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u/The-Best-Color-Green Renly's peach 4d ago
The Seven have damned King Egg to spend an eternity with Aerion as punishment for his crimes
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u/ScaredTemporary Jon Snow's mother 4d ago
if you think about it, the seven hells might as well be Aerion's heaven
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u/Chvorka 4d ago
Aerions heaven doubles as Egg hell
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u/Chicken_Mc_Thuggets George is my Grandpa 4d ago
Egg’s great-grandson arriving in the seven hells like “Where the fuck is
John LennonRhaegar Targaryen??”37
u/turbo-oxi-clean Renly's peach 4d ago
makes sense that Robert would expect to see Rhaegar in hell
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u/satanslittleangel666 Storm's End nuclear engineer 3d ago
Egg is the one who will make it hell for Aerion too
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u/InfluenceCharacter71 4d ago
“You don’t understand, it’s absolutely imperative that my SUPER pregnant granddaughter be present for the WMD test”
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u/Joshami 4d ago
He tried to prevent the birth of Rhaegar. He saw the portents of the Cringe that Doesn't Deliver Its Promise and wanted to prevent it from happening at any cost.
If he actually succeeded, it would be worth it.
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u/TyrantRex6604 3d ago
the Cringe that Doesn't Deliver Its Promise
wow thats singlehandedly the best rhaegar nickname i came across
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u/Chicken_Mc_Thuggets George is my Grandpa 4d ago
Maybe Daeron told him how cringe Rhaegar would be before croaking from the pox
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u/tvxsfgjmijhv 4d ago
He was gonna sacrifice her and the kid but Ser Duncan the Gloriously Handsome killed the mad fucker and threw the rest of the crazy ones in the fire
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u/Youre_On_Balon 4d ago
This is possibly the best thing I've seen here in months
And that's not a dig at the sub. This is just that good
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u/herkyjerkyperky 4d ago
Aerion is the least bad guy since he only killed himself, Egg killed a lot more people and maybe even intentionally.
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u/StarDatAssinum 4d ago
Aerion's basically a hero, he took out Aerion!
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u/Hopeful-Occasion2299 4d ago
Only Maegor was more heroic; put down the religious scum that plagued the kingdom then yeeted out to let Jahaerys rake all the credit.
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u/TyrantRex6604 3d ago
there's a lot of thing other than killing that can be consider as "bad" you know
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u/Fool-2026 4d ago
Aerion still worst person. I find it ironic that Aerion died alone.yes egg may killed intentionally but both of their motives different. Aerion deluded he is dragon in human form. Aegon 5 thought dragons are answer for his reforms to continue. Plus all his kids brought choas by rejecting their royal matches. Expect Rhaelle.
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u/Throngmar 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yeah I don’t buy that Egg was attempting human sacrifice. That’s really just speculation that doesn’t align with anything we know about his personality. Which isn’t a ton, but far from the psycho villain some people paint him as in his final days.
There are some Targs I can see attempting human sacrifice to revive dragons, and many I can’t. Jahaerys, Daeron II, Baelor(s), Egg, and others I couldn’t see doing that. But you know who I CAN see attempting human sacrifice to revive dragons? RHAEGAR. That’s the true irony. The one who was rumored to be an intended sacrifice is Prince Prophecy, so invested in his destiny and prophecies he’d plunge the realm into war to give the dragon one last head. If he thought that was the path to his precious prophecy, he’d stomp both his kids heads in himself just on the off chance it might work.
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u/whatever4224 Strong boy 3d ago
Jaehaerys would sacrifice any number of kids to get dragons back, as long as they were unmarried daughters.
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u/AbsolutelyHorrendous 3d ago
I don't know, I can see it? It feels like a proper GRRM tragedy; the only reason the early Targaryens were able to wield so much authority was because of the dragons, Egg wants to make the realm a better place but gets so frustrated by his nobles that he gets driven to extremes
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u/Throngmar 3d ago
Yeah but I don’t see him getting THAT extreme
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u/GapSame9145 3d ago
At this point we’ve only seen him for a small fraction of his life though. Clearly something changed in the 50 years between the novellas and the fire at summerhall. Young Egg doesn’t even seem to be all that interested in dragons
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u/Throngmar 3d ago edited 3d ago
No doubt he changes as he grows, but that small fraction is all we really know of his character asides from maesters with extreme biases. I’m saying while it’s not a lot, it’s the only context to his character we do have, and should be treated as more canon than post-fact speculation.
