House Members and Retainers (Bastards are not all listed)
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House Members and Retainers (Bastards are not all listed)
* Denotes Non-Playable, for new players considering to join or take over a NC.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:36, Tue 18 Aug 2015.

Targaryen History

The origins of House Targaryen lie in ancient Valyria. Now in ruins, Valyria was once a powerful nation that ruled much of the eastern continent. Valyrian kings counted dragons among their forces and commanded wizards who were able to use their magic to work stone as if it were clay. This mighty nation built roads and cities that have survived to modern times, even though Valyria itself was destroyed by a Doom of which few details exist.

Dragonstone, home of the Targaryens, was the westernmost outpost of the Valyrians. After the fall of Valyria, it was their home for two centuries before Aegon the Conqueror, founder of the modern Targaryen dynasty, invaded Westeros and established his rule. Much of the Targaryen’s traditions and beliefs come from their heritage—either from Valyria or as exemplified by Aegon.

As the progenitor of the line, Aegon is regarded with great reverence, and his life was seen as a blueprint to many of the Targaryens who followed in his footsteps as kings and conquerors. Since it was common in ancient Valyria for brother and sister to wed, Aegon adopted, or most likely continued, the custom in order to keep the bloodline pure and uncorrupted by unworthiness. Because of this practice, the Targaryens have a distinctive appearance, indigo, lilac, or violet eyes and silver-gold or platinum hair. In addition, this inbreeding gives family members an unpredictable nature. Some Targaryens are good and powerful leaders, whereas others are mad, driven to commit insane acts or embrace outrageous beliefs that eventually lead to a spectacular downfall.

Aegon’s legend really began when he took his two sisters, Rhaenys and Visenya, to be his wives and started the line of the Targaryens. In fact, the house symbol of a three-headed dragon represents Aegon and his two sister-wives. With his sisters at his side, Aegon led his forces out from Dragonstone to claim most of Westeros and unite it under the banner of the Dragonlords. The old kings of the Seven Kingdoms fell before the onslaught. They might have had a chance against traditional forces, but Aegon and his brides rode dragons they’d named after the old gods of Valyria: Balerion, Vhaghar, and Meraxes. By the time the war was over, Aegon ruled from the Wall in the Far North to the Dornish Marches in the south, and from Dragonstone in the east all the way to the islands along the west coast. The only people to escape the conquest were the Dornishmen in the far south of the continent.

The first city Aegon established was King’s Landing, which became the traditional seat of power in the Seven Kingdoms. Aegon had Balerion the Black Dread, one of his dragons, melt down the swords of the defeated kings to build his throne. It took fifty-nine days to hammer together the Iron Throne, and all the kings of the Seven Kingdoms have used it since. It is an uncomfortable monstrosity covered with spikes, jagged edges, and twisted blades that make sitting back in it impossible. Aegon purposely had it made that way because he believed a king should never sit easy on a throne.

After Aegon and his sisters came a long line of great and mad leaders, all of whom held the nation together, though some were more successful than others.



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Baelor Targaryen

Appearance and Character

Baelor is a peaceful, devoted and pious man. He is very thin and frail looking from his repeated fasts. He wears a long beard and hair of typical Targaryen silver-gold color. His crown is made of flowers and vines.

Many see Baelor as a great and holy man, given to deep prayer and fasting to experience religious visions, and honor him for his contributions to the Faith, including the construction of the Great Sept in King's Landing. Others regard him as a weak, simpering fool, prone to hallucinations and bad decisions brought about by excessive zealotry.


Biography & Recent Events

Baelor is quiet, bookish, and strong in the Faith of the Seven. He has always wanted to be a septon, but his father refused to indulge this whim, instead insisting that he marry his sister Daena in the traditional Targaryen manner. Baelor obeyed, but extremely reluctantly and refused to consummate the marriage and put her aside as soon as he was crowned.

Upon his brother King Daeron's death, Baelor is said to have begun his reign by walking the Boneway barefoot to make peace with Dorne. It is also said that he saved his cousin Aemon the Dragonknight from a snake pit, where he was bitten many times by the vipers whose venom could not kill him because of his faith in the Seven; this tale may be simply a metaphorical version of his visit to Dorne, referring to Dorne itself as a "snake pit," and the Dornish, "vipers."

