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 A young Prince Viserys and Larra Rogare holding the toddler Prince Aegon, as depicted by Magali Villeneuve in The World of Ice & Fire. | ||||
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| Alias | Larra of Lys[1] | |||
| Title | Lady[1][2] | |||
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| Culture | Lysene | |||
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115 AC[3] Lys | |||
| Died |
145 AC[4] Lys | |||
| Father | Lysandro Rogare | |||
| Spouse | Prince Viserys Targaryen[5] | |||
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Lady Larra Rogare was a member of House Rogare of Lys. She married Prince Viserys Targaryen, the younger brother of King Aegon III Targaryen. With Viserys, Larra had three children: King Aegon IV, Prince Aemon, and Queen Naerys Targaryen. She eventually abandoned Viserys and returned to Lys.
Appearance and Character
Larra was considered a great beauty.[6][1] She had pale skin,[1] and the silver-gold hair and purple eyes of Valyria.[6] Larra was tall and willowy.[6] She only dressed in Lysene fashion, even during her time in King's Landing.[2]
Larra was fluent in High Valyrian and the dialects of Lys, Myr, Tyrosh, and Old Volantis, but not the Common Tongue.[2] She worshiped several Lysene deities, including Pantera, Yndros of the Twilight, Bakkalon, and Saagael.[2]
According to Mushroom, Larra liked to hear the music played by Sandoq the Shadow, her guardsman, on a large stringed instrument, although it always made her cry. Mushroom also claimed that he could occasionally make Larra laugh, despite her not understanding the Common Tongue. He said that she preferred crying to Sandoq's music over laughing at his japes.[2]
History
Early life and marriage
Larra was born in 115 AC, the youngest daughter of Lysandro Rogare, the head of the wealthy and influential banking family in Lys. When Lysandro came into the possession of the captive Prince Viserys Targaryen, he quickly[N 1] married him to his daughter Larra, despite her being seven years his senior.[1] Not long thereafter, Larra's uncle, Drazenko Rogare, approached Lord Alyn Velaryon at Sunspear, informing him where Viserys could be found. Lysandro Rogare's ransom terms included that Velaryon had to swear upon his honor that Larra's marriage to Viserys would not be set aide, for whatever reason. When Velaryon agreed to Lysandro's terms, he brought Viserys back to King's Landing in 134 AC. Larra accompanied him,[1] with three of her brothers, Moredo, Lotho, and Roggerio.[2]
King Aegon III Targaryen, his court, and the city celebrated Prince Viserys's return, as he had been believed dead for five years. The king's brother's "revival", along with the fact that Larra was of childbearing age, helped resolve the question of succession to the Iron Throne, open since the end of the Dance of the Dragons, and particularly since King Aegon III had married the young Daenaera Velaryon. The king's regents quickly confirmed the legitimacy of Larra's marriage to Viserys. Viserys also confided to Grand Maester Munkun that he had consummated his marriage.[1]
Life in King's Landing
Larra moved into the Red Keep with her husband, but did not manage to adapt to the customs of the Seven Kingdoms. All her clothing came from Lys, even her smallclothes; Rogare ships delivered the latest Lysene fashions to her three times a year. She made no attempt to learn the Common Tongue, and instead used translators. She kept only Lysene servants, and even her protectors were Lysene, under the command of her brother Moredo and Sandoq the Shadow. Larra also had no interest in the Faith of the Seven or the old gods of the north, but continued to worship Lysene gods, to whom she did obeisances.[2]
Though the people of King's Landing rejoiced when Prince Viserys announced to the royal court that Larra was pregnant, they soon came to dislike and mistrust her. Cats were frequently seen coming and going from Larra's chambers, and people began to whisper that they were her spies. Some even claimed that Larra was able to transform herself into a cat, and darker rumors followed soon after. Her worship of the god Yndros caused men to whisper that Larra would transform herself into a man to visit the brothels on the Street of Silk. Because of her worship of Saagael, she was blamed every time a child went missing. Larra's brothers were also greatly disliked, as they were proud, grasping, and ambitious, and their foreign origin and practices led to suspicion and mistrust. By late 134 AC, some of King's Landing began to fear that the Rogares would soon rule the Seven Kingdoms, with Larra holding the strings.[2]
Larra gave birth during the third month of 135 AC to a son whom Viserys named Aegon, after his brother, King Aegon III. Prince Aegon was anointed with the seven oils of the Faith of the Seven, but when it became known that Larra wished to have Aegon blessed by her own gods as well, people began to whisper about obscene ceremonies and blood sacrifices.[2]
Following the sudden deaths of Larra's father Lysandro and her uncle Drazenko, Larra's eldest brother Lysaro drained the gold held by the Rogare Bank. When rumors began to spread that the Rogare Bank was unsound, House Rogare fell from power in Lys. The consequences extended to Westeros, where lords and merchants realized that the coin they had entrusted to the Rogare Bank was lost, and Lotho and Roggerio were arrested. Ser Marston Waters of the Kingsguard, the new Hand of the King, also ordered Larra's arrest, but when Ser Amaury Peake arrived at Maegor's Holdfast to arrest her, he found himself denied entrance by Larra's husband Viserys, and Viserys's brother, King Aegon III.[2]
