Rhaenyra Targaryen

She is Queen of Seven Kingdoms bow and the throne was rightfully hers. Even if her half brothers: Aegon, Aemond and Daeron tried to steal it from her. Even if her childhood friend and lover Alicent married her father, King Viserys. She once loved her half siblings, but she cherished the most sweet Haelena and Ealena, her half sisters. Now, when she is married to Daemon, took over throne and made sure her children Lucerys, Jacaerys, Joffrey and Aegon are safe, she needs to make a choice.

Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen[N 3] is the daughter and only surviving child of King Viserys I Targaryen and his first wife, Queen Aemma Arryn. She disputes the claim of her younger half-brother Aegon II, using the style Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lady of the Seven Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm. A dragonrider, her mount is the she-dragon Syrax.

Rhaenyra is the daughter and only surviving child of King Viserys I and Aemma Arryn. She rides the dragon Syrax.[1]

Rhaenyra returns to King's Landing after riding Syrax and visits her mother Aemma, who is heavily pregnant. While Rhaenyra is not very enthused at the prospect of having her own children, her mother reminds her of her duty as a princess, and that the childbed is a royal woman's battlefield. Rhaenyra later greets her uncle Daemon in the throne room, where he presents her with a gift acquired on his recent journey; a necklace made of Valyrian steel.[1]

Later that evening, Rhaenyra, and her friend, Lady Alicent Hightower spend time in the godswood, where Rhaenyra hopes that her unborn sibling is a boy, for the sake of her father, Viserys I's happiness, ignoring Alicent's remarks that a son would overshadow her in the line of succession.[1]

Rhaenyra is present in the royal box when her father commences the Heir's Tournament, where he announces that Aemma has gone into labor. Rhaenyra and Alicent are intrigued by a new contender in the tournament, Ser Criston Cole, after his victories against Lord Boremund Baratheon, and another Baratheon. Rhaenyra witnesses the duel between Ser Criston, and her uncle, Prince Daemon, in which Criston emerges victorious. He then asks Rhaenyra for her favor. She then tosses down a floral wreath to him, and bids Criston good luck in the rest of the tournament. In the middle of the tournament, the spectators in the royal box are informed of Queen Aemma's death in childbirth.[1]

Several days later, the royal court gathers outside the city walls of King's Landing for the funeral of Rhaenyra's mother, Aemma, and her infant brother, Prince Baelon. Rhaenyra bitterly ponders to her uncle, Daemon, whether her father finally found happiness in the few hours that Baelon lived, and laments that she will never make her father truly happy, as she is not a son. She then sets her mother and brother's funeral pyre ablaze, with a command of "Dracarys" to Syrax.[1]