The Complete Game of Thrones Prequel An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms All Chapters Full HD

this world wasn't always so small and petty thousands of years ago while the rest of men prayed to gods the valyrians became them through magic or sheer will they mastered the greatest creatures in history a horse grants man dominion over the land a ship over the sea but dragons gave us the sky and everything and everyone beneath it at its height my ancestors ruled the known world whatever parts we didn't weren't worth knowing our capital of valyria shamed the magnificent cities of the east for hammers and chisels were no match for dragon fire sorcery it was a city and an empire built to last until the end of time it didn't 400 years ago the doom fell on valyria mountains cracked open like eggs lakes and rivers boiled fountains of fire ash and smoke spewed from the ground so high and so hot that even dragons burned in flight the land splintered and the angry sea rushed in in hours the greatest city in history became history but my ancestors didn't burn or drown with the rest of their race twelve years before the doom despite the sneers of his rivals aenar targaryen abandoned the capital with his family legends claimed that his daughter foresaw the destruction of the city in a dream more likely aina met with some mishap at court and chose exile over execution he and house targaryen slinked away to a dreary remote god forsaken island forsaken no longer with arts now lost to the world we transformed a tiny outpost into dragonstone a fortress fit for the last dragon lords then aynar's descendants settled into it like a tomb for their lost homeland until aegon when he looked east he saw the past old tired dead but when he looked west he saw the future gold in the ground gold in the fields and no dragons in the sky but his he and his sisters rhaenys and visenya flew over the great continent ostensibly visitors to a strange land but when aegon returned he ordered construction of a massive table carved in the shape of westeros with all the notable rivers and mountains that they had seen a personal map of the seven kingdoms then ruled by seven squabbling families house durrandon held the stormlands from their seated storm's end due south of dragonstone house horror of the iron islands had also conquered and enslaved the riverlands and ruled them from harrenhal a monstrous castle rising on the shore of the god's eye how stark held the frozen wasteland of the north the oldest largest and emptiest of the kingdoms house lannister held the westerlands the wealthiest kingdom thanks to their gold mines house gardener held the reach the second wealthiest kingdom thanks to their crops house aaron held the veil or rather the veil held them the mountains were impossible except through the bloody gate which had never been taken house martel held the deserts of dawn probably because no one else wanted them together the seven kingdoms made westeros a realm that wasn't yet around ruled by great families who didn't know what greatness was aegon would teach them [Music] though house during untitled themselves storm kings they were little more than gusts their kingdom in the stormlands had been doddering to its end for the past few centuries helped along by other houses most of all by house horror who were nearly finished with a monstrous castle at harrenhal too large and too costly a seat to rule only the riverlands king argilac knew where the ironborn would soon turn you'd think a king who wanted to keep his crown would be wary of a man with fire breathing monsters but king argilac darunden wasn't called the arrogant for nothing determined to arrest his family's decline he sent an envoy to dragonstone to enlist aegon targaryen and his dragons against his enemies in exchange agalek offered lands he didn't have and a wife aegon didn't need for as the valerians did aegon had wed his elder sister visenya then as the valerians didn't he took the younger rainey's as well two sisters two wives perhaps that's why he was so keen to get off dragonstone aegon countered argilac with courtesy he sent his own envoy requesting that princess durandan's hand be given instead to aegon's closest friend and rumored half-brother or as baratheon argilac answered with a box and a note these are the only hands your bastard shall have of me inside the box were the hands of aegon's envoy how long had aegon been waiting for such a pretext as his army prepared to sail ravens flew to every great lord of the seven kingdoms all bore the same message from this day forth there would be but one king in westeros those who bent the knee to aegon of house targaryen would keep their lands and titles those who took up arms against him would be thrown down humbled and destroyed poor old argilac he couldn't even match aegon in arrogance aegon landed at the mouth of the blackwater river and raised a primitive aegon fort in the disputed land between harrens and argilac's kingdom so that neither could decide whose problem he was adopting the customs of the seven kingdoms aegon unfurled his own banner with the red three-headed dragon breathing fire upon a black field visenya crowned him with a ruby studded circlet of valerian steel