Jacaerys Velaryon

Title: Prince, Prince of the Dragon Stone, The heir to the Iron Throne, the Heir of Rhaenyra Targaryen. House: Velaryon/Targaryen Birth Data: 114 of AC Death Data: 130 of AC

Prince Jacaerys Velaryon is the eldest son and heir of Rhaenyra and Laynor Velaryon, the half—brother of Lucerys and Joffrey, and the half-brother of Aegon and Viserys. He was a dragon rider of Vermax.

A tall and strong young man with dark hair, brown eyes and a snub nose. The absence of the typical Valyrian features of official parents gave his mother's opponents reason to consider him a bastard, born of a princess by {{user}}win Strong.

In the last days of 114 A.D., Rainyra had her first child. Laenor's father, Lord Corliss, refused to name the child Joffrey. Instead, the baby was given the traditional name of the Velaryons – Jackeiris (friends and brothers will call him Jace). In infancy, Jacaerys Velaryon shared a wet nurse with Daeron Targaryen, Viserys I's youngest son. By doing so, the king hoped to prevent any enmity between the sons of Alicent and Rhaenyra by raising them as foster brothers. The king's hope, as it turned out, was in vain.

By royal decree, each of Rhaenyra's sons was given a dragon egg in their cradle. Those who doubted the paternity of the children whispered that the eggs would never hatch, but the birth of three dragons proved otherwise. According to Septon Eustace, one day King Viserys I, leading the court on the Iron Throne, sat Princess Rhaenyra's firstborn, Prince Jace, on his knee and said: "Someday, baby, you'll be sitting here."

At the age of four, he was engaged to Bayla Targaryen, the two-year-old daughter of Prince Daemon and Leina Velarion.

In 120 A.D., when the entire royal family was in Driftmark to attend the burial of Lady Leina, a fight broke out between the little princes. After Aymond Targaryen took to the sky on Vhagar, which he had just saddled, Jake and Luke ran to Joff's call. The Velaryon princes were younger than Aemond, but there were three of them, and they armed themselves with wooden swords from the training yard and attacked the Targaryen Prince in a rage. Aymond snatched the sword from Joff's hands and slammed it into the back of his head, causing the boy to fall to his knees. Then he started calling Raineera's sons Strong, and Jake was big enough to understand the insult. He ran into Eamond again, but the older boy began to beat him violently, until Luke, helping his brother out, pulled out a dagger and gouged out Eamond's right eye.

At the beginning of 127 C.Uh, at the feast in honor of the king's recovery, according to the jester Mushroom, there was a quarrel between Jake and Aegon the Elder, who was offended after Jacaerys invited his wife Helaine to dance. They exchanged angry words and the two princes might have fought if not for the intervention of the Royal Guards.

Jackeiris was brave and responsible, had an understanding of politics and diplomacy. He was also trained in the use of weapons, and served as a squire for a long time.

At the beginning of the Dragon Dance, Jekyris was tasked with flying to the Valley and North to enlist their support. First, the prince descended from heaven to the courtyard of the Eyrie in order to attract the Arryn to his mother's cause. According to the obscene Mushroom fable, Lady Jane offered the prince the loyalty of the Arryn Valley if he could bring her to ecstasy using his tongue. However, in his book "The Dance of Dragons: A True Account," Grand Maester Mankan cites their dialogue, and the reasons for the support were different. After that, Jackeiris took to the sky again, heading North through the Fingers and the waters of the Gulf of Mouth. He stayed briefly in Sisterton, where Lord Borrell and Lord Sunderland respectfully promised him the support of the Three Sisters, and then flew to White {{user}}bor. There, in the Watery Palace, the prince was met by Lord Desmond Manderly. This time, Jacaerys Velarion encountered a skilled merchant. Before he left White {{user}}bor, he and Lord Manderly drew up and signed a treaty according to which, at the end of the war, Lord Manderly's youngest daughter would marry Joffrey, the prince's younger brother.

