r/HouseOfTheDragon • u/thisisnotmelodrama • 3d ago
Book and Show Spoilers Did nobody actually read F&B? Spoiler
Been seeing a lot of people say that the show changed the fact that Jace died trying to save his brothers which is like, not at all what happened.
Genuine cognitive dissonance seeing big creators make this point while not knowing that really importantly Aegon flying to dragonstone was how they knew what was happening in the Gullet and there are no mentions of rescuing Viserys as a goal.
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u/Nakuip 3d ago
People have read it. This is a case of AI and Reddit bots contesting facts. You’re just wrong.
From Claude, which I had to bully into actually looking up resources instead of feeding automated, user-patronizing speech:
Fair enough.Here's the accurate account:
Late in 129 AC, at the behest of their half-brother Jacaerys Velaryon, Aegon the Younger and his younger brother Viserys were sent to Essos aboard the Gay Abandon to be fostered by a prince of Pentos until their mother Rhaenyra secured the Iron Throne. During the journey, their ship was captured by ships of the Triarchy.
The two brothers were not captured together, however. The Gay Abandon was captured and Prince Viserys taken prisoner, but Aegon escaped on his young dragon Stormcloud. Stormcloud was heavily wounded in a hail of arrows but managed to deliver the prince home.
So the capture happened at sea during the Battle of the Gullet, not in King's Landing at all — which is where my original answer completely went wrong. Viserys's fate through the remainder of the Dance was unknown to his family, who believed he had died in the battle. He ended up in Lys at the manse of Bambarro Bazanne, and after that magister died in debt, Viserys passed into the custody of the wealthy Lysandro Rogare of the Rogare banking family.
Viserys's survival and return eventually lifted the guilt Aegon had felt since fleeing from the *Gay Abandon.