This chapter mainly introduces some events from the early period of the Targaryen dynasty. Aerea herself is mentioned only in passing.
To understand who Princess Aerea was, one must first understand the political situation of the time.
Aegon the Conqueror had one older sister and one younger sister. His older sister, Visenya, was his lawful wife.
His younger sister, Rhaenys, should originally have married someone else, for example through an alliance with House Velaryon.
But Rhaenys was too beautiful and too alluring. See the illustration; no introduction is needed, everyone can tell at a glance who is Rhaenys.
Aegon took Rhaenys for himself and made her his second wife.
That Rhaenys was no easy woman either. The custom among noble ladies of the Seven Kingdoms of keeping pretty boy singers and bards as lovers began with her.
Queen Visenya was the true model of a proper noble queen. Her personality was perfectly suited to being the principal wife: no promiscuity, no jealousy. She managed the royal household for Aegon and also fought on the battlefield for her husband.
For example, the clans of the Crab's Claw Peninsula were subdued by her alone.
For example, Visenya saved her husband Aegon from an assassin through her superb swordsmanship.
Even the Kingsguard was established at Visenya's suggestion.
In short, Queen Visenya was extraordinarily formidable, a textbook example of a queen.
But Aegon preferred the "wanton" Rhaenys. Rhaenys was more seductive, while Visenya's capabilities were simply too overwhelming.
Without a doubt, the woman the king favored more was the one more likely to bear children.
Rhaenys gave birth early to the eldest son, Aenys I. After Rhaenys died unexpectedly in Dorne, when the dragon she was riding was shot through the eye by the Dornish, Visenya became Aegon's only wife and only then gave birth to her sole son, Maegor. Yes, that would be "Maegor the Cruel."
By the time Visenya bore a child, she was already middle-aged.
After Aegon's death, Visenya became Queen Dowager. It must be said that she was truly virtuous and magnanimous. She followed Aegon's wishes completely and supported Rhaenys's son, Aenys, as king.
Aenys was weak and timid, but he respected Visenya as Queen Dowager and treated his younger brother Maegor kindly.
He gave Blackfyre to his brother and publicly praised him as braver and more worthy of wielding the Targaryen sword. Later, he appointed him as Hand of the King.
Although Maegor felt his elder brother was frail and cowardly, he had no intention of usurping the throne and instead devoted himself wholeheartedly to assisting him.
At the time, Aegon had just died, and those dissatisfied with House Targaryen raised banners in rebellion. There were four rebel kings. One has to wonder what they were thinking, or perhaps the people of Westeros are simply stubborn and unafraid of dragons. Maegor acted decisively and did his utmost to help his brother suppress the rebellions.
At this point, House Targaryen still appeared harmonious, with a benevolent mother and filial sons, and brothers at peace.
The first upheaval came from Maegor. Whether driven by desire, love, or because his wife failed to bear him children, he sought to imitate his father and took a second wife. This violated the doctrines of the Seven Kingdoms.
At the time, the Faith's headquarters was in Oldtown, and the High Septon was a Hightower. Maegor's first wife was also a Hightower. Visenya had originally intended for Maegor to marry Aenys's eldest daughter, Rhaena, but the High Septon strongly opposed this and instead married his own niece to Maegor.
Aenys yielded to the Faith and exiled his younger brother Maegor.
Royal authority retreated one step; the Faith advanced one step.
When Aenys followed Targaryen tradition and married his daughter Rhaena to his son Aegon, since Targaryen princesses were never married out, the Faith openly rebelled. The High Septon publicly declared Aenys a "monstrous king" and the Targaryens an incestuous "monstrous family."
This was not all. Some fanatical members of the Poor Fellows even stormed the Red Keep, planning to slaughter Aenys and his family in their sleep.
That is to say, they intended to exterminate House Targaryen.
Aenys panicked and fled with his entire family back to Dragonstone.
Impressive, isn't the Faith?
At that time, the Targaryens still had dragons, and even Queen Dowager Visenya was still alive.
Now, do not focus solely on the Faith's reckless behavior here. Two people should be noted: Aegon and Rhaena. The protagonist of this chapter, Princess Aerea, was their eldest daughter and thus the crown princess.
As mentioned before, Aenys was weak and timid.
Faced with the Faith's armed uprising, he was at a loss and even fell ill from anxiety, eventually dying.
