How Maegor Saved House Targaryen Explained Game of Thrones House of the Dragon ASOIAF Lore

[@TeenageMutantZuckerTurtle]

Maegor “f around and find out” Targaryen

[@tommysoliz3064]

Who wins iron throne or maegor targaryen

[@tommysoliz3064]

@@XiaoZhanTaipei aaaaaaa wrong answer homie bled out like a yellowfin tuna on the iron throne

[@tommysoliz3064]

@@XiaoZhanTaipei he still died childless and the Inbredgaryens got wiped out💀

[@7FrozenLocust7]

​@@tommysoliz3064they haven't been wiped out yet.

[@tommysoliz3064]

@@7FrozenLocust7 Daenerys is in a body bag, cry for the inbreds

[@cincrap]

And then Cersei rearmed the Faith just so she could have Margeaery arrested cuz she had beef with her 💀

[@cklambo]

The charges against margery was legit tho.

[@cincrap]

​@@cklambowdym?

[@rocktheconqueror6903]

And then she destroyed the faith cuz she got the taste of her own medicine

[@bryanjames7528]

Then the Faith arrested Cersei for adultery and incest. She asked for trial by combat and sent a letter to Jaime begging him to return to Kingslanding to be her champion. Jaime read the letter and threw it away. Cersei had chased him away from Kingslanding. He was done with her after realizing that Cersei was just using him and was keeping him from fulfilling his own needs and didn't truly loved him like he did her.

[@FranciscoOyola94]

@@cklambowhat evidence do we have against her? Not counting Cersei’s delusions

[@weroleoify]

Maegor: "keep fucking around" Faith Militant: "and what?"

[@KevinDiazx11]

🔥🐉🩸

[@Talvi_Sota]

Maegor: and i finna Show you why my Banner says what it says.

[@joshuabutler2717]

Maegor: Find Out

[@tommysoliz3064]

@@joshuabutler2717 Maegor: Bled out

[@lotusinn3]

😂

[@exprmnt6268]

He wasn’t the king they WANTED but the king they NEEDED

[@fandommenace9575]

His mount was called Balarion the Black Dread. In my humble opinion the Faith should have taken heed. ❤️🩸🐉🔥

[@mysterytube6548]

He took 6 wives😐

[@hachibidelta4237]

​@@mysterytube6548because he needed to have an heir to secure his reign for good, besides Valyrians are polygamous

[@mysterytube6548]

@@hachibidelta4237 yeah

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

@@hachibidelta4237He didn’t need to forcibly marry and rape the widows of men he killed, his niece among them.

[@Talvi_Sota]

Bro really said "I asked you nicely. Im not gonna ask again"

[@nasis18]

I mean, the dude had a massive, napalm spitting, flying dragon that could swallow an elephant in one bite. The militant faith were either very brave or just incredibly stupid. A little of both, maybe.

[@Talvi_Sota]

@@nasis18 yup. Absolutely

[@khanyisasikhuphela1765]

He never even gave warnings lol

[@damageddude]

And Cercei just went like "propably a good idea to let the faith have an army again lol".

[@florianefox]

That precisely prove why Tywin Lannister always said that his daughter wasn't as smart as she thought she was 😂

[@XHobbiesPrime]

She honestly thought she was the smartest person in the room, the true heir to her father's intellect. @@florianefox

[@alejandromelendez1609]

⁠​⁠@@florianefoxCersei always deludes herself into thinking she is Tywin's equal in intelligence, but deep down she knows that isn't true. It's part of why she hates Tyrion. Out of all his kids, Tyrion is the one that is most like Tywin, intelligence and all.

[@user-qv4bp7vg6u]

​@@alejandromelendez1609cersi's hate for Tyrion has nothing to do with Tywin intelligence copy, it's 100% based on a prohecy she had with a woods witch at 10yrs.

[@alejandromelendez1609]

@@user-qv4bp7vg6u nope. Cersei has always hated Tyrion because of reasons not related to the prophecy. The death of her mother being one of them, the humiliation of being the sister to a dwarf being another, and his intelligence being yet another. The prophecy just compounded what was already there. It's not the source of her disdain for Tyrion.

[@davidspooner4582]

The man was a true Dragon in human form. You can call him cruel, you can call him kin slayer but you can never call him weak

[@paulraines9635]

He committed self deletion. He was mentally and emotionally weak.

[@davidspooner4582]

@@paulraines9635 That's not confirmed, his death remains a mystery and there are multiple theories. One he committed suicide Two he was killed and made to look like suicide or Three the throne rejected him and killed him.

