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I'm looking to write a House of the Dragon plot divergence AU. I've adapted one of the show characters and am looking to use him as my MC. The biggest divergence is that MC, who dies young in the book and show, I decided to bring back, and that brings along more divergence with it, especially because of his mission after he is raised. In the book and show he doesn't live longer than 14, but in my story he is aged up.
The plot idea is based more on the show adaptation, House of the Dragon, than the books. Game of Thrones show and some A Song of Ice and Fire books events and characters will also be used.
Good knowledge of the material is not required. The HotD and GoT wikis have the helpful information that can be quickly looked up.
For a few more prompt ideas, please see my character Lucerys down bellow, especially the sections 'raised from the dead' and 'impacts and mission'. I am open to ideas and suggestions. I am quite flexible, so please, pitch your ideas and desires my way, no matter how niche, and I will see if I'd be into that.
I prefer to do stories in private messages. Send me a PM if you're interested.
What you can expect of me
- Semi-literary writing
- 3rd person POV
- Response size (between 1 and 4 paragraphs usually)
- How often I respond -3-6 days a week
- Plot suggestions and contribution
- Playing main and side characters
- Fairly quick responses
- Original characters and canon characters
What I would like from you
- Semi-literary writing
- 3rd person POV
- Accepted response size minimum - short paragraph- 5 sentences
- Be okay with intersex characters
- Please be understanding of my work schedule and that I have a life outside of RP
Possibly also omegaverse.
I'm looking to play MC against a more book-accurate version of Jon Snow. Not much knowledge is needed on him for this other than looking into how different he is from the show adaptation.
Also considering playing him against Aemond Targaryen and Cregan Stark, but those would be more like 'parts' of his journey than the end goal, as you'll see when you read the aforementioned sections to pay attention to. Alternatively, Aemond and/or Cregan could also join Lucerys as wights sharing the same end goal and looking forward to meeting Jon and what unfolds after that.
The White Dragon
Basic Info
Name: Lucerys Velaryon
Gender: Intersex male
Father: Laenor Velaryon (official), Daemon Targaryen (step-father), Harwin Strong (rumored biological father)
Mother: Rhaenyra Targaryen
Siblings: Jacerys Velaryon, Joffrey Velaryon, Aegon III Targaryen, Viserys II Targaryen, Visenya Targaryen
Died at: 14
Raised from death at: 14
Current age: Unknown (appears to be in his early to mid 20s)
Race: Valyrian (before death), Wight
Titles: Prince of the 7 kingdoms, future Lord of Driftmark
Dragon mount: Arrax (during life)
Hair color: Dark brown (during life), white (as a wight)
Eye color: Brown (during life), varying (as a wight)
Complexion: Peach and light pink (during life), fair (as a wight)
Significant marks: Scars on his neck from the fatal injury that killed him when he crashed into the sea while saddled on Arrax
Life
Prince Lucerys was Princess Rhaenyra's secondborn son. His mother was set to inherit the iron throne from his grandfather, king Viserys Targaryen, however, the throne was usurped by his step-grandmother and her side of the family when they hid the king's passing and put his uncle, Aegon II Targaryen, on the throne. Since then, his mother and step-grandmother have been in an even worse political struggle as alliances were divided between the expected heir and the sudden ascender to the throne. Lucerys and his siblings as well as the rest of the family on both sides were pulled into the conflict, and everything went from a war of diplomacy to a full-out war when Lucerys's uncle and brother of the king, Aemond Targaryen, killed him.
Death
During the diplomacy race between Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen and Queen-dowager Alicent Hightower, Lucerys ran into his uncle, Aemond Targaryen, when visiting House Baratheon as an envoy. The nephew and uncle had a long history of animosity due to the tensions between their mothers. Though close in age, they grew up as rivals rather than as friends, and on one night in the heat of the moment Lucerys cut out Aemond's eye after the latter broke the order and bonded with Vhagar, the largest dragon and the deceased Laena Velaryon's mount.
