Top 20 Pre-asoiaf Characters As Voted By Our Followers: #15: Visenya Targaryen (99 Votes)

top 20 pre-asoiaf characters as voted by our followers: → #15: visenya targaryen (99 votes)

Visenya, eldest of the three siblings, was as much a warrior as Aegon himself, as comfortable in ringmail as in silk. She carried the Valyrian longsword Dark Sister, and was skilled in its use, having trained beside her brother since childhood. Though possessed of the silver-gold hair and purple eyes of Valyria, hers was a harsh, austere beauty. Even those who loved her best found Visenya stern, serious, unforgiving, and some said that she played with poisons and dabbled in dark sorceries.

A Clash of Kings Queens

House of the Dragon + in memoriam: Lucerys Velaryon

Ser Kevan remembered the girl she once had been, so full of life and mischief. And when she’d flowered, ah… had there ever been a maid so sweet to look upon?

young cersei lannister (requested by anonymous)

Every girl in the Seven Kingdoms dreamed of him, but he was mine by oath. And when I finally saw him on my wedding day in the Sept of Baelor, lean and fierce and black bearded it was the happiest moment of my life. And that night he crawled into my bed, stinking of wine, and did he what he did, what little he could do. And whispered in my ear “Lyanna.” Your sister was a corpse and I was a living girl, and he loved her more than me.

The boy-king Ronnel Arryn and his mother Sharra Arryn, his Queen Regent, had ruled over the Kingdom of the Vale during the War of Conquest. Sharra was considered one of the most beautiful women of Westeros. When Aegon sought to conquer the Seven Kingdoms, she offered him her hand in marriage if he would declare Ronnel his heir. He refused, and in the battles that came after, Sharra stood firm. The Arryn fleet won against Targaryen ships at the Battle of Gulltown. In retaliation, Aegon sent his sister-wife Visenya. Riding Vhagar, her dragon, Visenya burned the Arryn fleet at anchor. Sharra refused to bend the knee. She amassed the strength of the Vale at the Bloody Gate, expecting an onslaught from the Targaryens. However, defeat was not in blood but in coercion: through the boy-king himself. With the army diverted from the Eyrie, Visenya flew Vhagar into the very heart of the stronghold. Sharra returned to her son sitting on Visenya’s lap, enchanted by the sight of Vhagar in the courtyard. Sharra bent the knee, and the Eyrie fell without a fight.

(with Rosamund Pike as Visenya Targaryen.)