Targaryens of 110 AU (Baelon is King)
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TARGARYENS OF 110 AC
SUMMARY
The year is 110 AC. The Conciliator is dead, and King Baelon the Brave sits the Iron Throne. His reign is martial, and prosperous. Yet, beneath the King's unyielding strength, the House of the Dragon is a tapestry of quiet resentments and shifting alliances.
Following the tragic death of Princess Aemma in 105 AC, King Baelon forced his grieving heir, Prince Viserys, into a rapid political marriage with Lady Laena Velaryon. Now, the teenage Laena is the highest-ranking woman in the realm, riding Silverwing and raising Viserys's new trueborn sons. Princess Rhaenyra, entirely unburdened by the pressures of succession, navigates a court where she is free to live and flirt, watching her father's new family with detached, youthful rebellion.
Meanwhile, Prince Daemon is tethered to the Vale. Forced by his father to honor his vows to Rhea Royce, Daemon has produced a "Bronze Dragon"—a trueborn son he uses as leverage whenever he is permitted to visit the capital. With Ser Otto Hightower marginalized into irrelevance and Lord Corlys Velaryon firmly entrenched in royal power, the Red Keep is a powder keg of ambition wrapped in velvet.
TIMELINE
92 AC: Prince Aemon Targaryen is killed on Tarth. King Jaehaerys passes over Aemon's daughter, Rhaenys, and names his second son, Baelon the Brave, as the new Prince of Dragonstone. The decision severely alienates the Velaryon fleet, but firmly establishes absolute male primogeniture as the unquestioned law of the Iron Throne.
97 AC: Prince Daemon Targaryen is wed to Lady Rhea Royce of Runestone. Despising his bride and the Andal traditions of the Vale, Daemon leaves the marriage unconsummated. He lingers at court, banking on his father's leniency to eventually grant him an annulment.
100 AC: Good Queen Alysanne passes away. Her legendary mount, Silverwing, makes her lair on Dragonstone, riderless and waiting.
101 AC: Prince Baelon survives a burst belly. Because the Heir lives, the Great Council of 101 AC is never called. King Jaehaerys’s health, however, is rapidly failing. As Baelon assumes more control, his patience with Daemon’s delinquency vanishes. Recognizing that a Prince who refuses to consummate his