[@paulraines9635]

@@davidspooner4582 All three of those scenarios make him weak.

[@kkodiak]

​​@@paulraines9635does it? You ever seen star wars? In star wars the ''force'' directly guides certain events to a out come, like its correcting the path of the universe we have a lot of evidence in GoT that something is doing the same thing, i genuinely believe he was the king they needed at the tine however, due to his nature he could NEVER remain on the iron throne, doesnt mean he was weak, he just out lived his usefulness to the greater plot of the world.

[@tommysoliz3064]

Sit on the throne and bled out like a loser lmao

[@AdanyKai]

In the end Maegor weaken the Faith and Poor Fellow enough that when King Jaehaerys I ascended to the Iron Throne, he was able to disarm the Faith and Poor Fellows without lifting a sword or go to war. 🔥🔥🔥

[@kaludgo5811]

which is one of the reasons why, imo, jaeharys Irst realised that maegor was a necessary evil and very useful to house targaryen to keep the power in westeros

[@thalmoragent9344]

​@@kaludgo5811 Not entirely. Jaehaerys rocked up with the Doctrine of Exceptionalism

[@hachibidelta4237]

I think that's the reason why the redkeep kept Maegor Holdfast name

[@ythandlename]

@@hachibidelta4237 Kinda poetic in a ironic way. The namesake of the holdfast is kinda like the way he defended House Targaryen from the faith as the holdfast keeps it's occupants protected even behind the walls of the Red Keep.

[@carltonmartin3080]

@@thalmoragent9344 the doctrine wouldn't have been effective if the faith had the might to oppose him. Maegor broke them and only then did Jaehaerys attempt to take the throne

[@AllThoughtsActual]

Bro needs his own show at this point, I gotta see Balerion at his best, the Seven v Seven, Visenya, and Maegor just being a straight menace.

[@shyxpretion7429]

I believe it is visenya who should this show revolves around. She is the true menace among all the Targaryens

[@AllThoughtsActual]

@@shyxpretion7429 true true didn’t she help resurrect Maegor after he went into a coma

[@shyxpretion7429]

@@AllThoughtsActual i think so, nd she’s the one who went through the conquest from start to finish nd put the foundation for the dynasty by helping Maegor.

[@AllThoughtsActual]

@@shyxpretion7429 I wanna see her debating with Ageon she was his hand wasn’t she?

[@mori1bund]

@@AllThoughtsActual "didn’t she help resurrect Maegor after he went into a coma" - yes, and a theory says, he came back from the coma "changed" (for the worse) and became "the cruel". Maybe brain damage.

[@TrueYellowDart]

I like how GRRM even made a pretty rotten person like Maegor into a three-dimensional character. He did a lot of awful things, but the stuff with the faith militant was necessary (to maintain Targaryen rule, at least, and whether that’s a good or bad thing can be argued). If he hadn’t tortured various people later on and murdered all the Red Keep builders (and some other stuff I can’t recall) then he’d probably fare better in modern Westerosi opinions.

[@camiloruizcastellar4740]

Yeah that is not true Maegor was as crazy as Joffrey but more dangerous, both died the same, and he made so many enemies, that if Dorne invaded westeros in the middle of the civil war, no great house was gonna move a finger, and you can not kill Dornishmen with dragons, it would be the end of the dinasty before it began

[@sudanemamimikiki1527]

​@@camiloruizcastellar4740you can very much kill dornish men with dragons. The only reason Dorne survived was because they had enough land to hide in while the dragons destroyed empty keeps. They used guerilla tactics and inhospitable land to win If they tried to muster an army to invade the seven kingdoms they would die like the rest. Seriously this is some "fire cannot burn dragons" level of misunderstanding the lore...

[@camiloruizcastellar4740]

@@sudanemamimikiki1527 misunderstood what? in the books there is no such thing as fire proof people much less in dorn WTF??? right now the golden company took several fortresses in the storm lands and now Dorne is gonna join the invasion, they can easily take the iron throne from Cersei they could have done this by their own if not for his Lord waiting endlessly, if this scenario is happening now, in times of maegor when Dorne armys were huge, a strong navy and the alliance of the faith militant, and even great houses not used to been bossed around by Targaryens, even if they lost, that was a great bullet they loss there

[@DngrDan]

​​@@sudanemamimikiki1527Yeah but were they conquered by dragons? No. That's his point. Rather than him misconstruing the lore, you're deliberately misconstruing his comment. I don't think Dorne is capable of toppling the Targaryens at this point in time either but who's to say really.

