First, a background refresher.

The Targaryen family ruled the seven kingdoms through 17 different kings, all of them marrying into their own family in order to keep the bloodline pure. Aerys was

First, a background refresher.

The Targaryen family ruled the seven kingdoms through 17 different kings, all of them marrying into their own family in order to keep the bloodline pure. Aerys was the last Targaryen king, and after he went mad, he was taken down by rebels in the houses of Stark, Baratheon, Tully, and Arryn.

After Jaime "King Slayer" Lannister—a member of his own kingsguard and the son of his Hand of the King—murdered Aerys, Robert Baratheon took the throne.

So technically, a Baratheon or a Targaryen could legally claim the throne, but based on the way the Baratheons ended up there in the first place, anyone could really be the next King or Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. The question we're now asking is who deserves to be on that throne…as well as how likely they are to be able to get there.