Some may ask why Queen Dowager Visenya did nothing.It was not that she did nothing, but that she respected the king's authority.
Given her abilities, becoming another Empress Lü or Wu Zetian would have been effortless, but she adhered strictly to proper conduct, just as she had shown absolute loyalty to her husband Aegon throughout her earlier life.
Queen Dowager Visenya advised her stepson to immediately send troops to suppress the rebellious Faith Militant. She even offered to fight personally, as she was the dragonrider of Vhagar.
Aenys refused.
Yes, this Aenys was the complete opposite extreme of the Mad King Aerys: weak and fearful.
If the two Aeryses could somehow be averaged out, there would probably have been two peerless wise kings.
After Aenys died, his eldest son Aegon should have ascended the throne. However, the Faith Militant was flourishing at the time, royal authority was in grave danger, and Visenya disobeyed a king's command for the first time. Even though that king was her stepson, it was still her first act of disobedience.
Visenya did not follow Aenys's will to crown sixteen-year-old Aegon II. Instead, she recalled her exiled son Maegor from overseas.
"Maegor the Cruel" formally entered the stage.
Let us speak about Maegor himself.
Knowing only that he was raised by Visenya is enough to dispel any doubt about his ability and talent.
As a child, Maegor did not bond with any dragon.
When others mocked him for cowardice, Maegor angrily retorted that only "the Black Dread" Balerion was worthy of him, and at that time his father Aegon was still alive.
After Aegon the Conqueror died, Maegor truly mastered Balerion.
Maegor rode his dragon to burn the Warrior's Sons while they prayed. He even burned the Great Sept of King's Landing and planned to burn the Starry Sept. He placed bounties of one gold dragon for every Warrior's Son's head and one silver stag for every scalp of a Poor Fellow. He committed many brutal acts. So was he a villain?
No. Maegor was a true knight.
Yes, you heard that correctly. Maegor was cruel, but he possessed more knightly spirit than many people of his time.
A person's character is most clearly revealed in moments of life and death.
He was ruthless toward the Faith and the fanatics of the Seven, but one thing must be understood: at the beginning, Maegor did not intend to resort to such extreme measures.
When he first ascended the throne, he had a dragon, and his mother Visenya had a dragon. They could have simply burned septs, sparrows, and Warrior's Sons, but he did not.
Maegor chose the traditional method under the Faith of the Seven and proposed a Trial by Combat to the Faith Militant to determine who was in the right.
Everyone is familiar with Trial by Combat, right?Even someone as unhinged as Lysa released the Imp after he won his trial.
Maegor proposed the most sacred form of Trial by Combat under the Seven: a Trial of Seven.
A Trial of Seven was fought to the death. All seven warriors on one side had to die.
The victorious side was recognized by the Seven as just.
Maegor had a dragon, but he himself was one of the seven combatants.
Yes, as king, he personally entered combat against the Faith's rebels.
Fair, just, and strictly according to the rules.
Naturally, the Faith could not oppose Maegor's Trial of Seven. To oppose it would be to oppose the Seven themselves.
The leader of the Warrior's Sons, representing the Faith, accepted the challenge.
The outcome was extremely bloody and brutal. Of fourteen powerful knights, only Maegor survived.
But he was not Daenerys and could not emerge unscathed. He suffered a devastating blow to the head and remained unconscious for a full month. It seems sorcery was used to save his life.
By any standard, Maegor had shown sufficient sincerity.
He personally participated in the trial and won. According to the rules, the Faith Militant should have ceased their rebellion and disbanded immediately. This was the condition Maegor set when he agreed to the Trial of Seven.
After all, if Maegor had lost, he would have lost his life. The Faith could not lose without paying any price.
The Faith broke its promise, ignored the result of the Trial of Seven, and continued its rebellion.
Then Maegor became enraged.
Queen Dowager Visenya also became enraged.
Since following your Westerosi rules does not work, then let things return to the path familiar to House Targaryen.
Only then did Maegor commit the series of brutal acts that followed.
Do not forget that the Targaryen family motto is "Fire and Blood."
While Maegor brutally suppressed the Faith Militant, what was Aegon, the heir chosen by Aenys, doing?
He fled with his wife Rhaena to Casterly Rock and sided with the rebels against Maegor.
This marked the first internal strife within House Targaryen.
