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Maegor, the First of His Name, came to the throne after the sudden death of his brother, King Aenys, in the year 42 AC. He is better remembered as Maegor the Cruel, and it was a well-earned sobriquet, for no crueler king ever sat the Iron Throne. His reign began with blood and ended in blood as well.
~ Description of Maegor I Targaryen.

King Maegor I Targaryen, also known as Maegor the Cruel, is a major antagonist in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series.

He is the third Targaryen king to sit on the Iron Throne and is the son of King Aegon I Targaryen and his eldest sister-wife, Queen Visenya Targaryen. He is also the nephew of Queen Rhaenys Targaryen, who died in 10 AC during the First Dornish War. Maegor is the younger half-brother of King Aenys I Targaryen, whose father is also Aegon the Conqueror, but his mother is Rhaenys.

Like Aegon IV Targaryen and Baelor I Targaryen, Maegor does not physically appear in any of the ASOIAF media (this includes Game of Thrones) and is only mentioned in A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords, as well as several of the Dunk and Egg novellas.

Overview[]

According to history, Maegor was larger than his father and a skilled warrior. He was bull-like with heavy shoulders, a thick neck, and huge arms. He kept his hair and his beard trimmed to his jawline. He wore Aegon the Conqueror's crown.

Maegor wasn't loved by many in Westeros and he's viewed as a negative historical figure in the book World of Ice and Fire. The most despised Targaryen monarch until the more recent, and thus more easily remembered, King Aerys II Targaryen took that record from him. Maegor was often seen as cruel, never treating animals well and keeping to himself. He was poor company for events and he the things he really liked were war and battle, but it was violence the most craved, along with death and absolute mastery over all he deemed his. 

Biography[]

Now people name Maegor "the Cruel", but I doubt any dared in his day. His strength was all too rare in the degenerate Targaryen blood.
~ Joffrey Baratheon in "The Red Keep", Histories & Lores
What demon possessed him none could say. Even today, some give thanks that his tyranny was a short one, for who knows how many noble houses might have vanished forever simply to sate his desire.
~ Maester Yandel in The World of Ice and Fire

Maegor was the only son of Aegon the Conqueror by his sister-wife Visenya and the half-brother of Aenys I. Unlike his half-brother, who was born weak and sickly, Maegor proved to be robust and healthy at birth, and his weight was almost twice to that of Aenys. While King Aegon took the latter with him on his royal progresses, Maegor, while growing up, would stay with his mother, Visenya, on Dragonstone, the ancestral seat of House Targaryen. As a result, he was refer to as Prince of Dragonstone. When Maegor was three-years-old, Visenya gave him his first sword, and, according to a tale by men, he would first use it to butcher one of the cats in the castle, though that story proved to be doubtful and is considered a calumny that would be devised many years later by his enemies.

Maegor instantly took to sword-play and was trained to master arms by Ser Gawen Corbray, one of the deadliest knights in the Seven Kingdoms. While he was able to learn how to ride a horse, he showed no love for animals, as he stabbed a horse to death when he was eight years old. When a stableboy heard the horse's screams and came running, Maegor slashed half of his face off. He would then serve as a squire and at the age of twelve would unhorse boys who are four or five years his elder during a joust as well as striking seasoned men-at-arms with hard blows until they surrendered.

A few years later, in 22 AC, Aenys wed Lady Alyssa Velaryon and in 23 AC their daughter, Princess Rhaena Targaryen, was born. However, because of Rhaena's birth, an issue arose as to whether or not Maegor should stay second in the line of succession. When Queen Visenya proposed a betrothal between Maegor, who was eleven at that time, and the princess, Aenys and Alyssa protested against it along with the High Septon, who proceeded to warn Aenys that such a marriage would not be accepted by the Faith, as polygamous marriages were considered an abomination and a maternal sin. The High Septon then proposed that his own niece, Ceryse Hightower, should marry Maegor. In 25 AC, on the latter's thirteenth nameday, his mother bestowed on him her Valyrian steel longsword Dark Sister. Maegor would eventually marry Lady Ceryse Hightower in the Starry Sept of Oldtown. Their marriage was barren, however, despite Maegor's boasting that he had consummated the marriage a dozen times along with his proclamation that he produced a son.

In 28 AC, during the great tourney at Riverrun, Maegor unhorsed three knights of the Kingsguard in three successive tilts and then won in the melee, as no man could stand before him. He was then knighted by his father, who dubbed him with his sword Blackfyre. As he had earned his knighthood at 16, Maegor became the youngest knight at the time. In both 29 and 30 AC, he assisted Lord Aethan Velaryon, the Master of Ships, and Ser Osmund Strong, the Hand of the King, in two campaigns in the Stepstones against the pirate king Sargoso Saan. In 31 AC, Maegor became renown for slaying the robber knight know only as the Giant of the Trident.

In the later years of th reign King Aegon I, as Maegor hadn't claimed a dragon for his own, this became the subject of talk in King's Landing. He refused any dragon hatchling that was offered to him. When Alyssa Velaryon teased him by saying "my good brother is afraid of dragons", this angered Maegor but he managed to keep his cool and he tells her that there is only one dragon worthy of him. This dragon is none other than Balerion the Black Dread, his father's dragon. When Aegon the Conqueror died from a stroke in 37 AC, Maegor attended his funeral, where he spoke the eulogy. After his father's body was cremated, he retrieved Blackfyre, whose blade, while it became darker, remains intact, as no ordinary fire can melt Valyrian Steel.

