryen and his sister-wife, Queen Rhaella..

In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones*, Rhaegar is portrayed by Wilf Scolding in flashbacks.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Rhaegar Targaryen

The beautiful

Rhaegar owned night-black plate armor, with the three-headed dragon of House Targaryen decorated in rubies on its breastplate,

Rhaegar was an intelligent young man, who excelled at anything to which he put his mind,

The prince was well-loved by the people of the Seven Kingdoms

History

Early life

Prince Rhaegar and Princess Elia Martell of Dorne's wedding.

Prince Rhaegar was the firstborn son of King Aerys II Targaryen and Queen Rhaella. He was born at Summerhall in 259 AC, on the same day as the great tragedy there.

At the age of seventeen, Rhaegar was knighted, and from all reports grew into a highly skilled and capable fighter, always distinguishing himself well at tournaments, although he seldom entered the lists - he never loved the song of swords the way that men like Robert Baratheon or Jaime Lannister did.

Rhaegar's squires were Myles Mooton and Richard Lonmouth, and after he knighted them they remained close companions. Jon Connington, whom he had squired with,

Rhaegar often liked to visit the ruins of Summerhall with only his harp and when he returned he sang songs of such beauty they could reduce women to tears. Although Rhaegar was often dour, private and bookish, Cersei Lannister noted at the tournament in honor of Viserys's birth in Lannisport in 276 AC that the smallfolk cheered for Lord Tywin Lannister twice as much as for King Aerys II, but only half as loudly for Tywin as for Rhaegar.

Rhaegar was born at a time when the Targaryen's had declined, and once he came of age, there was no sister, or anyone else of their bloodline, available for him to marry.

After this in early 279 AC, Rhaegar was formally betrothed to the Dornish princess, Elia Martell, the younger sister of Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne. They married the following year in 280 AC, a lavish ceremony was held at the Great Sept of Baelor. His father did not attend the wedding as he was paranoid about an assassination attempt and nor did he permit the young Prince Viserys to attend. Rhaegar and his father's relationship was straining at this point, and he and his new bride took up residence on Dragonstone instead of King's Landing. Rhaegar and Elia had their first child, a girl named Rhaenys,

Elia and Rhaegar had a son they named Aegon. Elia, due to her delicate health, was bed-ridden for half a year after giving birth to Rhaenys and nearly died giving birth to Aegon, after which the maesters told Rhaegar she would be unable to have any more children.

Maester Aemon, whom Rhaegar corresponded with via raven messages, remembers that Rhaegar believed his child Aegon to be the prince that was promised.

When Lord Tywin resigned his position as Hand of the King and left court, the new focus of King Aerys's mistrust and paranoia was his own son and heir, Prince Rhaegar. At court, there was growing tension between factions loyal to the king and to the prince. Grand Maester Pycelle dispatched a letter to the Citadel, writing that tensions and division at court strongly resembled those before the Dance of the Dragons. Pycelle was fearful a civil war would break out unless some accord could be reached that would satisfy both factions.

Tourney at Harrenhal

Main article: Tourney at Harrenhal

Rhaegar crowns Lyanna Stark as queen of love and beauty, as depicted by Paolo Puggioni in *The World of Ice & Fire*.

In either 280 AC or 281 AC,[N 2] Lord Walter Whent announced a tourney would be held at Harrenhal to rival any previous tournament. It is believed by some that the tourney was secretly arranged and financed by Prince Rhaegar, as a pretext, so Rhaegar could meet up with the great lords of the realm to discuss arranging a Great Council and the removal of his father. The tournament was announced by Walter shortly after his brother, Ser Oswell of the Kingsguard, visited his older brother. When Lord Varys alerted Aerys II to this possibility, the king decided to attend the tourney.

During the great tourney at Harrenhal, Rhaegar seemed unstoppable and defeated even Ser Arthur Dayne. Taking the winter rose crown for the queen of love and beauty, he revealed his interest in Lyanna Stark by passing over his wife, Princess Elia of Dorne, and setting it in Lyanna's lap. Eddard Stark later recalled that moment as "when all the smiles died"..

Robert's Rebellion

Main article: Robert's Rebellion

Prince Rhaegar and Lord Robert Baratheon in combat at the battle of the Trident, as depicted by Justin Sweet in *The World of Ice & Fire*.

Some believe that Rhaegar spent the beginning of Robert's Rebellion, also known as the War of the Usurper, with Lyanna Stark at the tower of joy in the Red Mountains of Dorne. King Aerys sent Ser Gerold Hightower, the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, to retrieve Rhaegar. Leaving Ser Gerold, Ser Arthur Dayne, and Ser Oswell Whent at the tower,

Rhaegar met Lord Robert Baratheon in combat at a ford during the battle of the Trident, where the pair had a legendary duel in the raging rivers of the Trident. Rhaegar, despite wounding Robert, was struck down with a massive blow from Robert's warhammer, which scattered the rubies encrusted in Rhaegar's armor into the water. While Rhaegar lay dead in the stream, soldiers of both armies scrabbled in the water to search for the rubies. The location was named the ruby ford thereafter. Rhaegar died with Lyanna Stark's name on his lips.

His wife Elia and their children were murdered by Ser Gregor Clegane and Ser Amory Lorch during the sack of King's Landing. Amory dragged the screaming girl, Rhaenys, from under her father's bed and stabbed her to death. Gregor, whom Rhaegar had knighted, killed the infant Aegon by dashing his head against the wall while his mother watched. He then raped and killed Elia while still covered in the blood and brains of her son.

The circumstances of Rhaegar's taking of Lyanna, and of her reaction to it, remain unknown. The Starks, Brandon Stark in particular, saw it as an abduction, and Robert Baratheon imagined that Rhaegar was raping Lyanna while he kept her prisoner. However, the Targaryen tradition sees Rhaegar acting out of true love for Lyanna. Lord Eddard Stark, Lyanna's brother, and Lord Howland Reed found her at Rhaegar's tower of joy in Dorne.

What all sides seem to agree upon is that the meeting of Rhaegar and Lyanna was fateful as it led to immense bloodshed. This leads to imaginations of an alternate history, in which Rhaegar never became infatuated with Lyanna. Viserys Targaryen blames his sister Daenerys once for the downfall of the Targaryens, because she was not born earlier, as Rhaegar could then have married her and might have never become interested in Lyanna.

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Prince Rhaegar and Princess Elia Martell, by Denkata5698 ©.

A Game of Thrones

Discussing Robert's Rebellion with Lord Eddard Stark, King Robert I Baratheon vilifies Rhaegar for raping Ned's sister, Lyanna.

When the royal party moving south from Winterfell to King's Landing reaches the ruby ford, Arya Stark and her friend Mycah decide to search the Trident for rubies from Rhaegar's armor.

During her fever dream, Daenerys Targaryen sees her brother Rhaegar mounted on a stallion as black as his armor. Fire glimmers red through the narrow eye slit of his helm. When Daenerys lifts his polished black visor, the face within is her own.

When Lord Tywin Lannister discusses with his brother Ser Kevan and his son Tyrion the dire situation of the Lannister forces after the defeats in the battle in the Whispering Wood and the battle of the Camps, Tyrion jests that his father should take comfort from the fact that Prince Rhaegar is still dead.

A Clash of Kings

The green and bronze Rhaegal, one of three dragons hatched by Daenerys, is named in honor of her brave brother who was killed on the green banks of the Trident.

Rhaegar appears in Daenerys's vision in the House of the Undying. He discusses with his wife, Elia Martell, what he will name his son (Aegon and his destiny. Rhaegar states that the boy is the prince that was promised and his is the song of ice and fire. Dany also has a vision of Rhaegar's death at the ruby ford of the Trident at the hands of Robert Baratheon.

A Storm of Swords

While aboard the ship *Balerion*, Arstan Whitebeard tells Daenerys that Rhaegar was able and dutiful. While Rhaegar was bookish in his youth, he decided to become a warrior after reading about something unknown in his scrolls.