When Maegor began ruling the Seven Kingdoms in the Targaryen way, everyone in the realm, both the Faith and scheming nobles, came to the same conclusion: the dragonlords of House Targaryen were a godlike race. To the people of Westeros, dragonriding Targaryens were gods.
There were only two ways to deal with gods: strip them of their divinity, which is a story for later, or have gods fight gods.
Mortals could not defeat dragonriding Targaryens.
Maegor had a dragon, and the rebels were crushed under his might, suffering devastating losses.
Then some people noticed Aegon and Rhaena. They were also Targaryens, and they also had dragons. After all, it was precisely their marriage that had triggered the Faith's rebellion. Now, the rebels began supporting Aegon and Rhaena.
Let us also discuss the attitude of the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms during the Faith's rebellion.
The Faith Militant was divided into two groups: the Poor Fellows, also known as the Beggar Army or Sparrows, composed of commoners; and the Warrior's Sons, composed of lesser knights and younger sons of nobles, who formed the core fighting force.
To understand the nobles' attitude toward the Faith of the Seven, one must first ask: to nobles, which is more important, family or faith?
If faith were more important, the First Men who crossed the sea twelve thousand years ago would not have abandoned their original beliefs to learn from the Children of the Forest and adopt the Old Gods.
If faith were more important, when the Andals invaded Westeros six thousand years ago, the First Men south of the Neck would not have converted to the Seven.
If faith were more important, during the War of the Five Kings, Renly would have struggled every step of the way. Yet ironically, he burned statues of the Seven on Dragonstone and burned alive followers of the Seven who opposed the Red God, even if they were nobles. He burned the godswood at Storm's End and burned septs, yet he remained powerful and well supplied, the strongest lord outside the Reach.
Aside from the High Sparrow, no one seemed to care about Renly's faith.
In fact, much of the Riverlands had already fallen away from the Seven, with the lower classes converting to the Red God because the Red God displayed miracles and resurrected the Lightning Lord.
The Riverlands were the High Sparrow's base of power.
Thus, during the Faith's rebellion, some minor nobles may have secretly supported the Faith Militant, but among the great lords of the Seven Kingdoms, not a single house supported the Faith or openly opposed Maegor because of it.
If the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms truly believed in the Seven as devoutly as they claimed, Westeros would not have become such a morally collapsed quagmire, because the teachings of the Seven are meant to guide people toward goodness.
Maegor became a kinslayer. He killed Aegon because Aegon led Westermen to attack King's Landing. The Lannisters were extremely shrewd. They sheltered Aegon but did not support him. Later, they allowed Westermen to rebel alongside Aegon, and when Jaehaerys, Aegon's brother, rose to prominence and Maegor's power collapsed, the Lannisters immediately switched sides.
From that point on, House Targaryen seemed cursed. The harmony of brothers at peace and a benevolent mother with filial sons never returned.
Maegor killed Aegon, forcibly took Aegon's wife Rhaena as his own, and named Aegon and Rhaena's daughter Aerea as crown princess.
Aenys I was weak and frail, but he could produce children: three sons and three daughters. When unlucky Aegon died, there was still Viserys. When Viserys died, there was the third son, Jaehaerys.
Finally, with the support of the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms, Jaehaerys outlasted Maegor and brought about his death.
As for Maegor's cause of death:
After Queen Dowager Visenya died, Maegor isolated himself completely. When Jaehaerys's army approached King's Landing, only some minor Crownlands nobles came to his aid.
One night, after concluding a council meeting, Maegor remained alone in the council chamber. Early the next morning, he was found dead upon the Iron Throne, his arms slashed open and his robes soaked in blood. Some suspected the Kingsguard killed him. Others believed some of the craftsmen involved in building the Red Keep had survived, knew its secret passages, and used them to kill Maegor. Still others claimed Maegor, unable to endure defeat, committed suicide.
Suicide is the officially accepted explanation, much like how modern news often reports that some chairman or official has committed suicide.
Personally, I do not believe he killed himself, because he does not seem like the type who would.
He still had the Black Dread, Balerion.
If it truly came to dragon-on-dragon combat, what use would Jaehaerys's vast armies be? He would still have to face his uncle one-on-one, or two-on-one, or three-on-one. Fine, Maegor truly was abandoned by all. Aenys's many children all stood together, and each of them had a dragon.
Rhaena had a dragon, and Jaehaerys and "the Good Queen" Alysanne also had dragons.
