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House of the Dragon used some clever visual storytelling to give us a sample of the Battle of the Burning Mill, but the full story of the first battle of the Dance of the Dragons deserves to be told. It...

In May 2024, ahead of House of the Dragon season 2, we interviewed Ryan Condal, showrunner for House of the Dragon! You can watch this episode on YouTube here, or listen to it in podcast form here. You can find...

Ser Erryk and Ser Arryk are not only one of the most tragic tales in Westeros history and two of the most famous knights in the history of the Kingsguard, but a perfect encapsulation of the Dance of the Dragons...

Blood and Cheese, when paired with the death of Prince Lucerys, ensured that the Dance of the Dragons would be a bitter civil war. But it also had a long term impact on the Red Keep that in turn had...

When the Blacks and Greens went to war in the year 129, it had been over 80 years since a dragon had fought a dragon… The hard won lessons learned during the days of the Freehold, Aegon’s Conquest and the...

The longest running feud in the history of Westeros plays a significant role in the Dance of the Dragons / House of the Dragon as well as in A Song of Ice and Fire. We’ll look at how this endless...

Aegon and Visenya faced no true threats to their reign from the outside, but the biggest problems can start from within, and even the first House of the Dragon was troubled by such. An abundance of Targaryen births late in...

Most bent the knee to the overwhelming might of the dragons. This may have made Aegon overconfident, as he assumed the submission of Dorne and a few other holdouts. That they defied the Conqueror makes them all the braver, or...

The largest army Westeros has ever seen vs. Vhagar, Meraxes and Balerion - the only time the three fought together. It's shock and awe with dragons... but it's not the battle that we consider the best part of this story....