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** Possibly making this worse (if it ''can'' be made worse) is that as implied by Daenerys and Aegon V's preference for scalding hot baths and ability to withstand sweltering heat without sweating, it seems that Targaryens -- though not ImmuneToFire as in the TV adaptation -- do possess an unnaturally high tolerance for heat. The '''extreme''' descriptions of Aerea's BodyHorror as she cooks alive gives the impression that really the girl should have died much faster than she did, but in this case the Targaryens' magical resistance to heat might have only ''prolonged'' the poor girl's suffering.


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** Put yourself in Aerea's shoes for a moment. She and Balerion were gone for almost two years. While a fair chunk of this time would have been spent flying (as the distance between Westeros and Valyria is considerable), dragons are also known to fly faster than ships can travel and the sheer length of time the pair were gone suggests they had to actually spend months trying to survive in the damn place. One can only imagine the horrors Aerea witnessed in the ruined city, the Lovecraftian abominations she saw prowling the landscape, how impossible it would've been to find safe food and water to eat and drink in a disaster area like that, and how ultimately [[TearJerker she was just a terrified kid alone for the first time in her life, probably only getting more scared and panicked as time went on and realizing how much danger she was in, how nobody would know what happened to her, how she never should've left home]]... Essentially, think of Daenerys' last chapter in ADWD, only this time trapped in an unknown land with magic nuclear fallout, and ''a million times worse.''
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* The fate of Elia Martell when the Lannister forces took King's Landing. The child she was cradling was snatched from her arms and had his head dashed against the wall - and then the monstrous youth who did it ''raped her with the baby's blood and brains still on his hands''. And then he killed her, simply because Tywin Lannister hadn't told him ''not'' to.

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* The fate of Elia Martell when the Lannister forces took King's Landing. The child she was cradling was snatched from her arms and had his head dashed against the wall - and then the monstrous youth who did it ''raped her with the baby's blood and brains still on his hands''. And then he hands'' and killed her, simply her. Simply because Tywin Lannister hadn't told him ''not'' to.
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** Ancient Valyrians were called dragon masters and were proficient in fire sorcery and blood magic. It is said that The Wall was built by Brandon the Builder using ice magic (else it would melt quickly) and blood magic for the foundations. At one point, Jon thinks that The Wall is defending itself when four wildlings trying to climb over fall to their death after a huge section of it sheds and drops off and the scene is explicitly described as a large dog shaking off the fleas that attacked it. The dragon specifically refused to fly over the Wall or even land on it. [[NothingIsScarier Draw your own conclusions.]]
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* Arya's account of Roose Bolton is even worse, when she meets him at Harrenhall, even if it uses less words. He is described as a person who would flay somebody as easily as some other man would kick a dog. How does she know unless she witnessed it?! It was Roose Bolton who ordered the stocks below.

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* Arya's account of Roose Bolton is even worse, when she meets him at Harrenhall, even if it uses less fewer words. He is described as a person who would flay somebody as easily as some other man would kick a dog. How does she know unless she witnessed it?! It was Roose Bolton who ordered the stocks below.

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* ''Lady Stoneheart'' is Catelyn come BackFromTheDead after three days of rotting in the water. Her face has deep gashes where she tore off her own skin, her SlashedThroat makes speech difficult and her eyes are two pits of pure rage and hatred. She took control of the Brotherhood without Banners and is hanging people all over the Riverlands who she believes have anything to do with the Lannisters, Boltons and Freys. She is vengeance personified.
* Patchface, Stannis's fool, is very, very creepy. He was found naked on the beach two days after the shipwreck that killed Stannis's parents. No one knows how he survived but the man who found him ''swore'' for the rest of his life that Patchface had been cold like a corpse but suddenly woke up. Patchface was said to be witty before drowning, but now only speaks in bizarre, nonsensical riddles, usually about a place under the sea; what's creepier is that these riddles seem to be prophetic, as he accurately predicted the Red Wedding. He scares ''[[HorrifyingTheHorror Melisandre]]'', the woman who burns people alive.
--> '''Melisandre''': That creature is dangerous. Many a time I have glimpsed him in my flames. Sometimes there are skulls about him, and his lips are red with blood.
* Tormund's description of how the Others attack. Not in force, but by slowly whittling away at the wildlings night after night, always sticking close by, even if they hide away during the day. The wildlings can fight off the wights, but they can't do anything to stop the Others but try to light a fire and pray they wake up in the morning.
-->A man can fight the dead, but when their masters come, when the white mists rise up... how do you fight a mist, crow? Shadows with teeth... air so cold it hurts to breathe, like a knife inside your chest... you do not know, you cannot know... can your sword cut cold?
* Sandor "the Hound" Clegane's [[HarmfulToMinors childhood]] is ''pure nightmare fuel''. Already terrified of his older brother, six year old Sandor got his face shoved into a brasier by Gregor for just playing with one of his toys. Then, his father covered it up. Then, his sister was murdered by Gregor as a baby. ''Then'', Gregor was knighted despite these misdeeds, proving to a young Sandor that evil people are ''rewarded'' in this world. And finally, Gregor murdered their father, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere finally pushing Sandor to get the hell out of there and work directly for the Lannisters.]]

