The Reign of King Maegor the Cruel, Narrated by Varys

The Reign of King Maegor the Cruel, narrated by Varys (Conleth Hill)
This animated short tells the story of the reign of the second son of King Aegon the Conqueror, King Maegor Targaryen, who usurped the Iron Throne from his nephew Prince Aegon Targaryen.
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[@Morfe02]

" When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you. "

[@Tony_Soprano_No.1]

-Tywin (chad) Lannister

[@princesurein7275]

@@Tony_Soprano_No.1 Tywin first of his chadhood and lord of them all.

[@neutralino1905]

Says the one who refused House Reyne's surrender and executed them all.

[@derekclinton9438]

Varys takes events out of order here in order to make Maegor look worse. He states that Maegor took the throne first, killed his nephew, and then declared war on the Faith. However, the Faith in fact declared war on House Targaryen before any of this. The Faith Militant invaded the Red Keep and tried to kill the Royal Family, and so King Aenys fled with his family. The king died shortly thereafter, and his children remained in hiding. With no one else from House Targaryen left to take the reins, Maegor stepped up. He returned to King's Landing and rooted out the Faith Militant there. After crowning himself king, he then outlawed the order and then engaged in further battles to wipe them out. However, Aenys' son Aegon grew resentful at his birthright being stolen, and so raised an army of Maegor's detractors. However, it all started with the Faith. If the Faith Militant hadn't tried to eliminate the Targaryens, then Maegor wouldn't have been able to seize the throne.

[@branhan215124]

1:00 They talk about having the smaller army encircle and attack a larger army like its some casual manuever- Like with Robert Baratheon and his Three-Battles-in-a-Single-Day thing. These are masterworks of generalship and they just gloss over them like footnotes in a history book.

[@finnheisenheim8274]

Maegor was a cruel son of a bitch but we can't deny his martial skill and intellect.

[@mitchellhayward6492]

Because it is, in this context. This video's focus is not on that battle, it's on Maegor's reign.

[@CyberJoeyO]

Many rulers in the GOT world made the mistake of being too weak or reluctant to use force. But Maegor shows what happens when you are too eager to resort to force. That’s what makes GOT so compelling. There are no easy answers.

[@cureforintroversion1262]

Jaehaerys was the perfect blend of his father and uncle

[@CyberJoeyO]

The realm will likely never see another Jahaerys sadly. Maegor’s reign also proves that dragons do not guarantee success.

[@samalvey8168]

Maegor did do one thing right in stamping out the Faith Militant, but otherwise deserves his hated reputation.

[@Enriiiiiii]

Issue is it was no long term solution. He was able to crackdown and on it but it still gave the faith a cause to rally against. In fact when he died the most radical of the faith ran out of steam.

[@anthonyjohnson6199]

Yeah he hated them because they hated incest, polygamy, incest and murdering people with dragons. Which were conveniently three of his favorite things.

[@samalvey8168]

@@anthonyjohnson6199 They also hated the North and any who worshipped the Old Gods of the First Men. Besides, religious fanatics are never a good bunch to keep around.

[@anthonyjohnson6199]

@@samalvey8168 Yeah but they didn't organize into a Militant rebel group until after the Targs started normalizing polygamy, incest, rape, familicide, and murdering people with dragonfire who mildly disagree with you. If they didn't do that the Faith Militant wouldn't have become so popular with the commons. Not everyone in it is just some dumb religious fanatic.

[@Ruosteinenknight]

It's actually long been speculated among learned of Westeros, that Maegor isn't Aegon's real son, as he seemed to inherit his ferocity but none of his wisdom or discipline. Some whisper that Visenya, jealous over Aegon's affection for Rhaenys, used blood magic to will herself pregnant. That's why he supposedly wasn't able to produce an heir, even before Tyanna alledgedly started murdering them: he was affront to natural order and wasn't ever supposed to exist.

[@mujahudin]

There's something about Varys telling a story that keeps my attention.

[@FreezVy]

Bro is not even a voice actor yet does a better job than all of professionnal audiobook readers ive ever heard.

[@Argos-xb8ek]

To be fair none of these Maesters or their kin went out their way to help Aegon The Uncrowned while he, his sister/wife and children were besieged. Maegor the Cool

[@tonythekillab8189]

Having a giant dragon that can swallow an ox whole will do that.

[@danigaman]

Maegor the cooler

[@BlaidWhiteYo]

He's litterally the mad king but with the biggest dragon in the world which is a terryfying prospect. I wouldnt mind a short mini serie on maegor like we got for the dance with HOTD

[@kage2479]

Maegor wanted house targaryen to last. The other options would have led to rebellions and the downfall of the targaryen dynasty due to weak rulers. He did what Tywin did. Secure the future of his house

[@SéaFid]

​@@kage2479Sayeth the soyjak who takes fiction seriously. Sit.

[@slayermate07]

ivan the terrible meets henry the VIIIth

[@getass3290]

Perfect description

[@joeymailloux3741]

i just read all about Maegor last night in the Fire & Blood, and while this video and its art is beautiful, it left out so so much. Maegor was even worse lol

[@danieldelrosario7447]

Then Prince Jaehaerys turned out to become the best Targaryen.

[@gavinperry8433]

Ironically maegor saved the targaryen dynasty by crushing the faith militant

[@gamingwithvulpixanddratini7604]

If you think your young dragon could have a chance to take down Balerion you might not have the common sense to rule as King, he should of tried more guerilla style, assassin tactics, if he couldn’t be patient enough to be named heir and wait, cuz an open attack was the worse move you could make against someone like Maegor

[@hypello9534]

This narrative makes no sence.. it dosent tell that House targaryen was about be destroyed by Maegors brother the weak Aenys. The Faith militant took over entire kings landing because Aenys was weak.. and his children at the time was to young to challenge the Faith. If it wasnt for Maegor coming back from exile and taking the throne their house would have been destroyed.

[@ramasodimalete2699]

It's a telling of the histories by characters during GOT. It can be inaccurate.

[@business_casual_rex]

Maegor the Badass

[@solarisveritatis1086]

Whose idea was it to give an exile the strongest dragon they had anw? 💀

[@ladyseph9045]

No one gave Balerion to Maegor, he went and claimed the dragon himself.

[@solarisveritatis1086]

@ Fair enough.