Hmmm. What you're saying is, if we find accord with Laenor and Rhaenys (and Laena?), then we don't actually have to give power to Corlys? That would be pretty neat if we could accomplish that. That said, with the near-stranglehold on trade in King's Landing, and with whatever pull he might have on his family, the personal drama there could create a large splash of strife, rather than mending wounds.
Missed this, and I doubt this will happen given that GRRM/ASOIAF and sensible dynastic practices are a bit of a wash, but the obvious real world choice is that the heir to the throne takes a double barreled house name House Targaryen-Velyaron to distinguish themselves from the Velyarons on Driftmark and the Targaryen's elsewhere in the world.
It's not really a thing in Westeros, though. Even Joffrey, who had himself styled "of the Houses Baratheon and Lannister", still didn't take a double-barred name. Hell, even IRL it's not really a thing. Charles V's ancestral pride lay with the House of Burgundy and its many accomplishments over a short span of time, the house of his mother, but he was still Charles V of Austria/Habsburg (the House of Habsburg was usually called "Austria" at that time). In reverse, while you often find the matrilinearily continued House of Habsburg after Maria Theresia being called "Habsburg-Lorraine", yeah well, most people still just say Habsburg. So those "sensible dynastical practices" weren't even that much of a thing IRL, either.
At least in my ideal solutions. Hell, what is Driftmark compared to the Realm? And yet for that sake we should include the Velaryon name? As I have said before, at best I would be amicable to an inverse of the canon solution (so Targaryen as default name for the kids, and whoever gets to inherit Driftmark takes on the Velaryon name).To be fair, Habsburg-Lorraine was the example I was going to name and I do accept the counter argument
Based and Rhaenyra pilled tbh
We can get to know Qoren! And we know that he doesn't want war c:
He's a dornish schemer. Best case he'll want a more intimate relationship than our romance with alicent allows, worst case he'll steal our throne.
Huh? Why? How'd you come to that conclusion? We know literally nothing about what he expects from the relationship itself, only the political part.
Same as above, I am confuse. In what way can he steal our throne? The Realm would want to obey him even less than us lmao
Its not an ASOIAF fanfic thread without at least one (1) resident Dorne hater. I've yet to figure out who the Bracken/Blackwood fans are but I've got my eye out...
...the Brackens have fans? Like, way I always experienced it, it's always very one-sided with the Blackwoods being seen (and, truthfully, written) as the cooler house.
Eh, forgot about those but tbh for the historic/political/military weight and imporance they are suposed to have, they are in fact eay too small. But at least the Iron Islands are settled!
I don't hate dorne, i just don't trust Qoren to be the perfect option some people her think he is. Oberyn is one of my favorite male characters even.
They do exist, they do exist. One of them even wrote a fanfic once. Which uh, not linking to it was fucking weird.
