All 15 Targaryens from Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, ranked worst to best

5. Daemon Targaryen

Imagine Daemon Targaryen striding through the halls of the Red Keep, a smoky aura of intrigue trailing behind him. Daemon is a Targaryen through and through, complete with all the fiery passion and dragon-taming prowess you’d expect from our favorite group of blondes. He’s a rogue, sure, but there’s no denying the way he commands any room he walks into. The politics of the Seven Kingdoms is like a chessboard to Daemon, and he, an uncrowned king, knows how to play the game.

On the battlefield, Daemon is an awe-inspiring spectacle. He cut through his enemies with the precision of a maester handling a scalpel, when he’s not burning them from the back of his dragon Caraxes. There’s a darkness in Daemon, a moral ambiguity that blurs the line between right and wrong. In a world where the righteous often met untimely ends, perhaps it’s this quality that makes him a force to reckon with. In Westeros, it’s survival of the fittest, and Daemon is more fit than most.

Daemon is an opportunist who knows how to turn situations to his advantage. His grandest moment comes during a showdown between himself and

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Aemond Targaryen. Daemon leaps from his dragon onto Aemond’s and stabs his nephew in the eye as the lot of them tumble into the Gods Eye lake. After that, Daemon vanishes with a trace, although legend has it he survived and began a new life. Whatever happened to him, he left behind a legacy marked by ambition, passion and treachery.