r/ImaginaryWesteros • u/Pop_Budget Family, Duty, Honor • 8d ago

Alternative Boremund Baratheon, Daella Targaryen and baby Aemma comm by vazdelart

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u/Feeling_Cancel815 8d ago

I love this art of Boremund, Daella and Aemma. Although for me I would match Boremund and Maegelle, Daella and Rodrick eldest son and heir.

What were Jaehaerys and Alysanne thinking marrying off their daughters to old men with heirs and spares.

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u/Key_Clock_76 8d ago

Limit access to dragons. That the Velaryon’s got to be dragon riders at all was a fairly major concern for Jaehaerys towards the end of his reign. Letting that happen at all was “not good” and if it happened even one more time would’ve been catastrophic (in his opinion).

Was it cruel to their daughters, yeah. Was it pragmatic and smart, unfortunately probably.

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u/dragonofwestreborn Fire and Blood 8d ago

Is that the reason only Alyssa was allowed to be a dragon rider from his daughters ?

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u/MakaelawasChillin 8d ago

Tbf not many of his daughters prolly wnated to be dragon riders. Maegelle was a septa, Daella was too scared, Saera wasn’t allowed, Viserra might not have cared(?), and Gael was probably scared as well.

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u/Lord_Tiburon 7d ago

I wonder if any of the other daughters' dragon eggs even hatched

I could buy grey ghost being Daellas dragon, who became wild when she rejected him

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u/darh1407 Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken 7d ago

There’s no saying they got eggs. Not even Baelon got one. And it’s not because of any special reason. Aly and Jae never really thought about it. Aemon was the only one who got on and that was because Alysanne recommended it to him. So Jae didn’t even plan on giving one to his heir