And while HBO has clearly been on a race thing lately it may help to know that grrm even said he wished he had described them with darker skin. What I was discussing is anthropological reasoning behind the Targaryens being cast the way they were, and their likeness is definitely akin to Rome which was heavily influenced by the many countless races they interacted with. Also yes the show takes place around the war of roses, I’m not disputing the exact era the story reflects the real world, I was stating that grrm mixes cultures even from various timelines, there are things represented in the show that, at the time of the war of roses, were already a thing of the past.