The newly-crowned King Aenys I Targaryen convinved his half-brother to rule with him together side-by-side and gave him Blackfyre, telling Maegor that he is more fit to bear it and that he should wield it in the king's service. This caused Queen Visenya to voice her opinion that since Aenys gave Maegor their father's sword, which became a symbol of royal power, then this proved that Aenys is weak to rule. Ever since the death of Aegon the Conqueror, Maegor took his father's dragon, Balerion, as his personal mount. When several rebellions broke out following Aenys' ascension to the throne, Maegor flew to the Eeyrie of the Vale to deal with Jonos Arryn, one of the rebels, who deposed his own brother, Lord Ronnel Arryn, and had declared himself King of Mountain and Vale. When Maegor arrived on Balerion, Jonos' own garrison immediately seized him, so as to avoid being burned to death.

Jonos was then delivered to Lord Allard Royce. After taking possession of the Eeyrie, Maegor decreed that Jonos and those who rebelled with him, even the highest born will be denied of being executed by the sword and they instead be hanged. While Maegor successfully dealt with Jonos, he was too late to rescue Ronnel Arryn, who was pushed through the moon door by Jonos, thus making the latter a Kinslayer. When Maegor returned to King's Landing, he was given a hero's welcome and King Aenys named him his Hand of the King. However, the friendly relationship the two brothers have for each other wouldn't last long.

Maegor and Aenys

Maegor with his brother Aenys.

According to Archmaester Gyldayn, Maegor is different than his older half-brother; while King Aenys, like his mother, Queen Rhaenys, is into different kinds of arts, such as music and dance, and wore the finest silks, samites, and velvets, Maegor, on the other hand, and like his mother, Queen Visenya, lived for war, tourneys, and battle, and mostly wore armor. His ruthlessness towards foes he defeated is also remarked upon. Moreover, while Aenys always sought approval, would answer with soft words and trusts everyone (according to Grand Maester Gawen), Maegor is the complete opposite as he prefer to reply with violence, which are fire and steel.

Despite the differences between each other, Aenys and Maegor would rule together until the year of 39 AC, where Maegor committed an infamous act that angered the Faith of the Seven; as he had been childless for 14 years, he, against King Aenys' wishes, decided to take a second wife and took to bride Alys Harroway, the daughter of Lucas Harroway, the Lord of Harrenhal. As the septon of Dragonstone refused to officiate, Maegor and Alys performed a Valyrian wedding ceremony under the aegis of Queen Visenya. Maegor then made his second marriage known to the public and this announcement shocked and angered the entire realm, including King Aenys, who began quarreling with his brother.

The father of Ceryse Hightower, Lord Manfred Hightower, was outraged that Maegor had taken another wife and he demanded that Alys Harroway be put aside. Meanwhile, the High Septon denounced Maegor's marriage as sin and fornication and even slandered Alys Harroway as the Whore of Harroway. Despite the immense outrage, Maegor defiantly pointed out that his father took both of his sisters to wife. Many pious lords throughout the Seven Kingdoms strongly criticized Maegor's marriage to Alys, and they called her Maegor's Whore. Left with no choice, King Aenys forced Maegor to choose in putting Alys Harroway aside and return to Lady Ceryse Hightower or go into exile for five years. His brother chose the latter choice.

In 40 AC, Maegor departs for the Free City of Pentos together with Balerion, his second wife, and the Targaryen blade Blackfyre, as Maegor refused Aenys' order to return the sword. After his half-brother's departure, Aenys attempted to appease the Faith by replacing Maegor with Septon Murmison as Hand. Unfortunately, even though peace had returned, the damage Maegor caused to the realm had already been done; the High Septon is still dissatisfied while lords all throughout Westeros began speaking of King Aenys' weakness and wondered on why he couldn't rule over his half-brother. During his exile, Maegor met Tyanna of the Tower, a pentoshi woman who would be later rumored to be a sorcerer and alchemist. Tyanna becomes Maegor's lover and was also rumored to be Alys' paramour.

Faith Militant Uprising[]

Coronation of Maegor the Cruel

Maegor being crowned by Queen Visenya Targaryen.

In 41 AC, things worsened when King Aenys provoked the Faith by having his daughter, Princess Rhaena, marry her brother Prince Aegon, and this sparked the Faith Militant Uprising, in which the Faith and its military order, the Faith Militant itself, rose in rebellion against House Targaryen. After an assault on the Red Keep, this frightened Aenys into retreating to the island of Dragonstone, where he fell ill, due to the stress and he began to suffer from loose bowels and stomach cramps.

Though his health seemingly improved overtime, Aenys suddenly collapsed after hearing that Prince Aegon and Princess Rhaena were besieged at Crakehall by thousands of Poor Fellows. He died three days later in 42 AC. During Aenys' funeral, Queen Visenya, who was not present, flew to Pentos on her dragon Vhagar to bring back Prince Maegor. When Maegor returned to Dragonstone on Balerion, he claimed his father's Valyrian steel and ruby-studded circlet crown instead of the golden crown his half-brother had worn. Maegor was then crowned by Queen Visenya and he proclaimed himself Maegor of House Targaryen, First of His Name, King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm.

