Aegon VI as a ruler

[Aldarion]

So, how well do you think will Young Griff / Aegon VI do as a ruler? When you look at it, his upbringing is not that different from heirs in Real Life. To quote an answer from Quora: "Future rulers were given their own "practice courts," taught languages, music, history, religion, warfare and swordplay and often sheltered from the wide world in far-flung locales, especially in Britain where the threat of plague/disease was pretty serious. Meaning, apart from the whole "I'm on a boat" thing, Aegon's upbringing isn't that different from any other future king's in our own history. What monarchs did not do with their kids is turn them into street urchins and assume that when they grew up they'd know everything they needed to about governing.". Now, this is not always entirely true: in Byzantine Empire, some of the best rulers were military leaders who never were groomed for political leadership (Diocletian, Basil I). But even then, military command does teach some management skills, especially during Early Imperial and Middle Byzantine perod when military commanders were also provincial administrators (or the reverse). On the flip side, Daenerys was never taught skills required to rule, and her "practical experience" is in slavering Essos, which is socially, politically and culturally extremely different from Westeros. So to me this indicates that Aegon might, if given opportunity, turn out to be a good ruler, or at least better than Daenerys.

Thoughts?

EDIT: There is also the fact that, like many of better rulers in history - such as already-mentioned Diocletian, Basil I and also Basil II - Aegon seems to favour loyalty and competence over birth. He promotes Duck to Kingsguard because he knows latter to be loyal and unlikely to play kingmaker. We already see this with Stannis promoting Davos to Hand of the King, and to me it is indicative of a good ruler.

[Bronn Urgandy]

You would struggle to draw a straight line with him...

 

I think his tragedy is that he will be the King all hope he will be, but he will not rule for long before he is killed

[The Sleeper]

I think he is going to suck. A lot. It is not really down to his individual abilities. His power base is fractious, divisive and have competing agendas and incompatible mindsets. For instance he is called at eighteen after having lived a life of isolation to manage Varys and Connington. Even if he were Jaehaerys he might not have been up to it and signs so far point to him being immature and oblivious. 

One of his major problems will be keeping the Golden Company happy. They are going to want lands and titles and in giving them he is going to create friction with those who have or want said lands and titles.

And that is just the beginning. If he sides with Dorne he will probably make enemies of the Reach and so on. 

[Aldarion]

2 hours ago, FitzChivalry Fartseer said:

You would struggle to draw a straight line with him...

 

I think his tragedy is that he will be the King all hope he will be, but he will not rule for long before he is killed

Yes, that is what I think as well.

2 hours ago, The Sleeper said:

I think he is going to suck. A lot. It is not really down to his individual abilities. His power base is fractious, divisive and have competing agendas and incompatible mindsets. For instance he is called at eighteen after having lived a life of isolation to manage Varys and Connington. Even if he were Jaehaerys he might not have been up to it and signs so far point to him being immature and oblivious. 

One of his major problems will be keeping the Golden Company happy. They are going to want lands and titles and in giving them he is going to create friction with those who have or want said lands and titles.

And that is just the beginning. If he sides with Dorne he will probably make enemies of the Reach and so on. 

Connington might help with that, but problem there is that Connington himself is afflicted with Greyscale. This will automatically affect his mindset - he already has become more impatient as a result of it - and towards the end he might succumb to outright insanity. So Aegon will need capable helpers, but who they might be? And yes, if he does not find anyone, he is probably screwed.

Seeing how Westeros has been fighting for a long time, and a lot of lords will have been opposing Aegon, lands and titles may not pose as much problem. You are correct that it will create friction, though.

[sweetsunray]

4 hours ago, The Sleeper said:

I think he is going to suck. A lot. It is not really down to his individual abilities. His power base is fractious, divisive and have competing agendas and incompatible mindsets. For instance he is called at eighteen after having lived a life of isolation to manage Varys and Connington. Even if he were Jaehaerys he might not have been up to it and signs so far point to him being immature and oblivious. 

One of his major problems will be keeping the Golden Company happy. They are going to want lands and titles and in giving them he is going to create friction with those who have or want said lands and titles.

And that is just the beginning. If he sides with Dorne he will probably make enemies of the Reach and so on. 

Except he's conquering the Stormlands, which was either abandoned by those who followed Stannis north, as their castles and lands were going to be given to those being rewarded by Lannisters. By taking the throne, those men who turned their cloaks or Cersei's lackeys lose their reward again to another. I can't see the Reach lords or Dornish or those of the Crownlands who aren't happy with Cersei do more than shrug at it and think "good riddance".