While resting his head on a weirwood stump, Ser Jaime Lannister has a fever dream of five of his old Kingsguard brothers under King Aerys II Targaryen. Beside them, crowned in mist and grief with his long hair streaming behind him, rides Rhaegar, who burns with a cold light of changing colors. Rhaegar's shade accuses Jaime of not protecting his family during the sack of King's Landing.

A Feast for Crows

While standing vigil over the funeral bier of his father, Lord Tywin Lannister, Jaime recalls the day he said farewell to Rhaegar, in the yard of the Red Keep. Rhaegar had wanted to call a council after Robert's Rebellion was suppressed, but the prince was instead killed at the Trident.

Queen Regent Cersei Lannister remembers wanting to marry Rhaegar after meeting him at the tournament in honor of Viserys's birth, but Aerys refused Tywin's suggestion of betrothal. Cersei, Robert's widow, never forgave Robert for killing Rhaegar at the ruby ford.

A Dance with Dragons

Prior to Daenerys marrying Hizdahr zo Loraq, Ser Barristan Selmy tells her that Rhaegar was very fond of Elia Martell; Dany thinks the word fond speaks volumes.

Barristan later regrets having rescued King Aerys II from Duskendale, as he thinks Rhaeger would have been a better king than Jaehaerys II, Aerys II, or Robert I.

Traveling south on the Rhoyne, Tyrion Lannister discovers the sellsword Griff is actually Jon Connington, the exiled friend of Rhaegar and former Hand of the King to Aerys II. The youth called Young Griff is said to actually be Rhaegar's son, Aegon Targaryen, widely believed to have been murdered by Ser Gregor Clegane during the sack of King's Landing. The exiles claim that Varys had switched the infant Aegon with a peasant baby and taken Aegon to safety with Illyrio Mopatis, and that Gregor killed the peasant child instead.

Jon discusses the issue of trust with Aegon, and then recalls that Rhaegar had been aware of Aerys's paranoia.

Quotes by Rhaegar

Rhaegar: Aegon. What better name for a king?

Elia: Will you make a song for him?

Rhaegar: He has a song. He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire. There must be one more. The dragon has three heads.

– Rhaegar and Elia Martell in Daenerys Targaryen's vision in the House of the Undying

I will require a sword and armor. It seems I must be a warrior.

– Rhaegar to Willem Darry

When the battle's done I mean to call a council. Changes will be made. I meant to do it long ago, but ... well, it does no good to speak of roads not taken. We shall talk when I return.

– Rhaegar to Jaime Lannister

Quotes about Rhaegar

The battle screamed about Lord Robert and Prince Rhaegar both, and by the will of the gods, or by chance-or perhaps by design-they met amidst the shallows of the ford. The two knights fought valiantly upon their destriers, according to all accounts. For despite his crimes, Prince Rhaegar was no coward.

– writings of Maester Yandel

In my dreams, I kill him every night. A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves.

Robert I Baratheon to Eddard Stark

And Rhaegar ... how many times do you think he raped your sister? How many hundreds of times? I will kill every Targaryen I can get my hands on, until they are as dead as their dragons, and then I will piss on their graves.

Robert I Baratheon to Eddard Stark

Robert: Treachery was a coin the Targaryens knew well. Lannister paid them back in kind. It was no less than they deserved. I shall not trouble my sleep over it.

Eddard: You were not there. There was no honor in that conquest.

Robert: The Others take your honor! What did any Targaryen ever know of honor? Go down into your crypt and ask Lyanna about the dragon's honor!

Robert I Baratheon and Eddard Stark

Your brother Rhaegar was the last dragon, and he died on the Trident. Viserys is less than the shadow of a snake.

Jorah Mormont to Daenerys Targaryen

Rubies flew like drops of blood from the chest of a dying prince, and he sank to his knees in the water and with his last breath murmured a woman's name.

Daenerys Targaryen's vision in the House of the Undying

Daenerys: Ser Jorah named Rhaegar the last dragon once. He had to have been a peerless warrior to be called that, surely?

Arstan: Your Grace, the Prince of Dragonstone was a most puissant warrior, but...
Daenerys: Go on. You may speak freely to me.

Arstan: As you command. A warrior without peer... those are fine words, Your Grace, but words win no battles.

Arstan Whitebeard and Daenerys Targaryen

Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.

Jorah Mormont to Daenerys Targaryen

Arstan: But I am not certain it was in Rhaegar to be happy.

Daenerys: You make him sound so sour.
Arstan: Not sour, no, but... there was a melancholy to Prince Rhaegar, a sense...
Daenerys: Say it. A sense?

Arstan: ... of doom. He was born in grief, my queen, and that shadow hung over him all his days.

Arstan Whitebeard and Daenerys Targaryen

Daenerys: One day you must tell me all. The good and the bad. There is some good to be said of my father, surely?

Barristan: There is, your Grace. Of him, and those who came before him. Your grandfather Jaehaerys and his brother, their father Aegon, your mother... and Rhaegar. Him most of all.

Daenerys: I wish I could have known him.

Daenerys Targaryen and Barristan Selmy

Had any man ever been so beautiful? He was more than a man, though. His blood was the blood of old Valyria, the blood of dragons and gods.

– thoughts of Cersei Lannister

Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna and thousands died for it.

– thoughts of Barristan Selmy

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Notes

  1. Erroneously listed as 282 AC in early prints of *The World of Ice & Fire*, which has subsequently been corrected into 283 AC in later prints.
  2. *The World of Ice & Fire* lists two contradicting dates. In "The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II", the announcement is stated to have been made in 280 AC, but in "The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring", the announcement of the tourney is stated as having been made in 281 AC. It has not yet been confirmed which date is correct.



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Prince Rhaegel Targaryen was the third son of King Daeron II Targaryen and Queen Mariah Martell.

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Rhaegel was meek, mad, and sickly. During the reign of King Aerys I, it was widely believed that Rhaegel was crazy, as he had been seen dancing naked through the Red Keep.

Rhaegel was married to Lady Alys Arryn, and had three children: the twins Aelor and Aelora, and daughter Daenora. He became Prince of Dragonstone in 209 AC, when his older brother Prince Aerys ascended the Iron Throne, as Aerys had no children of his own. Rhaegel died in 215 AC, whilst choking on a lamprey pie. His son, Prince Aelor, the new Prince of Dragonstone, would not long outlive him.

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Rhaego is the son of Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo.

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A Game of Thrones

Rhaego is prophesied to be the stallion who mounts the world by the crones of the *dosh khaleen* at Vaes Dothrak just after the stallion heart ceremony.

After Rhaego's father, Drogo, becomes sick from an infected wound, the sorceress Mirri Maz Duur saves Drogo's life by using blood magic. One of the effects of that magic is that Rhaego dies right before birth. He was inhuman, hideously deformed and covered in dragon-like scales. He had the stub of a tail small leather wings, reminiscent of a bat. Rhaego was stillborn.

During her fever dream, Daenerys Targaryen sees her son tall and proud, with Drogo's copper skin and her own silver-gold hair, violet eyes shaped like almonds. He smiles at her and begins to lift his hand towards her, but when he opens his mouth fire pours out. She sees his heart burning through his chest and in an instant he is gone, consumed like a moth by a candle, turned to ash.

A Clash of Kings

In the House of the Undying Daenerys sees a tall lord with copper skin and silver-gold hair standing beneath the banner of a fiery stallion, a burning city behind him, which appears to be a vision of what might have been had Rhaego survived to be the stallion who mounts the world.

A Dance with Dragons

While in Daznak's Pit after witnessing the slaughter, Daenerys reflects that she once ate a stallion heart to give strength to her unborn son, but that did not save Rhaego when Mirri Maz Duur murdered him in her womb. She remembers the words of the Undying Ones:

Three treasons shall you know. She was the first. Ser Jorah was the second, Brown Ben Plumm the third. Was she done with betrayals?