When Grand Maester Gawen objected this by reminding him that the throne should pass to Aenys' son Prince Aegon, Maegor responded back by insisting that The Iron Throne will go to the man who has the strength to seize it.With a single swing of Blackfyre, Maegor beheaded the Grand Maester and this ended all objections. The only ones who were not present during the coronation are Queen Alyssa Velaryon and her children, who left hours after Aenys' funeral before crossing over to the island of Driftmark, where High Tide, the ancestral seat of House Velaryon, is located. When Maegor was told of this, he just shrugged before retreating to Dragonstone's Chamber of the Painted Table with a maester. There, he ordered that letters be sent to all lords, great and small, across the realms.

Returning to King's Landing the next day, Maegor and his mother raised their standards on Visenya's Hill, a hill named after Visenya herself, and called for men to gather. The call was immediately heeded by thousands. Visenya then challenged those who questioned her son's right to prove themselves, and the Warrior's Sons, the upper order of the Faith Militant, immediately accepted. They arrive with their Grand Captain, the pious Ser Damon Morrigen, or Damon the Devout, who proposed a trial of seven.

As the late King Aenys had taken the Kingsguard with him when he fled to Dragonstone, Maegor is forced to find his own six champions. Turning to the crowd that had gathered, he asks them on who will stand behind him during his trial, but many of them fearfully turned away while others pretended to not hear, as the prowess of the Warrior's Sons is well known. A common man-at-arms, who called himself Dick Bean, eventually stepped forward, causing a knight named Ser Bernard Brune to immediately scorn and shame the other knights into service. This allowed Maegor to choose his champions; They consist of Ser Bramm of Blackhull, Ser Rayford Rosby, Ser Guy Lothston, who is referred to as Guy the Glutton, and the Lord of Stonedance, Ser Lucifer Massey.

Maegor in his trial of seven

Maegor during his trial of seven.

During his trial of seven, Maegor, wielding Blackfyre, faced off against Ser Damon Morrigen and Ser William the Wanderer, one of the Warrior's Sons. The latter two were badly wounded and as a result, both Damon the Devout and Ser William were slain, but Maegor received a lethal blow to the head from the latter, which cracked his helm. With all seven champions of the Warrior's Sons and their Grand Captain dead, Maegor was the only survivor as all six of his champions were slain, ultimately making him the victor. However, because of the lethal blow he received from William the Wanderer, he was left in a coma. Initially, many believed Maegor is dead until Queen Visenya discovered her son is still alive.

The unconscious Maegor is then taken to the Red Keep where he lay in bed for 27 days while being treated by Maesters. On the 28th day, Alys Harroway returned from Pentos with Tyanna of the Tower. Maegor was then given over to Tyanna's care. The next day, Maegor finally awoke, having fully recovered. When he appeared to the public together with Alys and Tyanna, all of King's Landing celebrated his recovery. However their wild cheers soon died down when Maegor mounted Balerion the Black Dread and flew to the Sept of Remembrance, which became the headquarters of the King's Landing chapter of the Warrior's Sons. While 700 of them are at morning prayers, Maegor has Balerion burn the entire sept while archers and spearmen wait at the entrance to kill any Warrior's Son who would burst through the doors. It is said that the screams of the dying men can be heard throughout King's Landing while a pall of smoke lingered over the capital for days.

Campaign against the Faith[]

The burning of the Sept of Remembrance, marks the beginning of King Maegor's military campaign against the Faith of the Seven and would continue all throughout his entire reign. When he commanded the Poor Fellows, the lower order of the Faith Militant, to lay down their weapons under threat of death of proscription, this was ignored, though. Maegor then commanded all "leal" lords to disperse the Poor Fellows by force, causing the High Septon from Oldtown to call out to "true, pious children of the gods" to take up arms in defense of the Faith and end the reign of the Targaryens as well as "abominations" and "monsters".

Maegor, alongside Big John Hogg, led his army, which has nearly twice as many armored horses and numerous bowmen, against a great host of 13,000 Poor Fellows, 200 Warrior's Sons, 7,000 household knights and dozens of rebellious houses from both the Riverlands and the Westerlands, and they were all led by Lord Rupert Falwell, popularly known as the Fighting Fool. As both armies brutally clashed in the Battle at the Great Fork, Maegor, while astride on his dragon, would descend and rain fire on the enemy army several times, though Balerion's dragonfire was dampened by an occurring rainstorm. The battle continued until night fell and the surviving Poor Fellows were forced to retreat, in which they scattered in every direction. Victorious, King Maegor returned to King's Landing. When Wat the Hewer, a leader of the Poor Fellows, was brought before the king in chains, Maegor proceeded to multilate the giant man's limbs with his own axe, but nevertheless spared him. He then ordered his maesters to keep Wat alive so he can attend Maegor's third wedding.

