Targaryen Lore & Tales: Aegon’s Conquest & Reign | Cozy Fantasy ASMR | Game of Thrones Bedtime Story

Hello friends it's Fox welcome back to another night of shared stories and Adventures so settle in get cozy and let the magic begin and if you like a way to support the channel check out my patreon where you can get access to a Spotify playlist of all my videos tonight we're headed back to Westeros to witness the birth of none other than the targaryan dynasty itself I know most of us have been following the new season of House of the Dragon so we're all rather familiar now with Egon the Conqueror and his dream The Song

of Ice and Fire but who exactly was he how did he come to be in Westeros and eventually Kickstart an Empire that ruled for centuries I'm going to start with an overview of sorts of the lore and history in Westeros to get us all familiar with the basics and the general sense of what came before about the chaos that predated the forging of the Iron Throne from a thousand swords and before the Realms were United under Egon the first and then together we'll read the first few Tales from Fire and Blood which introduce Egon speak

of his conquest of how he came to sit the iron throne and Rule with his Sister Wives What followed was a long line of blood drench succession the targaryan dynasty that would rule for nearly 300 years as kings of the andal the Roar and the first men some were incredibly wise like King jeris the first While others such as king Mega unfathomably cruel a dynasty that of course came to Bitter blows in the civil war known as the dance of the Dragons where Queen rira and her half brother eggon the elder or the usurper as

I prefer to call him both lay claim to the throne I'll probably cover all of them in future videos but for today we'll just focus on eggon the Conqueror and the beginning of the targaryan Dynasty now before we dive into the stories take a moment to Simply immerse yourself in the fascinating world of Westeros take a deep breath close your eyes and picture the bustling city of King's Landing the capital of the Seven Kingdoms sprawls along the eastern coast where the narrow sea laps against the shore the city is a maze of winding streets where

secrets and rumors flow in abundance the red keep perched on egon's high hill dominates the skyline with its massive stone walls and battlements inside the keep's Great Hall sunlight filters through tall narrow Windows Illuminating the Iron Throne at the far end of the hall where kings and queens have made their decrees and faced their fate in your mind's eye imagine the sundrenched land of dawn the southernmost region of Westeros is a realm of scorching deserts fertile River valy vales and rugged mountains the air is warm and dry carrying the scent of citrous groves and blooming

flowers the capital sunspear is a dazzling site with its whitewashed walls and golden domes that Glitter in the Relentless Sun the sound of water trickles from ornate fountains and fragrant incense creates an atmosphere of relaxed luxury think of the ancient stronghold of Winterfell nestled in the heart of the north the castle is a far cry away from the warmth and vibrancy of its Southward neighbors the air here is cold and crisp and a thick blanket of snow wraps the land in its embrace the castle itself is A Mighty Fortress built of thick gray stone adorned

proudly with the banners of house Stark smoke curls from blazing hearths infusing the air with the comforting smell of woodf fires now fully relaxed and immersed in the fantasy of this world we're ready to dive in the known world of George RR Martins A Song of Ice and Fire takes place across three main continents those being Westeros esos and Soros Westeros true to its Nam sake is located in the west and is home to the Seven Kingdoms and this is really where the main focus of our journey today is going to take place OS lies

to the east a vast and diverse land of ancient cities vast plains and Powerful Empires including the remnants of the once Mighty Valyrian Freehold far to the South lies the mysterious and largely unexplored continent of Soros known for its dense jungles deadly diseases and exotic wildlife life our tale begins over 12,000 years ago when the first men crossed the arm of dawn into Westeros the first men were a race of humans from OS who brought with them their own Gods a Pantheon of unspecified deities they were a Hardy and a quite determined group of people

wield holding weapons of bronze the first men quickly spread across Westeros settling the land clearing forests and establishing their own domains but of course they weren't the only ones on the continent you see long before they'd arrived there were the original inhabitants of Westeros called the children of the forest the the children of the forest were a mystical and ancient race they were quite small in stature but powerful through their connection to Nature and Magic they lived in harmony with the land worshiping the old gods through sacred weirwood trees whose faces they carved into the

trees the first men and the children of the forest clashed in a series of Fierce conflicts this was understandably inevitable the first men wanted to expand their presence while the children sought to protect their sacred Groves these wars were devastating with both sides having certain advantages over the other the first men were much more technologically advanced they had their bronze weapons and physical might while the children of the forest used their knowledge of the land and their Magic including the mysterious green seers who could see through the eyes of the weirwoods after centuries of warfare

and little progress both sides recognized the futility of the conflict and looked for a way to coexist this realization led to the creation of the pack a peace agreement that marked a turning point in the history of Westeros according to Legend The Pact was signed on the aisle of faces in the God's eye Lake where the first men and the children of the forest met to negotiate terms the children agreed to give up vast tracts of land to the first men while the first men pledged to respect the sacred Groves and wewood trees the signing

of the pact not only put an end to all the Bloodshed but also laid the foundation for a unique cultural synthesis between the two races the first men adopted many of the children's customs and actually began to worship the old gods integrating the weirwood trees into their religious practices the children even taught the first men how to use Ravens to communicate across large distances the years that followed became known as The Age of Heroes as the first men continued to build their civilizations and their legendary figures began to emerge bran the Builder founder of house

Stark built the wall to protect the realm from the dangers lurking Beyond primarily the others or white walkers as they're more commonly known Lan the clever used his wits to seize casty Rock establishing the Lannister Legacy meanwhile GTH greenhand the progenitor of house Garder brought fertility to the lands of the re nurturing its people and culture fast forward about 6,000 years and the andal arrived from esos adding another chapter in westerosi history the andal were a fiercely religious group of humans even more advanced than the first men for they wielded iron not bronze and had

an actual writing system unlike the Runes of the first men their Invasion brought New Gods the faith of the seven and a new way of life let's talk a little bit about this Faith as it would come to dominate most of Westeros save for the north members of the faith worship the seven who are one think of it as a single deity with seven aspects or faces those being the father mother Warrior Maiden Smith Crone and stranger this new religion with its structured clergy and sacred texts was in stark contrast to the old gods of

the first men who had no organized priesthood or holy books it is Little Wonder then that the first men and the andal started Waring the andal had the upper hand in nearly every way and their influence began to spread they established footholds in key regions building castles and fortresses that would become the seats of power for their newly founded houses as they conquered and settled the andal introduced the concept of Knighthood a new social order where Valor honor and chivalry were Paramount over the centuries the cultures and Bloodlines of the first men and the andal

began to blend in fact by the time we get introduced to all the different kingdoms and peoples on the show hardly any Wester rosi a pure andle or first man after thousands of years of intermarriages the faith of the seven became the dominant religion in the region and the rest of the children of the forest were essentially wiped out this period of strife and War gave rise to the Seven Kingdoms we know today the north ruled by house Stark was a land of honor and harsh Winters the iron Islands under house Greyjoy were a seafaring

and reeving culture the riverlands with house Tully at its Helm were the fertile heart of the continent the veil protected by its mountains and ruled by house aarin was a land of chivalry and isolation the westerlands rich in gold and ruled by House Lannister boasted immense coffers of wealth the reach under house Garder was the Bread Basket of Westeros and finally Dawn presided over by house Martell was a land of fierce Independence and hot deserts I want to talk just a little more about Dawn specifically since it's a rather unique part of Westeros with with

an even more varied Heritage having been significantly influenced by the arrival of the Roa the Roa were a proud and advanced people from the Roy River in esos fleeing the expansionist Valyrian Freehold which we'll talk about in the next section led by the warrior Queen nimia the ruer embarked on a legendary voyage across the narrow sea eventually Landing in Dawn neria married Moos Martell the ruler of the dorish kingdom and together they United Dawn under the Martell Banner the Roa brought with them Advanced knowledge of watercraft irrigation and egalitarian principles which deeply influenced dornish culture

and Society their arrival strengthened house Martel and helped establish the principality of dawn as a formidable Kingdom within Westeros one that not even Egon could really conquer now let's turn our gaze Eastward to esos to the aforementioned enigmatic Valyrian Freehold an Empire that once held Dominion over much of the Known World the valyrians were Dragon Lords wielding the power of Fire and Blood originally they were from the volcanic lands of valyria in esos and for centuries the valyrians expanded their influence subjugating other cultures and amassing great wealth and power the Valyrian were not only conquerors

but also accomplished Builders and Scholars they constructed magnificent cities of fused Stone harnessed the might of volcanoes and created a vast network of roads that connected their empire their dragons gave them unmatched military Supremacy meaning they were free to dominate swaths of territories and established colonies far and wide among the Valyrian Dragon Lords was House Targaryen a relatively minor family in the Freehold this minor status did not diminish their ambition or foresight danies the dreamer a member of House Targaryen had a vision of a cataclysmic event that would destroy valyria her prophetic Vision known as

the Doom led her father Lord Anar Targaryen to relocate the entire family to Dragonstone a volcanic island off the coast of Westeros approximately 12 years before the Doom this move would prove to be their salvation as the Doom of valyria obliterated the Valyrian Freehold in a single cataclysmic event the once great Empire was reduced to Ash and the survivors were few for a century or more the targaryens remained on Dragonstone biding their time during these years they solidified their power and maintained their dragon lord Heritage the children of Lord Anar Targaryen and their descendants including

