The worst decision he made was not abdicating the throne when his health faltered. Simply doing that, would’ve peacefully transferred power to his unpopular chosen successor. His remaining yrs he could’ve served as a valuable advisor/mentor to the 1st Regnant Queen of the dynasty

Letting Otto Hightower return as Hand of the King…WHY?!

One common theme with Viserys is he’s the one who drifts away from his Valyrian roots… he isolates the Velaryons, has rifts with Daemon who is a quintessential dragon lord type and he never really rode a dragon other than Balyrion in his last days. He represents the end of the dragons.

When the worst mistake you have ever done is not having incestuous relationships :|

His worst decision wasn't setting Rhae up for her to take the throne. He should have never let Otto back as hand, especially because Viserys himself knew he wanted Aegon and relentlessly pushed for it. He should have just named Rhaenyra as hand (especially when he was getting very sick), nake sure she had more supporters on the council and maybe make Alicent, kids and Lord Hightower publically swear on the seven pointed star to serve Rhae. Or something to that affect.

I honestly think that Targaryens rulled so long because the power stayed within the family

He should have refused to remarry. He didn’t really want to, he was mourning his wife. He’s the king, if he refuses they can’t make him. Then he should have allowed Daemon and Rhaenyra to marry, which they both wanted, and named them his joint heirs to solve the question of whether his daughter, as his only child, or his brother, as his closest male relative, would succeed him. Join the two claims and you avoid another council like Jaehaerys had to have.

His worst decision was consistent pregnancies on his wife that was to young which would eventually kill her. Had they been married later not so young (stupid), Viserys and Aemma would have atleast two children and she might be alive. I wonder why Jahaerys and Alyssane married them so young 🤔. Just have them continue their betrothal for a few years Aemma was 11 when they married Viserys 16… betrothal I understand but atleast wait until she reaches her majority at 16. You would think they would have learned with the death of her mother Daella.

Although I get the general intention behind the video, marrying a non-Valyrian woman into the Targaryen family doesn't give her family access to dragons. It is when you marry a Targaryen princess to a different house that you risk it. Even then, the risk is mitigated if the princess herself isn't a Dragonrider, since that limits the access of her new house to dragon eggs

Weakest king in Westeros

His mistake was not talking to his wife, Allicent. Viserys's mistake was forgetting that he had married her...not her father.

By that logic, Viserys also shouldn't have married Aemma because she was an Arryn and Rhaenyra claiming Syrax is giving a "non-Valyrian" a dragon.

What do you expect? He is the real villain of the dance of the dragon.

the mistake was that he was king. should be rhaenys

Naming Rhaenyra was not a mistake. Keeping Otto was the biggest mistake no hightowers should have been in that castle 🏰

Honestly, marrying Allicent isnt too bad. His biggest mistake was not doing anything to quell the succession crisis. He couldve: 1) Had Rhaenyra demoted to Hand, which would still give her a high position in court and would have the kingdom be more used to women in high political positions 2) Have Rhaenyra marry Aegon. Sure they would both suck as rulers but an incompetent ruling couple is better than a civil war 3) Have Rhaenyra be more politically active, which would secure her more allies and would make it harder for the Greens to steal her right 4) kept Harwin and Rhaenyra apart after Jace was born. At the very least, she shouldve boinked a guy that looked similar to Laenor

He trusted a Family that only two Kings before himself let countless rebellions against Targaryen rule. I didn't understand how in under 80 years it would be forgotten, that the Hightowers let the faith and their own rebellions against the dragons.

Letting Otto Hightower stay hand of the king after the previous king died was the worst idea.

His first mistake was even accepting being the "Chosen" King, which later undermined his argument to right of succession for Rhaenyra vs. her siblings. This was followed by KILLING HIS WIFE for a CHANCE of male he had to have, was already dead before being pulled from his mother's mutilated corpse. THEN marrying Alicent and tainting the bloodline. Add to that, not abdicating the throne when he became sick and crippled. Finally, not ensuring there was no question who was to take the thrown after his demise. The council chose him as he was male while Reanys had actual Right, and he not only started the demise of his own house and bloodline forever afterward, but also rocked the bed of kingdom with his stupidity.

