Perianne Moore

Perianne Moore, whom Saera Targaryen called Pretty Peri, moved from the princess’s intimate circle of friends into the center of a court scandal. Her account helped Queen Alysanne establish what had happened among Saera and their companions; afterward, King Jaehaerys arranged her marriage to Jonah Mooton. The match endured, carrying Perianne from the young courtly circle into the lordship of Maidenpool.

Identity and Place at Court

By the time Saera was fifteen, Perianne and Alys Turnberry had become the princess’s dearest friends. Saera gave them affectionate nicknames: Perianne was Pretty Peri, and Alys was Sweetberry. They were not merely occasional attendants. For more than a year, the two young women and three favored young men—Jonah Mooton, Red Roy Connington, and Braxton Beesbury—were inseparable at feasts and balls. They hunted and hawked together and once crossed Blackwater Bay to Dragonstone. When the young men rode at rings or practiced with swords in the yards, Perianne and Alys were there to cheer them on.

That circle brought Perianne close to the activities that later became the subject of royal inquiry. Her place in it was defined by friendship with Saera and Alys, and by the group’s shared public life at court. Queen Alysanne, however, did not share the king’s confidence in the company. She considered Perianne and Alys pretty but empty-headed, and regarded the young men as callow. Her judgment was a warning, not proof of what had occurred; Jaehaerys believed the group was rarely without servants and attendants nearby and therefore unlikely to get into mischief. The scandal exposed the limits of that assumption.

The Queen’s Inquiry and Perianne’s Account

After the three young men were brought before the king, Queen Alysanne proposed that the two women be questioned as well. She knew how close Perianne and Alys had been to them and thought they would speak more freely to her than to Jaehaerys seated above them on the Iron Throne. Late that night, guards found the two women asleep in the same bed in Perianne’s chambers. Alysanne had them brought to her solar and told them that their companions were in the dungeons. Faced with the prospect of joining them, both began to confess eagerly, stumbling over one another’s words and asking forgiveness. Alysanne listened without interrupting.

Perianne described the beginning as a game among the young women. Saera had first been teaching Alys, and Perianne then asked to be included; the girls treated the activity as a kind of practice, before dares drew the young men into the circle. Perianne’s account presented the escalation as something that developed among the friends rather than as a plan formed by the king’s court or by their families. Alys supplied further detail about how the dares proceeded and how Saera chose to take them further. The testimony made the women’s close friendship central to understanding how the group’s conduct came to light.

Perianne also added a specific allegation about Braxton Beesbury, called Stinger: she said that he had fathered two children outside marriage, one in the Reach and another in King’s Landing, whose mother worked at the Blue Pearl. This detail connected the young knight’s reputation to the inquiry, but it did not make Perianne responsible for the other matters being investigated. Grand Maester Elysar later distinguished the women’s knowledge of the young people’s relationships from their lack of knowledge about Tom Turnip’s abduction to the Blue Pearl. His account presents their testimony as revealing information about the companions, not as evidence that they knew about every act that had prompted the arrests.

Marriage and Later Life

The king responded to the affair by arranging marriages for the young women and men involved. Perianne was not pregnant, and Jonah Mooton was made her husband. Jaehaerys framed the match as a way for Jonah to take part in repairing the harm associated with his role in Saera’s ruin. The arrangement joined Perianne to a young lord who had been part of the same circle, turning the royal response to the scandal into a marriage between its participants.

Unlike Alys Turnberry’s case, which was complicated by pregnancy and Red Roy Connington’s refusal to marry her, Perianne’s match proceeded without that obstacle. The chronicler reports that her marriage to Jonah proved successful. In time, the two became the lord and lady of Maidenpool. The record does not describe Perianne’s feelings about the arrangement or provide details of her later household; it does establish that the marriage continued and that she acquired a defined place in the lordship.

Character and Narrative Significance

Perianne’s recorded part in the story is shaped by two contrasting roles. Within the courtly circle she was Saera’s close companion, participating in a life of shared entertainments and private confidences. During Alysanne’s inquiry she became a witness whose account helped explain how the young people’s relationships had developed. The evidence offers her words through a retrospective court chronicle rather than an independent account, so her character is chiefly visible through her connections, her confession, and the consequences that followed.

Her marriage also shows how the royal household acted on the information gathered by the queen. The response did not end with identifying the young people involved: the king assigned marriages, and Perianne’s life became linked to Jonah and Maidenpool. The later success of that union stands in contrast to the scandal that occasioned it, but the account gives no basis for treating the match as either Perianne’s choice or a private romance. What it records is a court companion drawn into a public inquiry, then placed within a lasting political and household alliance through royal intervention.