[The Sleeper]

4 minutes ago, sweetsunray said:

Except he's conquering the Stormlands, which was either abandoned by those who followed Stannis north, as their castles and lands were going to be given to those being rewarded by Lannisters. By taking the throne, those men who turned their cloaks or Cersei's lackeys lose their reward again to another. I can't see the Reach lords or Dornish or those of the Crownlands who aren't happy with Cersei do more than shrug at it and think "good riddance".

And you think the GC won't look at castles in the Reach or in the Riverlands. Besides every abandoned castle and empty already has suitors who will become Aegon's enemies when he passes them over in order to reward them to the GC. Moreover there are people with grudges amongst his ranks. Rolly Duckfield may feel like finishing the job against the lord's son who took his sword and that bastard Fossoway sargeant has a grudge against one of the most influential houses in the Reach. 

As long as his take over is confined in King's Landing, people will shrug and do pretty much as you describe. But when Aegon comes calling for taxes or troops or worse for lands and hostages then things will head south in a hurry. 

[asongofheresy]

I expect him to be a good ruler, but I anticipate how his upbringing in the Mother Rhoyne and the ruins of it, combined with Orphans Yandry and Ysilla, affected his views on dragons and Targaryens/Valyrians. Not only that but Aegon grew up as the sole prince for years without Varys or Illyrio thinking Viserys and Daenerys are important for Aegon's legitimacy, until Daenerys hatched dragons and suddenly it was Aegon who had to go to her, and convince her to take IT with him. Bullshit, Daenerys received no proper education as we learn, unlike Aegon who was trained as king. If dragons didn't hatched Daenerys will not be relevant to Aegon's party even as a Queen Consort, and she wasn't because they married her of to Dothraki. 

[sweetsunray]

2 hours ago, The Sleeper said:

And you think the GC won't look at castles in the Reach or in the Riverlands. Besides every abandoned castle and empty already has suitors who will become Aegon's enemies when he passes them over in order to reward them to the GC. Moreover there are people with grudges amongst his ranks. Rolly Duckfield may feel like finishing the job against the lord's son who took his sword and that bastard Fossoway sargeant has a grudge against one of the most influential houses in the Reach. 

As long as his take over is confined in King's Landing, people will shrug and do pretty much as you describe. But when Aegon comes calling for taxes or troops or worse for lands and hostages then things will head south in a hurry. 

My point is that George wrote the GC and Aegon conquering the Stormlands, exactly the region that's abandoned and where every castle served to reward Lannister lackeys. George deliberately chose pretty much a "vacuum" area. So, I don't expect George to write the GC to be vying for castles in the Reach and the Riverlands that will pose any political issues.

Let's just check the Stormland Houses :

• SE: Stannis is north, Edric Storm is in Myr. Aegon will likely make this his headquarter seat to conquer the rest and gather allies. After his death this most likely will go to Edric Storm.
• Bronzegate with House Buckler: Lord Buckler initially sided with Renly, then went over to Stannis and then entertained Oberyn (and thus turned Lannister) on his way to KL. His cousin is north with Stannis and Selyse arranged a wedding for him with one of the daughters of Gerrick Kingsblood. So, Bronzegate? Aside from Lord Buckler, nobody will be weeping over that.
• Fawnton with House Cafferen: we have no idea where things stand there, except that a prior Lord Cafferen first fought for the Targs during RR, then went over to Robert, was defeated by Tarly who sent his head to the Mad King.
• Nightsong of House Caron: was rewarded to Ser Foote (of the Westerlands) by the Lannisters, after he killed Lord Caron in BotB. Lord Caron's half-brother is the bastard Rolland Storm, who stuck with Stannis and was made castellan of Dragonstone. Either he's captured (if what Aurane Waters said about the storming of Dragonstone is true) or he's on his way north with a load of obsidian (if Aurane lied to cover for a ruse by Loras Tyrell who sailed south with Lannisters and Redwynes to fight the Ironborn). On top of that we have Dornish troops waiting in the pass neaby for the word "dragon" by Arianne. I'm pretty sure the household at Nightsong will be of help in ridding the Foote cadet branch. Lord Foote is likely still even in the capital. He was a witness at Tyrion's trial.
• Griffin's Roost: was rewarded to Red Ronnet, a Connington. Not even Jaime likes him. We witnessed the turnover in aDwD. Aside from Lannisters and Red Ronnet (nobody likes him) is going to make a ruckus over that. Hell, Tarly suggests sending Red Ronnet to the Wall.
• Blackhaven: was Beric Dondarrion's. He's dead without heirs apparently. His fiance is a Dayne, who probably returned to Starfall at some point. We have no confirmation who was given Blackhaven, but we can consider it to be gifted to some Westerman for his service at Blackwater. A Dornish host is waiting in the Boneway south of it.
• Haystack Hall: of House Errol. Lord Sebastian Errol supported Stannis during the parlay at SE. He's likely north.
• Greenstone of House Estermont: already taken by the GC. Some bent the knee to Joffrey after the BotB, some went north with Stannis. Old Lord Estermont married Sylva Santagar. His son or brother Lomas remained loyal to Stannis and is at SE when it's besieged by a Reacher army. Lomas's son is with Edric Storm, either at Myr or on his way to Myr. Potential problem if Lomas decides to give up SE for Aegon to twart the army of the Reach.
• Felwood of House Fell: the Lord Fell went north with Stannis and "fell" in an ice river and froze to death.
• Grandview of House Grandison: Lord Grandison is old, Ser Narbert Grandison is with Stannis.
• Mistwood of House Mertyn: Lady Mertyn's grandchildren and children are away fighting somewhere. One of them got wounded at the Blackwater. They bent the knee to Joffrey?
  Spoiler

