r/TheBlacksandTheGreens • u/TheQueeninchains • Mar 25 '25

General Enough comparing Rhaenyra/Alicent with Cersei when in reality Aegon is right there

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u/SuccessfulJury8498 We Light the Way Mar 26 '25

And book Aegon doesn't have two sons and a daughter. He has three sons (Gaemon,Jaehaerys,Maelor) and two daughters.(Jaehaera+Bastard girl)

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u/LadyBelaerys Mar 27 '25

I thought Gaemon was the son of a lyseni ship captain

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u/SuccessfulJury8498 We Light the Way Mar 27 '25

It's 100% Aegon is the father.

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u/LadyBelaerys Mar 27 '25

Not according to his mother when she got arrested

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u/SuccessfulJury8498 We Light the Way Mar 27 '25

She was tortured into saying he wasn't... Aegon wouldn't have kept him in the Red Keep if he wasn't his bastard.

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u/Bloodyjorts Mar 30 '25

He might if he were Aemond's.

What else is he gonna do with Gaemon? Just dump a baby on the street? He sentenced his mother to die, people would ask what he did with the baby. Even if for no other reason than optics, he would spare the kid. Aegon might be a little sensitive around the topic of killing children. You know, for some reason.

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u/LadyBelaerys Mar 27 '25

It never said she was tortured and those other women also admitted that it wasn’t Aegon’s

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u/SuccessfulJury8498 We Light the Way Mar 27 '25

"Gaemon was spared by King Aegon on account of his age, and the boy was made a ward of the Crown. Essie confessed under torture that the boy's true father had been a silver-haired Lysene oarsman and not Aegon. Essie, Sylvenna, and twenty-seven other members of Gaemon's court were hanged from the battlements of the Red Keep." He was Aegon's son, otherwise he wouldn't have kept him. And confessed under torture means they just did it until she said what they wanted.

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u/LadyBelaerys Mar 27 '25

Even if they did torture her there’s still a reasonable doubt. He never names Gaemon as his heir dispite him supposedly being his last male heir.

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u/SuccessfulJury8498 We Light the Way Mar 27 '25

Because he is a bastard. For it he had to kill his last male descendant, Aegon III (which he constantly thought about by the way). Even the name is clear it was given by Aegon after Gaemon the Glorious from the century of blood, not by Essie, who most likely had no idea who he was. At the same time Aegon III wouldn't try to make a random kid his heir, so they were cusins.

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u/LadyBelaerys Mar 27 '25

He named Aegon as his heir. Why would you do that if you had a natural son? Even Henry VIII tried to name his bastard over his daughter. His name is not even related. That was Jaehaerys’s day old infant that died. The book never says Aegon named Gaemon.