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.

" The dance of dragons isn't about misogyny"

Literally any character who chooses Aegon over Rhaenyra for ruler : she's a woman and he's a man.

I don't get why most of Team Green like Aemond so much. Like, why?

Most of TG stans hate Daemon and Aemond is just a less cool copy of him. Everything that is bad about Daemon, Aemond takes It to the extreme.

–Daemon is cruel and sadistic? Aemond kill every single member of House Strong in a tantrum.

–Daemon is "bad to women"? (Canon Daemon only ever insulted his first wife) Aemond calls women and mothers, weak, he calls Rhaenyra a whore, he takes Alys as the spoils of war.

–Daemon is chaotic and a mad man? Aemond burned the Riverlands in another tantrum.

Even the so called "neutrals" or "team smallfolk" seem to like him despite how many innocent smallfolk he kills.

You can like him, I like villians more than heroes normally, but stop acting as if he is better and right or justified.

It's been 55 days and 75 years

In your opinion, why rhaenyra said that jace and baela' sons will inherit the Iron Throne? I know she didn't said it in a malicious way but I still don't understand why she underline "son" instead of "children" like viserys did in the conversation with Corlys

I don't think it's that deep. I think Rhaenyra chose to be more careful and conservative with her wording. For some reason, Rhaenys wasn't written to be supportive of Rhaenyra when she was named heir, so, how could she be sure she'd be supportive of Jace and Baela's future daughter.

As for Jace, he is being raised to support his mother and respect the women around him, so he wouldn't care about the gender of his heir. Neither would Baela, after all, she's a woman who was raised by Rhaenys and Rhaenyra.

At the end of the day, I believe that Rhaenyra doesn't actually care about whether Jace's heir is a daughter or a son and neither would Jace.

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.