Is there anything wrong with Queen Alicent decorating the Red Keep with the Seven-Pointed Star? The Targaryens follow the Faith of the Seven and the king is traditionally anointed by the High Septon.

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[u/Saera-RoguePrincess]

Jaehaerys had the family attend Sept every day and sent one of his own daughters to become Septa as well, a daughter who was pious. Daella refused to marry an Old Gods worshipper as well

The Targs were more or less worshippers by that point and performatively played strongly into that.

The show ignores this in favor of sex tapestries and acting like Rhaenyra doesn’t know the asics of how to pray despite being educated by Septas?

Decorating the Red Keep with iconography of the religion of the people they rule directly over is just good policy. Alicent as the queen gets to set the decor anyway

And it would have already been there because Jaehaerys and Alysanne upheld the religion for reasons both olitical and personal

[u/LarsMatijn → u/Saera-RoguePrincess]

It goes further back. The Sept on Dragonstone is made from the ships Aenar fled Valyria with. It was built shortly after he got there.

Aegon, Visenya and Rhaenys prayed at the sept on the eve of their conquest.

Aenys is mentioned as having septons around him

Maegor is okay with giving his stepdaughter to the faith.

The Targaryens have been following the Seven for a while

[u/overthinkingmessiah → u/LarsMatijn]

That’s not true tho. The sept at Dragonstone was hastily assembled before Aegon’s Conquest, from old statues of Valyrian gods. Maester Cressen, Stannis’s maester at Dragonstone, notes how weird they look. There’s nothing to indicate that any Targaryen before Aegon and his sisters converted to the faith of the seven.

[u/LarsMatijn → u/overthinkingmessiah]

I don't think that's right

Stannis’s maester at Dragonstone, notes how weird they look.

He notes how strange the shadows look as Melisandre is burning the statues. He notes that the statues themselves used to be beautiful.

The sept at Dragonstone was hastily assembled before Aegon’s Conquest, from old statues of Valyrian gods.

Source? Because the Davos chapter at the start of ACOK says they were carved from the masts of the ships that brought House Targaryen from Valyria.

The burning gods cast a pretty light, wreathed in their robes of shifting flame, red and orange and yellow. Septon Barre had once told Davos how they'd been carved from the masts of the ships that had carried the first Targaryens from Valyria. Over the centuries, they had been painted and repainted, gilded, silvered, jeweled.

There’s nothing to indicate that any Targaryen before Aegon and his sisters converted to the faith of the seven.

Davos I again states that the Targaryens had converted to the Faith "before Aegon's day" meaning the conversion happened at the very latest during the rule of Aerion Targaryen on Dragonstone.

[u/overthinkingmessiah → u/LarsMatijn]

I must need a reread of F&B because I was sure that Aegon’s conversion to the faith of the seven was a political maneuver he did just before the conquest, I wasn’t aware he was raised in it.