
While they lived in Braavos, Willem signed a secret marriage pact with Prince Oberyn Martell of Dorne, with the Sealord of Braavos as a witness, agreeing that Viserys would take Princess Arianne Martell, daughter to Doran Martell, the Prince of Dorne, as his bride in exchange for Dorne supporting his claim for the throne. Viserys and Daenerys lived under Ser Willem Darry's protection in a house with a red door in Braavos. Viserys and Daenerys Targaryen wandering in Essos, by Jacqui Davis © Stannis Baratheon was about to set sail with his new fleet for the assault on Dragonstone, and the garrison of Dragonstone was prepared to turn Viserys and his sister over to him, but Ser Willem Darry and four loyal men smuggled the children to the Braavosian coast. In 284 AC, nine months after they fled King's Landing, Rhaella died while giving birth to Viserys's younger sister, Daenerys, during a storm which destroyed most of the Targaryen fleet, which had been anchored at Dragonstone. After news of Aerys's death and the deaths of Rhaegar's children in the Sack of King's Landing reached Dragonstone, Viserys was declared king. Viserys was sent with the pregnant Rhaella to the fortified island of Dragonstone. When his brother Rhaegar was killed at the Battle of the Trident, Viserys was named his father's heir, passing over Rhaegar's infant son Aegon. Viserys was only a young boy at the time of Robert's Rebellion, and Queen Rhaella sheltered him from King Aerys's madness as much as she could. When Rhaegar married Elia Martell in the Great Sept of Baelor in 280 AC, Aerys refused to allow Viserys to attend. Lord Tywin Lannister hosted a tournament in honor of Viserys's birth in Lannisport, but only Aerys and Rhaegar attended from the royal family. The king burned gifts sent by Westerosi lords, thinking they might be cursed. Aerys insisted that his food taster drink from the breasts of the prince's wet nurse, to make sure she had not smeared poison on her nipples. The Kingsguard watched him day and night, and Rhaella was forbidden to be alone with her son.

Īerys's paranoia made him fear for the infant's life beyond reason, however. The celebrated Viserys was small but robust and beautiful. Prince Viserys was born in King's Landing in 276 AC to King Aerys II Targaryen and his sister-wife Queen Rhaella, their first child to survive in the seventeen years since their son Rhaegar's birth, after multiple stillbirths, miscarriages, and infant deaths. Viserys loves to talk about dragons, and has a hatred for horse meat and fermented mare's milk. However, according to Barristan Selmy, Viserys already often seemed to show signs of madness as a young child, like his father had. Daenerys believes that Viserys has been driven mad by his exile and the status of beggar it eventually gave him. His sister Daenerys considers his anger, which Viserys himself called "waking the dragon", to be "a terrible thing when roused". He became an angry and bitter man, and when he was forced to sell his mother's crown, the last joy had gone from him, leaving only rage. He kept lusting after his father's throne, and became obsessed with winning back the Seven Kingdoms. The fifteen years Viserys spend in exile were hard on him. He is violent and abusive with many, including his sister Daenerys, whom he blames for their mother's death. Viserys is considered to be a cruel, weak, frightened, impatient, vain, greedy, stupid and foolish man. He was not as tall as his older brother Rhaegar had been. He prefers to dress in silks and wool, keeps a sachet in the sleeve of his tunic to sniff, and wears a borrowed sword to look more "kingly". He had been a small, robust, and healthy child, but in his early twenties, after more than a decade of living in exile, Viserys has become a gaunt young man with hard lines in his face and a feverish look in his eyes. Viserys possesses the classical Valyrian features: he has pale skin, silver-blond hair, and pale lilac eyes. In the television adaptation Game of Thrones he is portrayed by Harry Lloyd.
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In the Free Cities Viserys was mockingly dubbed " the Beggar King", a name which spread towards the Seven Kingdoms. He styles himself as " Viserys of the House Targaryen, the Third of his Name, King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm", as he had been declared king on Dragonstone after his father's death. The war turned Viserys and his younger sister, Daenerys, Princess of Dragonstone, into exiles from the Seven Kingdoms who can only plot to regain control of the Iron Throne. Prince Viserys Targaryen is the heir of his father, King Aerys II Targaryen, following the death of his older brother, Prince Rhaegar, during Robert's Rebellion. King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men (claimant)