Shortly thereafter her dragon child Drogon appears in the skies above the pit.

Quotes about Rhaego

Monstrous. Twisted. I drew him forth myself. He was scaled like a lizard, blind, with the stub of a tail and small leather wings like the wings of a bat. When I touched him, the flesh sloughed off the bone, and inside he was full of graveworms and the stink of corruption. He had been dead for years.

Mirri Maz Duur to Daenerys Targaryen

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The name Rhaella can refer to the following characters:




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Queen Rhaella Targaryen was the sister, wife, and queen of King Aerys II Targaryen and the only daughter of King Jaehaerys II Targaryen and his sister-wife, Queen Shaera Targaryen. Her grandfather was King Aegon V Targaryen. Rhaella was the mother of Prince Rhaegar, Prince Viserys, and Princess Daenerys. She died shortly after Daenerys's birth.

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Rhaella was said to have always been mindful of her duty.

History

Early life

Rhaella was born in either 245 AC or 246 AC

According to Ser Barristan Selmy, Rhaella had been in love with Ser Bonifer Hasty, a young landed knight

Rhaella and Aerys's unhappy wedding.

Rhaella was married at a young age to her older brother,

As a princess, and eventual queen, Rhaella had multiple ladies in waiting. At some point, they included the mother of Prince Doran Martell, and, from 259 AC to 263 AC, Lady Joanna Lannister from Casterly Rock.

Married life

In 259 AC, whilst present at Summerhall, Rhaella gave birth to the first of her children, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, whilst the tragedy of Summerhall raged.

Rhaella giving birth to Prince Rhaegar as Summerhall burns down.

Following Rhaegar's birth, Rhaella and Aerys had multiple trouble where childbirth was concerned. In the seventeen years following Rhaegar's birth, Rhaella went through multiple pregnancies, stillbirths and miscarriages:

While at first, her brother comforted Rhaella in her grief, the multiple stillbirths, miscarriages and dead children eventually caused Aerys to become suspicious. He accused her of having been unfaithful, and claimed that the dead children had been bastards. Rhaella was confined to Maegor's Holdfast (roughly around 270 AC), and Aerys decreed that two septas would sleep in Rhaella's bed every night, to ensure she would remain faithful.

The death of Prince Jaehaerys in 274 AC shifted Aerys' suspicions to others. He first blamed Jaehaerys's wet nurse, and had her beheaded in a black rage. He later became convinced that Jaehaerys had been poisoned by his mistress, and had the girl and her family tortured to death.

Aerys then fasted for a fortnight, made a walk of repentance across the city to the Great Sept of Baelor, and prayed with the High Septon. Upon his return, he declared that he would only sleep with Rhaella, his wife, from that day forth. As far as is known, Aerys remained true to this vow, no longer taking any mistress from 275 AC forth.

In 276 AC, Rhaella gave birth to Prince Viserys. While he was small and robust, he was healthy. However, Aerys feared that Viserys would die like his brothers, and so tasked the Kingsguard to watch over the infant. Even Rhaella was forbidden to be alone with her son. Aerys insisted that his food taster suckle at the breasts of the wet nurse, to be certain that there was no poison on her nipples.

When Lord Tywin Lannister, Hand of the King, held a tournament in honor of Viserys's birth at Lannisport in 276 AC, Rhaella was ordered to remain at King's Landing with Viserys.

In the later years of the marriage of Aerys and Rhaella, the Mad King's insanity set in. According to Ser Barristan Selmy, Rhaella did her best to protect Viserys from the worst of Aerys's excesses, keeping her child oblivious to the fact his father was sliding deeper into madness.

Aerys grew sexually abusive toward Rhaella, developing a sexual fetish for fire and death and only sleeping with Rhaella after he had executed someone by burning. The last time was during Robert's Rebellion after Aerys burned his then-Hand, Lord Qarlton Chelsted, for opposing the Mad King's wildfire plot. Jaime recalls listening outside Rhaella's bedchamber as she cried as the king raped her; when Jaime protested that the Kingsguard were sworn to defend the queen as well, his sworn brother Ser Jonothor Darry replied, "We are, but not from him". The queen's maids reported seeing scratches, bruises and bite marks all over her body.

Evacuation to Dragonstone

Soon after the burning of Lord Chelsted,

Remaining in the capital, Aerys and Rhaegar's family were killed during the sack of King's Landing. Dragonstone became the last haven of the remaining Targaryens.

Pregnancy and Death

With Aerys, Rhaegar, and Rhaegar's son Aegon dead, Rhaella crowned Viserys at Dragonstone,.

Rhaella spent the duration of her pregnancy on Dragonstone. Nine moons after sailing from King's Landing Rhaella gave birth to her only daughter, whom she named Daenerys,

Prior to Stannis Baratheon's assault on Dragonstone, Willem Darry fled from Dragonstone with Rhaella's surviving children, Viserys and Daenerys Stormborn, for the Free Cities.

Quotes about Rhaella

When Viserys sold their mother's crown, the last joy had gone from him, leaving only rage.

Daenerys Targaryen's thoughts

Whenever Aerys gave a man to the flames, Queen Rhaella would have a visitor in the night.

Jaime Lannister's thoughts

The queen your mother was always mindful of her duty.

Barristan Selmy, to Daenerys Targaryen

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Princess Rhaella Targaryen was a daughter of Prince Aegon and Princess Rhaena Targaryen. She had an older twin sister, Aerea.

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Rhaella's parents, Prince Aegon and Princess Rhaena, were married in 41 AC. As this was an incestuous marriage, it led to a rebellion of the Faith of the Seven.

Aegon was killed in battle in 43 AC. Rhaena disguised Rhaella and twin sister Aerea and sent them away with allies — even refusing to know where they were, for further protection — but the children were found by Tyanna, and used to force Rhaena to marry Maegor in 47 AC. Because Maegor had no children of his own Aerea was named his heir, while her uncle, Prince Jaehaerys, was disinherited.

As she was the younger of the two girls, Rhaella was sent to Oldtown as a ward of House Hightower, while her twin sister and mother remained at King's Landing. When her mother learned that her brother, Prince Jaehaerys, had announced his claim to the Iron Throne, she fled King's Landing on Dreamfyre to join Jaehaerys's cause, taking Aerea and the Valyrian steel sword Blackfyre with her. An enraged Maegor sent a rider to Oldtown, commanding Lord Hightower to behead Rhaella as punishment for Rhaena's betrayal. However, Lord Hightower refused and instead imprisoned the messenger.

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Behind the Scenes

Rhaella's name is misspelled as "Rhalla" in earlier prints of The World of Ice & Fire. This was corrected to "Rhaella" in later editions.




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Princess Rhaelle Targaryen was the youngest child of King Aegon V Targaryen and Queen Betha Blackwood. She was married to Lord Ormund Baratheon of Storm's End.

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In 237 AC, Rhaelle's four elder siblings had been betrothed: Prince Duncan to the daughter of Lord Lyonel Baratheon, Prince Jaehaerys to Celia Tully, Princess Shaera to Luthor Tyrell, and Prince Daeron to Olenna Redwyne. It was Rhaelle's eldest brother, Duncan, who broke his betrothal first, by marrying Jenny of Oldstones in 239 AC. This greatly angered Lord Lyonel, who rebelled against his king. A trial by combat, and the word of King Aegon V ended Lord Lyonel's rebellion, with an end result a betrothal, of Rhaelle to Lord Lyonel's son and heir, Ormund Baratheon.

To seal the bargain, Rhaelle was sent to Storm's End, where she would serve as a cupbearer, and be a companion to Lord Lyonel's wife.

Rhaelle's marriage to Ormund would eventually be part of the end of the rule of House Targaryen. Rhaelle's grandchildren through Steffon would be Robert, Stannis and Renly Baratheon..

Legacy

Thus, through Rhaelle, Robert Baratheon descended from King Aegon V Targaryen and thus had a blood claim to the Iron Throne, which the maesters used to justify the outcome to Robert's Rebellion.

