Alicent's Blade Finds Rhaenyra Instead
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THEORY ASSESSMENT
The episode ground truth establishes Viserys's refusal to act and the general breakdown of order at Driftmark, which directly supports the escalation logic the theory requires, though the specific moment of Rhaenyra being cut is not confirmed in the summary provided.
WHY THIS MATTERS
If this reading is correct, every subsequent negotiation between the two factions is theater conducted by people who already know how far the other will go. The civil war did not begin with dragons. It began with a dagger pulled from the king's belt.
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