while reigners hailed him as the first high king the continent had seen since the dawn age as his lords and the gathered locals teared him aegon named his loyal friend to a small council led by oris baratheon whom he called my strong right hand the title stuck and a bastard became the first hand of the king but for now aegon's kingdom contained only a rocky island and a handful of fields the other kings had larger armies ships castles and thousands of years of rule but aegon had dragons he had chosen for the words of his house fire and blood before he was done the rivers fields and skies would turn [Music] red aaron of householder inherited a kingdom that stretched from the iron islands to detroit too great a kingdom to rule from a castle's shittiest pike for 40 years his ironborn plundered the riverlands for stone timber and slaves to build the seat worthy of him legend has it that masons laid the final stone in arnold on the very day that aegon landed in westeros could have been a divine owen could have been the masons wants to off before the dragons got there they weren't the only ones at aegon's approach aaron's riverlords revolted led by house tully i thought heron noticed harrenhal could repel an army of a million men no ladder could summon its walls and no ram could shatter them the castle was as impregnable as an old mate's aaron shut his gates around himself his sons and his ironborn and waited for aegon's army to drain back into the muck when aegon finally saw the monstrous castle he asked for pali haren granted it valeria had been the greatest empire the world had ever seen aaron wanted to piss on its ashes yield now and you may remain as lord of the iron islands yield now and your sons will live to rule after you you see my army outside your walls you see my dragons what is outside my walls is of no concern those walls are strong and thick dragons fly but stone doesn't burn when the sun sets your line shall end aaron spat and returned to his castle once inside he promised lance riches and tally's daughters to whoever could bring down aegon or his dragon as the sun sank below the horizon all of heron's men patrolled the battlements hearing wings in every gust of wind but the moon rose and sank and no dragon appeared while the ironborn were ringing the battlements aegon drove his dragon bilarion higher and higher in the night sky so that even the great castle of herren hall looked like an ant hill below them then they plunged straight into the castle well inside the guarded walls the five towers of heron hall reached towards aegon like a hand valerian opened his mouth and bathed all the fingers in flame harren was right stone doesn't burn but men do even when they're ironborn [Music] the dragon blasted my ancestors into ash that choked the survivors when they screamed aaron's soldiers leapt from the battlements and died they huddled against the walls and died they fled across the yard and died aaron and his sons took shelter inside the castle stone didn't burn but as valerian blasted it with fire it blowed wide hut the world's greatest castle became the world's greatest oven baking the last of those horror within it outside the castle walls the towers of heron hall glowed red against the night and began to twist and melt like five huge candles with liquid stone trickling down their sides like wax the next morning aegon forged a new riverlands he named the rebel edmund tully as his lord paramount of the trident and had the other riverlords swear him fealty as their new liege for centuries house horror had terrorized the riverlands under house tully the riverlands would at last return to peace and prosperity after the castle cooled enough to allow men inside aegon ventured into the ruin he'd made of herron hall he saw the ashen bodies the scorched stone and the mangled and melted swords of his former enemies to his men's confusion he ordered these useless swords collected and sent to his aegon fort [Music] while aegon marched on harrenhal after his coronation auris baratheon had taken most of his forces and his queen rhaenys with her dragon south to deal with the excuse for the invasion argilac the arrogant king of the stormlands argilac had his seat at storm's end a castle considered the most impregnable in westeros after hiron hall arguelac may have been arrogant but he wasn't stupid or a coward his lords advised him to shut his gates and wait out the siege but he'd heard what had happened at harrenhal and refused to die a suckling pig cooked in his own castle he would meet victory or defeat the same way with sword in hand he called his banners and marched to meet auras baratheon in the field thanks to rainer's dragon meraxis aureus knew argilac was coming how many men he had and how fast he marched so aura simply seized the high ground and dug in on the hills to wait for argelac as the two armies approached the wind rose to meet them and the rain poured from the sky a gale which would give the battle its name the last storm king argilac's lords urged him to wait for the weather to die down but a storm king saw that the rain was blowing into the faces of the baratheon men on their hills and argilac outnumbered the baratheon host two to one with four times as many knights