Egon and his two sisters visena and Ries grew up in the shadow of their dragons and the volcanic mountains of dragon Stone they learned the ways of their Valyrian ancesters mastering the art of dragon riding and the use of Valyrian steel it said that it was during these years that Egan began to have his own prophetic dreams he dreamt of a great threat that would come from the north a threat that could only be defeated if the Seven Kingdoms were United under one ruler this vision of the prince that was promised spurred Egon into action

he believed it was his Destiny to unify Westeros and prepare it for this looming threat this dream deeply rooted in the targaryan belief in Prophecy convinced Egon that his family had a vital role to play in the future of the continent Egon alongside his Sister Wives viena and Rise saw an opportunity to fulfill this Grand Destiny they began their campaign with a simple yet profound declaration they would unite the Seven Kingdoms under one rule their rule thus the targaryens set their sights on Conquest bringing their dragons bararan vagar and marxis to enforce their claim valarian

the black dread ridden by Egon was the largest and most fearsome of the three so with the basics covered let's now read Fire and Blood the maesters of the Citadel who keep the histories of Westeros have used egon's Conquest as their Touchstone for the past 300 years births deaths battles and other events are dated either AC after the conquest or BC before the conquest true Scholars know that such dating is far from precise Egon targaryen's conquest of the Seven Kingdoms did not take place in a single day more than two years passed between egon's landing

and his Oldtown coronation and even then the conquest remained incomplete since Dawn remained unsubdued sporadic attempts to bring the dornishman into the realm continued all through King egon's Reign and well into to the Reigns of his sons making it impossible to fix a precise end date for the wars of Conquest even the start date is a matter of some misconception many assume wrongly that the reign of King Egon Targaryen began on the day he landed at the mouth of the Blackwater Rush beneath the Three Hills where the city of King's Landing would eventually stand not

so the day of egon's Landing was celebrated by the king and his descendants but the Conqueror actually dated the start of his Reign from the day he was crowned and anointed in the starry sept of Oldtown by the high septon of the faith this coronation took place 2 years after egon's landing well after all three of the major battles of the wars of Conquest had been fought and won thus it can be seen that most of egon's actual conquering took place from 2 to 1 BC before the conquest the targaryens were of pure Valyrian blood

dragon Lords of ancient lineage 12 years before the Doom of valyria 114 BC Anar Targaryen sold his holding in the Freehold and the lands of the long summer and moved with all his wives wealth slaves dragons siblings kin and children to Dragon Stone a bleak Island Citadel beneath a smoking mountain in the narrow sea at its apex valyria was the greatest City in the Known World the center of civilization within its shining walls two score rival houses VI for power and glory in court and Council rising and falling in an endless subtle oft Savage struggle

for dominance the targaryens were far from the most powerful of the Dragon Lords and their Rivals saw their flight to Dragon Stone as an act of surrender as cowardice but Lord Ana's Maiden daughter danies known forever afterward as danies the dreamer had foreseen the destruction of valyria by fire and when the Doom came 12 years later the targaryens were the only dragon Lords to survive Dragonstone had been the westernmost Outpost of Valyrian power for two centuries its location awart the gullet gave its Lords a strangle hold on Blackwater Bay and enabled both the targaryens and

their close allies the valerians of drift Mark a lesser House of Valyrian descent to fill their coffers off the passing trade valaran ships along with those of another Allied Valyrian house the celtigar of claw Isle dominated the middle reaches of the narrow sea whilst the targaryens ruled the skies with their dragons yet even so for the best part of a hundred years after the Doom of valyria the rightly named Century of blood house targarian looked East not West and took little interest in the Affairs of Westeros Gaiman Targaryen brother and husband to danies the dreamer

followed Anar the exile as Lord of Dragonstone and became known as gaimon The Glorious gaimon's son Egon and his daughter Elena ruled together after his death after them the lordship passed to their son Megan his brother Aries and Aries Sons Alix Balon and Damian the last of the Three Brothers was Daman whose son Aron then succeeded to Dragon Stone the Egon who would be known to history as Egon the Conqueror and Egon the dragon was born on Dragonstone in 27 BC he was the only son and second child of Aron Lord of Dragonstone and Lady

Valena of house valaran herself half Targaryen on her mother's side Egon had two trueborn siblings an elder sister vizena and a younger sister rise it had long been the custom amongst the dragon Lords of valyria to Wed brother to sister to keep the Bloodlines pure but Egon took both his sisters to bride by tradition he would have been expected to Wed only his oldest sister visena the inclusion of rainy as a second wife was unusual ual though not without precedent it was said by some that Egon wed Vienna out of Duty and rainies out of

Desire all three siblings had shown themselves to be Dragon Lords before they wed of the five dragons who had flown with Anar the Exile from valyria only one survived to egon's day the great beast called ban the black dread the dragons vager and maraxus were younger hatched on Dragon Stone itself a common myth oft heard amongst the ignorant claims that Egon Targaryen had never set foot upon the soil of Westeros until the day he set sail to conquer it but this cannot be truth years before that sailing the paint painted table had been carved and

decorated at Lord egon's command a massive slab of wood some 50 ft long carved in the shape of Westeros and painted to show all the woods and rivers and towns and castles of the Seven Kingdoms plainly egon's interest in Westeros long predated the events that drove him to War as well there are Reliable Reports of Egon and his sister vizena visiting the Citadel of Oldtown in their youth and Hawking on the arbor as guests of Lord redwine he may have visited lannisport as well accounts differ the Westerose of egon's Youth was divided into seven quarrelsome

kingdoms and there was hardly a time when two or three of these kingdoms were not not at war with one another the vast cold Stony North was ruled by the Starks of Winterfell in the deserts of dawn the maral princes held sway the gold Rich westerlands were ruled by the Lannisters of cly Rock the fertile reach by the Gardeners of high Garden The Veil The fingers and the mountains of the Moon belonged to house Aaron but the most belligerent Kings of egon's time were the two whose Realms lay closest to Dragon Stone Haron the black

and argilac the Arrogant from their great Citadel Storm's end the storm Kings of house Duron had once ruled the eastern half of Westeros from Cape rra to the Bay of crabs but their powers had been dwindling for centuries the kings of the reach had nibbled at their domains from the West the dornishmen harassed them from the south and Haron the black and his Iron Men had pushed them from the Trident and the lands north of the Blackwater Rush King argilac last of the Duron had arrested this decline for a Time turning back a daish Invasion

while still a boy crossing the narrow sea to join the great alliance against the imperialist Tigers of valantis and slaying gas the seventh Gardner King of the reach in the Battle of Summerfield 20 years later but argilac had grown older his famous Mane of black hair had gone gray and his prowess at Arms had faded north of the Blackwater the riverlands were ruled by the bloody hand of Heron the black of house King of the Isles and the rivers Heron's ironborn grandsire Harwin hardh hand had taken the Trident from aril's grandsire AR whose own forbears

had thrown down the last of the river Kings centuries earlier haren's father had extended his domains East to duskendale and rosby Haron himself had devoted most of his long Reign close on 40 years to building a gigantic castle beside the Gody but with Haren Hall at last nearing completion the ironborn would soon be free to seek fresh conquests no King in Westeros was more fear than Black Heron whose cruelty had become legendary all through the Seven Kingdoms and no King in Westeros felt more threatened than argilac the Storm King last of the Duron an aging

Warrior whose only Heir was his Maiden daughter thus it was that King argilac reached out to the targaryens on Dragonstone offering Lord Egon his daughter in marriage with all the lands east of the godai from the Trident to the Blackwater Rush as her dowy Egon Targaryen spurned The Storm King's proposal he had two wives he pointed out he did not need a third and the da lands being offered had belonged to haral for more than a generation they were not our gills to give plainly the Aging Storm King meant to establish the targaryens along the

black water as a buffer between his own lands and those of Haron the black the Lord of dragon Stone counted with an offer of his own he would take the daer lands being offered if argilac would also seed massie's Hook and the woods and plains from the Blackwater South to the river wendat and the headwaters of the Mander The Pact would be sealed by the marriage of argilac daughter to Oris barathon Lord egon's childhood friend and Champion these terms argilac The Arrogant rejected angrily Oris barathon was a baseborn half brother to Lord Egon it was

whispered and the storm king would not dishonor His Daughter by giving her a hand to a bastard the very suggestion enraged him argilac had the hands of egon's envoy cut off and returned to him in a box these are the only hands your bastard shall have of me he wrote Egon made no reply instead he summoned his friends baman and principal allies to attend him on Dragonstone their numbers were small the valerians of drift Mark were sworn to House Targaryen as were the celtigar of chlori from massie's Hook came Lord Baron of sharp point and

Lord Massie of stone Dan both sworn to Storm's end but with closer ties to Dragonstone Lord Egon and his sisters took counsel with them and visit visited the castle sept to pray to the seven of Westeros as well though he had never before been accounted a Pious man on the seventh day a cloud of ravens burst From The Towers of Dragonstone to bring Lord egon's word to the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros to the seven Kings they flew to the Citadel of Oldtown to Lords both great and small all carried the same message from this day

forth there would be but one king in Westeros those who bent the knee to Egon of House Targaryen would keep their lands and titles those who took up arms against him would be thrown down humbled and destroyed accounts differ on how many swords set sail from Dragonstone with Egon and his sisters some say 3,000 others number them only in the hundreds this modest targaryan host put ashore at the mouth of the Blackwater Rush on the Northern Bank where three wooded Hills Rose above a small fishing Village in the days of the hundred kingdoms many Petty

Kings had claimed dominion over the river mouth amongst them the darkland kings of duskendale the masses of stone Dan and the river Kings of old be they muds fishes brackens blackwoods or hooks towers and forts had crowned The Three Hills at various times only to be thrown down in one war or another now only broken stones and overgrown ruins remain to welcome the targaryens though claimed by both Storm's end and harrenhal the river mouth was undefended and the closest castles were held by lesser Lords of no great power or military prowess and Lords moreover who

had little reason to love their nominal Overlord Heron the black Egon Targaryen quickly threw up a log and Earth Palisade around the highest of the three hills and dispatched his sisters to secure the submission of the nearest Castles rosby yielded to rainy and golden eyed marxis without a fight at stokeworth a few crossbowmen loosed bolts at vizena until Vega's Flames set the roofs of the castle keep Ablaze then they too submitted the conqueror's first true test came from Lord darkland of DUS Dale and Lord muton of maidenpool who joined their power and marched South with

