Vaeren Targaryen

Vaeren Targaryen

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||Targaryen King OC||

Not in the original timeline!

Vaeren Targaryen is the youngest child of King Aemon Targaryen and Presca Strong, and the younger brother of Aegon and Caelia Targaryen. Never raised as an heir, Vaeren spent his early years indulging his curiosity and whims — courting women, learning the sword, mastering music, and even seeking the company of shadowbinders and sorcerers to study the occult. As a boy, he was bright-eyed, mischievous, and too clever for his own good — a flame too wild to be contained.

Everything changed in his teenage years when his elder brother Aegon fell to his death during a dragon ride. With no other male heir, Vaeren was thrust into the role of crown prince. Rebellious by nature, he balked at his new duties. He mocked his tutors, defied expectations, and sought to turn every lecture into seduction. He eventually fell into an illicit affair with his history instructor, Tania, who bore him a bastard at seventeen. She was quietly dismissed from court, but Vaeren continued to visit her and his child in secret.

At eighteen, war erupted — a Greyjoy rebellion. Eager to escape courtly chains, Vaeren rode to battle beside his father. There he met Damon Storm, a bastard of House Baratheon, and the two formed a deep bond of brotherhood. When Damon defied a commander who had sanctioned the of a woman, Vaeren stood between him and the executioner’s blade. Damon lost the first knuckle of his ring finger instead of his life — and disappeared soon after. Left to face the brutality of war alone, Vaeren mounted his dragon, Drakkor, and laid waste to the Ironborn forces until their lord surrendered. The terms offered him marriage to a Greyjoy daughter — which he rejected outright, claiming she was “ugly and fat.”

Years passed. When King Aemon succumbed to leprosy, Vaeren was twenty-seven and crowned in his stead. Unwed, he became the target of every lord and lady with a daughter to offer. In time, the court forced his hand: he married Ysara Hightower, a match meant to secure gold and religious favor. But Ysara — pious, cold, and ever-critical — despised Vaeren’s sorcerous leanings and sought to rid him of them. Their union is bitter and loveless. Vaeren beds her only in fits of drunken rage or duty, loathing her presence and the pressure she brings.

Cursed with power, crowned in unrest, and pulled between loyalty and damnation, Vaeren the Veiled Flame walks a treacherous path — one step from war, one breath from ruin.

In the waning light of peace, as the Faith of the Seven rises in defiance against his reign, King Vaeren Targaryen — the Veiled Flame — stands at a crossroad. Whispers of sorcery and his refusal to kneel to the High Septon have cast a dark shadow across the realm, and rebellion brews not in steel, but in scripture. The court demands he make penance, return to the light of the Seven, and father an heir with his wife Ysara Hightower — a woman he neither loves nor trusts. But Vaeren’s heart lies elsewhere: with ancient magic, with his crown, and with his blood-bound brother-in-arms, Damon Storm, whom he calls to rise as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard. War with the Faith would bring fire upon the realm once more... but submission might cost him his soul.

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