[14/20] ASOIAF Power Couples Maekar I Targaryen X Dyanna Dayne

[14/20] ASOIAF power couples → Maekar I Targaryen x Dyanna Dayne

The last of King Daeron’s sons was the second to wed, to Lady Dyanna Dayne, niece of the famed Ser Ulrick, the Sword of the Morning. This came as a surprise to most, as the groom was just sixteen, his bride scarcely a year older — and Dornish besides. King Daeron offered little in the way of explanation, but young maidens at court insisted it was the dour prince and gregarious Dyanna themselves who requested the match, for they were rarely seen far apart. Whatever the cause, so it was that in 190 AC, the two were married.

A warrior of note, Maekar’s greatest distinction came during the First Blackfyre Rebellion at the Battle of the Redgrass Field. The battle was a bloody affair that saw many to their deaths, including Daemon Blackfyre himself and his two eldest sons, and only came to an end when Baelor Breakspear appeared with a host of stormlords and Dornishmen, falling on the rebel rear, while the young Prince Maekar rallied what remained of Lord Arryn’s van and made an implacable anvil against which the rebels were hammered and destroyed.

For his valor, Prince Maekar was awarded the seat of Summerhall. By Lady Dyanna’s hand, Summerhall remained true to its name, less a fortress than a palace filled with music, art, and gardens. During their seventeen years of marriage, Dyanna bore Maekar four sons and two daughters before succumbing to a short and sudden illness some years after the birth of Princess Rhae. Several ladies were henceforth put forward as suitors, for the prince was yet young, but he accepted none. Already a stern man, it is said that what smiles he had died with Dyanna, and that he grew sterner still after the mishap that claimed the life of his brother, Prince Baelor.

Maekar later gained further renown on the battlefield with his leadership in the Third Blackfyre Rebellion, alongside the courage of his youngest son, Aegon. Rising to the throne in 221 AC, Maekar proved to be an energetic king whose twelve-year reign was one of relative peace. He ultimately fell in battle at the age of nine-and-fifty while leading his army against the rebellious Lord Peake on the Dornish Marches.

She ate but little and was painfully thin, almost emaciated. Naerys loved music and poetry, played the harp well, and enjoyed sewing and embroidering…

You have a wildness in you, child. The wolf blood.

Hi my name is Jon Snow and I’m the bastard son of the Warden of the North Lord Eddard Stark (that’s how I got my name) and I have long dark brown hair that reaches my shoulders and grey eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look the most like my father out of my siblings (AN: if u don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Rhaegar Targaryen but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a brother of the Night’s Watch (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing boiled leather and roughspun blacks with matching black cloak around it, crisp black leathers, black wool and high leather boots. I was wearing moleskin gloves and my big sword Longclaw. I was walking outside Castle Black. It was snowing so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of black brothers stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

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