Annara Snow

Maybe listen to your own advice and stop trying to force a narrative because you want it to be true? "Arryns' kinship to Rhaenyra is very distant" LMAO Her mother was an Arryn. The Lannisters are not related to Aegon II at all. Rhaenyra didn't need armies at the start of the war? Suuure. By the time Cregan and the Northmen - other than the old men who went south to die - finally joined the war, Jason was long dead and his widow busy fighting the Ironborn if the Lannister support to Rhaenyra was a joke, then the Stark one was an even bigger joke. Cregan waited for almost all of the war before he marched south and finally got to King's Landing when everything was over anyway.

The Winter Wolves are old men who went south in order not to be a burden on the North's resources during the upcoming winter, so that's hardly a strong argument about Cregan's commitment to risking Northerners in the war. Conveniently, other than the Winter Wolves, neither he nor Jeyne Arryn seemed eager to send armies in the early stage of the war and where they could face dragons in the field. So if Jason's participation in the war was lukewarm, theirs was even more so. Cregan and his host of 8000 (I don't believe that Eustace's "20000 savage northmen!" was anything but a reflection of his tendency for exaggeration and melodrama combined with anti-Northern fears) only took part in the war in a later stage. Jason at that point had the excuse of being dead, while his widow was busy defending the Westerlands from the Ironborn. "whereas Jeyne Arryn and Cregan Stark are in no way considered 'die-hard Blacks' at the beginning of the war." So I guess you agree that they were lukewarm about it, and not really eager to send armies to potentially get burned by dragons. And all of them had to think of their own lands, too, in the face of potential dangers... such as the Ironborn attacking the Westerlands. Which they eventually did.

Cregan Stark's and Jeyne Arryn's support for the Blacks was also lukewarm, as was Borros Baratheon's for the Greens. Most of the great houses, apart from those with relatives on the two Targaryen sides, or those who just needed an excuse to do their thing like the Red Kraken, weren't doing much until the late stage of the war...when most of the dragons were dead. I don't think you need to look for reasons beyond "don't really care about the Targaryen in fighting, don't want our armies to get burned by dragons".

Hobart in the show was pushing Otto to make Aegon king. That would make no sense. Tyland Lannister is on the Green Council and one of the people who performed the coup. Of course his twin brother isn't going to declare the opposite. (Erryk and Arryk are an outlier)

Anyone still wants to play this?

Marry Shireen, politically, unconsummated marriage Bang Tyrion Kill Androw Next: Jeyne Arryn, Sabitha Frey. Black Aly Blackwood

Still playing, @Eternally_Theirs?

Don't base anything on the choices made on GoT, since D&D have nothing to do with HotD, fortunately. It's a civil war and it's definitely not a small scale affair centered around KL and nothing else. They actually have a good budget, they are not rushing to finish the show to go do Star Warsl and, unlike D&D, they understand that themes exist.

Object.

Not a place.

Not a character

A very easy guess for once. You can start asking questions.

Daemon Targaryen

You didn't have to give additional info, but thanks. Alive during the Dance?

A king?

Targaryen or married to a Targaryen?

Highborn?

From the South?

From Westeros?

Male?

Group of characters?

Human?

Character?

Yep

Not Aegon III. He'd be of the Blacks' faction, and he wasn't a baby, he was 7-10 years old.