Both Aemond and Lucerys had tough childhoods, and after spending years apart with Aemond in Kings Landing and Lucerys at Dragonstone, tensions only built at every encounter as outside pressures due to the ongoing political struggles were added fuel. Finally, when it was just the two of them, Aemond sought to get back at Lucerys for his lost eye and sicced Vhagar after Lucerys while the latter tried to escape on his dragon, Arrax. Aemond chased Lucerys on dragonback until the nephew briefly escaped by flying above the storm clouds, but Vhagar swooped in from bellow and bit Arrax's neck in half and wing off, sending Lucerys falling down into the sea to a watery grave. The only things that were recovered days later were Arrax's remains and Lucerys's clothes that had washed up on the shore. Accounts vary between whether Aemond lost control of Vhagar or had ordered his dragon to kill his nephew. Some see the king's brother as a heartless murderer lacking any compassion or regret, and others say he genuinely did not want things to go that far as much as he had hated his nephew.
Raised from the dead
What happened exactly with Lucerys after his death and how he was brought back from it is not clear. Even he himself does not know the whole story of what happened. He had fallen into the sea and so the drowned god (worshiped by the ironborn) would have first claim. But due to his Valyrian lineage, his ancestral gods, the old gods of Valyria, asserted their right to him as well. The god of 7, the new god of Westeros, laid down their claim as the Valyrians had begun to worship them after coming to Westeros. And, lastly, the god of light R'hllor staked his claim on Lucerys. It is not known what the other deities did, but after his rising, Lucerys finds that wherever he goes, a priest or follower of one or other religion will recognize that he is undead and either avoid him purposefully, raise up praises to their deity, or simply acknowledge that he is a mystery which had not yet been revealed. No priest or follower of any religion that Lucerys had asked could or would tell him which god it was by whose power he was raised in the end. With no fault of his own, however, Lucerys assumes it must be R'hllor as he has gained control over fire like no known red priest out there without being a follower of the said god. At the same time, he has his suspicions about the old Valyrian gods because he can now turn into a dragon. At the same time, his father Leanor, had told him after they had reunited in Pentos, that the old gods granted some people the power to warg, or skinchange. That was food for thought, but Lucerys found himself with more questions and doubt than with answers, since he wasn't temporarily warging into a dragon, but was actually taking on the form of a dragon himself.
Needless to say, Lucerys is unlike any wight out there. He is different to all other wights that had been raised before him, and also those who will be raised after him. The only thing that had changed about him is the color of his hair. Granted, he looks way more like a Velaryon, or a Targaryen, now that he had died and been raised as a wight as that made his hair white, than when he was alive as he had dark brown hair. But the similarities to his Valyrian anscestors or other wights end there. Unlike all the other wights, save for his white hair, his eyes are not red, he breathes, eats, sleeps, and continues to grow. It is unknown if he will stop aging at a certain point and stay as he is until something or someone ends him, or if he will live out his life as a normal person and die of old age. The spoiler is that he will reach maturity and stop changing from there. While other wights have open or sealed wounds by which they had died while they were still human, Lucerys can either conceal or show his with the same ability that lets him change into his dragon form. However, it is at these two that his form-changing abilities end. When he chooses to show his fatal injury, it appears as scars in a few places on his neck. When Arrax's dead body fell flat into the sea, Lucerys suffered a concussion and a jolt that broke his neck as he had been still saddled on the dragon's torso when it hit the water. As he sank with his dragon, Lucerys drowned while unconscious. It is unclear how his clothes washed up on the shore with Arrax's remains without his remains in the clothes, other than the explanation that the gods had claimed his body.
Later, his body was recovered by fishermen from Pentos who saw him drifting in the sea on a plank. They thought he was dead but he regained consciousness right before they were about to decide with the head of the port if his body should be taken to the red priests or the undertakers. Though he knew who he was, Lucerys felt that he should not be revealing himself to the fishermen, merchants, and port staff all curiously asking him who he was and how he happened to be in the sea. It was when he was being led by the head of the port through a merchant street that his father, Laenor, and his lover, Qarl Correy, recognized him while they were out as well. Leanor was quick to claim Lucerys from the head of the port, and though the man was doubtful, Lucerys insisted on knowing Leanor so the man let them be and do whatever they were going to be up to. As mentioned before, it was with his father that Lucerys learned about the different gods out there. Also, Lucerys learned that his father had faked his death and both his mother and step-father had helped him in that by recruiting Qarl. It was never a secret between Laenor and Lucerys or his brothers that Harwin Strong was really their father, but whereas before they had not spoken of this truth, now they could speak plainly, and Leanor still loved Lucerys much as if he was his own as he had raised the boy as such, and given him his name legitimizating him as his own. Also, Leanor learned of his son's death at the hands of Aemond and the jaws of Vhagar, and his newfound abilities to produce and use fire as well as turn into a dragon.
