![]() ![]() While Viserys is near death in 132 AC, the dagger is placed near his bed. Rhaenyra intervenes and fights Alicent off, though her left forearm is injured. ĭuring a fiery exchange of words over the maiming of Aemond Targaryen in 126 AC, Queen Alicent becomes so furious that the king refuses to punish Lucerys, that she snatches the dagger from him and attacks the boy. Rhaenyra picks up the dagger and reads aloud the revealing words, which prompts Viserys to explain its history. Īpproximately four years later, Viserys puts the dagger inside a brazier for Rhaenyra when he summons her to his chambers after she was caught with Daemon on the Street of Silk. Nine years into his reign, he clutches it as he tells Rhaenyra the secret of Aegon's dragon dream and how the dagger and the prophecy have been passed from king to heir since Aegon I's time. The Valyrian steel dagger is in the possession of Viserys I Targaryen. Young Rhaenyra Targaryen reads Aegon I's prophecy from the dagger. After realizing the threat would not arrive in his own lifetime, he had the last of the Valyrian pyromancers incise his prophecy into the blade, only revealed in extreme heat: "From my blood will come the prince that was promised, and his will be the Song of Ice and Fire." House of the Dragon: Season 1 Aegon interpreted the dream as indicating that a Targaryen had to rule a unified Westeros to counteract the threat. Prior to Aegon's Conquest, Aegon had a prophetic dream in which he foresaw the return of the White Walkers and the Great War. Over the course of the century following the Doom, the dagger passed down through Aenar's descendants, eventually to Aegon the Conqueror. Aenar and his family were the only dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria, having left to settle on the island of Dragonstone twelve years before. The Valyrian steel dagger had its origin in Old Valyria, though its precise history before it came into the possession of Aenar Targaryen is unknown. ![]()
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