HOUSE OF THE DRAGON - The CURSE of House TARGARYEN, Explained 

The reason the targaryens practice incest is because of the blood rituals/ sacrificies their ancestors created to bond with dragon. It implied that the blood of the dragon is literally dragon blood and breeding out of there bloodline alot might dilute it so they can't bond with dragons. It's shown in the tapestry in the intro. There's also appears to be some sort of psychic link with the dragons which would make them more passionate n instincts like there dragons.

Viserys was not "weak" he was too kind. But I guess it depends from the pov.

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<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="120">2:00</a> Daemon did not marry Mysaria in season 1!

Putting aside the fact that Leana was only twelve when she was offered to Viserys, Rhynaera would not have had the support of the Valeryons against Leana's son with Viserys. Corlys is ambitious, and Rhaenys would finally see her offspring on the throne after being denied herself. Whoever married Viserys would want their child-not Rhynaera- on the throne. Viserys cannot win. He could have later followed advice and married Rhynaera to Aegon, which while nasty to us- would have avoided the Dance of Dragons.

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Another theory is that the Targaryens have an empathic link to the dragons in both GOT and HOTD. The Targaryens use this empathic link to control and command the dragons, and the dragons feel and emulate the emotions of their riders such as when in distress. However, this empathic link to a wild creature flows two ways in that the animal wildness of the dragon influences the minds of the riders over time. The more the Targaryens interact with the dragons the more wild, violent, and ultimately insane they become. This may indeed be seen as a metaphor for the corrupting effect (i.e. insanity) of power (i.e, the dragons), that is the more the Tragaryen rider use the dragon or its power, the more corruption or insanity falls upon the rider.

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Let’s NOT FORGET that aegon n heleana Targaryen/Hightower are ALSO brother n sister! The hypocrisy of Otto n Alicent is astounding

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Everyone in Westeros is brutal... Boltons,Lannisters, Ironborn etc.... Targos just had bigger weapons. .....

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I don't like the Acolyte but love HOTD. So all these things that people say we don't like about the Acolyte, HOTD has the same kind of things. So maybe we all aren't the things that people say we are.

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The acting was always incredible, but last sundays HOTD ep. I kept forgetting i wasnt watching a play. It was insane . Targaryans will always be my favourite house 🐉

From the beginning, Valeria always made me think of Melnibone. Anyone else feel like this?

There are these theories, supported by the books (I haven't read the books - but I heard them from reliable RU-vidrs, so they seem very believable to me), that the Valyrians were created by crossing humans with dragons (blood magic? genetic experiements?). Therefore, the people of Valyria (including the Tragaryens) have dragon blood. This allows them to bond with dragons. And this is the reason they don't want to dilute their blood, otherwise they may lose the dragon bond. And that's the reason for their incest.

That kinda reminds me of vampires, they feel human emotions but a lot stronger we might fight a friend for sleeping with our girl but a vampire would put them in a coffin and bury them for a couple centuries .

The Joffrey incest theory is not a bad one. However, that would mean that in Valyria all that incest would of caused their passion and cruelty to manifest. How can one generation of Lannister incest cause Joffrey to be the cruellest King in GOT? It has to take more generations on incest for these traits to dominate.

Probably and its probably why Jon exhibited more the less intense side but he also had a very diverse background on his other side.

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I completely agree with your POV.

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I think it stems from them not listening to the true dreams like Helena, the curse of using blood magic, and them believing in a false prophecy (then thinking they are the Prince that was Promise). In real history most of the royal families married their cousins…which created birth defects, tyrannical behavior, and succession wars. Martin was heavily influenced by the War of The Roses, Emperess Matilda vs. King Stephen, Greek/Roman/Egyptian history…and Queen Victoria’s Grandchildren (who all married into the Royal families of Europe…and who all fought against each other in WW1).

Targaryen madness always kicks in at some point, if we gave Jon enough time, we would of seen it with him too

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Aemond did not ALMOST kill his nephew. He pointed a loaded gun at Luke to scare him and when it went off acted surprised. That’s the modern real life equivalent to what Aemond did. There was no almost or accidentally. The dragon dragoned. The gun went off. But you never point a loaded gun at anyone unless you intend to use it. And a gun can’t think for itself.

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Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.