Though doubtful of which deity he really belonged to, Lucerys felt a strong pull toward the prophecy of the prince who was promised, which had to do with R'hllor. His purpose in the prophecy about the great other, the enemy of the lord of light, and the prince who was promised is not yet clear to him or anyone else, but one thing Lucerys believes is that he should follow the prophecy and at some point it will lead him to the answers he craves. After years in Pentos with his father, though he knew of the developments back in Westeros following his death, Lucerys returned only when he felt the call to go back. As much as Leanor did not want to be parted from his son, Lucerys convinced his father to let him go. Once in Westeros, he would lead a life of secrecy. Whenever he was asked where he came from, he would say he was from Essos and grew up in Pentos. No more questions were asked of him as current-day Essos is where Old Valyria, the previous Targaryen and Velaryon stronghold was. When he would travel further north, he would resort to dying his hair and hiding his face as inconscpicuously as possible to not attract attention to himself. Though people could not tie it to him, but since his landing back in Westeros, occasionally there would be sightings of a pure white dragon. The sightings were few near Kings Landing, none at Dragonstone or Driftmark. Surprisingly, and suspiciously, the sightings were more frequent in the Riverlands and just a few rumors came from the North. One rumor even came from the Wall, that during a night of a great snowstorm, the watchers on the Wall briefly saw the shadowy form of a dragon passing overhead in the clouds when lightning lit up the sky. Cregan Stark, lord of Winterfell, was much surprised by these rumors and that nearly all watchers assigned to the posts on that night stuck to the claim, but he brushed it off as it was well known in Stark history that Aegon the Conqueror's dragons refused to pass the wall due to its magic, it was a strict divide and nothing from either side could pass to the other unless the Wall came down. However, he did not completely dismiss the claims in his mind and was much distressed by the possibility that perhaps, after all, there was something that could pass the Wall.
Impacts and mission
Obviously, no one, including Lucerys, could anticipate that the secondborn prince of Rhaenyra Targaryen would be any more special other than what his station added to him, but his death catalyzed the bloody war that became known as the Dance of Dragons. His legacy could have peaked there, but higher powers had other plans, and though he had learned of the Song of Ice and Fire prophecy from his mother and step-father, he never anticipated that his part in it would be way more tightly involved than him simply being part of the Targaryen bloodline.
His death impacted the peace of many people, both small folk and nobles. But there were some individuals he impacted more personally than even his own family. Surprisingly, his very killer, his own uncle, is the most torn up about his death, second to Lucerys's mother, Rhaenyra. Aemond was plagued by nightmare in which Lucerys appeared before him, and Aemond saw himself falling to his knees and pleading for forgiveness. "I have done wrong. It is completely my fault. I will not deny it or make any excuse. Me losing control of Vhagar is my responsibility. I have wronged you terribly!" Aemond heard himself uttering words that in his pride he would have never considered uttering to anyone, and saw himself on his knees begging Lucerys with desperation, and his nephew stood still and silent as he looked down at his uncle. The words were one thing, but Aemond seeing himself reaching up to cup Lucery's cheeks, hold his shoulders, kiss his forearms and wrists, bow down to the ground before him and hold at his calves and ankles while he placed his forehead on Lucerys's feet, and then saying the following words. "I will spend my whole life trying to make up for what I have done. Please, do not send me away." That was the straw that finally broke the camel's back. What witchcraft was this? That was not him in his dreams saying and doing those things. That could never be him!