[@sudanemamimikiki1527]

@@DngrDan he literally says " no can not kill dornishmen with dragons" Which is quite the few letters away from "Dorset wS not conquerrored with dragons" Secondly he says " if dorne invaded westeros" Which, as a concept, is quite far away from "dorne defending their own territory from attacks by using the land to their advantage" So yeah nah.

[@justindykes9774]

History doesn’t remember him fondly but tbh a book about him and his perspective would slap so hard

[@caykahve5869]

we'll see him in the conquest show they're developing After Dunc&Egg The Conquest will be the next show we get to see

[@thabanitrevor1390]

Damn HBO could milk this book series for years, theres so many great stories like these in the books

[@onceafetus426]

Too bad they skipped Maegor's story and the entire first half of Fire & Blood to adapt the Dance of Dragons Civil War

[@KevinDiazx11]

The stories will get tv adaptation over the years! Too many good stories to tell to not do it

[@davidinho980]

Fr, they could do one with the war between the first men and children of the forest, the doom of valyria, they could cover the other continents that we know pretty much nothing about, aegons conquest, egg and duncan. There are probably more that I dont know about

[@DeadSilence27]

Too bad it takes years to get aired

[@MrFredstt]

@@onceafetus426 I always wanted the first Blackfyre rebellion tbh

[@theusernameicoodfind]

Maegor really said “if you can’t join them, beat them” 😂

[@Baileaf11]

Maegor is like Ivan the Terrible, yes he did horrific stuff but he was an efficient ruler

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

He wasn’t an efficient ruler, the dynasty nearly fell apart during his reign.

[@browniebear]

​@@MorallyDubiousFrogBro hasn't read Fire & Blood ⚰️

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

@@browniebear Faith Militant swarmed the countryside for his entire reign. High lords were openly rebelling against him.

[@alfieingrouille1528]

​​@@MorallyDubiousFrogbro hasn't read fire and blood without maegor no targeriyan dynasty like it or not so keep crying

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

@@alfieingrouille1528 How did usurping the throne, killing his nephews, and raping his niece save the Targaryen dynasty?

[@LordNightHowler]

Maegor the Cruel is one of the reasons why i would read Fire and Blood again. All the main character are nothing short of awesome.

[@zeakatep171]

Finally someone said it yes he was cruel but after aneays it was needed

[@mrkareem75x68]

Aneays fled with Dragons???......wtf

[@zeakatep171]

@@mrkareem75x68 weakness he was to kind not enough hardness in him the people of westeros forgot that they where conquered Maegor reminded them

[@mrkareem75x68]

@@zeakatep171 🤣.....oh yea Aegon the

[@zeakatep171]

@@mrkareem75x68 exactly 😁

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

@@zeakatep171How was stealing the throne, killing his nephews, and raping his niece necessary to fight the Faith?

[@loliver9660]

The more I read about Aenys, the less I think he was a bad king and more a king crowned at the wrong time. His father was a conquerer who was feared and respected across the realm, but when he died, there was no set standard for the Targaryen rule. All anyone could do was compare Aenys to Aegon, even though they were very different people. Aenys was a scholar and alchemist who cared for his family. His mother died as a result of his father's war, which is probably why he strived to avoid it at all costs. He also wanted to respect the Faith because of their role in society, but he still wanted to uphold the traditions of the Targaryen dynasty. He was trapped from all sides, never able to please anyone with his actions. Maegor ruled by fear, which held off the faith but turned everyone else against him. Balance is key.

[@happilyevernever4289]

Yeah I wish Maegor and Aenys could've teamed up. One be king and another Hand of the king or something.

[@darthdread6289]

​​@@happilyevernever4289maegor was hand of the king under aenys but was forced to resign due to controversy.

[@TheUndyingCrystal]

​@happilyevernever4289 We probably have Visenya to thank for that, she was obsessive about her opinion that Maegor deserved to rule despite the tradition of succession.

[@loliver9660]

@TheUndyingCrystal Exactly. She was a warrior, not a diplomat. Rhaenys was the one with the good heart. Visenya always thought that being good with a sword made a person a good ruler, but even Aegon the Conquerer knew that wasn't true. He offered peace to his enemies before resorting to war. But Visenya always thought very highly of herself and gave Maegor the same attitude. She sewed the seed of discord in the family, which basically led to civil war.

[@achikoputuridze726]

one of the reasons jaehaerys was that successful was because too many remembered maegor and destruction dragons could cause shame they forgot it during dance

[@parrase]

Aegon gave the word, Maegor made it clear, Jaeherys made it a little bit more bearable.