  taken by GC. The dowager lady (who has grandchildren) is put under house arrest.

• Crow's Nest of House Morrigen: taken by Tristan Rivers of the GC. Lord Lester Morrigen is north with Stannis. One of the knights of the house was slain by Garlan at the Blackwater.
• Poddingfield of House Peasebury: went north with Stannis... 4 of his men were burned for cannibalism. It's likely he ate human flesh as well.
• Parchments of House Penrose: old, sickly lord.
• Amberly of House Rogers (all in honor of Zelazny): we don't know anything about them except their blazon via semi-canon sources.
• Harvest House of House Selmy: Lord Arstan Selmy... no clue of his allegiances or whereabouts. Likely remained loyal or bent the knee to Joffrey.
• Broad Arch of house Scaedmon: swore fealty to Joffrey after being captured at the Blackwater
• Stonehelm of House Swann: Donnel Swann (heir) swore fealty to Joffrey after capture at the Blackwater and was ransomed by his father Lord Gulian Swann. For some unknown reason the current Lord Swann is called Clifford Swann. The other son is Balon, a KG. 

• Gallowsgrey of House Trant: family of Ser Meryn Trant. Nothing known about them except for KG Meryn Trant.
• Rain House of House Wylde: taken by the GC by Peake. Ser Gladden Wylde was with Beric to arrest Gregor Clegane, and killed by Lannisters. Ser Ormund Wylde is with Stannis.
• Weeping Town of House Whitehead:
  Spoiler

  The son of Lord Whitehead joined Aegon

   

Then on to the Crownlands:

