Aemon I Targaryen

## King Aemon I Targaryen

Protector of the Realm

Helaena Targaryen

Rhaenys Targaryen

Matarys Targaryen †

Baela Targaryen

Maegelle Targaryen

****Aemon I Targaryen****, King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm, is the current King upon the Iron Throne and the head of House Targaryen. Grandson of King Aegon VI Targaryen, son of King Aelor I Targaryen, and husband to two wives since passed - Princess Clarisse Dayne and Queen-Consort Rhaella Celtigar - King Aemon has ruled the Kingdom of the Iron Throne since his father's death in 359AC.

## Appearance and Personality

Aemon bears the traditional Valyrian traits of his forebears, possessed of silver hair and violet eyes with a build that speaks to his natural athleticism, though he is too lean to be considered a muscular man.

He has ever been known as a brooding man given more to silence than gregarious outbursts, giving thought to actions long before giving them life. His mother often said that he lived more within his head as a boy than without, spending much of his youth with his head in a book until his uncle put a sword in his hands.

Queen Aelora once confided in the Grand Maester of her concerns for her son, for out of all of her children, she thought him most prone to madness should he continue to bottle things up as he tended to do. No cork can withstand the fury of suppressed emotions infinitely.

## History

Aemon Targaryen was born to Prince Aelor Targaryen and his sister-wife, Princess Aelora Targaryen in 326 A.C., the eldest of four children. As a boy, he was quiet and thoughtful, prone to finding secluded places to hide on Dragonstone to read in peace, or escaping from his tutors to look for dragon eggs on the Dragonmont or explore the old dragonglass mine. Others described him as unusually poised for his age, well-behaved and not given to childish tantrums. In truth, the young Prince kept a tight rein on his anger and would appear to be perfectly at ease until the moment his emotions boiled over into a titanic explosion of anger. The few boys in his grandfather’s court who managed to provoke Aemon to the point of losing his temper never did so a second time.

Princess Aelora sought out her youngest brother Prince Aeryn after Aemon had been in a fist fight that left both parties bruised and bloodied, and he suggested that beginning the boy’s martial training might prove a healthy outlet. Aeryn, a squire of the Lord Commander Alesander Corbray of the Kingsguard, convinced his sister to let Aemon become Ser Alesander’s page. Once Aeryn was himself knighted, Aemon became the Lord Commander’s new squire.

In the year 339, Aemon’s cousin Ronnel Arryn came to the Red Keep to squire for Ser Aeryn, and the two squires quickly became friends. Ronnel seemed to have a unique ability to get Aemon to open up and share what was on his mind and to convince him to take risks and try the things that he ordinarily only thought about. The combination of Aemon’s inventive imagination and Ronnel’s daring personality got the two of them into far more trouble than they ever would have separately. Their masters did their best to keep the two apart and too busy with their studies and training to have time to hatch schemes together.

In the year 346, Prince Aemon and Ronnel joined a force of men sent to suppress a gang of bandits in the Kingswood by convincing Lord Buckler that they had the King's sanction to take part. When the wayward prince and his partner in crime returned to the capital, Ser Aeryn did not prevent them from joining a group of young lordings celebrating their victory on the Street of Silk. Instead, he hauled the two exhausted and hungover youths out of a pillowhouse at dawn and exercised them mercilessly in the training yard until well past noon.

During the same year, Clarisse Dayne came to King’s Landing as a lady-in-waiting to Aemon’s sister, Princess Gael. Clarisse set her eye on the young Prince soon after her arrival, but decided to differentiate herself from the other fawning girls at court by adopting a cold and aloof demeanor toward the Prince. While she’d hoped to pique his interest by challenging him, Aemon was oblivious to her subtle signs of interest and believed that the girl hated him for no reason and was going out of her way to be disdainful and cutting toward him at every opportunity.

Aegon VI died in 347, and Aemon’s father was crowned as Aelor I. Aemon carried Blackfyre in the procession at his father’s coronation and presented the blade to his father before the High Septon placed the crown upon his head. He finished in third place in the melee at the coronation tournament and reached the finals of the joust, where he was unhorsed on the fourth pass by a knight of House Mooton. Ser Alesander knighted Prince Aemon after the tournament.