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* ''Lady Stoneheart'' *Arya's account of Roose Bolton is Catelyn come BackFromTheDead after three days of rotting in the water. Her face has deep gashes where even worse, when she tore off her own skin, her SlashedThroat makes speech difficult and her eyes are two pits of pure rage and hatred. She took control of the Brotherhood without Banners and is hanging people all over the Riverlands who she believes have anything to do with the Lannisters, Boltons and Freys. She is vengeance personified.
* Patchface, Stannis's fool, is very, very creepy. He was found naked on the beach two days after the shipwreck that killed Stannis's parents. No one knows how he survived but the man who found
meets him ''swore'' for the rest of his life that Patchface had been cold like a corpse but suddenly woke up. Patchface was said to be witty before drowning, but now only speaks in bizarre, nonsensical riddles, usually about a place under the sea; what's creepier is that these riddles seem to be prophetic, as he accurately predicted the Red Wedding. He scares ''[[HorrifyingTheHorror Melisandre]]'', the woman who burns people alive.
--> '''Melisandre''': That creature is dangerous. Many a time I have glimpsed him in my flames. Sometimes there are skulls about him, and his lips are red with blood.
* Tormund's description of how the Others attack. Not in force, but by slowly whittling away
at the wildlings night after night, always sticking close by, Harrenhall, even if they hide away during the day. The wildlings can fight off the wights, but they can't do anything to stop the Others but try to light a fire and pray they wake up in the morning.
-->A man can fight the dead, but when their masters come, when the white mists rise up... how do you fight a mist, crow? Shadows with teeth... air so cold
it hurts to breathe, like a knife inside your chest... you do not know, you cannot know... can your sword cut cold?
* Sandor "the Hound" Clegane's [[HarmfulToMinors childhood]]
uses less words. He is ''pure nightmare fuel''. Already terrified of his older brother, six year old Sandor got his face shoved into a brasier by Gregor for just playing with one of his toys. Then, his father covered it up. Then, his sister was murdered by Gregor described as a baby. ''Then'', Gregor person who would flay somebody as easily as some other man would kick a dog. How does she know unless she witnessed it?! It was knighted despite these misdeeds, proving to a young Sandor that evil people are ''rewarded'' in this world. And finally, Gregor murdered their father, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere finally pushing Sandor to get Roose Bolton who ordered the hell out of there and work directly for the Lannisters.]]stocks below.