• Sharp Point of House Bar Emmon: 15 year old fat feeble Duram is the Lord. Sent his men along with Stannis north.
• Dragonstone of Stannis Baratheon: abandoned. The only one who'll fight for it will be Dany
• Brownhollow and Dyre Den of House Brune: Lord Eustace of Dyre Den is still at home, but his sons and grandsons are off to war according to Nimble Dick Crabb. Most of those of Cracklaw point are known to be loyal to Targs. Likely to join Aegon.
• The Antlers of House Buckwell: we only know of Ser Jarman who commanded a scouting of Mance Rayder during the Great Ranging. He survived the Fist and managed to get back to the Wall, informing Aemon about Jon being with the wildlings. However, later Jon as LC thinks of him as dead. It's likely that Ser Jarman ended up at the Wall the same way that Alliser Thorne did: fought on the wrong side during RR. So, House Buckwell will likely join Aegon.
• Claw Isle of House Celtigar: the old sour lord Celtigar bent the knee to the Lannisters and remained in KL, after capture. Claw Isle is only defended by women and children. A house of Valyrian descent. Will likely surrender the castle like that to Aegon.
• Duskendale of House Rykker: the present Lord Renfred is with Tarly. Ser Jaremy Rykker fought for Aerys during RR and was sent to the Wall. Potential ally of Aegon.
• Sow's Horn of House Hogg: resisted the Karstark wolves and Amory Lorch, spoke to Jaime about it. Knightly house.
• Stonedance of House Massey: Justin Massey, one of the trusted knights of Stannis, already considers Stonedance lost to him.
• Rosby of House Rosby: Lord Rosby died without trueborn issue. Despite Cersei trying to gift it to some of her lackeys, Tommen or other Lannister, Gyles' ward holds it. Quite sure he or she will ally with Aegon, and help food from coming to KL.
• Rook's Nest of House Staunton: we know nothing about them currently. We only know Lord Styles Staunton helped to poison Aerys against Rhaegar. He was master of laws under Aerys. If they don't turn, I'm sure Aegon will hand it swiftly to someone loyal without regret, and nobody else will care.
• Stokeworth of House Stokeworth: Bronn rules it and he's no friend to Cersei. Expected to do the exact same thing as the ward of Rosby: help starve KL into surrendering.
• Sweetport Sound of House Sunglass: Lord Guncer Sunglass refused to further support Stannis after Mel's desecration of the sept of DS. He was imprisoned and burned by Mel and Selyse during the Battle of the Blackwater to help Stannis by magic. His brother, the new lord of Sweetport fled to Volantis after that. So, either the new lord of Sunglass already joined Aegon or will join Dany. One of the knights of Tally Hill sworn to Guncer helped rescue Edric Storm and is either at Myr or on his way there.
• Driftmark of House Velaryon: the Lord Valaryon burned with his ship during the Blackwater. His 6 year old son is the heir. Aurane, the bastard uncle of the heir was captured during the BotB, knelt to Joffrey, became master of ships under Cersei, had a fleet built, then fled with that fleet to the Stepstone. 
  Spoiler

  where he styles himself Lord of the Waters.

  One of these will likely ally with Aegon or Dany, despite the heir's men men fighting for Stannis in the North.

Most of these houses will likely become allies of Aegon. Those who potentially do not, already are without much support and/or away.

The Riverlands:

Only a few houses will be of interest here

• House Mooton of Maidenpool: the citizens of Maidenpool loathe their lord. They'll either go with whomever Tarly ends up following, or carry the Mootons outside of the city to deliver him to Aegon himself.
• House Darry: at present in the hands of the Freys, via a marriage to Lancel Lannister, who abandoned the marriage unconsummated and gave the house up. This one is up for grabs, especially when the Freys are loathed by pretty much anyone and most will end up dead.
• Harrenhal of House Whent: supposedly Shella Whent is dead now (according to LF), but if alive she might be at Rosby and is likely to support Aegon. Harrenhal is effectively left in the hands and care of the Pious Men, who will have no problem surrendering it to Aegon. The Lord of Harrenhal is LF who's stuck in the Vale and likely will not emerge from the Vale alive anymore.

That's close to 30 houses to gift without much hullabaloo and several more in the Crownlands who are likely to be allies. The indication that lords and ladies are put under house arrest after capture of the castle indicates that Aegon is careful about handing out castles to anyone.

[Aldarion]

14 hours ago, Jova Snow said:

I expect him to be a good ruler, but I anticipate how his upbringing in the Mother Rhoyne and the ruins of it, combined with Orphans Yandry and Ysilla, affected his views on dragons and Targaryens/Valyrians. Not only that but Aegon grew up as the sole prince for years without Varys or Illyrio thinking Viserys and Daenerys are important for Aegon's legitimacy, until Daenerys hatched dragons and suddenly it was Aegon who had to go to her, and convince her to take IT with him. Bullshit, Daenerys received no proper education as we learn, unlike Aegon who was trained as king. If dragons didn't hatched Daenerys will not be relevant to Aegon's party even as a Queen Consort, and she wasn't because they married her of to Dothraki. 

So he is likely to reject Daenerys and get burnt for it?

[Br16]

2 hours ago, Aldarion said:

So he is likely to reject Daenerys and get burnt for it?

Probably, but my money's on him being fake and Robert Strong killing him for the poetic effect. 

Also, I just don't think he could do much with 10K GC, especially as his operational forces will dwindle as he leaves men as garrisons. Moreover, the Stormlands are battle worn, so probably not a lot of reliable recruits there. And he still can't decisively prove his identity. Doran isn't going to help unless he's sure Young Griff is his blood.