His worst decisions was him not changing his heir to Aegon

Yeah, thats ridiculous. Viserys' kids with Alicent are Targaryens. I don't see anyone claiming that Jaehaerys and Alysanne 'aren't Targaryens' just because their mother wasn't, or that Daeron II's kids aren't Targaryens. The real threat of giving other houses dragons is like Rhaenys marrying Corlys, giving the Velaryons dragon riders. Or if Rhaenyra married Jason Lannister or something. Other houses marrying into the Targaryen family doesn't then somehow give them dragons. Rhaenyra's succession was always going to be contested, regardless who Viserys remarried to. If it had been Laena, then Laena's son would be set up against her. Trying to make their grandson the King is what absolutely any Lord would've done in that situation. It was inevitably going to end in war so long as Rhaenyra was Viserys' preferred heir.

And why couldn't he resign as being king before got into his deathbead unless I'm missing something that resigning as king is impossible and who would oppose him he has dragons and once rhaenyra becomes queen she would be unstoppable

Considering Rhaenyra as his Hand after Lord Strong died so she could be prepared to rule the kingdom, but deciding against it because he feared that bringing her to court would mean Alicent and Rhanerya would fight too much, so he named Otto again. Common Viserys L

The worst decision viserys ever made was letting alicent control him therefore letting otto control him. Ultimately leading to the demise of his family.

Underestimating Aemon....the dude was a walking disaster. He knew exactly that his brother whould be catastrophic in a position to rule .

It's probably not killing Daemon

Whoever did the art at 0:30 is super talented. Lovely rendition of the valerians/targaryans (?????)

The worst decision Viserys made was making Rhaenyra his heir. Everything bad in the dance happened because of that one decision. Also, Rhaenyra also had Arryn blood and is therefore also not of pure velaryan decant. What also didn't help is that she had a basterd son as her heir, which is much worse than having Aegon as king.

But the dragonriding abilities would remain solely within House Targaryen, since Alicent's children were in fact Targs.

He married Aemma Arryn and basically no one from the vale even cared

Aegon, Aemond, Helaena, and Daeron were not “Non-Valyrian dragon riders”. They were silver-haired, purple-eyed Targaryens.

He should have married her to aegon, in the books the age difference between was only around 8-10 years instead of the 15 ish we see in the show

Rhaenyra was definitely the better option for heir Aegon II was a problem child

Who would he have married though? Laena was too young and he wasn’t going to marry his own daughter. I’m team black mostly (read the books, both teams kind of suck, lol) but there was no one else with Valyrian blood available. Been a while since I have read Fire & Blood and might be mixing the book and the show up together, but I don’t remember another possible contender.

To be fair the only available “woman” with Targaryen blood was Laena who was younger than Rhaenyra at the time. Rhaenys was half Targaryen and half Baratheon, meaning Laena was only a quarter Targaryen but had Valyrian blood as a Velaryon

He shouldve waited the couple of years for the niece. I typed that out.

He wanted that 16 year old... you know.

But....his 1st wife (Rheanyra's mother) was an Arryn. His mistake was marrying a Hightower or not putting down Otto.

Cause he was sleeping he worry about what the UN true bloodline to take a seat at the table.

The worst decision he made was marrying again without being disposed to acknowledge a future son as Heir. He literally scammed Alicent and would have scammed Laena or any other woman he married. Why? Because until he refused to declare Aegon as Heir *NO ONE* knew he was going to put rhaenyra over a son, they thought he was following the andal custom of son>daughter>uncle, not the rhoynish custom of gender blind succession. Whoever he married would have been scammed and would want her son on the Throne, period. And if he told before the wedding that he was following rhoynish succesion then not a single woman would want to marry him. No Lady would subject herself to the humiliation of birthing the first male sons to be *all* disinherited in the entirety of westerossi history.

No wonder the throne itself desown him

He was a fool king...

Marrying a non-Targaryen isn't much of an issue, as his children were still more Targaryen than Hightower. The issue was he allowed himself to be manipulated by Alicent (in the books) and Otto (in the show). Naming Rhaenarya heir also wasn't a mistake as he did it when his only other option was Daemon, and just stuck with that decision until his death. There was actually a lot of support for Rhaenarya botb before and during the Dance.

I think Viserys enabled her to a point where she went ahead and caused one of the bloodiest wars in history, just because she is a paranoid backstabbing and narcissistic person (she got that from her dad). But Viserys was such a bad King, all he did was bad choices leading to this war being as bloody as it is.