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* ''Lady Stoneheart'' is Catelyn come BackFromTheDead after three days of rotting in the water. Her face has deep gashes where she tore off her own skin, her SlashedThroat makes speech difficult and her eyes are two pits of pure rage and hatred. She took control of the Brotherhood without Banners and is hanging people all over the Riverlands who she believes have anything to do with the Lannisters, Boltons and Freys. She is vengeance personified.
* Patchface, Stannis's fool, is very, very creepy. He was found naked on the beach two days after the shipwreck that killed Stannis's parents. No one knows how he survived but the man who found him ''swore'' for the rest of his life that Patchface had been cold like a corpse but suddenly woke up. Patchface was said to be witty before drowning, but now only speaks in bizarre, nonsensical riddles, usually about a place under the sea; what's creepier is that these riddles seem to be prophetic, as he accurately predicted the Red Wedding. He scares ''[[HorrifyingTheHorror Melisandre]]'', the woman who burns people alive.
--> '''Melisandre''': That creature is dangerous. Many a time I have glimpsed him in my flames. Sometimes there are skulls about him, and his lips are red with blood.
* Tormund's description of how the Others attack. Not in force, but by slowly whittling away at the wildlings night after night, always sticking close by, even if they hide away during the day. The wildlings can fight off the wights, but they can't do anything to stop the Others but try to light a fire and pray they wake up in the morning.
-->A man can fight the dead, but when their masters come, when the white mists rise up... how do you fight a mist, crow? Shadows with teeth... air so cold it hurts to breathe, like a knife inside your chest... you do not know, you cannot know... can your sword cut cold?
* Sandor "the Hound" Clegane's [[HarmfulToMinors childhood]] is ''pure nightmare fuel''. Already terrified of his older brother, six year old Sandor got his face shoved into a brasier by Gregor for just playing with one of his toys. Then, his father covered it up. Then, his sister was murdered by Gregor as a baby. ''Then'', Gregor was knighted despite these misdeeds, proving to a young Sandor that evil people are ''rewarded'' in this world. And finally, Gregor murdered their father, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere finally pushing Sandor to get the hell out of there and work directly for the Lannisters.]]
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** While it was probably bullshit made up by Mushroom, one account goes that after her stepmother Alicent called her deceased sons bastards too many times, Rhaenyra ordered her and her daughter Helaena to be locked up in a brothel for the whole city to use, one golden dragon for Alicent and three for Helaena, until each was pregnant with a bastard of her own.

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** While it was probably bullshit made up by Mushroom, one account goes that after her stepmother Alicent called her deceased sons bastards too many times, Rhaenyra ordered her and her daughter Helaena to be locked up in a brothel for the whole city to use, at the price of one golden dragon for Alicent and three for Helaena, until each was pregnant with a bastard of her own.
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** While it was probably bullshit made up by Mushroom, one account goes that after her stepmother Alicent called her deceased sons bastards too many times, Rhaenyra ordered her and her daughter Helaena to be locked up in a brothel for all the city to use, one golden dragon for Alicent and three for Helaena, until each was pregnant with a bastard of her own.

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** While it was probably bullshit made up by Mushroom, one account goes that after her stepmother Alicent called her deceased sons bastards too many times, Rhaenyra ordered her and her daughter Helaena to be locked up in a brothel for all the whole city to use, one golden dragon for Alicent and three for Helaena, until each was pregnant with a bastard of her own.
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* Some of the most adult-fear-infused moments in the entire series involve the many grisly deaths of innocent children and even infants. You thought a world as unforgiving as Westeros was going to have any mercy for children? HaHaHaNo.

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* Some of the most adult-fear-infused moments in the entire series involve the many grisly deaths of innocent children and even infants. You thought a world as unforgiving as Westeros was going to have any mercy for children? HaHaHaNo.
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**** She is pregnant with his child. Euron is a king. King's blood has magic powers. He is sacrificing his unborn child for power.
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** The sky cells seem to be designed to drive prisoners to madness.

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** The sky cells seem to be designed to drive prisoners to madness. What are sky cells, you ask? Arryns don't have a dungeon, instead they have a tower. A tower of open floors, with multiple stories divided into cells in comb like manner, with a single wall missing in every cell so you can see the sun and the sky. Ceiling is also missing on the top level. But the worst part is: the floor is slanted towards the missing wall, which means that any time a prisoner falls asleep there is a chance they'll roll out of it to their death. At one point Lysa Arrin threatens Tyrion with throwing him into a smaller cell with MORE slanted floor!
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* The fate of Aerea Targaryen as detailed in "Fire and Blood". After flying off on Balerion, they return over a year later. Balerion is wounded, and Aerea is delirious and running a fever so hot the knight who recovers her can feel it through his armor. There are ''things'' moving under her skin. Septon Barth tries to treat her, but the fever grows so intense her body begins to smoke and burn from the inside out. Her skin chars into crackling. Her eyeballs boil in her skull and explode. She begs to die and whispers things so dreadful Barth refuses to record them. Desperately, he lowers her into a tub of ice, which kills her from shock... at which point the things inside her ''come out''. He describes them as "slimy, unspeakable things", "worms with faces" and "snakes with hands" (one of them as long as his arm) that make horrific sounds as they writhe and die, creatures of heat and fire unable to survive the cold. Small wonder that the official story put out was only that Aerea died of a fever, because Barth certainly had trouble sleeping after facing ''that''.