During the secret siege, Larra, Viserys, Aegon III, Queen Daenaera Velaryon, and several servants were trapped in Maegor's Holdfast for eighteen days. According to Marston Waters, Lord Thaddeus Rowan, the previous Hand, had confessed to having plotted with Larra's three brothers to poison King Aegon III and Queen Daenaera in order to crown Viserys king, with Larra as his queen. When Rowan was brought before Maegor's Holdfast to confirm his confessions, Viserys was quick to reveal Rowan had been tortured into giving a false confession. Six days after Marston fulfilled his king's command to arrest those who had falsely implicated Lord Rowan and the Rogares, the siege came to an end. After his arrest, the conspirator Septon Bernard confessed that he had been motivated by his religion, as he felt that Larra and her foreign gods had no place in Westeros. He claimed that it had been intended for Larra to die, so Viserys could ascend the throne and take a "proper Westerosi queen."[2][9]
In 136 AC, when trials were held for those implicated in the siege and turmoil that had gone before, Larra was pregnant with her second child. She attended the trials together with her husband Viserys, her young son Aegon, and his wet nurse. Larra was also present when Lord Torrhen Manderly passed his judgment on Lotho and Roggerio, and wept when the sentences were proclaimed.[2]
On the eve of Smith's Day in 136 AC, Larra gave birth to her second son, Aemon.[2] When Aegon struck the infant Aemon with the dragon egg that had been placed in his cradle, she rushed to separate them. Two years later, Larra gave birth to a daughter, Naerys.[6]
Larra never felt part of the court at King's Landing, and was never truly happy in Westeros.[6] In 139 AC,[4] a year after having given birth to Naerys, Larra returned to Lys. Viserys, an otherwise charming man, grew stern after Larra left him and their children.[9] Larra eventually died in 145 AC[4] of unknown causes.
Legacy
The royal lineage of House Targaryen descends from Larra Rogare.[5] In 153 AC, Viserys had his and Larra's children, Aegon and Naerys, wed to each other, while Aemon became a knight of the Kingsguard.[9][6] Aegon and Naerys's son Daeron was born on the last day of that year.[10] After Viserys's nephew, King Baelor I Targaryen, died childless in 171 AC, he ascended to the throne as King Viserys II. As Larra was long dead by that time, King Viserys II had no queen.[6] A year later, Viserys died and was succeeded by his and Larra's eldest son, King Aegon IV Targaryen, with Naerys as his queen.[6]
Quotes
Let Aegon have his child-bride; Larra of Lys was like to give Viserys children sooner rather than later, thereby securing the dynasty.[1]
—words of Gyldayn
I could sometimes make the lady laugh, though she did not understand more than a few words of our tongue, but the Shadow's playing always made her weep, and strange to say she liked that better.[2]
If you are come to take my lady wife, ser, turn and go, for you shall not pass whilst I still stand.[2]
You stood beside me when the dragon ate my mother. All you did was watch. I will not have you watch while they kill my brother's wife.[2]
Family
| Unknown women | Lysandro | Unknown wife | Drazenko | Aliandra Martell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 bastard children | Lysaro | Fredo | Moredo | Roggerio | Lysara | Larra | Viserys II Targaryen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Daughters | Daughters | Drako | Lotho | Marra | Aegon IV Targaryen | Naerys Targaryen | Aemon Targaryen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Behind the Scenes
In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, the book prop The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, created before the release of The World of Ice & Fire, lists Viserys II Targaryen's wife as "Visneya Targaryen".[11]
Notes
- ↑ According the The World of Ice & Fire, Larra Rogare was nineteen when she married Viserys, which would place their marriage in 134 AC.[7] However, Fire & Blood, which says Lysandro Rogare quickly changed plans after learning the identity of Viserys, implies a faster timeline.[1] Elio Garcia has clarified[8] that The World of Ice & Fire is incorrect and a more accurate date for Viserys and Larra's wedding would be 132 AC or 133 AC.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - The Voyage of Alyn Oakenfist.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 Fire & Blood, The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency.
- ↑ See the Larra Rogare calculation.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The World of Ice and Fire AMA
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 The World of Ice & Fire, Appendix: Targaryen Lineage.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Viserys II.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Free Cities: The Quarrelsome Daughters: Myr, Lys, and Tyrosh.
- ↑ asoiaf.westeros.org: The ASOIAF wiki thread – Comment by Ran, March 10, 2026
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV.
- ↑ The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms on the Wiki of Westeros