Before I tell the story itself, I have to tell you a little of the land where it happened.
There are seven kingdoms in Westeros. Mine, the North, was one of them once. The first people in Westeros were the Children of the Forest, then the First Men who worshipped the same gods as the Children, the Old Gods. Northerners are mostly descended from the First Men, but the Andals came from Essos across the Narrow Sea and conquered many of the southron kingdoms.
When the Dragonlords rose in Valyria, they conquered much of the known world, but they didn't set their sights on Westeros until after the Doom, when Old Valyria fell. One of the ruling Valyrian families, the Targaryens, had come to live on an island off the coast of Westeros with their dragons. It wasn't until the Storm King from one of the Seven Kingdoms, the Stormlands, insulted Aegon Targaryen that the family set their sights on the mainland.
Aegon and his sister-wives conquered all but two kingdoms with their dragons. One was the North, because my ancestor Torrhen Stark willingly bent the knee to Aegon so that his people would not suffer. The other was Dorne, a kingdom in the south filled with sand and mountains and scorpions and hot weather, because they shot Aegon's favorite wife Rhaenys and her dragon Meraxes out of the sky with a lucky spear.
Dorne is different from the other kingdoms. It was settled mostly by First Men and the Andals and the Rhoynar, a people from Essos who had been led there by a warrior princess — but that was long before the Targaryens came. No one knows why Aegon stopped his conquest at the border of Dorne, but for many years, the Targaryens and their descendants ruled the six kingdoms they had conquered. Dorne kept its independence, ruled by the Martells as it long had been, until the Young Dragon.
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I would like to hear of this.
It's not the Heptarchy! (Except it kind of totally is.)
Before I tell the story itself, I have to tell you a little of the land where it happened.
There are seven kingdoms in Westeros. Mine, the North, was one of them once. The first people in Westeros were the Children of the Forest, then the First Men who worshipped the same gods as the Children, the Old Gods. Northerners are mostly descended from the First Men, but the Andals came from Essos across the Narrow Sea and conquered many of the southron kingdoms.
When the Dragonlords rose in Valyria, they conquered much of the known world, but they didn't set their sights on Westeros until after the Doom, when Old Valyria fell. One of the ruling Valyrian families, the Targaryens, had come to live on an island off the coast of Westeros with their dragons. It wasn't until the Storm King from one of the Seven Kingdoms, the Stormlands, insulted Aegon Targaryen that the family set their sights on the mainland.
Aegon and his sister-wives conquered all but two kingdoms with their dragons. One was the North, because my ancestor Torrhen Stark willingly bent the knee to Aegon so that his people would not suffer. The other was Dorne, a kingdom in the south filled with sand and mountains and scorpions and hot weather, because they shot Aegon's favorite wife Rhaenys and her dragon Meraxes out of the sky with a lucky spear.
Dorne is different from the other kingdoms. It was settled mostly by First Men and the Andals and the Rhoynar, a people from Essos who had been led there by a warrior princess — but that was long before the Targaryens came. No one knows why Aegon stopped his conquest at the border of Dorne, but for many years, the Targaryens and their descendants ruled the six kingdoms they had conquered. Dorne kept its independence, ruled by the Martells as it long had been, until the Young Dragon.
His name was Daeron I Targaryen.
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What a complex history.
[ Maybe only complex because of all the unfamiliar names -- in reality it's not that different from things he knows in his world. ]