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Annotation #1 for item #46269302: Wiki: Rhaena Targaryen

Rhaena Targaryen can refer to multiple members of House Targaryen:

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Princess Rhaena Targaryen was the second daughter of King Aegon III Targaryen and his second wife, Queen Daenaera Velaryon.

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At fourteen, two years younger than Daena, Rhaena was just as lovely as her sister, but hers was a softer, sweeter, more feminine beauty. Though by no means plump, her body was more rounded than Daena's. Her breasts were larger, her lips fuller, her hair more gold than silver and always carefully coiffed and combed. She had soft, kind eyes and a shy, sweet smile. Personality wise she differed quite alot from her older sister. Where Daena was wilful, wild, and adventurous, Rhaena was dutiful, meek, and passive. She loved lace and gold trim and often embroidered depictions of faith on her clothing.

History

Born in 147 AC, Rhaena was the second daughter of King Aegon III Targaryen and Queen Daenaera Velaryon. She had two older brothers, Daeron and Baelor, and two sisters, Daena, who was older, and Elaena, who was younger.

During the reign of their brother Baelor, Rhaena and her sisters were confined in what has since been known as the Maidenvault.

After the death of Baelor, Daena was briefly considered as a possible heir to the throne. The memories of the Dance of the Dragons and of Rhaenyra Targaryen, the last woman to sit the Iron Throne, left many leery of the idea of a ruling queen. Rhaena's uncle was crowned Viserys II, and the claims of Rhaena and her sisters were set aside.

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Princess Rhaena Targaryen, one of the Black Brides

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Rhaena was born in 23 AC to Prince Aenys Targaryen and Lady Alyssa Velaryon. Following Rhaena's birth, people suggested that her uncle Maegor would fall behind her in the line of succession, as she was the eldest (and at the time only) child of Aenys, the heir to the throne. The next year, Queen Visenya Targaryen suggested a betrothal between her son Maegor and Rhaena in order to settle the succession issue. Both Rhaena's parents and the High Septon protested the match. The High Septon instead suggested his niece, Ceryse Hightower, as a bride instead.

Rhaena's father inherited the Iron Throne in 37 AC. In 41 AC, King Aenys I arranged the marriage of Rhaena to her eldest brother, Prince Aegon. The Faith of the Seven did not accept this incestuous match, and began an uprising against the throne.

The marriage of Rhaena and her brother would last only a few years, during which time she gave birth to twin daughters,

Reign of Maegor I

In 42 AC Rhaena and Aegon found themselves besieged at Crakehall by members of the Faith. Upon learning of this news, Rhaena's father, King Aenys I, collapsed, and died soon after on Dragonstone. Dowager Queen Visenya brought Prince Maegor back from his exile in Essos. With Aegon and Rhaena away from Dragonstone, Maegor seized the crown.

Although Lord Lyman refused all of Maegor's demands to turn Aegon and Rhaena over, he also refused to pledge his swords to Aegon's cause.

Rhaena's daughter Rhaella was sent to Oldtown as a ward of House Hightower, while her daughter Aerea remained at court to ensure her mothers good behavior. When Rhaena learned that her youngest brother, Prince Jaehaerys, had announced his claim to the Iron Throne, she fled King's Landing on Dreamfyre to join Jaehaerys's cause, taking her daughter Aerea and the Valyrian steel sword Blackfyre with her. Maegor enraged sent a rider to Oldtown commanding Lord Hightower to behead Rhaella as punishment for her mothers betrayal, Lord Hightower refused and instead imprisoned the messenger.

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Lady Rhaena Targaryen, also known as Rhaena of Pentos, was a daughter of Prince Daemon Targaryen and Lady Laena Velaryon. Her twin sister was Baela Targaryen.

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Rhaena was born in Pentos in 116 AC.

During the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons, Rhaena was chosen to accompany Prince Joffrey Velaryon to Gulltown for their protection, although they were told it was to defend the Vale of Arryn against King Aegon II Targaryen's dragons. Rhaena brought three dragon eggs with her to the Vale where she prayed nightly for their hatching.

Rhaena and her sister introduced Daenaera Velaryon to their half-brother, King Aegon III Targaryen, leading to the couple's marriage.

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Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, cheered as the Realm's Delight when she was young and later called the Half-Year Queen,

Her claim to the Iron Throne was challenged by her younger half-brother, Aegon II Targaryen, sparking the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. She was the mother of two kings,.

Rhaenyra's personal sigil was the normal Targaryen heraldry (a three-headed red dragon on a black field), quartered with the moon-and-falcon sigil of House Arryn (for her mother Aemma Arryn), and the silver seahorse on sea green of House Velaryon (for her first husband Laenor Velaryon, as well as for the Velaryons in general, who were among her major supporters). During the Dance, her faction used her personal heraldry as their battle-flag.

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See also: Images of Rhaenyra Targaryen

Rhaenyra had her family's Valyrian looks, wearing her silver-gold hair in a long braid in the manner of Queen Visenya Targaryen.

Rhaenyra was proud and stubborn, and there was a certain petulance to her small mouth. Though she could be charming, Rhaenyra was quick to anger and never forgot a slight.

Rhaenyra always dressed richly, favoring purple and maroon velvets and golden Myrish lace in intricate patterns. Her bodice often glittered with pearls and diamonds, and there were always rings on her fingers. Whenever she was anxious, she would turn them compulsively, round and round.

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Early life

Born in 97 AC, Rhaenyra was the only living child of King Viserys I Targaryen by his first wife, Lady Aemma of House Arryn. Rhaenyra had two brothers, both of whom died in the cradle.

Rhaenyra became a dragonrider at the age of seven, when she flew into the sky on the back of a young dragon, whom she named Syrax. A year later, when she was eight, Rhaenyra became a cupbearer for her father, serving him at the table, at tourneys, and at court. From that point onward, King Viserys was seldom seen without Rhaenyra.

At a young age, Rhaenyra became enamored with her uncle, Prince Daemon Targaryen. The roguish prince often brought her exotic gifts from his trips across the narrow sea. During the tourney for King Viserys I's accession, Ser Criston Cole won the melee by disarming Daemon. The knight granted the victor's laurel to Rhaenyra and asked the seven-year-old girl for her favor in the lists. Rhaenyra became smitten with Criston when he joined the Kingsguard in 105 AC, calling him her white knight, and Viserys allowed the charming knight to become Rhaenrya's personal shield and protector. From that moment on, Cole always wore Rhaenyra's favor in the lists and protected the girl during public events.

Late in 105 AC, Rhaenyra's mother, Aemma, died birthing Rhaenyra's second brother, Prince Baelon, who died a day later. King Viserys then proclaimed Rhaenyra his heir, having all the lords of the Seven Kingdoms swear fealty to her, promising to honor and defend her rights of succession. In addition, Rhaenyra was named Princess of Dragonstone.

King Viserys remarried in 106 AC, to Lady Alicent Hightower, and stepmother and stepdaughter initially got along well. That changed when Alicent birthed the king two sons, Aegon in 107 AC and Aemond in 110 AC, yet Viserys did not proclaim either boy his heir. People continued to ask Viserys about the succession, though Viserys was unwilling to discuss it. Ser Otto Hightower, Alicent's father and Visery's Hand, was sent away from court for pushing the issue too much. But even after he left, clearly two parties formed at court: the party of the Queen, and the party of the Princess.

In 111 AC, a great tourney was held at King's Landing on the fifth anniversary of King Visery's marriage to Queen Alicent. At the opening feast, the queen wore a green gown, whilst Princess Rhaenyra dressed dramatically in Targaryen red and black. Note was taken, and thereafter it became the custom to refer to “greens” and “blacks” when talking of the queen's party and the party of the princess, respectively. The blacks had greater success in the tourney as Criston, wearing Rhaenyra's favor, unhorsed all of the queen's champions, including two of her cousins and her youngest brother, Ser Gwayne Hightower.

