With the show ending, there's no chance we'll ever see Young Griff on screen, and that makes him a pretty big omission. Not long after encountering them, though, Tyrion intuits that Griff and Young Griff are not who they appear to be. It turns out that Young Griff is actually Aegon Targaryen, Daenerys Targaryen's nephew the world has long believed dead. This Aegon is not to be confused with Jon Snow, whose real name in the show is also Aegon Targaryen, for some reason.
To understand who Young Griff-slash-Aegon is, you'll need to remember some of the stuff that happened during Robert's Rebellion, but which has never been shown on screen during Game of Thrones. Rhaegar also had kids with his wife, Ellia Martell--Rhaenys and Aegon, who was an infant at the time. Rhaegar fell at the Battle of the Trident. In order to prove his loyalty to Robert, Tywin Lannister ordered Rhaegar's children murdered, to remove the Targaryen heirs and solidify Robert's claim to the throne.
Remember when Oberyn Martell fought the Mountain and yelled at him about raping and murdering his sister and her children? He was talking about Ellia, Rhaenys, and Aegon. In the books, the Mountain was said to have dashed Aegon's skull against a wall, and the scene was so horrific that the infant was unidentifiable. Daenerys and Viserys survived the rebellion because Aerys had moved them to Dragonstone for safekeeping, but the claim with Aegon is that the Mountain didn't actually kill him , but instead murdered a different baby Varys put in his place.
The pair spent the rest of Aegon's life pretending to be the sellsword Griff and his son, also Griff. So when Tyrion finds the Griffs in the books, it adds a major issue to Daenerys's quest for the Westerosi throne. Young Griff originally plans to head to Meereen and woo his aunt to help him retake the Iron Throne for himself, but Tyrion convinces him to go to Westeros with the Golden Company while the Lannisters are distracted by the War of the Five Kings.
As Rhaegar's son, Aegon has a better claim to the throne than Daenerys, just like Jon Snow in the show. The sons of the prince are ahead of the king's other children in the line of succession.
It's basically impossible for Young Griff to pop up in the show at this point, for obvious reasons, and some of the ideas of that story have been reworked into those of other characters, like Jon Snow. The tanner sold his boy to Varys for a jug of Arbor gold wine, since he already had other sons, but had never tasted Arbor gold. Varys then arranged the swap between the two infants.
Elia received the tanner's son whom Tyrion dubs the pisswater prince , while Varys and Jaehaerys Targaryen - Aegon's great-uncle - took custody of the real Prince Aegon.
Tyrion Lannister deduces the rest of the story. Once the impostor infant was "safely dead", Varys and Jaehaerys smuggled the genuine Aegon Targaryen across the narrow sea. They first entrusted the boy to Illyrio Mopatis and eventually found an adoptive father for Aegon in the person of exiled Lord Jon Connington. Aegon does not comment on Tyrion's deductions. A blue haired Young Griff aboard the Shy Maid. They encounter Tyrion Lannister and Varys in Volantis. Jorah Mormont captures Aegon and Tyrion intending to take them to Daenerys.
They are taken to one of the fighting pits , and when Jorah learns that Daenerys is present for the opening of the games, he takes a sword and enters the arena, knocking out the other fighters while disguised with a helmet.
Jorah approaches Daenerys and removes his helmet to reveal his identity, but Daenerys, who still has not forgiven him, orders Jorah to be taken away. Jorah informs her that he has brought her gifts, and Tyrion and Aegon reveal themselves, meeting Daenerys face-to-face at last. Aegon continues to hide his identity from Daenerys. Instead, he introduces himself simply as "The Young Griff". Daenerys remains suspicious towards Aegon. Aegon fights with Daenerys against the Sons of the Harpy during their surprise ambush at Daznak's Pit.
During the Sack, Jaime Lannister, unaware of what was occuring at the Holdfast, briefly toyed with the idea of proclaiming a new Targaryen king. Tywin Lannister would gain control as Hand of the King, the "wolves" of the North would howl in frustration and Robert Baratheon would choke with rage.
For a moment, Jaime found this option tempting, until he recalled that both Aegon and Viserys had inherited the blood of Aerys and with it, the potential for madness. Jaime decided against supporting either one of them. Viserys often told stories to his sister Daenerys.
In this story, Elia Martell was pleading for mercy as Aegon was ripped from her breast and murdered before her eyes.