Whatever the truth, Baelor returned home having negotiated the marriage of his cousin Daeron to Myriah Martell as a means of making peace with Dorne after Daeron I's failed conquest.

Baelor's reign is mostly spent in prayer and piety. He is known to fast to the point of fainting to tame the lusts that shamed him. His uncle Viserys continued to order and run the realm as the King's Hand.

Daena Targaryen

Character and Appearance

Daena was wild almost from birth. A Targaryen to the bone, she is strong, beautiful, and wilful and like the rest of her siblings had Valyrian looks. Her long silver-gold hair was thick and curly, an untamed mane that framed her heart-shaped face and her sparling purple eyes. To top it off, she is fearless "I'll dare anything" smile. Daena is lithe and athletic. She is an expert horsewoman and also a hunter and a fine archer with her short recurved bow.

She always wears the golden three-headed dragon pendant she had inherited from her father. At court she wears it on a fine golden chain, supposedly she even wears it when bathing.

Biography & Recent Events

Daena Targaryen is also known as Daena the Defiant and is the eldest daughter of King Aegon III the Dragonbane. She is the sister-wife of King Baelor I.

At a early age, Daena was married to her brother Baelor, by her father, in the Targaryen tradition. Daena and Baelor’s marriage was an unhappy one, with her brother obsessed by the Faith of the Seven. Baelor has refused to consummate their marriage and later dissolved it when he ascended the Iron Throne, after Daena’s elder brother King Daeron I died in Dorne. After Baelor’s ascension, Daena and her sisters were confined to their own apartments in the Red Keep (known as the Maidenvault), so the sight of them would not tempt Baelor or others in his court to mortal lusts.

Daena has always worshipped her father and idolized her brother Daeron. Daena's dress was often as dramatic as she is. As a child, she always wore black in emulation of her father. After her brother Baelor failed to consummate their marriage, she changed to all white, and vowed to wear nothing else until she had been properly bedded, in hopes of shaming him - this has not worked. Baelor likes her in white, feeling that it makes her look more innocent. Now, a pampered prisoner in her brother's court.

Family Tree


Baelor Targaryen (b. 144), the First of His Name, King of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm,

• Baelor's Siblings:
  • {King Daeron} (b. 143), the First of His Name, called the Young Dragon, murdered at a parley by treacherous Dornish rebels (d. 161)
  • Princess Daena (b. 145), once married to her brother King Baelor Targaryen, now confined to the Maidenvault with her sisters
  • Princess Rhaena (b. 147), confined to the Maidenvault with her sisters, formerly betrothed to {Ferro Antaryon} (b.126), the Sealord of Braavos, a great admiral, dead under mysterious circumstances (d.161)
  • Princess Elaena (b. 150), confined to the Maidenvault with her sisters

• Baelor's Deceased Father, {King Aegon}, the Third of His Name, called the Dragonbane (d. 157)
• Baelor's deceased mother, of House Velaryon


    • Baelor's uncle and cousins:
      • Prince Viserys (b. 122), Prince of Dragonstone, the Hand of the King
        • Prince Aegon (b. 136), Viserys's 1st son, currently emissary to Braavos
        • Princess Naerys Targaryen (b. 139), Viserys's 1st daughter
        • Prince Aemon (b. 137), Viserys's son, called the Dragonknight, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard


Prince Aegon Targaryen m. Princess Naerys Targaryen
• Prince Daeron (b. 153), Aegon's Son, betrothed to Princess Mariah Martell (b. 150),

Naerys's lady companions:
   • Reyna Saltcliffe (b. 140), called the Silver Rose, Mistress of Keys for Naerys's household
   • Orene Lefford (b. 137)
   • Fiona Reyne (b. 142)
   • Jyana Arryn (b. 142)
   • Nessa Donniger (b. 129), a childless widow

Aegon's household retainers:
   • Ser Jarwen Hollard (b. 135), a household knight
   • Ser Blayne Condon (b. 132), a household knight
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