According to the accounts of Septon Eustace, prior to her turning sixteen, Rhaenyra lost her virginity to her uncle, Prince Daemon, after he seduced her. The account of the fool Mushroom is more scandalous, however, claiming that Daemon gave Rhaenyra lessons on how to seduce and please a man, lessons in which Mushroom insists he took part as well. Mushroom's account differs from Eustace's account, in that Mushroom claims Rhaenyra remained a virgin during these lessons. According to Mushroom, Rhaenyra received those lessons from Daemon because she was in love with Criston Cole, and she wanted him to see her as a woman. Whichever account is true, (Grand Maester Runciter simply claims that the two brothers quarreled), King Viserys sent his brother into exile.

Ruling Princess of Dragonstone

At the age of sixteen, in 113 AC, Rhaenyra took possession of Dragonstone. She had been courted by many lords and nobles who sought her hand and her favor. The sons of Lords Blackwood and Bracken had dueled over the Princess of Dragonstone when she visited the Trident in 112 AC, and the so-called Fool Frey asked for her hand in marriage. The twin knights Jason and Tyland Lannister wooed her at Casterly Rock, and she was also courted by the sons of Lords Oakheart, Tarly, Tully, and Tyrell. Ser Harwin Strong, the son of Lord Lyonel Strong, also courted the princess.

Rhaenyra instead married Ser Laenor Velaryon in 114 AC, though it took Viserys's threat of removing her status as heir to the Iron Throne to convince her to accept the marriage, as Rhaenyra did not feel the need to marry a man with interests like Laenor's. The princess was reported to have stated that "My half brothers would be more to his taste", to her father.

Laenor and Rhaenyra had three sons together: Princes Jacaerys 'Jace', Lucerys 'Luke', and Joffrey 'Joff' Velaryon. All were near adulthood and had dragons of their own when Rhaenyra's father, Viserys I, died. It was rumored that those sons of Rhaenyra's were actually fathered by her lover, Harwin Strong, called "Breakbones", as all three were born with brown hair, though Laenor and Rhaenyra both had light silver/gold hair.

The siblings Laenor and Laena Velaryon both died in 120 AC, as did Rhaenyra's alleged lover, Breakbones.

After King Viserys cut his left hand to the bone after stumbling against the Iron Throne, Rhaenyra sent her maester, Orwyle, to treat her father's wounds.

Dance of the Dragons

Main article: Dance of the Dragons

Queen Rhaenyra during the Dance of the Dragons, by Amok©.

Rhaenyra was the designated heir of her father, King Viserys I Targaryen, who desired that she succeed him. Viserys's intent had been confirmed by a proclamation of his will.

At the time of her father's death, Rhaenyra was on Dragonstone awaiting the birth of her sixth child. The greens in King's Landing ensured that the news of the Viserys's death did not reach her until her own supporters in the Red Keep were dead or imprisoned and Aegon II's coronation had already occurred. When news reached Rhaenyra, she went into a black fury and went into early labor, producing a deformed, stillborn daughter, Visenya. Rhaenyra blamed this tragedy on the enemies who had stolen her crown. Rhaenyra had a hastily-arranged coronation of her own. The arrival of Ser Steffon Darklyn of the Kingsguard on Dragonstone, accompanied by some other supporters, was therefore celebrated, as they brought with them the crown worn by Jaehaerys I and Viserys. Rhaenyra was crowned with her father's crown by her husband and uncle, Prince Daemon Targaryen.

To gain more support to take the throne from her brother, Rhaenyra sent her son Jace on his dragon to treat with the Arryns, Manderlys, and Starks, and her son Luke to treat with Lord Borros Baratheon at Storm's End. Luke's mission was thought to be the safer, but he arrived at Storm's End to find Queen Alicent's younger son Aemond already there. Aemond, riding Vhagar, killed Luke over Shipbreaker Bay as he attempted to leave after failing to gain Lord Borros' allegiance. The news of Luke's death devastated his mother.

Rhaenyra took the capital and sat in the throne for roughly half a year. Upon taking the city, Rhaenyra insisted on claiming her father's seat, and so she climbed the Iron Throne and accepted pleas of forgiveness and loyalty from those in the Red Keep all throughout the night. Although Rhaenyra was dressed in armor, Septon Eustace

Those living in King's Landing initally welcomed Rhaenyra's return as a ruler, for they had always had little love for Aegon II Targaryen and his brother Aemond. Once in power, however, the spikes of the gates started to be filled with more and more heads each day, and the taxes increased. The smallfolk slowly started to turn against her, and eventually named her "King Maegor with teats." The term Maegor's Teats became a common curse in King's Landing for a hundred years thereafter.

After hearing of the Two Betrayers, Rhaenyra grew paranoid and declared the two remaining dragonseeds, Ser Addam Velaryon and the girl Nettles both traitors, a decision with disastrous consequences. Rhaenyra's Hand, Lord Corlys Velaryon, who had named Addam his heir, alerted Addam in time for the knight to flee upon the back of the dragon Seasmoke. This lead to the arrest of Corlys, which caused the fleet of House Velaryon to abandon Rhaenyra's cause.

In order to have the girl Nettles killed, Queen Rhaenyra had sent a letter to Lord Manfryd Mooton, commanding him to kill the girl. Lord Mooton refused, as Nettles was under the protection of guest right. He feared Prince Daemon would kill them if they followed Rhaenyra's orders, but saw there was no winning option, since refusing to obey Rhaenyra's order would make him a traitor to the crown. Insisting that King Viserys I and Jaehaerys I would never have asked such a thing, Manfryd decided to change his allegiance to Aegon II, after Nettles and Daemon had left his roof.

After the Storming of the Dragonpit, Rhaenyra fled King's Landing. Terrorized and despairing, she grew grey and haggard as she traveled past Rosby, Stokeworth, and Duskendale. Rhaenyra was forced to sell her crown to raise the coin to buy passage on a Braavosi merchant ship, the *Violande*. Once she reached Dragonstone, Rhaenyra was betrayed by Ser Alfred Broome, whose men slew the remainder of her Queensguard. Her half-brother Aegon II then had her fed to his own dragon, Sunfyre, at Dragonstone. King Aegon II decreed that Rhaenyra was never a queen and that she be referred to only as princess in all chronicles and court records.

Legacy

Rhaenyra's three eldest sons all died fighting during the Dance of the Dragons, but her two youngest sons, the sons by her second husband, Prince Daemon, survived the civil war. The war ended when Aegon II died in 131 AC with no male issue, and was succeeded by Rhaenyra's and Daemon's elder son, the boy Aegon III, who had seen his mother's death by dragon.

Neither Rhaenyra or Aegon II are remembered well in the history of the Westeros.

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Stannis Baratheon mentions Rhaenyra to Davos Seaworth while listing historical figures killed for treason.

Quotes by Rhaenyra

Rhaenyra: Dear brother. I had hoped that you were dead.
Aegon: After you. You are the elder.

—Rhaenyra and Aegon II Targaryen in the writings of Gyldayn

Quotes about Rhaenyra

I offered her an honorable peace, and the whore spat in my face. What happens now is on her own head.

Aegon II Targaryen in the writings of Gyldayn

Daemon Blackfyre, the brothers Toyne, the Vulture King, Grand Maester Hareth... traitors have always paid with their lives ... even Rhaenyra Targaryen. She was daughter to one king and mother to two more, yet she died a traitor's death for trying to usurp her brother's crown.

Stannis Baratheon, to Davos Seaworth

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Behind the Scenes

In earlier drafts of the family tree George R. R. Martin created for House Targaryen, Rhaenyra had several different husbands. The first draft had her married to a Lannister, with whom she had no children.




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Queen Rhaenys Targaryen was the youngest sister of King Aegon I Targaryen, the first Lord of the Seven Kingdoms. Both she and her older sister Visenya were married to Aegon, and it was said that she was Aegon's favorite. Through her son with Aegon, Aenys I, the line of the dragonkings continued, with fifteen of the sixteen Targaryen kings being direct descendants of Rhaenys and Aegon. She was a dragonrider who rode the dragon Meraxes.

