Daena Targaryen

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Daena Targaryen
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Alias Daena the Defiant
Allegiance House Targaryen
Culture Valyrian
Born 145 AC [1]
Spouse Baelor I

Daena Targaryen also known as Daena the Defiant was the eldest daughter of King Aegon III Dragonbane. She was the sister-wife of King Baelor I, the lover of King Aegon IV and mother to Daemon Blackfyre.

Character and appearance

Daena was strong, beautiful, wilful. like the rest of her siblings had their families Valyrian looks, her long silver-gold hair was thick and curly, framing her heart-shaped face. Her eyes were purple. She was athletic, fine archer and expert horsewoman.

She worshipped her father and idolized her brother Daeron, the Young Dragon. As a child, she always wore black in emulation of her father. After her brother Baelor failed to consummate their marriage, she changed to all white, and vowed to wear nothing else until she had been properly bedded, in hopes of shaming him. She always wore the golden three-headed dragon pendant she had inherited from her father. At court she wore it on a fine golden chain; when in disguise, she hung it on a leather thong and hid it beneath her clothes. Supposedly she even wore it when bathing, and when making love.[1]

History

Daena was the eldest daughter of Aegon III, and was born around 145 AC to unknown mother from the House Velaryon. At a early age, Daena was married to her brother Baelor, by her father, in the Targaryen tradition. Daena and Baelor marriage was an unhappy one, has her brother taken by the seven faith refuse to consumate their marriage and dissolved it when he ascended the Iron Throne, after her elder brother King Daeron I died in Drone. Later Daena and her sisters were confined to their own apartments in the Red Keep(Later known as the Maidenvault), so the sight of them would not tempt Baelor or others in his court to mortal lusts. Daena was 16 at this time.

According to semi-canon sources, during her time of confinment at the Maidenvault, Daena has escaped several times and had an affair with her cousin Prince Aegon, despite his marriage to his own sister-wife Naerys. when she became pregnant she refused to name the father and became known as 'Daena the Defiant'. She named her son Daemon and raised him alone.[1] The father was only revealed years later when Aegon IV(who by that time was the king) gave Daemon the ancestral Targaryen sword Blackfyre, acknowledging him as one of his bastards.

Family

 
 
 
Daena
Targaryen
 
 
 
 
Aegon IV
Targaryen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Barba
Bracken
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Daemon I
 
Rohanne
of Tyrosh
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aegon
 
 
Daemon II
 
 
Aenys
 
Two sons
 
 
Calla
 
Aegor
Rivers
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aemon
 
Haegon
 
Unknown
wife
 
Daughter(s)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Daemon III
 
Son(s)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Daemon
 
Maelys
 

References and Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Citadel SSM:Three Maidens in a Tower(June 27, 2006)