I loved hearing about Maegor the cruel, how he got his name and how absolutely ruthless he was towards his own family.

Archmaester Umbert famously declared that Aegon the Dragon and his sisters conquered the Seven Kingdoms, but it was Jaehaerys the Conciliator who truly made them one. Family tree, about the author, about the illustrator at the rear unpaginated, A fine copy in fine dustjacket. I’m not saying we were like those WINTERY and WINDY siblings, but let’s just say my girls enjoyed the gun show every chance they got. Many of the heroes whose songs are sung in this book will be familiar to attentive fans of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, as they are referenced there many a times.

Slavic Dragons (zmey, zmiy, żmij, змей, or zmaj, or drak, or smok)-Similar to the conventional European dragon, but multi-headed. For those who find all this a bit grim and macho, GRR Martin is pretty good at putting women front and centre, so there are plenty of notable female characters, not just doing queenly things, but also doing “manly” things like exploring the seven seas (or however many seas there are in this world) and riding dragons.

This book took me almost three weeks to read; that’s an extremely long time for me to spend reading a single book. Martin fills us in on their history from when the WINTERY Aegon the Conqueror first took charge of WINDY Westeros with his two sisters. Dust jacket is also very clean with minor edge wear and traces of the red ink of the boards beginning to transfer to the inside of the dust jacket. Fire and Blood: The inspiration for 2022â s highly anticipated HBO and Sky TV series HOUSE OF THE DRAGON from the internationally bestselling creator of .This set is scarce since it does not only contain all of the Subterranean Press books as a same number set, but also features the two early Meisha Merlin books with the same number.

These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel, and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley. The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO's Game of Thrones. A note on the publication history: Meisha Merlin started to produce The Song of Ice and Fire as a limited edition but went out of business after the publication of A Clash of Kings , the second volume in the saga.Fire and Blood is an amazing piece of work that does for the World of Ice and Fire what The Silmarillion did for Tolkien's Arda.