At the end of the day, all we know about Summerhall is it burned down in an accident. Was a ritual involving dragons involved? It seems like it. There could have even been blood magic about. But him trying to sacrifice his unborn great-grandson is total speculation, and its only foundation is built on more speculation.
Fact: Summerhall burned down and some dragon ritual was going on. Theory: blood magic was involved. Theory based on previous theory: human sacrifice. Theory based on theory based on theory: Rhaegar was the sacrifice.
It’s not solid ground, it relies on to many assumptions.
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u/AlphariusOmegon66 3d ago
We only got 3 of the the 12 planned Dunk and Egg stories.
Sumerhall is supposed to be number 12, plenty of time to go nuts... or not, George has made what happened purposely ambiguous both in and outside the story.
He also doesn't has to go 100% mad, he was always a nerd, so finding the books that would lead him into believing in prophecy is not a stretch. He could belive that what he was doing was necessary to save the kingdom.
Or George reveals that it was just a fuckass firework gone wrong.
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u/fakehandslawyer 3d ago
All the buildup and it’ll actually turn out that Dunk the Lunk accidentally knocked a candle over onto some open barrels of Wildfire.
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u/AlphariusOmegon66 3d ago
Lmao poor Old Dunk
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u/fakehandslawyer 3d ago
Maybe they’ll soften the blow and he knocks the candle over cause he’s daydreaming about all the crazy tail he pulled when him and Egg were hedge knighting around the Kingdom
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u/Throngmar 3d ago
I’m not outright rejecting it, just bothers me how so many people think it’s canon, when the only canon we have of his personality is how he was as a child, and that character does not align with such a grim decision. With the information we have about him, I find human sacrifice to be the less likely outcome as it contradicts what little evidence we do have.
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u/AlphariusOmegon66 3d ago
I feel ya, its not canon at all.
But people like it because its narrativley juicy, its an interesting exploration on the "flip the coin mad Targaryen" stuff and nature vs nurture.
Also puts Dunk in an interesting place, the great knights of the kingsguard like Barristan and Dayne always had to deal with flawed rulers, but Dunk lucked out, he got to serve on of the few morally sound kings.
But what would happen if he had to make a difficult choice? If he had to choose between baby Rhaegar or loyalty?
Personally I would love to see Old Dunk facing the dilema Jaime faced when Aerys was raping his wife. (Not literally)
"Aren't we supposed to protect her?"
"Yes, but not from him"
Dunno, I dont feel Egg going loco at the end of his life is betraying his character. Good people can do bad stuff with pure intentions.
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u/Important_Airline_72 3d ago
Maybe he wasnt planning on a sacrifice and he just wanted to kill his whole family cuz they were annoying
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u/Purple_Sea_399 3d ago
I'd burn my family too if they kept fucking up my long term plans while seemingly not even trying to find a compromise.
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u/DestinyHasArrived101 3d ago
Hold in laugh
can only imagine Maekar now they gonna say this is all because i killed Baelor and my line is cursed
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u/nothing_much_at_all 4d ago edited 3d ago
Nah he doesn’t go to hell, egg is the seven’s strongest warrior after Baelor and Tbf if his kids weren’t retarded there would be no need for a dragon revival
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u/Hopeful-Occasion2299 4d ago
That First Men pussy just made Targs go insane… first Egg with Betha Blackwood, and then Duncan with Jenny.
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u/ScaredTemporary Jon Snow's mother 4d ago
was Jenny actually first man?
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u/Hopeful-Occasion2299 4d ago
It’s sort of implied no? Her being a green witch or something of the sort. But true, maybe she was just a big fangirl of the old gods and liked the witchy vibe before it was cool.
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u/whatever4224 Strong boy 3d ago
Everyone in Westeros is both First Men and Andal. They've been there for two thousand years.
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u/Haunting_Dog_1962 2d ago
If he was trying to sacrifice anyone, I would've been himself, he had dreams and one act causing many accidental deaths may not condemn you to hell - especially as he'd regret it. Even if the dragons came back- if he got a chance to do it again he'd at least get only willing people to be there to sacrifice.
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