4/12/2023 0 Comments Dont wake the dragon book![]() The Rhoynar under Nymeria fled to Dorne having no chance against the Valyrian dragons.įour hundred years before the War of the Five Kings, the entire Valyrian empire was destroyed in a single day, during a cataclysmic volcanic eruption known as the Doom of Valyria. The dragons gave the decisive victory in the Ghiscari Wars during which the Old Ghis is burned to ashes by Dragonfire, and the ever-expanding Freehold replaced the Ghiscari Empire as the dominant culture of Essos. Thus they began expanding their influence from the Peninsula to the rest of their continent forming the Valyrian Freehold. ![]() The Valyrians, then peaceful shepherds, tamed the dragons with magic, even learned how to master and ride them as beasts of war. The first known dragons were mentioned to have their lairs in the Fourteen Fires, a chain of volcanoes across the neck of the Valyrian Peninsula. The greatest of these empires was the Valyrian Freehold forged by the Valyrian dragonlords. ![]() Men who were able to tame and ride dragons as beasts of war used them in battle and to forge vast empires across the continents of Essos and Westeros. They are rumored to have a strong connection to magic, which seems to be proven true when the magic begins to return to the world after the birth of the first three in over two hundred years.ĭragons possess awesome and devastating power, capable of laying waste to armies and burning entire cities to ashes. They just want to make others think they are.ĭragons are massive, flying reptiles that can breathe fire. How are the Targaryens related to dragons?Īctually, Targaryens are not related to dragons at all. The two surviving children of Aerys II, Viserys and Daenerys Targaryen fled into exile, and have resided in the Free Cities of Essos ever since. The dynasty ended with the death of Aerys the Mad King during Robert’s Rebellion, in which the Targaryens were overthrown and replaced by House Baratheon. Seventeen male Targaryens ruled from the Iron Throne. House Targaryen ruled as the Kings of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, the Lords of the Seven Kingdoms, and the Great House of the crownlands for nearly three hundred years. The Targaryens eventually built the summer residence Summerhall, which has been given to several younger sons of the family over time. Their original castle was almost always given to the heir to the throne, the Prince of Dragonstone. The Aegonfort was later torn down and replaced by the Red Keep, which remained their main seat for the duration of their dynasty, and which housed the Iron Throne. Targaryens resided for more than a century at Dragonstone on the island of the same name, until Aegon the Conqueror and his sister-wives, Visenya and Rhaenys, began the first of the Wars of Conquest in 2 BC.ĭuring Aegon’s Conquest, the family built the Aegonfort in the new capital city of King’s Landing. They were the only family of dragonlords who survived the Doom of Valyria and have left the Valyrian Freehold twelve years before the Doom. It eventually became the first royal house of the Seven Kingdoms, as House Targaryen of King’s Landing. The Targaryen sigil is a three-headed dragon breathing flames, red on black. House Targaryen of Dragonstone is a noble family of Valyrian descent who once ruled the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
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