A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Viserys: Will I be remembered as a good king?

Lyonel: Your Grace?

Viserys: What will they say of me when the histories are written? I have neither fought nor conquered, nor suffered any great defeat.

Lyonel: Some might call that good fortune.

Viserys: It hardly makes a good song, does it? To be sung at feasts in a hundred years, five hundred.

Lyonel: You have carried King Jaehaerys's legacy, and kept the realm strong. Is it not better to live in peace than to have songs sung after you are dead?

Viserys: Perhaps. But there is a part of me wishes I'd been tested. I often think that in the crucible, I may have been forged a different man.

Lyonel: Many that are tested only wish to have been spared it.