The image of Maegor just waking up from his coma and going like "that's it ,I am ending this religion" and then 5 seconds later rides balerion and burns the shit of that sept is literally One of the funniest shit ever 😭😭😭
To be completely honest, I hated the septon and their religion. Those dudes believe they own the world!! When Cersei burnt all of them, it was so satisfying except for queen Margelly Tyrell being there
You forgot the part where Aerys had Ned's brother watch their father burn with a sword just out of reach and strangled himself to death trying to reach it to save him...
Any man who threatens the king should die...they just showed up making demands and kind of brought it upon themselves if you really analyze it. They knew he wasn’t playing with a full deck but they still came at him like that....I’m sure the entire kingdom knew of his issues with having kids and being paranoid AF yet you threaten the eldest son and ask for his head? Fire is an effective champion...I would have burned them the moment they asked for his head. They literally went to a man that was paranoid AF about the death of his family then you make his fears real in a face to face threat knowing he kills whole family’s and houses. Over a lady that didn’t even want to be with the guy and Ned knew this if no one else did he had a notion that she was not happy to be promised to Robert any longer.... she ran off with his son and he wasn’t going to kill his prime heir over some woman lol I can only imagine him sitting there going “I knew it! People want my son killed I have to protect my family my bloodline ...how dare they be so bold I can’t let them leave they will surely pursue my son with or without my help...the Starks must die” lol he had no trust left.
MrTaylorAries hey bud, I agree with some of this but you make the assumption that Aerys wanted to protect/ loved Rhaegar. Maybe in his younger years, but in his later years, he thought his own son would raise the lords of Westeros against him and overthrow him as king. So when he burned the lord of House stark and asphyxiated his heir, it was more out of his own paranoia and madness.
@@danieldiaz7065 Doesn't matter what Aerys thought of Rhaegar, the law would still demand that anyone who called for Rhaegar's death be killed themselves. Also, Rickard WAS plotting treason, so his execution is also justified
I think Viserys is just groomed badly. I mean being constantly told that you're the true King of Westeros and being told lies about people secretly wishing that you're the king and all that other lies makes Viserys an oblivious fool. It's like early Daenerys too, but she never expected to rule so she listened in.
Kevin W ok I haven't seen the episode 8 yet . I am waiting for the DVD to be out so i guess Brian will be the king when he didn't do anything in the show
Kevin W but could you tell me if i should watch the Vikings movie to apprehend better the targaryen history or even read the books . I have just bought the game of thrones book set but where to find the Vikings books ?Please thankyou in advance
F is the bomb The show is irrelevant. George isn’t even done with the books. And half the things that have happened in the show haven’t even happened in the books. Hell, even Stannis, Barristan, and Tommen are still alive, same goes for all of the Tyrells. Daenerys going mad, may or may not even happen. All we can do is hope George finishes the books.
As far as we know Dany could be mad too. Aerys didn't show signs of madness till his later years and Dany has become more and more bloodthirsty as the books go on.
As far as we know, anyone in the series could be mad, or going mad. And there are lots of people in the series way more bloodthirsty than her. Even if you think that only Targaryens are likely to be mad (in spite of the fact that some other people in the series seem more likely to be batshit crazy, like Cersei or Euron), then you should be also speculating whether Jon Snow (Rhaegar's son) or Stannis (great-grandson of Aegon V) are/will go crazy.
FrakkinToaster Luvva here's the thing, when siblings have incest and create Offspring then their genes basically duplicate and mutate. Jon snows mother, lyanna, was not a targeryen and when a another person with different DNA have Offspring with the inbred then the DNA resets so that everythings fine stannis DNA is already alterd to much from egg through the generations and Euron is just a sociopath
Just because people are worse in the series does not make her actions less troubling. Its true that anyone in the series could be mad (and many are) but the writer has clearly stated that products of incest are at a higher risk of that, and like Aron Johansson said Stannis's DNA has altered since his grandmother's Targaryen DNA was added whereas Dany is directly from sibling incest who themselves were born of sibling incest. Jon (at least in the books anyway) might not be R+L=J. Also in the books Jon is currently freshly stabbed, if he is dead and brought back to life he most likely will be a different person and possibly mad as Catelyn is.
PartyPoison12 We weren't discussing the morality of Dany's actions. The subject is whether she is going to go mad. And there is no evidence at all in the books that she's mad, going mad, or will go mad. There's just evidence that she's worrying about it - which makes it all the less likely that she will go mad. Cersei (canonically compared to the Mad King by Jaime, who knew the Mad King very well) never worries about going mad, for instance. " the writer has clearly stated that products of incest are at a higher risk of that," Really? When did he say that? First off, if that were true in general, then not just Jaime and Cersei but also Ned, Lyanna, Brandon and Benjen would be as likely to go mad/have been mad, as their parents were first cousins. But that does not happen unless there is a recessive gene for a specific illness running in the family. So I guess you mean the Targaryens, under the assumption they had a 'madness gene' in the family. But the evidence does not support that. See my answer to Aron Johansson.
Aron Johansson No, their genes do not "duplicate and mutate", I have no idea where you got that or what you even mean by that. Siblings don't have the same DNA, unless they are identical twins, in which case they can't have a child together as they are both of the same biological sex. And genes mutating has nothing to do with whether people are related. What does happen is that there is a greater probability of the child getting a pair of recessive genes for a congenital disease if their parents are closely related (but only if they have that gene in the first place, of course). Which doesn't mean that it has to happen, or that it can't happen with people who aren't related. So, we would have to assume that there is a 'madness gene' in the Targaryen family. But then why was Rhaegel mad? His mother was Mariah Martell. She had no Targ blood at all. Why was Aerion Brightflame mad? His mother was a Dayne. Again, absolutely no relation to the Targs. So, 2 out of 4 or possibly 5 Targaryens that were mad (it's debatable whether Maegor was insane or just exceptionally cruel and ruthless, and in addition, his more 'mad' behavior occurred after he died and was resurrected and may have been caused by that) weren't products of incest. On the other hand, there's a bunch of Targaryens who were products of incest but who were perfectly normal, and even in some cases among the greatest monarchs that Westeros had ever had (Daeron the Good). So, the evidence doesn't actually offer that much support to the theory of congenital Targaryen madness caused by recessive genes/inbreeding.
I don't consider Maegor to be mad. He was a product of his mother upbringing and his war-time surroundings. He was cruel :p but I don't see him as mad.
Tywin ain't evil o.o ..Tywin is just coldly practical. He was never cruel without extremely good reason, in his eyes. Tywin is far from evil, to me. And yes, Maegor was very similar to him, only he rode a big ass dragon + xD
RegTarg011 Well he did kill all the Reynes including the children, just because the head of the family disrespected him, dont even get me started on the targaryen kids. He knew exactly what the Mountain was capable of and what he was unleashing on Ellia, he wasnt stupid or blind
Reyne's were plotting a rebellion against him.. Targaryen children, his only mistake was not killing Daeny too. From HIS perspective, not ours, he is practical man, not evil. There's a big difference. Those Targ kids could one day raise armies and kill millions, like Daeny doing now, he did what was safer for the realm and end of the rebellion.
RegTarg011 well if u follow that logic Myrcella got what she deserved, and Shireeen needs to die so that she will never try to take the throne after her father :P thats why 6 kingdoms are against the lannisters right now, way to be practical o lord Tywin
Crazy Targaryen king: "Come along dear time to conceive our next child." The poor queen: "Can't this wait until later in our bedroom?.......oh God no..." *the crazy king drags the poor queen in front of his court and strips naked and starts dancing awkwardly* Crazy Targaryen king: "Get undressed my love!!! AND BRING OUT THE PIE!!!! I'M FILLING MY WOMAN WITH BABY JUICE!!!" *The court gasps in horror....except for one lone pervert who gives him a thumbs up* Martin: "And that is one of my rejected stories from Game of Thrones."
Well, you don't need to be a genius or sane to follow basic instincts. You will notice it when you get to know some people, natural selection is sure but also slow.
Taegaryen madness was focused on cause they were looking for a weakness to spit on a great house. Lannister also had their mad son Joeffery, Greyjoys are full of mad men and even Brandon stark was a hotblooded tempermental man. Yes Taegaryns are mad, but the Game of Thrones world brings out the madness in men
well dorne weren't rebelling in baelor's time. aegon failed to conquer them same for his descendants until daeron(baelor's brother) but by the end of the same year dorne had gained its independence and daeron's appointed ruler of dorne was dead and soon same happened to daeron and his army
How did you not put Aegon IV on here? His last great request legitimized all his bastards (He had quite a few) and sparked a 5 generation rebellion that almost destroyed House Targaryen altogether.
