Daenerys Was The Key

Daenerys was the Key

Not for him, thought Tyrion, not for the Nine Mages, nor Baelor the Blessed, nor any of the others...till Daenerys.

This quote is from an early draft of ADWD back when it was still combined with AFFC. Just because it didn't make it to the final draft doesn't mean that it's not still true. By the way, the him is Maelys Blackfyre, who, in the early drafts, killed his son in a blood sacrifice to hatch dragon eggs.

After the Dance of the Dragons and the death of the last dragon hatchling, attempts were made by the Targaryens to bring back the dragons. First was sanctioned by Aegon III, who had mages (the nine from the quote) from Essos brought to KL to try to hatch some eggs with their magic; clearly they failed. Baelor the Blessed prayed over his dragon egg for a year to try and make it hatch.

The next recorded attempt was by Aegon V. After Aegon's reforms to better the lives of the smallfolk, the lords began to get restless and unhappy. This, compounded with the Baratheons revolting over Duncan's marriage to Jenny of Oldstones, caused Aegon to attempt to bring back the dragons in order to keep the lords in check. Aegon attempted to hatch the dragons using wildfire and mages at Summerhall, causing the deaths of almost the entire family, with the exception of Aerys, Rhaella, and the newborn Rhaegar. The eggs did not hatch. Aerys the Mad also attempted to use wildfire to hatch eggs, with the same results.

It wasn't until Daenerys Targaryen that dragons were brought back into the world. And it wasn't because of a fire, a blood sacrifice, or a magic ritual, it was because of her. There was plenty of fire at Summerhall and in KL, yet the eggs didn't hatch. Much blood was spilt at Summerhall, much of it king's blood, yet the eggs didn't hatch. The mages used magic rituals and it could be argued Baelor's prayers were an attempt at a ritual, yet the eggs didn't hatch. In the original draft, Maelys burned his son alive, yet the eggs still didn't hatch.

Daenerys is the one component missing from the past attempts, she is the key.

The whole point of the scene in A Game of Thrones where Daenerys hatches the dragons is that she makes up the magic as she goes along; she is someone who really might do anything. (George R. R. Martin)

There it is from the man himself: Dany is the reason the eggs hatched. If it had been anyone else, not Jon Snow nor Young Griff not any other character in ASOIAF, the eggs wouldn't have hatched. She was the key for the ritual to work, she is the Mother of Dragons, and no one else could have replaced her.

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Encontré esto en la etiqueta #anti rhaenicent. Es realmente extraño cómo Rhaenyra siempre es la mala para esta gente. Alicent es siempre la "víctima" y rhaenyra siempre es la "mocosa" para ellos.

Unfortunately I don't know enough Spanish to answer in it, I'm so sorry about that.

Yeah, I actually blocked that poster a while back lmao. I find it interesting that Alicent stans think Rhaenyra is a "spoiled brat" while Alicent is also in a position of massive privilege, and her children are in the same positions Rhaenyra is in during the first episode.

Any complaints about her being "ungrateful" could apply to Alicent. Rhaenyra is upset about how her father doesn't love her as much as he would a son and how her father only made her heir to spite Daemon. Alicent is also upset about how her father doesn't view her as equal to his sons and only uses her as a political pawn. Both are girls who have never wanted for any material thing, their families have power and protection.

A lot of them say Rhaenyra should be grateful for being able to choose her husband, I disagree. Being allowed to pick her husband came with a lot of unspoken and spoken restrictions. The first of which is that the man had to meet her father's expectations, meaning if she had asked to marry Daemon, she would have been refused, even without the brothel incident. She also was still being forced to marry, no matter the choice.

TG stans seem to think that Rhaenyra should have just accepted the fact that she was being forced to marry, as if it's not something she should have a say in. They're obsessed with enforcing modern standards on her until that point (ie she's not feminist enough, she isn't a marxist, etc). Apparently it's wrong for Rhaenyra to want to not be sold by her father in marriage, even if she gets to pick the buyer. That's not actually a privilege, women like Jeyne Arryn, who are able to refuse marriage all together, are the ones with the true privilege.