Though Maegor announced his intention of taking Tyanna of the Tower as his third wife, it was whispered that Dowager Queen Visenya dislikes Tyanna. When the king's second Grand Maester, Myros, openly spoke against Tyanna and tells Maegor that his "one true wife" awaits him in the Hightower, the king silently murders him with Blackfyre. King Maegor was said to have executed a dozen septons, as all of them refused to perform the wedding ceremony. He eventually found one who is willing to do it and Maegor and Tyanna wed amidst the ruins of the Sept of Remembrance and the remains of the Warrior's Sons that died there. Those who attended were Wat the Hewer, the now-widowed Queen Alyssa Velaryon, and her youngest children, Princes Jaehaerys and Viserys along with their sister, Princess Alysanne. The latter three had payed homage to their uncle as the true king and their mother was forced to join with the other mistresses in the court in disrobing Maegor and consummate his marriage through a bedding ceremony, which Queen Alys Harroway presided. After Alyssa and the other ladies had finished and left the nuptial chamber, Alys, Tyanna and Maegor began having sex.

In Oldtown, the High Septon denounces Maegor and his two other wives in a loud voice while Ceryse Hightower continued insisting that she is Maegor's only lawful wife. Prince Aegon and Princess Rhaena continued to resist their uncle's rule. In the dawn of 43 AC, King Maegor took personal charge of the construction of House Targaryen's royal seat, the Red Keep, which began during the reign of his father. Most of the finished work were changed or undone while new worksmen and builders were being brought in. A series of secret tunnels and passageways were built as well on Maegor's orders so that he could make a quick escape in case his enemies were able to trap him. The king also commanded the building of a small castle within the Red Keep, a fortified redoubt surrounded by a dry moat, which would later be known to all of Westeros as Maegor's Holdfast. Maegor, on that same year, made Lord Lucas Harroway, the Lord of Harrenhal, his Hand of the King.

Men began whispering that while he might rule the Seven Kingdoms he himself was ruled by his mother, and two wives. King Maegor sent ravens to every part of the realm, summoning lords and knights of doubtful loyalty to come to King's Landing to bend the knee, swear homage, and deliver a son or daughter as a hostage to ensure their obedience. In addition, Maegor had made a set of new laws that forbade holy men from carrying arms. Moreover, he commanded the High Septon to come to the Red Keep to stand trial for high treason. In retaliation, the High Septon, in his defiance and stubbornness, responded back by ordering Maegor to present himself in Oldtown to beg forgiveness from the Gods for his cruelties and sins, and many of the Faithful echoed the same thing. Maegor, however, continued to focus on the Red Keep's construction and he allowed the Faith's resistance to continue for half a year until Dowager Queen Visenya flew on her dragon Vhagar to the Riverlands, where she, in a single night, burned the seats of several pious houses, which consist of Houses Blanetree, Terrick, Deddings, Lychester, and House Wayne. Maegor on the other hand then mounted Balerion the Black Dread and flew to the Westerlands, where he burned down the seats of more pious houses, including House Broome, House Falwell, House Lorch and several others. Maegor and Balerion also descended on House Doggett, killing the parents and sister of Ser Joffrey Doggett, or the Red Dog, another leader of the Poor Fellows. The sworn swords, serving men, and chattel of the Doggetts also fell victim.

In the aftermath of Maegor and Visenya's attacks, pillars of smoke rose all throughout the Riverlands and the Westerlands. The two then turned south with the threat of burning down the Starry Sept, causing thousands that live in Oldtown to flee to safety while thousands of others took to the streets while drunk. Hearing of Maegor and Visenya's approach, the High Septon immediately called down the wrath of the Gods in a thundering voice as the city and House Hightower began preparing for the coming attack. By sunrise, Maegor and Visenya finally arrived on their dragons, but when they reached Oldtown, they found the gates open, and the city walls unmanned.

In addition, the banners of Houses Targaryen, Tyrell, and Hightower were hanged atop the walls. It turns out, the High Septon, who had long resisted Maegor's rule, has mysteriously died and his death had shattered Oldtown's morale. The exact cause of his death became the subject of debate amongst many; it is said that the High Septon had committed suicide either because he was frightened to face King Maegor's wroth or that he sacrificed himself to spare his people. However, others claimed that he was killed by the Seven for the sin of pride, heresy, treason, and arrogance. Though it was believed by many that the High Septon was murdered, many, however, questioned the identity of the culprit, with Queen Visenya being one of the many suspects.

When Maegor presents himself to the new High Septon, the latter was really pleased to bless him as king, having become a puppet of Maegor's, and he proceeded to anoint him. While his mother returned to Dragonstone, Maegor stayed at Oldtown for half a year, where he held court and presided over trials. He gave the Swords of the Warrior's Sons a choice: They could take the black if they renounce their allegiance to the Faith Militant, but if they refuse then they could die a martyr's death. Three quarters of the Warrior's Sons chose to take the black while the remaining were executed by Maegor himself, who used Blackfyre to behead them. When the new High Septon dissolved the Faith Militant, proclaiming that the Faith has no need of warriors anymore as the iron throne will protect them, King Maegor gave the surviving members of the military order until the end of the year to give up their weapons and rebellious ways and those who remained defiant will have a bounty on their head; a gold dragon for the head of a Warrior's Son, and a silver stag for the scalp of a Poor Fellow. Unlike the previous High Septon, the new High Septon did not opposed this.

