![]() Giselle brandishes her curiously clean knife with a flourish and sets the bubbling bowl before you. In any case, you find yourself seated at the small wooden table. Surely, if Giselle's form had begun unravelling into a cosmic horror as she served up another helping of her strange stew, everyone at the Summoner's Guild would have noticed by now. Or is the experience highly subjective and personal? To the outside observer, the friendly administrator of the Orebus Special Inquiry only seems to be an amateur chef bustling over a few pots, pans, and powders. From technicolor tentacles slithering along the length of a cavernous floor to the steely glint of an unblinking eye set in the hilt of her knife, watching Giselle work her magic is like delving deeply into one of Grand Gaia's most enduring secrets regarding its alien visitor, and to embrace madness itself. Never mind the ooze it's perfectly normal, I assure you.Īmong Giselle's many odd talents, one stands head and shoulders above the rest-creating culinary delights the likes of which none in the known universe has ever seen before.or probably would want to, for that matter.Įvery Summoner that has had the dubious fortune to taste her cooking and has somehow lived to tell the tale speak of visions and experiences straight out of a madman's fevered dream. When Baelon found her, he was unresponsive to her advances, and instead sent her away.Ooh, this ingredient will work just fine! She sneaked into his bedchamber, and waited naked in his bed for him to arrive. Her death devastated Baelon, who always continued to honor her memory.Ī few years after Alyssa's death, Baelon's young, ambitious sister Viserra tried to seduce him, hoping to end her betrothal to Lord Theomore Manderly. Aegon died half a year later, just shy of his first nameday. Alyssa did not recover from Aegon's birth, however, and died within six months. In 84 AC, Alyssa gave birth to a son, Aegon, after a difficult labor. When Alyssa became pregnant for a third time, Baelon told his brother Aemon he was praying for a daughter. Upon their return to King's Landing, Jaehaerys, Aemon, and Baelon received a riotous welcome as they had won a war without losing a single man, something not even Aegon I Targaryen had been able to boast. Mounted atop their dragons, they destroyed the Dornish fleet before it could even make landfall. In 83 AC Baelon, together with his brother Aemon and father, King Jaehaerys I, ended the attempted invasion of the stormlands by Prince Morion Martell of Dorne. Their second son, Daemon, was born in 81 AC. Their first child, a son who they named Viserys (possibly in honor of their late uncle), was born in 77 AC. The sounds that came from their bedchamber during the bedding were a great amusement to the wedding guests. After Baelon made Vaegon fight against their sister Alyssa, resulting in Vaegon leaving the yard humiliated, their trainings were at an end.īaelon had always been close to his sister Alyssa, and married her in 75 AC. They continued to train for a year, but Vaegon had no skill and no interest in his training. That same year, at the request of his father, Baelon began training his younger brother Vaegon. Afterwards, he returned to King's Landing, where he became a dragonrider by claiming the dragon Vhagar. Prince Baelon remained at Old Oak only for the feast. Ser Rickard helped him to his feet, unmasked him, and knighted him on the spot. Baelon unhorsed Lord Rowan, Ser Alyn Ashford, both Fossoway twins, and Lord Oakheart's heir, Ser Denys, before falling to Ser Rickard Redwyne. Baelon won his spurs the following year, at the age of sixteen, taking part in a tourney at Old Oak, entering the lists as a mystery knight called the Silver Fool. ![]() In 72 AC Baelon took part in a squires melee during a tourney held to celebrate Lord Darklyn's wedding, in which he was defeated by Aemon. Ever since, Baelon was also known as Baelon the Brave. The first time Baelon visited the Dragonpit, he hit Balerion on the snout, causing Ser Samgood of the Kingsguard to remark that he was either brave or mad. Baelon and Aemon would become very close, training together at arms every day in spirited contests which drew large crowds of spectators. Regardless, Baelon brought a stick to the yard, and began whacking at Aemon. ![]() When Aemon began training at arms with a wooden sword, Baelon was deemed to be too young to join. As soon as Baelon could walk, he began following Aemon around everywhere he went. īaelon admired his older brother Aemon growing up. The year after his birth, Baelon was present at the tourney at King's Landing on the anniversary of Jaehaerys's coronation. Baelon was named after Baelon Targaryen, who had ruled as Lord of Dragonstone before Aegon's Conquest. As such, he was dubbed the Spring Prince. Aemon and Baelon Targaryen, by Paparinka Art ©īaelon was born in 57 AC, two days after the start of spring had been announced by the Citadel.
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