╰┈➤ˎˊ˗ 𝐚 𝐤𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐬.
calenhad is born the bastard son of aerion targaryen and house gardener. he fights as a knight of the royal family against aegon the conqueror, his half-brother, and, after the high steward's surrender at highgarden, calenhad is made a lord for his transgressions, and he establishes his own house: house theirin.
fast forward 165~ years; the lord of the house is brandel theirin, and his daughter, moira, is wed to a knight of a lower house, though she fully intends to inherit house theirin in spirit after her father's passing. in her arrangement with her husband, their first born son will take the theirin name. she eventually falls pregnant. maric is born, but it is an uneasy pregnancy and rumors begin to swirl of the child's parentage — namely the uncanny resemblance to king aegon iv targaryen.
rumors fly, and yet still, a teenaged maric is not one of the bastards legitimized by the king.
maric fights with daemon blackfyre, his half-brother, in the first blackfyre rebellion. after daemon's death at redgrass field, house theirin is forced to give up part of their seat in the reach, caer bronach, as punishment for theirin hand in the uprising. they almost take maric's son, a very young cailan, as hostage, but maric and a member of his house manage to dissuade them. (still working out the kinks there)
fast forward 13 years later, and our favorite blonde idiot /affectionate makes his debut! ser cailan is a knight, and following the death of his father, the lord of house theirin. he does attend the tourney at ashford meadows (and he can be convinced to be one of the seven on ser duncan's side in his cousin's trial of seven ...).
to keep it simple: maric is the bastard uncle by blood to baelor and maekar targaryen. this makes cailan their first cousin. whether this is openly acknowledged ever between these characters is up for plotting!
