Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen returns to the Red Keep after a flight on her dragon Syrax. In conversation with her mother, Queen Aemma, she confides in her the dream of becoming a warrior, but she replies that her pregnancy is the battlefield of women.
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Rhaenyra reaches the hall where the Great Council met, to serve as the cup of King Viserys I
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The Council is concerned by several issues, one of which concerns Daemon Targaryen, brother of the King and commander of the City Guard. His methods are too violent for many
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Among the fiercest critics of Daemon is the Hand of the King, Sir Otto Hightower
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Daemon is instead supported by Corlys Velaryon, husband of Rhaenys Targaryen, the Queen who never was.
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Daemon returns to the Red Keep. Only Rhaenyra is informed of his presence and visits him in the throne room
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Daemon gets up from the Iron Throne after being warned by his niece about the risks he runs, and gives her a pendant
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Viserys visits his wife Aemma, with whom he expects another child. Viserys is sure it’s a boy
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Meanwhile, Rhaenyra confides in Alicent, daughter of Otto Hightower, to whom she says she has no ambition to ascend the throne
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To celebrate the arrival of the heir, a tournament is held. At the start of the Games, the Queen goes into labor
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Also present at the tournament is Rhaenys, to whom a champion of the house of Baratheon refers with the nickname “the Queen who never was”. A provocation that Viserys decides to ignore
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Daemon defeats one opponent after another, starting with Gwayne Hightower, son of Otto
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The same Daemon then asks for Alicent’s blessing, receiving it
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Eventually, however, Daemon is defeated by Criston Cole. Rhaenyra inquires about her
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During the tournament, the King receives a message: the birth of his wife has become complicated, the baby is coming out from the side of the feet and there is no way to turn him around.
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Viserys is forced to make a very hard decision: to try to save the heir, he has his wife’s belly cut, condemning her to bleed to death. In a few minutes, however, the child also dies
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The death of Queen Aemma and the baby she was carrying also shakes the young Alicent
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At the funeral of her mother and her newborn brother, it is Rhaenyra who, in tears, gives the order to the dragon to incinerate the bodies: “Dracarys”
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Otto Hightower sends his daughter Alicent to console the King in his chambers
The Council advises the King to make an immediate decision on his succession, to avoid tensions. The court is divided into two factions: those who support Daemon and those who, instead, make the name of Rhaenyra
While the King is in mourning, his brother Daemon throws a party in a brothel. Here he delivers a speech to celebrate his succession to the Iron Throne, addressing the dead child as “the heir for a day”. Otto, however, learns of these words and communicates them to the King
Enraged with his brother, the King banishes him from court and decides to break with the tradition that has seen only men ascend the Iron Throne to officially appoint Rhaenyra as his heir.
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King Viserys gathers representatives of all the houses under his reign in court
These, one at a time, swear allegiance to him and his designated heir: Rhaenyra Targaryen
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