What Really Killed King Viserys Targaryen? | House Of The Dragon / ASOIAF History & Lore Explained

What actually killed King Viserys I Targaryen, and did his declining health help cause the Dance of the Dragons? In this video, we examine the mysterious death of Viserys in both Fire & Blood and House of the Dragon, where two very different versions of the king’s illness are presented. In the book, Viserys’s increasingly unhealthy lifestyle, weight, gout, respiratory problems and catastrophic wound from the Iron Throne provide clues that he may have suffered from undiagnosed type 2 diabetes, potentially explaining why his injured hand became dangerously infected and eventually required the amputation of two fingers. His final symptoms may even suggest that a heart attack ultimately ended his life at just 52 years old. House of the Dragon instead transforms Viserys’s decline into a fictionalised leprosy-like disease that slowly destroys his body, creating one of the show’s most striking changes from George R. R. Martin’s history. But Viserys’s failing health had consequences far beyond his own death: as the king became increasingly incapable of ruling, Otto and Alicent Hightower gained greater control of the royal court, helping create the political conditions that allowed the Greens to crown Aegon II and ignite the Dance of the Dragons. What Really Killed King Viserys Targaryen? | House Of The Dragon / ASOIAF History & Lore Explained The Script Of This Video uses information from The World Of Ice & Fire (2014), Fire & Blood (2018) and The A Song Of Ice And Fire Main Series. The ASOIAF Wiki has been used to confirm order of events and clarify discrepancies between sources. George R.R. Martin's blog posts have also been used as a source and like the wiki i to do consider this information canon. Any similarity of this video to the structure of these sources is a consequence of the subject matter of the video and limited sources dictating the way in which events played out with no room for interpretation. In some areas it can be very difficult to make the script 100% different as stated in the sources without just making it up which isn't the point of these videos. There are places it's more similar to the sources than i like but with no way to really spin it a different way, given in many case, it's physically the only way to approach the subject. Information strictly from the TV show has not been used in these video unless stated otherwise. The Dance Of The Dragons will be the focus of the plot of the new HBO spin-off House Of The Dragon coming in 2022. So if you want to learn the story before we see HBO's take on it then this will be a very long-running series. Game Of Thrones / House of the dragon are HBO shows based on George R R Martin's A Song Of Ice And Fire series. The information in this video comes from the books a world of ice and fire as well as fire and blood. ----------------------------------------------- SOCIAL MEDIA ------------------------------------------------   / world0fwesteros     / dylan_ellcome     / worldofwesteros   ----------------------------------------------- ART LINKS ----------------------------------------------- The following link is for all the art that I use, if you see an image in this video a link to the source of it will be there, and the name of the artist if it's possible to find. If you see art in any video that has been attributed incorrectly please send me a email so i can fix it, i feel it is vitally important to credit artists, especially with the rise of Ai Art. Unfortunately mistakes do happen as work gets reposted without credit all the time making narrowing down the original source a challenge. https://shorturl.at/nAOU7 ------------------------------------- TAGS ------------------------------------ #gameofthrones #asoiaf #houseofthedragon #hbogameofthrones #asongoficeandfire #got #fireandblood #danceofdragons #windsofwinter