The Fall of House Durrandon

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    1. I’m inclined to believe that the storm king’s daughter was probably killed and the chivalric story was just made up. It would fit well with the falls narrative of the Targaryen’s and the facade of the “Seven Kingdoms.”

    2. Who was the Envoy whose hands Argillac took? THAT Envoy is going to be a relation of the Targaryen's. The pattern of Envoys in text are family. Aegon knew something bad was going to happen, and he sent him anyway. A 'reason' for War…a sort of invitation.

    3. now here is a question where there are no answers too. where does the name Bratheon come from? Orys was a bastard, whit a targaryen father. so where the name Bratheon originate from?

    4. House Durrandon has such a cool backstory and is a very cool sounding name indeed. I know they still exist through the female line and House Baratheon basically adopted everything from them but it still feels an awful shame to lose one of the ancient names.

    5. So many times in Westeros the entire fleet gets destroyed, it’s never a stalemate or a partial victory, almost always a ”no ships left situation”

    6. Has anyone asked this question (Im sure someone has). If Oris Barratheon is the bastard brother of Aegon, why aren't the Baratheons dragon riders? Where was Oris' dragon🤔. Just a random thought😂

    7. Wasn't the stag crownless until Robert was king?

      I'm not sure if it was show only, where Bran learns his sigils with his Maester and says: "Baratheons, sigil,a stag, a crowned stag, since Robert is king?"

    8. I've often wondered about the idea of Orys Baratheon being Aegon I Targaryen's brother. Why would he have the name Baratheon? And since the idea of the seed being strong has followed Baratheon men through the three centuries of Targaryen rule, wouldn't that point to Orys' father being… a Baratheon? The obvious conclusion if that's true, and if Orys and Aegon I were indeed half-brothers, then that would point to Aegon I's mother having a bastard child with an unknown black-haired Baratheon man? Why would Aegon I's father allow this? Did he not realize she carried a bastard until she birthed a black-haired baby? I wonder if anybody else has considered this or addressed this previously.

    9. As my engineer friend has said in our discussions, maester engineers could have whacked the dragons. Just build ballistae

    10. and credit where credit is due. The Last Storm is the closest anyone got to beating the Targaryens during Aegons conquest. In a lot of ways, the 3 main battles really serve to drive the point home that you cannot beat a dragon using conventional methods. Fortifications didn't work, tactics and bold movements didn't work. And as we will see very soon, numbers didn't work either.

    11. "I can't ermember the name of the song, the intro went Duh duh duh Durrandon Durrandon Durrandon Da da da Durrandon Durrandon"