3,000 men to drive the Invaders back into the sea Egon sent Oris barathon out to attack them on the March whilst he descended on them from above with the black dread both Lords were slain in the one-sided battle that followed dark's son and mutton's brother thereafter yielded up their castles and swore their swords to House Targaryen at that time duskendale was the principal westerosi port on the narrow sea and had grown fat and wealthy from the trade that passed through its harbor vizena Targaryen did not allow the town to be sacked but she did not

hesitate to claim its riches greatly swelling the coffers of the conquerors this perhaps would be an apt place to discuss the differing characters of Egon Targaryen and his sisters and queens Vienna eldest of the three siblings was as much a warrior as Egon himself as comfortable in ringmail as in silk she carried the Valyrian Longs sword Dark sister and was skilled in its use having trained beside her brother since childhood though possessed of the silver gold hair and purple eyes of valyria hers was a harsh austere Beauty even those who loved her best found Vienna

Stern serious and unforgiving some said that she played with poisons and dabbled in dark sorceries rise youngest of the three targaryens was all her sister was not playful curious impulsive given to Flights of Fancy no true warrior rainy loved music dancing and poetry and supported many a singer mummer and Puppeteer yet it was said that rainy spent more time on dragonback than her brother and sister combined for Above All Things She Loved To Fly she once was heard to say that before she died she meant to fly Maxes across the sunset sea to see what

lay upon its Western Shores whilst no one ever questioned Vienna's Fidelity to her brother husband Rainey surrounded herself with comely young men and it was whispered even entertained some in her bed Chambers on the nights when Egon was with her elder sister yet despite these rumors observers at court could not fail to note that the king spent 10 nights with rise for every night with vizena Egon Targaryen himself strangely was as much an enigma to his contemporaries as to us armed with the Valyrian steelblade Blackfire he was counted amongst the greatest warriors of his age

yet he took no pleasure in Feats of arms and never rode in tney or melee his Mount was bararan the black dread but he flew only to battle or to travel swiftly across land and sea his commanding presence Drew men to his banners yet he had no close friends save or is barathon the companion of his youth women were drawn to him but Egon remained ever faithful to his sisters as king he put great trust in his small Council and his sisters leaving much of the day to-day governance of the realm to them yet did

not hesitate to take command when he found it necessary though he dealt harshly with Rebels and traitors he was open-handed with former foes who bent the knee this he showed for the first time at the Egon Fort the crude wooden Earth Castle he had raised a top what would henceforth and forever be known as egon's high hill having taken a dozen castles and secured the mouth of the Blackwater Rush on both sides of the river he commanded the Lords he had defeated to attend him there they laid their swords at his feet and Egon raised

them up and confirmed them in their lands and titles to his oldest supporters he gave new honors Damon valaran lord of the tides was made master of ships in command of the royal Fleet Tristan Massie Lord of St Stone dance was named master of laws Crispian celer master of Cor an Oris barathon he proclaimed to be my shield my stalwart my strong right hand thus barathon is reckoned by the maesters the first King's hand heraldic banners had long been a tradition amongst the Lords of Westeros but such had never been used by the dragon Lords

of old valyria when egon's night unfurled his great silken battle standard with a red three-headed dragon breathing fire upon a black field the Lords took it for a sign that he was now truly one of them a worthy High King for Westeros when Queen vizena placed a Valyrian steel circlet studded with rubies on her brother's head and queen Ry hailed him as Egon first of his name king of all Westeros and shield of his people the dragons roared and the Lords and knights sent up a cheer but the small folk the fishermen and field hands

and goodwives shouted loudest of all the seven kings that eggon the dragon meant to uncrown were not cheering however in Haren Hall and storms end Heron the black and argilac the Arrogant had already called their banners in the West King M of the reach rode the Ocean Road North to cast Rock to meet with King Lauren of House Lannister the princess of dawn dispatched a raven to Dragonstone offering to join Egon Against argilac The Storm King but as an equal and Ally not a subject another offer of Alliance came from the boy King of the

Erie Ronald Aaron whose mother asked for all the lands east of the green Fork of the Trident for the veil's support against Black Heron even in the North King torren Stark of Winterfell sat with his Lords Bananaman and counselors late into the night discussing what was to be done about this wouldbe conqueror the whole realm waited anxiously i l to see where Egon would move next within days of his coronation egon's armies were on the March again the greater part of his host crossed the Blackwater Rush making South for Storm's end under the command of

Oris barathon Queen Ry accompanied him a stride mares of the golden eyes and silver scales the target Ian Fleet under Damon valaran left Blackwater Bay and turned North for gtown and the veale with them went queen vizena and vager the King himself marched Northwest to the godse eye and Heron Hall the gargantuan Fortress that was the pride and Obsession of King Heron the black all three of the Targaryen thrusts faced Fierce opposition Lords errel Fel and buckler Bananaman to Storm's end surprised the advanced elements of Oris baratheon's host as they were crossing the windwater cutting

down more than a thousand men before fading back into the trees a hastily assembled Aon Fleet augmented by a dozen braavosi warships met and defeated the targaryan fleet in the waters of gtown amongst the dead was egon's Admiral Damon valaran Egon himself was attacked on the South Shore of the god ey not once but twice the battle of the Reeds was a targaryan victory but they suffered heavy losses at the Wailing Willows when two of King harron's sons crossed the lake in longboats with muffled ores and fell upon on their rear in the end though

egon's enemies had no answer for his dragons the men of the veil sank a third of the Targaryen ships and captured near as many but when Queen vizena descended upon them from the sky their own ships burned Lords errel fell and buckler hid in their familiar forests until Queen Ry Unleashed marxis and a wall of fire swept through the woods turning the trees to torches and the victors at the Wailing Willows returning across the lake to Haren Hall were ill prepared when bararan fell upon them out of the morning Sky haren's longboats burned so did

Heron's Sons egon's foes also found themselves plagued by other enemies as argilac the Arrogant gathered his swords at Storm's end pirates from the stepstones descended on the shores of Cape wrath to take advantage of their absence and dornish raiding parties came boiling out of the red mountains to sweep across the marches in the veil young king ronal had to contend with a rebellion on the three sisters when the sisterman renounced all allei to the Erie and proclaimed lady Mara Sunderland their Queen yet these were but minor vexations compared to what befell Heron the black though

house had ruled the riverlands for three generations the men of the Trident had no love for their ironborn overlords Heron the black had driven thousands to their deaths in the building of his great castle of heren all plundering the riverlands for materials and beggaring Lords and small folk alike with his appetite for gold so now the riverlands rose against him led by Lord Edmund Tully of riverrun summoned to the defense of harrenhal tul declared for House Targaryen instead raised the dragon Banner over his castle and rode forth with his Knights and archers to join his

strength to egons his Defiance gave heart to the other River Lords One By One The Lords of the Trident renounced Heron and declared for Egon the dragon blackwoods malister vances brackens Pipers fras [Music] strongs summoning their levies they descended on Hall suddenly outnumbered King hon the black took refuge in his supposedly impregnable stronghold the largest castle ever raised in Westeros hen hall boasted five gargantuan Towers an inexhaustible source of fresh water huge Subterranean vaults well stocked with provisions and massive walls of Black Stone higher than any ladder and too thick to be broken by any

Ram or Shattered by a trebuchet Heron barred his Gates and settled down with his remaining sons and supporters to withstand a Siege Egon of Dragonstone was of a different mind once he had joined his power with that of Edmund Tully and the other River Lords to ring the castle he sent a maester to the gates under a peace Banner to Parlay Heron emerged to meet him an old man and gray yet still fierce in his black armor each King had his Banner Bearer and his maester in attendance so the words that they exchanged are still

remembered yield now Egon began and you may remain as lord of the iron Islands yield now and your sons will live to rule after you I have 8,000 men outside your walls what is outside my walls is of no concern to me said Haron those walls are strong and thick but not so high as to keep out dragons dragons fly I built in stone said Haron Stone does not burn to which Egon said when the sun sets your line shall end it is said that Heron spat at that and returned to his castle once inside

he sent every man of his to the parapets armed with Spears and bows and crossbows promising lands and riches to whichever of them could bring the dragon down had I a daughter the dragon slayer could claim her hand as well Haron the black proclaimed instead I will give him one of Tully's daughters or all three if he likes or he may pick one of blackwood's welps or strongs or any girl born of these traitors of the Trident these Lords of yellow mud then Heron the black retired to his Tower surrounded by his household guard to

Su with his remaining Suns as the last Light of the sun faded black Heron's men stared into the Gathering Darkness clutching their Spears and crossbows when no dragon appeared some may have thought that egon's threats had been Hollow but Egon Targaryen took bararan up high through the clouds up and up until the dragon was no bigger than a fly high upon the moon only then did he descend well inside the castle walls on wings as black as pitch bararan plunged through the night and when the Great towers of heren Hall appeared beneath him the dragon

roared his Fury and bathed them in black fire shot through with swirls of red stone does not burn Haron had boasted but his castle was not made of stone alone wood and wool hemp and straw bread and salted beef and grain all took fire nor were Heron's Iron Men Made of Stone smoking screaming shrouded in Flames they ran across the yards and tumbled from the wall walks to die upon the ground below and even Stone will crack and melt if a fire is hot enough the river Lords outside the castle walls said later that the

towers of heren Hall glowed red against the night like five great candles and like candles they began to twist and melt as runnels of molten Stone ran down their sides Heron and his last sons died in the fires that engulfed his monstrous Fortress that night house died with him and so too did the iron Islands hold on the riverlands the next day outside the smoking ruins of haral King Egon accepted an oath of fty from Edmund Tully Lord of riverrun and named him Lord Paramount of the Trident the other River Lords did homage as well

to Egon as king and to Edmund Tully as their lege lord when the ashes had cooled enough to allow men to enter the castle safely the swords of the Fallen many shattered or melted or Twisted into ribbons of Steel by dragon fire were gathered up and sent back to the eggon fort in wagons south and east the storm King's Bananaman proved considerably more loyal than King haren's aalac The Arrogant gathered a great host about him at Storm's end the seat of the durans was a mighty fastness its great curtain wall even thicker than the walls