[@nandhinishree9625]

Yes exactly my thoughts... I really wish house Targaryen recognise the deeds of visenya and maegor... By saving house Targaryen from the threats of hightower and faith... Sadly house Targaryen were too weak to acknowledge them...

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

The Faith was still in open rebellion with thousands of fighters when Maegor died. Even more Kurds supported them than at the start. How was stealing the throne, killing his nephews, and raping his niece necessary to fight the Faith?

[@hclw3589]

In what world do people give props to the people that tried to usurp their families thrones. You guys just say dumb stuff I swear.

[@user-uf9lz5wz4n]

House Targaryen was not weak and recognized the good that Maegor did, but he did too much bad. He killed 2 Targarians and this is a crime that cannot be forgotten or forgiven

[@happilyevernever4289]

​​@@hclw3589 U say that but aren't y'all the same lot who try to defend Aegon ll The Usurper.

[@Zong_Cheng]

@@happilyevernever4289 Frankly, anyone who supports Blacks or Greens is a hypocrite when it comes to saying “killing two Targs cannot be forgotten or forgiven”. Both sides went ham with that stuff lmfao. Same with Rhaegar and Dany fans. Targs killing each other is a staple of the setting as much as gratuitous sex, violence and needless cruelty is tbh

[@onceafetus426]

Maegor might have been a psychopath, but at least he actually got shit done. He did what his brother was too afraid to do. Also after watching S5/S6 of GOT, whose complaining? The Faith are a bunch of assholes, burning their Sept was justified.

[@TheHiddenNarrative]

Reminds me of Killmonger's speech to Shuri when she had that dream.

[@thalmoragent9344]

​@TheHiddenNarrative Still doesn't always justify the means

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

He didn’t get shit done. The Faith was still openly rebelling and thousands strong by the time he died.

[@herrdoctor2895]

​@@MorallyDubiousFrogand yet Jaeharys got the easier time of disarming them

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

@@herrdoctor2895 Because he negotiated with them while also sending an army of emissaries out to preach a doctrine of Targaryen exceptionalism. Even then, Jaehaerys had to assassinate the leader of a large host of Faithful who were camped outside Oldtown.

[@talebabazly9461]

he died on throne after 6 years,6 months and 6 days of cruel reign. some believe he was assassinated by the faceless assassins(because thats their style) but i think it was his nephew jaeharys who saved the targaryen dynasty and rule

[@The-Allfather-Odin]

I imagine Maegor to have a tremendous amount of respect for his father, and because of that, he never challenges his brother for the throne.

[@ivanchristophersaldana119]

sometimes in order to do good you have to do bad things

[@bellamijaymes2153]

No. Never

[@fike2951]

raped his niece, tortured one nephew, killed another. murdered thousands, forcibly married multiple women, after murdering their husbands, killed hundreds of masons after the red keep was done with construction. No, you are quite simply wrong.

[@Ezael]

The re-arming of the Faith Militant reminds me of Chesterton's Fence or 'why you shouldn't change something unless you fully understand what it does'

[@njavwasimuchimba3440]

They should really do a maegor show

[@KevinDiazx11]

Yesssd

[@isaiahgeorge906]

What we should have gotten was a whole series of the entire Targaryen Dynasty, from the start of Aegon the First's conquest, to the end of the Mad King's reign.

[@evok3226]

@@isaiahgeorge906they should start with the valyrian freehold

[@isaiahgeorge906]

@@evok3226 You are right. That would be a much better start.

[@kitanomotoso1854]

If Aegon the uncrowned ruled he would have been a boring and indecisive king just like his father. Without Maegor the cruel Jaheryes the conciliator would have never ruled

[@holycrusaderofgod8561]

Yeah but if Aegon the uncrowned became king would the dance of dragons still happen?

[@marwanali4878]

​@@holycrusaderofgod8561 There would be no Targaryens for the Dance to Happen to. Say Rhaena the Queen in the west balanced Aegon with her willfulness and killed the Faith then maybe the Targaryen dynasty would be safe and the throne would pass to Aerea

[@paulraines9635]

Rhaena had the will of Visenya, she would have made the uncrowned Aegon as great as his grandsire.

