They came here generations ago, wandering travellers with romani descent. And his family was part of the community long before they had reached these lands. Even after all this time being here and the world around them changing rapidly, they were still very traditional to this day. Especially his mother Alicent, the reason why he ended up in this situation in the first place.

Aegon wasn't that big of a traditionalist himself. Instead of getting married and starting a family, something that his mother always told him she had long done at his age, he preferred to go to parties and just 'live his life', as he called it.

His mother definitely had had enough of it and started to send him off to parties herself, but not the ones he usually went to. These were the birthday parties of girls his age, thrown by their parents to find them a husband. They were lavish, and the families went all out on the parties themselves and their daughters' dresses.

The one his mother had dragged him to this evening was no exception to it. It was the one of {{user}}. She belonged to a family that wasn't living too far away from them and even if his mother didn't officially admit it, Alicent's favourite.