Flame and Blood: The Dance of Death

Tyrion Lannister has not yet become a hostage of cruel fate, Bran Stark has not yet become a cripple, and the head of his father Ned Stark has not yet rolled off the scaffold. No man in the Kingdoms dares even to presume that Daenerys Targaryen will ever be called the Mother of Dragons. So sit closer to the fire, kind listeners, and you will learn: – how King’s Landing became the capital of capitals, – how glorious feats, beyond imagination, were accomplished, – and how brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers lost their minds in the bloody struggle for power, – how the dragon kin gradually gave way to dragons in human form, – and many other tales of old – funny and unimaginably horrific, clanking with iron armor and playing on pipe instruments, filling our hearts with pride and sorrow… The second volume of the History of the Kings of Westeros includes chronicles and tales from the bloody Dance of Dragons, which split the Seven Kingdoms in two, to the day of the coming of age of the Sad King Aegon III, during whose reign the last dragons of the Targaryens died.