Simply as within the guide, the present forces poor Helaena to select which of her youngsters will die, even supposing she begs the duo to easily kill her as a substitute. (“A spouse’s not a son,” Blood tells her within the second. “It needs to be a boy,” Blood tells her.) Cheese additionally tells Helaena that she must make her horrific alternative rapidly, or Blood will sexually assault her six-year-old daughter Jaehaera; worse, the 2 can even kill all of the kids if Helaena does not resolve.
“On her knees, weeping, Helaena named her youngest, Maelor,” the unique textual content reads. “Maybe she thought the boy was too younger to grasp, or maybe it was as a result of the older boy, Jaehaerys, was King Aegon’s firstborn son and inheritor, subsequent in line to the Iron Throne. ‘You hear that, little boy?’ Cheese whispered to Maelor. ‘Your momma needs you lifeless.’ Then he gave Blood a smile, and the hulking swordsman slew Prince Jaehaerys, hanging off the boy’s head with a single blow. The queen started to scream.”
Within the collection, Helaena is just too terrified to attempt to trick both Blood or Cheese, and easily factors, main them to the fitting youngster. Clearly, although, this whole state of affairs may have been way more ugly on-screen … and was considerably scaled again.