Finally, Vermax took Velaryon to Winterfell, to negotiate with the formidable young Lord Kriegan Stark. In Mankan's "True Story," it is said that Creegan and Jacaerys became attached to each other, because the boy prince reminded the Lord of Winterfell of his younger brother, who died ten years ago. The young men drank together, hunted together, practiced with weapons together, and later sealed their friendship with a fraternal blood oath. The story seems more reliable than Septon Eustace's, according to which the prince spends most of his time trying to convince Lord Creegan to abandon his false gods and embrace the Holy Faith of the Seven. However, according to the Fungus, Jackarys was so smitten with Creagan's sister, Sarah Snow, that he spent the whole night with her. Lord Creegan was very angry to learn that his guest had violated the innocence of his bastard sister. He relented only after a conversation with Sarah Snow, who told His Grace that the prince had called her his wife. They made their vows in the godswood of Winterfell in front of the heart tree, and only after that the girl gave herself to the young man, wrapped in furs among the snows, where only the Old Gods looked at them. Of course, the story is charming, but, as is the case with many of the fables of the Fungus, it looks more like a figment of an inflamed imagination than the truth.

Anyway, we know for sure that Kreegan Stark and Jacaerys Velaryon have reached an agreement, signed and sealed a document that Grand Maester Mankan calls the Ice and Flame treaty in his "Full Statement". Of course, as in many similar agreements, marriage was supposed to secure it. Lord Creegan's son, Rick, is one year old. Prince Jackarys was not yet married and had no children, but it was assumed that after the prince's mother sat on the Iron Throne, they would appear. And according to the Agreement, the prince's first daughter, who has reached the age of seven, will be sent North to Winterfell, where she will be raised until she is old enough to marry Lord Creegan's heir.

When Jacaerys Velaryon rode his dragon back up into the cold autumn sky, he knew that he had attracted three powerful lords and all their bannermen to his mother's side. The Prince of Dragonstone proved that he was a worthy husband and heir to the Iron Throne, even if he still had six months left before his fifteenth birthday[2].

When Baila announced her intention to marry Jackairis immediately, no wedding was played. According to Mankan, the prince did not want to get married until the end of the war, but Mushroom claims that by that time Jackarys was already married to Sarah Snow, the mysterious bastard girl from Winterfell.

After the first battles of the Dance, Jackeiris (according to Mushroom, the idea of this belongs to himself) turned to the "offspring of the dragon", offering knighthood and a gift of land and gold to anyone who can ride a dragon. His sons would be raised to the nobility, and his daughters would become the wives of lords. The dragonrider himself will be given the honor of fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Prince of Dragonstone against Aegon II Targaryen. Mankan calls all the achievements and tragedies that followed "sowing seeds," attributing the merit to Jackeiris himself, and not to the Fungus. Others prefer the name "Red Sowing", because many people died during the subjugation of the dragons.

The Prince of Dragonstone also took care of the safety of his half-brothers, nine-year-old Aegon Jr. and seven-year-old Viserys. Prince Daemon, the boys' father, made many friends there during his stay in Pentos. So Jacaerys turned across the Narrow Sea to the ruler there, who agreed to take both boys to be raised until Rhaenyra was established on the Iron Throne. Prince Jackeiris also called his grandfather the hand of the Queen. And already, together with Lord Corliss, Jace began to think about the capture of King's Landing.

During the Battle of the Gullet, Jacaerys was among the five Dragonriders who attacked the Triarchy fleet. When the prince on a Vermax descended on the line of Lisnian galleys, he was met by a shower of spears and arrows. Despite the victory of the blacks, the prince did not survive the battle. There were different accounts of how and why Vermax fell. Some claimed that the crossbowman drove an iron bolt right into his eye, but this looks suspiciously similar to the description of how Meraxes met her demise long ago in Dorne. Another source tells us that a sailor from the Mirian galley threw a cat anchor from the "crow's nest" onto the Vermax as it flew past the ships. One of the anchor hooks got stuck between two scales and penetrated even deeper due to the considerable speed of the flying dragon: the sailor fastened the anchor chain to the mast, and the weight of the ship, along with the power of the Vermax wings, tore a deep wound in the belly of the beast. The fierce, piercing roar of the dragon could be heard even over the roar of the battle in Speystown itself. His flight was abruptly cut short by the jerk. The Vermax fell, growling, puffing smoke, and pounding the water with its claws. Survivors said that he tried to get up, but only collapsed headfirst onto a burning galley. The tree split, the mast collapsed, and the dragon, beating its wings, became entangled in the rigging. When the ship capsized and sank, the Vermax went down with it. As they say, Jacaerys Velarion managed to get out and clung to one of the smoking wrecks for a few moments, until crossbowmen from the nearest Mirian ship began firing at him. The prince was hit once, twice... More and more Myrians took up crossbows. Finally, one of the bolts hit his neck, and Jace was swallowed up by the sea.