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The importance of Lady Rhea Royce

Can we all agree how interesting Rhea is. Whether you like Daemon or not; we can not deny Rhea's position gives us many hints of what was to come in the Dance of the Dragons.

The Vale had Lord Yorbert be the Regent of the Vale while Jeyne Arryn was a minor and in the meanwhile Rhea was the own regent of Lord Yorbert who was apparently her cousin.

That would mean the Royces had a control over inheritances in case an heir/heiress died without children, and also had no problem with women inheriting as we see the case of Rhea.

But even then, the Royces were traditionalists and we can see that on their agreements that inheritances are also determined by close kinship.

That is why Jaehaerys I and Alysanne chose to have Daemon wed to Rhea. They wanted Daemon at the Vale so they could have control over the Vale, and for Viserys' rule to receive support for Jaehaerys' part, and for Alysanne to try to reinstate Rhaenys by sending him away.

It's probable their consummation was supervised so Jaehaerys I and Alysanne would see it as sealed and unbreakable.

Rhea's successor was her nephew, and if we follow the show narrative, it seems Yorbert had to have received some kind of amends for him to be ok in the future with Jeyne Arryn's support of Rhaenyra, as her nephews Gunthor and Willam will fight for her, and her grandniece will participate in the Maiden's Day Ball as a candidate to be Aegon III's wife

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THE PARLEY AT RUNESTONE Artwork by Ertaç Altinöz  

Early in 135 AC, the Hand had dispatched Ser Corwyn Corbray and a thousand men to Gulltown to restore order and settle the matter of the succession. Upon his arrival, Ser Corwyn had declared Ser Joffrey Arryn the rightful Lord of the Eyrie. He imprisoned the Gilded Falcon and his sons, and executed Eldric Arryn, but Ser Arnold Arryn, Eldric’s mad father, escaped to Runestone, where Gunthor Royce gave him sanctuary. When Ser Corwyn arrived to winkle Ser Arnold out of his sanctuary, Lord Gunthor rode out to confront Corwyn in the ancient bronze armor, covered in the runes of the First Men, that had won him the name of the Bronze Giant. Though they were under a banner of parley, words grew heated, turned to curses, then to threats. When Corbray drew Lady Forlorn—whether to strike at Royce or merely threaten him—a crossbowman on Runestone’s battlements loosed a quarrel that pierced him through the breast.