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Inspired by this post, I would love for Akhenaten to be the next villain in the mummy series.

He was a heretical Pharaoh who imposed a monotheistic religion based on the Aten, or Sun God, and there are a few conspiracy theories that he or one of his priests was the historical basis for Moses and the Exodus story.

As a pharaoh, Akhenaten is noted for abandoning the traditional, polytheistic ancient Egyptian religion, and introducing Atenism, or worship centered around Aten. The views of Egyptologistsdiffer as to whether the religious policy was absolutely monotheistic, or whether it was monolatristic, syncretistic, or henotheistic.

This culture shift away from traditional religion was reversed after his death. Akhenaten's monuments were dismantled and hidden, his statues were destroyed, and his name excludedfrom lists of rulers compiled by later pharaohs.

Akhenaten was all but lost to history until the late 19th-century discovery of Amarna, or Akhetaten, the new capital city he built for the worship of Aten.

He has been described as "enigmatic", "mysterious", "revolutionary", "the greatest idealist of the world", and "the first individual in history", but also as a "heretic", "fanatic", "possibly insane", and "mad".

House of the Dragon gets a lot of criticism for the changes they’ve made to the Dance in the show compared to Fire and Blood, but one change I LOVE is Hugh Hammer being the son of Saera Targaryen. This helps build out the story to me.

Jaehaerys is probably the most protected member of the royal family when it comes to the propaganda, even from the heavy Targaryen propaganda we know he had his flaws as monarch and father.

So the fact that his grandson via his biggest failure as a father rides his dragon is beautiful to me. The fact Hugh Hammer (at least in the show’s depiction) looks like how I think prime Conciliator looked is a bonus. But there is something magical to Vermithor seeing him and possible recognizing him as his old rider, even for a split second. The hammer certainly has the fury to match with that dragon.

Who is to say Saera didn’t get pregnant by a Dragonstone Blacksmith? Or what if Hugh was one of her sons that was sent to the great council and like his Targaryen mother he chose to make his own path.

Furthermore, keep in mind that Fire and Blood was written to praise the royal family and obviously written by someone who loved the Old King but book doesn’t look to praise bastards or small folk, especially bastard small folk like Hugh Hammer.

This has been something I’ve thought about for a while. Was Daemon Blackfyre a dragon dreamer? I feel like the way he is described sometimes rhymes with Aegon the Conqueror and Prince Rhaegar both in the sense that no one ever really describes them on a personal level and how theyre described as warriors but for the most part the vague nature of their very influential motivations.

For Aegon, Fire and Blood never acknowledges it was a dream that let him to conquer the seven kingdoms (maesters hate magic and what not). For Rhaegar the whole reason he kidnapped/ran off with Lyanna was due to his dreams and prophecy.

For Daemon, different sources say he started the war for Princess Daenerys but he was already married with children for multiple years. The idea that he waited to rebel for the love of his life seems off… so perhaps it could’ve been a prophetic dream mixed with the words BITTERSTEEL and Fireball were whispering in his ear?

Daemon seemingly road to the red grass field with as much confidence as Rhaegar did to the Trident. Do you think Daemon started dreaming at one point ? Or maybe the missing piece in all this is his mother Daena the Defiant, who feels like she has been erased from history.