of Haren Hall it too was thought to be impregnable to assault word of King haren's end soon reached the ears of his old enemy King argilac however Lords fell and buckler falling back before the approaching host Lord errel had been killed had sent him word of Queen Ries and her Dragon the old warrior king roared that he did not intend to die as hiron had cooked inside his own castle like a suckling pig with an apple in his mou mouth no stranger to battle he would decide his own fate sword in hand so argilac the

arragan rode forth from Storm's end one last time to meet his foes in the open field the storm King's approach was no surprise to Oris barathon and his men Queen Ry flying marxis had witnessed arak's departure from Storm's end and was able to give the hand a full accounting of the enemy's numbers and dispositions Oris took up a strong position on the Hills South of Bron gate and dug in there on The High Ground to await the coming of the stormlands as the armies came together the stormlands proved true to their name a steady rain

began to fall that morning and by midday it had turned turned into a howling Gale King arak's Lords banam men urged him to delay his attack until the next day in hopes the rain would pass but the Storm King outnumbered the conquerors almost two to one and had almost four times as many Knights and heavy horses the sight of the targaryan banners flapping Soden above his own Hills enraged him and the battle seasoned old Warrior did not fail to note that the rain was blowing from the south into the faces of the Targaryen men on

their Hills so argilac the Arrogant gave the command to attack and the battle known to history as the last storm began the fighting lasted well into the night a Bloody Business and far less one-sided than egon's conquest of heren Hall Thrice argilac the Aragon LED his Knights against the barathon positions but the slopes were Steep and the rains had turned the ground soft and muddy so the war horses struggled and founded and the charges lost all cohesion and momentum the stormlands fared better when they sent their Spearman up the hills on foot blinded by the

rain the Invaders did not see them climbing until it was too late and the wet bow strings of The Archers made their bows useless one Hill fell and then another and the fourth and final charge of the Storm King and his Knights broke through the Baratheon Center only to come upon Queen rainy and marxis even on the ground the dragon proved formidable dick and Morgan and the bastard of black Haven commanding the Vanguard were engulfed in dragon flame along with the Knights of King arak's personal guard the war horses panicked and fled in Terror crashing

into Riders behind them and turning the charge into chaos the Storm King himself was thrown from his saddle yet still argilac continued to battle when Oris barathon came down the muddy Hill with his own men he found the Old King holding off half a dozen men with his many corpses At His Feet stand aside barathon commanded he dismounted so as to meet the king on equal footing and offered the storm king one last chance to yield argilac cursed him instead and so they fought the old warrior king with his streaming white hair and egon's fierce

black bearded hand each man took a wound from the other it was said but in the end the last of the durong got his wish and died with a sword sword in his hand and a curse on his lips the death of their King took all heart out of the stormlands and as the words spread that argilac had fallen his Lords and knights threw down their swords and fled for a few days it was feared that storms end might suffer the same fate as harrenhal for arak's daughter arela barred her gates at the approach of

Oris barathon and the Targaryen host and declared herself the storm Queen rather than bend the knee The Defenders of Storm's end would die to the last man she promised when Queen Ry flew marxis into the castle to parley you may take my castle but you will win only bones and blood and Ashes she announced but the soldiers of the Garrison proved less eager to die that night they raised a peace Banner threw open the castle gate and delivered lady argela gagged Chained and naked to the camp of Oris barathon it is said that barathon Unchained

her with his own hands wrapped his cloak around her poured her wine and spoke to her gently ly telling her of her father's courage and the manner of his death and afterward to honor the Fallen King he took the arms and words of the Duron for his own the crowned stag became his sigil Storm's end became his seat and Lady argela his wife with both the riverlands and storm lands now under the control of Egon the dragon and his allies the remaining Kings of Westeros saw plainly that their own turns were coming at Winterfell King

torrin called his banners given the vast distances in the north he knew that assembling an army would take Time Queen Shara of the veil Regent for her son ronal took refuge in the eie looked to her fences and sent an army to the bloody gate gateway to the veil of Aaron in her youth Queen Shara had been lorded as the flower of the mountain the fairest maid in all the Seven Kingdoms perhaps hoping to sway Egon with her beauty she sent him a portrait and offered herself to him in marriage provided he named her son

ryell as his heir though the portrait did finally reach him it is not known whether Egon Targaryen ever replied to her proposal he had two queens already and sharah Ain was by then a faded flower 10 years his Elder meanwhile the two great western Kings had made common cause and assembled their own armies intent on putting an end to Egon for good and all from haard marched M the 9th of House Gardner King of the reach with a mighty host beneath the walls of Castle golden grve seat of house Rowan he met Lauren I Lannister

King of the rock leading his own host down from the westerlands together the two kings commanded the mightiest host ever seen in Westeros an army 55,000 th strong including some 600 Lords great and small and more than 5,000 mounted Knights our Iron Fist boasted King M his four Sons rode beside him and both of his young grandsons attended him as Squires the two kings did not linger long at Golden Grove a host of such size must remain on the March lest it eat the surrounding Countryside bare the Allies set out at once marching North by

Northeast through tall grasses and golden fields of wheat advised of their coming in his Camp beside the godai Egon gathered his own strength and advanced to meet these new foes he commanded only a fifth as many men as the two kings and much of his strength was made up of men sworn to the river Lords whose loyalty to House Targaryen was of recent vintage and untested with the smaller host however Egon was able to move much more quickly than his foes at the town of Stony sept both his Queens joined him with their dragons Rees

from Storm's end and vizena from crackclaw point where she had accepted many fervent pledges of fty from the local Lords together the three targaryens watched from the sky as egon's Army crossed the headquarters of the Blackwater rush and raced South the two armies came together amongst the wide open Plains south of the black water near to where the gold Road would run one day the two kings rejoiced when their Scouts returned to them and reported Targaryen numbers and dispositions they had five men for every one of egons it seemed and the disparity in Lords and

knights was even greater and the land was wide and open all grass and wheat as far as the eye could see ideal for heavy horse Egon Targaryen would not command The High Ground as Oris barathon had at the last storm the ground was firm not muddy nor would they be troubled by rain the day was cloudless though windy there had been no rain for more than a fortnight King M had brought half again as many men to the battle as king Lauren and so demanded the honor of commanding the center his son and Heir Edmund

was given the Vanguard King Lauren and his Knights would form the right Lord oakheart the left with no natural barriers to Anchor the Targaryen line the two kings meant to sweep around Egon on both flanks then take him in the rear whilst their iron fist a great wedge of armored Knights and high Lords smashed through egon's Center Egon Targaryen drew his own men up in a rough Crescent bristling with Spears and Pikes with archers and crossbowmen just behind and light Cavalry on either flank he gave command of his host to John muton Lord of maidenpool

one of the first foes to come over to his cause the king himself intended to do his fighting from the sky bes IDE his Queens Egon had noted the absence of rain as well the grass and wheat that surrounded the armies was tall and ripe for Harvest and very dry the targaryens waited until the two kings sounded their trumpets and started forward beneath a sea of banners King M himself led the charge against the center on his golden stallion his son Gowan beside him with his Banner a great green hand upon a field of white

roaring and screaming urged on by horns and drums the gardeners and laners charged through a storm of arrows down unto their foes sweeping aside the Targaryen Spearman shattering their ranks but by then Egon and his sisters were were in the air Egon flew above the ranks of his foes upon bararan through a storm of Spears and stones and arrows swooping down repeatedly to bathe his foes in flame Rene and viena set fires upwind of the enemy and behind them the dry grasses and stands of wheat went up at once the wind fanned the flame and

blew the smoke into the faces of the advancing ranks of the two kings the scent of fire sent their mounts into panic and as the smoke thickened Horse and Rider alike were blinded their ranks began to break as walls of fire rose on every side of them Lord mutton's men safely upwind of the conflagration waited with their bows and Spears and made short work of the burned and burning men who came staggering from The Inferno the Field of Fire the battle was named afterward more than 4,000 men died in the Flames another thousand perished by

sword and Spear and arrow tens of thousands suffered Burns some so bad that they they would remain scarred for life King m i 9th was amongst the dead together with his sons grandsons Brothers cousins and other kin one nephew survived for three days when he died of his burns house Garder died with him King Lauren of the rock lived riding through a wall of flame and smoke to safety when he saw the battle lost the targaryens Lost fewer than a hundred men Queen Vienna took an arrow in one shoulder but soon recovered as the dragons

gorged themselves on the dead Egon commanded that the swords of the slain be gathered up and sent down river Lauren Lannister was captured the next day the king of the rock laid his sword and Crown at egon's feet bent the knee and did him homage and Egon true to his promises lifted his beaten foe back to his feet and confirmed him in his lands and lordship naming him Lord of cly Rock and Warden of the West Lord Lauren banon followed his example and so too did many lords of the reach those who had survived the

dragon fire yet the conquest of the West remained incomplete so King Egon parted from his sisters and marched at once for high Garden hoping to secure its surrender before some other claimant could seize it for his own he found the castle in the hands of its Steward Haren tyell whose forebears had served the gardeners for centuries Tyrell yielded up the keys to the castle without a fight and pledged his support to the Conquering King in reward Egon granted him high garden and all its domains naming him Warden of the South and Lord Paramount of the

Mander and giving him dominion over all house garders former vassals it was King egon's intent to continue his March South and enforce the submission of Oldtown the arbor and Dawn but whilst at high Garden word of a new challenge came to his ears torren Stark King in the North had crossed the neck and entered the riverlands leading an army of savage northmen 30,000 strong Egon at once started North to meet him racing ahead of his army on the wings of valaran the black dread he sent word to his two queens as well and to all

the Lords and knights who had bent the knee to him after Haren Hall in the field of fire when torren Stark reached the banks of the tridon he found a host half again the size of his own awaiting him south of the river riverlords westermen stormlands men of the reach all had come and above their camp bararan marxis and vagar prowled the sky in ever widening circles torren Scouts had seen the ruins of harrenhal where slow red fires still burned beneath the rubble the king in the North had heard many accounts of the Field of

