Wiki of Westeros

READ MORE

Wiki of Westeros
Advertisement
Wiki of Westeros
TGC Aegon's bastard

One of Aegon II's silver-haired bastard children.

"A dragonseed must watch his own neck, when he has no white-cloaked guardsmen to do it for him."
―Ulf[src]

Dragonseed[1] is a term that refers to the bastard offspring of commoners and Valyrian nobles.

Known dragonseeds[]

In the books[]

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, "dragonseeds" was a term used to describe bastards of House Targaryen and House Velaryon. They were often born as a result of the "first night" custom, which was not as resented on Dragonstone as it was in many other parts of Westeros due to the fact that many of the smallfolk viewed the Targaryens as gods. Women whom the Lord of Dragonstone impregnated were even seen as "blessed" and the children born of these unions were often given lavish gifts by their fathers. The practice continued even after it was outlawed by King Jaehaerys I Targaryen.

Due to lack of an official census registration, it was uncertain whether the alleged dragonseeds were in fact offsprings of Targaryens or Velaryons. Their physical appearance did not mean much, since in Dragonstone and in Driftmark were plenty of people of Valyrian origin, who had the Targaryen physical features.

References[]

External links[]

Advertisement