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HOUSE TARGARYEN ♔ the black brides

Elinor Costayne Lady Elinor Costayne was the youngest of the three Black Brides, who had been married to Ser Theo Bolling, and had birthed him three children. Ser Theo had been arrested by the kingsguard, accused of conspiring with Dowager Queen Alyssa Velaryon, and executed - all on the same day. Elinor, now nineteen years of age, was summoned to marry Maegor two weeks later. Elinor became pregnant with Maegor’s child, and she birthed an eyeless child with small wings. Elinor would survive Maegor’s reign.

Rhaena Targaryen When Prince Aegon died in 43 AC, Rhaena became a widow. Rhaena took refuge on Fair Isle, under the protection of Lord Farman, who hid her and her daughters. It was Tyanna, one of Maegor’s queens, who found them. In 47 AC, Rhaena was forced to wed Maegor. When Rhaena learned that her youngest brother, Prince Jaehaerys, was claiming the throne for himself, she fled King’s Landing on her dragon Dreamfyre, stealing Blackfyre away as her king and husband slept, to join Jaehaerys’s cause.

Jeyne Westerling Tall and willowy, Lady Jeyne was a renowned beauty and had been wed to Lord Alyn Tarbeck, who died with the rebels at the Battle Beneath the Gods Eye.Jeyne was being courted by the son of the Lord of Casterly Rock when King Maegor I sent for her to be wed to him along with Lady Elinor Costayne and Princess Rhaena Targaryen in a single ceremony. In 47 AC she was with child, but three moons before the child was due her labor began, and from her womb came another stillborn monster. She did not survive the child for long.

The Seven Wives of Maegor the Cruel 

 Ceryse Hightower, died of a mysterious illness; Alys Harroway, tortured to death by Tyanna of the Tower; Tyanna of the Tower herself, mistress of whispers, executed by Maegor’s own hand. The Black Brides, three women of proven fertility taken in a single ceremony: Elinor Costayne, one of the two to survive his reign; Jeyne Westerling, who died shortly after birthing a stillborn and Princess Rhaena Targaryen, who stole Blackfyre and saw her brother Jaehaerys crowned.

The Black Brides of Maegor the Cruel: Elinor Costayne, Rhaena Targaryen, and Jeyne Westerling

I think Elinor becoming one of the Seven Speakers for the Targaryen Doctrine of Exceptionalism for Jaehaerys after being married to Maegor is wild. I'll accept her denouncing her nobility and becoming Mother Elinor but preaching the superiority of Targaryens... There were probably some threats made or implied. She probably secretly hated Targaryens the rest of her life and that's why she and Rhaena were never cool.

I went a little overboard with Elinor's hair but I think these all came out alright.

The black brides

Elinor Costayne

Wife to Theo Bolling and King Maegor. One of Maegor’s Black Brides.