Rhaena Targaryen

Laena's younger twin, dragonless where her sister flies — keeper of the family's eggs and its youngest children, and determined that neither stays true forever.

The fuller tale

Laena's younger twin is, by the accident of dragon-claiming, the dragonless sister in a family where that absence carries real weight — every cousin and sibling around her bonds to a mount while Rhaena, for years, does not, an echo of the exact insecurity that once drove Aemond to claim Vhagar by force.

She answers the gap not with Aemond's violence but with patience and responsibility, becoming the keeper of the family's unhatched dragon eggs and its youngest children during the war's most dangerous stretches — a caretaking role the histories tend to undervalue precisely because it produces no battles worth recording.

Both tellings make clear that Rhaena has no intention of remaining dragonless permanently, and her determination to eventually claim a mount of her own — whatever the war's chaos does or does not allow for it — is treated as one of the quieter through-lines of the family's younger generation.

The page and the screen

The show and the book largely agree on Rhaena's circumstances and role, though the show, still airing, has more time yet to develop a resolution to her dragonless status than the book's already-complete account, which resolves the question definitively in chapters beyond where the series has currently reached.

In the show, season by season

Season Two. In Regent — Sent to safety with the eggs — a dragonless Targaryen minding the future.

In the books

Fire & Blood — The Dance of the Dragons. In The Boy King's Peace — Kept the eggs; one of them, in time, is Morning.

Where they stand, season by season

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.