During his stay at Oldtown, Maegor reconciles with his first wife, Lady Ceryse Hightower, who agreed to treat her husband's other wives with honor and respect as well as not speak ill against them. In return, Maegor restored Ceryse's rights, incomes, and privileges. A great feast was then held at the Hightower, the ancestral seat of House Hightower, in celebration. Meanwhile, Prince Aegon Targaryen, the eldest son of the late King Aenys, and the brother/husband of Princess Rhaena Targaryen, seized the opportunity to seize King's Landing and the Iron Throne, due to his uncle's absence. At the castle of Pinkmaiden, the seat of House Piper of the Riverlands, Aegon denounces Maegor as a tyrant and a usurper and calls on men to rally to his banners. Those who the heeded the prince's call consist entirely of Nobel and vassal houses from both the Riverlands and the Westerlands. Hearing of Prince Aegon's intention to claim the throne, Queen Tyanna of the Tower wrote to Maegor that Queen Alyssa Velaryon had been secretly contacting neutral Great Houses, which are Houses Baratheon, Arryn, Tully, and Lannister, so they could give in to her son's cause, however they wanted to be certain that Prince Aegon could secure a victory over his uncle before pledging support.

Battle beneath the Gods Eye[]
Maegor and Balerion killing Aegon the Uncrowned and Quicksilver

Maegor killing Aegon and Quicksilver.

Though Prince Aegon had 15,000 men, he was met by forces loyal to Maegor, which consist of Lords Harroway, Tully, Merryweather, Caswell, and Peake along with Ser Davos Darklyn, one of Maegor's Kingsguards. Though the loyalist armies are smaller than Aegon's army, Maegor cleverly ordered them to surround his nephew's forces. Though surrounded by his enemies, Aegon, due to being an incompetent military leader, refused to separately attack his uncle's forces before they could join powers and continued to march on King's Landing. However, when Ser Davos Darklyn blocked his path just south of the God's Eye and the other loyalist armies from the north and south continued to advance, Prince Aegon led the charge against Ser Davos and his forces. Unfortunately for Aegon, just as he has taken to the skies on his father's dragon Quicksilver, Maegor arrived from the South on Balerion the Black Dread.

Though Quicksilver was huge, she was nowhere near the size and raw power of Balerion, who was by then around a century and a half old and of tremendous size. During an ensuing sky battle, Balerion and Maegor made short work of Quicksilver, in which Balerion ripped a wing from her body, causing both the dragon and Prince Aegon to fall to their deaths. This caused the latter's forces to retreat, as they realized that their doomed. However, they were all killed without mercy by the loyalists. In the aftermath of the event, over 2,000 of Aegon's forces are dead while Ser Davos Darklyn had been killed in battle by Lord Corbray, who wielded his family's ancestral Valyrian steel sword Lady Forlorn. Fearing Maegor's wrath, Prince Aegon's widow, Princess Rhaena fled on her dragon Dreamfyre with her twin daughters, Princesses Aerea and Rhaella. They took refuge on Fair Isle in the Westerlands under the protection of Lord Marq Farman, who hid Rhaena and her daughters in his castle.

Later Reign[]

Maegor the Cruel on the Iron Throne

Maegor during his reign.

Though the year of 44 AC was peaceful, it was, however, noted by Maesters that the smell of blood and smoke continued to hung in the air. Despite having three wives, Maegor still doesn't have an heir. He infamously came to be called "Maegor the Cruel" and is also branded a Kinslayer, due to being responsible for the death of Prince Aegon the Uncrowned. Eventually, the old High Septon died and a new one took his place. While hundreds of Poor Fellows were hunted down and slain, and their scalps were delivered for bounty, the new High Septon, dubbed by the Faith Militant as the High Lickspittle, never spoke a word against Maegor and his wives.

Despite suffering from immense losses, thousands of Poor Fellows continued to roam the realm as outlaws and fugitives, and during that time would curse Maegor's family with every breath they have. One band of Poor Fellows proceeded to defy the High Lickspittle by crowning a tall and bearded brute named Septon Moon as their own High Septon. As the remnants of the Warrior's Sons no longer had the strength to engage Maegor's men in open battle, they were sent by Ser Joffrey Doggett to kill anyone whom they deemed as traitors to the Faith while under the guise of hedge knights. Meanwhile on Dragonstone, Dowager Queen Visenya Targaryen had grown thin and haggard. Queen Alyssa Velaryon, Prince Jaehaerys, and Princess Alysanne also remained on the island.

Tyranny[]

At some point, Queen Alys Harroway became pregnant with child, however, when she went into labor, she ended up losing her baby. When Maegor came to see the child, he was appalled upon seeing that the baby is nothing but a monstrous stillborn, with twisted limbs, and a huge head with no eyes. Filled with fury, Maegor was convinced that the stillborn child is not his, and he proceeded to execute those that were present during the birth, including his third Grand Maester, Desmond. Alys's two sisters are the only ones who were spared. It was said that Maegor sat on the iron throne with the head of Grand Maester Desmond when he was approached by Queen Tyanna, who claimed that the stillborn child was the result of Alys having secret affairs with men of confirmed fertility as Alys was desperate to give her husband a son. When Tyanna provided a list of names to prove her claim, Maegor tortured the 20 men involved in the secret affair and all but two confessed the crime. He then dragged Alys from her bed before handing her over to Tyanna for torture.

