Baelon and Alyssa: Alternative History: A Different Dance. Maegor II.

What if by sorcery, Maegor the Cruel, the usurper king who was cast down, left an heir, hidden away in the secret passageways of the Red Keep? How does it feel growing up a Targaryen, knowing you are to be expected to wed and bed your kin, in lands that look down upon such customs? How could Good Queen Alysanne's philosophies of female succession and rights echoed through her descendants?

Based on Chactacters from George R.R. Martin's Fire & Blood volume 1. As Archmaester Gyldayn presented his alternative telling of histories befalling the Targaryen dynasty, this short story is and alternative telling of his. ASOIAF lacks pov characters of ruling Targaryens and their kin, although much of the story is influenced by them. This story humanizes the family and gives an insight look at which personal struggles they would have faced.

This story focuses on King Jaehaerys I and the Good Queen Alysanne's three eldest living children: Aemon, Baelon and Alyssa. The story commences accurately and paying homage to canon, then shows a series of events that could have befallen. Much detail has been paid to match canon and the tone of source material.

Just a generation before Westeros would have suffered 'the Dance of the Dragons' another succession war complicates the Targaryen dynamics. The story commences a week prior to Baelon and Alyssa's union.