Alysanne was the pure-hearted queen who gifted northern lands to the Night's Watch.
Personally, I suspect the Faceless Men were involved in Maegor's death, because not long afterward, one of Rhaena's close companions stole three dragon eggs and secretly sold them to the Braavosi, then immediately vanished from the world.
Maegor died, Jaehaerys ascended the throne, the Faith ceased its rebellion, and the Faith Militant was disbanded. In truth, the Faith had already been crippled and terrified by Maegor. During Maegor's reign, the previous High Septon died under mysterious circumstances, and the new High Septon had already surrendered.
Aegon the Conqueror conquered the Seven Kingdoms. Maegor transformed the Targaryens from conquerors into gods.
Westeros was thoroughly beaten into submission.
Thus, Jaehaerys began his reign as the "Old King." He ruled for fifty-five years, and the Targaryen dynasty entered a period comparable to the "Prosperous Reign of Kangxi and Qianlong." Not the Zhenguan era, not the Wenjing era, not the Kaiyuan era, but the Kangxi–Qianlong era.
What that means is for everyone to judge for themselves.
Now let us return to our protagonist, Princess Aerea.
Before Jaehaerys and Alysanne had children, Aerea was still the crown princess, and her days were carefree and indulgent.
But then Daenerys appeared.
No, not the Dragon Queen, but the eldest daughter of Jaehaerys and Alysanne. Aerea's status as heir could no longer be preserved.
Unable to endure the coldness of others, the thirteen-year-old girl rode Balerion and ran away.
After Maegor's death, Aerea became Balerion's rider.
Balerion carried Aerea to the ruins of Valyria.
Aerea and Balerion were missing for over a year. When they finally returned to King's Landing, Aerea was mortally ill, clinging tightly to the dragon's back.
If not for Balerion, almost no one would have recognized her. Aerea was skin and bones, her clothes reduced to rags, her hair dull and tangled, and blood flowed from her eyes.
After saying, "I will never," Aerea lost consciousness.
This unfinished yet deeply suggestive "I will never" is extremely intriguing. Much of the Valyria-related plot in the books originates from Aerea and that haunting phrase.
As an aside, I truly want to ask Martin what Aerea actually experienced. What was she resisting?
Afterward, Aerea was sent to the Grand Maester. This marked the beginning of the exposure of the true dragon family's secrets.
Grand Maester Benifer treated Aerea in his bedchamber together with Septon Barth, who had been summoned to preside over her last rites.
Only these two witnessed her final moments. The maester forbade anyone else from entering, including the king and queen.
Benifer gave Aerea milk of the poppy and placed the princess in a large ice-filled bath to cool her, but nothing worked.
She arrived at the Red Keep in the morning. After sunset, Septon Barth declared Aerea dead, and she was cremated at sunrise the next day.
Officially, Aerea was said to have died of a high fever, but this was only partially true. A white-cloaked knight who had touched her said that the heat of the princess's fever was so intense that it nearly burned his arm through his armor.
From this, one can infer that Aerea was somewhat like Daenerys, extremely resistant to heat.
The knight also said that blood seemed to boil in Aerea's eye sockets, and that terrifying creatures writhed within her abdomen.
That knight was then silenced by King Jaehaerys.
No one was allowed to speak of the princess again.
It is said that Grand Maester Benifer left no record of Aerea's death. Who knows? Who would believe that?
In fact, Septon Barth made a detailed record of Aerea's "illness." She seemed to be burning. Her skin was red, her flesh reduced to barely an ounce outside her bones, leaving her emaciated and starved in appearance. Numerous "lumps" moved beneath the princess's skin, causing her excruciating pain.
Aerea seemed to be boiling from the inside.
Her flesh grew increasingly charred, until her burned skin resembled crispy roasted pork. Even then, she did not die, which shows how powerful her bloodline was.
Smoke poured from her mouth, nose, and genitalia.
Aerea's eyes boiled within her skull until they burst.
At this point, Aerea was still alive. If Barth and the maester had not tried to "cool her down," she might have endured for a while longer.
Barth and the maester almost treated Aerea as a curious experimental subject. Indeed, it was extraordinary. A person burned to that extent yet still alive, such resistance to fire was practically divine.
They prepared a large tub of ice and immersed Princess Aerea in it. "Slimy, indescribable things" made horrifying sounds beneath her skin.
