"Only a week ago, my lord husband was alive, and the realm was at peace. He knew the realm would not accept a Queen, so he changed his mind, Rheanyra's supporters may believe what they wish, but Maëlor wanted Aegon to succeed him, howbeit we play the pieces over the board, the war will be fought, many will die, and the victor will eventually ascend the throne." ~ Queen Alicent Hightower.
"I've soon realized the gods have punished me for my indulgence. I am forever doomed to anger one person, in the pleasing of another. One moment there's peace in my household, the next there's fire on the mountain. Interminable fightings and madness, all because I chose to marry a girl from Old Town! A woman who refuses to give me piece of mind in my own home, just because I refute to make Aegon my heir! For all I know the boy is Alicent's blood! Her blood!"~ King Maëlor Targaryen.
"My father, chose me, his first born child to succeeded him, and now Alicent's son, sits my throne. I mean to fight this war and win it with fire and blood." ~Princess Rheanyra Targaryen
THE WINDS OF FIRE & BLOOD, looms around the Daughter of the Hand, and her entanglement with King Maëlor Targaryen, his daughter, Rheanyra, her sworn protector Ser Criston Cole, and her brother-in-law Xaerys Targaryen.
As Queen of Westeros, she develops a strong religious identity and a sense of morality that led her to believe in her own self-righteousness. She sees herself as a paragon of virtue, the ultimate servant to the Iron Throne, who never gets any recognition for her sacrifices. But when sides are drawn between kin, not even the glue that holds them together can withstandthereby causing a division of civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons, fueled by Queen Alicent Hightower.
Pious and graceful, the King's wife has skeletons in her cupboard, yet her righteous nature, leads her and her house into peril and doom. The once Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, now known as the Queen in Chains.
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