He should have named ageon heir the moment he was born

Marrying Alicent was not a mistake, but he made many more. He did not manage his family drama, one way or another. He was proposed to marry Velaryons’ girl, and the story would’ve repeat. Plus, Rhaenyra wasn’t “pure” Targaryen, her mother was Arryn.

That's why you should never marry outside of your family

Non Valyrian family? Argon is literally Viserys true born son lol

A any way the discussing userpurs died out 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Viserys should have named his firstborn son, Maegor... Now the lords would face a challenge, bend the knee to the first ruling queen? Or to Maegor II?

King viserys should have married Learna. They would have helped Princess Rhaenyra keep the throne. After all House Targaryen and House Velaryon are both pure bloods of the same line

The thumbnail reminds me of Aisha/Ayesha's Secret chinese manhua... the twins with silver hair is so similar to the book cover for real! Although I know those silver-haired siblings are Targaryens 🐉🐲🔥🔥🔥

Well, threatening Drogo, Dany and their unborn child was really dumb, and evil too. Did he really think Drogo would let that slide? ... Oh, the other Vyseris.

The dance would happened regarding

Viserys was too emotional

If viserys married laena, wouldnt rhaenys have then tried to usurp the throne for laenas son too

I mean there were a few things that were a bad decision marrying Alicent as Queen was one of them having Otto Hightower as his hand instead of his brother Daemon was one of them and setting Rhaenyra up for failure by putting her as a soon to be queen for the line of succession knowing the realm would be divided with that idea and knowing most likely that half the realm would not except a queen was one of them I mean I really could go on and if only Queen Aemma and Prince Baelon would have survived the dance of the dragons would not have even happened and House Targaryen still be strong prospering and would still at the height of their success and rule if not even more stronger...but who knows💯🤷🏻‍♂️🖤

Although all this you gotta admit he was a pretty great father

Having rhaenyra marry her uncle would have been the best case scenario for the realm and bloodline.

Yep, he should have allowed his brother to marry his daughter, they ended up together eventually 😅

Viserys was a fool

I like how the show made the Valaryon girl so young that he had no choice but to look at Allicent as wife material.

Im sex and marriage. Nobody knows me already.

Him and rob were the dumbest of all game of thrones and dance of the dragon series.

Why do people keep saying he should'nt have made rhaenyra heir?...

I admit viserys wasn’t a good king a peaceful one but not a good one

Isn't it also theorized that the power to tame dragons would be lost in a few generations if the valerians had children with non valerians?

Viserys was the worse Targaryen in history even the unworthy was a better choice.

Non Targaryens bro her children

But aren’t Hightowers valerian descent?

Worst decision Rhaenyra is heir

Who is the artist that make the thumb? Its amazing, he have more imagens of ASOIAF?

It was Important for the Lineage of Targayreans as Daemon didnt had any male child and Rhenera cannot give birth to a Targayrean as its Male genes that produces male Targayrean so they could have got extinct.

The inbreeding keeping the bloodline pure is BS. Some of the other families have distinct powers that are inherited without incest and they appear to be dominant. Like the Starks. It’s mostly because of perversion and for the main reason I agree with is they didn’t want the other families to be able to ride dragons. It’s mostly to keep themselves in power and they can’t rule when all of humanity eventually down the line can ride.

He didn't even need an heir, he has a fucking brother and Daughter. Just marry them and give him Dragonstone. Sit back and chill 😎 Daemon should of been the next King, whether he'd be good or bad is inconsequential.

His worst mistake, is not being father to alicents children and supporting rhaenyra for her worst decisions. I hate this show because it is toxic feminist show.....

When people go against what the King wants, there is no point in having an Iron Throne. You might as well melt it down. Viserys thought people would simply do as they are told and behave but Hightowers didn’t want to. Unfortunately, the fake Targaryens edged over the line but the true bloodline fought back and eventually avenged everyone. Both sides claim victory, I guess.

Viserys and Alicent's children are Targaryens, they aren't giving access to dragons to other family. In the same way that marrying Aemma wasn't giving the Arryns acess to dragons. That must be the stupidest argument I've ever seen, and this fandom is full of bs. Now, letting Rhaenyra and Helaena bound with dragons was a huge risk from that pov. Same with Rhaenys. And Laena and Laenor. These last two weren't even Targaryen from the start! And all them could have married someone else and took their dragon to other families, just as Rhaenys did.

