A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4)

by George R.R. Martin

you are as unfit a mother as you are a ruler.”

She wanted a storm to match her rage.

Ser Arys Oakheart

I am a Kingsguard still, even uncloaked. She must respect that. I must make her understand.

We men are so weak. Our bodies betray even the noblest of us.

“The first Viserys intended his daughter Rhaenyra to follow him, do you deny it? But as the king lay dying the Lord Commander of his Kingsguard decided that it should be otherwise.” Ser Criston Cole. Criston the Kingmaker had set brother against sister and divided the Kingsguard

against itself, bringing on the terrible war the singers named the Dance of the Dragons. Some claimed he acted from ambition, for Prince Aegon was more tractable than his willful older sister. Others allowed him nobler motives, and argued that he was defending ancient Andal custom. A few whispered that Ser Criston had been Princess Rhaenyra’s lover before he took the white and wanted vengeance on the woman who had spurned him.

HOD reference

“They belonged to Criston Cole, who served the first Viserys and the second Aegon.” Jaime closed the White Book. “They called him Kingmaker.”

Aegon the Conqueror,

“Aegon Targaryen conquered Westeros with dragons.”