#*targaryen

Daena was wild almost from birth. She was strong, beautiful, and willful. She was an expert horsewoman and also a hunter and a fine archer with her short recurved bow. She had a a fearless “I’ll dare anything” smile. During her time of confinement at the Maidenvault, Daena escaped several times and had an affair with her cousin Prince Aegon, despite his marriage to his own sister-wife Naerys. When she became pregnant she refused to name the father and became known as “Daena the Defiant.” Rhaena was the second daughter of King Aegon III Targaryen and Queen Daenaera Velaryon. Two years younger than Daena, Rhaena was just as lovely as her sister, but hers was a softer, sweeter, more feminine beauty. Where Daena was willful, wild, and adventurous, Rhaena was dutiful, meek, and passive. She loved lace and gold trim and often embroidered depictions of faith on her clothing. Rhaena, unlike her two sisters, never chaffed at her confinement. She was almost as pious as her brother Baelor, and eventually became a septa. Elaena lived a much longer life than her sister Daena, and a much more tumultuous one than her sister Rhaena. Although Elaena had three husbands during her lifetime, the great love of her life was her cousin, Lord Alyn Velaryon. She gave birth to two bastard children by him, the twins Jon and Jeyne Waters. Elaena had hoped to marry Alyn, but he was lost at sea. She would go on to marry three times, first to Lord Ossifer Plumm who died on their wedding night, then Lord Ronnel Penrose. He sat on the king’s small council as master of coin; but it was widely known that Elaena was the one performing the duties, as she was shrewd and intelligent with money. King Daeron trusted her with many important matters of state, and she grew influential. Elaena birthed Ronnel four children: Robin, Laena, Jocelyn, and Joy Penrose. Not long after Ronnel’s death, Elaena married once more, for love and by her own choosing. With King Daeron II’s blessing, Elaena was married to Ser Michael Manwoody, a Dornishman who had attended the court of Mariah Martell.

"A ruler needs a good head and a true heart.                       A cock is not essential."

Companions to Princess Rhaena Targaryen, all five ladies were poisoned by Tears of Lys in 54 AC. Alayne and Samantha had been with Rhaena since 49 AC, when they arrived to Fair Isle for Rhaena's wedding to Androw Farman. They stayed with the princess at Faircastle where they, along with Rhaena and Elissa Farman, became inseperable and often rode Dreamfyre together. They were dubbed by Ser Franklyn Farman: "The Four-Headed Beast". When Rhaena took up her new court upon Dragonstone, Alayne and Samantha went with her. In 54 AC, they were joined by Septa Maryam, Cassella Staunton, and Rhaena's young cousin Lianna Velaryon. All would die before the end of the year, victims of Androw Farman, Rhaena's husband, who had grown jealous of his wife's friendships with her ladies.

Lady Melissa Blackwood, also known as Missy, was a kind girl who befriended Queen Naerys and Princes Daeron and Aemon. She "reigned" for five years as Aegon's mistress, before being set aside. During her five years as his mistress Melissa gave birth to three children: Mya Rivers, Gwenys Rivers, and a son, Brynden Rivers (b.175 AC), who would later be known as Bloodraven. Lady Bethany Bracken, the younger sister of Lady Barba, had been trained by her father and sister to seduce Aegon and replace Melissa. She caught Aegon's eye in 177 AC, when he came to visit his son by Barba, and was taken back to King's Landing. Aegon had grown fat by then, and Bethany was not comfortable with the relationship. She found comfort in the arms of Ser Terrence Toyne of the Kingsguard. They were discovered by the King in 178 AC, who had Bethany and her father executed, and Terrence tortured to death. Lady Jeyne Lothston was the daughter of Falena Stokeworth, Aegon's first mistress, and Lord Lucas Lothston, (though some would claim Aegon himself was the father) and only fourteen when brought to court in 178 AC. She became Aegon's mistress, but not for long as she caught the pox from Aegon, who had caught it from a whore he'd been seeing since Lady Bethany's death. Jeyne and her family were sent away from court quickly after. Serenei of Lys was brought to court by Aegon's newest Hand, Lord Jon Hightower. Serenei was said to be a sorceress, and would go on to die in childbirth with the last of the King's acknowledged bastards, her daughter Shiera Seastar.

Lady Falena Stokeworth was Aegon's first mistress. In 149 AC, she took the virginity of the fourteen year old prince. Their affair continued until a Kingsguard found them in bed together in 151 AC. Prince Viserys married her off to his master-at-arms, Lord Lucas Lothston, and convinced King Baelor I to name him as the new Lord of Harrenhal, removing Falena from court. Prince Aegon, however, went on to frequently visit Harrenhal for two more years and even after, it has been suggested, his visits continued. Merry Meg was found by Prince Aegon in 155 AC when he was in need of a smith. Megette was married to the smith, but a well placed threat and seven gold dragons "persuaded" the man to let Aegon "buy" his wife. Meg was placed in a mansion in King's Landing and "wed" to Aegon in a secret ceremony by a mummer playing a septon. Megette birthed Aegon four daughters in four years. Prince Viserys returned her to her husband in 158 AC, who beat her to death within a year. Lady Cassella Vaith was one of the hostages of King Daeron I had accepted at the Submission of Sunspear. It was Prince Aegon who escorted the hostages back to King's Landing. Eventually the Dornishmen revolted and killed Daeron, leading to Prince Viserys demanding Cassella returned to the other hostages, as he planned to execute them. Aegon, who by then had grown bored of her, did not resist. Cassella was returned to Dorne by the new King, Baelor I, and would live a long life, consumed by the belief that she had been Aegon's one true love, and that he would soon send for her. Bellegere Otherys, the Black Pearl of Braavos, was the captain of the Widow Wind, whom Aegon met after having been sent as an envoy to Braavos in 161 AC. Their affair would continue for ten years, though it was said Bellegere had a husband in every port and that Aegon was but one of many. She gave birth to three children during the decade, two girls and a boy of doubtful paternity: Bellenora, Narha, and Balerion. Lady Barba Bracken was the daughter of Lord Bracken, who had been a companion to the Princesses Daena, Rhaena and Elaena in the maidenvault. She caught Aegon's attention in 171 AC, when all were free to leave the maidenvault following King Baelor's death. When Aegon became King a year later, Barba openly became his mistress. She gave birth to a son that same year - who later in life would be known as Bittersteel - two weeks before Queen Naerys gave birth to a daughter.

Jeyne Westerling Tall and willowy, Lady Jeyne was a renowned beauty and had been wed to Lord Alyn Tarbeck, who died with the rebels at the Battle Beneath the Gods Eye.Jeyne was being courted by the son of the Lord of Casterly Rock when King Maegor I sent for her to be wed to him along with Lady Elinor Costayne and Princess Rhaena Targaryen in a single ceremony. In 47 AC she was with child, but three moons before the child was due her labor began, and from her womb came another stillborn monster. She did not survive the child for long.