Editing Dragonseed (section)

===Origins===
The [[custom]] of the [[first night]] — that when [[smallfolk]] [[marriage|marry]], their lord or king has the privilege to bed the bride on the wedding night — had been greatly resented in the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. However, it was less protested on [[Dragonstone]], where the Targaryens had ruled for centuries, because there the common folk viewed their beautiful, foreign rulers almost as [[gods]].{{Ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - The Red Dragon and the Gold}}{{ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Aegon II}} When a [[Lord of Dragonstone]] took his rights according to the first night custom, the bride considered herself "blessed" if she conceived a child.{{ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Aegon II}} A child born of the union was greatly valued, and the lord would grant the mother generous gifts of [[gold]] and [[silk]] and land. The bastards were said to be "born of dragonseed", and in time, became known as "dragonseeds" or "seeds".{{Ref|FAB|Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies}}{{Ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - The Red Dragon and the Gold}}

The term "dragonseed" existed for some generations before the [[Dance of the Dragons]], as King [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen]] noted in {{date|58}} that Targaryen bastards fathered during the first night were often called this. Jaehaerys admitted that it was considered something of an open secret that his grandfather [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon's]] great friend and commander [[Orys Baratheon]] was in truth Aegon's bastard half-brother, though he knew nothing about Orys's mother or the circumstances of his birth (such as whether he was conceived through the first night or just a youthful dalliance by [[Aerion Targaryen (son of Daemion)|Aegon's father]]).{{Ref|FAB|Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies}}

Though the right of the first night ended when it was outlawed by King Jaehaerys, some Targaryens continued to carry on relationships with the daughters of innkeeps and the wives of fishermen. Seeds and the sons of seeds thus remained plentiful on Dragonstone and surrounding areas, and there were many on Dragonstone who could rightly claim — or at least suspect — that some Targaryen blood ran in their veins.{{Ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - The Red Dragon and the Gold}}{{ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Aegon II}}