And then he also sees other kinds of dreams, but they all involve him and his nephew. The most common one is him reliving in his nightmares the moment when Vhagar chewed through Arrax and in that way doomed Lucerys to a watery grave. The other was a nightmare of him and Vhagar fighting his uncle, Daemon, and Caraxes until Daemon pierces him through his fake eye and both of them plummet to death with their dragons fatally wounded as well.
No matter what Aemond does, no matter if he stays up and doesn't sleep, drinks himself to unconsciousness, or takes medicine from the royal maester - nothing helps. Those are the only dreams he sees and he is on the brink of losing his mind. One time, at his wit's end, Aemond punches at the sky and air, cries out in anger and desperation to Lucerys, and falls on the ground to weep bitterly. No other terrible actions he did in his life have ever haunted him as much as the death of his nephew. But what he sees as a punishment is not only that, but it is also a call for him to wake up. He can yet choose to change the course of his life and avoid death at his uncle's hands with a sword to the very eye that his nephew had previously cut. The choice is his.
Much later though, Westeros is plagued by sightings of a mysterious white dragon without a rider. The Dance of Dragons is over, and yet the skies overhead are not deemed peaceful. A stranger with white hair moves north through the 7 kingdoms, hailing from across the Narrow Sea, claiming to have been born in Essos and grown up in Pentos. The farther north he goes, the more attention is drawn to his white curly locks. And then he disappears into thin air, only for a terrifying rumor to shake Winterfell and the rest of the North weeks later. Many of the watchers stationed on the Wall claimed to have seen the shadowy form of a dragon in the clouds when lightning lit up the sky overhead during a snow storm. Cregan Stark was just settling in after his return from Kings Landing and was making remaining preparations before winter finally came, and now this news fell upon him. He grew up hearing over and over that Aegon the Conqueror's dragons could not pass over the Wall same as wights and white walkers could not pass it. Yet now more than 10 people saw what appeared to be a dragon flying over the Wall and heading farther north? Unthinkable, and utterly terrifying. But no more strange things occurred since then, and though the matter was still in the back of Cregan's mind, winter was upon the North and a stranger showed up on Winterfell's doorstep. He brought moose he had hunted with him as an offer and asked to be allowed to stay at Winterfell as he had been separated from his party and now it was too dangerous to travel alone. The offering of a whole adult male moose was impressive enough, but the stranger assured he would not be a burden and was a good hunter to make up for being an extra mouth to feed. Cregan would take him in, but something did not sit right with him, even if this stranger did not give off any signs of danger. And one day Lord Stark happened upon the man not having black hair, but white instead, and in the middle of dying it. And then, one day, before Cregan could confront him, the man had disappeared without a trace the same way he had appeared out of nowhere.
Years later, when young Jon Snow would be raised by the power of R'hllor as a wight himself, he sighted the white dragon the tales of which were covered in mystery. Each rumor about this dragon had plenty more rumors surrounding it. "Are dragons still alive? Is that one mine since I'm a Targaryen?" He took back Winterfell, Arya and Rickon are at his side, Sansa is alive, Bran apparently is a warg and is doing well himself somewhere on his own quest, and he had gone down into the crypts and discovered his true heritage in his mother's tomb and by speaking in a dream with, who it turns out is his uncle, Ned Stark. Lady Stoneheart, Catelyn Stark, is an issue to deal with as well, but he really doesn't want to because Jon empathizes with her cause, just not her methods and unreasonable black-and-white thinking. But there is a more pressing problem. The white walkers are a much closer danger than Daenerys Targaryen, his aunt, is a rescue. Can he wait for her? Would she even bother helping and prioritizing the fight against the white walkers and the great other over her primary goal, claiming the iron throne? Jon believes his answer is clear when he sees the taled white dragon as it flies overhead and descends onto the prairie bellow the hills. But wait... what's that? Where is the dragon? And did it have a rider on it? He could swear it did not, but one moment there was a dragon, and when he came to the other side of the hill to see it better, there was no dragon and instead a white haired man.
