Aegon the Younger

Rhaenyra and Daemon's elder son, rider of young Stormcloud — a boy with two crowned kin killing each other over the chair he sits nearest to.

The fuller tale

Rhaenyra and Daemon's elder son is born into a household already crowded with half-siblings and rivalries not of his making, and given, while still a boy, a young dragon named Stormcloud to grow alongside — a bond the family clearly intends as an investment in the next generation's strength, whatever the current one's wars cost it.

Too young through most of the Dance to be more than a name kept safe and a claim kept in reserve, he nonetheless sits, by simple accident of birth, disturbingly close to a chair that two branches of his own family are actively killing each other over — a child whose future the war's outcome will determine long before he has any say in shaping it himself.

The page and the screen

Aegon the Younger's role in both tellings is largely confined to his parentage and his dragon rather than any independent action, and the two versions track closely on the facts available — the differences that exist are chiefly matters of how much screen time and narrative attention the ongoing show chooses to give a character who, in the book, remains a minor figure throughout the war's main action.

Where they stand, season by season

Mentioned in the chronicle

• Cregan Stark comes south too late for the war and just in time for the reckoning: for six days the Wolf of the North rules King's Landing in all but name, trying poisoners and turncloaks, taking heads where the new king's councillors would take pardons. Aegon the Younger — Rhaenyra's son, Aegon the Third — is crowned and wed to Aegon II's daughter Jaehaera, joining the broken halves. The dragons are done: a boy king who flinches from them, a realm of graves, and a peace made of exhaustion. The Dance is over. What it was for, the maesters still argue. (F&B 8)

Their fate — if death has found them, it is written here. Open at your peril.

The chronicle records no death for this soul — they are living when the tale leaves them, or their ending is a page the maesters have yet to turn.