Aegon was "Rhaegar's heir". Daenerys later recalled an additional detail, that Aegon's head had been dashed against a wall. Eddard Stark recalls that "Lord Tywin's soldiers" had torn Aegon from his mother's breast and dashed his head against a wall. They were also said to have dragged Rhaenys from beneath her bed, putting her to the sword. Eddard Stark had heard rumors that it was Gregor Clegane who dashed the skull of infant Aegon against a wall. It was whispered that afterward Gregor had raped Elia Martell, and then put her to the sword.
At the time Gregor was only seventeen. Nobody dared to repeat these rumors when Gregor himself could be listening. According to Tyrion Lannister , the responsibility of Gregor for the murders of Elia and Aegon was "common knowledge" in Casterly Rock.
The tale went that while Gregor raped Elia, his hands were still covered in the blood and brains of Aegon. A wounded Gregor later narrated a brief account of the events to Oberyn Martell , while killing him.
He had first killed Aegon, the "screaming whelp". Then came the rape of Elia; Clegane claimed to have smashed her head with his bare hands, the same method Gregor used to finish off Oberyn. Tywin Lannister later narrated his view of the events to his son Tyrion. Rhaenys was hiding under Rhaegar's bed, while Elia and Aegon were in the nursery, just a floor below the location of Rhaenys. Tywin had kept the Westerlands from joining Robert's cause for most of the Rebellion.
They had only joined said cause at the last stage of the war, and their loyalty would be suspected. He needed a way to demonstrate loyalty to Robert, a way to convince people that the Lannisters had severed all ties to House Targaryen. Instead of the Lannister and Stark forces meeting as allies, there was still a chance for the two armies to clash.
Tywin also feared that his elder son Jaime might do something stupid or that Aerys would kill Jaime for no more reason than sheer spite. Tywin also narrated his reasons for the murders. By eliminating Rhaegar's children, an a single move the Lannisters would be proving their commitment to Baratheon's cause and secure the throne for Robert by eliminating rival claimants for the throne.
Tywin himself was somewhat surprised by the result of his commands. The murders were performed "too brutally" for his needs; he insisted that Elia didn't have to die, it happened because he didn't specify she should be spared. He had not grasped yet that Gregor is bestial, not just "terrible in battle". Oberyn Martell had another view on Tywin's motives.
Elia was once supposed to marry Jaime Lannister, based on an agreement between her mother and Joanna Lannister. Following the death of Joanna, Tywin broke the agreement, though he offered Tyrion as a a prospective bridegroom instead of Jaime, taunting the Martells. He had also informed them that his own daughter, Cersei , was meant for Rhaegar, not for Oberyn. When Elia married Rhaegar, the Martells had ruined Tywin's plans.
Tywin was "not a man to forget such slights". Oberyn believed that the murder of Elia was decided by Tywin, to teach Elia the same lesson that Houses Reyne and Tarbeck had learned. Tywin had laid the bodies beneath the Iron Throne, wrapped in the crimson cloaks of his house guard - a clever choice, as the blood was less obvious against the red cloth. Rhaenys had been barefoot, dressed in a bed gown. The condition of the boy horrified Eddard. The skull was a "red ruin", and even Robert could not stand its sight.
Kevan Lannister was also present during this scene. He was able to recognize Rhaenys, but recalls that nobody could recognize Aegon. All that remained of the boy was a faceless horror of bone, brain, and gore with a few hanks of fair hair.
Tywin stated that this was Aegon and everyone else took him at his word. Seventeen years later, however, Kevan expresses uncertainty about the identity of the babe. Aboard the Shy Maid a young man claiming to be Aegon explains his apparent survival to Tyrion Lannister. According to his account, the infant killed during the Sack of King's Landing was a tanner's infant son born at the Pisswater Bend, a street of King's Landing.
The child's mother had died at birth. The tanner sold his boy to Varys for a jug of Arbor gold wine, since he already had other sons, but had never tasted Arbor gold.
Varys then arranged the swap between the two infants. Elia received the tanner's son whom Tyrion dubs the pisswater prince , while Varys took custody of the real Prince Aegon. Tyrion Lannister deduces the rest of the story. Once the impostor infant was "safely dead", Varys smuggled the genuine Aegon Targaryen across the narrow sea. Varys first entrusted the boy to Illyrio Mopatis and eventually found an adoptive father for Aegon in the person of exiled Lord Jon Connington. Aegon does not comment on Tyrion's deductions.
There is a hint that Tyrion may have harboured doubts as to whether or not Aegon is actually Aegon Targaryen.
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