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* The fate of Aerea Targaryen as detailed in "Fire and Blood". After flying off on Balerion, they return over a year later. Balerion is wounded, and Aerea is delirious and running a fever so hot the knight who recovers her can feel it through his armor. There are ''things'' moving under her skin. Septon Barth tries to treat her, but the fever grows so intense her body begins to smoke and burn up from the inside out.out. Smoke pours out of every orifice in her body--her nose, her mouth, even her genitals. Her skin chars into crackling. Her eyeballs boil in her skull and explode. She begs to die and whispers things so dreadful Barth refuses to record them. Desperately, he lowers her into a tub of ice, which kills her from shock... at which point the things inside her ''come out''. He describes them as "slimy, unspeakable things", "worms with faces" and "snakes with hands" (one of them as long as his arm) that make horrific sounds as they writhe and die, creatures of heat and fire unable to survive the cold. Small wonder that the official story put out was only that Aerea died of a fever, because Barth certainly had trouble sleeping after facing ''that''.
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** While it was probably bullshit made up by Mushroom, one account goes that after her stepmother Alicent called her deceased sons bastards too many times, Rhaenyra ordered her and her daughter Helaena locked up in a brothel for all the city to use, one golden dragon for Alicent and three for Helaena, until each was pregnant with a bastard of her own.

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** While it was probably bullshit made up by Mushroom, one account goes that after her stepmother Alicent called her deceased sons bastards too many times, Rhaenyra ordered her and her daughter Helaena to be locked up in a brothel for all the city to use, one golden dragon for Alicent and three for Helaena, until each was pregnant with a bastard of her own.
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** Aegon the Younger was forced to watch his mother being eaten alive by his uncle's dragon. He was left permanently traumatized by this.

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** Aegon the Younger was forced to watch his mother being eaten alive by his uncle's dragon. He was left permanently traumatized by this.this and, for the rest of his life, had a hatred for dragons in spite of his family's traditional ties to them.
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-->'''Viserys:''' You were warned. I will hear no more of these lies.
* Lady Alys Oakheart, a noblewoman who lived during the age of King Aegon I, probably had the worst wedding in the history of Westeros before the Red Wedding. As she was saying her vows to Ser Jon Cafferen, Lord Wyl of Wyl showed up uninvited, slaughtered most of the guests and Lord Oakheart, forced Alys to watch as he gelded her husband, and then his men took turns raping her and her handmaids before selling them to a Myrish slaver.

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-->'''Viserys:''' [[IWarnedYou You were warned. warned.]] I will hear no more of these lies.
* Lady Alys Oakheart, a noblewoman who lived during the age of King Aegon I, probably had the worst wedding in the history of Westeros before the Red Wedding. As she was saying her vows to Ser Jon Cafferen, Lord Wyl of Wyl showed up uninvited, slaughtered Lord Oakheart and most of the guests and Lord Oakheart, guests, forced Alys to watch as he gelded her husband, and then his men took turns raping her and her handmaids before selling them to a Myrish slaver.
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* Lady Alys Oakheart, a noblewoman who lived during the age of King Aegon I, probably had the worst wedding in the histry of Westeros before the Red Wedding. As she was saying her vows to Ser Jon Cafferen, Lord Wyl of Wyl showed up uninvited, slaughtered most of the guests and Lord Oakheart, forced Alys to watch as he gelded her husband, and then his men took turns raping her and her handmaids before selling them to a Myrish slaver.