[@rocktheconqueror6903]

​@@marwanali4878if throne passed to aerea then the dance would've happened way before the real dance

[@SilSolo]

@@rocktheconqueror6903 depends. I'm thinking Rhaena's gay so Aegon and Rhaena don't have any other children. At this point inheritance law for the iron throne was not truly established but assumed to be absolute primogeniture based on how the song of ice and fire survived and passed to Jaehaerys and Alysanne. If Viserys marries Aerea then no Dance at this point but maybe in the next one. Or maybe things get complicated when Rhaena officially takes the title of ruling queen and Aegon and Rhaena style themselves Aegon II and Rhaena I, then the same happens with Viserys and Aerea. Viserys dies and leaves a daughter, Aerea remarries and has a son later on but age gap is too great for a marriage between brother and sister and Dance happens, but in this case the younger half brother loses and absolute primogeniture is established as the rule of inheritance for Targaryens. At this point the Targaryens become wary of the influence of outsiders. And Jaehaerys and Alysanne spend more time in various parts of the kingdom carrying out Rhaena's rule and adventuring.

[@noahmarshall873]

also he killed the 2 people ahead of Jaehaerys in line for the throne which turned out quite well in the long run

[@midnightmadness6344]

Maegor walked so Jaeharys could run.

[@eriik2667]

“Maegor the Wise” is what we shall be calling him from now till indefinitely

[@veironhedlund8061]

One of the best part about game of thrones. It shows the value of monsters. Even if history doesn't always see it that way.

[@pilotsora]

Uchiha Madara truly was right when he said “The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love”

[@danieleoswald4971]

You know I feel like up until he starts killing his own family he really wasn't doing anything that wasn't in his bloods best interests. And didn't that happen after a pretty nasty head injury?

[@thalmoragent9344]

I dunno, he almost ended rheir House as well. Jaehaerys was the last male of their house, Maegor killed Aegon the Uncrowned and Prince Viserys. And Jaehaerys rocked up with the Doctrine of Exceptionalism so, that worked out.

[@jimbrupp4297]

He was the most powerful of all Targaryens. Mounted balerion and weilded blackfyre. As he said the iron throne goes to those who has the will and strength to take it. Badass

[@arobin6695]

maegor is badass. he refused to bond with any dragon on dragonstone saying "none of these dragons are worthy of me" and then when his father Aegon the Conqueror died he claimed his father's dragon Balarion the Black Dread for himself, along with Aegon's valaryian steel sword Darkfyre

[@armurph1102]

He was heavily opposed by the Faith because the Faith Militant WANTED a weak king to sit the Iron Throne so the Faith could basically rule the 7 kingdoms. That is exactly why the High Septon was willing to dismiss the fact that King Tommen Baratheon was not Robert Baratheon's legitimate son & heir and kept it to himself since Tommen's kindhearted nature caused him to be very easily manipulated

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

This is straight up untrue. The Faith rebelled before he was even king. They rebelled in opposition to Aenys marrying his son and daughter to each other. Maegor then came in and stole the throne while Aenys’ son was besieged in the Westerlands.

[@Crazy_Talk96]

Maegor did nothing wrong. He gave westeros the what for.

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

He killed his nephews, tortured kids to death, and raped his niece along with several other women in a regular basis.

[@evok3226]

He tortured and killed Alys Harroway and her family after she nearly died giving birth to his monster of a baby. All of it upon a lie. So let's agree to disagree

[@Crazy_Talk96]

​@@evok3226so be it

[@CaptainOffensive]

@@Crazy_Talk96Just because he’s cool doesn’t mean he’s right brother

[@Crazy_Talk96]

@@CaptainOffensive true, although if he hadn't gone on his war path the targ dynasty might have ended earlier than expected.

[@b.r.7404]

Maegor was a hero. Everything his father built would have been undone if he didn't do what he did

[@deathbytouch4252]

Imagine a dance of the dragons were the high towers cannot only pull the strings of the masters but also the faithful things were gotten so much more messy

[@saulgone9260]

Sometimes the world doesn't need a hero but a villain

[@po0l837]

And than Cersei undone everything in a second without thinking about consequences 😂

[@TV-ge3uj]

... as usual. That needs to be added.

[@amityisprecious1334]

"If they don't love me for who I am, then they will dread me for who I will become"

[@LittleHammer_]

Maegor was a living dragon. Fierce, and unrelenting and loyal (to his brother n family). If his nephew Aemon hadn’t challenged him, he and Rhaena may have lived a good life. We’ll never know now but Maegor did put everyone in line, a bit brutally, but in line.

