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people will always blame alicent and rhaenyra or even daemon for sparking the start of the civil war but at the end of the day it will always come back to viserys and his cowardly decisions. as soon as he allowed himself to be bullied to remarry and to have more kids again, he officially sewed the seeds together for future conflict after his death no matter who he married. like if he had married laena instead of alicent and had sons with her, would the outcome have been so different? do you think rhaenys and corlys would have stood on the sidelines and watched their grandson get passed over? especially after rhaenyra had illegitimate sons that weren't even laenors? that they wouldn't have petitioned their own dance? the snake will always eat its own tail for power, and viserys doomed rhaenyra to her death with his own

The Conqueror and his Sisters.

Drawing by my friend. In case anyone wants to repost it, they ask not to credit or link to the original post, thanks! Close-up because Tumblr shrinks pictures.

Both in fanworks and official works Aegon the Conqueror often appears as this godlike hypermasculine warlord ideal, and later generations in-universe reference a blank and semi-legendary hero with no apparent personality so anyone can project whatever they like. But of the things we do know, he was a dragon dreamer, a melancholic figure who participated in warfare but left governance and other practical matters to his sisters, Rhaenys and Visenya. We imagine that these two were the ones that kept most things running, with Aegon as the face of the operation.

And now, according to the semi-canon source that is House of the Dragon, we know that if Aegon II can fit in the Conqueror's armour he would not have been especially big or tall! We saw people mention that it hung loose on him, but to us it appeared that it was a little tight. So here they are. (Of course Maegor inherited his frame from Visenya.)