Are Viserys and Daenerys related?

Daenerys is Viserys's great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter, with her brother also sharing a name with their ancestor.
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Is Viserys and Daenerys twin?

Viserys Targaryen [N 3] was the younger brother of the late Rhaegar Targaryen, the older brother of Daenerys Targaryen and the uncle of Jon Snow.
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How are the Targaryens in House of Dragons related to Daenerys?

The Targaryen family tree gets a bit complicated due to the incestuous practice of marrying sister and brother, but Rhaenyra is something like Daenerys' great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother. Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) is the Mad King's daughter with his sister-wife Rhaella.
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Was Daenerys brother a true Targaryen?

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones. Jon revealed his true parentage to Daenerys on episode 2 of season 8 of Game of Thrones: He is the son of Dany's brother, Rhaegar Targaryen, which means that Daenerys is his aunt.
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How is rhaenyra targaryen related to khaleesi?

Technically, Rhaenyra is Daenerys's sixth great grandmother and Jon's seventh great grandmother. That also makes Daenerys and Jon the direct descendants of Daemon, Rhaenyra's uncle/second husband.
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Is the dragon queen Jon Snow's sister?

After decades of fan theories and mysterious clues dropped on HBO's "Game of Thrones," the series revealed Jon Snow to be the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. That means Daenerys Targaryen is Jon Snow's aunt.
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Was Rhaenyra Targaryen eaten by a dragon?

The moment happens in season 3, episode 4, “And Now His Watch Is Ended,” when Joffrey Lannister is chilling with Margaery Tyrell and giddily explains, “Rhaenyra Targaryen was murdered by her brother, or rather, his dragon. It ate her while her son watched. What's left of her is buried in the crypts right down there.”
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What sickness does Viserys have?

The show has got the speed of the disease correct. King Viserys has lived with leprosy for many decades and the disease has grown very slowly.
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Who was the one eyed Targaryen?

Prince Aemond Targaryen, also known as Aemond One-Eye and Aemond the Kinslayer, was a member of House Targaryen. He was the second son of King Viserys I Targaryen by his second wife, Queen Alicent Hightower, and the younger brother of King Aegon II Targaryen.
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What illness does Viserys Targaryen have?

Previously, Paddy Considine, who played Viserys, spoke to EW on the nature of Viserys' condition, which he said is "...a form of leprosy." He continued, saying that his illness "... becomes a metaphor for being king, and the stress and strain that it puts on you."
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Did all Targaryens have purple eyes?

Note that not all Targaryens have purple eyes: Queen Alysanne Targaryen's eyes were clear blue, and Prince Valarr Targaryen's eyes were also blue. Children of Targaryen/non-Targaryen marriages may also have eyes of a non-Valyrian color. For example, Prince Baelor, whose mother was Myriah Martell, had brown eyes.
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Why do Targaryens have white hair?

The Targaryens have white or silvery blonde hair because the family is originally from Old Valyria, where lighter hair colours and skin were extremely common. Thanks to generations of inbreeding, the Targaryens have managed to preserve their distinctive Valyrian features.
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Why Targaryens are immune to fire?

"Targaryens are not immune to fire! The birth of Dany's dragons was unique, magical, wondrous, a miracle. She is called The Unburnt because she walked into the flames and lived. But her brother sure as hell wasn't immune to that molten gold."
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Why is Daenerys the dragon and not Viserys?

Why is Viserys Targaryen not a dragon? Viserys is not a dragon because he is not a fire breathing creature. He is a Targaryen who called themselves 'blood of the dragon' which does make him a dragon in that sense. Being a dragon is not measured in bonding with dragons or being fire immune.
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Who got Daenerys pregnant?

In Season 1, Daenerys married Khal Drogo and became pregnant with their son, Rhaego. The child was stillborn, presumably due to Mirri Maz Duur's blood magic. The witch ultimately used Rhaego's life to help restore Drogo, who remained in a vegetative state and never recovered.
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Why did Viserys not marry Daenerys?

He needed the army more than he needed to marry his sister since that would have (he hoped) brought him more than marrying his sister himself ever could. He and Dany spent their lives dodging assassins and spies from Westeros- the more immediate need was to reclaim their former kingdom.
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Did all Targaryens go mad?

About. Some Targaryens appear to be born mad. Others may not display madness when they are younger but can develop it as the years go by, especially when circumstances encourage it, such the Defiance of Duskendale which affected Aerys II Targaryen very deeply.
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Is Daemon Targaryen the mad king?

The individual known as 'The Mad King' is King Aerys II Targaryen. Through his marriage to sister-wife Queen Rhaella Targaryen, Aerys was the father of Queen Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and her older brothers, Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen (Wilf Scolding) and Prince Viserys Targaryen (Harry Lloyd).
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Who killed Vhagar?

Vhagar, almost two centuries old and the strongest dragon alive, took a fatal bite out of Arrax, killing him and his young rider Prince Lucerys "Luke" Velaryon (Elliot Grihault).
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What were Viserys last words?

“I always had an idea in my head, whether it was useful to the story or not, that the last thing Viserys sees before he dies is the person who comes to collect him from this mortal life. When he dies, he sees Aemma, and he says, 'My love.
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How old is Viserys when he dies?

He never woke. He was fifty-two years old, and had reigned over most of Westeros for twenty-six years. The last people who Viserys spoke to, according to the history book, were his daughter Helaena and his grandchildren, and he died in his sleep rather than with one last vision of Aemma before breathing his last.
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What does King Viserys say as he dies?

Viserys, moaning in pain, reaches up into the air above the bed and says, "No more." Then, after the screen has cut to black, we hear him utter his final words: "My love."
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Who is the oldest dragon in Game of Thrones?

The largest and eldest of all the Targaryen dragons, Balerion was flown by Aegon the Conqueror and later became the steed of King Viserys I.
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Where did Drogon take her body?

It gives us a decent idea of what Drogon did with Dany's body after he melted the Iron Throne and flew away from King's Landing. As theorised by Samwell Tarly in the finale, the dragon flew her to Volantis, where she'd grown up in exile after the death of her father, and cremated her body in line with family tradition.
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