All members of House Harroway, including Lucas Harroway, were soon killed, with Alys' death being the worst out of all of them. Maegor the Cruel then marched on Harrenhal and killed the entire garrison stationed there as well as those who have a drop of Harroway blood. He did the same in Lord Harroway's Town. This ultimately led to the extinction of House Harroway. To replace the Harroways, Maegor held a melee with Harrenhal as the prize, decreeing that only the strongest of his knights would have the castle, though not all the lands. 23 knights fought in the blood-soaked streets of Lord Harroway's Town for the prize. Eventually, one of Maegor's best knights, Ser Walton Towers, was the victor though he was left gravely wounded, and House Towers was granted Harrenhal, though Ser Walton died soon after from the wounds he took in gaining his prize. He was then succeeded by his eldest son Jordan. Throughout his entire life until his death, Jordan was a strong supporter of Maegor and even named his own son after the king. When he returned to King's Landing, King Maegor found out that his mother Queen Visenya has died and her death devastated Maegor, as she had been his strongest supporter since the very beginning.

In the confusion of Visenya's death, Queen Alyssa Velaryon, fled from Dragonstone with 2 of her children, Jaehaerys, and Alysanne. She even took with her Visenya's sword Dark Sister. However, one of Alyssa's children, the 15 year old Prince Viserys, was in King's Landing serving as Maegor's squire. After cremating his mother's body and having her ashes interred beside his father, Maegor had Viserys seized before giving out the command to chain him in the black cells and sharply interrogate him on Queen Alyssa's whereabouts. When one of his Kingsguard, Ser Owen Bush, protested that the prince may not know of where his mother went, Maegor indifferently responded back by saying "Then let him die." "Perhaps the bitch (Queen Alyssa) will turn up for his funeral".

While under torture, Prince Viserys never knew on where his mother went, even while Tyanna of the Tower used her dark magic on him. After nine days of torture, he finally passed away and on Maegor's command, the prince's body was left on the courtyard of the Red Keep for a fortnight in the hope that Alyssa would return to reclaim his body for a proper funeral, which never happened as she didn't take the bait. Maegor eventually cremated his nephew's corpse. As Viserys was beloved by many, the entire realm mourned his death.

In 45 AC, construction on the Red Keep is finally complete and King Maegor invited all of the builders, masons, and workmen, who took part in the construction, to a huge riotous feast, where they received wagonloads of wine, food, and whores from the finest brothels in the capital. The feast lasted for three days but was turned into horror in the end. At the conclusion of the feast, Maegor has all the workers put to the sword so they will never reveal the Red Keep's secrets.

When Maegor's first wife, Ceryse Hightower, suddenly fell ill and died, it was rumored amongst the court that she had offended her husband with a shrewish remark causing Ser Owen Bush to mutilate her tongue on Maegor's order. It was further rumored that when Ceryse struggled, Ser Owen slit her throat. While it was widely believed at that time, there is no proof to confirm this. As of the present, many maesters believed the tale is nothing but a slander made up by Maegor's enemies to further darken his reputation. Nevertheless, with the death of both Alys Harroway and Ceryse Hightower, Tyanna of the Tower became the last of Maegor's three wives.

Construction of the Dragonpit[]

After the completion of the Red Keep, Maegor planned to have the ruins of the Sept of Remembrance cleared away from Rhaenys's Hill, and decreed that a great stone "stable for dragons" be built on the hill for House Targaryen to stable their dragons, as well as to lair Balerion, Vhagar, and their offspring. After all that had happened to the builders of the Red Keep, Maegor had difficulty in finding new builders and masons to undertake the project. As many had fled the city, Maegor was forced to use prisoners from the city's dungeon's as his workforce and they were supervised by builders brought in from Myr and Volantis.

Later reign[]

Late in 45 AC, Maegor departs from King's Landing to continue his war with the remnants of the Faith Militant, leaving Tyanna of the Tower to rule in his stead. His new Hand, Lord Edwell Celtigar, also ruled together with Tyanna. In the South of the Blackwater, Maegor's forces successfully hunted down scores of Poor Fellows before either sending them to the Wall or having them hanged upon their refusal to take the Black. Three Poor Fellows eventually betrayed their leader, a woman named Jeyne Poore, or Poxy Jeyne Poore, who was then turned over to Maegor, who proceeded to pardon the three Poor Fellows while also rewarding them with knighthoods. When Jeyne Poore is declared a witch by three septons, who are accompanying Maegor, the king ordered that she be burned alive in a field by the Wendwater.

On the day of Jeyne's execution, when 300 hundred Poor Fellows and peasants tried to rescue her, their attempt was crushed, however, as Maegor had anticipated their moves, and thus, his men are prepared. All of the would-be rescuers were surrounded and slaughtered with no mercy. The last one to die was their leader, a bastard hedge knight called Ser Horys Hill, who escaped the carnage during the battle at the Great Fork three years ago.

