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What if the real Daeron Targaryen escaped Ormund Hightower and flew to Queen Rhaenyra?

What if the real Daeron Targaryen escaped Ormund Hightower and flew to Queen Rhaenyra?

29 min · Published 17 July 2026 · Watch on YouTube ↗

What if the real Daeron escaped Ormund and flew to Rhaenyra? Let's explore this alternate timeline together, in the video. Tumbleton falls in a single night, and it does not fall to fire or to siege but to a lie, for Lord Ormund Hightower marches his great host up the roseroad with more than fifteen thousand swords at his back, and rather than break the town's gates he simply walks through them. The lords of Tumbleton had bent the knee to the queen in King's Landing, and they open their doors to travelers without fear, and among those travelers are Ormund's own men, slipping in by ones and twos until there are enough of them within the walls to seize the gatehouse and throw it wide, and the…

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