and heavy horse aggielac attacked three times argilac led his knights against the baratheon line but the hills were steep and the rain had beat the earth to mud the war horses founded and slipped and the charges collapsed the battle seemed lost until argilac ordered his spearmen up the hill blinded by the rain the baratheons didn't see them until it was too late one hill fell then another and another until only one remained in the baratheon center if argilac could break through there he could split the invading army and flank both halves argilac and his men charged and the baratheon line broke revealing queen rhaenys and meraxis aguilax vanguard burst into flame and his men panicked the victory charge fell into chaos and aguilect himself was thrown from his horse but he didn't yield when auris baratheon arrived he found the old king holding off half a dozen men another half dozen dead at his feet or is dismounted to meet the king on equal footing and offered argilac one final chance to yield argilac cursed him instead as the storm raged around them the grizzled old warrior and the bearded upstart fought for life and kingdom in the end fagilak got his wish he died sword in hand as word of aguilect's death spread his lords and knights threw down their swords and fled auri sent his vanguard rode to storm's end to claim argilac's castle for aegon only to find the gates barred and the walls manned argilac's daughter had assumed his crown and the new storm queen was as fond of yielding as her father she declared that auris would win only bones blood and ashes here but her men were weaker than her and that night oris found argilac's daughter delivered gagged chained and naked to his camp argilac had refused to give auris her hand now auras could have any part of her he wished but auras unchained the girl wrapped his cloak around her and poured her a glass of wine he told her he would take the arms banner and words of house durrandon to honor her father's courage in the last storm conveniently orris had none of his own to discard first the crown stag became the sigil of house baratheon and storms end their seat argilac's daughter would even remain in her home though as a lady instead of a princess the stormlands were now aegons and as tribute aegon demanded the swords of the men auris had defeated for what purpose arys didn't know [Music] aegon now ruled two of the seven kingdoms but he would no longer be able to take the rest piece meal for the first time in thousands of years the kings put aside their squabbles and joined forces against a common enemy my ancestor king lauren of house lannister was head of the wealthiest family in the seven kingdoms when king lauren joined his forces to mourn of house gardener king of the reach they had the mightiest army in history a so-called iron fist to break the would-be conqueror but while an iron fist can smash a man's face in battle you'd look silly hunting birds or beasts with it an aegon had a creature that was both the kings had never even seen a dragon let alone fought one they had fought each other for thousands of years and victory always went to the larger army surely a force five times that of aegon's could manage one dragon but aegon arrived with three still the lannisters and gardeners hoped for victory the battlefield they chose was a wide plane with firm ground and clear skies perfect for archers and mounted cavalry but neither of the kings sped a thought for why the ground was firm there had been no rain for a fortnight which meant all the wheat and grass on it were bone dry perfect for dragons at first the kings looked like they would emerge victorious when the horn blew for battle their army swept around aegon's flanks and there are iron fists of mounted knight smashed through his center before the dragons could even enter the fray but then hagen and his sisters took flight and unleashed their dragons not on the soldiers but on the dry fields all around them the iron fists unclenched and became a hand out stretched for mercy as aegon promised he had none more than four thousand men died in the fires another thousand escaping from tens of thousands returned home as monsters burned and scarred beyond recognition house gardener never returned at all the field of fire as the singers call it claimed the last of the gardener line and house tyrell rose in their stead as lords of the reach and wardens of the south as for my illustrious ancestor when king lawrence saw the battle was lost he rode through a wall of flame and smoke to safety or at least to a heroic capture day later where he laid his sword before aegon and knelt aegon true to his words spared him and confirmed house lannister as lords of casterly rock and wardens of the west why wouldn't he lannister always pays his debts and now we owed our lives to the crown that was worth centuries of subservience at least besides aegon had a fetish for collecting swords not heads he added lawrence to the pile as men had retrieved from the field of fire and sent them back to the aegon fort [Music] with most of the south in aegon's hands the best chance to throw back the conqueror now lay with the north if we cared enough to try unlike our southern rivals the stark kings of winter didn't