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Rhaenys was a beautiful woman

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Early life

Rhaenys was born on the island Dragonstone

Aegon's Conquest

Rhaenys with her siblings Aegon (middle) and Visenya (left), by Amok.

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When her brother Aegon began his conquest of the Seven Kingdoms, Rhaenys sailed with him from Dragonstone. She and Visenya were sent to secure the submission of the castles nearby. Rhaenys flew on Meraxes to Rosby, which yielded peacefully to her. After having conquered a dozen houses, Aegon was crowned king. Rhaenys, now queen, hailed him as, "Aegon, First of his Name, King of All Westeros, and Shield of His People" after Visenya placed a Valyrian steel circlet on Aegon's head. Within days of Aegon's coronation, the Targaryen armies were sent out again. Rhaenys, upon Meraxes, accompanied Orys Baratheon and the greater part of the Targaryen host on their way to Storm's End in the stormlands. As they were crossing the Wendwater, the Targaryen host came under attack by the forces of Lords Errol, Fell, and Buckler, all bannermen to Storm's End. More than a thousand men were cut down before the attackers faded back into the trees. Rhaenys answered the attack by unleashing Meraxes upon them. As a wall of fire swept through the woods, the trees turned into torches. Lord Errol died, but Lords Fell and Buckler survived to send word to Storm's End. King Argilac Durrandon, having heard of the death of Harren Hoare in the burning of Harrenhal, decided to march from Storm's End to meet the Targaryen host on the field, refusing to burn in his castle as Harren had. Rhaenys, on Meraxes, witnessed how he departed from Storm's End, and returned to the Targaryen host with a report on Argilac's numbers and dispositions.

At the start of the battle, known as the Last Storm, a fierce storm began. The Durrandon host charge trice during the battle. The third time, they were able to break through the Baratheon center, but next found themselves face to face with Rhaenys and Meraxes. The knights of Argilac's personal guard, and Dickon Morrigen and the Bastard of Blackhaven, commanding the vanguard, were engulfed in dragonflame. The warhorses fled in terror, and chaos ensued. Argilac was met in battle by Orys Baratheon, and was slain by him in single combat. With the Storm King dead, Rhaenys accompanied the host to Storm's End, and flew upon Meraxes into the castle to parley with Argilac's daughter and heir, Argella. Although Argella refused to surrender the castle, the garrison eventually yielded both Argella and Storm's End to Orys.

Rhaenys met Visenya, Aegon, and the Targaryen host at the Stoney Sept, from where they raced south to face the combined hosts of the Reach and the westerlands, under the command of Loren I Lannister, King of the Rock, and Mern IX Gardener, King of the Reach. Rhaenys and her siblings fought from dragonback, setting the dry grasses and stands of wheat on the battlefield afire. With more than four thousand men dead from the fire, and tens of thousands wounded by the flames, the battle became known as the Field of Fire. King Mern IX died in battle, and King Loren I fled, giving the Targaryens the victory.

Following Loren's surrender, the three Targaryen siblings parted ways once more, but met soon again at the banks of the Trident, where they awaited the host of King Torrhen Stark. After Torrhen bend the knee, Rhaenys parted from her siblings and traveled to Dorne. She flew over the Red Mountains of Dorne, ignoring the Dornish spearmen at the Prince's Pass, and landed at Vaith. She found the castle empty and abandoned, while only women, children, and old men remained in the town located next to the castle. Rhaenys next flew to Godsgrace, the seat of House Allyrion, and the Planky Town, but there too, the men and lords were away. Rhaenys eventually arrived at Sunspear, where only the eighty-year-old Meria Martell, Princess of Dorne, remained. Meria told Rhaenys to inform Aegon that Dorne would neither fight nor kneel, and would have no king. Rhaenys warned Meria that the Targaryens would return, and departed Sunspear, leaving Dorne the only unconquered Kingdom.

Reign of the Dragon

Rhaenys Targaryen, by Feliche©.

Following Aegon's coronation at Oldtown by the High Septon, Rhaenys, Aegon, and Visenya took residence at the Aegonfort in King's Landing. Aegon often left the day-to-day governance of the realm in the charge of Rhaenys and Visenya, and his councillors.

During the early years of her brother's reign, Rhaenys often aided Aegon in his efforts to win the respect of his vassals and the smallfolk. The smallfolk were a special concern for Rhaenys. She was fond of singers and bards as well.

It was said at court that Aegon spent ten nights with Rhaenys for every night he spent with Visenya. On the nights that Aegon was not with her, Rhaenys surrounded herself with comely young men. It was rumored that she also entertained some in her bedchambers. The rumors would persist until after Rhaenys's death.

First Dornish War

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In 4 AC, Aegon I began a new campaign against Dorne. Rhaenys led the first assault on Dorne, seizing castles and burning Planky Town while approaching Sunspear. However, the Dornish lords once again refused to give open battle, and abandoned their seats. When Rhaenys and Aegon eventually reached Sunspear, Princess Meria Martell, as well as most others, had fled. Rhaenys and Aegon gathered the few courtiers and functionaries who had remained behind and, declaring themselves victorious, proclaimed that Dorne fell under the rule of the Iron Throne. Rhaenys and Aegon returned to King's Landing, leaving Lord Rosby as Sunspear's castellan while giving Lord Harlan Tyrell the charge of a host to fight the last revolts. However, they had barely reached the capital when the Dornish revolted with extreme rapidity, leading to the deaths of both Lord Rosby, by the hand of Princess Meria herself, and Lord Tyrell, who vanished in 5 AC

The next few years of the war became more and more violent. The Targaryens returned to Dorne to unleash their dragons, and the Dornish responded with fire of their own. In 10 AC, at Hellholt a bolt from a scorpion pierced Meraxes through the eye. The dragon fell from the sky with Rhaenys on its back, destroying half the castle. It is not certain whether Rhaenys outlived Meraxes. There are those who say that Rhaenys lost her seat and fell to her death, while others claim that Rhaenys was crushed to death beneath Meraxes in the castle yard. A few accounts claim that Rhaenys survived the fall and died a slow death, being tortured by the Ullers. Due to the uncertainty about Rhaenys's exact death, history records that she died in 10 AC at Hellholt in Dorne. Her body was never returned to King's Landing.

Legacy

Rhaenys's son Aenys was three years old when she died. Always weak and sickly, the death of his mother shattered the boy, and there were doubts as to whether he would live.

The two years that followed Rhaenys's death were later dubbed the years of the Dragon's Wroth. Grief-stricken at the death of their sister, Aegon and Visenya set every castle, keep, and holdfast in Dorne ablaze at least once, with the exception of Sunspear and it's shadow city, and placed bounties on the heads of the Dornish lords. The war would last until 13 AC.

Although a grand sept had already been constructed on Visenya's Hill in King's Landing, the Sept of Remembrance was later built on the Hill of Rhaenys as a memorial to the queen.

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Quotes

Meria: I will not fight you, nor will I kneel to you. Dorne has no king. Tell your brother that.

Rhaenys: I shall, but we will come again, Princess, and the next time we shall come with fire and blood.

Meria: Your words. Ours are Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken. You may burn us, my lady ... but you will not bend us, break us, or make us bow. This is Dorne. You are not wanted here. Return at your peril.

Meria Martell and Rhaenys

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Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, known among the smallfolk as the Queen Who Never Was, was the faithful wife of Lord Corlys Velaryon of Driftmark. She was a dragonrider whose dragon was Meleys, the Red Queen.

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Rhaenys had traditional Targaryen beauty.

Rhaenys wore steel and copper armor which flashed in the sun.

History

Youth

Princess Rhaenys was the daughter of Jocelyn Baratheon, the daughter of Lord Robar Baratheon of Storm's End, and Prince Aemon Targaryen, the heir of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen. Rhaenys was the staunchest of friends with her uncle, Jocelyn's brother Boremund.

