Ormund Hightower Tricks Rhaenyra With Fake Daeron, Seizes Tumbleton in Retaliation
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Updated · Esquire · Jul 6
Ormund Hightower Tricks Rhaenyra With Fake Daeron, Seizes Tumbleton in Retaliation
3 articles · Updated · Esquire · Jul 6
Summary
Alicent exposes the deception when Rhaenyra brings her to see "Daeron" before sending him to the Night’s Watch, only for Alicent to realize the boy is not her son.
Ormund’s ruse lets him keep the real Daeron—who still has a claim to the throne—while a burned messenger soon reports that Hightower forces have taken Tumbleton by force.
The reversal lands as Rhaenyra spends her first 3 days in King’s Landing struggling to govern a broke realm, pressing nobles for tribute and clashing with allies and clergy.
Rhaenyra also refuses Corlys’s request to legitimize Addam and Alyn Velaryon and still cannot find Aemond, leaving her rule politically strained as the war swings back to open conflict.