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I don't agree that the majority of Targs are "extreme" not in this world. Take a look outside the castle and the small folk and you will see extreme- violence, cruelty, torture, that's the world they live in. Yes, there are extreme examples where madness has clearly been caused by incest but it's not some complete familial affliction. The Targs are cursed but it's a magical one. The moment they used blood magic to control the dragons, they were cursed. Viserys knew this. You can see it in both GoT and particularly HotD, were so much disaster could have been avoided but then a small act of fate shifts the gears towards war a tragedy. I think the Valarians were punished for their blood magic and their hubris with the volcanic eruption and the doom. But the Targs were spared (thanks to Daneys the Dreamer) because the Lord of Light knew that Winter was coming and the White Walkers could only be stopped with dragons. Once the long night had been averted, Dany dies and the last connection between man and dragons was severed.

Guys, you are kinda late, MatPat and the whole Internet as a whole explains the madness of the Targaryen with inbreeding. Sill, a great episode

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Did he say that daemon almost killed is nephew?

The anwser to Targaryen incest was talked about by G.R.R.M Nothing to do with isolation. Only the valerian dragon Lord families had to practice incest in order to keep their bloodlines pure and control dragons. Regular folk of had no need to practice incest <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="746">12:26</a>

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What's interesting with Joffrey is he should've been mentally underdeveloped. That's more common from sibling inbreeding. Instead, he was just the psycho serial killer, which can just happen. Imbreeding is more about physical abnormalities than psychopathology. The Hapsburg chin. The pharoahs of Egypt had genetic diseases. I think the blood magic bonding with dragons is what creates the extreme behaviors in Targs. It may also be what mitigates the physiological problems they should be suffering from due to inbreeding.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="416">6:56</a> "...ALMOST kills.."??? Please explain that!

Aegon the conqueror Burned Harrenhall and his sons only. In the field of Fire out of 55,000 only 5,000 burned War had to happen yes but he wasn't just out for blood had he been he would of Just burned everyone. The army of the Dead was real! He knew it and did what had to be done

Should've used a LoTR reference for passion

Idk, entitlement & complacency explains Targ behavior just as much as incest don't you think?

NO Ryan.... Alicent has dark hair and still has blonde kids...Jon Snow has dark hair. . Rhaenyra kept trying to get one like her.... She can't know what hair will come out.... Just unlucky 😥

I disagree that the incest alone was the reason for the "madness". Targaryens practiced it for hundreds of years in old Valyria with no real issue until they started marrying into Westerosi houses for a time and then resumed the incest. It seems like the westerosi genes are the issue. Also, we cant assume genetics work the same way in this universe as in ours. Viserys kids with alicent were light haired, but Rhenerya's kids with Harwin were dark hair.

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I don't blame jaherhis for the civil war. He made it clear who was to inherit the iron throne. It was the hightowers self righteousness and piousness that did it. All they had to do was respect his decision. Edit: sorry I meant Viserys.

There's a theory that Tommen and Joffrey were the mad king's grandchildren

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Blood magik

Might explain why the dragon needs 3 heads For example.... You brought up tomon and joff... Might have spelled that wrong... Book marsala(sorry again) seemed nothing but normal... I mean I know her stitches kinda sucked... But I don't member anything crazy with her... N show marsala figured out Jamie was her dad and was emotionally developed to accept that shortly before her death... Idk if that means anything... And I understand the dragon has 3 heads is a book only thing... But that's what I thought of listening to your breakdown

Raenera has always been a liability. At least Raenyse was married with the intention of having children (heirs).

This would explain Daenerys Targaryen... whether you liked or hated her fate.

