Collection 300 years before the events within a Song of Ice and Fire, Open fire AND BLOOD may be the definitive background of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn, and chronicles the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule to the Dance from the Dragons: the Targaryen civil war that nearly finished their dynasty forever.

The thrilling history of the Targaryens involves life within this masterly work by the author of the Melody of Ice and Fire, the inspiration about Fire and Bloodstream: 300 Years Before A GAME of Thrones (A Targaryen History) for HBO’s Game of Thrones.

With all the current fire and fury fans have come to expect from internationally bestselling author George R.R. Martin, this is the first level of the definitive two-part background of the Targaryens in Westeros.

Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, Home Targaryen – the only category of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria – used residence on Dragonstone. Fire and Blood begins their tale using the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, inventor of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the decades of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic chair, completely up to the civil war that almost tore their dynasty apart.

What really happened during the Dance from the Dragons? Why was it therefore deadly to visit Valyria following the Doom? What had been Maegor the Cruel’s worst crimes? That which was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? These are but some of the queries answered with this important chronicle, as related with a learned maester of the Citadel, and offering more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by musician Doug Wheatley.

With all the current scope and grandeur of Gibbon’s The History from the Decline and Fall from the Roman Empire, Fire and Blood may be the ultimate game of thrones, giving visitors a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.