The Heir of the Dragon: A Rhaenyra Targaryen Quest

[UrbanAvena]

There is a golden path for that that would save us many headaches...

Let's also recruit and befriend Mysaria, besides being a very competent and loyal agent it would be a tremendous power move to befriend both of our dear Uncle Ex's... And then we play matchmakers so that Alys and Mysarya end up together, what could go wrong?

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This is a mad scheme I whole-heartedly approve! Why not join the most effective mundane spymaster in Westeros of the era with the Strongest known woodswitch of the generation. What could go wrong?

/hj

 

[Somic]

Alysaria as a power couple is something I hadn't known I wanted to see, damn

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I see what you did there!

of the generation.

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See, I'm pretty sure she's not of this generation. She said many assume her to be a daughter of Lyonel Strong... which, to me, implies that she's much older than she looks.

 

[Fanhunter696]

This is a mad scheme I whole-heartedly approve! Why not join the most effective mundane spymaster in Westeros of the era with the Strongest known woodswitch of the generation. What could go wrong?

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Hey the old Spymaster dilemma... If you can trust them, they're not very good at their job, and if they're very good at their job, you can't trust them...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xIxrx5i1To&ab_channel=ParadoxInteractive

Besides that, even if it pains me to admit it, the best mundane spymaster of the era is Larys Strong (and there is no way I want this psychopathic creep near us), don't get me wrong, Mysaria is pretty great as well, just not as good as him...

 

[UrbanAvena]

Besides that, even if it pains me to admit it, the best mundane spymaster of the era is Larys Strong (and there is no way I want this psychopathic creep near us), don't get me wrong, Mysaria is pretty great as well, just not as good as him...

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I read a particularly funny crack fic once and can not stop from always interpreting him as magical since.

 

[Simon_Jester]

Aemma was not asked for consent. But the decision was also not on Mellos. Frankly, that is just coping. If we really want to hold someone accountable for what happened to our mother, it would have had to have been Viserys. He made the decision, so we would have had to hold him accountable. Well, we decided to go a different path. So going after Mellos for that now seems like a cheap cop-out.

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To be clear, I'm not "holding Mellos accountable" in the sense of "he killed mom." I'm observing that he seems to have a recurring pattern of being at best mediocre as a physician even by medieval standards.

It sounds like Aemma died, not because Mellos chose for Aemma to die, but because Mellos' lack of skill created a situation where Mellos' belief was that he had no realistic choice but to perform a fatal-on-Aemma C-section to save the baby.

Viserys is losing fingers, not because Mellos is poisoning him or anything along those lines, but because Mellos is applying ineffective treatments due to his ignorance.

To me, this isn't about finding someone to behead for the crime of Queen Aemma's death. It's about getting Mellos out of a position where he can get more members of the royal family killed by giving bad medical advice. Rhaenyra doesn't have to be a great scholar herself, or to somehow project "you literally murdered my mom" onto a specific bad doctor, in order to understand the difference between a good doctor and a bad doctor and to prefer good ones to bad ones.

Alys is spooky. I'm curious about her, but she appears to be dangerous as all hell, and also to have us at a disadvantage because we paid for the cool drugs with the inability to remember what happened between us.

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Letting sorceresses deliver your children or be closely involved in the pregnancy and birth in general is one of those things you think twice about in a setting like A Song of Ice and Fire unless you're very confident you have a clear idea of what the sorceress' agenda is and how it may impact things.

 

[Husr]

Letting sorceresses deliver your children or be closely involved in the pregnancy and birth in general is one of those things you think twice about in a setting like A Song of Ice and Fire unless you're very confident you have a clear idea of what the sorceress' agenda is and how it may impact things.

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I mean you could argue it ultimately worked out for Dany considering the dragons, but Rhaenyra already has a dragon, so I wouldn't consider it a particularly worthwhile tradeoff.

 

[Fanhunter696]

Letting sorceresses deliver your children or be closely involved in the pregnancy and birth in general is one of those things you think twice about in a setting like A Song of Ice and Fire unless you're very confident you have a clear idea of what the sorceress' agenda is and how it may impact things.

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Hey, by all accounts Mirri despite being a sorceress and knower of the higher mysteries she acted as midwife, healer and in general outstanding member of the community for decades in that village...

So.as long as the sorceress doesn't actively hate you and wants revenge on you things are likely to work in the end.

 

[Simon_Jester]

Hey, by all accounts Mirri despite being a sorceress and knower of the higher mysteries she acted as midwife, healer and in general outstanding member of the community for decades in that village...

So.as long as the sorceress doesn't actively hate you and wants revenge on you things are likely to work in the end.

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True, but I'm also thinking of other known practitioners of magic in Westeros. A lot of kinds of magic involve shaping people in ways that make them special, but at a price or towards an agenda, to the point where we really probably are better off if Rhaenyra's firstborn doesn't have those kinds of strings attached.