#gotdaenatargaryen

[beatengold]

“Targaryen to the bone; strong, beautiful, willful.”

Daena Targaryen, wife (but never queen) to Baelor the Blessed and mother to Daemon Blackfyre

[targaryensource]

Daena is the most famed of the three sisters, and was the most loved—for her beauty as much as her fierce courage. 

Rhaena was almost as pious as her brother, and in time became a septa. 

Elaena swiftly grew influential, and was trusted by King Daeron in all things as she labored on his behalf and on that of the realm.

[bitchfromtheseventhhell]

“None of them? None of the lords will speak out to champion my claim to the throne?”

by @arielno

[sansalayned]

Princess Elaena was only eleven when locked away in the Maidenvault. At that age she was a skinny thing, the runt of the litter, but she had more than a little of her sister Daena's wilfullness even then, as she would prove when she grew older. Her hair was a platinum white with a bright golden streak down the middle, an unusual color even for the Targaryens. She wore it long, pulled back, and braided, and was always being told it was her crowning beauty. When Baelor the Blessed confined his sisters to the Maidenvault because he said they were so beautiful that just seeing them would tempt the men of his court to sin, Elaena cut her braid off and sent it to her brother, hoping that if she rid herself of her beauty her brother might let her out. He didn’t. She liked to dress in black as a girl, because her big sister Daena had done it. Elaena lived a much longer life than her sister Daena, and a much more tumultuous one than her sister Rhaena. (x)

Princess Elaena Targaryen’s relationship with her sister Daena in the Maidenvault (for @thegoldofwinterfell)

/  Olivia Chenery as Daena and Rose McIver as Elaena

[remusjohnslupin]

the world of ice and fire + daena the defiant

Daena is the most famed of the three sisters, and was the most loved — for her beauty as much as her fierce courage. She was known as a skilled horsewoman, a fearsome archer with the Dornish bow her brother Daeron had brought back from his conquests, and she was practiced at riding at rings (though she was never allowed to ride in a tourney, despite her efforts to the contrary). Daena quickly became known as the Defiant, for she was the most restless of the three sisters in her imprisonment, and on three separate occasions escaped disguised as a servant or one of the smallfolk. She even contrived, toward the end of Baelor’s reign, to get herself with child — though some might say it would have been better had she been less defiant, for all the trouble that son brought to the realm.