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Aegon II

Civil war compressed into a succession precedent

Contains spoilers through A Dance with Dragons. Television events and unfinished preview chapters are outside this collection.

The character in context

Aegon II, eldest son of Viserys I and Alicent Hightower, contested the throne with his elder half-sister Rhaenyra. The five main novels compress the Dance of the Dragons into genealogy, songs, and scattered historical examples: both claimants died, while the conflict kept shaping arguments about female succession. Detailed campaign history belongs to later chronicles and is not treated here as main-series evidence.

A reading path

These are editorial starting points, not a complete appearance list or a claim that the character narrates every chapter.

  1. 1. Tyrion turns dynastic memory into a political argument.

    A Storm of Swords, Chapter 12, Tyrion II

  2. 2. Daenerys inherits dragons alongside the measure of dynastic self-destruction.

    A Storm of Swords, Chapter 57, Daenerys V

  3. 3. The White Book and royal images turn a complex war into institutional memory.

    A Feast for Crows, Chapter 30, Jaime IV

Sources and chapter references

Our original summaries use named novel chapters and the A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index. The links lead to that secondary index, not the full novel text. Coverage is selective, not exhaustive line-by-line verification.

  1. 1. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 12, Tyrion II — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  2. 2. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 57, Daenerys V — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  3. 3. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 30, Jaime IV — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
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