[@Rajarshi_X]

he was brutal af but fire and blood is also biased against him

[@fike2951]

It is a literal westerosi history book, written by the author. if George rr martin says he raped his niece, killed his nephews, and murdered thousands.. I'm inclined to believe the authors characterization

[@BigBoi678]

Fire and blood were written "by maestors" if i remember correctly. That's why you would see bias against certain factions ​@fike2951

[@fike2951]

@@BigBoi678 He literally forced his own niece into marriage, ordered the torture of his nephew, and usurped his other nephew after slaying him in combat. No, it is not biased against him, he was just truly evil

[@fike2951]

@@BigBoi678 So you genuinely think that maegor was some misunderstood character? thats bit worrying to think that

[@Neil-qg9cw]

​@@fike2951It's both. Maegor was definitely not a good guy, but the books are written from the POV of the faction that hates Targs the most. It's also supposed to be off second hand accounts, mostly by people who were never there. It's 'history' based on whispers, gossip, speculation, and old wives tales. The whole point is that you're not really supposed to know what is and isn't accurate. Hence you get 2 versions of the same story at points. This is supposed to make you question the validity of our own real world histories. Your statement that everything in the book is an intended fact by GRRM couldn't be less true. He has explained this himself countless times, even the book explains it. So yes, Maegor was cruel, but the book is also biased against him.

[@herr_dohler]

Faith militant: excuse me sir- Maegor: *pulls out glock*

[@junli6065]

HoD said Daemon would become a second Maegor. But this guy doesn’t look so bad from House Targaryen’s point of view. He protected the interests of his house and kept a hold of the iron throne.

[@jeanmariek2851]

Everyone is a gangster until the big man comes with a giant black dragon

[@Alejojojo6]

He didnt save the dynasty... he almost wiped it out. He killed Aegon, Viserys and wanted to kill Alysanne and Jaehaerys. He literally only left Jaehaerys as the only remaining male in the family in the blink of extinction. It was Jaehaerys who saved the dynasty by creating the doctrine of exceptionalism reconciling with the faith by peaceful means. If he had to do force, he also had dragons. Maegor only enfuriated the faith and could have backfired into the rest of the Targayrens once he had died.

[@Megatron_95]

The way i see it, a Targaryen king needs to be both noble and wise, but also not a weakling

[@restromadaofrhodesia4625]

Maegor " only man in the sky is me " Targaryen

[@franciscoguerineau9822]

-what are you going to do? we have an army. -I have a Balerion😅

[@MrBig913]

Would love to see Maegor on screen

[@Irishbroadsword]

J.K. Simmons

[@jowolf2187]

And then Cersei went and undid all his hard work

[@weroleoify]

Maegor truly went and asked: "Why are we entertaining the shenanigans of these bums?"

[@silvertryxX]

It feels like Aenys and Maegor were the perfect example of why balance is important and necessary. Aenys was a good man but a terrible king, Maegor was a terrible man but a great king.

[@LordWyatt]

Leave it to Cersei to undo what Maegor had done

[@noeltojo5125]

Why do 'holy men' have weapons

[@michaeld7945]

How else is a paladin supposed to use smite?

[@phantomlordthehiddenbeast9182]

To kill those that oppose their fate

[@TrueYellowDart]

Plenty of spiritual leaders have been armed throughout history.

[@Klongu_Da_Bongu]

I am the way, and the light. Only sometimes, the light is muzzle flare

[@willwright3831]

Jihad comes to mind

[@Charlz100]

We got one of those in GOT, although she armed them. Cersei sure as hell made sure they weren’t a problem when she was done with them😂

[@theredeemer1644]

Maegor the Wise. I would love to see Him in live-action.

[@ValyrianPrince]

Maegor did nothing wrong 😑

[@holycrusaderofgod8561]

I don't know man,he tortured and killed one of his wives

[@dominator1914]

@@holycrusaderofgod8561and He’s a kinslayer since he killed Aegon the Uncrowned and Viserys.

[@holycrusaderofgod8561]

@@dominator1914 yeah and I think he stole Aegon's sister-wife and made her his own wife also I might be wrong but didn't he also marry Aenys' wife ?

[@paulraines9635]

The physically forcing himself on his war brides would be classified as wrong.

[@teamblack204]

Yeah, it's not like he killed his own nephew and usurped the throne for himself, right? It's not like he r@ped ans tortured his own niece, right? It's not like he killed and tortured people, right?

[@gauntlettcf5669]

Maegor apologists: "He saved house Targaryen" Maegor: * almost extinguishes his own bloodline by trying to kill all his nephews and turns the hatred of the population against his house up to 11.000 * Lmao you people are funny

[@uriu3193]

House Targaryen started with Aegon and ended with him.

