The TRUTH Why Targaryens LOVE Incest

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Why do Targaryenss love incest so much?

[00:00:02]And I know you might be thinking there's some obvious reasons why they might be into it. But we here have the only true answer why Targaryens can't help themselves but bump uglies with the relatives. Right, we're going to go into this. We're going to let you guys know.

[00:00:16]This is going to be a lore accurate reason. It's just something that not a lot of people pick up on. Let us know in the comments before we even start what your guys' thoughts are on incest. Is it really that bad? And who is your favorite incestuous couple in Westeros?

[00:00:30]Now, before we get started, we have to really define what is incest in this world.

[00:00:35]>> Yeah, because we have Tywin Lannister.

[00:00:37]His wife is his cousin. That's not considered incest whatsoever in the eyes of everybody. So, cousins are okay.

[00:00:43]That's not considered incest today. We would not like that. We're like, first cousins, yikes, do not do that. Parent and child, that is considered incest 100% right in our definition. Now, siblings also, yes. But uncles and nieces, is that considered incest for you? Gary, I would say >> for me it is. But I feel like I'm I'm notoriously >> I'm like a little bit soft on incest.

[00:01:05]Okay. But yeah, definitely aunts and uncles definitely definitely still incest in my mind. I don't know how they get away with that [ __ ] so much in Westeros. That's crazy.

[00:01:12]>> Yeah. Not the official stance of the channel, but Gator personally has some soft stances on here. But if if we're going to go with cousins are okay by the standards of Westeros, parent and child incest, sibling incest, uncle, niece, that relationship also incest. Then if you look at actually how often it happens, about one out every four relationships within the Targaryen dynasty would be considered incest.

[00:01:36]Whether that's brother, sister, or uncle, niece, nephew, whatever combination. And I'm sure some Targaryen fans out there are saying, "Oh, I knew I knew it wasn't that much. These guys uh they they they talk about Targaryenss are in love with incest, but one of them are four. That's not even that much.

[00:01:51]Clearly, the majority don't even like it. But just focus on the royal inheritance line where, you know, look at every king within the Targaryen dynasty. You see that half of their relationships, who they're married to or who they have some sort of special relationship with would be considered incest. And about 40% of the kings are born as a result of incest. I mean, I don't know how these guys aren't just constantly drooling. I know the quote is every time a Targaryen is born, the gods flip a coin and the whole world basically holds their breath and wonder how is it going to land. But what it really should be is, you know, the gods spill some sort of liquid and whatever shape that is, that's the shape of these Targaryens's heads because they are riddled with incest.

[00:02:34]>> It's hugely disproportionate. I mean, listen, a lot of the Targaryenss, we're not fans of the Targaryenss on this channel. Not really. a few a few key boys that we like for various reasons, but for the most part, yeah, we're not fans. And part of that comes from the fact that they're all mongaloids. They make stupid decisions. It's they're they're incestuous and you can tell them what they do. All right, I'm going to burn them all and we're going to go over here and commit these crimes and I love to have sex with all these women. It's like, dude, you are a den. You are imbred. We're really getting a poor view of how these guys really are too, by the way, based on the TV show where they're all so beautiful. You know, I know they're supposed to be specimens like in in the book lore as well, but specimen doesn't necessarily mean >> elves or >> but that doesn't necessarily mean conventionally attractive. You know what I mean? It's almost like hard to look at in a certain way. It's like Anya Taylor Joy, remember when she first came on the scene, her eyes were like 16 feet apart in everybody's mind. It's like an Uma Thurman Reborn kind of thing. No one thought she was good-look at first, but then after you see it for a while, you're like, "Okay, it's like an alien.

[00:03:34]It's like I'm going to have sex with an alien." That's kind of like how the Targaryenss are, too. But I imagine their teeth are a lot worse.

[00:03:39]>> Yeah. You thought Ana Taylor Joy? I thought Sloth and the Goonies and for whatever reason, these Targaryenss love it with their own kinds. They just have a desire for aliens. It's not like, >> well, they're an alien race now. So, of course, they're going to like other aliens like how we like humans. I'm I'm more so talking about from the perspective of like your common Westerosi. After a while, they just kind of get accustomed to it and they're like, "Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay. I like that." Yeah.

[00:04:02]>> Now, strategically, it made sense why Targaryenss kept it within the family because you don't want the blood of the dragon decentralized everywhere, spreading out between all of the high lords in Westeros, cuz then you have potentially a, you know, dragon lord in the Stormlands or over on Casterly Rock or up in the north. I mean, just imagine an Ironborn Greyjoy dragon rider. It's it's it's not good. So, it made sense to keep this ultimate superpower centralized and minimize any sort of influence it may have. But as soon as it was no longer maintained that way and not kept limited, it reaches this critical mass that we see in House of the Dragon or the events in the Dance of the Dragons, which results in this horrific civil war. So, keeping the blood of the dragon close to the vest made sense.