Not NEARLY as bad. Maegor had all four limbs cut off a guy and then forced Maesters to heal him and keep him alive. He even forced the guy to attend one of his weddings. Side note: Maegor had a thing for killing Maesters. It’s a good thing he isn’t around to harm Sam....
it's because of his poor speech and pronunciation. The content is realy good but it's hard to understand and really infuriating. the way. he always. cut. his sentences. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaah !
I'm pretty sure the artist make Baelor look like that on purpose.When you hear about a man being called "Blessed",walking on deserts for days,fasting,being celibate,etc..You immediately thing about Jesus in the west.Although Baelor didn't do any miracles. The comparison with Gandhi isn't that accurate,since Baelor wasn't emancipating a country through pacifism,but it it was more accurate,maybe Baelor would be bald.
@Johanna Jesus isn't a fictional character, there is written proof that a man named Jesus walked around in Jerusalem and was crucified, whether he returned is unknown and up to debate, but he sure as fuck existed, goddamn people who say "Jesus didn't exist" are retarded.
@SamTheWayne yea man I mean if you think about it. He was literally telling everyone he heard his father's voice in his head. He also destroyed business and homes because he didn't like the ruling class. Jesus could've very well been exactly as you described.
@Enetheru1999 Hold up. Jesus WASN'T an authoritarian fanatic listening to voices in his head?! How so? The man literarly believed he was the human embodiment of god and persisted in this belief until his final breath. He also went into a desert for 40 days and supposedly talked to the devil.
No mention of Summerhall? Arguably, Summerhall was possibly the initial root of his insanity. We don't have many details, but it's pretty clear he saw his grandfather, uncles, aunts, and a good portion of the kingsguard die brutally. Right when his first son was born too. Imagine that, if you can. Most of your family dying on the very eve where you become a father for the first time. Aerys shows signs of suffering from PSTD. Literally, half of his descriptions, down to the maniac mood shifts, are signs of PSTD. Surely he had genetic predisposition to madness, but between Summerhall and the Defiance of Duskendale were what broke him, turning him into the worst king to sit the Iron Throne. Also, it is arguable that more than just the ones you listed here were, in one way or another, mad. Madness doesn't always equal dancing naked in the halls or taking a shot of wildfire to become a dragon. Sometimes it's as simple as sleeping around constantly and bequeathing lavish gifts to random people.(here's looking at you, Aegon the Unworthy.) Even Aegon the Unlikely's obsession with restoring dragons, the thing that literally caused most of the Targaryens of his day to die, could be considered a form of madness.
I don't think he saw his family die. They were deep inside the castle and only a few people were there. Also most of the Targaryens didn't die at Summerhall, only two died and Aegon only wanted to bring back dragons since all the high lords went against his reforms and he needed something to back his power up.
THE ARMADA But knowing that part of your family died like that and that you could have easily been one of them... would it not have affected you in any way? I agree with you about Aegon the Unlikely. If one believes him to be mad because of his desire for dragons than everyone creating anything is mad, as there is always a risk of it going south, especially if it's weaponry. You could make a strong case of the leaders of the USA having been mad for creating atom bombs, for example. Or the Ancient Greeks for creating Greek Fire.
With Baleor the Blessed, you see that madness takes two forms: Cruel and Despotic, or Holier then Thou, and in Baleor's case he was someone who was so devoted to his faith, that he failed to see he was sliding deeper and deeper into insanity
Samuel Wolch Multiple wives in a chase to get a son as the other have stated, he also had issues with the church and ended up taking on his own new interpretation and removing the power that church held in England. He was also the younger son of the king though didn't over step is own nephew (Richard 3rd style) however he married his brothers wife and Maegor did something rather similar in marrying a widow of his family.
Similar, but Mhegor cared not if his people loved him. Henry wasn't nearly as cruel. It's just with both you weren't going to "deceive" them. Yet, we know how that went with Henry Tudor.
Viserys was a spoiled brat that’s why he couldn’t hang in the real world. Just like how Cersei stayed within the castle at Kings landing for so long that she was unfamiliar with anything outside the red keeps walls. She really thought she had power but was also a userper
He was not spoiled he will just a kid that was told Westeros iron Throne belong to him nobody respected him he had nothing he bagged just to feed his sister the only hope he had was iron Throne belong to him and that made him angry and greedy because he never had anything
@@phugindomas Given that George said that the endings would be similar I can't see such a huge plot point as Dany going nuts and taking down Kings Landing not being in the books. If anything she'll likely be more nuts in the books because George can flesh out her descent into madness better than the show did. I think it's official, Dany is a mad Targaryen.
@@autolicious honestly though, it hasn't even been confirmed if Dave and Dan used his ending. They aren't known for being true to the source material. We will have to wait. You're probably right but we still can't be sure and therefore it is not yet safe to assume.
@@phugindomas I'm assuming based on the books. There is more evidence in the books that's she's gonna go nuts than there ever was in the shows. Just sayin :)
@@autolicious read comment above for my response. We have zero confirmation. Foreshadowing is not a confirmation. As I said, you probably right, but we still cannot say for sure with 100% certainty.
Targaryens obsession: 1.Mad King Areys Targaryen- Is obsessed with wild fire to kill people cause he thinks everyone try to kill him. 2. Rhaegar- Is obsessed having a third child to be 3 heads dragons, because of his visions signs, The Prince that was promise, a savior hero. 3. Daenerys- Is obsessed with Iron throne and her Motherly protector of her dragons, She wants the 7 Kingdoms, She is obsessed with power. 4. Jon Snow- Is obsessed protected the North from white walkers because the prophecy he sees in his visions and real life, he's more forcus on that than anything a true hero, who doesn't cares, if he dies but protected the North for it's about to become, there must always be a Stark in North, a long night is coming, and dead comes with it. Jon more forcus on keep everyone safe especially the north.
Jackie Campbell Rheagar wasn't mad and he wasn't obsessed with having a third child nor did he rape Lyanna. That's only the way Robert told the story, but if you read the books and pay attention to all the storys Meera tells, you find out, that L and R were in love and both unhappy with their betrothal/marriage. And for John, if the nightking crosses the wall (which he will most likely do), he will be able to collect the biggest army ever, since all the dead from the previous wars are still there, all the dead Lannisters, Starks, Boltons, Tullys, Freys etc. will join one army. And also winter is there, but the Lords forgot to collect supplys and to ration it. But as the people of westeros know, a winter is always as long as the previous summer and they had the longest summer to ever be in Westeros. If nothing is done, all will starve eventually. So John is actually the only rational person to fight for the north and therefore for humanity, while all the other ones still play their little game of thrones, killing each other and therefore helping the nightking.
Anna Avertho I absolutely agree with you about Jon, but Jackie has a point about Rhaegar. Yes, he may have been the most beloved prince his dynasty has ever seen and was at a very good person all around, but that does not negate the fact that he WAS obsessed with the prophecy of the Prince that was Promised and as a consequence made some terrible and rash decisions that, as said, effectively wiped out his family and ended their reign. I don't doubt that him and Lyanna were in love and I personally love their story, but I'm sure they could have had the third prophesied baby another way that wouldn't have involved needlessly starting a war. That's just my two cents however, feel free to disagree. It's good drama either way.
''Everytime a Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land'' People say Viserys was mad and Dany wasn't. Which could be true. But who said the coin didn't land on the same side two times a row? Lets wait and see in Season 8. Where Jon is actually the heir to the Throne, everything Dany worked up until now will go to waste, since she has no claim over it.
Miranda Lou but if she finds out that Jon is her nephew,I don't think she is gonna mind Jon being on the throne.Also they have the incest thing going on
Maybe..but ever since she was little she always thought she and Viserys was heir to the iron throne...then suddenly after all 7/8 seasons she doesn't get to sit on it anyway because suddenly someone else is heir to it..thats gonna hard for her to swallow. And i don't think its gonna go down like this: ''So..Dany, my brother who can see in the past said i'm heir to the throne...so..'' Just imagine that...i dont think Dany will be ''Okey'' at all xD
I don't see dumb and dumbers season as truth. I'm waiting for the books they royally f@cked it up. They drove her "mad" in 1 season. Looked like a mad dash to make it seem right. Sloppy.