[@griffiththechad9483]

Maegor the cool will always be one of my fav Targs.

[@ethanmitchell7479]

The histories call him cruel But he to me sounds more like a necessary brutal king They wanted to test the Targaryens They wanted to play with fire Maegor simply obliged

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

What was necessary about stealing the throne, killing his nephews, and raping his niece?

[@Vffjjtt]

People are hating aegon II for being an usurper but they’re sucking maegor 🤡

[@TV-ge3uj]

Perhaps if Aegon had gone Maegor on Otto Hightower ...

[@theboredkid3620]

Maegor saved the Targaryens because Visenya was there to show him how. He really did need her to temper his implacable wroth. After she died it didn’t take long for him to lose his way.

[@joseph20yearsago61]

If Daemon is chosen by his brother , he will definitely be the New Maegor by saving targaryen dynasty from self destruction..

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

Except Daemon is a narcissistic and impulsive asshat.

[@billwright4234]

margor is the one they need to make a show after

[@SomeUserk]

I actually think he is my favorite. He is responsible more than he is cruel. None of his cruelty are gratuitous or driven by malice, rather they are a result of feeling pressured or threatened by enemies. It is easier to relate to him than to joffrey or melisandre because he is just being cruel because he is afraid of his enemies gaining the upper hand. Joffrey is cruel in a foolish gratuitous narcissistic way. Melisandre is imo the most abominable. Her tenderness is so dead because she is too easily enchanted by power, ie lord of light is deemed worthy of worship not because he is just but because he is powerful, the true god supposedly. If people hate joffrey for being inconsiderately selfish, i hate melisandre for being so inconsiderately unselfish. She will do anything evil for her god and there is no chance she will regret it; if shereen’s death brought stannis victory melisandre would not only not regret, but be proud of having destroyed stannis’ personality. Joffrey never destroys people’s personality, just their body. Melisandre destroys personality until Stannis is no longer stannis. Does not matter if stannis obeys or not - her goal remains to brainwash him. I can imagine myself being joffrey because he is simply lazy to do better, but melisandre is dilligent in going out of her way to be more evil than basic selfishness allows. Different story if she unwillingly brainwashes stannis because she is scared, threatened by her god to do it - but no, she herself enjoys obeying her god and destroying stannis more than she does shereen. Maegor is not cruel because he is narcissistic like joffrey, but because he loves Targaryen, not because Targaryen is the true god, but because they are the most civilised people in the world attempting to achieve the greatest happiness living on earth. They show the world it is possible to live happily and be comfortably powerful without feeling like you owe gods unhealthy devotion. Sure they are pwerful, but not powerful like red god where they do not need protection/maintenance, hence the necessary cruelty. So he is innocent of melisandre’s slavish devotion to power. If maegor has a daughter and melisandre tells him to kill her so that the targaryen dynasty would survive, he would spit at melisandre, rely on his cruelty to save targaryen dynasty anyway, and he would even try to destroy red faith people if he superstitiously suspects that their curse is possibly real. Even if he is resurrected by melisandre, he would kill her and dared the gods to punish him and targaryen for such apparent ungratefulness. Rather than choosing between two targaryens (dynasty and daughter), he would rather destroy any idea that there is a being powerful enough to make him choose - and he would express it by killing melisandre. There is just no choice more pleasant to a normal man. He is even better than jon snow. All this is not because maegor is badass and brave, because even a coward would fight back against red god if obeying red god means exactly losing what he is afraid to lose

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

Maegor killed his nephews, one via torture, and regularly raped his niece. He also forcibly married and raped the widows of several men he had killed. He had his second wife and every member of her family tortured to death for alleged adultery. The only evidence of the crime was the word of men his third wife had tortured. He utterly failed to stop the Faith’s rebellion.

[@jarekb8622]

Glad to see ‘Dirty Mike & the Boys’ getting a shout out in the list lmao ‘The Other Guys’ is one of my favorite comedies of all time

[@cincyfanjunglecity9871]

Cersei found out why it was a good idea to keep the men of faith without weapons. They once again rose to try overpowering the throne. That’s why she burned them alive with wildfire

[@super-spartan9533]

Hi sorry English is not my native language. Low key means without doubt right? And yeah you are right but he still could have done especially ruling as das as I know

[@daviswhitlock9161]

Low key is slang. It means you think something is true, despite it not being obvious. High key is the alternative, where you are stating something obvious.