During the tournament, the matters between Aemon and Clarisse Dayne finally came to a head. What she thought was playful banter to encourage him to ask for her favor, he interpreted as denigration of his manhood and martial prowess. Aemon had reached one of his boiling points and was determined to teach the Dornishwoman some humility. The following morning, several of the pennants on the tournament ground had gone missing from their flagpoles and had been replaced by dainty scraps of silk and Myrish lace. When Clarisse Dayne arrived with Princess Gael’s retinue, she turned pale, then turned red, then burst into tears and fled. When King Aelor and Queen Aelora looked into the matter at Princess Gael’s insistence, they took Aemon to task for his disgraceful behavior and demanded that he make a public apology to Clarisse and a written apology to her parents in Starfall.

Two moons after his father’s coronation, Aemon traveled to Dragonstone to formally take possession of the island as its new Prince. Ronnel Arryn, Gael Targaryen, and Clarisse Dayne traveled with him on the voyage. The two mended fences on the sea voyage, and were hopelessly smitten with one another by the time they returned to the capital.

Aemon wed Clarisse Dayne in 349, and she gave birth to the twins Valarr and Vaelora in 351. The delivery of twins was difficult on the new Princess of Dragonstone and took a toll on her health. Against the advice of the Grand Maester, she fell pregnant again less than a year later. Clarisse died from complications of the birth of Princess Helaena in 352 AC. Aemon fell into a deep melancholy and retreated to Dragonstone. He refused to answer ravens for months, and it took a visitation from his mother to bring him back to the capital and began to interact with others again. King Aelor insisted that Aemon marry again, and arranged a betrothal to Rhaella Celtigar.

Rhaella’s chief fault in Aemon’s mind was that she wasn’t Clarisse and his relationship with her never warmed. Rhaella privately confessed to her closest confidants that she felt that Aemon treated her like another court functionary like the Grand Maester or the Master of Coin and favored his three children by Clarisse - the only children of the king to have been gifted dragon eggs - over the ones she’d borne him.

In 357 AC, Aemon and his family made the voyage to White Harbor to take part in the Grand Tournament at White Harbor. Aemon was victorious in the melee and knighted his final opponent, Leo Storm. Two years later, King Aelor died and Aemon ascended to the Iron Throne.

The early days of his reign were tested by the Crystal Kingdom peasant uprising, and the Great Winter followed soon thereafter. The Great Winter Sickness came to King’s Landing with grain shipments from Essos, and a quick, harsh response to contain the outbreak of illness kept the disease from being truly catastropic. Queen Rhaella’s desire to visit the afflicted part of the city brought the illness into the Red Keep, claiming the lives of the Queen and Prince Matarys, and leaving Princess Helaena permanently blinded and frail.

## Recent History

### 370 A.C.

#### Sixth Moon:

Change arrives on the wings of white ravens from the Citadel to announce the new season.

#### Seventh Moon:

The king calls for a Small Council meeting to discuss continued peace between the Iron Throne and the Kingdom of the Rock, as well as a tournament at Pinkmaiden.

## Family Members

* Aegon VI Targaryen † 347 A.C.
* m. Shireen Baratheon † 352 A.C.
	+ Aelor I Targaryen † 359 A.C.
	+ m. Aelora Targaryen b. 308 A.C.
		- **Aemon I Targaryen** b. 326 A.C.
		- m. Clarisse Dayne † 352 A.C.
			* Valarr Targaryen b. 351 A.C.
			* Vaelora Targaryen b. 351 A.C.
			* Helaena Targaryen b. 352 A.C.
		- m. Rhaella Celtigar † 367 A.C.
			* Rhaenys Targaryen b. 354 A.C.
			* Matarys Targaryen † 367 A.C.
			* Baela Targaryen b. 357 A.C.
			* Maegelle Targaryen b. 361 A.C.
		- Valerion Targaryen † 328 A.C.
		- Septa Gael Targaryen b. 331 A.C.
		- Alyssa Targaryen † 342 A.C.
	+ Alysanne Targaryen
	+ m. Brandon Arryn
		- See House Arryn
	+ Aerea Targaryen
	+ m. --
		- No Issue
	+ Ser Aeryn Targaryen of the Kingsguard