@@travisbickle4360 He took their Trial by Seven and won, and they chose to continue rejecting him. Tell me, what more was he supposed to do? Trial by combat is supposed to be decided by the gods, trial by seven even more so, and the Faith of the Seven REJECTED the results.
@@DavidbarZeus1 True. It's probably what he did that the septum finally decided to compromise with the Targeryans even though Jehangir also used diplomacy to get his choice elected
Although we don’t know much about him I would say Rhaegar might have also been a contender for madness, just not of a cruel and violent kind to the extent of his father. Rhaegar seems to have been a little obsessed with prophecy, so much so to the extent that he ran off with a 15 year old girl who also happened to be the daughter of a Lord Paramount. The consequences of his actions resulted in war and the brutal deaths of his wife and children. It’s also ironic that Rhaegar went through so much effort to have a Visenya, but Lyanna gave birth to a son.
Thanks for discussing the Targaryens at such length! All we know about them comes from the bits and pieces from Viserys, pre-melting, and Jaime's musings and Tyrion's reading. They have potentially the most interesting storyline of all, if you like the dragons, the tales of Meraxes covering whole cities with this shadow before engulfing them in flame, the dragon attack at Harrenhal (whose evidence we still see when Arya is Tywin's servant there(, and how the citizens of King's Landing came to the dragon pit and killed the dragons they found there certainly bear some chapters of their own somewhere, if only someone writes them down in another book someday.
After reading Maegor's section in "Fire and Blood" I don't think he was mad more so he was upset no one loved him as King as much as they loved him as the Warrior Prince. King Aeneys was basically a fool more so worried about folks loving him than being a great King. Also King Jaehaerys was far more loved than Baelor
"Everytime a new Targaryen is born the gods toss the coin in the air and the world hold its breath to see how it will land" I always wondered that Oberyn would suit this saying if the coin fell on the side and stood upright. Too bad Martin killed him off way before his time You could also argue that Aemond, the one who fought Daemon the rouge prince over the God's Eye, was also mad based on his actions as both a child and an adult. I think the best way to tell whether a person is mad or not is to see their action as a child like Joffery. The other "Mad" people grew into madness rather than being born with it.
Stannis kills his brother and burns people for the Red God, while Baelor walks through the desert, and snakes for his family, and only burns books instead of ppl, is considered mad? If that is so add Stannis to the list too, cuz he was Aerys cousin, but his fans get butthurt when u mention his relation to the mad Kings of house Targaryen, cuz hes Mr. Perfect doing his duty. His grandmother was Aerion Brighflame niece, aunt to Aerys the Mad, no wonder he burns people
Baelor did more then what you mentioned. Stannis was far from mad. If you witnessed the things Melissandre is capable of doing, you would probably think her god actually exists.
whycreate They're both religious fanatics. Fanatism aint madness theres a difference. Without Davos aka Jiminy Cricket in his shoulder keeping him in line (sometimes), give Stannis a couple of years following Melissandres God and he will become as bad as Aerys. Hes already burning people for his God. At least Baelor helped them, fed them. If Stannis did the same, maybe ppl would actually want to fight for him, instead he has to hire sellswords cuz no one gives a fuck about him but Davos and Shireen
Stannis is not a religious fanatic at all. Melisandre is. Stannis is an atheist who recognizes Melisandre's powers and knows he needs them to win the throne. He says so explicitly in Davos' first chapter in A Clash of Kings. He also has very strict rules who he burns: only those who are condemned to death anyway, as traitors (like Alester Florent) or deserters from the Watch (Mance Rayder) or cannibals (those guys in his army that ate one of the dead soldiers because they were hungry, during the march to Winterfell). They are going to die anyway, so instead of hanging or beheading, he gives them to Mel to burn. He's even refusing to burn an Ironborn captive (Asha) when the Queen's Men (R'hllor followers) in his army are asking for it. He was tempted to say yes to Mel burning his young nephew Edric Storm as a sacrifice to win the throne, but was very unsure about it, and in the end he agreed that Davos was right and didn't punish or demote him for saving Edric. I'm not one of the Stannis fans, and the guy has lots of flaws and is very morally ambiguous, but saying he's a religious fanatic is just wrong. If he's fanatic about anything, it's about adhering to the laws and his very strict ideas about justice and duty. Stannis (or Melisandre, for that matter) burning people just because they are "infidels" is something made up for the show, where Melisandre is made to be a lot more evil than in the books, and Stannis is made to be both a religious fanatic and more evil than in the books. They are certainly not tolerant and they do demolish sacred objects (burning the statues of the Seven at the start of ACOK, which was adapted on the show in the first episode of season 2, burning the sacred weirwoods in A Dance with Dragons) but they aren't forcing anyone to adopt R'hllor. Book Davos himself is a very ardent follower of the Seven, and so are many others among Stannis' men. Melisandre converted some of the wildlings into R'hllorism, but she wasn't forcing them, and a lot of them still follow the Old Gods (as does Jon Snow, and she doesn't seem to have a problem with that, either).
They are both using each other, and they know it - he wants the throne, but doesn't care about R'hllor, she only cares about R'hllor and the fight against the Great Other, and thinks that who's king on the Iron Throne is unimportant, but has been helping Stannis because she thinks he's Azor Ahai. I don't know why you'd say "when she is the one who does the using". If anything, she's the one who is less likely to achieve her goal, because I think it's pretty clear to the readers that Stannis isn't really Azor Ahai, but Melisandre's chapter in ADWD shows she still believes he is.
What has she won? Her goal is exactly what she says it is - to save the world from the Great Other, and she thinks Azor Ahai Reborn is instrumental in that fight - which she may be right about. She is just not right that it is Stannis. What else do you think is her goal? It is not a secret, we have been in her head. She is a typical Well Intentioned Extremist with an "end justifies the means" MO.
I think you could also touch on how Rhaegar was slightly obsessed with prophecy. It's not as strong of a case as the ones you mentioned in this video, but I think it's still worth mentioning.
I believe we can add Dany to the list although she's more driven mad than born mad. I agree that her brother Visceris was mad, we could have actually seen more of this madness if he succeeded to become king. Plus the way he would sometimes look at Dany made me think that he would have probably married her afterwards and continued this madness tree family.
MFUNI KAKAYA DEBORAH most targs weren’t born mad neither. Even Aerys was a kinda normal guy, till he got captured and taken as hostage for about a half year at age 40. Viserys and Dany probably wouldn’t have become mad if they had grown up in a better environment also. In psychology they believe that madness is caused by genetical defects AND the enviroment you grow up to. Viserys was under the influence of targaryen propaganda most of his life, had to see his mother die & his father becoming insane, was confronted with the brutal deaths of his parents, brother, baby cousins and most of the loyalist of his family at the age of seven. Then living with his sister on the streets for long periods of time... Dany had it also very bad, never knowing a place like home, having a abuse brother no family left, being forced to marry and raped at the age of 13. Seeing your last family member (and only person you knew for more then a month), husband and son die. Then being given the highest amount of power possible, becoming a leader and queen in a year, supported by people who believe you’re a god. That even people with normal genetic would become at leats very labil at this point is no question.
The "mad Targaryen" stereotype was anti Targaryen propaganda used by their enemies. And no, Dany wasn't mad either...sacking the city was a logical and smart move to cement her power. The reaction of her disloyal subjects was totally insane, however.
I really believe that Jon Snow killed Daemarys because he saw the madness that was growing inside of her. When she set fire to King's Landing Snow knew that she was capable of doing much worse things as she described moving all around Westeros and 'correcting; what she diidn't like.
well one of the stark king thousands of years ago is literally called bran the burner so you can put him on the list. he btw is a guy who burned his own fleet in grief for his father's death. then we have theon the hungry wolf who fought war with andals during the andal invasion and wonthen went to their home in essos burned 100s of villages and brought every man in those village head on a spear and brought them back on the ship. in his case while the north considers him normal andals believed him to be mad for his actions.
The secretly mad Targaryen nobody talked about: Aegon V, trying to revive the dragon with wildfire and blood sacrifice. Rheagar, kidnapping Lyanna Stark eventhough she was bethroned to Robert Baratheon and he had wife and children already.
