A Bit More (Fake) History

[grrm]

I had intended to write this post a few days ago, when Bantam gave me the green light, but I got busy, and we had Carrie Vaughn coming to town, and a worldcon/ Hugo deadline approaching, and all that seemed more time-sensitive, so I wrote those instead. Unfortunately, that meant the news below broke from other sources, and inevitably, all sorts of

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Re: SO stoked for this.

[themadpianist]

Hm, m_tootles. Who are you referring to as a "Maegor-come-again"? One that "nobody is particularly savvy to and many see as pointless"?

I don't suspect it's the boy currently calling himself Aegon Targaryen. For one thing, Young Griff has that quality halfway between eagerness and arrogance, but does not seem to have a cruel streak: for another, I think his destiny is to be the equivalent of a real-world Perkin Warbeck - a possible royal bastard or offshoot, who happens to look enough like a true member of the royal family for his claim of being a surviving "murdered princeling" to be plausible. Especially given all the setting up of the Blackfyre dynasty as a backstory plot, and the backing of the Blackfyre-supporting Golden Company, and the hint of a missing black dragon (inn sign) that turned up rusted to red. That's a popular theory - Aegon being a Blackfyre descent.

But a "Maegor come again"? Are we missing a descendant of the OTHER Maegor - the son of Aerion Brightflame who was disinherited by Grand Council, who might have a better blood claim than anyone, Daenerys and all?

Or is it a reference to a truly cruel wannabe-king who seems to have taken against all kinds of religions and beliefs as Maegor did, which would fit Euron Greyjoy (who is still barely known outside of the really intense fandom community that actually checks up on unpublished sneak previews and readings)? It's been hinted that Euron may turn into one of Daenerys's greatest enemies - the one-eyed kraken floating on a sea of blood that Moqorro hinted at. That would definitely fit your comment about many seeing him as pointless, since he's hardly shown himself at all in the TV series, and even in the books we've seen surprisingly little yet.

Or were you meaning someone else entirely?