Aegon's Conquest
Reign of the Dragon: Aegon I's Wars
The Dragon Had Three Heads: The Reign of Aegon I
Sons of the Dragon
From Prince to King: The Ascension of Jaehaeris I
Year of the Three Brides: 49 AC
The flood of rulers
A Time of Trials: A Kingdom Rebuilt
Birth, Death, and Betrayal in the First Age of Jaehaeris
Jaehaeris and Alyssanne: A Triumph and a Tragedy
The Long Reigns of Jaehaeris and Alyssanne: Policies, Descendants, and Suffering

Appendix | Genealogy and Family Tree

“We will come back again.

And that time will come with fire and blood.”
The Targaryens, an ill-fated dynasty driven from the lands they conquered

During Aegon's youth, Westeros was divided into seven kingdoms and was constantly at war, with two or three kingdoms rarely at war at any given time.
The king astonished the people by declaring that he would build a palace in a new town nestled on three hills at the mouth of the Blackwater Rapids, where he first set foot on Westeros.
This new town would be called King's Landing.
There, the dragon Aegon would rule from a massive and dangerous iron throne made from the melted, twisted, and broken swords he had collected from his defeated enemies, soon to be known throughout the world as the "Iron Throne of Westeros." - From the text

The 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series, which is considered 'the greatest masterpiece of this century', has enjoyed incredible popularity to this day thanks to the success of the drama 'Game of Thrones' based on the series.
In the story, House Targaryen is a fallen dynasty that has plunged the continent of Westeros into a fierce power struggle, and the journey of Daenerys Targaryen, the sole survivor of the family, to reclaim the kingdom serves as one axis of the main story.
The mystery and controversy surrounding them are what keeps this expansive story compelling, and it's easy to imagine that the series' finale will also end with them.
"Fire and Blood" perfectly revives a once-glorious dynasty, allowing readers to reconstruct it for themselves through the rise and fall of the dynasty and the heroic tales of individual characters, which are depicted throughout the story.
The story begins at the very moment when Aegon the Conqueror sets his eyes on the Seven Kingdoms.


A new "Song of Fire and Blood" completed in the form of a virtual history book.

Fire and Blood covers approximately 140 years of history and depicts various events that occurred in Westeros following Aegon's conquest.
This is the first part of a two-part history of the Targaryen dynasty, and covers the period up to the time when the seventh king, Aegon III, came of age.
The book contains many fascinating details, including the development of society and institutions during that period, the growth of King's Landing as a capital city, the conflict between the royal family and the Order, the war with Dorne, and the civil war that tore all of Westeros apart. The writing style itself is striking.

While the original novel unfolds in the present tense, with an omniscient narrator interweaving the perspectives of a dozen or so key figures, this novel takes the form of a "virtual history book" in which a later, top scholar describes events by consulting various "source materials."
Fire and Blood, a history book compiled by a renowned scholar of the Seven Kingdoms, by George R.
It begins with an interesting device, translated by R. Martin, that interprets history based on records left by people with completely different tendencies, such as reports from scholars and religious figures, and unofficial history told by a clown, leaving the judgment of truth to the reader, creating the illusion of reading an actual history book.
There are also so many characters that it's hard to remember them all, but Martin's signature meticulousness is evident in giving many of them vivid personalities.


It is a perfect commentary to help you understand the main text.
The birth of a new series with literary completeness in itself.

The 'Dance of the Dragons' divided the Seven Kingdoms into two, forcing lords, knights, and people to join one side or the other and fight against each other.
After two years of civil war, the Targaryen dynasty survived, but the war had drained much of its power, and the world's last remaining dragons were drastically reduced in number.
The 'dance' was unlike any war in the long history of the Seven Kingdoms.
The armies marched and fought fiercely, but most of the carnage took place on the water, and even in the sky, dragons fought each other with teeth, claws, and flames.
It was a war marked by intrigue, murder, and betrayal, a war fought with swords, deception, and poison. - From the text

The completed 『Fire and Blood』 resolves many of the questions that have been raised so far.
How did all the dragons that gave House Targaryen such great power disappear? How was the 'King's Road' that runs north to south across the continent of Westeros, which was originally the Seven Kingdoms, created? How did the descendants of the First Men and the Andals come to accept the rule of the descendants of the fallen Valyrian? It answers big questions that run through Martin's worldview, and it perfectly fills in the missing links of the main story, such as how the city guard came to be called the Golden Cloaks and the moment when Robert's dynasty's overthrow was predicted.

On the other hand, it also increases curiosity.
For example, Old Town, which is depicted as the largest city in 『Fire and Blood』, is depicted as a declining city in the main story, and the Bellaryon family, which was only a minor family in the main story, is active as the second largest family in the Seven Kingdoms in this book, creating a gap with the main story.
The answer to that question will be found in the second part of the forthcoming history of the Targaryen dynasty.
Exciting stories await us, from Daeron I's successful conquest of Dorne, the Blackfyre Rebellion, to the Mad King Aerys II, the last king of the dynasty.