Even though A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms mainly revolves around knights and the common folk, the Targaryens cannot be overlooked. One of them you already know from Game of Thrones, even though he is significantly older there.
Attention Spoiler: The following article discusses events from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and also mentions details from the novels.
Which character is being talked about? In episode 3 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, it is revealed that Egg is not just a normal boy; he is Aegon V. Targaryen, son of Prince Maekar I. Targaryen. Aegon is not alone, he also has brothers, who we will see in the series:
- Aerion Targaryen is the arrogant second son of Maekar and acts as a sort of villain in the series. He is the reason Duncan has to fight him.
- Daeron Targaryen appears in episode 1, and he is the oldest son of Maekar. In the series, he is portrayed as a good-for-nothing drunkard – but there is more to it.
But we are still missing the 3rd son of Maekar, who gave Egg his nickname. If you remember Game of Thrones well, you know him.
A life not suited for a royal family
Which Targaryen lived in Game of Thrones? Already in the 3rd episode of season 1 of Game of Thrones (US release: 01.05.2011) we meet Maester Aemon. As we later learn, he is actually a Targaryen. He is not just any relative of the family, he is Egg’s brother.
Aemon was born before Egg. When he was small, he was sent to the Citadel by Daeron II. Targaryen, his grandfather. Daeron did not want too many Targaryens on site, as he saw the rule threatened by too much succession. This is likely also the reason why Aemon has not yet been seen in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
The Citadel is a place for the brightest minds in Westeros, who deal with history and science. There, Maesters are trained who later serve as advisors to kings or other lords. At the Citadel, Aemon studied hard and even met Egg and Duncan within the story (this will probably happen much later in the series).
Aemon became a Maester at the age of 19 and also worked for an unknown lord as one. When his father became king, he did not want a seat on the council, so he became the Maester of his brother Daeron in Dragonstone. After his father, who himself had become king, died, Aemon was supposed to take the throne. However, he declined.
Since we do not want to spoil the story of further seasons of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms for you, we will jump ahead a bit in the next section.
Aemon at the Night’s Watch
What does Aemon do at the Night’s Watch? To protect his family and not to be used as a tool against them, Aemon went to the Wall of the Night’s Watch, specifically to the Black Fortress. There he stayed for several decades, so long that his relatives likely faded from memory.
He himself says of himself that his vow to the Night’s Watch has been tested by the gods three times: Three times the gods deemed it fitting to test my vows. Once when I was a boy, once when I was in the prime of my manhood, and once when I was old
(Source: In Deep Geek on YouTube).
Here we are already at the events of Game of Thrones and the present in the books. Long before A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, viewers already learned about Egg. Just before his death, Aemon said to Goldy’s baby in episode 7 of season 5 of Game of Thrones:
This laughter. Egg! Egg laughed just like that. One of the first things I remember. [Tarly explains who Egg was] But long before that, he was a cheerful little fellow, just like he is here.
From this, one can infer that Egg and Aemon probably had a good relationship with each other. According to A Wiki of Ice and Fire, the two played together as children and even imagined themselves as dragon riders.
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