Viserys should have just died. Daemon would ascend the Iron Throne and taken Rhaenyra to wife. Their sons will be kings anyway

What about the strong boys they were none valarion and alicent kids were targs not Hightowers this video sucks hell the old king literally gave house V dragons that was stupid 😊

Veserys is the real reason of the collapse of his own house, and to completely kill every dragons but hey. He’s a good man but dunmb and weak.

Pretty sure the incest is supposed to be problematic in ASOIAF. Some of the earliest incest is framed really bad. Daenerys assumes she's going to marry her abusive inept brother. Dany'd parent's incestuous union was portrayed as nothing but abusive. Part of Prince Egg's messed up family background is Prince Aerion saying he should geld Egg and marry him, also Egg's sister trying to slip him a love potion. Martin even referred to Jaeherys and Alyssane's marriage as loving as an incestuous marriage can be, implying disapproval of the incest. Jaime and Cersei's incest isn't just abusive for Jaime, it causes problems for everyone in their world.

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the real worst decision he made, was naming his daughter heir. i mean, who does that?

Don't know why, can't really get into this series....

It was a stupid decision because he wanted his marriage to be as little political as possible, but was actually playing right into Otto's politics. It was also completely unnecisarry: he already had an heir, the focus should have been on marrying Rheanyra to a house. A millitary powerful house with bloodlines to Targ and influence on other houses would have been best. I think a Baratheon would have done the trick (tough a Stark would not have been useless)

The way you pronounced Rhaenyra in the video is weird.

Alicent children were targaryen not high towers

Nah, Rhaenyra was the absolute best choice as the queen. She could be one of the best Targaryen ruler with Daemon on her side🔥

Keeping Daemon far from throne was the best decision. But marrying and making male heirs while still claiming Rhaenyra as Iron Throne heir is huge mistake. It doesn't matter if Vyseris was married to Alicent or Laena. Do you really think other lords especially Corlys Velaryon was less powerhungry than Otto? He basically was worse. Otto might have oppotunities to kill Rhaenyra and Daemon and Viserys as well. But somehow the king lived long enough despite of his condition. And Rhanyra and Daemon were fine. Corlys during the dance betrayed blacks then Aegon by poisoning him. If Laena was a queen and gave birth to Viserys's son he would do everything to put his grandson to the throne. BTW I hate comparison of Alicent's children to Rhaenyra, Daemon and Velaryons as they are not true valyrians, did not have pure-blood. First of all, the assimilation of valyrions is inevitable. Westeros is not their homeland. Since old valyria is gone they must change to survive and surpass others. Second, on the big scale does having dragons really that matter? Having a dragon demands a lot of resources, meat and land. It may stop the progress and people continue to live in horrible conditions. Dragons are the war tools but war also demands resouces. So, keeping dragons is not so profitable as it seems in long distance. Third, Gosh, people sound so nazi when they say that blacks are better because of the true Targaryen blood and Hightowers children are nit worthy because they are halfvalyrians. Are you fcking nuts to say so? To me, Otto and Alicent are the best characters in the dance because they work for the throne, for the power. They were more dutiful while Rhaenyra made bastards and didnt give a fck to rule. She wants the throne only because of her heritage but she didn't do the least amount of duty to get it. Daemon is just a psycho and groomer. I think Hightowers doing a favor to the realm destroying stupid Targaryens and their dragons?

This is BS. Aegon, Aemond and Daeron are all Targaryens. There is no other family that has legitimate dragonblood. If anything, house Strong through its bastards has stolen the throne and gained dragons to challenge the legitimate heirs. Marrying Alicent was smart as she gave him heirs. He should have then withdrawn his declaration of Rhaenyra as heir and trained his sons to rule. This would have left no-one in doubt as humans are a male lead species and the laws of westoros reflect this. Viserys' evil is holding on to his wife's memory to the point of promoting a daughter above his sons. People must stop pretending that Viserys was in a crisis. He got remarried and had son's. Alicent solved whatever crisis there was. Again Alicent's children are Targaryen's. The whore-queen's children are outsider's

The Targaryens were selfish to horde dragons. They monopolized them using abusive family breeding tactics. They should have bred with more Westerosi to allow more people to have dragons to protect against the coming Long Night. Their monopolizing dragons also led to keeping them in the dragon pit, decreasing their size and power, instead of having them patrol Westeros freely.

He is completely wrong anyway

Targaryens and Valyrians are all White btw