Aemon

He has a seat on the council and lets Joffrey throw a bone to his dog.

Tyrion argues with her that Barristan was Robert's Kingsguard, one of the only survivors of Aerys's Kingsguard, a legend in the small folk's eyes like Serwyn of the Mirror Shield and Aemon the Dragon Knight.

What are the people going to think if they see him riding for Stannis or Robb Stark? And Serwyn's like, uh, I hadn't considered that.

But father did, Tyrion says, which is why Tyrion has been sent to put an end to these follies and bring Joffrey to heed.

If there are any historical Targaryens named Aegor, Martin hasn't made it known.

Like Daemon is Aemon with a D, Aegor is Maegor without the M, an ominous choice, I think.

Yeah, and Barba chose to emphasize this side of his heritage and not his Riverlander heritage, as opposed to, say, I don't know, Brynden Rivers perhaps?

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Point out that a crazy person chose your family's destiny, and well, that just might be persuasive enough.

Mm-hmm.

Whatever tactics they used, Lord Bracken and his daughter's ambitions were a scandal to much of the royal court, including notables like Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, who was probably Lord Commander of the Kingsguard by then, Prince Daeron himself, the heir, and surely Myriah Martell, who was the prince's wife and herself the rightful successor to Queen Naerys.

Yeah, she wouldn't be happy about any [laughs] of this either.