Fire as well he knew that the same fate might await him if he tried to force a crossing of the river some of his Lords bannermen urged him to attack all the same insisting that Northern Valor would carry the day others urged him to fall back to Mo kin and make his stand there on Northern soil the king's bastard brother Brandon snow offered to cross the Trident alone under cover of Darkness to slay the dragons whilst they slept King torrin did send Brandon snow across the tridon but he crossed with three maesters by his side

not to kill but to treat all through the night messages went back and forth the next morning Toren Stark himself crossed the Trident there upon the South Bank of the Trident he knelt laid the ancient crown of the kings of winter at egon's feet and SW War to be his man he rose as Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the north a king no more from that day to this day torren Stark is remembered as the king who knelt but no Northman left his burned bones beside the Trident and the swords Egon collected from Lord

Stark and his vassals were not Twisted nor melted nor bent now Egon tar I and his Queens parted company Egon turned South once again marching toward Oldtown whilst his two sisters mounted their dragons vizena for the veil of Aaron and Raines for sunspear and the deserts of dawn sharah Ain had strengthened the defenses of gtown moved a strong host to the bloody gate and tripled the size of the garrisons in stone snow and sky the way castles that guarded the approach to the Erie all these defenses proved useless against vizena Targaryen who rode vag's leathery

Wings above them all and landed in the erie's inner Courtyard when the Regent of the veil rushed out to confront her with a dozen guards at her back she found Vienna with ronell aens Seated on her KNE staring at the dragon Wonder struck mother can I go flying with the lady the boy King asked no threats were spoken no Angry Words exchanged the two queens smiled at one another and exchanged courtesies instead then lady sharah sent for the three crowns her own Regent's Coronet her son's small crown and the Falcon crown of mountain and Veil

that the Aaron Kings had worn for a thousand years and surrendered them to Queen Vienna along with the swords of her Garrison and it was said afterward that the little King flew Thrice about the summit of the Giant's Lance and landed to find himself a little Lord thus did vizen Targaryen bring the veil of Ain into her brother's realm rainey's Targaryen had no such easy Conquest a host of dornish spearmen guarded the prince's pass the Gateway through the red mountains but rainy did not engage them she flew above the pass above the Red Sands and

the white and descended upon vth to demand its submission only to find the castle empty and abandoned in the town beneath its walls Only Women and Children and old men remained when asked where their Lords had gone they would only say away Ry followed the river Downstream to God's grace seat of house Ayan but it too was deserted on she flew where the green blood met the sea rainies Came Upon the planky town where hundreds of pole boats fishing Skiffs barges houseboats and hulks sat baking in the sun joined together with ropes and chains and

planks to make a floating city yet only a few old women and small children appeared to peer up at her as axes circled overhead finally the Queen's flight took her to sunspear the ancient seat of house Martel where she found the princess of dawn waiting in her abandoned castle Maria Martell was 80 years of age the maesters tell us and had ruled the dornishman for 60 of those years she was very fat blind and almost bald her skin sow and sagging arac The Arrogant had named her the yellow toad of dawn but neither age nor

blindness had dulled her wits I will not fight you princess Maria told rise nor will I kneel to you daor has no King tell your brother that I shall rise replied but we will come again Princess and the next time we shall come with Fire and Blood your words said princess Maria ours are unbowed unbent unbroken you may burn us my lady but you will not Bend us break us or make us bow this is Dawn you are not wanted here return at your peril thus Queen and Princess parted and Dawn remained unconquered to the

West Egon Targaryen met a warmer welcome the greatest City in all of Westeros old town was ringed about with massive walls and ruled by the high towers of the high tower the oldest richest and most most powerful of the noble houses of the reach Oldtown was also the center of the faith there dwelt the high septon father of the faithful the voice of the new Gods on Earth who commanded The Obedience of millions of devout throughout the Realms save in the north where the old gods still held Sway and the blades of the faith militant

the fighting order the small folk called the stars and swords yet when Egon Targaryen and his host approached Oldtown they found the city gates open and Lord hiow waiting to make his submission as it happened when word of egon's Landing first reached Oldtown the high septon had locked himself within the star sept for seven days and seven nights seeking the guidance of the Gods he took no nourishment but bread and water and spent all his waking hours in prayer moving from one altar to the next and on the seventh day the Crone had lifted up

her golden lamp to show him the path ahead if Old Town took up arms against Egon the dragon his high Hol saw the city would surely burn and the high tower and the Citadel and the starry sept would be cast down and destroyed Manfred hiow Lord of Oldtown was a cautious Lord and godly one of his younger Sons served with the Warriors sons and another had only recently taken vows as a septon when the high septon told him of the vision vouch safed him by the Crone Lord hiow determined that he would not oppose the

Conqueror by Force of Arms thus it was that no men from Oldtown burned on the field of fire though the high Towers were Bananaman to the Gardeners of high garden and thus it was that Lord Manfred rode forth to greet Egon the dragon as he approached and to offer up his sword his City and his oath some say that Lord hiow also offered up the hand of his youngest daughter which Egon declined politely lest it defend his two queens 3 days later in the starry sept his high Holiness himself anointed Egon with the seven oils

placed a crown upon his head and proclaimed him Egon of House Targaryen the first of his name King of the andal the Roa and the first men lord of the Seven Kingdoms and protector of the realm Seven Kingdoms was the style used though Dawn had not submitted nor would it for more than a century to come only a handful of Lords had been present for egon's first coronation at the mouth of the black water but hundreds were on hand to witness his second and tens of thousands cheered him afterward in the streets of Oldtown as

he rode through the city on Ban's back amongst those at egon's second coronation were the MERS and archmasters of the Citadel perhaps for that reason it was this coronation rather than the Egon Fort crowning on the day of egon's Landing that became fixed as the start of egon's Reign thus were the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros hammered into one great Realm by the will of Egon the Conqueror and his sisters many thought that King Egon would make Oldtown his Royal seat after the wars were done whilst others thought he would rule from Dragonstone the ancient Island

Citadel of house targarian the king surprised them all by proclaiming his intent to make his court in the new town already Rising upon the Three Hills at the mouth of the Blackwater Rush where he and his sisters had first set foot on the soil of Westeros Kings landed the new town would be called from there Egon the dragon would rule his realm holding Court from a great metal seat made from the melted Twisted beaten and broken Blades of all his Fallen foes a perilous seat that would soon be known through all the world as the

Iron Throne of Westeros the long reign of King Egon Targaryen was by and large a peaceful one in his later years especially but before the dragon's peace as the last two decades of his kingship were later called by the maesters of the Citadel came the dragons Wars the last of which was as cruel and bloody a conflict as any ever fought in Westeros though the wars of Conquest were said to have ended when Egon was crowned and anointed by the high septon in the starry sept of Oldtown not all of Westeros had yet submitted to

his rule in the bite the Lords of the three sisters had taken advantage of the chaos of egon's Conquest to declare themselves a free nation and Crown lady Mara of house Sunderland their queen as the Aaron Fleet had largely been destroyed during the conquest the king commanded his Warden of the north torren Stark of Winterfell to end the system's rebellion and a northern Army departed from White Harbor on a fleet of hired braavosi galys under the command of Sir wari mandaly the sight of his sails and the sudden appearance of Queen vizena and vagar in

the skies above ciston took the heart out of the sisterman they promptly deposed Queen Mara in favor of her younger brother Stefan Sunderland renewed his falty to the Eerie bent the knee to Queen Vienna and gave his sons over as hostages for his good behavior one to be fostered with the mandes the other with the aons his sister the deposed Queen was exiled and imprisoned after 5 years her tongue was removed and she spent the remainder of her life with the silent sisters tending to the noble dead on the other side of Westeros the iron

Islands were in chaos house had ruled the Iron Men for long centuries only to be extinguished in a single night when Egon Unleashed Bel aran's fires on hen hall though hon the black and his sons perished in those Flames Corin vmar of haror whose grandmother had been a younger sister of haren's grandsire declared himself the rightful heir of the black line and assumed the kingship not all ironborn accepted his claim however on old Wick under the bones of Naga the Sea Dragon the priests of the Drowned God placed a Driftwood crown on the head of

one of their own the Barefoot holy man Loos who proclaimed himself the living son of the Drowned God and was said to be able to work miracles other claimants arose on great Wick Pike and ormont and for more than a year their adherence battled one another on land and sea it was said that the waters between the islands were so choked with corpses that Krakens appeared by the hundreds drawn by the blood Egon Targaryen put an end to the fighting he descended on the islands in 2 AC riding bararan with him came the war fleets

of the arbor High garden and lannisport and even a few long ships from be island dispatched by torren Stark the ironmen their numbers diminished by a year of fratricidal War put up Little Resistance indeed many hailed the coming of the Dragons King Egon slew Corin vmar with Blackfire but allowed his infant son to inherit his father's lands and C musle on Old Wick the priest king Loos purported son of the Drowned God called upon the Krakens of the deep to rise and drag Down The Invader ships when that failed to happen lodos filled his robes

with stones and walked into the sea to seek my father's counsel thousands followed their bloated Crabb eaten bodies washed up on the shores of old wick for years to come afterward the issue arose as to who should rule the iron islands for the king it was suggested that the Iron Men be made vassals of the tulies of riverrun or the Lannisters of cast rock some even urged that they be given over to Winterfell Egon listened to each claim but in the end decided that he would allow the ironborn to choose their own Lord Paramount to

no one's surprise they chose one of their own Vicon Greyjoy Lord Reaper of Pike Lord Vicon did homage to King Egon and the dragon departed with his fleets greyjoy's writ extended only to the iron Islands however he renounced all claim to the land house had seized upon the mainland Egon granted the ruined castle of harrenhal and its domains to Sir Quenton ceris his Master at Arms on Dragonstone but required him to accept Lord Edmund Tuli of riverrun as his Le Lord the new made Lord Quenton had two strong sons and a plump grandson to assure

the succession but as his first one had been carried off by Spotted Fever 3 years earlier he further agreed to take one of Lord Tully's daughters as his bride with the submission of the three sisters and the iron islands all of Westeros south of the wall was now ruled by Egon Targaryen save Dawn alone so it was to Dawn that the dragon next turned his attention Egon first attempted to win the dornishman with words dispatching a delegation of high Lords maesters and septons to sunspear to treat with Princess Maria Martel the so-called yellow toad of

