Summary

In 7 AC, Rhaenys gave birth to Aenys Targaryen. He was small and sickly, and some said that he might be the baseborn son of one of Rhaenys’s favorite singers or mummers. When she died, the boy and Aegon were distraught. In 12 AC, Visenya gave birth to Maegor, who was strong and healthy. In Valyria, incest and plural marriages were the norm, but in Westeros both were forbidden by the Faith. Aegon had no daughters, so his sons married outside their bloodline, Aenys to his cousin Alyssa Velaryon, the daughter of Aegon’s master of ships, in 22 AC. When they gave birth to Rhaena, Queen Visenya suggested the infant be betrothed to Maegor, but the parents and the High Septon objected, so Maegor married Ceryse Hightower in 25 AC at the suggestion of the High Septon. Over the next few years...