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[Music] the dance of dragons a true telling by grandm monin being a history of the war of targaryan succession between the princess fera and Aon second of his name that nearly destroyed the realm the dance of the Dragons a stupid name for a targaryan civil war where my ancestors danced away my Birthright before the war house targaryan counted 18 Dragons by the end we had two and nearly as few targaryens we would never be as powerful or as feared again the dance began as many dancers do with an old man and a young girl the queen had failed to produce a son for her King so he anointed his daughter the princess rira as his Heir but years later the king remarried and his new wife queen alicent of house high tower gave him a son feeble and foolish the Old King refused to change the succession he didn't even see how his Court had split into two rival camps of blacks and greens after the dresses of The Princess and the queen had worn to some tning one night a servant found the Old King had died in his sleep and ran to inform Queen allisin protocol dictated that the bells would be rang and a raven sent to Dragonstone to summon the air princess rira for her coronation but Allison had other plans once she saw her dead husband's body she sealed the room room and had the servant thrown into the black cells to ensure his silence at the hour of the owl the Lord commander of the King's Guard sir Christen Cole summoned the small Council to inform them of the King's death so Otto hiow the hand of the king and father to Queen Allison demanded that the succession be settled immediately the decrepit old men of the small Council were confused the succession was settled in their minds the Old King had forced the Lords of Westeros to swear falty to princess rira as his heir but sir Christen Cole rightly pointed out that a son comes before a daughter the council argued until dawn when the master of coin finally stood up and declared he would have no part of treason so Christen Cole wisely opened his throat with a dagger ending the debate none were more surprised to hear of Prince aon's succession than Prince Aon himself at first the fool rejected the crown but his mother pointed out that his sister rira would return such loyalty by taking his head as the old King's trueborn son he'd always be a threat Aon relented he was crowned in the dragon pit and his wife and sister Helena became Queen his brother aan flew off to win over the few great Lords who support Aon didn't already have the banner of the Gold Dragon flew over King's Landing and the red keep as Aon second of his name ascended the Iron Throne he would not sit it long when Ravens carried the news of aon's Coronation to Dragon Stone princess Rea summoned her own black council with her was her uncle and husband Damon Taren considered by many to be the most dangerous man in Westeros few Lords supported her but the greatest of these was corus valan who controlled the largest Fleet in the realm and his targarian wife Ry the old King's sister then there were her five Sons although none grown to manhood a pitiful assembly really combined they couldn't match the power of house high tower alone but Rea had dragons she Damon and Ry rode huge and formidable beasts and three of her five Sons were Riders as well Dragon Stone also housed six more Dragons without Riders against this King Aon had only four dragons of his own dragons can burn a city but only armies can take and hold it if she was to Prevail reera desperately needed the support of the few great houses not already sworn to aegon her eldest son jakaris flew to the veil in the north her middle son lucaris flew to the stormlands Rea hoped that the war would begin and if the gods were good end with diplomacy as always they weren't Little Prince luk Caris must have wet himself when he entered Storm's end and found King aon's younger brother aund already with Lord Baratheon aund was fearsome even before he lost his eye and set a sapphire in its stead but the princeling pleaded his mother's case finally Lord Baratheon made his decision go home pup and tell the your mother that the Lord of storms end is not a dog she can whistle up as aon's false eye gleamed at him the princeling fled the castle and mounted his young dragon arax the rain fell in sheets and great bolts of lightning lit the world bright as day arax was struggling to aoft in the Gale when a roar shook the very foundations of Storm's end aan Rose through the clouds and Below him the Monstrous vagar vagar was five times the size of arax and the hardened Survivor of aund battles vagar caught him above shipbreaker Bay Watchers on the castle walls saw distant blasts of flame and heard a shriek drown out the Thunder Prince luk fell broken to be swallowed by the waves with his death the war of ravens came to an end and the war of Fire and Blood began when rira heard of her son's death she collapsed she considered ending the war right then until a raven arrived from her husband Damon her son would be Avenged Whispers slithered through the taverns and back alleys of flea bottom two men were found one was a former gold cloak the other a rat catcher in the red keep who knew all its Secrets history remembers them only as blood and cheese one night Queen Helena entered the Royal apartments with her daughter and two sons to put them to bed without warning blood and cheese bursting daggers in hand they told her that a was owed a son for a son blood and cheese demanded she choose which son would be ripped from her forever