With such stimulation, Aerea could not possibly survive.
In the end, Barth pulled from her genitalia a creature as long as an arm, blazing with heat.
A firewyrm.
It was the first time Barth had seen a firewyrm, and also the first and only time any Westerosi had ever seen one.
That firewyrm died in the ice-filled tub.
It is unclear how many firewyrms remained inside Aerea. There were certainly more than one. They were in her belly and beneath her skin.
At that time, the Targaryen royal library still existed, and King Jaehaerys was a wise ruler who knew many secrets and understood the need to conceal Targaryen mysteries from outsiders.
Thus, even if the maester and Barth wished to conduct research, Jaehaerys would not allow it.
In fact, Jaehaerys immediately ordered Aerea's body to be burned.
He did not dare touch it, did not dare see it, and did not even allow Aerea's mother, Rhaena, to see her daughter one last time.
Clearly, Jaehaerys knew what had happened to Aerea from the royal secret records.
Afterward, King Jaehaerys issued another decree. Any ship suspected of having visited Valyria or the Smoking Sea was forbidden to land at any port in Westeros. Any Westerosi who had visited Valyria was to be executed immediately, without even the chance to take the black.
In the room where only Barth and the maester were present, Aerea spoke some truly horrifying words. The original author did not specify what she said, but Barth was deeply shaken and even traumatized, later praying to the Seven in hopes of forgetting those dreadful words.
I am very curious about what Aerea said at the time, but it was certainly related to Valyria.
Despite encountering firewyrms and learning certain Targaryen secrets, Barth was not silenced. He was King Jaehaerys's childhood companion, comparable to the relationship between Kangxi and Wei Xiaobao.
With the king's permission, Barth began studying the Targaryen family's secret texts. He researched dragons and eventually wrote the monumental work Dragons, Wyrms, and Wyverns, which revealed the origins of dragons.
The matter of Aerea was always recorded in the royal secret archives. Jaehaerys concealed the secrets of the true dragons from outsiders, but he needed to warn future generations.
If nothing unexpected occurred, old Aemon certainly had the qualifications to read those secrets, and Daenerys would then learn of them.
Unfortunately, after Baelor the Blessed took the throne, he carried out a sweeping purge of the "Four Olds," burning all texts that promoted so-called feudal superstition.
He even led by example and burned the royal library itself.
Now let us return to "the Old King" Jaehaerys.
There is actually little to say. His era can be called the most prosperous half-century in Westerosi history.
The realm was governed in an orderly manner, the family flourished, House Targaryen grew numerous, and their dragons multiplied to more than twenty.
However, Jaehaerys's daughter Daenerys was unfortunate and died young.
Daenerys complained that she had caught a chill and woke her mother during the night.
The maester gave her ointments, hot soup, scalding hot baths, blankets, furs, heated stones, nettle tea, her mother's milk, and septons and septas prayed. Everything that could be done was done.
King Jaehaerys suddenly realized that his daughter needed a dragon.
Dragonriders and dragons share a mysterious bond of souls and can draw strange power from their dragons.
The king sent ravens to Dragonstone, instructing the dragonkeepers to immediately bring a young dragon to the Red Keep.
Unfortunately, it was too late.
Sigh. I originally wanted to talk more about Rhaena's deeds. Aerea's experiences were merely exotic, but her mother Rhaena was truly legendary. One could write ten grand female-centered dramas about her.
I have suddenly realized that I have already written over six thousand characters. I need to sleep, so I will not write about the first half of her life.
I will briefly describe her ending.
She married her brother Aegon. During the Faith's rebellion, she became a "social queen" in the Westerlands and the Reach, throwing parties every day and befriending countless close companions. Before long, Aegon died at the Gods Eye while fighting Maegor in a dragon battle. She was captured by Maegor and forcibly married to him.
When her younger brother Jaehaerys raised an army against Maegor, Rhaena stole Maegor's sword Blackfyre and fled on a dragon.
Afterward, she wandered across the Seven Kingdoms, a sort of "touring performance," socializing everywhere and partying night after night.
To clarify, Rhaena was not hosting licentious orgies. She simply loved making friends, female confidants and male companions alike.
Put simply, she was a master socialite.
She truly had many sincere friends, but a pot of soup without a single rat dropping would lack flavor.
