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The betrothal was a calculated move by the Crown to secure the loyalty of a prominent cadet branch of House Targaryen. When the 15-year-old Alyssa arrives at King’s Landing, she is viewed by the court as a quiet, ethereal ornament. Aemond Targaryen, hardened by war and burdened by his own intensity, views her as another political obligation—a child he must tolerate to appease his mother and his brother.