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fictonrantsworld · 9 months

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Why was Jaeherys the Conciliator so against a woman inheriting the iron throne. like what happened during his reign and childhood lol.

After maegors rule ended, it was his mother queen alyssa who was his regent wasnt she(yes,robar too,but) and he also greatly took on his wife alysannes advice on things, especialy early on during his reign. so my point is what happened in between his 50 yr reign that made him against rhaenys being queen?

There was a theory i heard that it was wouldve been hypocritical if he chose rhaenys as heir since it would mean his reign and his descendants reign would ve in danger since the people can say that princess aerea shouldve been queen,instead of jaeherys.

But that theory is rubbish considering that even though aerea was aegon the uncrowned's eldest heir(jaeherys's older brothers first child) and technically shouldve gotten the crown according to the laws of westeros(see even in westerosi culture allowed women to rule land,if they were no other brothers ofcourse). Im pretty sure jaeherys's claim was stronger. Yes, even though according to the laws of westeros the crown shouldve gone to her or her mother rhaena. But in jaeherys's case, he got the throne back through rebellion. Yes, technucalky he never fought in it,cos he was too young, but leal lords started supporting him after maegor started going more coo coo during his reign. They never supported rhaena cos she was still one of maegors queens.

When maegor finally died the lords who fought for jaeherys ofcourse wanted him to take the iron throne cos theyve been fighting for him.

Alright thats fine also, ...spoiler for fire and blood...aerea doesnt even live long enough to have children so they can fight for their rights and her sister rhaelle became a septa so like...

Now maybe he was just being a sexist.

Nah that answer is too simple, bc jaeherys,though traditionist still had female heirs when he just became king it was aerea. After, his daughter,daenerys was born(technically he had a son b4 but died in the crib),she also became an heir,untill aemon was born. So technically hes okay with a girl heir,but i suppose he was still young then and thought that he would definetely have sons.

So like back to my point he had strong women by his side like alysanne so...

Omg is it bc rhaenys kinda reminded him of his unuly daughters.

Like i know baelon technically became heir b4 viserra and im pretty sure the saera situation. Maybe he looked at alyssa s alusive nature and his other daughters being spoiled brats and thought nope.

But🤚guys i have a theory....

So u know it was mentioned in fire and blood, that the reason viserys insisted on rhaenyra staying as heir was because of love. But the show incorporated him as a dreamer and the show also corporated that the targaryen kings knew about the song of ice and fire. What if viserys chose rhaenyra bc he fuzzily foresaw that the prince that was promised came from rhaenyras line.

It has a lot plotholes i know,like why didnt he just make rhaenyra and aegon marry each other(since in the book im pretty sure theyre only like 8 or 9 yrs apart)

But with this theory, with jaeherys naming baelon heir, what if he too foresaw that it was baelon's and not aemons line that brought the prophecy to fruitition.

But alas why didnt he tell alysanne this,cos my girl literally fought,untill her dying breath for rhaenys to be made queen.

But i suppose the logical reasoning as to why baelon was chosen as heir is that though jaeherys was a good king,george needed a reason for the dance of the dragons to ignite, even though it will happen literally a generation later... So he made baelon his heir.

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