Hello, In A Recent Post You Mentioned That If You Were Aegon IV You Would Want To Start Blackfyre Rebellions

Hello, in a recent post you mentioned that if you were Aegon IV you would want to start Blackfyre rebellions due to hatred of Daeron II. Why did Aegon despise Daeron so much?

Plenty of reasons.

Certainly the simplest is that Daeron was the living embodiment of his despised marriage to Naerys Targaryen. Aegon made no bones about how much he disliked the marriage, and having Daeron around let him know it still existed. Worse, as Aegon’s heir, that elevated the marriage in importance over his many flings or lovers.

Let’s also not forget that Daeron was the polar opposite of Aegon. Daeron was an intellectual who shunned physicality, while Aegon was well-regarded in his youth as a horseman, hunter, dancer, and so on.

The Dornish question also loomed large over everything. Aegon openly courted war with the Dornish and tried to go to war three times. Daeron, this point the Crown Prince, stopped the first politically, and the second were lost via a storm that sank the fleet and Aegon’s wildfire siege engines falling over, setting fire to the Kingswood. Aegon actively fought in Daeron’s war, he would have experienced the highs of the successful conquest and the lows of Daeron I’s murder and Baelor’s pardoning. Daeron courting the faction of his wife would be seen as just shy of treasonous to Aegon IV.

Thanks for the question, Super.

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i think it’s so fun that westeros is not remotely an imperial or political or trade power outside of westeros and no one gives a shit about it and everyone in essos thinks of it as an irrelevant backwater, which it is. that scene when xaro gives dany the big map and is like and westeros is … somewhere off to the side over there somewhere i don’t know who gives a shit. you should go there. take your ass back to nebraska

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