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1. Before the Maiden hears by asadoyourthing

   Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Underage Sex
   • F/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   25 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Underage Sex
   • Brynden "Bloodraven" Rivers/Original Female Character(s)
   • Maekar I Targaryen/Original Female Character(s)
   • Baelor "Breakspear" Targaryen/Original Female Character(s)
   • Daemon Blackfyre/Original Female Character(s)
   • Brynden "Bloodraven" Rivers
   • Maekar I Targaryen
   • Baelor "Breakspear" Targaryen
   • Daemon I Blackfyre
   • Aegor "Bittersteel" Rivers
   • Myriah Martell
   • Daeron II Targaryen
   • Rhaegel Targaryen (Son of Daeron II)
   • Aerys I Targaryen
   • Shiera Seastar
   • Forbidden Love
   • Friends to Enemies to Lovers
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Slow Burn
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
   • Religious Guilt
   • Smut
   • Eventual Smut
   • Angst and Feels
   • Period Typical Attitudes
   • Magic
   • First Blackfyre Rebellion | Daemon I Blackfyre vs. Daeron II Targaryen
   • The Blackfyre Rebellions (A Song of Ice and Fire)
   • Period-Typical Underage
   • Broken Engagement
   • Child Loss

   Summary

   Sent to the Red Keep as both lady-in-waiting and unspoken promise, Lady Marya Hightower is expected to learn the court, please the queen, and become a suitable bride for Prince Baelor Targaryen. Under Queen Myriah’s careful eye, every gown, seat, smile, and silence begins to shape her toward that golden future. Yet it is not Baelor’s courtesy that unsettles her most, but Brynden Rivers: the king’s young bastard brother, too watchful, too clever, and far too difficult to forget. As desire slips beneath prayer and politics sharpens around blood, bastardy, and the shadow of Daemon Blackfyre, Marya and Brynden try to make lawful what the realm was never built to forgive.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   73,670

   Chapters:

   9/?

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   Kudos:

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