Aemon died in 92 AC. Old King Jaehaerys chose Aemon's younger brother, Prince Baelon, rather than Rhaenys, Aemon's only child, as his new heir.

Great Council of 101

Because Baelon died in 101 AC, a Great Council was called at Harrenhal to decide upon Jaehaerys's new heir. Rhaenys's uncle Boremund, now Lord of Storm's End, and Ellard Stark, Lord of Winterfell, spoke for her, as did Ellard's bannermen, House Dustin of Barrowton and House Manderly of White Harbor.

When the claims of Rhaenys, her daughter Laena, and seven others were eventually dismissed, Boremund and Ellard supported Rhaenys's son, Laenor, over Baelon's son, Prince Viserys Targaryen.

Laena and Laenor both died in 120 AC, the Year of the Red Spring. Laena's widower, Prince Daemon Targaryen, scandalously married Laenor's widow, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, less than six months after Laenor's passing.

The Dance of the Dragons

When the Dance of the Dragons began in 129 AC, Princess Rhaenys sat on the black council of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, daughter of the late King Viserys I Targaryen. When the Velaryon fleet closed off the Gullet, sailing forth from Dragonstone and Driftmark to block all shipping for Blackwater Bay, the blacks' plan was for Rhaenys to fly overhead on Meleys to keep the greens from attacking their ships with dragons.

Nine days after Lord Staunton dispatched a plea for help, Rhaenys and Meleys appeared above Rook's Rest. Rhaenys attacked the soldiers of Ser Criston Cole during the battle at Rook's Rest, but King Aegon II Targaryen upon Sunfyre and Prince Aemond Targaryen upon Vhagar appeared in the skies. Criston had sprung a trap and Rhaenys had snatched the bait. Against Vhagar alone, Meleys may have won but she stood little chance against both dragons. They met a thousand feet above the ground and all three beasts went spinning to the earth. From the ashes, only Vhagar rose unharmed. A body believed to be Rhaenys was later found beside the carcass of her dragon, but so blackened no one could be sure it was her. Her husband, Corlys Velaryon, was enraged that Rhaenyra had sent Rhaenys instead of going herself, and that Rhaenyra had forbidden her sons Jacaerys and Joffrey from aiding Rhaenys.

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Beloved daughter of Lady Jocelyn Baratheon and Prince Aemon Targaryen, faithful wife of Lord Corlys Velaryon, mother and grandmother, the Queen Who Never Was lived fearlessly, and died amidst blood and fire. She was fifty-five years old.

- Archmaester Gyldayn

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Rhaenys Targaryen was the daughter of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen and Princess Elia Martell.

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Appearance

Rhaenys looked like a Martell.

History

In 280 AC, Rhaenys was born on Dragonstone.

She had a small black kitten that she named Balerion, after the great black dragon of Aegon I Targaryen.

During the Sack of King's Landing, Rhaenys hid under her father's bed, a floor above the nursery, where her younger brother, Aegon, and her mother, Elia Martell, were. She was discovered and dragged out by Ser Amory Lorch, who proceeded to stab her with "half a hundred thrusts."

Tywin Lannister commanded the deaths of Rhaenys and Aegon to prove his loyalty to Robert Baratheon, although he himself claims to have been shocked at the brutality of their deaths. In Rhaenys's case, he believed Lorch, who tried to justify his savagery by claiming the girl kicked him and would not stop screaming, could simply have offered a few sweet words to calm her, and a pillow to suffocate her.

After Rhaenys's and Aegon's deaths, Tywin Lannister presented their bodies to Robert clothed in red Lannister cloaks (to better conceal the blood).

According to Maester Yandel, however, Rhaenys had been murdered in her bed. He states that there are some who say it had been done at King Aerys II's command, when he learned that Tywin Lannister had taken up the cause of Robert Baratheon. Others, according to Yandel, state that Elia killed Rhaenys herself, out of fear for what would happen to Rhaenys, should she fall into the hands of Rhaegar's enemies.

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Rhaesh Andahli is the Dothraki term for Westeros. It means land of the Andals.




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Rhea Florent is the second daughter of Lord Alester Florent and is the fourth wife of Lord Leyton Hightower.

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Lady Rhea Royce was the ruling Lady of Runestone. She was the first wife of Prince Daemon Targaryen. She died childless. Daemon had no love or affection for her, referring to her as his "bronze bitch", a mocking reference to the ancient armor of House Royce. Rhea likewise had no love for Daemon.

Rhea died after an hawking accident. Runestone passed to her nephew instead of her husband.




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Rhialta Vance is the daughter of Lord Karyl Vance of Wayfarer's Rest.

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Rhialta is a reference by George R. R. Martin to *Rhialto the Marvellous* by Jack Vance.




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Rhodry is a maester of the Citadel in service to House Cerwyn.

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Along with Maesters Medrick and Henly, Rhodry is brought by Lord Roose Bolton to Winterfell to be put in charge of the ravens and messages. Rhodry brings Roose Bolton the report that Stannis Baratheon's army is three days ride from Winterfell.




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Rhogoro is the son and *khalakka* of the Dothraki horselord, Khal Moro.

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Rhogoro attends the presentation of Daenerys Targaryen to Khal Drogo in Pentos with his father.




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Rhonda Rowan is a member of House Rowan. She is married to Ser Baelor Hightower, the heir of House Hightower.




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Rhoynish Steed by Jonathan Standing © Fantasy Flight Games

The Rhoynar are one of the three major ethnic groups from which the humans of Westeros descend, the others being the Andals and the First Men. They were a culture of river-faring people who dwelt on the banks of the immense river Rhoyne in Essos. After being forced to flee in ten thousand ships during the Rhoynish Wars with Valyria, the surviving Rhoynar eventually settled in Dorne in southern Westeros.

While most Rhoynar integrated into Dornish society, especially into the so-called "salty Dornishmen", the orphans of the Greenblood have retained their Rhoynish heritage and language.

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Appearance

A poleman on the Rhoyne by Raymond Bonilla © Fantasy Flight Games

The Rhoynar were a slender people with smooth olive skin, black hair, and dark eyes.

Culture

The Rhoynar practiced a number of customs that differ from mainstream Andal culture. These included equal primogeniture, granting inheritances to the eldest child regardless of gender. They also tolerated homosexuality. Due to their origin in city-states, the Rhoynar titled their rulers Princes and Princesses. Their influence made these customs standard in Dorne as well.

The Rhoynar worshiped a number of river-themed nature gods. Their primary god was Mother Rhoyne, or Mother River, the personification of the river Rhoyne itself. Other gods include the Old Man of the River, a turtle god, and his adversary, the Crab King.

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Ancient Rhoynar

The Rhoynar lived in city-states along the vast network of the river Rhoyne, including Ar Noy, Chroyane, Ghoyan Drohe, Ny Sar, Sar Mell, and Sarhoy.

The Rhoynar taught the Andals how to work iron, although the *Seven-Pointed Star* of the Faith of the Seven teaches that the Andals received this gift from the Smith.

However, the Valyrian Freehold's expansion from the east threatened to overtake the Rhoynar hundreds of years before Aegon's Landing. For some two and a half centuries, the Rhoynish Wars were fought between the Valyrians and the Rhoynar. In the last of the these, Garin the Great, Prince of Chroyane, led two hundred and fifty thousand Rhoynar to their deaths in battle against the Valyrians. Nymeria, Princess of Ny Sar, led the surviving Rhoynar, mostly women and children, in fleeing Essos in ten thousand ships.

Rhoynar in Dorne

Princess Nymeria wed Lord Mors Martell, art by Karla Ortiz

Nymeria led her followers on dangerous journeys to the Basilisk Isles, Sothoryos, Naath, the Summer Isles, the Stepstones, and finally Dorne in southern Westeros.

