George R. R. Martin

The first volume of a definitive two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros is set centuries before the events of "A Game of Thrones" and answers key questions about the dynasty's origins, conflicts and relationships with dragons.

Fire and Blood

Ariella

“Then the storm broke, and the dragons danced.”

“A ruler needs a good head and a true heart,” she famously told the king. “A cock is not essential.”

“When the gods are silent, lords and kings will make themselves heard.”

“Aegon had made the seven kingdoms one with fire and blood.”

“Dorne has danced with dragons before,” he said. “I would sooner sleep with scorpions.”

I was reading and was shocked…and then I got to gelded and thought…so I looked it up. Im double shocked. It means to castrate, and that makes this all worse!!! In front of her and while he’s alive…speechless

0cchi

The most infamous act of that bloody age occurred in 12 AC, when Wylof Wyl, the Widow-lover, arrived uninvited at the wedding of Ser Jon Cafferen, heir to Fawnton, to Alys Oakheart, daughter to the Lord of Old Oak. Admitted through a postern gate by a treacherous servant, the Wyl attackers slew Lord Oakheart and most of the wedding guests, then made the bride look on as they gelded her husband. Afterward they took urns raping Lady Alys and her handmaids, then carried them off and nlague. and CCDratedireoves o S) sold thenm to a Myrish slaver. 

Nkwachi Nwamaghinna

"We are as the gods made us," wrote Septon Barth, the wisest man ever to serve as the Hand of the King, "strong and weak, good and bad, cruel and kind, heroic and selfish. Know that if you would rule over the kingdoms of men."

Men may plot and plan and scheme, but they had best pray as well, for no plan made by man has ever withstood the whims of the gods above

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