Rhaena had a close friend named Elissa, who was also her sister-in-law. After Rhaena's husband died and she escaped another marriage, she was free to remarry. She met an honest man at one of her gatherings and married him.
Elissa no longer wished to live on Dragonstone. She asked Rhaena for funds to build a ship and sail the Sunset Sea.
Rhaena refused, saying she could not allow Elissa to leave, as it would tear their relationship apart.
Their relationship was indeed torn apart.
Elissa stole three dragon eggs from Dragonstone, sold them to the Braavosi, bought a ship, and sailed into the Sunset Sea, the same choice Arya makes at the end of Game of Thrones.
At that time, the Targaryens had not yet collectively lost their wits. Rhaena understood the severity of the matter. While furious, she immediately informed her brother, the king in King's Landing.
The Old King Jaehaerys reacted even more fiercely. He directly began summoning all Targaryen dragonriders, ready for war at any moment. Once it was confirmed who possessed those three dragon eggs, the Targaryen dragonriders would fight to the death.
Yet they never discovered who ended up with the eggs. Elissa vanished without a trace. Anyone interested can look at a map of Westeros. From Braavos to the Sunset Sea requires crossing the Narrow Sea, then traversing much of Westeros, passing Sunspear, Oldtown, and Lannisport before sailing west. The journey would take at least half a year.
And yet Elissa left no trace at all. Her ultimate fate is easy to imagine.
The Old King Jaehaerys left a second secret decree for Targaryen descendants: three dragon eggs have been lost. Be prepared at all times to wage a national war. If any power is discovered to have hatched dragons, destroy them immediately. Remember, there can be only one true dragon family in the world.
This decree did not involve mysticism and was not destroyed by Baelor the Blessed. Thus, old Aemon was fortunate enough to read this ancestral command.
Later, he told Daenerys about it, and eventually Daenerys completed the task her ancestors had awaited for 250 years. Well, actually it was Tam who completed two-thirds of the task.
I have strayed too far. Back to Rhaena.
Her sister-in-law ran off with dragon eggs, and she began tormenting her husband. This was essentially the typical web-novel trope of a kept husband, a noble wife mocking and belittling him, with her family doing the same.
Rhaena's husband was also a noble, the lord of Fair Isle in the Westerlands, without lands of his own, living on Dragonstone entirely as a kept husband. To make matters worse, his sister had stolen three dragon eggs from his wife's family, nearly igniting a world war.
Afterward, Rhaena's life took a sharp downturn. She had just lost the dragon eggs, and then her mother died from complications in childbirth.
You may ask who Rhaena's mother was.
Rhaena's father was King Aenys I, and her mother was the queen dowager at the time.
Why could a queen dowager die in childbirth more than a decade after the king's death?
Well, Cersei could marry Euron, so Aenys's wife could certainly marry a Baratheon.
No sooner had her mother died than the kept husband began his revenge. He had no system, was not transmigrated, and was no "tiger general." His revenge was literal revenge.
The husband poisoned all of Rhaena's remaining female companions and friends.
Rhaena cut off his genitals, cooked them, and forced him to eat them. The husband then chose Tommen's ending from Game of Thrones, leaping from a window to his death rather than submit.
Rhaena hacked his corpse into pieces with a sword, for the sake of the dragon.
This is the true fate of an oppressed kept husband.
Betrayed by friends, a husband turned monstrous, all sincere companions dead, her mother gone, and her daughter Aerea dying a horrific death, Rhaena refused to return to King's Landing or Dragonstone, places filled with painful memories. She also rejected the remarriage proposal of the "Good Queen" Alysanne.
In the end, Rhaena returned to her old trade, being a guest in other people's homes.
House Tully received her as a guest, and she spent the rest of her life at Harrenhal.
She lived in the Widow's Tower and became friends with the last member of House Tully, the sickly and impoverished Lord Maegor Tully.
After Maegor's death, Harrenhal passed into Rhaena's possession.
She went from guest to owner.
When her hair had turned gray and the smallfolk of the Riverlands feared her as a witch, Rhaena still retained her love of socializing and warmly received all travelers passing through Harrenhal.
In the end, Harrenhal sent off its fifth owner.
By Daenerys's time, Harrenhal, with its three-hundred-year history, had changed hands twelve times.
Thus ends the early history of the Targaryen dynasty.
Sigh. Without realizing it, I have written so much. To be honest, I originally only planned to introduce Aerea.
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