[@davidking6242]

Low-key means subtly or another way of saying uncredited

[@dayagday1]

King Maegor Targaryen, much-needed despot of House Targaryen 🔥🔥🔥

[@colemikel8976]

I always found it funny how much the templers and the faith have in common.

[@husky3g]

HBO literally has a mountain of lore and content to make dozens of great series because of the depth of the world from ASOIAF.

[@jenniferforeman1599]

I really want to see a spin-off where they bring old Valeria back in its Glory and we get to see all of that stuff come around

[@tatalsaba]

Maegor was in a tough spot, succeding a weak king in a young dynasty which was still being tested, his moniker is well earned from how excessively brutal he was when dealing with his enemies and keeping his secrets, and downright revolting with his marital practices.

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

Maegor didn’t succeed a weak king. He usurped an untested king, and then killed said king and raped his wife.

[@CombatMediaa]

To think how many series we could have in the next few decades of game of thrones. There’s literally potential for like 10 series

[@SantomPh]

The Faith was still angry until King Jahareys managed to calm everything down.

[@spark0420]

Remembered as Maegor the cruel but was actually a mad good king.

[@shankleythebest]

Theres a theory that the maesters conspired with the Hightowers against the Targeryans, and actively made sure that Viserys wasnt treated properly, for the various wounds he received from the Iron throne. Which could be true, if Maegor drove the remaining rebellious elements of the faith underground.

[@radecstark3191]

He was also smart to place bounties on them encouraging others to hunt them

[@theplanthashira]

Maegor was a real one for that

[@manofsteelix]

We need mini series for these tales, I’d even take animated movies (done correctly)

[@abhishankpaul]

Maegor did an entire French Revolution by himself

[@mattlombardi54]

I want to see a show of Maegor just murdering holy dudes with Balerion 😂

[@Zacky-l9i]

That's next level aura 🥵🔥

[@RegTarg011]

if its a fact now that he knew about Song of I&F.. he was definitely acting accordingly.

[@Neo2266.]

He’s one letter off from “Magor” meaning “insane lunatic” in czech

[@WiiMan1133]

I wouldn’t call him a savior by any stretch of the imagination. In many ways, he was Tywin with a dragon. He was a “ends justify the means and/or my pleasure” kinda guy. Yes, sometimes you have to beat your enemies with fire and blood. But if that’s the only approach you use, and you murder innocents along the way, eventually everyone will turn on you. If Maegor were truly a savior, he would’ve supported Aegons rights on the condition he serve as Hand after the Trial by Seven. He was the antithesis of Aenys, but that didn’t make him a superior king. Jaehaerys was essentially the best kind of ruler anyone could hope for by being a combination of the best traits of Aenys and Maegor and more.

[@karimmoorad9649]

Maegor my fav Targ. The hatred i have for the Faith of the 7 and the Maesters!

[@jemit]

In house Targaryen, it’s always the younger brother who’s more “King-like” 🫡

[@truetory6231]

That’s actually a good observation, when you think about it. Maegor was a better suited to rule than Aenys. Aenys youngest son Jaehaerys who ushered in the Targaryen golden age after his older brothers got killed off. Daemon was far more firm and decisive than his weak-willed older brother Viserys. Aemond was attentive and worked hard both at his studies and in combat training whereas Aegon II could care less. Viserys II though having a short reign was known for his shrewdness as a ruler compared to Aegon III who was melancholy with 0 personality. Aemon the Dragonknight also would have been a fine king if given the chance but instead the realm got stuck with Aegon the Unworthy. Egg and Aemon were both intelligent and with good temperaments well suited to rule compared to their older brothers, Daeron the Drunken and Aerion brightflame. In House Targaryens, it is quite rare that the eldest son is the one best suited to sit the throne, the only exceptions to this are Daeron the Young Dragon, Baelor Breakspear and Rhaegar, all promising eldest sons and yet two of them never even got their chance to rule while the third had his reign cut brutally short.

[@garyfrombrooklyn]

Hope they have a full season of this event in the next anthology of HOTD

[@gregwright964]

We need a series about him

[@leviackerman1032]

As cruel as he was, he knew what needed to be done.

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

Lol, no. He stole his nephew’s throne, killed several family members, and raped his niece.

[@canteventhough]

That rainbow armor is pretty fabulous.

[@Schwertdaemon]

To me he was a rightous and good man.

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

He killed his nephews and raped his niece while holding her kids hostage.

[@rionabil8065]

Really need to see Spin-off about Maegor truly

[@omarmzaham7248]

Rouge Targaryen always make great characters IMHO..