Queen Helena pleaded with the men to kill her instead but they refused weeping Helena named her younger son Meo perhaps she thought the boy was too young to understand or perhaps because the older boy was King aon's firstborn son and Heir you hear that little boy chees whispered to the younger son your mama wants you dead then blood struck off the older boy's head with a single blow when the guards burst in they found Queen Helena still screaming clasping her dead son's body too her mad with grief the blood of their children transformed a dynastic dispute into a war of annihilation the grief and rage of losing a child could burn down the world either agon or reira could live at the end but not both re's forces struck yet another blow the moment the Lord of Haren Hall saw Damon Targaryen circling the castle on his Dragon cares he struck his banners and surrendered the blacks now had the strongest castle in the riverlands darker new still came to aegon thanks to rira's Sons Winterfell had declared for rira as had the veil Furious Aon dismissed his grandfather sir Otto as hand and appointed sir Christen Cole who swore to march on all the Lords who had declared for rira and put their castles to the torch Cole and the Royal Army first marched North and laid Siege to rook's rest a black stronghold near Dragonstone when their lord saw their approach he sent a raven to rira begging for help for days he watched his fields and Villages burning with no response from his Queen until one day a shadow passed over the G Army Rea had sent not an army but her former Mother by law Ry and her Dragon mes as her ancestor had done at the Field of Fire Ry gleefully began to incinerate sir christen's Army but Aon had set a trap and Ries had flown right into it as rainy and mes blanketed sir christen's troops and dragon flame two other dragons Rose into the sky aund on vagar and King Aon himself on the gleaming Sunfire to her credit rainy didn't flee Dragon fought dragons and a second sun blossomed in the sky When the Smoke cleared only aund and vagar stood uninjured Sunfire the most magnificent dragon in the world had one of its wings almost completely torn from its body trapped beneath Sunfire was the king himself broken and burned so badly in places that his armor had fused onto his flesh his body survived but his mind was given over to Milk of the poppy mes had been torn to shreds and her Rider rainy was a pile of Ash panicked by the defeat rira shipped her two youngest sons across the narrow sea for their protection only for her youngest to returned Days Later clinging to the neck of his wounded and dying Dragon he and his brother had been set upon by an enemy Fleet just off Dragonstone defying his mother's command reine's eldest son and Heir jakaris mounted his dragon Vermax and flew to rescue his other brother and punish the enemy Fleet but the Foolish Boy let Vermax be hooked like a trout and dragged into the sea where he soaked up even more arrows than seawater his brother disappeared over the horizon or beneath the waves no one could say for sure with the loss of four dragons rainer's only Advantage was fading luckily for her over the centuries House Targaryen had spilled more than blood on Dragon Stone she promised gold en title to any of the targaryan bastards who could tame the six unclaimed dragons on the island these bastards were called the dragon seeds though most were called supper and perhaps the Dragons Were eventually sated or bored but four of them accepted Riders and were enlisted in rira's cause after rook's rest a and one ey took command of the greens from his crippled and Poppy addled brother Aon was the blood of the dragon and Dragons don't cower behind City walls he marched the king's Army North to take back Haron Hall from rira's husband Damon but when he and Kristen Cole reached the castle they found the gates open with Damon and all his men gone that night they feasted their Victory Damon had fled rather than face their wrath but Damon was more Snake than dragon as Aon marched North he'd flown caraxes South slithering the green army over the Waters of the God's eye one day King's Landing looked up and saw two dragons circling their foul City Damon and rira had come for her throne for the city was defenseless Aon had taken the king's Army from the city and worse he'd taken his Dragon vagar seeing that resistance was hopeless the small Council surrendered the city the Queen Mother Allison and the broken Queen Helena but not King Aon somehow despite his wounds and delirium he had vanished from the city and so Queen rira climbed the steps and seated herself on the Iron Throne Legend has it that as she left the hall later blood trickled down her legs and hands proving the Iron Throne had spurned her nonsense it's a chair made of steel blades rira had wanted all her life and had sacrificed two sons for it she likely gripped the damn thing too tight when Aon realized that his arrogance had cost him the capital he mounted vagar in a black rage and reigned fire onto every village and Castle he suspected of disloyalty abandoned by aund Sir Christen marched the Royal Army back to King's Landing intent on recapturing the city himself instead he was trapped and cut to Pieces by the river Lords who sworn to support rira's claim when a new Army of green loyalists marched up from the reach and laid Siege to the city of tumbleton reira sent two of her Dragon seeds to lay waste to them instead the dragon seeds proved their bastard nature and betrayed her they burned the city and all the black forces garrisoned