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