dohaeras | fire & blood quotes.

quotes from FIRE & BLOOD (about aemond, things he would have read about his family written by Archmaester Gyldayn, and interesting factoids).

• [Daemon] ... lean and hard, a renowned warrior, dashing, daring, more than a little dangerous.

• ... in 110AC [Alicent] bore him a second son, Aemond, who was said to be half the size of his elder brother, but twice as fierce.

• Even at ten Aemond Targaryen did not lack for boldness.

• What did [Aemond] want with some puny hatchling, or some stupid egg? Right there at High Tide there was a dragon worthy of him: Vhagar, the oldest, largest, most terrible dragon in the world.

• Later [Aemond] would say that he was so afraid of being caught that he forgot to be frightened of being burned to death and eaten.

• By the time the stableboys finally arrived to pull apart the combatants, the prince [Aemond] was writhing on the ground howling in pain, and Vhagar was roaring as well.

• Prince Aemond, despite the loss of his eye, had become a proficient and dangerous swordsman under the tutelage of Ser Criston Cole, but remained a wild and willful child, hot-tempered and unforgiving.

• One-Eyed Prince Aemond, nineteen, was found in the armoury, donning plate and mail for his morning practice in the castle yard. "Is Aegon king?" he asked Ser Willis Fell, "or must we kneel and kiss the old whore's cunny?"

• ... with a sapphire in the place of his missing eye.

• "Your purpose is to win the hand of one of Lord Baratheon's daughters. Any of the four will do. Woo her and wed her, and Lord Borros will deliver the Stormlands to your brother. Fail -" ... "I will not fail," Prince Aemond blustered. "Aegon will have Storm's End, and I will have this girl."

• The tragedy that befell Lucarys Targaryen at Storm's End was never planned, on this all of our sources can agree.

• We have no record of which daughter Prince Aemond finally decided on (though Mushroom tells us "he kissed all four to taste the nectar of their lips"), save that it was not Maris [the clever one].

• "Look at this sad creature, my lord," Prince Aemond called out. "Little Luke Strong, the bastard." To Luke he said, "You are wet, bastard. Is it raining or did you piss yourself in fear?"

• "Hold, Strong, First pay the debt you owe me." Then [Aemond] tore off his eye-patch and flung it to the floor, to show the sapphire beneath. "You have a knife, just as you did then. Put out your eye, and I will let you leave. One will serve. I would not blind you. You came here as a craven and a traitor. I will have your eye or your life, Strong."

• And there it might have ended, but for the girl Maris. The secondborn daughter of Lord Borros, less comely than her sisters, she was angry with Aemond for preferring them to her. "Was it one of your eyes he took, or one of your balls?" Maris asked the prince, in tones sweet as honey. "I am so glad you chose my sister. I want a husband with all his parts."

• Maris, the fourth daughter, joined the Silent Sisters ... after her lady mother had her tongue removed.

• Aemond Targaryen ... who would henceforth be known as Aemond Kinslayer to his foes ...

• "You must rule the realm now, until your brother is strong enough to take the crown again," the King's Hand told Prince Aemond. Nor did Ser Criston need to say it twice ... And so one-eyed Aemond the Kinslayer took up the iron-and-ruby crown of Aegon the Conqueror. "It looks better on me than it ever did on him," he proclaimed. Yet Aemond did not assume the style of a king, but named himself on Protector of the Realm and Prince Regent.

• Supremely confident in his own prowess as a warrior and the might of his dragon, Vhagar, Aemond was eager to take the battle to the foe. "The whore on Dragonstone is not the threat," he said ... "The danger is my uncle. Once Daemon is dead, all these fools flying our sister's banners will run back to their castles and trouble us no more."

• [Aemond] had no wish to share the glory with his brothers, or any man.

• [Aemond's] fury was fearsome to behold ... the prince cut the old man to pieces, then fed him to his dragon.

• [Alys Rivers] ... though the wet nurse was twice his age (thrice, if we put our trust in Mushroom) Prince Aemond had taken her into his bed as a prize ... oddly ... seemingly preferring her to all the other women of the castle, including many pretty maids of his own years.

• [Aemond said] "Only a craven runs from traitors" ... [Aemond] had almost strangled the boy who delivered the news ... only the intercession of his bedmate Alys Rivers had saved the boy's life.

• [Alys Rivers] who had used love potions and philtres to inflame their passions ... it was Aemond alone who had become besotted with the Rivers woman, to such an extent that he could not bear the thought of leaving her.

• Prince Aemond became the terror of the trident, descending from the sky to rain fire and death upon the riverlands, then vanishing, only to strike again the next day fifty leagues away ... the witch woman, Alys Rivers, escaped with [him].

• [Aemond Targaryen], clad in nightblack armour chased in gold.

• As Aemond One-Eye looked up in terror, fumbling with the chains that bound him to his saddle, Daemon ripped off his nephew's helm and drove the sword down into his blind eye, so hard the point came out the back of the young prince's throat.

• Prince Aemond's armoured bones remained chained to her saddle, with Dark-Sister thrust hilt-deep through his eye-socket.

• Daemon Targaryen was nine-and-forty at his death; Prince Aemond had only turned twenty.

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• [Rhaena Targaryen] was the blood of the dragon, and far too proud to linger long where she was not wanted.

• [Daemon Targaryen], a hot-tempered and quarrelsome young man of twenty ... the king's ambitious, impetuous, moody younger brother ...

• [Prince Daemon] had earned his knight's spurs at six-and-ten, and had been given Dark Sister by the Old King himself in recognition of his prowess ... Governance bored this warrior prince.

• [Daemon] regarded himself as rightful heir to the Iron Throne, and coveted the title Prince of Dragonstone ... he was known to his friends as the Prince of the City and to the smallfolk as Lord Flea Bottom.

• [Daemon Targaryen] was not a faithful consort to the queen.

• Alys Rivers was at least forty years of age during the Dance of Dragons ...

• Silverwing and Vermithor oft coiled about one another ...

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