Dawn and persuade her of the advantages of joining her realm to his their negotiations continued for the best part of a year but achieved nothing the start of the first daish war is generally fixed at 4 AC when rainy's Targaryen returned to Dawn this time she came with Fire and Blood just as she had threatened riding marxis the queen descended out of a clear blue sky and set the planky town of Blaze the fires leaping from boat to boat until the whole mouth of the green blood was choked with burning Flom and the pillar of

smoke could be seen as far away as sunspear the denisons of the floating Town took to the river for Refuge from the Flames so fewer than a hundred died in the attack and most of those from drowning rather than dragon fire but first Blood had been shed elsewhere Oris barathon LED 1,000 ped Knights up the bone way whilst Egon himself marched through the prince's pass at the head of an army 30,000 strong led by near 2,000 mounted Knights and 300 Lords and baman Lord harand Tyrell the warden of the South Was Heard to say that

they had more more than enough power to smash any dornish army that tried to stand before them even without Egon and Bolan no doubt he had the right of that but the issue was never proved for the dornishmen never offered battle instead they withdrew before King egon's host burning their crops in the field and poisoning every well the Invaders found the dorish watchtowers in the red mountains slighted and abandoned in the high passes egon's Vanguard found its way barred by a wall of sheep carcasses Shor of all wool and too rotted to eat the king's

Army was already running short of food and fodder by the time they emerged from the prince's pass to face the dorish Sands there Egon divided his forces sending Lord hell South against Uther lord of the hell Hol whilst he himself turned Eastward to besiege Lord Fowler in his Mountain fastness skyre it was the second year of autumn and winter was thought to be close at hand in that season the Invaders hoped the heat in the deserts would be less water more plentiful but the daish sun proved un relenting as Lord Tyrell marched toward hell halt

in such heat Men drink more and every water hole and Oasis in the Army's path had been poisoned horses began to die more every day followed by their Riders the proud Knights discarded their banners their Shields their very armor Lord Tyrell lost a quarter of his men and almost all his horses to the dornish Sands and when at last he reached the hell H hold he found it abandoned Oris baratheon's attack fared little better his horses struggled on the Stony slopes of the narrow twisting passes but many bulked completely when they reached the steepest sections

of the road where the dornish had chiseled steps into the mountains Boulders rained down on the hands knights from above the work of Defenders the stormlands never saw where the boneway crossed the river wheel dornish archers suddenly appeared as the colum was making its way across a bridge and arrows rained down by the thousands when Lord Oris ordered his men to fall back a massive rockfall cut off their retreat with no no way forward and no way back the stormlands were butchered like hogs in a pen Oris barathon himself was spared along with a dozen

other Lords thought worth the ransom but they found themselves captives of will of will The Savage Mountain Lord called Widow lover King Egon himself had more success marching Eastward through the foothills where runoff from the heights provided water and game was plentiful in The Valleys he took the castle skyre by storm one Ironwood after a brief Siege the lord of the tour had recently died and his Steward surrendered without a fight farther east Lord Tolen of ghost Hill sent forth his Champion to challenge the king to sing combat Egon accepted and slew the man only

to discover afterward that he had not been tolland's Champion but his fool Lord Tolland himself was gone as was Maria Martel the princess of Dawn when King Egon descended upon sunspear on Bolan to find his sister Ry there before him after burning the planky town she had taken Lemonwood Spotswood and stink water accepting AB basanes from old women and children but nowhere finding an actual enemy even the shadow city outside the walls of sunspear was half deserted and none of those who remained would admit to any knowledge of the whereabouts of the dornish Lords and

Princess the yellow toad has melted into the Sands Queen rainy told King Egon egon's answer was a declaration of victory in the Great Hall at sunspear he gathered together what dignitaries remained and told them that Dawn was now part of the realm that henceforth they would be his Lal subjects that their former Lords were Rebels and outlaws rewards were offered for their heads particularly that of the yellow toad princess Maria Martel Lord John rosby was named castellan of sunpar and Warden of the Sands to rule Dawn in the king's name stewards and castellan were named

for all the other lands and castles the Conqueror had taken then King Egon and his host departed back the way they had come West along the foothill and through the prince's pass they had hardly reached King's Landing Before Dawn erupted behind them dornish Spearman appeared from nowhere like desert flowers after a rain skyre Ironwood the T and ghost Hill were all recaptured within a fortnight their Royal garrisons put to the sword egon's castellons and stewards were allowed to die only after long torment it was said that the dornish Lords had a wager over who could

keep their captive alive the longest whilst dismembering them soon only Lord Tyrell and his host remained King aegon had left Tyrell behind when he departed HH halt a strong Castle on the river Brimstone was thought to be well situated to deal with any revolts but the river was sulfurous and the fish taken from it made the high gardeners sick house corgile of sandstone had never submitted and corgy Spearman cut down tyrell's foraging parties and patrols whenever they strayed Too Far West the vths of vth did the same to the east when word of the defenestration

of sunspear reached the hell Holt Lord Tyrell gathered his remaining strength and set off across the Sands his announced intention was to capture vth March East along the river retake sunspear and the shadow City and punish Lord rosby's murderers but somewhere east of the hell H hold amidst the Red Sands Tyrell and his entire Army disappeared no man of them was ever seen again Egon Targaryen was not a man to accept defeat the war would drag on for another seven years though after 6 AC the fighting degenerated into an endless bloody series of atrocities raids

and retaliations broken up by long periods of inactivity a dozen short trues and numerous murders and assassinations in 7 Ac Oris barathon and the other Lords who had been taken captive on the bone way were ransomed back to King's Landing for their weight in gold but on their return it was found that the Widow lover had lopped off each man's sword hand so they might never again take up Swords against Dawn in retaliation King Egon himself descended on the mountain fastnesses of the wills with bararan and reduced half a dozen of their keeps and watchtowers

to heaps of molten Stone the wills took refuge in caves and tunnels beneath their mountains however and the Widow lover lived another 20 years in AC a very dry year daish Raiders crossed the Sea of dawn on ships provided by a pirate king from the ststones attacking half a dozen towns and Villages along the South Shore of Cape wrath and setting fires that spread through half the rainwood fire for fire princess Maria is reported to have said this was not something the targaryens would allow to go unan answered later that same year vizena Targaryen appeared

in the skies of Dawn and vagar fires were loosed upon sunspear Lemonwood ghost Hill and the tour in 9 AC vizena returned again this time with Egon himself flying beside her and sandstone vth and the hell Holt burned the daish answer came the next year when Lord Fowler LED an army through the prince's pass and into the reach moving so swiftly that he was able to burn a dozen Villages and capture the great border Castle Night song before the marcher Lords realized the foe was upon them when word of the attack reached Oldtown Lord hiow

sent his son Adam with a strong forced to retake Night song but the dorish had anticipated just that thing a second darnish Army under sir Joffrey DNE came down from starall and attacked the city old Town's walls proved too strong for the dornish to overcome but DNE burned Fields farms and Villages for 20 leagues around the city and slew Lord hiow youngest son Garmin when the boy led a sorty against him sir Adam hiow reached Night song only to find that Lord Fowler had put the castle to the torch and its Garrison to the sword

Lord Karen and his wife and children had been carried back to Dawn as captives rather than pursue sir Adam returned at once to Oldtown to relieve the city but sir sir Joffrey and his army had melted back into the mountains as well old Lord Manfred hiow died soon after sir Adam succeeded his father as the lord of the high tower as Oldtown cried out for vengeance King Egon flew bararan to high Garden to take counsel with his Warden of the South but Theo Tyrell the young Lord was most reluctant to contemplate another invasion of dawn

after the Fate that had befallen his father once again the king Unleashed his dragons against Dawn Egon himself fell upon skyre vowing to make the Fowler seat a second Heron Hall vizena and vagar brought Fire and Blood to Starfall and rainy and marxis returned once more to the hell Holt where tragedy struck the Targaryen dragons bred and trained to battle had flown through storms of Spears and arrows on many occasions and suffered little harm the scales of a full grown Dragon were harder than steel and even those arrows that struck home seldom penetrated enough to

do more than enrage the great beasts but as marxis banked above the hell h holdt a Defender at top the Castle's highest tower triggered a scorpion and a yard long iron bolt caught the Queen's dragon in the right eye marxis did not die at once but came crashing to Earth in Mortal Agony destroying the tower and a large section of the hell Holt's curtain wall in her death throws whether rainy's Targaryen outlived her Dragon remains a matter of dispute some say that she lost her seat and fell to her death others that she was crushed

beneath marxis in the castle yard a few accounts claim the queen survived her dragon's fall only to die a slow death by torment in the dungeons of the ulas the true circumstances of her demise will likely never be known but rainy Targaryen sister and wife to King Egon I first perished at the hell halt in Dawn in the 10th year after the conquest the next two years were the years of the dragon's wroth every Castle in Dawn was burned Thrice over as valarian and vag returned time and time again the Sands around the hell Holt

were fused into glass in places so hot was bolan's fiery breath the dornish Lords were forced into hiding but even that did not buy them safety Lord Fowler Lord vth lady Tolland and four successive Lords of the hell Holt were murdered one after the other for the Iron Throne had offered a Lord's Ransom in gold for the head of any dornish Lord only two of The Killers lived to collect their rewards however and the dornishmen took their reprisals repaying blood with blood Lord conington of Griffin's Roost was killed whilst hunting Lord merens of Mistwood poisoned

with his whole household by a casque of dornish wine Lord fell smothered in a brothel in King's Landing nor were the targaryens themselves exempt the King was attacked Thrice and would have fallen on two of those occasions but for his guards Queen vizena was set upon One Night in King Landing two of her escorts were slain before vizena herself cut down the last attacker with dark sister the most infamous Act of that Bloody age occurred in 12 AC when vill of Vil the Widow lover arrived Uninvited at the wedding of Sir yon caffine air to