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* Lady Alys Oakheart, a noblewoman who lived during the age of King Aegon I, probably had the worst wedding in the histry history of Westeros before the Red Wedding. As she was saying her vows to Ser Jon Cafferen, Lord Wyl of Wyl showed up uninvited, slaughtered most of the guests and Lord Oakheart, forced Alys to watch as he gelded her husband, and then his men took turns raping her and her handmaids before selling them to a Myrish slaver.
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* Lady Alys Oakheart, a noblewoman who lived during the age of King Aegon I, probably had the worst wedding in the histry of Westeros before the Red Wedding. As she was saying her vows to Ser Jon Cafferen, Lord Wyl of Wyl showed up uninvited, slaughtered most of the guests and Lord Oakheart, forced Alys to watch as he gelded her husband, and then his men took turns raping her and her handmaids before selling them to a Myrish slaver.
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* Sandor "the Hound" Clegane's [[HarmfulToMinors childhood]] is ''pure nightmare fuel''. Already terrified of his older brother, six year old Sandor got his face shoved into a brasier by Gregor for just playing with one of his toys. Then, his father covered it up. Then, his sister was murdered by Gregor as a baby. ''Then'', Gregor was knighted despite these misdeeds, proving to a young Sandor that evil people are ''rewarded'' in this world. And finally, Gregor murdered their father, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere finally pushing Sandor to get the hell out of there and work directly for the Lannisters.]]
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* King Viserys I was one of the nicest kings Westeros ever had. Not terribly ''good'' as a king, and too eager to please, but definitely nice. Then, after an incident where his son Aemond lost an eye in a fight with his grandchildren by Rhaenyra, started because Aemond insulted their parentage, Viserys made the decree that anyone who called the kids bastards again would lose their tongues. As some members of House Velaryon learned, Viserys was ''not'' kidding on this one.
-->'''Viserys:''' You were warned. I will hear no more of these lies.
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** The Blood and Cheese incident in ''"The Princess and the Queen"'' is the most pure distillation of adult fear in the entire series. Blood and Cheese are two assassins sent by Daemon Targaryen to infiltrate the Red Keep to carry out the retaliation for the death of Lucerys Velaryon. [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Their real names are lost to history]] but one was a former sergeant of the City Watch and the other a rat-catcher in the Red Keep. Together they broke into Queen Alicent's bedroom, tied her up and waited for Queen Helaena Targaryen to bring her children to kiss their grandmother goodnight. They killed the guard and then forced Helaena to choose which of her two sons she wanted them to kill. When Helaena eventually chose her youngest, 2 year old Maelor, they killed 6 year old Jaehaerys instead, so Maelor would live the rest of his life knowing his mother chose him to die. And for good measure, they threatened to rape her 6 year old daughter Jaehaera if she didn't make up her mind fast enough. It’s no wonder that Helaena falls into a crippling depression and [[DrivenToSuicide never recovers]].

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** The Blood and Cheese incident in ''"The Princess and the Queen"'' is the most pure distillation of adult fear in the entire series. Blood and Cheese are two assassins sent by Daemon Targaryen to infiltrate the Red Keep to carry out the retaliation for the death of Lucerys Velaryon. [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Their real names are lost to history]] but one was a former sergeant of the City Watch and the other a rat-catcher in the Red Keep. Together they broke into Queen Alicent's bedroom, tied her up and waited for Queen Helaena Targaryen to bring her children to kiss their grandmother goodnight. They killed the guard and then forced Helaena to choose which of her two sons she wanted them to kill. When Helaena eventually chose her youngest, 2 year old 2-year-old Maelor, they killed 6 year old 6-year-old Jaehaerys instead, so Maelor would live the rest of his life knowing his mother chose him to die. And for good measure, they threatened to rape her 6 year old daughter 6-year old-daughter Jaehaera and kill all three children if she didn't make up her mind fast enough. It’s no wonder that Helaena falls into a crippling depression and [[DrivenToSuicide never recovers]].
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** While it was probably bullshit made up by Mushroom, one account goes that after her stepmother Alicent called her sons bastards too many times, Rhaenyra ordered her and her daughter Helaena locked up in a brothel for all the city to use, one golden dragon for Alicent and three for Helaena, until each was pregnant with a bastard of her own.

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** While it was probably bullshit made up by Mushroom, one account goes that after her stepmother Alicent called her deceased sons bastards too many times, Rhaenyra ordered her and her daughter Helaena locked up in a brothel for all the city to use, one golden dragon for Alicent and three for Helaena, until each was pregnant with a bastard of her own.
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** While it was probably bullshit made up by Mushroom, one account goes that after her stepmother Alicent called her sons bastards too many times, Rhaenyra ordered her and her daughter Helaena locked up in a brothel for all the city to use, one golden dragon for Alicent and three for Helaena, until they were each pregnant with a bastard of her own.

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** While it was probably bullshit made up by Mushroom, one account goes that after her stepmother Alicent called her sons bastards too many times, Rhaenyra ordered her and her daughter Helaena locked up in a brothel for all the city to use, one golden dragon for Alicent and three for Helaena, until they were each was pregnant with a bastard of her own.

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