Fire & Blood (HBO Tie-in Edition)(A Targaryen History #1)

752 pages | paperback |  The book that inspired HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon, coming August 2022, now features a cover with stunning key art from the show! This thrilling history of the Targaryens contains eighty-five black-and-white illustrations, including five illustrations exclusive to the trade paperback edition. Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took 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 Cruel’s worst crimes? What was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? The