Saying that Maegor was mad gives an excuse for his foolhardy cruelty and evil disposition. Maegor knew what he was doing when he did it. That's why he was mysteriously found carved open on the Iron Throne and everybody collectively agreed that it was a tragic accident
The Habsburg family had a lot of inter marriage which resulted in madness. It is an accurate representation of the results of generations of inter marriage
Madness is not always inborn like what the gods toss coins or something. It could be induced like what happened to Aerys, the Mad King & his son Viserys, the Beggar KIng. Aerys by his traumatic experience in Duskendale drove him mad, really mad! while Viserys actions of "madness" or folly was only because of the pressure & the gried of loosing his throne, birthright & home. It was said that Viserys was kind to Danaerys once, but stopped smiling when they have to sell everything they have, wandering the Free Cities, asking or begging for Magisters or Nobles reclaim the Seven Kingdoms.
The issue of jon snow as character in the show is the absurd the showrunners commit by not giving him a propper development, after all of what happened, they don't write any change of pace to the character . It's almost like the same thing from Season 1 to Season 8. They made him a statue with flesh.
I don’t think maeghar was mad at all! He did what was necessary to keep his family alive. The faith was working against him and wanted nothing more then to rid themselves of targaryens! Great video!
Regina Shaw did what was necessary to keep his family alive?? He tortured his teenage nephew to death and then killed his older brother after usurping his crown. He was actively destroying House Targaryen and nearly succeeded.
Targaryen practiced incest to preserve the magical ability to bind and control dragons. With the death of magic, the power in their blood went out of control, making them fall to madness. Maegor wasn't crazy, he was extremely cruel and unforgiving.
whycreate King Baelor, Prince Rhaegal, and Prince Aerion were not born of incest. King Baelor's mother was a Velaryon, Aerion's mother was a Dayne, and Rhaegal's mother was a Martell. King Aerys II wasn't mad, he was driven there from all the happenings during his reign. Prince Viserys can be made a case for, third generation incest BUT Rhaegar and Daenerys were fine.
Denearys was not mad , she was just pissed . She failed again and again because of Tyrion . She didn't lose her shit until Misandea died . So that was surely circumstantial and not to mention Jon Snow , she loved and he never reciprocated her feelings especially after he knew his claim to the throne was legit. She tried to be good and all she got was people rejecting her rule in westeros. Honestly after everything she went through she should've been queen .
preetika ray She was mad. She killed more innocents than any character has in their entire lives all In a single day. Open your fucking eyes and wipe that Dany juice from your lips.
Really makes me feel like George RR set up Jamie and Cercei to be Targaryan descendants. I don't think they'll go that route anymore, but I get the destinct impression we're seeing similar traits to a lot of the stuff in the video with both of them and their children
Awesome, really enjoyed the History of House Targaryen. George R. Martin does not go into any details regarding Aemon Targaryen's previous life before becoming Maester at Castle Black. I would be interested to hear his life story and how he ended up at the Wall. Aemon mentions his brother Aegon being a baby..would love to hear the whole backstory.
Awesome, need to find out more about this interesting character. Really enjoy your compilations, good pace lots of info and good voice to narrate! May the Gods be Good....
Maegor isn't insane, he's just evil
John Porteous evil isn't a concept in psychology
John Porteous the only way "evil" would be used in psychology is for examples.
RSE 167 Who cares?
sociopathy or psychopathy, both another name for evil is madness
Evil is just a label we all put on those who threaten us
The image of Maegor just waking up from his coma and going like "that's it ,I am ending this religion" and then 5 seconds later rides balerion and burns the shit of that sept is literally One of the funniest shit ever 😭😭😭
true lmao
Well he was evil, but he trully did funny things, everytime he was appeared i expected some crazy shit to happen, and im not disapointed.
Dude was a badass
Hyuck hyuck it’s hilarious
To be completely honest, I hated the septon and their religion.
Those dudes believe they own the world!!
When Cersei burnt all of them, it was so satisfying except for queen Margelly Tyrell being there
I chalenge you to do a "House Frey Family Tree" video.
If you have no value for your mental sanity of course
that would be suicide
whycreate *palpatine voice*
"Do it."
Fabled Pictures Dew It.
actually the factions within house Frey are quite fascinating, so that would be a fun video to speculate on
New Reality Show to Hit Westeros: *Keeping Up With The Targaryens* Coming This Winter
Definitely would watch this no doubt
Winter is coming and so are the mad Targaryens
Right, it’s called House of the Dragon 😭
You forgot the part where Aerys had Ned's brother watch their father burn with a sword just out of reach and strangled himself to death trying to reach it to save him...
Any man who threatens the king should die...they just showed up making demands and kind of brought it upon themselves if you really analyze it.
They knew he wasn’t playing with a full deck but they still came at him like that....I’m sure the entire kingdom knew of his issues with having kids and being paranoid AF yet you threaten the eldest son and ask for his head?
Fire is an effective champion...I would have burned them the moment they asked for his head. They literally went to a man that was paranoid AF about the death of his family then you make his fears real in a face to face threat knowing he kills whole family’s and houses. Over a lady that didn’t even want to be with the guy and Ned knew this if no one else did he had a notion that she was not happy to be promised to Robert any longer.... she ran off with his son and he wasn’t going to kill his prime heir over some woman lol I can only imagine him sitting there going “I knew it! People want my son killed I have to protect my family my bloodline ...how dare they be so bold I can’t let them leave they will surely pursue my son with or without my help...the Starks must die” lol he had no trust left.
So you just stood there and watched?
500 men just stood there and watched
MrTaylorAries hey bud, I agree with some of this but you make the assumption that Aerys wanted to protect/ loved Rhaegar. Maybe in his younger years, but in his later years, he thought his own son would raise the lords of Westeros against him and overthrow him as king. So when he burned the lord of House stark and asphyxiated his heir, it was more out of his own paranoia and madness.
Why didn't he just use his feet?
@@danieldiaz7065 Doesn't matter what Aerys thought of Rhaegar, the law would still demand that anyone who called for Rhaegar's death be killed themselves. Also, Rickard WAS plotting treason, so his execution is also justified
I think Viserys is just groomed badly. I mean being constantly told that you're the true King of Westeros and being told lies about people secretly wishing that you're the king and all that other lies makes Viserys an oblivious fool. It's like early Daenerys too, but she never expected to rule so she listened in.
@Kevin W Dany was listen to everyone until people started to give her shitty advice (Tyrion mostly)
Alex Shuysky tyrion is a good adviser
Kevin W ok I haven't seen the episode 8 yet . I am waiting for the DVD to be out
so i guess Brian will be the king when he didn't do anything in the show
Kevin W I guess because I have heard or i found out online that Bran will be the king of the 6 or 7 kingdoms .how come ?
Kevin W but could you tell me if i should watch the Vikings movie to apprehend better the targaryen history or even read the books .
I have just bought the game of thrones book set but where to find the Vikings books ?Please
thankyou in advance
Updates : according to spoiler leaked of season 8 ,Daenerys is joined the chat
Indeed she has
Episode 5 to be exact, north remember
Yes, and it makes absolutely no sense in the show
F is the bomb The show is irrelevant. George isn’t even done with the books. And half the things that have happened in the show haven’t even happened in the books. Hell, even Stannis, Barristan, and Tommen are still alive, same goes for all of the Tyrells. Daenerys going mad, may or may not even happen. All we can do is hope George finishes the books.
With all the incest it's no wonder Daenerys had no problem still wanting to be with Jon Snow
As far as we know Dany could be mad too. Aerys didn't show signs of madness till his later years and Dany has become more and more bloodthirsty as the books go on.
As far as we know, anyone in the series could be mad, or going mad. And there are lots of people in the series way more bloodthirsty than her.
Even if you think that only Targaryens are likely to be mad (in spite of the fact that some other people in the series seem more likely to be batshit crazy, like Cersei or Euron), then you should be also speculating whether Jon Snow (Rhaegar's son) or Stannis (great-grandson of Aegon V) are/will go crazy.
FrakkinToaster Luvva here's the thing, when siblings have incest and create Offspring then their genes basically duplicate and mutate.
Jon snows mother, lyanna, was not a targeryen and when a another person with different DNA have Offspring with the inbred then the DNA resets so that everythings fine
stannis DNA is already alterd to much from egg through the generations
and Euron is just a sociopath
Just because people are worse in the series does not make her actions less troubling.
Its true that anyone in the series could be mad (and many are) but the writer has clearly stated that products of incest are at a higher risk of that, and like Aron Johansson said Stannis's DNA has altered since his grandmother's Targaryen DNA was added whereas Dany is directly from sibling incest who themselves were born of sibling incest.