i just wish rheanyra and alicent had ran away when they had had the chance

Ryan Why do you think we did not get a funeral scene of Vaserys

You can’t talk about incest without talking about Craster. In the end I think we will understand his sorrowful life. Here is what I think happened. Craster’s mother made a deal with the Night King to handover sons… and NO, not for sacrifice to be his sons. Craster’s first daughter was from him when he was just a child and his mother then he bore children with his daughters, grand daughters, great granddaughter etc. Yes, crazy can come out in this born of incest but there is also MAGIC. Melisandre was wrong. She mistook, misheard, misread and or misunderstood the phrase “There is magic in kinG’s blood” the real phrase I believe is “There is magic in kiN’s blood” meaning incest, but only in “magical” families. This wordplay has been hinted at several times with a similar pairing “kinG slaying” and kiN slaying”. Since Targaryen have always been kings it was difficult to make a difference. She tried with Stannis but it was weak and tricks she could conjure regardless. The Night King was looking to revive ancient Stark magic by compounding the kin’s blood each generation. There are only two families that are bonded to magical creatures, the Targaryens and dragons and the Starks with dire wolves. At some point the North Forgot and stopped kin’s blood mating which was probably around the time they also lost their dire wolves. However the traits that we see in the Targaryens we can still see in the Starks. Brandon Stark was considered a bit of a madman, but then there was Ned Stark too shy to ask girls to dance. Same traits with Rob Stark “passionate” and war like and “””PRE-FALL””” Bran who was regularly beaten at archery by his sister Arya. I came to the series very late and decades after the first book and by then certain theories had been etched in blood… like R+L=J. I don’t see it. I do not see Jon having one iota of Targaryen blood in him. In fact, I think GRRM told us explicitly that Jon is NOT a Targaryen. In the maestro’s diary that supposedly tells of the marriage between R+L, it is written on the bottom of the page (meaning it could have been added at a later date) it was only one sentence and it was in a diary that the maester kept a re cord of his bowel movements… GRRM is trolling and saying that that book was full of isht. My theory is B+L=J Benjen is Jon’s father. This is why Ned was lenient with Cersei when he figured out that her brother was the father to her children. What did Aaryn say “The seed is strong”… yes it is.Jaime and Cersei getting it on in the Old Keep was literally a reenactment of Benjen and Leanna’s trists. It bothered Catelyn to no end that Jon looked more like a Stark than her own children…. That is because he was 100% Stark just like Daenerys was 100% Targaryen both born from a pairing with brother and sister. The first person in the book and in the show Jon talks about fatherhood is with Benjen. It would also make sense why Ned sent Benjen to the Wall even though he had no brothers as banner men and his children were still babies. In the show, when Ned says he will tell Jon about his mother the camera pivots to Benjen. Not all kin’s blood are weak or crazy some are balanced like the 1st Aegon, Rhaenerys Valarion etc. What if the real song of Ice and Fire was a Prince or Princess that was promised to blend these two families to forever restore balance to the universe. If you ignore season 8 (good riddance) Jon and Danaerys are the best of Ice and FIre… wouldn’t their pairing bring balance to the universe? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I am going to say something really Blasphemous… . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . . . . I think Ned killed Lyanna when he found out about the baby. (Tower of Joy never happened, it was implanted in Ned’s “fever dream”. I think he killed her and wanted to kill Jon just like he wanted to kill all the dire wolf pups at the beginning. He killed her because if he didn’t he knew that the Stag (Robert) would. I think that the Night King who can skin change into the dead , skin changed into Lyanna and resurrected her for a moment and made Ned promise not to kill the child. I think this scared the isht out of Ned and this is why he broke thousands of years of tradition and buried Lyanna in the Winterfell Crypts to keep her spirit contained. There I said it. . .

Okay, but how does all of Alicent’s children have white hair even though they’re only half Targaryen like Rhaenyra’s children? Or are only men able to pass that gene on…?

Daemon never inherited ruinstone and never married maysaria

Bullet Points please

I agree Rhanerya having 3 kids out of wedlock is insane 😅like girl really there's other ways to conceive a child

They should re-edit Game of Thrones to give all the Targs a Habsburg jaw.

“almost kills his nephew” 🤔

All Valyrian's are cursed to die off, it's just that the Targaryans managed to last the longest via deception. Jon is the last remaining one and he can never hold a name or have a child (though he was probably going to try have another one in the show) and he will die with his brothers of the watch and his family in the Starks honouring his end and Westeros will move onto a golden age. And then we will get Game of Steam!!!

Alicent was just as likely to have dark haired children as well since she herself has dark hair. All y’all love to ignore basic genetics when it comes to Alicent. Blond hair is a recessive gene. Where in the Hightower tree do they have white blond hair? But if her kids came out with brown hair I guess there would be nothing to fight about.

When you look at how Jon Snow turns out, he really breaks the Targaryen incest curse

Pretty much everyone in Westeros has extreme personality traits.

It’s definitely not the power trip of having dragons or the generational incest

Wait. Daemon and Mysaria aren’t actually married. Daemon was lying.

you mean when he does kill his nephew

I mean even john and danny was drawn to ghe incest and they didnt even know they were related at first.

Um, Actually. Daemon never inherits ruinstone. Lady Arryn denies him.

"I won't comment on this because she was just a teenager".. goes on to criticise her, a teenager on the same night, to having a relationship with another grown ass man

I thought Daemon never married Mysaria and Aemon did kill Lucerys

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Why is it not really mentioned that the king and queen are brother and sister? Everyone focuses on the uncle and niece, which to me, siblings is far more worse

Jon Snow was probably one of the very best Targaryen's.

Dany was NOT insane

So john snow is targeryan , have that pation thing ,makes sence why he do all he do, by his hart not the mind 😊

This helps to prove the ending was right on Game of Thrones.

I wish dragons and Targs survived

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The Hightower's are willing to marry for alliances because they don't have dragons.

He never married Mysaria. That was a front