Jaehaera Targaryen

Jaehaera Targaryen is the daughter of King Aegon II Targaryen and his sister-wife Helaena Targaryen, and both children of Viserys I Targaryen with his second wife, Alicent Hightower. This means that Jaehaera was the grandaughter of king Viserys and was bethroved to his brother and future *Jaehaerys II*, the alledged successor of King Aegon II from the Greens in the War known as the Dance of Dragons. Sadly this never happened as he was killed. Jaehaera would go on to marry King Aegon III Targaryen, the eldest surviving son of Rhaenyra Targaryen, from the Blacks, reuniting both sides, the Greens and the Blacks in peace. She was the Dragonrider of the dragon known as Morghul.

Althought it is believed that Jaehaera never got to deliver a son or daughter, as she died at the early age of 13 (some say even 10 but this seems to be a miscalculation) years old, this turned out to be false. She became pregnant soon that year. It took some time for her to confess to one of the Hightower spies at court her symptons that indicated a pregnancy. One night, she delivered in the privacy of a specially prepared court room. Luckly for the realm the baby was a girl, thus further claim to the throne would have not gone to her. Having the events of the war pretty recent and considering the desires of the Maester to marry his own daughter to the King, many powers moved to save the issue of Jaehaera and take it away from King's Landing to Oldtown, without the King or it's courtiers knowing.

## Appearance and Character

Jaehaera was born tiny and slow to grow. She did not cry or smile or act as babies normally do. Her lack of emotion continued as she grew older. Jaehaera is described as a sweet and simple girl at the time of the Dance of the Dragons

## Dance of the Dragons

After the death of Prince Lucerys Velaryon, Prince Daemon Targaryen declared vengeance, writing that there would be "an eye for an eye, a son for a son". Jaehaera was present in the Tower of the Hand when Blood slew her twin, Prince Jaehaerys. Prior to the boy's death, as the queen prevaricated, Cheese warned her to make a choice soon, before Blood grew bored and raped Jaehaera.

When Rhaenyra Targaryen's dragons first appeared in the skies above King's Landing, Lord Larys Strong spirited Jaehaera out of the city along with her father, King Aegon II, and younger brother, Maelor. Larys led them out through a secret passage of Maegor's Holdfast, of which only he had knowledge. Jaehaera was put in the charge of Ser Willis Fell of the Kingsguard, who swore to bring her safely to Storm's End.

Following the deaths of her parents, brothers, and uncles in the Dance and the victory of the blacks, Jaehaera was married to her cousin King Aegon III Targaryen as part of the peace agreement. Since she was eight years old at the time of the marriage and Aegon was eleven, it was not consummated

## The Conjuring

During her stay as the Queen in the Capital, she beded her husband in at least four occasions and she apparently became pregnant. Very few women at court knew that Jaehaera had bled already at the early age of 9. Most of them were loyal servants of the Hightowers who had placed some of their own at court to control what was going on. There was still some hopes that Jaehaera could deliver a son and he could take the place of Aegon III who was considered by many to be a Black.

To this, a faction at court supporting the replacement of the young Jaehaera was at play. The Hightowers knew of this ambition and had made arrangements to protect the Queen and it's issue. They knew that no one would suspect her of being pregnant and the ladies at court loyal to the Hightowers received notes of hidding anysight of it's pregnancy and later her delivery. They masterfully managed to hide them from anyone and prepare an isolated hidden room for when Jaehaera had to deliver. She herself was severly cohersed to stay quiet about such delivery or her daughter would be killed. This seemingly (and its separation) may have contributed to her later sadness. She gave birth to a daughter on 132 A.C, known as Shiera Targaryen.

The Hightowers had the daughter inmediately sent to Oldtown to be raised there and thus be revealed later on. Thus, avoiding brainwashing from someone that wasnt theirs. Sadly, after the death of Jaehaera, it was decided that revealing such condition would make the newly born a target of murder and thus decided to still keep her hidden and marry her off to the surviving Greenfyres, slowly plotting a second war for the Throne in the part of the Greens. Nevertheless, this plot never came to fruition as Aegon III remarried and had male heirs and no one had known of little Shiera at this point. The Hightowers still decided to keep her existence a secret and used it later on. Decades pass and that opportunity simply faded. This Shiera, the eldest daughter of King Aegon III was married into the Greenfyre to secure the legitimacy of the House and sadly, no one truly ever knew (other than the Hightowers and other allied houses, like the Starks and Baratheons) about her existence.

## Death

Two years after her marriage, Jaehaera died when she reportedly threw herself from Maegor's Holdfast and was impaled on the spikes of the dry moat below. She lived for a half hour in agony before her death.

Jaehaera's death was officially deemed a suicide, akin to that of her mother, Queen Helaena Targaryen. However, many suspected that she had been murdered at the instigation of Lord Unwin Peake, the Hand of the King and one of the seven regents of Aegon III, as Unwin hoped to marry his own daughter to Aegon instead. It was variously suggested that Jaehaera had been murdered by Ser Mervyn Flowers of the Kingsguard, bastard half-brother of Lord Peake, who had been guarding at the door to her bedchamber when she died; or that Mervyn had merely stood aside to allow Tessario the Tiger, a sellsword in Lord Peake's service, to do the deed