Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5014364-20171011002104/@comment-5014364-20171013025702

Minor note: hard to make sense of what was actually happening with House Velaryon in this time period. They hover around the edge of the story:


 * Valaena Velaryon was the wife of Aerion Targaryen, and mother of Visenya, Aegon, and Rhaenys. Her mother was a Targaryen - not included in the brief listing of pre-Conquest Targaryens, though it quite probably omitted younger daughters.
 * Aegon the Conqueror's first Master of Ships was old Daemon Velaryon. He died fighting the Arryn fleet off Gulltown.  One "Corlys Velaryon" was also the first Lord Commander of the Kingsguard a few years later in his reign (after whom the famous Sea Snake was named decades later).
 * ...Late in Aegon's 37 year reign, "Aethan Velaryon" was Master of Ships, and his daughter Alyssa Velaryon married Aenys Targaryen, Aegon's elder son. She was considered a "cousin" (how specifically isn't mentioned).
 * Mention that Alyssa Velaryon also had a Targaryen mother - specifics unconfirmed.
 * Aethan was apparently still alive when Maegor was crowned in 42 AC: it's said she returned "to her lord father's castle" on Driftmark.  Outside chance that simply means he built that castle, but phrasing strongly implies he was still ruling it.
 * Late in 42 AC, after returning from victory at the Great Fork of the Blackwater, Alyssa comes to King's Landing to swear homage to Maegor as the true king, along with her "brothers and cousins" from House Velaryon. No mention is made of her father Aethan.
 * A few years later, when Maegor is choosing his new brides, Lord Daemon Velaryon (apparently on his council) suggests his "niece" Rhaena Targaryen, daughter of Alyssa. So Daemon was Aethan's brother.
 * ...but Aethan HAD multiple sons - Alyssa's "brothers". Aethan was old and may have died from old age but...it seems to imply that Maegor purged some of the Velaryons, off-screen, after Alyssa escaped captivity.
 * This Daemon was apparently named after the first (names repeat in dynasties); given that he was Maegor's Master of Ships he apparently didn't mind that Aethan and/or Aethan's sons were gone....but later outright turned on Maegor when he was spiraling into defeat.
 * "Corlys Velaryon the Sea Snake" has been stated by other sources to have been born in 53 AC...he was old in his 70's during the Dance of the Dragons...putting his birth around five years after Maegor's death. It's possible that he was the son of this Daemon 2.
 * I'm unsure if Aethan was the son of Daemon 1. There may have been an intervening generation (or a brother or uncle could bein there).  Aethan was old but still ruling in 42 AC...42 years after Daemon died at a comparatively old age.  Now it's entirely possible he was Daemon's son, succeeded him upon his death at only 20 years of age or so, and was around 60-ish when Maegor took the throne.  Or, there may have been another, short, intervening generation.

Utter speculation:


 * Daemon of the Conquest
 * Aethan, his eldest son
 * Alyssa, wife of Aenys Targaryen
 * Alyssa's brothers
 * Corlys, first Lord Commaner of the Kingsguard, his younger son
 * Daemon, his youngest son
 * Corlys the Sea Snake

Possible, though it kind of feels like there was an intervening generation between Daemon 1 and Aethan.