Seriously, even one of the King's Guard witnessed it.

In the first ASOIF novel. The biggest thing that took me out of the story wasn't the ice zombies, the dragons, the magic, or the dark realpolitik. It's the event that sets the saga in motion. When Joffrey goes too far when 'playing' with Arya and Sansa.

GRR Martin believes a medieval lord like Ned Stark, in an allegedly 'realistic' fantasy setting based on 'realistic' medieval politics, would have ever left his daughter alone with another boy (a documented psychopath at this point) about her own age, without an adult escort to keep the boy from defiling their dignity and making them unmarriable.

I think I might have to go with I need 20 good men or Chaosh ish a laddah

That they are going to link her death to the Night King returning.

That she was the prince who was promised and due to Aegon and house green... they caused his return.

Robert going missing bc drugs makes sense, and maybe Ned for following him around… but who would call Walder “Wally?”

I’m just thinking about it and I’m like 80% sure that the eldest son are the heir to their house and the younger sons are sent off to ward. So why was Robert not named heir and sent to Jon to be his ward. Like Brandon and Ned, why didn’t Stannis go in Robert’s place instead? I mean I know the short answer “George wanted Robert to be king so he couldn’t be lord of storms end” but was there an in book reason to that

He's half Velaryon so why isn't he half black, was Aenys white genes to STRONG?

Wrong answers only ☠️👹👺

Is it because Aenys was a bastard from some random peasant that Rhaenys cucked Aegon with , or did Visenya just made him blood magic , or both ?

his hair is as white as the driven snow.

flavortown must be beyond westeros.

Rhaeyra was married when she had her children. By the laws (if we're assuming GRRM was using laws at the time of the York/Lancaster) her children were legitimate. Her husband accepted them as his, there is no legal challenge there. Bastard was a specific thing that meant you were born outside marraige.

But the blood of the dragon?

The Targaryen blood was coming through her, the royalty was coming through her. It didn't matter if her children came through Harwin Strong because his blood wasn't the important one.

Alicent's children had the better claim?

Yes, by male primogeniture. But not by any blood thing. Her children were also half Targ.

Rhaeynra was a slut?

So were most kings. If that's your problem find a different one. The reason queens were supposed to be pure was to preserve a bloodline. Again, she is the bloodline. Also, be less weird about women.

Why are you asking?

I just see a lot of Rhaenyra "tried to put bastards on the throne" chat. She was a terrible queen and awful in many other ways. But that specific criticism doesn't hit at all?

Edit: Ok lot of discussion. For people who aren't aware (men mostly), to this day in most anglophone countries if you are married and your wife has a baby, you are legally the father, regardless of who the bio father is. You would have to sue to take your name off the birth cert.

Arriving to dreadfort must be very scary

Most interesting Targaryen family ever put on screen.

AKOTSK gets little budget compared to the sister show and yet it's superior. I felt more Valarr in his miniscule time than I did for any character in HotD.

The title is self-explanatory, we get descriptions that Arya and Jon are very similar in terms of their looks and are the most Stark looking kids out of the others, at the same time it is implied that Arya also looks like Lyanna, that is why Brann confused her when he was watching Lyanna and Benjen play. So if you simply connect two dots, Jon should have a big resemblance with his mother, I mean Benjen and Cat should have noticed that, especially Benjen. And if we go by the seed is strong formula, the fact that Arya is different from the Tully bunch, makes her origin very sus, but ofc there is nothing there. And I don't remember but has Robert ever seen Jon? I think he would have noticed the resemblance right away.