The Rogue Prince, or, a King's Brother is a novelette by George R. R. Martin, distributed in the 2014 Bantam Spectra collection Rogues.[1][2] It is set in the Westeros of Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire arrangement, several years prior to the occasions of A Game of Thrones (1996) amid the rule of King Viserys I Targaryen. The Rogue Prince fills in as a prequel to Martin's 2013 novella The Princess and the Queen and concentrates on the rule of Viserys I, from his granddad Jaehaerys I Targaryen's demise to his own. It accounts the developing connection amongst Viserys and his sibling Prince Daemon, and the ruler's arrangement for progression to his little girl from his first marriage despite the fact that he has a child from his second marriage, which concretes a contention inside the Targaryens that plays out in The Princess and the Queen.
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With his dad Baelon effectively dead, 26-year-old Viserys is delegated lord upon Jaehaerys' passing. Hitched to Aemma of House Arryn, Viserys names their little girl Rhaenyra as his successor, however settled laws of primogeniture would make his sibling Daemon next in line. After Aemma's passing, the King weds Alicent Hightower. They soon deliver a male beneficiary, Aegon; yet Viserys never revokes his decision of Rhaenyra to succeed him. The ruler and ruler thusly have a little girl and two more children. Building up her own family unit at the Targaryen familial seat of Dragonstone, Rhaenyra is marry to her Targaryen cousin Laenor Velaryon and has three children. Since Laenor is known to lean toward men and Rhaenyra's young men don't show up customarily Targaryen, gossipy tidbits hold on that they are ill-conceived. Ill will amongst Rhaenyra and Alicent additionally puts their youngsters inconsistent with each other. After Laenor's passing, Daemon weds Rhaenyra in mystery. They have two children—another Aegon and Viserys—and a girl Visenya. The ensuing demise of King Viserys sets the phase for The Princess and the Queen.
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