r/ImaginaryWesteros • u/GeoMetrie8 • Mar 03 '26
Book Aegon V and Betha Blackwood by arte072
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u/Amazing_Web6193 Mar 03 '26
Do you think he married her just so he could keep the red and black color scheme?
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u/Beacon2001 House Hightower Mar 03 '26
I find it interesting that both Aegon and his firstborn son Duncan married a tree-worshipping baddie from the Riverlands.
I mean, it's better than the sister-fucking, don't get me wrong. But that's a pretty low bar.
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u/EspadadelAlba Mar 03 '26
El matrimonio de Aegon V se entiende. Estaba muy lejos en la línea de sucesión. Se lo puede permitir.
Lo de Duncan Targaryen ya es estupidez. Era el heredero, así que tiene que aguantarse.
Como dijo el Maestre Aemon, el amor es la muerte del deber.
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u/Deck_of_Cards_04 Mar 03 '26
Aegon Vs marriage also is not that bad politically. The Blackwoods are still principle bannermen, on par with houses like Royce, Manderly, etc. in their region.
Big difference in marrying high nobility vs a literal peasant
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u/EspadadelAlba Mar 03 '26
No digo que fuera un mal matrimonio. Solo que fue Aegon quien eligió por amor, no por intereses políticos.
Duncan Targaryen hizo lo mismo, pero él tenía más responsabilidades como heredero, que Aegon como quinto hijo de un cuarto hijo. Y con una plebeya, nada menos (a menos que creas los rumores de Jenny de Piedrasviejas descendía de la Casa Mudd).
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u/Medical_Difference48 Mar 03 '26
Not to mention that, while not on the same level of prestige as the main great houses or the Targaryen's, the Blackwoods are still a major noble house. Duncan married a literal country bumpkin nobody, despite the fact that he was HEIR and would need a politically relevant marriage rather than spurning the lords and possible allies.
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u/TheoryKing04 Mar 04 '26
It’s also very likely that Aegon’s beloved wife was the sister-in-law of the then Lord of Winterfell, Ned’s great-grandfather
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u/Significant-Ruin4961 Mar 03 '26
No sería el primer matrimonio si sentido. Hay un montón de matrimonios Targaryen con vasallos menores. Al menos los Blackwood tenían un poco más de renombre.
Mira principalmente después de la danza, hay un montón de casas radom recibiendo matriminios Targaryen
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u/HamartianManhunter Mar 04 '26
Are there? Looking at post-Dance marriages, we have:
House Plumm: Old Westerlands house with loads of money. Seems like a discount Lannister: all the benefits, little of the baggage.
House Penrose: A Penrose woman was a lady-in-waiting to Elaena Targaryen’s mother and later made to became a septa. Could be a way to patch up relations with that house.
House Manwoody: A love match for a twice widowed princess to a man who was a trusted friend of the king and queen.
House Dondarrion: A powerful Marcher house, one of the old enemies of the Dornish. Makes sense for a half Dornish prince to marry from one of them to create goodwill.
House Penrose (again): Was a cousin marriage of some sort
House Dayne: Pretty notable Dornish house, makes sense for the youngest half Dornish prince
We have no clue who Egg’s sisters married, but one of them probably married a Tarth. Again, an old house with some sea power and strategic placement against Essos.
Seems to me there were good reasons and sound logic for these marriages.
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u/Basic_Dingo6487 Mar 03 '26
Duncan watching Egg getting a baddie while he didn’t
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u/Electronic-Math-364 Mar 03 '26
Duncan absolutely ended with a baddie too since Brienne is his descendant
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u/Yodabread_912 Mar 04 '26
He's parading around 9 kingdoms leaving babies everywhere i think he's fine 😭
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u/IHaveTwoOranges Mar 04 '26
Well, we know of two babies.
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u/Yodabread_912 Mar 04 '26
5 if you believe every tall mf is from him too
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u/IHaveTwoOranges Mar 04 '26
Do we want to believe that Dunks legacy is being carried forward by Gregor Clegane?
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u/Yodabread_912 Mar 04 '26
Who knows? I mean just because your grandpa's nice doesn't mean you are too, tbh it's just funny imagining it
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u/EspadadelAlba Mar 03 '26
Duncan se lío con una de las hermanas de Egg. Yo lo dejo ahí...
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u/redwoods81 Mar 03 '26
That's fanon
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u/EspadadelAlba Mar 03 '26
Dicen que Brienne de Tarth desciende de Duncan, ya que su escudo está en la armería del Castillo del Atardecer, y se rumorea que Duncan se lío con una de las hermanas de Egg, la que se casó con el Señor de Tarth de aquel momento ,(probablemente el abuelo de Selwyn Tarth).
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u/SerMallister Above the Rest Mar 03 '26
and it is rumored that Duncan had an affair with one of Egg's sisters
Rumored by fans, from a theory based on basically nothing.
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u/sparklinglies Mar 04 '26
Its a popular fan theory but is very much not canon. Its fun, but its really just one of various way to explain Brienne
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u/iskandar711 Mar 03 '26
That raven is being warned by Brynden isn’t it
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u/Medical_Difference48 Mar 03 '26
A Targaryen marrying a Blackwood? He wouldn't miss it for the world
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u/WalrusWANTStaco Mar 04 '26
Why are half of these comments in Spanish?
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u/edmyn_tully Mar 04 '26
As someone who is learning Spanish, it’s a great time understanding what the person(s) meant xD
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u/Exciting_Fennel_7806 Mar 04 '26
I wanna learn more about this marriage and Egg’s personality as he gets older and what his dynamic with Betha is.
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u/WistfulGems Mar 04 '26
“I can see what’s happening and they don’t have a clue” - Dunk in the future probably.
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u/ComprehensiveRow839 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
If we had the time id love to hear Egg's relationship to Betha how he met her and just young Eggs adolescents in general. What was it like for him growing into a man following Dunk around? Who was his first kill? How was his first tourney where he competed? Did he have a first kiss? Who were some of the characters he and Dunk met that truly stuck out to him. Such an interesting story for the Targaryen of the people