Post by markg171 on Mar 3, 2016 20:42:38 GMT
Not disputing that Jaime used a golden sword. It's the way Jaime tells Cat that it was a golden sword "don't you know" that can be read that it is NOT common knowledge that Jaime killed Aerys with a golden sword. Jaime knows because he did it. Eddard knows because he saw the blood on Jaime's sword. Anybody who was in the room saw Jaime's bloody golden sword. The rest of Westoros? Not so much.
In fact Jaime even says
But when he closed his eyes, it was Aerys Targaryen he saw, pacing alone in his throne room, picking at his scabbed and bleeding hands. The fool was always cutting himself on the blades and barbs of the Iron Throne. Jaime had slipped in through the king's door, clad in his golden armor, sword in hand. The golden armor, not the white, but no one ever remembers that. Would that I had taken off that damned cloak as well.
That people don't even remember what he wore that day. So who actually remembers he used a golden sword that day too of the people who were even there to see it? Jaime straight up says people have forgotten the details, other than that he killed Aerys. Eddard hasn't though like you say. It's etched in his mind.
But Viserys really shouldn't know about how Jaime killed Aerys. It's not common knowledge, and people can't even remember what he wore that day. Yet Viserys knows.
I still contend Viserys could have been given his mother's crown later, after they left the house with the red door forever.
I find that they have the crown at all to be weird frankly. Rhaella died birthing Dany. We're not told how long passes between her death and when the Targaryens leave Dragonstone, but there's got to be enough time for a funeral. Which means that Rhaella's personal possessions probably got locked up in the Dragonstone treasury after her death. I mean what use does Viserys have with a women's crown after all? He can't wear it. Dany can't wear it. And Rhaella had already crowned him so he's got his own. Her crown should be put in the treasury.
So if her crown's already been locked up, then how do they get it? Why do they even take it at all even if it's not in the treasury? They're on a race against time. Stannis is coming. The Dragonstone garrison wants to sell them out. Darry literally has to break into Dany's nursery, and smuggle them out. So presumably the Targaryens are already under lock and key. Yet they have time to get Rhaella's crown, and enough jewels to live off of for 8 years, all while trying to last minute flee Dragonstone, hounded on all fronts.
It doesn't make sense. They shouldn't have anything but the clothes on their backs. You can't be "forced to flee" and then still have a fortune on you. A couple purses or something sure, but a queen's crown and a bunch of jewels? Doesn't seem likely.