Despite his never-ending victories against the Faith Militant, however, the support Maegor received began to diminish, as many lords and smallfolk began to despise him for his tyranny and cruelty and they began supporting his enemies. While Septon Moon continued to remain at large in the Riverlands while at the same time draw huge crowds whenever he would appear to preach against King Maegor, Ser Joffrey Doggett, the "Red Dog", who proclaimed himself Grand Captain of the Warrior's Sons, held power in all but name over a hill country that is located north of the Golden Tooth, though House Lannister and House Tully did nothing about it. Two other leaders of the Poor Fellows, Dennis the Lame and Ragged Silas, were kept safe by the Smalllfolk wherever the two roamed. Though knights and men-at-arms were sent out to capture them they would only vanish instead.

In 46 AC Maegor brought back 2,000 skulls as trophies from his campaigns, to which Archmaester Gyldayn termed "the fruits of a year of campaigning". Though the king claimed that they are the heads of outlawed Warrior's Sons and Poor Fellows, it was suspected that the skulls are of innocent smallfolk, who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. These also include simple crofters, fieldhands, and swineherds who are guilty of no crime but their faith.

The Black Brides[]
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The Black Brides from top to bottom: Elinor Costayne, Jeyne Westerling, and Rhaena Targaryen.

In 47 AC, Maegor wed 3 women in one ceremony. The three had been proven to be fertile and all were widows of men who had died in Maegor's wars, or at his command. Though each of the queens were garbed and cloaked in the colors of House Targaryen, the people of King's Landing, called them "the Black Brides", due to their status as widows.

  • During 47 AC, a knight named Ser Theo Bolling was arrested by knights of the Kingsguard, as he was accused of conspiring with Queen Alyssa Velaryon to place her son, Prince Jaehaerys, on the Iron Throne, and was then executed—all on the same day. Bolling was married to Lady Elinor Costayne and they had 3 children. After 2 weeks (or 7 days) of mourning, Elinor was summoned to wed Maegor at the age of 19, and she became the youngest of the 3 Black Brides.
  • Tyanna of the Tower found Prince Aegon's widow and Maegor's niece, Princess Rhaena Targaryen, and her daughters, Aerea and Rhaella. Maegor had them brought to King's Landing. Rhaena was then forced to marry her uncle, who also named Princess Aerea as his lawful heir (thus disinheriting Prince Jaehaerys even though he is the rightful heir by law).
  • Lady Jeyne Westerling was the wife of Lord Alyn Tarbeck, who died with the rebels in 43 AC at the Battle Beneath the Gods Eye. She was tall and willowy and was of renowned beauty. Jeyne gave Alyn a posthumous son. She was courted by the son of the Lord of Casterly Rock when Maegor sent for her to be wed to him.

Half on that same year, it was announced by Lord Edwell Celtigar that Queen Jeyne Westerling was with child shortly after, Maegor claimed that Queen Elinor is also pregnant. Greatly pleased by these great news, he showered Jeyne and Elinor with gifts and honors and their families were granted new lands and offices. Unfortunately, three moons before Jeyne Westerling's child was due, she began to have an onset of painful labor and from her womb came a stillborn monster, described as legless and armless and possessing both male and female genitalia. Queen Jeyne did not survive the child for long and died after going into labor 3 months early. It was believed amongst men that Maegor is cursed; he had murdered his own nephew, Prince Aegon, waged war against the Faith and the High Septon, defied the Gods, and had committed various atrocities. His privy parts were poisoned and his "seed" full of worms. As a result of these many reasons, the Gods would never grant Maegor a living son.

Despite these rumors, in 48 AC, Maegor has two of his Kingsguard arrest Tyanna of the Tower and sent her to the dungeons. Before the torturers could even begin the torture, Tyanna immediately confessed her responsibility for the abominations that were born from Maegor's seed, claiming that she had poisoned the wombs of both Jeyne Westerling and Alys Harroway so that their children would be born deformed. After she promised that it would also happen the same with Elinor Costayne, it was said that Maegor killed her himself before using his sword Blackfyre to cut out her heart before feeding it to his dogs.

Despite her death, Tyanna's warning came true; On a dark knight, Queen Elinor, like Alys Harroway and Jeyne Westerling, gave birth to a monstrous stillborn, said to be a baby boy with no eyes and having rudimentary wings. Unlike with the two aforementioned Black Brides, Elinor survived childbirth.

Downfall[]

On that same year, which would be the last year of Maegor's reign, his tyranny could no longer be tolerated by the realm; Word reached King's Landing that Ser Joffrey Doggett had been seen entering House Tully's ancestral seat of Riverrun as a guest to Lord Tully instead of being his captive. It turns out, the Red Dog had secured an alliance with the Tullys, who also gave their support to Septon Moon, who had reappeared. While leading a newly-formed army of the Faith Militant, he marched to Oldtown with the intention of demanding the High Lickspittle to denounce Maegor and abolish the ban on the Faith Militant. Though the Iron Throne sent Lords Oakheart and Rowan to stop Septon Moon, the two lords betrayed Maegor by joining Moon instead. For unknown reasons, Edwell Celtigar resigned as Hand of the King and he safely returned to Claw Isle, the island seat of House Celtigar. It was reported by the Dornish Marches that an army of Dornishmen is gathering to prepare for their invasion of Westeros.