[00:04:52]>> Yeah, it does. So, this is something that I find controversial in this series is like, is there really a magical connection between the Targaryenss and dragons, right? Is it is it actually a magical thing where if you have the blood of the dragon, then some distillation, right? Is that really going to be the thing that allows you to control dragons or is it more of a technique-based thing that they have and they kind of have the chokeold on it?

[00:05:11]Cuz again, either one of those situations, you could argue incest benefits, right? Like if it's really a magical thing, then I guess you want to keep it as close as possible to keep this control centralized or whatever.

[00:05:23]But even and if it's not though either, if it's not and it's just a technique thing, you still want to keep that close to the family too cuz then it still will portray like you are magical. You know, I but I think it ties in I I'm trying to I guess what I'm trying to say is in either situation, you don't want the secret getting out that potentially, right, your blood is not connected at all because that that would have caused this whole thing to collapse a lot sooner, right? Like imagine if there were still dragons around and you just had like enough non-tarian blood get together and eventually you have someone like a Stark or whatever disgusting first man >> who is unconnected entirely. Maybe he just marries into the family, right? And he's no target blood at all, but then somehow ends up being able to control a dragon just because he's so close to the family and close to the situation. That would throw everything for a loot, dude.

[00:06:07]That would destroy the family before the dragons are even gone. So yeah, I I get it. I get why they do it. And that's why I I I don't know if that's the reason why they got rid of the Nettles storyline within House of the Dragon and that's why they just narrowed it in that they're going to take her plot and put it into a different character. But Nettles, when you look at her, she doesn't look like she has any Targaryen blood whatsoever. She could have a dragon seed of some sort. Yeah. Well, speak for yourself. Me and Damon are on the same page. We're looking at this girl and uh we are licking our lips.

[00:06:37]>> You're liking what you're seeing.

[00:06:41]Damon has never led me wrong, but uh Nettles and I guess now more so the Adam Valarian or Adam of Hall in the TV show represent this idea that blood might not matter nearly as much when you try to claim a dragon. But if if you assume that you do have to have some sort of very small amount of Targaryen blood to have that magical bond, if you assume that, you have to be asking yourself how pure is the Targaryen blood in the present story line, like when we eventually pick up with Dany in the Winds of Winter, which will be releasing soon, guys, trust the plan. And you also assume that her ancestor, King Viseris II, was a pure Targaryen, 100%, which he's not, but assuming he is, by the time it gets down to Dany, she's only 6% Targaryen based off all the Dornish and Blackwood blood that gets brought in there. So the the little amount of Targaryen or old Valyrian blood she has in her is so diluted that it goes to the question or point you were making how much of it is actually tied to Targaryen blood which then comes into the lore accurate reason why they love incest so much is because they are able to on an evolutionary biology level cleanse their blood through incest. So the two relationships above Dany, Jiharis as well as Aries both had sister wives.

[00:08:03]That in itself was able to cleanse their blood from foreign actors. By the time we get to Danny, she's not 6.2% Targaryen. She's 100%. She She might be 50%. She's way more than the 6%. There's no way. There's no way you can have only 6% and you are able to maintain these hyper specific isolated traits like purple eyes and white hair and this super fine white skin. It it's it's nearly impossible after understanding her genealogy up to this point. It doesn't make any sense for these people to be able to maintain these strong Targaryen features so consistently. It might be I mean it is possible, but it's just so unlikely. How could it possibly go on this long unless there was something else involved, right? And the really thing that ties this in and makes it undeniable or close to undeniable is the dragon component. If you are granting that it really is a magical connection that these Targaryenss have and it's not just some kind of like an imprinting thing cuz like I said earlier, it is possible, right? They kept they kept this stuff so close to the chest that like new dragons born.

[00:09:07]Make sure you bring the royal family down here ASAP so they can imprint on this kid, you know? So, it's going to be like their their parent or guardian.

[00:09:13]That is way more than possible. But assuming that's not the case and assuming all of these like cringe fans of A Song of Ice and Fire are correct and that it's a magical connection, then yeah, this is the only thing that makes sense. It's like a reset button, you know? It's a reset button. It's a cleansing. I don't know if it's magic. I don't know if it's biological, dude.

[00:09:28]Maybe when the fall of old Valyria happened, maybe it was a slow process, right? Like things were things in the surrounding environment, the the geology was degrading and it was releasing some kind of a crazy planettose radiation from deep within the earth and it mutated their bodies to have this reset mechanism built in. It's probably why they look like aliens, too. So, no, dude, you're right. You're dead on right on the money.

[00:09:48]>> Yeah, in the world of dragons and white walkers, having a little blood cleansing is probably the least far-fetched thing George has brought in the series. Hey, thanks for watching this video. Be sure to subscribe if you want to see more content like this, and smash that like button >> or not. We don't care.