within lucky for her they didn't turn towards King's Landing but hoed and drank in the ruins with the greens who were victorious and somewhat confused R now mistrusted all the dragon seeds including the girl who rode with her husband Damon hunting Aon in the riverlands she ordered the girl's head be sent to her but there was a complication as well as her Dragon the girl had taken to riding Damon when Damon received the Queen's order he proclaimed at a queen's words and a work he sent the girl away at dawn watching her and her dragon and vanish into the morning Mists then Damon sent a challenge to his nephew Aon and flew to heren Hall alone to wait 14 days later a shadow blacker than any passing Cloud swept over heren Hall vagar had come at last and on her back rode oneeyed Prince Aon he mocked Damon for facing him alone you have lived too long uncle and Damon replied on that much we agree then the old Prince climbed stiffly onto the back of his Dragon caraxes but neglected to fasten the chains that secured Ryder to sun the sun was close to setting when as one the two dragons leapt into the sky Damon took Caris up swiftly until they disappeared into a bank of clouds vagar older and slower and ascended more gradually up and up vagar sword searching for Caris sudden as a thunderbolt a shrieking Caris dove on vagar locked together the dragon stumbled toward the lake kx's Jaws closed about V's neck but vagar raked open cari's belly and her teeth ripped off a wing the lake rushed up with terrible speed then Damon targaryan who had never fastened his writing chains stood in his saddle he leapt from his Dragon to aon's and in his hand was dark sister the Valyrian sword of aegon's sister queen viena as aan one eye looked up in Terror Damon ripped off his nephew's Helm and drove the sword down into his one remaining eye so hard the point came out the back of the young Prince's throat half a heartbeat later the dragons struck the lake sending up a gout of water so high that it was said to have been as tall as heren Hall's great tower the lake boiled with dragon blood and then was still Damon targaryan was 9 and 40 at his death Prince Aon had only turned 20 vagar the greatest of the tedian Dragons had counted 181 years thus passed the last living creature from the days of aegon's Conquest back in King's Landing Queen rera didn't have much time to grieve for her stupid husband the Mad former Queen Helena flung herself From A Balcony to be impaled upon the iron spikes lining the M of magor's hold fast that night the city Rose in Riot against rira demanding Justice for Queen Helena and her murdered son among other foolish peasant fantasies in the midst of this chaos a one-handed fool called the Shepherds began to rant against dragons not just the ones of the enemy but all dragons everywhere as he pointed to the dragon pit above on the hill he shouted there the demons dwell this is their city if you would make it yours first You Must Destroy them the cry went up from 10,000 throats kill them there were four dragons housed within the dragon pit that night by the time the first of the attackers came pouring in all four were roused awake and angry nobody knows how many men and women died that night who cares they all should have trapped within the pit the dragons could not fly instead they fought with horns claws teeth and Fire for every man who died 10 more appeared shouting that the dragons must die one by one they did finally the last remaining Dragon broke her chain spread her wings and flew straight up at the great Dome trying to flee already weakened by dragon flame the Dome cracked under the force of impact and then tumbled down crushing Dragon Slayers and herself higher top the red keep Queen rera clutched her two remaining Sons to her as she watched the end of her family's might too afraid of the peasants to defend her dragons at least her older son Joffrey had a man's spine he stole his mother's Dragon Cyrax and tried to fly it to the dragon pit to save his Birthright but the stupid Beast didn't understand and twisted beneath him fighting to be free of the little boy until it was a queen is still a woman with all the weakness of that sex weeping for her lost son more than her dragons rera abandoned the iron throne and sold her crown to buy passage for her and her last son back to Dragonstone rera hoped to hatch more dragons from the eggs in the castle but when she landed the welcoming party slew her guards and marched her and her son at spear point to the castle to face a dead man and a dying dragon sister King aegon second of his name called out to rera rook's rest had left aegon bent and twisted his once handsome face puffy from milk of the poppy with burn scars covering half his body Rea ever defiant told her dear brother that she'd hoped he was dead after you Aon answered then Sunfire bathed her in a blast of flame and devoured her in six bites when her son watched leaving the seventh and final bite her lower leg for the stranger Rea was dead and King Aon sat the Iron Throne again but only for half a year he was poisoned by his own men and replaced with the very boy who had watched his mother devoured [Music] when Rene's last son we aon's only daughter the dance of dragons officially ended passion burned men all that was left of the rence two scared children spouting Oaths they didn't understand all that was left of the mighty House Targaryen ancient skulls and hatchlings That Grew no bigger than cats all was left of the dragons

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Published: Tue Jun 25 2024