Talk:Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)

I made a longer entry for this on the main "Rhaegar Targaryen" page: Rhaegar getting an annulment instead of a polygamous marriage seems an invention of the TV series, or at least, there is zero precedent in the books for what happens to children of a marriage that's annulled (because you cannot annul a marriage that produced children!).....BUT Westeros.org put out a specific analysis/reaction video, and I liked the point they drew:  if they're making some giant exception for Rhaegar...well, while getting the massive exception of an annulment due to his wife being barren, while he's at it, why not make one of the conditions written into it "my children by Elia are still legitimate?"...or, just legitimize Elia's children by royal decree? They said they were 50/50 on the matter.

As a result, the way we're going to officially treat this on the wiki is to table it: NOT list them as bastards, but treat them as legitimate until stated otherwise.

Nothing the TV show said automatically makes Elia's children bastards. Maybe they're functionally treating it like a divorce.

Still, the point is that it would be us making an assumption that they were retroactively made bastards, when no one ever stated that.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 23:56, September 3, 2017 (UTC)