Jon (at least in the books anyway) might not be R+L=J. Also in the books Jon is currently freshly stabbed, if he is dead and brought back to life he most likely will be a different person and possibly mad as Catelyn is.
PartyPoison12 We weren't discussing the morality of Dany's actions. The subject is whether she is going to go mad. And there is no evidence at all in the books that she's mad, going mad, or will go mad. There's just evidence that she's worrying about it - which makes it all the less likely that she will go mad. Cersei (canonically compared to the Mad King by Jaime, who knew the Mad King very well) never worries about going mad, for instance.
" the writer has clearly stated that products of incest are at a higher risk of that,"
Really? When did he say that?
First off, if that were true in general, then not just Jaime and Cersei but also Ned, Lyanna, Brandon and Benjen would be as likely to go mad/have been mad, as their parents were first cousins. But that does not happen unless there is a recessive gene for a specific illness running in the family. So I guess you mean the Targaryens, under the assumption they had a 'madness gene' in the family. But the evidence does not support that. See my answer to Aron Johansson.
Aron Johansson No, their genes do not "duplicate and mutate", I have no idea where you got that or what you even mean by that. Siblings don't have the same DNA, unless they are identical twins, in which case they can't have a child together as they are both of the same biological sex. And genes mutating has nothing to do with whether people are related.
What does happen is that there is a greater probability of the child getting a pair of recessive genes for a congenital disease if their parents are closely related (but only if they have that gene in the first place, of course). Which doesn't mean that it has to happen, or that it can't happen with people who aren't related.
So, we would have to assume that there is a 'madness gene' in the Targaryen family.
But then why was Rhaegel mad? His mother was Mariah Martell. She had no Targ blood at all. Why was Aerion Brightflame mad? His mother was a Dayne. Again, absolutely no relation to the Targs. So, 2 out of 4 or possibly 5 Targaryens that were mad (it's debatable whether Maegor was insane or just exceptionally cruel and ruthless, and in addition, his more 'mad' behavior occurred after he died and was resurrected and may have been caused by that) weren't products of incest. On the other hand, there's a bunch of Targaryens who were products of incest but who were perfectly normal, and even in some cases among the greatest monarchs that Westeros had ever had (Daeron the Good).
So, the evidence doesn't actually offer that much support to the theory of congenital Targaryen madness caused by recessive genes/inbreeding.
I don't consider Maegor to be mad. He was a product of his mother upbringing and his war-time surroundings.
He was cruel :p but I don't see him as mad.
Tywin was no better than him, and he wasnt mad, just pure evil :D
Tywin ain't evil o.o ..Tywin is just coldly practical. He was never cruel without extremely good reason, in his eyes. Tywin is far from evil, to me. And yes, Maegor was very similar to him, only he rode a big ass dragon + xD
RegTarg011 Well he did kill all the Reynes including the children, just because the head of the family disrespected him, dont even get me started on the targaryen kids. He knew exactly what the Mountain was capable of and what he was unleashing on Ellia, he wasnt stupid or blind
Reyne's were plotting a rebellion against him.. Targaryen children, his only mistake was not killing Daeny too. From HIS perspective, not ours, he is practical man, not evil. There's a big difference. Those Targ kids could one day raise armies and kill millions, like Daeny doing now, he did what was safer for the realm and end of the rebellion.
RegTarg011 well if u follow that logic Myrcella got what she deserved, and Shireeen needs to die so that she will never try to take the throne after her father :P thats why 6 kingdoms are against the lannisters right now, way to be practical o lord Tywin
8:05 he was crazy, danced around naked, and died choking on a pie..
but somehow managed to have 3 children?
Probably while dancing naked and eating pie.
Crazy Targaryen king: "Come along dear time to conceive our next child."
The poor queen: "Can't this wait until later in our bedroom?.......oh God no..."
*the crazy king drags the poor queen in front of his court and strips naked and starts dancing awkwardly*
Crazy Targaryen king: "Get undressed my love!!! AND BRING OUT THE PIE!!!! I'M FILLING MY WOMAN WITH BABY JUICE!!!"
*The court gasps in horror....except for one lone pervert who gives him a thumbs up*
Martin: "And that is one of my rejected stories from Game of Thrones."
Well, you don't need to be a genius or sane to follow basic instincts.
You will notice it when you get to know some people, natural selection is sure but also slow.
Sounds Joffrey
@@Melodyofthesea78 it's unfair, Rhaegel Targaryen was known as a really gentle men.
Taegaryen madness was focused on cause they were looking for a weakness to spit on a great house. Lannister also had their mad son Joeffery, Greyjoys are full of mad men and even Brandon stark was a hotblooded tempermental man. Yes Taegaryns are mad, but the Game of Thrones world brings out the madness in men
Truee
If guys like varys , little finger, cersei,Tywin etc I would also be paranoid all the time
@@faisalkamal4319 Robert Beratheon didn't need to go down to madness
@@robch.2901 instead became a useless drunkard.
@@robch.2901 technically the first Baratheon were bastard Targaryen so they’re cousins
Barristan the bold: stops a rebellion and frees the king.
Baelor the blessed: that's cute!
well dorne weren't rebelling in baelor's time. aegon failed to conquer them same for his descendants until daeron(baelor's brother) but by the end of the same year dorne had gained its independence and daeron's appointed ruler of dorne was dead and soon same happened to daeron and his army
How did you not put Aegon IV on here? His last great request legitimized all his bastards (He had quite a few) and sparked a 5 generation rebellion that almost destroyed House Targaryen altogether.
He wasn't mad, just a worse version of Robert, constantly drinking, eating and sleeping around.
Robert may have been a drunk and a whoremonger, but he was still a good man inside. Aegon IV was just an all around, greedy, lustful, lazy bastard.
Han Solo he's not mad, he's just a filthy scoundrel
that was more out of spite than anything else
Wasn't mad, just a shit ruler
so cersei is like a new version of maegor the cruel
Some people say that Jamie and cersi are actually targarians.
Not NEARLY as bad. Maegor had all four limbs cut off a guy and then forced Maesters to heal him and keep him alive. He even forced the guy to attend one of his weddings.
Side note: Maegor had a thing for killing Maesters. It’s a good thing he isn’t around to harm Sam....
Naomi Nagler they are not Targaryens at all.
@ Op: Cersei is a saint compared to maegor.
Cersei the Ruthless.
@@idontuploadanym0re Imagine if the ghost of Maegor suddenly appears and fucking terrifies Sam.
"Maegor, along with his 'mommy?'" That sounds maddeningly frightening....lolololol
Seven Thirty Dude Visenyia seems like a scary person If you got on her bad side...
@@noxtrin3315 she was a dragon rider
1:52 "Maegor, along with his MOMMY, Visenya..." Lol. Did you just say mommy?
DrDelicious70 didn't hear that the first time lol
I had to replay it to make sure that’s what he said lol. I was thinking is this kid 5
Yeah Maegor was a momma's boy to Visenya, he did everything she wanted.
I heard that and played it back twice to make sure i hard it right. Likely just a slip of the tongue, but still.
After visenya died maegor became mad
its kinda weird that you make some of the best and informative videos and have so little subs while others that live on reddit theories have so much
wow thanks!
Agreed
whycreate only thing is euron is your fave greyjoy I'm a victarian fan myself
Victarion is a pretty cool character with a VERY interesting story going on
it's because of his poor speech and pronunciation. The content is realy good but it's hard to understand and really infuriating. the way. he always. cut. his sentences. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaah !
Baelor looks like a weird blond Jesus. If you get offended by this it was not my intent :)
Hi People it was the drawing not actually the way he looked
Mianah 9A he didn't "actually" look like anything... He's a fictional character.
I'm pretty sure the artist make Baelor look like that on purpose.When you hear about a man being called "Blessed",walking on deserts for days,fasting,being celibate,etc..You immediately thing about Jesus in the west.Although Baelor didn't do any miracles.
The comparison with Gandhi isn't that accurate,since Baelor wasn't emancipating a country through pacifism,but it it was more accurate,maybe Baelor would be bald.
Samantha ba ha ha ha omg you are correct
@Johanna Jesus isn't a fictional character, there is written proof that a man named Jesus walked around in Jerusalem and was crucified, whether he returned is unknown and up to debate, but he sure as fuck existed, goddamn people who say "Jesus didn't exist" are retarded.
