"No matter how far back Ned searched in the brittle yellowed pages, always he found the gold yielding before the coal." Help me see if this is true, would ya? Specifically with the first born children of the Targ/non-Targ mix. In the Baratheon/Lannister- anyone mix, we always get coal before gold. I think it is the same for the first born to a Targ/Non-Targ baby. I was lucky enough to ask George about this theory and he pretty much said yes in a very funny, stumped sorta way. The book