I'm looking to write a House of the Dragon plot divergence AU. I've adapted one of the show characters and am looking to use him as my MC. The biggest divergence is that MC, who dies young in the book and show, I decided to bring back, and that brings along more divergence with it, especially because of his mission after he is raised. In the book and show he doesn't live longer than 14, but in my story he is aged up.
The plot idea is based more on the show adaptation, House of the Dragon, than the books. Game of Thrones show and some A Song of Ice and Fire books events and characters will also be used.
Good knowledge of the material is not required. The HotD and GoT wikis have the helpful information that can be quickly looked up.
For a few more prompt ideas, please see my character Lucerys down bellow, especially the sections 'raised from the dead' and 'impacts and mission'. I am open to ideas and suggestions. I am quite flexible, so please, pitch your ideas and desires my way, no matter how niche, and I will see if I'd be into that.
I prefer to do stories in private messages. Send me a PM if you're interested.
What you can expect of me
- Semi-literary writing
- 3rd person POV
- Response size (between 1 and 4 paragraphs usually)
- How often I respond -3-6 days a week
- Plot suggestions and contribution
- Playing main and side characters
- Fairly quick responses
- Original characters and canon characters
What I would like from you
- Semi-literary writing
- 3rd person POV
- Accepted response size minimum - short paragraph- 5 sentences
- Be okay with intersex characters
- Please be understanding of my work schedule and that I have a life outside of RP
The genres of this story are: adventure, fantasy, war, supernatural, mystery, romance.Possibly also omegaverse.
I'm looking to play MC against a more book-accurate version of Jon Snow. Not much knowledge is needed on him for this other than looking into how different he is from the show adaptation.
Also considering playing him against Aemond Targaryen and Cregan Stark, but those would be more like 'parts' of his journey than the end goal, as you'll see when you read the aforementioned sections to pay attention to. Alternatively, Aemond and/or Cregan could also join Lucerys as wights sharing the same end goal and looking forward to meeting Jon and what unfolds after that.
The White Dragon
The prince who was not
Basic Info
Name: Lucerys Velaryon
Gender: Intersex male
Father: Laenor Velaryon (official), Daemon Targaryen (step-father), Harwin Strong (rumored biological father)
Mother: Rhaenyra Targaryen
Siblings: Jacerys Velaryon, Joffrey Velaryon, Aegon III Targaryen, Viserys II Targaryen, Visenya Targaryen
Died at: 14
Raised from death at: 14
Current age: Unknown (appears to be in his early to mid 20s)
Race: Valyrian (before death), Wight
Titles: Prince of the 7 kingdoms, future Lord of Driftmark
Dragon mount: Arrax (during life)
Hair color: Dark brown (during life), white (as a wight)
Eye color: Brown (during life), varying (as a wight)
Complexion: Peach and light pink (during life), fair (as a wight)
Significant marks: Scars on his neck from the fatal injury that killed him when he crashed into the sea while saddled on Arrax
The future that never was. Prince Lucerys Velaryon, husband to Rhaena Velaryon, as Lord of Driftmark after his grandfather's, Corlys Velaryon's, passing.
Life
Prince Lucerys was Princess Rhaenyra's secondborn son. His mother was set to inherit the iron throne from his grandfather, king Viserys Targaryen, however, the throne was usurped by his step-grandmother and her side of the family when they hid the king's passing and put his uncle, Aegon II Targaryen, on the throne. Since then, his mother and step-grandmother have been in an even worse political struggle as alliances were divided between the expected heir and the sudden ascender to the throne. Lucerys and his siblings as well as the rest of the family on both sides were pulled into the conflict, and everything went from a war of diplomacy to a full-out war when Lucerys's uncle and brother of the king, Aemond Targaryen, killed him.
Death
During the diplomacy race between Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen and Queen-dowager Alicent Hightower, Lucerys ran into his uncle, Aemond Targaryen, when visiting House Baratheon as an envoy. The nephew and uncle had a long history of animosity due to the tensions between their mothers. Though close in age, they grew up as rivals rather than as friends, and on one night in the heat of the moment Lucerys cut out Aemond's eye after the latter broke the order and bonded with Vhagar, the largest dragon and the deceased Laena Velaryon's mount.