forge the north into one kingdom for glory or gold there is little of either here but to survive alone in westeros the north remembered when worse than dragons lay waste to armies thousands of years ago the sun set on the realms of men and the long night began a new race emerged from the ice and snow the white walkers they demanded no crown offered no terms spared no life and the dead marched with them with humanity facing extinction a stark sought out the children of the forest most ancient beings in westeros and convinced them to ally with the men they once fought together the two races pushed the walkers back into the land of always winter and sealed it off from the seven kingdoms with the wall 300 miles of ice stone and earth rising nearly 700 feet tall to guard it they established the night's watch a brotherhood sworn to defend the living from the dead whose vows are raised both titles and crimes after the long night the north tried to forget it belonged to a continent perhaps through pride perhaps through sheer ignorance you never can tell with the north but as news of aegon's dragons spread torrensta the king of winter knew he couldn't forget westeros any longer and summoned his lords to winterfell many fools shrugged off the threat while the rest placed wages on how long the south would take to burn torrens silenced them with a command to assemble their armies and descend from the north in force as the kings of the rock and the reach burned on the field of fire the greatest northern force since the long night crossed the neck into the riverlands but when king tauren arrived at the trident he saw on the opposing riverbank the combined strength of all aegon's conquered kingdoms a force larger than tauren's own by half and with three dragons that night king tauren called the conference of all his lords and advisers some wanted to fight and trust northern valor to carry the day and burn on the triton the wisest of them wanted to withdraw to moat kaelin the fortress which had thrown back every southern invasion and burned there one suicidal lord even wanted to ambush aegon's camp in the dark and kill the dragons as they slept or at the very least their riders it's hard to tell what would have been his fate burning beheading dismemberment perhaps all three my ancestors listened to their council and in the morning crossed the trident under a flag of pales then king tauren of house stark laid his ancient crown at aegon's feet and was named lord of winterfell and warden of the north and the king who knelt he had no choice and thanks to him our soldiers returned to their homes whole and unharmed the swords the aegon took from them were not twisted burnt or mangled yet [Music] the veil of aaron was the last of the great kingdoms left old and proud house aaron did what they always did in times of strife they shut the bloody gate sealing off the veil then the queen regent shara of house aaron retreated with her son the boy king ronald into the eerie their family's impregnable fortress from the top of their mountain they could look down on westeros far below its problems hidden beneath the clouds but one day queen shara entered the outer courtyard to find her young son sitting on the knee of visenya targaryen and ogling her dragon vega beside her just as he'd asked for another cake at dinner little king ronald asked his mother if he could go flying on the nice ladies dragon visenya smiled at sarah shara imagined did vega remembering her manners shara asked if she could have visenya brought some wine or food she must be tired after such a long flight but visenya bored with his mother's pleasantries ronald demanded an answer poor boy he didn't even understand the question sarah hesitated for a moment then asked for zenya as a mother if it was safe for the boy visenya assured her it was what choice did shara have whilst her son circled the castle she collected his little ringlet her own region's coronet and the ancient falcon crown of mountain and vale which the aarons had worn for thousands of years ronald had taken to the sky as a king but he landed as a lordling perhaps he considered his ancient rights a fair trade for a few minutes of flight as a little boy would more likely he didn't even notice the three crowns at visenya's feet or recognize the swords of his garrison beside them [Music] the heads of westeros had bowed to aegon but its heart still beat free old town the center of the faith of the seven there dwelt the high septon the father of the faithful who commanded the obedience of all westeros save the savages of the north and their old gods when aegon had landed in westeros the high septon had locked himself in the starry sept and fasted for seven days and seven nights one for each of his gods all he received for his trouble was the divine wisdom that if old town took up arms against the dragon the city would burn faithful and faithless alike after the submission of house stark aegon marched towards old town stealing himself for another battle but he found the gates open with the high septon welcoming him the pious fool even had the arrogance to grant what aegon had already won and anointed the last valerian as aegon of house targaryen first of his name king of the andals