Queen Alicent Hightower

Ever After

In Defense of Alicent Hightower

After the Dance of Dragons, the war that her folly began, she was the last of her line. Her father, her brother, her children and their children were all dead and gone long before her. She wasted away, equally haunted and bound by the fate she tried so hard to avoid, until the winter fever granted her mercy so many lonely years later. Didn't she pay enough penance? Isn’t she, in some way, a victim of this war? Read more to find out!