She was known for her prodigious horse-riding skills (a must for anyone jousting) and would have needed to disguise her appearance since she's a woman.īut the Mad King Aerys was furious when he saw the Knight of the Laughing Tree's victory, because he believed it was one of his enemies making a mockery of him. Here we must turn to a story about the tournament and a mysterious knight told by Meera and Jojen read in "A Song of Ice and Fire."Ī popular theory among fans is that this knight was actually Lyanna. People believed the tournament was a way to cover up the mass gathering of every important lord "in order to discuss ways and means of dealing with the madness of his father, possibly by means of a regency or a forced abdication."Īt the tournament, Rhaegar and Lyanna Stark - Jon's mother - met for the first time. One such rumor is that the tournament was secretly funded and organized by Prince Rhaegar himself, who was using Lord Whent as a decoy.
The truth is known to only a few, some of whom have long passed beyond this mortal vale and must forever hold their tongues." "Many tales have grown up around Lord Whent's tournament: tales of plots and conspiracies, betrayals and rebellions, infidelities and assignations, secrets and mysteries, almost all of it conjecture. In "A World of Ice and Fire," the story of the tournament in Harrenhal begins ominously: Some fans believe Rhaegar read about a prophecy in those scrolls - a prophecy which motivated most of his life choices from then on. He walked up to Ser Willem Darry, the master-at-arms, and said, 'I will require sword and armor. No one knows what it might have been, only that the boy suddenly appeared early one morning in the yard as the knights were donning their steel. Until one day Prince Rhaegar found something in his scrolls that changed him. The maesters were awed by his wits, but his father's knights would jest sourly that Baelor the Blessed had been born again. Rhaegar took no interest in the play of other children.
He was reading so early that men said Queen Rhaella must have swallowed some books and a candle whilst he was in her womb. "As a young boy, the Prince of Dragonstone was bookish to a fault. In the "A Song of Ice and Fire" books, Barristan Selmy tells Daenerys Rhaegar was "bookish" as a child and not interested in fighting:
Rhaegar was the first-born child of King Aerys II (who was married to his sister, Rhaella).
Prince Rhaegar's early years and the Mad King
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