foron to Alice oakheart daughter to the Lord of old oak admitted through a postern gate by a treacherous servant the will attackers slew Lord oakheart and most of the wedding guests then made the bride look on as they gelded her husband afterward they took turns assaulting lady Alice and her handmaids then carried them off and sold them to a mirish slaver by then Dawn was a smoking desert beset by famine plague and blight a blasted land Traders from the free cities called it yet house Martel still remained unbowed unbent unbroken as their words a vowed

one daish Knight brought before queen vizena as a captive insisted that Maria Martell would sooner see her people dead than slaves to House Targaryen fenia replied that she and her brother would be glad to oblige the princess age and ill health finally did what dragons and armies could not in 13 AC Maria Martell the yellow toad of dawn died Abed whilst having intimate relations with a stallion her enemies insisted her son nemore succeeded her as Lord of sunspear and Prince of dawn 60 years old his health already failing the new dorish Prince had no appetite

for further Slaughter he began his Reign by sending a delegation to King's Landing to return the skull of the Dragon marxis and offer King Egon terms of Peace his own Heir his daughter Daria led the embassy Prince neemor's peace proposals encountered strong opposition in King's Landing Queen Vienna was hard set against them no peace without submission she declared and her friends on the king's Council echoed her words Oris barathon who had grown bent and bitter in his later years argued for sending princess Daria back to her father less a hand Lord oakheart sent a raven

suggesting that the dornish girl be sold into the meanest brothel in King's Landing till every beggar in the city has had his pleasure of her on Targaryen dismissed all such proposals princess Daria had come as an Envoy under a banner of peace and would suffer no harm under his roof he vowed the King was weary of War all men agreed but granting the dornishman peace without submission would be tantamount to saying that his beloved sister Ry had died in vain that all the blood and death had been forn the Lords of his small Council further

cautioned that any such peace could be seen as a sign of weakness and might encourage fresh rebellions which would then need to be put down Egon knew that the reach the stormlands and the marches had suffered grievously during the fighting and would neither forgive nor forget even in King's Landing the king dare not let the dornish outside the eggon fort without a strong escort for fear that the small folk of the city would tear them to pieces for all these reasons grandmeister Lucan wrote later the King was on the point of refusing the dornish proposals

and continuing the war it was then that princess Daria presented the king with a sealed letter from her father for your eyes only your grace King Egon read Prince naor's words in open court stone-faced and silent while Seated on the Iron Throne when he rose afterward men said his hand was dripping blood he burned the letter and never spoke of it again but that night he mounted Bion and flew off across the Waters of Blackwater Bay to Dragon Stone upon its smoking mountain when he returned the next morning Egon Targaryen agreed to the terms proposed

by Nimo soon thereafter he signed a treaty of Eternal peace with Dawn to this day no one can say with Sur certainty what might have been in Daria's letter some claim it was a simple plea from one father to another heartfelt words that touched King egon's heart others insist it was a list of all those Lords and Noble Knights who had lost their lives during the war certain septons even went so far as to suggest that the missive was ensorcelled that it had been written by the yellow toad before her death using a vial of

Queen rainey's own blood for ink so that the king would be helpless to resist its malign magic Grand maester CLE who came to King's Landing many years later concluded that Dawn no longer had the strength to fight driven by desperation CLE suggested Prince nemore might have threatened that that should his peace be refused he would Engage The Faceless Men of Bravos to kill King egon's son and Heir Queen R's boy an then but six years old it may be so but no man will ever truly know thus ended the first dornish war the yellow toad

of dawn had done what Heron the black the two kings and torren Stark could not she had defeated Egon Targaryen and his dragons yet north of the red mountains her tactics earned her only scorn dornish courage became a mocking name for cowardice amongst the Lords and Knights of egon's Kingdoms the toad hops into her hole when threatened wrote One scribe another said Maria fought like a woman with lies and treachery and witchery the daish victory if Victory it was was seen to be dishonorable and the survivors of the fight and the sons and brothers of

those who had fallen promised one another that another day would come and with it a reckoning their Vengeance would need to wait for a future generation and the accession of a younger more bloodthirsty King though he would sit the iron throne for another 24 years the dornish conflict was egg on the conqueror's last war Egon Targaryen was a warrior of renown the greatest conqueror in the history of Westeros yet many believe his most significant accomplishments came during times of Peace the Iron Throne was forged with fire and steel and Terror it is said but once

the throne had cooled it became the seat of justice for all Westeros the reconciliation of the Seven Kingdoms to targaryan rule was the Keystone of EG on the First's policies as king to this end he made great efforts to include men and even a few women from every part of the realm in his court and councils his former foes were encouraged to send their children chiefly younger Sons and Daughters as most great Lords desired to keep their heirs close to home to court Where The Boys served as Pages cut bearers and Squires the girls as

handmaidens and companions to egon's Queens in King's Landing they witnessed the king's Justice at firsthand and were urged to think of themselves as Leal subjects of one great realm not as westermen or stormlands or northmen the targaryens also broker many marriages between Noble houses from the far ends of the realm in hopes that such alliances would help tie the conquered lands together and make the Seven Kingdoms one egon's queens vizena and Ries took a special delight in arranging these matches through their efforts young Ronald Aaron lord of the eie took a daughter of torren Stark

of Winterfell to Wed whilst Lauren Lannisters eldest son heir to casty rock married a redwin girl from The Arbor when three girls triplets were born to the even star of tar Queen Ry arranged betral for them with house corre house high tower and house harlor Queen vizena broke at a double wedding between house Blackwood and house Bracken Rivals whose history of enmity went back centuries matching a son of each house with a daughter of the other to seal a piece between them and when a Rowan girl in ry's service found herself with child by a

scallion the queen found a knight to marry her in white Harbor and another in lannisport who was willing to take on her bastard as a fosterling though none doubted that Egon Targaryen was the final Authority in all matters relating to the governance of the realm his sisters viena and Rees remained his Partners in power throughout his Reign save perhaps for good Queen alisan the wife of King jeris I first no other Queen in the history of the Seven Kingdoms ever exercised as much influence over policy as the dragon's sisters it was the king's custom to

bring one of his Queens with him wherever he traveled whilst the other remained at Dragon stone or King's Landing oft as not Seated on the Iron Throne ruling on whatever matters came before her though Egon had designated King's Landing as his Royal seat and installed the iron throne in the Egon fort Smokey L haul he spent no more than a quarter of his time there full as many of his days and nights were spent on Dragonstone the island Citadel of his forebears the castle below the dragon mon had 10 times the room of the Egon

fort with considerably more Comfort safety and history the Conqueror was once heard to say that he even loved the the scent of Dragonstone where the Salt Air always smelled of smoke and brimstone Egon spent roughly half the year at his two seats dividing his time between them the other half he devoted to an endless Royal progress taking his court from one Castle to another guesting with each of his great Lords in turn gulltown and the eie Haren Hall River Run lannisport and cly Rock CR Hall Old Oak High Garden Oldtown the arbor horn Hill Ashford

Storm's end and even fall Hall had the honor of Hosting his grace many times but Egon could and would turn up almost anywhere sometimes with as many as a Thousand Nights and Lords and Ladies in his train he journeyed Thrice to the iron Islands twice to Pike and once a great Wick spent a fortnight at sisteron in 19 AC and visited the north six times holding Court Thrice in white Harbor twice at Baron and once at Winterfell on his very last Royal progress in 33 AC it is better to force all rebellions than to put

them down Egon famously said when asked the reason for his journeys a glimpse of the king in all his power mounted on bararan the black dread and attended by hundreds of knights glittering in silk and steel did much to instill loyalty in Restless Lords the small folk needed to see their Kings and Queens from time to time as well the king added and know that they might have the chance to lay their Grievances and concerns before him and so they did much of every Royal progress was given over to feasts and balls and hunts and

Hawking as every Lord attempted to outdo the others in splendor and Hospitality but Egon also made a point of holding Court wherever he might travel whether from a dis in some great Lord's castle or a Mossy Stone in a farmer's field six meisters traveled with him to answer any questions he might have on local law customs and history and to make note of such decrees and judgments as his grace might hand down a lord should know the land he rules the Conqueror lat Peter told his son in and through his travels Egon learned much and

more about the Seven Kingdoms and its peoples each of the conquered kingdoms had its own laws and traditions King Egon did little to interfere with those he allowed his Lords to continue to rule much as they always had with all the same powers and prerogatives the laws of inheritance and succession remained unchanged the existing feudal structures were confirmed Lords both great and small retained the power of pit and Gallows on their own land and the privilege of the first night wherever that custom had formerly prevailed egon's Chief concern was peace before the conquest Wars between

the Realms of Westeros were common hardly a year passed without someone fighting someone somewhere even in those kingdoms said to be at peace neighboring Lords offs settled their disputes at sword Point egon's accession put an end to much of that petty Lords and landed Knights were now expected to take their disputes to their Leed Lords and abide by their judgments arguments between the great houses of the realm were adjudicated by the crown the first law of the land shall be the king's peace King Egon decreed and any Lord who goes to war without my leave

shall be considered a rebel and an enemy of the iron throne King Egon also issued decrees regularizing customs duties and taxes throughout the realm whereas previously every port and every Petty Lord had been free to exact however much they could from tenants small folk and Merchants he also proclaimed that the holy men and women of the faith and all their lands and possessions were to be exempt from from Taxation and affirmed the right of the Faith's own courts to try and sentence any septon sworn brother or holy sister accused of malens though not himself a