Having abandoned the Rhoyne, most Rhoynar adopted the Faith of the Seven in Westeros. In *The Conquest of Dorne*, King Daeron I Targaryen differentiated between three sorts of Dornishmen, so-called stony, sandy, and salty Dornishmen., equal primogeniture is practiced in Dorne as it was along the Rhoyne.

Some descendants of the Rhoynar did not assimilate and continue to practice the traditions of their ancestors, however. Called the "orphans of the Greenblood", these individuals live on rafts along the river Greenblood and consider themselves orphaned from their Mother Rhoyne.




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Flow of the Rhoyne in western Essos

The Rhoyne is one of the main rivers of the eastern continent, Essos.

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The Rhoyne originates from the confluence of two of its tributaries, the Upper Rhoyne and the Little Rhoyne, southeast of the ruins of Ghoyan Drohe in northwestern Essos. Its course runs southeast and meets the Noyne just north of Ny Sar. The Rhoyne continues southeast to Dagger Lake, where it is joined by the Qhoyne. After Dagger Lake, the Rhoyne runs south, with the Golden Fields along its western bank. The Rhoyne continues south, with the Lhorulu flowing into it at the Sorrows and the Selhoru connecting at Selhorys.

It is said the southern Rhoyne becomes so wide that someone in its centre cannot see its shores. crosses the Rhoyne in Volantis.

Settlements and ruins along the Rhoyne include Ny Sar, Chroyane, Selhorys, Valysar, Sar Mell, Volon Therys, and Volantis. Places on tributaries include Ghoyan Drohe on the Little Rhoyne, Qohor and Ar Noy on the Qhoyne, and Norvos on the Noyne.

The Rhoyne is known for its river pirates, who hide on and around the many islands of Dagger Lake.

History

During the Long Night, the Rhoyne may have frozen as far south as its confluence with the Selhoru.

The watershed of the Rhoyne was the homeland of the Rhoynar, an iron-working people who founded several city-states along its banks.

After conquering the Old Empire of Ghis, the Valyrian Freehold began expanding west and founded their first colony, Volantis, at the mouth of the Rhoyne. The Rhoynar served as a buffer against Valyrian expansion to the northwest, however, so the Valyrians instead pressured the Andals to the west.

The Rhoynar wielded water magic during the later Rhoynish Wars, but they were overwhelmed by the dragonlords of Valyria. Queen Nymeria led the surviving Rhoynar in ten thousand ships from their homeland to Dorne in southern Westeros, and the Rhoynar cities fell into ruin. Nymeria wed Lord Mors Martell in Dorne, forming House Nymeros Martell. Their new seat, Sunspear, was named after the spear of the Martells and the sun of of the Rhoyne.

There are few Rhoynar remaining along the Rhoyne's banks. Among them the river holds a god-like status, and in their faith it is called "Mother Rhoyne".

During the Century of Blood after the Doom of Valyria, Norvos and Qohor used fire galleys at Dagger Lake to end Volantene control over the northern Rhoyne.

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A Dance with Dragons

Tyrion Lannister, Jon Connington, Aegon Targaryen, and their companions sail on the *Shy Maid* from Ghoyan Drohe toward Volantis..

Quotes

She is the greatest river in the world.

Yandry to Tyrion Lannister

Mother Rhoyne waxes so wide that a man upon a boat in the center of the stream cannot see a shore to either side.

Yandry to Tyrion Lannister




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The Rhoynish Wars were a series of wars fought between the city-states of the Rhoynar and colonies of the Valyrian Freehold. The last of the wars, the Second Spice War, was fought a thousand years ago. In total, the series of conflicts spanned most of two and a half centuries.

History

The expansion of the Valyrians into the western coastal regions of Essos threatened the great city-states of the Rhoyne, a vast river network. Most of the wars were short-lived and local in nature. The wars included the First Turtle War, the War of Three Princes, the Second Turtle War, the Fisherman's War, the Salt War, the Third Turtle War, the War on Dagger Lake, and the Spice War, among many others. The destruction of Sarhoy in the Second Spice War escalated the conflict, however, which resulted in the defeat of the Rhoynish cities and Nymeria leading the survivors in exile from Essos to Westeros aboard ten thousand ships.




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Rhyos is a city founded by the Valyrian Freehold. Although rich and glorious, it did not have self-rule and was instead governed by men and women sent from Valyria to rule in the name of the Freehold..

The exact location of Rhyos has not been revealed yet. It may be one of the unnamed ruined cities seen in the Valyrian peninsula in *The Lands of Ice and Fire*.




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Ricasso is Prince Doran Martell's seneschal at Sunspear.

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Appearance

Ricasso is old and blind.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Ricasso is alongside Princess Arianne Martell, castellan Ser Manfrey Martell, and the rest of the court of Sunspear to welcome Prince Doran Martell when he returns from the Water Gardens.

When Princess Arianne is brought back to Sunspear after her failed plot to crown Princess Myrcella Baratheon as queen, she is handed over into the custody of Ricasso and Ser Manfrey Martell.

A Dance with Dragons

Ricasso is present at the feast when Ser Balon Swann of the Kingsguard arrives in Sunspear to deliver the head of Ser Gregor Clegane. Prince Doran Martell has Ricasso raise a toast to King Tommen Baratheon.




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Ser Richard Farrow is a knight of House Farrow.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Brienne of Tarth recalls that Richard was a member of the host gathered by Renly I beneath the walls of Highgarden. There, he joined a wager as to who could take the maidenhead of Brienne. In his efforts to woo her he played love songs on his lute outside her pavilion.




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Ser Richard Horpe is a knight of House Horpe in service to Stannis Baratheon.

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Appearance

Ser Richard is lean, dark-haired and hard-eyed. His face is marred by pockmarks and old scars.

Richard's quilted doublet and faded surcoat display the three death's-head moths of House Horpe.

History

As a squire Richard wanted to join the Kingsguard, but King Robert I Baratheon chose another knight after Queen Cersei Lannister objected to Richard.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

When the Battle of the Blackwater turns against Stannis Baratheon, Richard and Ser Justin Massey convince Stannis to retreat back to Dragonstone.

A Storm of Swords

During the battle beneath the Wall, the wildling Dormund is killed by a knight with moths on his shield, possibly Richard.

A Feast for Crows

One of the queen's men, Richard is part of Stannis's court at Castle Black.

A Dance with Dragons

Richard Horpe by Cindy Kinnard©

The ambitious Richard desires to claim Winterfell, although Stannis has no intention of granting the castle to his knight.

During Stannis's war council, Richard advocates for attacking the Dreadfort.

Stannis is victorious in the fight by Deepwood Motte,

The Winds of Winter

Richard is present along with Ser Godry Farring and Clayton Suggs when Stannis interrogates Maester Tybald about his loyalties. He is then put in charge of disarming Arnolf Karstark's men while Stannis breaks his fast with Arnolf, his son Arthor, and grandsons. Richard and other queen's men want Stannis to sacrifice Theon Greyjoy to the Lord of Light, although Stannis is skeptical of Richard's sincerity.

Quotes by Richard

Risk is part of war. Every battle is a gamble, Snow. The man who does nothing also takes a risk.

- Richard to Jon Snow

Richard: Only the Lord of Light can save us now. Wouldn't you agree?

Justin: My faith runs as deep as your own, Richard, you know that.

Richard: It is your courage I question, Justin, not your faith. You have preached defeat every step of the way since we rode forth from Deepwood Motte. It makes me wonder whose side you are on.

- Richard and Justin Massey

Quotes about Richard

Horpe will take Val to wife if I command it, but it is battle he lusts for. As a squire he dreamed of a white cloak, but Cersei Lannister spoke against him and Robert passed him over. Perhaps rightly. Ser Richard is too fond of killing.

- Stannis Baratheon to Jon Snow

Dormund was cut down in the battle for the Wall, and him still half a boy. One o' your king's knights did for him, some bastard all in grey steel with moths upon his shield. I saw the cut, but my boy was dead before I reached him.

- Tormund to Jon Snow