and the first men lord of the seven kingdoms and protector of the realm as if titles meant anything to a man before whom time itself now bowed the maesters would hence divide all history into before and after conquest most expected aegon to stay and make old town his seat but soon after his coronation aegon returned to the mouth of the blackwater river where he had first set foot on westeros a small town had since sprouted around his primitive fort to honor their new master the locals dubbed it king's landing though it looked more fit for a hedge night with wooden palisades muddy streets and piles of mangled swords carted in from every corner of the conquest but when aegon made it his court wood became stone black mud was buried beneath a red keep and the collected swords of aegon's foes were blasted by dragon fire and became a seat fit for the conqueror and the greatest dynasty this world has ever known house targaryen my family my throne also it should have been [Music] but while aegon titled himself lord of the seven kingdoms in reality he held only six the seventh dawn had never knelt visenya had flown into the veil and returned with its crown mimicking her sister rhaenys had flown over the enemy force holding the passes into dawn and landed in the castle of its ruling lady princess maria of house martel maria was 80 years old fat bald and blind behind her back many sniggered at her as the yellow toad of dawn the beautiful renise probably thought as much when they met she demanded princess mary anneal to her brother aegon though she allowed that on the count of mary's age and health the simple vow of submission would do but the princess told the queen that the targaryens weren't wanted in dawn and no martel would ever bow bend or break no matter how badly they burned renise could have mounted her dragon right then and roasted maria in the castle as her brother had done at harrenhal but whatever she saw in mary's eyes scared her right back to king's landing with a dragon's tail between its legs after aegon's coronation rhaenys returned to dawn with aegon and visenya and their dragons but no armies met them in the field and no lords defied them in their castles as the dragons approached dawn simply emptied house maitel had learned from harrenhal and the field of fire the dragons were unbeatable in battle but wars were more than battles unopposed to aegon claimed dawn for his own but as soon as he returned to king's landing his castleman's were hurled off towers and his royal garrison vanished in the desert never to be seen again except perhaps when the winds change and the sands cough up old bones and armor renis returned on meraxis intent on revenging herself against mary and martell but dawn was no longer empty the dornish kept maria's promise and fought even while burning under dragonflame and they won one day a bowl pierced the eye of maraxis and knocked the dragon out of the sky house martel remained unbroken unlike the unfortunate reigners in their wrath aegon and visenya set flame to every castle and city but sunspear trying to turn the people against house martel but the dornish stayed loyal and when aegon returned to king's landing he found assassins waiting for him in the streets of his own capital if not for visenya the conqueror would not have enjoyed his conquest for very long from then on the king and his family would be guarded by the seven greatest knights in the realm the king's guard when maria died in her sleep her weak and tired son sued for peace but old maria had exhausted aegon as well and he granted the request the targaryen still wanted dawn and eventually they would have it but not at the point of a sword they would buy it the same way great lords buy anything with a daughter after the conquest when men looked up they saw dragons nobles learned to keep their eyes down but the gods weren't used to sharing the heavens when aegon died the high septon led to the faith and its army in revolt claiming that the valyrian tradition of wedding brother to sister was an abomination in the eyes of the seven though no one could explain where the divine mother and father had come from my ancestor make all the wise who make all the cruel as men slander him put a bounty on the head of every militant priest and miraculously the faith soon returned to the sects with dawn in the fold and the faith put in its place none in westeros were left to oppose my family so we started opposing each other in the dance of dragons a targaryen princess tried to steal her brother's throne thanks to her stupidity most of our dragons died the one thankfully ate her before it did but even without our dragons we were still the blood of old valyria which proved just as dangerous one of my foolish ancestors didn't see what separated his bastards from our family proper and legitimized them all on his deathbed adopting the name blackfire the bastards proved their nature and tried to seize their father's kingdom when they failed their sons tried when the sons failed their grandsons tried until finally sarbarist in the bold knight of the kingsguard slew melees the monstrous in the war of the nine penny kings ending the last of the blackfire line ultimately without our dragons and with our blood