So Baelor is like Targaryen Jesus
Please, tell us how Jesus was like Baelor, outside of the generosity to the poor
@SamTheWayne How do you know that? That was 2000 years ago...
@SamTheWayne yea man I mean if you think about it. He was literally telling everyone he heard his father's voice in his head. He also destroyed business and homes because he didn't like the ruling class. Jesus could've very well been exactly as you described.
@Enetheru1999 Hold up. Jesus WASN'T an authoritarian fanatic listening to voices in his head?! How so? The man literarly believed he was the human embodiment of god and persisted in this belief until his final breath.
He also went into a desert for 40 days and supposedly talked to the devil.
No mention of Summerhall? Arguably, Summerhall was possibly the initial root of his insanity. We don't have many details, but it's pretty clear he saw his grandfather, uncles, aunts, and a good portion of the kingsguard die brutally. Right when his first son was born too. Imagine that, if you can. Most of your family dying on the very eve where you become a father for the first time.
Aerys shows signs of suffering from PSTD. Literally, half of his descriptions, down to the maniac mood shifts, are signs of PSTD. Surely he had genetic predisposition to madness, but between Summerhall and the Defiance of Duskendale were what broke him, turning him into the worst king to sit the Iron Throne.
Also, it is arguable that more than just the ones you listed here were, in one way or another, mad. Madness doesn't always equal dancing naked in the halls or taking a shot of wildfire to become a dragon. Sometimes it's as simple as sleeping around constantly and bequeathing lavish gifts to random people.(here's looking at you, Aegon the Unworthy.)
Even Aegon the Unlikely's obsession with restoring dragons, the thing that literally caused most of the Targaryens of his day to die, could be considered a form of madness.
I don't think he saw his family die. They were deep inside the castle and only a few people were there. Also most of the Targaryens didn't die at Summerhall, only two died and Aegon only wanted to bring back dragons since all the high lords went against his reforms and he needed something to back his power up.
THE ARMADA
But knowing that part of your family died like that and that you could have easily been one of them... would it not have affected you in any way?
I agree with you about Aegon the Unlikely. If one believes him to be mad because of his desire for dragons than everyone creating anything is mad, as there is always a risk of it going south, especially if it's weaponry.
You could make a strong case of the leaders of the USA having been mad for creating atom bombs, for example. Or the Ancient Greeks for creating Greek Fire.
With Baleor the Blessed, you see that madness takes two forms: Cruel and Despotic, or Holier then Thou, and in Baleor's case he was someone who was so devoted to his faith, that he failed to see he was sliding deeper and deeper into insanity
and dany walks both paths without noticing
Maegor reminds me of Henry VIII.
Jovan Mitrić in what way?
Samuel Wolch Maybe because he had 6 wives like Henry VIII
Aegon the 4th resembles Henry the 8th more than maegor.
Samuel Wolch Multiple wives in a chase to get a son as the other have stated, he also had issues with the church and ended up taking on his own new interpretation and removing the power that church held in England. He was also the younger son of the king though didn't over step is own nephew (Richard 3rd style) however he married his brothers wife and Maegor did something rather similar in marrying a widow of his family.
Similar, but Mhegor cared not if his people loved him. Henry wasn't nearly as cruel. It's just with both you weren't going to "deceive" them. Yet, we know how that went with Henry Tudor.
Great video as always!
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Viserys was a spoiled brat that’s why he couldn’t hang in the real world. Just like how Cersei stayed within the castle at Kings landing for so long that she was unfamiliar with anything outside the red keeps walls. She really thought she had power but was also a userper
He was not spoiled he will just a kid that was told Westeros iron Throne belong to him nobody respected him he had nothing he bagged just to feed his sister the only hope he had was iron Throne belong to him and that made him angry and greedy because he never had anything
@@gamingrepair1338
Someone gets it
these armchair psychologists man. Viserys was just a dumb and abusive asshole but i guess that's all it takes to be diagnosed as "mad".
He pauses slightly after every third/fourth word.
William Shatner has joined the chat.
John Portell 😂
I know it’s kinda getting annoying 😂 but I like his videos
I haven't read the books...i feel like a noob here.
Me too, but at least your learning through videos about the lore.
"Whenever a Targaryen is born, the gods flip a coin"
And world hold it's breath
It's official, you can add Dany to this list now!
Not yet. Only HBO dany can be added atm
@@phugindomas Given that George said that the endings would be similar I can't see such a huge plot point as Dany going nuts and taking down Kings Landing not being in the books. If anything she'll likely be more nuts in the books because George can flesh out her descent into madness better than the show did.
I think it's official, Dany is a mad Targaryen.
@@autolicious honestly though, it hasn't even been confirmed if Dave and Dan used his ending. They aren't known for being true to the source material. We will have to wait. You're probably right but we still can't be sure and therefore it is not yet safe to assume.
@@phugindomas I'm assuming based on the books. There is more evidence in the books that's she's gonna go nuts than there ever was in the shows. Just sayin :)
@@autolicious read comment above for my response. We have zero confirmation. Foreshadowing is not a confirmation. As I said, you probably right, but we still cannot say for sure with 100% certainty.
It goes to show how crazy Aerys was to be known as THE Mad King in a line full of mad kings.
Targaryens obsession:
1.Mad King Areys Targaryen-
Is obsessed with wild fire to
kill people cause he thinks
everyone try to kill him.
2. Rhaegar- Is obsessed having a
third child to be 3 heads dragons,
because of his visions signs,
The Prince that was promise,
a savior hero.
3. Daenerys- Is obsessed
with Iron throne and her
Motherly protector of her dragons,
She wants the 7 Kingdoms,
She is obsessed with power.
4. Jon Snow- Is obsessed
protected the North from
white walkers because
the prophecy he sees in
his visions and real life,
he's more forcus on that than anything a true hero,
who doesn't cares, if he dies
but protected the North for
it's about to become,
there must always be
a Stark in North,
a long night is coming,
and dead comes with it.
Jon more forcus on keep
everyone safe especially
the north.
Jackie Campbell Rheagar wasn't mad and he wasn't obsessed with having a third child nor did he rape Lyanna. That's only the way Robert told the story, but if you read the books and pay attention to all the storys Meera tells, you find out, that L and R were in love and both unhappy with their betrothal/marriage.
And for John, if the nightking crosses the wall (which he will most likely do), he will be able to collect the biggest army ever, since all the dead from the previous wars are still there, all the dead Lannisters, Starks, Boltons, Tullys, Freys etc. will join one army. And also winter is there, but the Lords forgot to collect supplys and to ration it. But as the people of westeros know, a winter is always as long as the previous summer and they had the longest summer to ever be in Westeros. If nothing is done, all will starve eventually. So John is actually the only rational person to fight for the north and therefore for humanity, while all the other ones still play their little game of thrones, killing each other and therefore helping the nightking.
Anna Avertho I absolutely agree with you about Jon, but Jackie has a point about Rhaegar. Yes, he may have been the most beloved prince his dynasty has ever seen and was at a very good person all around, but that does not negate the fact that he WAS obsessed with the prophecy of the Prince that was Promised and as a consequence made some terrible and rash decisions that, as said, effectively wiped out his family and ended their reign. I don't doubt that him and Lyanna were in love and I personally love their story, but I'm sure they could have had the third prophesied baby another way that wouldn't have involved needlessly starting a war. That's just my two cents however, feel free to disagree. It's good drama either way.
''Everytime a Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land''
People say Viserys was mad and Dany wasn't. Which could be true. But who said the coin didn't land on the same side two times a row? Lets wait and see in Season 8. Where Jon is actually the heir to the Throne, everything Dany worked up until now will go to waste, since she has no claim over it.
Miranda Lou but if she finds out that Jon is her nephew,I don't think she is gonna mind Jon being on the throne.Also they have the incest thing going on
Maybe..but ever since she was little she always thought she and Viserys was heir to the iron throne...then suddenly after all 7/8 seasons she doesn't get to sit on it anyway because suddenly someone else is heir to it..thats gonna hard for her to swallow. And i don't think its gonna go down like this: ''So..Dany, my brother who can see in the past said i'm heir to the throne...so..'' Just imagine that...i dont think Dany will be ''Okey'' at all xD
H P Oh Mann your comment is on top now You calculated it right
@@SnakePearls1Except for the fact that there's no logic to it at all
I don't see dumb and dumbers season as truth. I'm waiting for the books they royally f@cked it up. They drove her "mad" in 1 season. Looked like a mad dash to make it seem right. Sloppy.