His best hope is that Varys pulls off something spectacular for him. Because with his numbers, he is only one rout away from losing his only field army, which is already on the smallish side. 

[Aldarion]

11 minutes ago, Br16 said:

Probably, but my money's on him being fake and Robert Strong killing him for the poetic effect. 

Also, I just don't think he could do much with 10K GC, especially as his operational forces will dwindle as he leaves men as garrisons. Moreover, the Stormlands are battle worn, so probably not a lot of reliable recruits there. And he still can't decisively prove his identity. Doran isn't going to help unless he's sure Young Griff is his blood.

His best hope is that Varys pulls off something spectacular for him. Because with his numbers, he is only one rout away from losing his only field army, which is already on the smallish side. 

Yeah, that is likely as well. That is why I like Martin: there are always multiple realistic paths, so you don't know what to expect.

Thing is, if he wins battle against Lord Puff Fish, that might well lead to major houses considering him as a serious contender. And it might be better if it is Aegon on the throne, not Lannisters, once Daenerys arrives, as such a situation would challenge Daenerys' black and white worldview. So I have doubts about Robert Strong killing him. But we'll see, I guess.

[Br16]

7 minutes ago, Aldarion said:

Yeah, that is likely as well. That is why I like Martin: there are always multiple realistic paths, so you don't know what to expect.

Thing is, if he wins battle against Lord Puff Fish, that might well lead to major houses considering him as a serious contender. And it might be better if it is Aegon on the throne, not Lannisters, once Daenerys arrives, as such a situation would challenge Daenerys' black and white worldview. So I have doubts about Robert Strong killing him. But we'll see, I guess.

Good point, If Mace sends some massive Reach host against him and loses while Oldtown is somehow simultaneously raided by Euron, the Realm would shatter.  Moreover, Mace might even seal his own fate by telling Randyll to sit this one out so he could have all the glory.

I think Mace has to lose for the story to be cool. I feel that Aegon has to fail, but he cannot fail too soon, he needs to fall in an epic tragic way that seriously affects (as you say) Dany's character.

[asongofheresy]

2 hours ago, Aldarion said:

So he is likely to reject Daenerys and get burnt for it?

He is likely to reject Daenerys because he wasn't raised with lost love about Targaryens. Even when he talks about his family, he only mentions his mother and father. He was also deeply affected by the Faith and won't cry over deaths of dragons if Maesters still have plans for Daenerys' dragons. I don't think he will burn, I want him to succeed in whatever anti-dragon plans there are. 

[Br16]

19 minutes ago, Jova Snow said:

if Maesters still have plans for Daenerys' dragons. I don't think he will burn, I want him to succeed in whatever anti-dragon plans there are. 

We all have our biases, so while I'm not too sure about Aegon, I respect your position and acknowledge that the story could go either way.

However,  Maesters covertly taking out dragons would be a massive disappointment for me. One of the things I like about GoT is that it is sort of like an intelligent Godzilla story, so the Dragons must have their day. Moreover, Martin likes to subvert tropes, and Christianish Maesters and Faith taking out Dragons seems too much like St George and the Dragon for me. My understanding is that in Martin's world, it should be: St George fights showy and hard, but dragon eats him only to be then unexpectedly slain by the Lady. 

[Aldarion]

33 minutes ago, Br16 said:

Good point, If Mace sends some massive Reach host against him and loses while Oldtown is somehow simultaneously raided by Euron, the Realm would shatter.  Moreover, Mace might even seal his own fate by telling Randyll to sit this one out so he could have all the glory.

I think Mace has to lose for the story to be cool. I feel that Aegon has to fail, but he cannot fail too soon, he needs to fall in an epic tragic way that seriously affects (as you say) Dany's character.

Mace definitely has to lose. Brynden Blackflish over at Wars of Ice and Fire explained nicely how Lord Puff Fish is being set up to fail. Essentially, his own inflated ego and belief in military abilities will lead him to do precisely what you are suggesting - lead forces in person while leaving Randyll behind. And by this point, Randyll himself may be less than loyal to Mace.

And yeah, I agree with your point about Aegon. It might be Danerys that will kill him, but it may also be Euron, if Daenerys reaches accord with Aegon and then heads North.

12 minutes ago, Jova Snow said:

He is likely to reject Daenerys because he wasn't raised with lost love about Targaryens. Even when he talks about his family, he only mentions his mother and father. He was also deeply affected by the Faith and won't cry over deaths of dragons if Maesters still have plans for Daenerys' dragons. I don't think he will burn, I want him to succeed in whatever anti-dragon plans there are. 