Both Aemond and Lucerys had tough childhoods, and after spending years apart with Aemond in Kings Landing and Lucerys at Dragonstone, tensions only built at every encounter as outside pressures due to the ongoing political struggles were added fuel. Finally, when it was just the two of them, Aemond sought to get back at Lucerys for his lost eye and sicced Vhagar after Lucerys while the latter tried to escape on his dragon, Arrax. Aemond chased Lucerys on dragonback until the nephew briefly escaped by flying above the storm clouds, but Vhagar swooped in from bellow and bit Arrax's neck in half and wing off, sending Lucerys falling down into the sea to a watery grave. The only things that were recovered days later were Arrax's remains and Lucerys's clothes that had washed up on the shore. Accounts vary between whether Aemond lost control of Vhagar or had ordered his dragon to kill his nephew. Some see the king's brother as a heartless murderer lacking any compassion or regret, and others say he genuinely did not want things to go that far as much as he had hated his nephew.
Raised from the dead
What happened exactly with Lucerys after his death and how he was brought back from it is not clear. Even he himself does not know the whole story of what happened. He had fallen into the sea and so the drowned god (worshiped by the ironborn) would have first claim. But due to his Valyrian lineage, his ancestral gods, the old gods of Valyria, asserted their right to him as well. The god of 7, the new god of Westeros, laid down their claim as the Valyrians had begun to worship them after coming to Westeros. And, lastly, the god of light R'hllor staked his claim on Lucerys. It is not known what the other deities did, but after his rising, Lucerys finds that wherever he goes, a priest or follower of one or other religion will recognize that he is undead and either avoid him purposefully, raise up praises to their deity, or simply acknowledge that he is a mystery which had not yet been revealed. No priest or follower of any religion that Lucerys had asked could or would tell him which god it was by whose power he was raised in the end. With no fault of his own, however, Lucerys assumes it must be R'hllor as he has gained control over fire like no known red priest out there without being a follower of the said god. At the same time, he has his suspicions about the old Valyrian gods because he can now turn into a dragon. At the same time, his father Leanor, had told him after they had reunited in Pentos, that the old gods granted some people the power to warg, or skinchange. That was food for thought, but Lucerys found himself with more questions and doubt than with answers, since he wasn't temporarily warging into a dragon, but was actually taking on the form of a dragon himself.
Needless to say, Lucerys is unlike any wight out there. He is different to all other wights that had been raised before him, and also those who will be raised after him. The only thing that had changed about him is the color of his hair. Granted, he looks way more like a Velaryon, or a Targaryen, now that he had died and been raised as a wight as that made his hair white, than when he was alive as he had dark brown hair. But the similarities to his Valyrian anscestors or other wights end there. Unlike all the other wights, save for his white hair, his eyes are not red, he breathes, eats, sleeps, and continues to grow. It is unknown if he will stop aging at a certain point and stay as he is until something or someone ends him, or if he will live out his life as a normal person and die of old age. The spoiler is that he will reach maturity and stop changing from there. While other wights have open or sealed wounds by which they had died while they were still human, Lucerys can either conceal or show his with the same ability that lets him change into his dragon form. However, it is at these two that his form-changing abilities end. When he chooses to show his fatal injury, it appears as scars in a few places on his neck. When Arrax's dead body fell flat into the sea, Lucerys suffered a concussion and a jolt that broke his neck as he had been still saddled on the dragon's torso when it hit the water. As he sank with his dragon, Lucerys drowned while unconscious. It is unclear how his clothes washed up on the shore with Arrax's remains without his remains in the clothes, other than the explanation that the gods had claimed his body.