Godly Man the first Targaryen King always took care to court the support of the faith and the high septon of Oldtown King's Landing grew up around Egon and his court on and about the three great Great Hills that stood near the mouth of the Blackwater Rush the highest of those Hills had become known as egon's high hill and soon enough the Lesser Hills were being called vena's Hill and the hill of Raines their former names forgotten the crude mot and Bailey Fort that Egon had thrown up so quickly was neither large enough nor Grand enough

to house the king and his court and had begun to expand even before the conquest was complete a new keep was erected all of logs and 50 ft high with a cavernous L haul beneath it and a kitchen Made of Stone and roofed with slate in case of fire across the Bailey Stables appeared then a granary a new Watchtower was raised twice as tall as the older one soon the Egon Fort was threatening to burst out of its walls so a new Palisade was raised enclosing more of the hilltop creating space enough for a Barracks

an Armory a sept and a drum Tower below the hills Wares and storehouses were Rising along the the river banks and Merchants from Oldtown and the free cities were tying up beside the long ships of the valerians and celtigar where only a few fishing boats had previously been seen much of the trade that had gone through maidenpool and duskendale was now coming to King's Landing a fish market sprung up along the Riverside a cloth Market between the hills a customs house appeared a modest sept opened on the blackw in the hull of an old Cog

followed by a stouter one of dorb and wattle on the shore then a second sept twice as large and Thrice as Grand was built at top Venus Hill with coins sent by the septon shops and homes sprouted like mushrooms after a rain wealthy men raised walled mances on the hillsides whilst the poor gathered in squalled HS of mud and straw in the Low Places between no one planned King's Landing it simply grew but it grew quickly at egon's first coronation it was still a village squatting beneath a Mot and Bailey castle by his second it

was already a thriving town of several thousand Souls by 10 AC it was a true City almost as large as gulltown or white Harbor by 25 AC it had outgrown both to become the third most populous city in the realm surpassed only by lannisport an Old Town unlike its Rivals however King's Landing had no walls it needed none some of its residents were known to say no enemy would ever dare attack the city so long as it was defended by the targaryens and their dragons the king himself might have shared these views originally but the

death of his sister rise and her dragon marxis in 10 AC and the attacks upon his own person undoubtedly gave him cause and in the 19th year after the conquest word reached Westeros of a daring raid in the Summer Isles where a pirate Fleet had sacked T tre's town and carried off a thousand women and children as slaves along with a fortune in plunder the accounts of the raid greatly troubled the king who realized that King's Landing would be similarly vulnerable to any enemy shrewd enough to fall upon the city when he and vizena were

elsewhere accordingly his grace ordered the construction of a ring of walls about King's Landing as high and strong as those that protected Oldtown and lannisport the task of building them was conferred upon grandmeister gwan and Sir Osman strong the hand of the king to honor the seven Egon decreed that the city would have seven Gates each defended by a massive Gate House and defensive towers work on the walls began the next year and continued until 26 A SE sir Osmond was the king's fourth hand his first had been Lord Oris barathon his bastard half brother

and companion of his youth but Lord Oris was taken captive during the daish war and suffered the loss of his sword hand when ransomed back his lordship asked the king to be relieved of his duties the king's hand should have a hand he said I will not have men speaking of the king's stump Egon next called on Edmund Tully Lord of riverrun to take up the hand ship Lord Edmund served from 7 to 9 AC but when his wife died in childbed he decided that his children had more need of him than the realm and

begged leave to return to the riverlands Alton celtigar Lord of claw Isle replaced Tully serving a as hand until his death from natural causes in 17 AC after which the king named sir Osman strong Grand maester gwan was the third in that office Egon Targaryen had always kept a maester on Dragonstone as his father and Father's father had before him all the great Lords of Westeros and many lesser Lords and landed Knights relied upon meisters trained in the Citadel of Oldtown to serve their households as healers scribes and counselors to breed and train the Ravens

who carried their messages and write and read those messages for Lords who lack those skills help their stewards with the household accounts and teach their children during the conquest Egon and his sisters each had a maester serving them and afterward the king sometimes employed as many as half a dozen to deal with all the matters brought before him but the wisest and most learned men in the Seven Kingdoms were the archmasters of the Citadel each of them the supreme authority in one of the great disciplines in 5 AC King Egon feeling that the realm might

benefit from such wisdom asked the conclave to send him one of their own number to advise and consult with him on all matters relating to the governance of the realm thus was the office of grand maer created at King egon's request the first man to serve in that capacity was Arch maester idar keeper of histories whose ring and Rod and mask were bronze though exceptionally Learned olar was also exceptionally old and he passed from this world less than a year after taking up the mantle of grandmeister to fill his place the conclave selected arcmaster Leons

whose ring and Rod and mask were yellow gold he proved more robust than his predecessor serving the realm until 12 AC when he slipped in the mud broke his hip and died soon thereafter whereupon grandmeister Gowan was elevated the institution of the King's small council did not come into its full bloom until the reign of King jares the conciliator but that is not to suggest that Egon the first ruled without the benefit of council he is known to have consulted often with his various Grand Ms and his own household mters as well on matters relating

to taxation debts and incomes he sought the advice of his masters of coin though he kept one septon at King's Landing and another at Dragon Stone the king more oft wrote to the high septon of Oldtown on religious issues and always made a point of visiting the starry sept during his yearly circuit more than any of these King Egon relied upon the king's hand and of course upon his sisters the Queens Raines and Vienna Queen Rees was was a great Patron to the bards and singers of the Seven Kingdoms showering gold and gifts on those

who pleased her though Queen Vienna thought her sister frivolous there was a wisdom in this that went beyond a simple love of music for the singers of the realm in their eagerness to win the favor of the queen composed many a song In Praise of House Targaryen and King Egon and then went forth and sang those songs in every keep and castle and Village Green from the dornish marches to the wall thus was the conquest made glorious to the simple people whilst Egon the dragon himself became a hero king queen Ry also took a great

interest in the small folk and had a special love for women and children once when she was holding Court in The Egan Fort a man was brought before her for beating his wife to death the woman's Brothers wanted him punished but the husband argued that he was within his lawful rights since he had found his wife Abed with another man the right of a husband to chastise an airing wife was well established throughout the Seven Kingdoms save in Dawn the husband further pointed out that the rod he had used to beat his wife was no

thicker than his thumb and even produced the rod in evidence when the queen asked him how many times he had struck his wife however the husband could not answer but the dead woman's Brothers insisted there had been blows Queen rise consulted with her meisters and septons then rendered her decision an adulterous wife gave offense to the seven who had created women to be faithful and obedient to their husbands and therefore must be chastised as God has but seven faces however the punishment should consist of only six blows for the seventh blow would be for the

stranger and the stranger is the face of death thus the first six blows the man had struck had been lawful but the remaining 94 had been an offense against Gods and Men and must be punished in kind from that day forth the rule of six became a part of the common law along with the rule of thumb the husband was taken to the foot of the hill of Raines where he was given 94 Blows By The Dead woman's Brothers using rods of lawful size queen Vienna did not share her sister's love of music and song

she was not without humor however and for many years kept her own fool a hersuit hunch back called lord monkey face whose Antics amused her greatly when he choked to death on a peach pit the queen acquired an ape and dressed it in Lord monkey Face's clothing the new one is cleverer she was won to say yet there was darkness in vizena targarian to most of the world she presented the Grim face of a warrior Stern and unforgiving even her beauty had an edge to it her admirers said the oldest of the three heads of

the Dragon vizena was to outlive both of her siblings and it was rumored that in her later years when she could no longer wield a sword she delved into the dark arts mixing poisons and casting malign spells some even suggest that she might have been a kinslayer and a king Slayer though no proof has ever been offered to support such calumnies it would be a cruel irony if true for in her youth no one did more to protect the king vizena twice wielded dark sister in egon's defense when he was set upon by dornish Cutthroats

suspicious and ferocious by turns she trusted no one but her brother during the daish war she took to wearing a shirt of male night and day even under her Court clothes and urged the king to do the same when Egon refused vizena grew Furious even with Blackfire in your hand you are only one man she told him and I cannot always always be with you when the king pointed out that he had Guardsmen around him vizena Drew dark sister and slashed him across the cheek so quickly the guards had no time to react your guards

are slow and lazy she said I could have killed you as easily as I cut you you require better protection King Egon bleeding had no choice but to agree many kings had Champions to defend them Egon was the lord of the Seven Kingdoms therefore he should have seven Champions Queen vizena decided thus did the King's Guard come into being a Brotherhood of seven Knights the finest in the realm cloaked and armored all in purest white with no purpose but to defend the king giving up their own lives for his if need be Vienna modeled their

vows on those of the knight's watch Like The Black cloaked Crows of the wall the white swords served for Life surrendering all their lands titles and worldly Goods to live a life of Chastity and obedience with no reward but honor so many Knights came forward to offer themselves as candidates for the King's Guard that King Egon considered holding a great tourney to determine which of them was the most worthy vizena would not hear of it however to be a King's Guard Knight required more than just skill at Arms she pointed out she would not risk

placing men of Uncertain loyalty about the king regardless of how well they performed in a melee she would choose the knights herself the Champions she selected were young and old tall and short dark and fair they came from every corner of the realm some were younger Sons others The Heirs of ancient houses who gave up their inheritances to serve the king one was a hedge Knight another bastard born all of them were quick strong observant skilled with sword and shield and devoted to the king these are the names of Egon seven as written in the

white book of The King's God Sir Richard root sir Addison Hill bastard of cornfield sir Gregor good sir Griffith good his brother Sir Humphrey the mummer sir Robin darkland called Dark Robin and sorus valerion Lord Commander history has confirmed that vizena Targaryen chose well two of her original Seven would die protecting the king and all would serve with Valor to the end of their lives many brave men have followed in their footsteps since writing their names in the white book and donning the white cloak the King's Guard remains a synonym for honor to this day

16 targaryens followed eggon the dragon to the Iron Throne before the dynasty was at last toppled in Robert's Rebellion they numbered amongst them wise men and foolish cruel men and kind good men and evil yet if the dragon kings are considered solely on the basis of their legacies the laws and institutions and improvements they left behind the name of King Egon I first the Conqueror belongs near the top of the list in peace as well as war and that my dear friends is where we end tonight's Tales I hope you've enjoyed this law filled journey

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