diluted by commoners we fail to see the greatest threat growing under our noses as the saying goes every time a targaryen is born the gods flip a coin he must have dropped the one for king aerys for at first he seemed to have dodged the family madness but as he grew older he began to see conspirators everywhere and where there were none he worked to create them as one of his kingsguard i saw firsthand that a king who couldn't rule his own mind couldn't rule seven kingdoms we endured his reign because we hoped his son rhaegar would right the realm when he ascended to the throne but then rhaegar proved as mad at his father and snatched leona stark daughter of the warden of the north and betrothed to robert baratheon lord of the stormlands when lyanna's father and eldest brother demanded justice the mad king obliged laughing as he dispensed it unsatisfied with only two murders the mad king then ordered john aaron lord of the vale to execute his two wards robert baratheon and ed stark instead john aaron raised the veil in revolt ned stark slipped past royalist centuries and raised the north and robert won three battles in a single day to unite the stormlands behind him only to be defeated by a royalist army and forced to flee leaving his home of storms and besieged the hand of the king finally cornered robert in the town of the stony set and sent his soldiers door to door searching for the rebel leader but the villagers hated the mad king and loved robert and kept him one step ahead of the soldiers until only one refuge remained as the soldiers closed in all the town bells rang out hearing of robert's plight our father and john aaron had rushed to the riverlands and enlisted our grandfather hoster tully to help them together they routed the han's army and rescued robert to celebrate and cement the tully alliance our father wed our mother catelyn and john aron took our aunt lysa only a fortnight later both men rushed back into the field so the dragon had finally woken while my father's servants were losing my father's kingdoms my brother rhaegar had been cooped up with his mistress whatever else i'd call her a distraction but now rhaegar came to his senses and returned to king's landing he persuaded our father to summon his estranged friend lord tywin lannister the richest and most powerful lord in the realm rhaegar himself would lead the royal army against the usurper robert on the banks of the trident my brother fought the man whose wife he'd stolen and who fought to steal his birthright in return in the end robert wanted it more his hammer shattered my brother's armor and its rubies fell into the river like raindrops vanishing in the current with rhaegar's defeat nothing stood between robert and king's landing imagine the king's surprise a fortnight later when he saw not stags but lions outside his gates his former hand tywin lannister had come to the capitol with a force even robert couldn't match claiming to be loyal to the king trusting what he wanted to believe ares ordered the gates opened and the lannister forces dutifully began to rape pillage and murder the king's actual loyal subjects when ed stark finally arrived at the capital with robert's army he found lannister banners hanging over the sacked city targaryen corpses littering its streets and sir jamie lannister sitting on the iron throne below him the mad king aerys whom sir jaime had sworn to guard lay in a pool of his own blood from a sore thrust through his back lord edward might have thanked sir jamie for doing the realm of favor but honorable as he was lord eddard condemned sir jamie as a king slayer a name he would never escape unlike lord eddard robert appreciated my contribution to his glorious victory he pardoned me for my crime and even kept me on his kingsguard besides sir barristan selmy who'd been wounded at the triton fighting for rhaegar true both of us had failed to protect our targaryen charges but perhaps that's what robert liked most about us when my father presented robert with the bodies of rhaegar's wife and two children ned stark hiked up his skirts and demanded robert send their killer to dawn and me to the wall but i saw what nip couldn't robert was ashamed of the bodies and more ashamed of his relief he knew that rhaegar's heirs had to die or his throne would never be safe but glorious heroes didn't kill children they simply didn't punish their murderers no doubt i would have suffered a similar fate but my father had wisely sent me and my pregnant mother to dragonstone when the usurper heroically sent men to kill me and my newborn sister to protect his stolen throne a loyal knight smuggled us across the narrow sea to essos and so the last dragons of valyria heirs to the greatest dynasty from the greatest civilization this world has ever known slept in sewers and foraged for scraps in alleyways one step ahead of the usurper's knives and one step behind the whispers of his spymaster varys but we won't run forever one day i'll return to my kingdoms with an army take back my throne and repay all traitors with the only coin my family knows fire and blood you

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Length: 40min 57sec (2457 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 03 2021