Later, his body was recovered by fishermen from Pentos who saw him drifting in the sea on a plank. They thought he was dead but he regained consciousness right before they were about to decide with the head of the port if his body should be taken to the red priests or the undertakers. Though he knew who he was, Lucerys felt that he should not be revealing himself to the fishermen, merchants, and port staff all curiously asking him who he was and how he happened to be in the sea. It was when he was being led by the head of the port through a merchant street that his father, Laenor, and his lover, Qarl Correy, recognized him while they were out as well. Leanor was quick to claim Lucerys from the head of the port, and though the man was doubtful, Lucerys insisted on knowing Leanor so the man let them be and do whatever they were going to be up to. As mentioned before, it was with his father that Lucerys learned about the different gods out there. Also, Lucerys learned that his father had faked his death and both his mother and step-father had helped him in that by recruiting Qarl. It was never a secret between Laenor and Lucerys or his brothers that Harwin Strong was really their father, but whereas before they had not spoken of this truth, now they could speak plainly, and Leanor still loved Lucerys much as if he was his own as he had raised the boy as such, and given him his name legitimizating him as his own. Also, Leanor learned of his son's death at the hands of Aemond and the jaws of Vhagar, and his newfound abilities to produce and use fire as well as turn into a dragon.
Though doubtful of which deity he really belonged to, Lucerys felt a strong pull toward the prophecy of the prince who was promised, which had to do with R'hllor. His purpose in the prophecy about the great other, the enemy of the lord of light, and the prince who was promised is not yet clear to him or anyone else, but one thing Lucerys believes is that he should follow the prophecy and at some point it will lead him to the answers he craves. After years in Pentos with his father, though he knew of the developments back in Westeros following his death, Lucerys returned only when he felt the call to go back. As much as Leanor did not want to be parted from his son, Lucerys convinced his father to let him go. Once in Westeros, he would lead a life of secrecy. Whenever he was asked where he came from, he would say he was from Essos and grew up in Pentos. No more questions were asked of him as current-day Essos is where Old Valyria, the previous Targaryen and Velaryon stronghold was. When he would travel further north, he would resort to dying his hair and hiding his face as inconscpicuously as possible to not attract attention to himself. Though people could not tie it to him, but since his landing back in Westeros, occasionally there would be sightings of a pure white dragon. The sightings were few near Kings Landing, none at Dragonstone or Driftmark. Surprisingly, and suspiciously, the sightings were more frequent in the Riverlands and just a few rumors came from the North. One rumor even came from the Wall, that during a night of a great snowstorm, the watchers on the Wall briefly saw the shadowy form of a dragon passing overhead in the clouds when lightning lit up the sky. Cregan Stark, lord of Winterfell, was much surprised by these rumors and that nearly all watchers assigned to the posts on that night stuck to the claim, but he brushed it off as it was well known in Stark history that Aegon the Conqueror's dragons refused to pass the wall due to its magic, it was a strict divide and nothing from either side could pass to the other unless the Wall came down. However, he did not completely dismiss the claims in his mind and was much distressed by the possibility that perhaps, after all, there was something that could pass the Wall.
Impacts and mission
Obviously, no one, including Lucerys, could anticipate that the secondborn prince of Rhaenyra Targaryen would be any more special other than what his station added to him, but his death catalyzed the bloody war that became known as the Dance of Dragons. His legacy could have peaked there, but higher powers had other plans, and though he had learned of the Song of Ice and Fire prophecy from his mother and step-father, he never anticipated that his part in it would be way more tightly involved than him simply being part of the Targaryen bloodline.
His death impacted the peace of many people, both small folk and nobles. But there were some individuals he impacted more personally than even his own family. Surprisingly, his very killer, his own uncle, is the most torn up about his death, second to Lucerys's mother, Rhaenyra. Aemond was plagued by nightmare in which Lucerys appeared before him, and Aemond saw himself falling to his knees and pleading for forgiveness. "I have done wrong. It is completely my fault. I will not deny it or make any excuse. Me losing control of Vhagar is my responsibility. I have wronged you terribly!" Aemond heard himself uttering words that in his pride he would have never considered uttering to anyone, and saw himself on his knees begging Lucerys with desperation, and his nephew stood still and silent as he looked down at his uncle. The words were one thing, but Aemond seeing himself reaching up to cup Lucery's cheeks, hold his shoulders, kiss his forearms and wrists, bow down to the ground before him and hold at his calves and ankles while he placed his forehead on Lucerys's feet, and then saying the following words. "I will spend my whole life trying to make up for what I have done. Please, do not send me away." That was the straw that finally broke the camel's back. What witchcraft was this? That was not him in his dreams saying and doing those things. That could never be him!