Maegor was short tempered and prone to violent fits of rage, but he had to fight the faith militants who were bent on overthrowing the Targaryens.
He could have negotiated. King Jeharys was successful in convincing septum into making an exception for Targeryans
@@travisbickle4360 He took their Trial by Seven and won, and they chose to continue rejecting him. Tell me, what more was he supposed to do? Trial by combat is supposed to be decided by the gods, trial by seven even more so, and the Faith of the Seven REJECTED the results.
@@DavidbarZeus1 True. It's probably what he did that the septum finally decided to compromise with the Targeryans even though Jehangir also used diplomacy to get his choice elected
*Elder Scrolls Music in the background.... you sir, are a man of culture.*
Although we don’t know much about him I would say Rhaegar might have also been a contender for madness, just not of a cruel and violent kind to the extent of his father. Rhaegar seems to have been a little obsessed with prophecy, so much so to the extent that he ran off with a 15 year old girl who also happened to be the daughter of a Lord Paramount. The consequences of his actions resulted in war and the brutal deaths of his wife and children.
It’s also ironic that Rhaegar went through so much effort to have a Visenya, but Lyanna gave birth to a son.
Thanks for discussing the Targaryens at such length! All we know about them comes from the bits and pieces from Viserys, pre-melting, and Jaime's musings and Tyrion's reading. They have potentially the most interesting storyline of all, if you like the dragons, the tales of Meraxes covering whole cities with this shadow before engulfing them in flame, the dragon attack at Harrenhal (whose evidence we still see when Arya is Tywin's servant there(, and how the citizens of King's Landing came to the dragon pit and killed the dragons they found there certainly bear some chapters of their own somewhere, if only someone writes them down in another book someday.
If Baelor hated everything he saw around him then why did he even bother living
He thought he could erase sin from the world.
@@godzillavkk yup
@@godzillavkkbased
That picture of Viserys makes him look emo xD
After reading Maegor's section in "Fire and Blood" I don't think he was mad more so he was upset no one loved him as King as much as they loved him as the Warrior Prince. King Aeneys was basically a fool more so worried about folks loving him than being a great King. Also King Jaehaerys was far more loved than Baelor
Aerion brightflame was the most hilarious story of Tagaryen madness. The prince who thought he was a dragon...
Ultimate fantacy matches: The Mountin vs Maegor The Cruel
Maegor the cruel has dragons
is that elder scrolls music in the background...
"Everytime a new Targaryen is born the gods toss the coin in the air and the world hold its breath to see how it will land" I always wondered that Oberyn would suit this saying if the coin fell on the side and stood upright. Too bad Martin killed him off way before his time
You could also argue that Aemond, the one who fought Daemon the rouge prince over the God's Eye, was also mad based on his actions as both a child and an adult. I think the best way to tell whether a person is mad or not is to see their action as a child like Joffery. The other "Mad" people grew into madness rather than being born with it.
Now add Daenerys Targaryen, Queen of the Ashes and Destroyer of the realm.
Lol, I love the titles that you added to her. 😂 I myself am a fan of "The Bitch That Was Promised" 😂
She is so crazy , such a crazy lady
That isn't canon you clods.
Sorry, but why is burning ONE city enough to make her insane? Merciless, sure, but not insane.
The books is the only thing that matters
Rhaegar and Aegon V could be considered unstable too. They were obsessed with prophecy and ruined their family
their blood must've been fucking strong indeed to have so few instances of madness while marrying siblings to each other for so many generations lmfao
Stannis kills his brother and burns people for the Red God, while Baelor walks through the desert, and snakes for his family, and only burns books instead of ppl, is considered mad? If that is so add Stannis to the list too, cuz he was Aerys cousin, but his fans get butthurt when u mention his relation to the mad Kings of house Targaryen, cuz hes Mr. Perfect doing his duty. His grandmother was Aerion Brighflame niece, aunt to Aerys the Mad, no wonder he burns people
Baelor did more then what you mentioned. Stannis was far from mad. If you witnessed the things Melissandre is capable of doing, you would probably think her god actually exists.
whycreate They're both religious fanatics. Fanatism aint madness theres a difference. Without Davos aka Jiminy Cricket in his shoulder keeping him in line (sometimes), give Stannis a couple of years following Melissandres God and he will become as bad as Aerys. Hes already burning people for his God. At least Baelor helped them, fed them. If Stannis did the same, maybe ppl would actually want to fight for him, instead he has to hire sellswords cuz no one gives a fuck about him but Davos and Shireen
Stannis is not a religious fanatic at all. Melisandre is. Stannis is an atheist who recognizes Melisandre's powers and knows he needs them to win the throne. He says so explicitly in Davos' first chapter in A Clash of Kings.
He also has very strict rules who he burns: only those who are condemned to death anyway, as traitors (like Alester Florent) or deserters from the Watch (Mance Rayder) or cannibals (those guys in his army that ate one of the dead soldiers because they were hungry, during the march to Winterfell). They are going to die anyway, so instead of hanging or beheading, he gives them to Mel to burn. He's even refusing to burn an Ironborn captive (Asha) when the Queen's Men (R'hllor followers) in his army are asking for it. He was tempted to say yes to Mel burning his young nephew Edric Storm as a sacrifice to win the throne, but was very unsure about it, and in the end he agreed that Davos was right and didn't punish or demote him for saving Edric.
I'm not one of the Stannis fans, and the guy has lots of flaws and is very morally ambiguous, but saying he's a religious fanatic is just wrong. If he's fanatic about anything, it's about adhering to the laws and his very strict ideas about justice and duty. Stannis (or Melisandre, for that matter) burning people just because they are "infidels" is something made up for the show, where Melisandre is made to be a lot more evil than in the books, and Stannis is made to be both a religious fanatic and more evil than in the books. They are certainly not tolerant and they do demolish sacred objects (burning the statues of the Seven at the start of ACOK, which was adapted on the show in the first episode of season 2, burning the sacred weirwoods in A Dance with Dragons) but they aren't forcing anyone to adopt R'hllor. Book Davos himself is a very ardent follower of the Seven, and so are many others among Stannis' men. Melisandre converted some of the wildlings into R'hllorism, but she wasn't forcing them, and a lot of them still follow the Old Gods (as does Jon Snow, and she doesn't seem to have a problem with that, either).
They are both using each other, and they know it - he wants the throne, but doesn't care about R'hllor, she only cares about R'hllor and the fight against the Great Other, and thinks that who's king on the Iron Throne is unimportant, but has been helping Stannis because she thinks he's Azor Ahai.
I don't know why you'd say "when she is the one who does the using". If anything, she's the one who is less likely to achieve her goal, because I think it's pretty clear to the readers that Stannis isn't really Azor Ahai, but Melisandre's chapter in ADWD shows she still believes he is.
What has she won?
Her goal is exactly what she says it is - to save the world from the Great Other, and she thinks Azor Ahai Reborn is instrumental in that fight - which she may be right about. She is just not right that it is Stannis.
What else do you think is her goal? It is not a secret, we have been in her head. She is a typical Well Intentioned Extremist with an "end justifies the means" MO.
I think you could also touch on how Rhaegar was slightly obsessed with prophecy. It's not as strong of a case as the ones you mentioned in this video, but I think it's still worth mentioning.
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+1 on Maegor not being mad. He was just gangsta. The first gangsta Targaryen
I couldn’t help but laugh at Maegor. That guy was shooting some serious blanks
I believe we can add Dany to the list although she's more driven mad than born mad. I agree that her brother Visceris was mad, we could have actually seen more of this madness if he succeeded to become king. Plus the way he would sometimes look at Dany made me think that he would have probably married her afterwards and continued this madness tree family.
MFUNI KAKAYA DEBORAH most targs weren’t born mad neither. Even Aerys was a kinda normal guy, till he got captured and taken as hostage for about a half year at age 40. Viserys and Dany probably wouldn’t have become mad if they had grown up in a better environment also. In psychology they believe that madness is caused by genetical defects AND the enviroment you grow up to. Viserys was under the influence of targaryen propaganda most of his life, had to see his mother die & his father becoming insane, was confronted with the brutal deaths of his parents, brother, baby cousins and most of the loyalist of his family at the age of seven. Then living with his sister on the streets for long periods of time... Dany had it also very bad, never knowing a place like home, having a abuse brother no family left, being forced to marry and raped at the age of 13. Seeing your last family member (and only person you knew for more then a month), husband and son die. Then being given the highest amount of power possible, becoming a leader and queen in a year, supported by people who believe you’re a god. That even people with normal genetic would become at leats very labil at this point is no question.
