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| Alias | Pretty Peri[1] | |||
| Title | Lady of Maidenpool[1] | |||
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| Culture | Valemen | |||
| Born | 67 AC[2] | |||
| Spouse | Lord Jonah Mooton[1] | |||
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Perianne Moore was a member of House Moore during the reign of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen and a lady companion to Jaehaerys's daughter, Princess Saera Targaryen.[1]
Appearance and Character
Queen Alysanne Targaryen considered Lady Perianne to be a pretty, vapid, empty-headed little fool from what she had seen of her. Grand Maester Elysar called her a trull.[1]
History
Perianne was a maiden of an age with Princess Saera Targaryen, attending the royal court at the Red Keep in King's Landing. In 82 AC, Perianne became a favorite and dearest friend of the princess, along with Alys Turnberry. Saera nicknamed Perianne "Pretty Peri".[1]
Saera and her five favorites — Perianne, Alys, Jonah Mooton, Lord Roy Connington, and Ser Braxton Beesbury, called Stinger — became inseparable at every feast and ball. They hunted and hawked together, and once sailed across Blackwater Bay to Dragonstone together. When the young lords rode at rings or crossed swords in the yards, the three girls cheered them on. King Jaehaerys I Targaryen was pleased at his daughter's popularity and friendship, but Queen Alysanne Targaryen was concerned about the character of Perianne, Alys, and the three boys. Nevertheless, King Jaehaerys felt they could not get up to trouble, with all the servants attending them watching.[1]
In 84 AC, an incident occurred between Saera's male favorites and Tom Turnip, King Jaehaerys's fool, at the Blue Pearl, a brothel in King's Landing, something Jonah claimed had been the princess's idea. Perianne and Alys were woken in the middle of the night and questioned by Queen Alysanne, telling them to tell the truth or they would join their male friends in the dungeons. Before long, the girls were weeping and pleading for forgiveness, although their confessions said almost nothing about the incident they were being questioned about. Perianne explained that Saera had been teaching Alys how to kiss, and she asked to be taught to kiss too, to train for their future marriages. Alys revealed that one night the girls had started kissing each other with their clothes off, taking turns pretending they were boys. Then, Saera dared Alys to kiss a real boy, and she dared Perianne, and both dared Saera, who said she would kiss a man grown, a knight. This began the ladies' affairs with Red Roy, Jonah, and Stinger. Perianne explained that Stinger did the "training" for all of them.[1]
Queen Alysanne then demanded to know where their septas and servants had been during all of this. Perianne, confused, explained that servants do what you tell them, and they had sent them out of the room. As for the ones who knew, Stinger had threatened to have their tongues out if they talked. Alys then confessed to being with child, and that she did not know who the father was. Alysanne sent both girls to bed, and told them that the next morning they would make a confession to a septa and be forgiven by the Mother.[1]
Hasty marriages were arranged for the two girls. Perianne, who was not pregnant, was wed to another of Saera's favorites, Jonah Mooton, the heir to Maidenpool. The king told Jonah that since he had played a part in Perianne's ruin, he should play a part in her redemption. The marriage was successful, and eventually Jonah and Perianne ruled together as Lord and Lady of Maidenpool.[1]
A year and a half after the scandal, Saera fled from her punishment in Oldtown. King Jaehaerys thought she might seek out her friends, and told Jonah and Perianne to keep watch for her in Maidenpool, but Saera did not go there.[1]
Quotes
The boys train at fighting every morning, why shouldn't we train at kissing? That's what girls are meant to do, isn't it?[1]
—Perianne, to Queen Alysanne Targaryen
—Perianne, to Queen Alysanne Targaryen