[center][color=DE1846][b][u][h1]The Faith and The Fury[/h1][/u][/b][/color]
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[h3][b][color=DE1846]Fire and Blood[/color][/b][/h3][/center]

[h3][b][color=DE1846]Recent History:[/color][/b][/h3]
[indent]The golden age of the Targaryen Dynasty has passed, of that there can be no doubt. Where once they ruled with fire and blood, now they must contend with the politics and machinations of mortal men to maintain their hold on the Seven Kingdoms.

 

No more obvious a sign of these times can be found than the fates of two of the House’s treasured daughters. Daena Targaryen has long been regarded as a forceful, if erratic, presence at Court. She is a patron of many arts, a consummate athlete in a way that many of her fellow women could never be allowed to be and a charismatic figurehead for many. She is also capricious, prone to flights of fancy and has never dealt well with the dreaded word ‘no.’ As a woman she has perhaps benefitted most from the degradation of her cousin, the King, for her own varied indiscretions are little and less compared to his own, and at times many have pondered the lost chance of the throne passing down the female line in this case. Of her sisters, Daena was perhaps the more distant from their Uncle Viserys, with clearer memories of her father and closer in age to her brother Daeron, both of whom she admired. Her relationship with her other brother, Baelor, was more strained even from the start and did not grow closer as they were betrothed to each other. Their marriage was marked by unhappiness, as Baelor, deeply devout and consumed by his obsession with the Faith of the Seven, refused to consummate the union. In protest, Daena abandoned her customary black clothing, worn in tribute to her father,and began dressing solely in white. She vowed not to wear any other color until she had been properly bedded, hoping to shame her husband into action. But her efforts were futile; Baelor found her appearance in white even more pleasing, believing it made her seem pure and innocent.

King Daeron I died in Dorne in 161 AC, and Baelor succeeded him on the Iron Throne. Early in his reign, Baelor persuaded the High Septon to annul his marriage to Daena, citing its lack of consummation. He then had Daena and her two sisters confined to separate apartments within the Red Keep. These chambers soon came to be known as the Maidenvault, intended to shield Baelor—and the men of his court—from temptation and "mortal lusts."

During the ten years she spent in the Maidenvault, Daena earned the nickname the Defiant, as she proved the most rebellious of the sisters. She escaped confinement three times, disguising herself as a servant or one of the smallfolk. Toward the end of Baelor’s reign, Daena became pregnant. In late 170 AC, she gave birth to a bastard son, whom she named Daemon, after her grandfather, Prince Daemon Targaryen.

Daena refused to reveal the identity of the child’s father, though rumors pointed to her cousin, Prince Aegon. The birth of Daena’s son prompted King Baelor I to undertake a prolonged fast. For forty days, he consumed nothing but water and a small amount of bread. On the forty-first day, he was found collapsed before the altar of the Mother.

After Baelor’s death in 171 AC, some among the smallfolk and nobility argued that the Iron Throne should pass to Daena, as the eldest surviving child of King Aegon III Targaryen. However, her decade of confinement in the Maidenvault had left her and her sisters politically isolated and without influential supporters. In addition, the bitter memory of the Dance of the Dragons and the reign of Rhaenyra Targaryen, the last woman to claim the throne, made many hesitant to accept a ruling queen.

Daena’s reputation also worked against her. Her defiant nature, her refusal to name the father of her bastard son born the year before, and the perception of her as wild and ungovernable led many to question her suitability for rule. The precedents set by the Great Council of 101 AC and the civil war that followed were cited, and the claims of Daena and her sisters were dismissed.

Daena has spent the the reign of her uncle and cousin as one of the most famed members of court. Unlike the long run of Aegon's mistresses, Daena does not claw and fight for influence, she acts as it is owed to her, and her confidence wins her great charisma and favour. 

 The older of her two younger sisters, Rhaena, is in many ways her opposite. While she draws much attention at court for her beauty and skill at the arts, she is meek in her manner and exceedingly pious, spending as much time with the clergy as she does the court. She is not entirely without her family fire, however, a face she has rarely shown and almost always when protesting some terrible act of her cousin, usually at the expense of herself or her sisters. While the three daughters of Aegon Dragonsbane may not be close in spirit, they lived for years almost entirely in each other’s company and while they may bicker terribly, they are also bonded closer than most sisters.

Recent events have proven to involve Rhaena more than most would have thought, however, for at many a knightly tournament of late she seems to have been favouring the company of the ladies and sers of the Vale, renown as they are for their great piety and chivalry. Most dramatically, at the wedding of her youngest sister, a hotheaded Baratheon declared her the Queen of Love and Beauty in place of her sister after winning the affair, a move that was taken poorly by the three sisters, although brought great amusement to the King.[/indent]

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