George R. R. Martin

Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryenthe only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyriatook up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart. What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why was it so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What were Maegor the Cruels worst crimes? What was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatleyincluding five all-new illustrations exclusive to this edition. Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as The World of Ice & Fire, but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of Targaryen history is revealed. With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbons The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire & Blood is the the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.

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“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

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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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