And then he also sees other kinds of dreams, but they all involve him and his nephew. The most common one is him reliving in his nightmares the moment when Vhagar chewed through Arrax and in that way doomed Lucerys to a watery grave. The other was a nightmare of him and Vhagar fighting his uncle, Daemon, and Caraxes until Daemon pierces him through his fake eye and both of them plummet to death with their dragons fatally wounded as well.
No matter what Aemond does, no matter if he stays up and doesn't sleep, drinks himself to unconsciousness, or takes medicine from the royal maester - nothing helps. Those are the only dreams he sees and he is on the brink of losing his mind. One time, at his wit's end, Aemond punches at the sky and air, cries out in anger and desperation to Lucerys, and falls on the ground to weep bitterly. No other terrible actions he did in his life have ever haunted him as much as the death of his nephew. But what he sees as a punishment is not only that, but it is also a call for him to wake up. He can yet choose to change the course of his life and avoid death at his uncle's hands with a sword to the very eye that his nephew had previously cut. The choice is his.
Much later though, Westeros is plagued by sightings of a mysterious white dragon without a rider. The Dance of Dragons is over, and yet the skies overhead are not deemed peaceful. A stranger with white hair moves north through the 7 kingdoms, hailing from across the Narrow Sea, claiming to have been born in Essos and grown up in Pentos. The farther north he goes, the more attention is drawn to his white curly locks. And then he disappears into thin air, only for a terrifying rumor to shake Winterfell and the rest of the North weeks later. Many of the watchers stationed on the Wall claimed to have seen the shadowy form of a dragon in the clouds when lightning lit up the sky overhead during a snow storm. Cregan Stark was just settling in after his return from Kings Landing and was making remaining preparations before winter finally came, and now this news fell upon him. He grew up hearing over and over that Aegon the Conqueror's dragons could not pass over the Wall same as wights and white walkers could not pass it. Yet now more than 10 people saw what appeared to be a dragon flying over the Wall and heading farther north? Unthinkable, and utterly terrifying. But no more strange things occurred since then, and though the matter was still in the back of Cregan's mind, winter was upon the North and a stranger showed up on Winterfell's doorstep. He brought moose he had hunted with him as an offer and asked to be allowed to stay at Winterfell as he had been separated from his party and now it was too dangerous to travel alone. The offering of a whole adult male moose was impressive enough, but the stranger assured he would not be a burden and was a good hunter to make up for being an extra mouth to feed. Cregan would take him in, but something did not sit right with him, even if this stranger did not give off any signs of danger. And one day Lord Stark happened upon the man not having black hair, but white instead, and in the middle of dying it. And then, one day, before Cregan could confront him, the man had disappeared without a trace the same way he had appeared out of nowhere.
Years later, when young Jon Snow would be raised by the power of R'hllor as a wight himself, he sighted the white dragon the tales of which were covered in mystery. Each rumor about this dragon had plenty more rumors surrounding it. "Are dragons still alive? Is that one mine since I'm a Targaryen?" He took back Winterfell, Arya and Rickon are at his side, Sansa is alive, Bran apparently is a warg and is doing well himself somewhere on his own quest, and he had gone down into the crypts and discovered his true heritage in his mother's tomb and by speaking in a dream with, who it turns out is his uncle, Ned Stark. Lady Stoneheart, Catelyn Stark, is an issue to deal with as well, but he really doesn't want to because Jon empathizes with her cause, just not her methods and unreasonable black-and-white thinking. But there is a more pressing problem. The white walkers are a much closer danger than Daenerys Targaryen, his aunt, is a rescue. Can he wait for her? Would she even bother helping and prioritizing the fight against the white walkers and the great other over her primary goal, claiming the iron throne? Jon believes his answer is clear when he sees the taled white dragon as it flies overhead and descends onto the prairie bellow the hills. But wait... what's that? Where is the dragon? And did it have a rider on it? He could swear it did not, but one moment there was a dragon, and when he came to the other side of the hill to see it better, there was no dragon and instead a white haired man.