The "mad Targaryen" stereotype was anti Targaryen propaganda used by their enemies. And no, Dany wasn't mad either...sacking the city was a logical and smart move to cement her power. The reaction of her disloyal subjects was totally insane, however.
Maegor has always been my favorite character. Not sure why he is....he simply is.
Aegon VI Targaryen ( Jon Snow ) is not at all mad. His side is greatness of coin.
Dancing naked and choking on pie....what a king
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Hei at least bailor was good kinda mad,guy walked a pit of poisonous snakes to save his brother for sevens sake
Baelor was like a Harry Potter fan. He had good intention, but he took his ideals too far and becomes a fanatic.
Perhaps a Targaryen shouldn't be on the Iron Throne
@Freya Westergård There should be no Iron Throne and 7 kingdoms
Like Targaryen madness stand out also do their greatness
Targaryens have their fair share of good kings too
@@hueylongdong347Then you'd have war every summer as the kingdoms battle each other for more territory and power
@@DavidbarZeus1 Like the Blackfyre rebellions? Dance of Dragons? War of the five Kings? Robert's rebellion?
Another idea for a title name: All of the Targaryens
I really believe that Jon Snow killed Daemarys because he saw the madness that was growing inside of her. When she set fire to King's Landing Snow knew that she was capable of doing much worse things as she described moving all around Westeros and 'correcting; what she diidn't like.
I think Visenya is arguable.
I would love a video on if there were any "mad Starks" any Stark rulers that were evil or horrible kings/lords.
well one of the stark king thousands of years ago is literally called bran the burner so you can put him on the list. he btw is a guy who burned his own fleet in grief for his father's death. then we have theon the hungry wolf who fought war with andals during the andal invasion and wonthen went to their home in essos burned 100s of villages and brought every man in those village head on a spear and brought them back on the ship. in his case while the north considers him normal andals believed him to be mad for his actions.
A Targaryen who danced around naked.. sounds like he’s crazy to me
oops, now we have to add daenerys to this list
Maegor is not a Mad scientist, he is an ANGRY! - ANGRY SCIENTIST
The secretly mad Targaryen nobody talked about:
Aegon V, trying to revive the dragon with wildfire and blood sacrifice.
Rheagar, kidnapping Lyanna Stark eventhough she was bethroned to Robert Baratheon and he had wife and children already.
Actually was aerion who tried to revive the dragon wildfire
Maegor is not evil, he's just built different
He was just a sigma male
The Hightowers did no favors for the Dragon riders. Marrying your first born son to your first born daughter is the way to madness.
It is said that Baelor may have been killed by his Uncle, who was Hand of the king, after learning of a plan to convert all of Westeros to The Seven.
That’s one hell of a coin flip 👀😂
Saying that Maegor was mad gives an excuse for his foolhardy cruelty and evil disposition. Maegor knew what he was doing when he did it. That's why he was mysteriously found carved open on the Iron Throne and everybody collectively agreed that it was a tragic accident
The Habsburg family had a lot of inter marriage which resulted in madness. It is an accurate representation of the results of generations of inter marriage
Aerys' tendency to come up with all manner of harebrained schemes and then forget about them suggest he started out as a literal ADHD king
Madness is not always inborn like what the gods toss coins or something. It could be induced like what happened to Aerys, the Mad King & his son Viserys, the Beggar KIng. Aerys by his traumatic experience in Duskendale drove him mad, really mad! while Viserys actions of "madness" or folly was only because of the pressure & the gried of loosing his throne, birthright & home. It was said that Viserys was kind to Danaerys once, but stopped smiling when they have to sell everything they have, wandering the Free Cities, asking or begging for Magisters or Nobles reclaim the Seven Kingdoms.
Even half Targaryen like Jon Snow gone mad when he learns hes a Targaryen; "shes muh kween"
it's just bad writing, not insanity
The issue of jon snow as character in the show is the absurd the showrunners commit by not giving him a propper development, after all of what happened, they don't write any change of pace to the character . It's almost like the same thing from Season 1 to Season 8. They made him a statue with flesh.
Maegor wasn’t mad he was just cruel .
I don’t think maeghar was mad at all! He did what was necessary to keep his family alive. The faith was working against him and wanted nothing more then to rid themselves of targaryens! Great video!
Regina Shaw did what was necessary to keep his family alive?? He tortured his teenage nephew to death and then killed his older brother after usurping his crown. He was actively destroying House Targaryen and nearly succeeded.
Targaryen practiced incest to preserve the magical ability to bind and control dragons. With the death of magic, the power in their blood went out of control, making them fall to madness.
Maegor wasn't crazy, he was extremely cruel and unforgiving.
kahesei shows little dragon madst when she wants but she has a loving heart and kind ways to innocent people
I bet if you took away Rhaegars harp, he'd gouge your eyes out.
Aerys wasn’t necessarily mad, we was traumatized and betrayed by his own people which caused him to be paranoid and cold and jealous.
Same as Deanerys
No, Aerys showed signs of insanity even before Duskendale
Meant to write "vipers" and not "vipes" -__-
Vipes are dornish people who vape.
"beggar" not "begger"
whycreate King Baelor, Prince Rhaegal, and Prince Aerion were not born of incest. King Baelor's mother was a Velaryon, Aerion's mother was a Dayne, and Rhaegal's mother was a Martell. King Aerys II wasn't mad, he was driven there from all the happenings during his reign. Prince Viserys can be made a case for, third generation incest BUT Rhaegar and Daenerys were fine.
Mad, not made
Has the viper come to vipe the vindows?
I love watching your videos, they're so chill and educating
Best Game of thrones dedicated channel. Finally someone who actually read the books!!
Thanks :)
The first one is cute tho 😘
that's your ancestor
Johny Klebitz I'm a Targaryen after all 😉
Daenerys Targaryen i don't care if jon is the true heir,you are the only queen i know❤
Sharika Khaled Thanks sweetie 😙
The guy could have just bit his nails instead of having 9 inch nails. Heh, nine inch nails.
You can't not argue a lot of them were mad, what you can argue is that a lot weren't born mad but were driven mad
after episode 5 season 8 another one joins the bunch
This should be reupload with Dany joining her brother and father because she was pushed by events to insanity
Except there's no signs of mental instability before The Bells, her going insane makes no sense
@@DavidbarZeus1 yes chocked up to bad writing
The consequences of incest in targaryen house
Targaryen: keeping their bloodline pure.
By Marrying Eachother.
Mmm it makes me think about
The Purebloods of Harry Potter.
Just look at some of them
There probably was something going wrong with Bellatrix
*murders cats and horses*
*gets mad when a dragon puppet dies*
hmm
Where is Danny?
You can add dany from that fan fiction show called game of thrones based on asoiaf
Denearys was not mad , she was just pissed . She failed again and again because of Tyrion . She didn't lose her shit until Misandea died . So that was surely circumstantial and not to mention Jon Snow , she loved and he never reciprocated her feelings especially after he knew his claim to the throne was legit. She tried to be good and all she got was people rejecting her rule in westeros.
Honestly after everything she went through she should've been queen .
preetika ray She was mad. She killed more innocents than any character has in their entire lives all In a single day. Open your fucking eyes and wipe that Dany juice from your lips.
Sorry but she was definitely mad. she is the mad queen
plus how can you dare to talk about love ? it's incest plus Jon liked ygritte no one else than she !
The Targ’s should have had something like Rome’s pretorian guard.
Really makes me feel like George RR set up Jamie and Cercei to be Targaryan descendants. I don't think they'll go that route anymore, but I get the destinct impression we're seeing similar traits to a lot of the stuff in the video with both of them and their children
I really need to read the books.. I can’t believe they contain this much detail!
Sam Smith All of this is from 'The World of ice & fire', which is like a faux history book.
Awesome, really enjoyed the History of House Targaryen. George R. Martin does not go into any details regarding Aemon Targaryen's previous life before becoming Maester at Castle Black. I would be interested to hear his life story and how he ended up at the Wall. Aemon mentions his brother Aegon being a baby..would love to hear the whole backstory.
Check out "Tales of Dunk and Egg". Its 3 short stories about Aemon's little brother, who eventually became a king!
Awesome, need to find out more about this interesting character. Really enjoy your compilations, good pace lots of info and good voice to narrate! May the Gods be Good....