Rhaenyra is also criticized for not being happy or at least content in her marriage to Laenor. A marriage both she and Laenor were forced into and one neither of them could ever deride satisfaction and happiness from. Laenor is never criticized for being unhappy, but for some reason (misogyny), Rhaenyra is the one who has to live in misery, while Laenor can try to find happiness elsewhere.

Alicent is somehow still a perfect victim, even though she's the second most powerful person in the realm. As queen consort she has more privilege than anyone other than Viserys himself. Yet she is somehow still a perpetual victim, even though she has more power over her life than Rhaenyra. Rhaenyra is privileged, yes, but so are Alicent and her children. Rhaenyra being unhappy being a victim of the patriarchy and actually fighting for her happiness don't make her a "brat".

it was really a bad take that rhaenyra used "sons" in her conversation with rhaenys, if viserys used "childrens" in her conversation with corlys why didn't she use it too? and this argument about SONS involving all genders is kind of dumb since like I said viserys used CHILDRENS and a common person will always understand sons-male, and it's sad because this scene will always be used as an argument about how rhaenyra only cares with her right as a woman to inherit something. I don't know if it's the fault of the script and its incoherence or if it was the screenwriter wanting to show how "hypocritical" Rhaenya is

Condal has always been very green leaning. The recent interview where he said we'd change sides (as if) after seeing season two makes me honestly think he was trying to discredit Rhaenyra.

The constant attempts by the show to undermine her claim and validity are so annoying. Making her be so inactive in KL (at least on screen), choosing to make the Velaryon boys' legitimacy a bigger deal than it is in the book, and trying to make us feel bad for how she treated Alicent after Viserys married her (again, as if) just show how little Condal actually cares about telling the true story of the Dance.

The fact that he's constantly trying to defend the greens (including Aegon the rapist) is very telling. He and Hess spend so much time trying to make them more sympathetic while demonizing the blacks for no reason. They just want to detract from the fact that misogyny (specifically against Rhaenyra) is the true issue of the Dance. They ruin and abuse the gray morality of GRRM by trying to remove the obvious antagonists of the story, the greens.

Basically, yeah I'd totally believe that Condal was trying to undermine Rhaenyra and make her out to be a hypocrite (how feminist am I right?) I hate basically all of his and Hess' decisions regarding the story. They should try writing their own original story instead of butchering Rhaenyra and her story. Because it is her story, not Alicent's, it belongs to Rhaenyra and her children.

"It's all about who's your favorite war criminal"

Sure, but yknow what? Rhaenyra didn't want to be a war criminal. She was forced into a war she wanted no part in by the stupidity and spitefulness of her half-brother. She wasn't even the one who wanted BnC to happen; Daemon was the one who organized that. She was ready to give up and end the war after her sons death, as any grieving mother would.

Then, they killed her aunt. Rhaenys was trapped and murdered unfairly in a fight. If it had been one versus one, she would've won. It is only because of Aemond and Vhagar that the war even HAPPENED, and only because of them the war continued. TG says she was cruel for not accepting the halfway ruling Alicent offered, but by then, her sons had taken almost everything from Rhaenyra. Lucerys, Jacaerys, Rhaenys, and she didn't even get to live to see Viserys come back alive.

Then she lived through the death of her other son, and Daemon. All she had left was Aegon III. Baela? Captured. Rhaena? Safe, in the Vale. Everyone else she loved was dead by that point; and then she was betrayed, and eventually murdered by her usurper of a half brother.

Rhaenyra is a victim and winner of the war, a tragedy and a victory. Not an "usurper" or "whore". She is the Black Queen.

Kinda ironic Rhaenyra gets dubbed "Maegor the Cruel with Tits", when one of his most abominable deeds was supposed to be killing his nephew- Aegon the Uncrowned- on a much smaller dragon, which is exactly what Aemond did to Nyra's child.

Meanwhile Aemond gets a nickname and a statue out of it.