Maegor and his many enemies

Maegor and some of the many people who now rebelled and had turned against him.

However, the biggest blow to Maegor was when Lord Rogar Baratheon declared Prince Jaehaerys as the rightful king. In addition to having the support of House Baratheon, Jaehaerys, whose dragon is Vermithor, is also supported by his sister Princess Alysanne, whose dragon is named Silverwing. This caused Lord Rogar to declare that while Maegor only has one dragon, Jaehaerys has two. It would soon turn to three when Queen Rhaena Targaryen, one of Maegor's own Black Brides, escaped from the Red Keep on her dragon Dreamfyre, after having learned that her brother was gathering his forces at Storm's End, the seat of the Baratheons. While she took her daughter, Princess Aerea, with her, Rhaena, along the way, took Maegor's sword Blackfyre with her, after she stole it from her uncle while he was asleep.

Leaning of this, Maegor responded back, though it is slow and confused; He orders his fourth (and last) Grand Maester, Benifer, to send forth his ravens and the king commanded all of his leal lords and bannermen to gather at King's Landing. Unfortunately for Maegor, however, he learns that Grand Maester Benifer had fled to Pentos by ship. After finding that Princess Aerea, his niece and heir, is gone, he sends a rider to Oldtown to demand the head of Aerea's twin sister, Princess Rhaella, so as to punish their mother for her betrayal. However, the messenger was imprisoned instead by Lord Hightower.

Maegor continued to face more betrayals; two of his own Kingsguard had vanished one night to join with Prince Jaehaerys. The next day, the king discovered that he had lost the entire royal fleet, as Lord Daemon Velaryon, the admiral of the Velaryon fleet, was one of the first lords to forsake Maegor, causing many other lords to follow suit. Other houses that turn against the king includes House Tyrell, House Hightower, House Redwyne, House Lannister, House Arryn, and House Royce.

The only lords who heeded Maegor's command are only a score of lesser lords; these include Lords Darklyn, Massey, Towers, Staunton, Bar Emmon, Buckwell, Rosby, Stokeworth, Hayford, Harte, Byrch, Rollingford, Bywater, and Mallery. Together, they command an army of an insufficient total of 4,000 men and 10% of them were knights. One night, after bringing them together in a war council in the Red Keep, Maegor discussed with them his battle plan. However, when they all noticed on how very few they are, they realized that none of the Great lords, not even one, are coming to give them aid, causing many of the lesser lords to become discouraged. When Lord Hayford went too far by urging Maegor to abdicate and take the Black, the king, refusing to give up his throne, has him beheaded before continuing the war council with Lord Hayford's head mounted on a lance behind the iron throne. The lords Maegor had gathered continued making plans all throughout the next day until late into the night.

Death[]

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The now-dead Maegor on the Iron Throne.

When the hour of the wolf came, Maegor allowed them to leave. As all the gathered lords left the throne room, Maegor remained behind to brood alone. The next morning, he was found dead on the iron throne by Queen Elinor Costayne, who came to seek him. Maegor's robes were soaked in blood and his arms were slashed open from wrist to elbow on jagged barbs. In addition, one of the swords on the iron throne had impaled him through the back of his neck. How Maegor died is unknown; Some say he had been killed by a knight of his own Kingsguard who could no longer abide his tyranny, while others believed that he has been killed in an act of vengeance by a builder, who had escaped the slaughter. Some suspected that Queen Elinor herself had killed the king by forcing him onto the blades and barbs of the iron throne in revenge for his murder of Ser Theo Bolling, Elinor's first husband.

But the one that is believed by many is that Maegor had been killed by the iron throne itself. Perhaps the most likely explanation however is that as he waited in the night for the hours to pass while also waiting for the rebels to arrive, a despairing Maegor looked at the blades of the iron throne, and resolving not to be defeated and disgraced, he committed suicide. He died with no issue. Maegor's body was then cremated in the Red Keep's yard and his ashes were interred on the island of Dragonstone beside the ashes of his mother, Queen Visenya.

Even though Maegor is gone for good, the Faith Militant Uprising didn't end there. Chaos and death in the Seven Kingdoms ended when Jaehaerys, now crowned as King Jaehaerys I, offered an immediate amnesty, in which the crown will protect the Faith on pain of the Faith Militant's disbanding, which was accepted. For this, Jaehaerys I was given the name 'The Conciliator'.

Personality[]

Maegor is often seen as cruel and abusive, in which he is slow-to-forgive, is quick to offense, and is fearsome whenever he is infuriated. He enjoyed war and battle, but what he mostly craved is violence, death and complete mastery over all he deemed his. He is considered as the perhaps the earliest fearsome tyrants of the Targaryen Dynasty in Westeros, much earlier than the later mad Targaryens.

Maegor also became the proverbial tyrannical king to the Seven Kingdoms: any time another potential ruler appeared to be brutal and oppressive, it was whispered that they would be "the next Maegor the Cruel". This only stopped in the last generation, when Aerys II "the Mad King" ruled the realm ultimately leading to his downfall in Robert's Rebellion - after which the proverb shifted to saying "he would be the next Mad King", or when Tyrion remarks that his nephew, King Joffrey I Baratheon, is on his way to becoming "Aerys the Third".

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