I do want him to succeed as well, but how likely is that? Also, original plan was for him to marry Daenerys. That being said, fact that Quentyn Martell got burned by dragon fire, and that Dornish are likely to be important allies of his, means that such a plan is much less likely. Especially if he does not expect her to come to Westeros - but then again, large part of plan behind his invasion of Westeros is to provide incentive for Daenerys to move her ass from the Slaver's Bay.

[SeanF]

3 hours ago, Aldarion said:

So he is likely to reject Daenerys and get burnt for it?

I think that he and Daenerys are being set up as antagonists.  I imagine that he will have a period of immense popularity, whereas I think people will view Daenerys with great trepidation, as the daughter of Aerys, the "murderer" of her brother and husband, and Eastern conqueror.

[asongofheresy]

2 minutes ago, Br16 said:

We all have our biases, so while I'm not too sure about Aegon, I respect your position and acknowledge that the story could go either way.

However,  Maesters taking out dragons would be a massive disappointment for me. One of the things I like about GoT is that it is sort of like an intelligent Godzilla story, and the Dragons must have their day. Moreover, Martin likes to subvert tropes, and Christianish Maesters and Faith taking out Dragons seems too much like St George and the Dragon for me. My understanding is that in Martin's world, it should be: St George fights showy and hard, but dragon eats him only to be then unexpectedly slain by the Lady. 

Well, in Martin's world Maesters don't fight dragons they use religion to inspire people to fight for them. And George's dragons aren't intelligent, they are nuclear weapons and they should be killed.

[Aldarion]

1 minute ago, SeanF said:

I think that he and Daenerys are being set up as antagonists.  I imagine that he will have a period of immense popularity, whereas I think people will view Daenerys with great trepidation, as the daughter of Aerys, the "murderer" of her brother and husband, and Eastern conqueror.

Yeah, Daenerys seems to have a Messianic complex, so it will be rather significant if she arrives to Westeros and has to choose between giving up the throne and becoming a hated tyrant and a murderer. Which is why I think Aegon will have to be a good, or at least popular, ruler - and Daenerys' vision also indicates as much.

[asongofheresy]

2 minutes ago, Aldarion said:

Mace definitely has to lose. Brynden Blackflish over at Wars of Ice and Fire explained nicely how Lord Puff Fish is being set up to fail. Essentially, his own inflated ego and belief in military abilities will lead him to do precisely what you are suggesting - lead forces in person while leaving Randyll behind. And by this point, Randyll himself may be less than loyal to Mace.

And yeah, I agree with your point about Aegon. It might be Danerys that will kill him, but it may also be Euron, if Daenerys reaches accord with Aegon and then heads North.

I do want him to succeed as well, but how likely is that? Also, original plan was for him to marry Daenerys. That being said, fact that Quentyn Martell got burned by dragon fire, and that Dornish are likely to be important allies of his, means that such a plan is much less likely. Especially if he does not expect her to come to Westeros - but then again, large part of plan behind his invasion of Westeros is to provide incentive for Daenerys to move her ass from the Slaver's Bay.

Aegon marrying Daenerys become a plan after Daenerys hatched dragons. Before that Illyrio or Varys never cared about keeping blood pure or something similar, Daenerys wasn't important to their plans about Aegon, they didn't cared about her marrying Khal Drago and dying in Vaes Dothrak. I am sure GC/Illyrio's friends in the Reach *cough Redwynes cough* does have a daughter as Queen for Aegon. 

[Aldarion]

Just now, Jova Snow said:

Aegon marrying Daenerys become a plan after Daenerys hatched dragons. Before that Illyrio or Varys never cared about keeping blood pure or something similar, Daenerys wasn't important to their plans about Aegon, they didn't cared about her marrying Khal Drago and dying in Vaes Dothrak. I am sure GC/Illyrio's friends in the Reach *cough Redwynes cough* does have a daughter as Queen for Aegon. 

But as you say, plan changed after Daenerys hatched dragons - and she still has dragons. And current plan is for Aegon to provide a "bait" for her to come to Westeros, by going "hey, I'm fighting here for our family's legacy while you are chilling in Essos, mind lending a hand?". So him marrying anyone would be stupid - unless he comes to believe Daenerys will not, in fact, be coming to Westeros - at all.