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00:00CHAPTER I. AEGON'S CONQUEST
00:03Starts with Gordon explaining that the history of Westeros
00:07is largely determined by Aegon's Conquest and events from across the Narrow Sea.
00:12In Valyria, the Targaryens were one of about forty dragonlord families vying for power until
00:19a mysterious event known only as the Doom of Valyria wiped out all of the dragonlords.
00:26Enoch Targaryen moved his whole family to a faraway island, Dragonstone, twelve years before
00:33the Doom, when his daughter Dany, the Dreamer, foresaw the destruction of Valyria. The furthest
00:40Valyrian, outpost to the west. The Targaryens spent one hundred years on the island before
00:46Aegon the Conqueror. Born 27 BC, we to both his sisters, Visenya and Rhaenys, sailed for the west.
00:56The three siblings each rode their own dragons to conquer Westeros, which was divided into seven
01:02warring kingdoms. After attempting to make a peaceful agreement with all Gulag, the arrogance
01:07of the Duryodhan, Aegon and his sisters left forth a burst of ravens that traveled to all
01:13seven kingdoms in Westeros, proclaiming there was now only one king. Aegon the Conqueror and
01:20the old kings could either bend that knee or be destroyed. He had coronation at the mouth of the
01:26Blackwater River. With barely a few hundred men, Aegon and his sisters stormed Westeros with their
01:33dragons. The small folk cheered Aegon on, but the kings and their bannermen opposed him.
01:40The Westerosi armies were larger, but they were no match for three dragons.
01:44Haran the Black, the King of the Riverlands, refused to bend the knee to Aegon, thinking that
01:52the impenetrable castle he had spent. His reign, building called Harrenhal, would shield him from
01:58dragons. He and his family were roasted inside King Black. The arrogant heard what happened and
02:05decided he would not die the same way he met the Targaryen army in battle known as the Last Storm.
02:11The Storm King nearly won until Rhaeny swooped in with her dragon Maracas and Orys Baratheon.
02:18Aegon's first hand of the king and probable bastard brother met Ajak in battle and killed him.
02:25Aguilar's daughter, Aguilar, barricaded herself in their castle and said she and her men would die
02:32before surrendering. But her men opened the gates in the middle of the night and delivered their
02:38lady naked and chained to Orys, who dressed her and told her of her father's death, then took
02:44his sigil as his own and asked Angellia to marry him. The two western kings, House Lannister and
02:51Gardener, assembled the largest ever army and marched north. They outnumbered the Targaryens
02:57five to one, but the three dragons combined for the first time during the conquest and obliterated
03:04both armies in what would be known as the Field of Firehouse. Gardener's line was extinguished
03:11and their stewards, House Tyrell, were given the reach. As wardens of the south, the Stark army
03:17marched south, but when they approached the Targaryen forces, King Torrhen bent the knee
03:23in order to protect his men from burning. Visenya rode her dragon into the vale and convinced the
03:29Arryns to yield without a fight, but Rhaenys could not convince the Dornish queen to do the same.
03:35Aegon took his forces to Oldtown, the biggest city in Westeros and the center of the Faith.
03:42The High Septon had fasted and prayed for seven days before telling Manfred Hightower,
03:48Lord of Oldtown, to surrender or the city would burn. Aegon walked into the city, and three days
03:56later, the High Septon anointed him King of the Seven Kingdoms. Though Dorne had still not been
04:02conquered in the Starry Sept, the coronation was witnessed by many more people, and so marks the
04:08official start of Aegon's rule. Although he had been calling himself a king for two years, Aegon
04:15declared that he would build himself a city on the three hills where he and his sisters first sat on
04:22Westeros. King's Landing. Unlike the other books in A Song of Ice and Fire, this fictional account
04:30of the Targaryens reads like an actual history book. However, the history Jordan is presenting
04:37us with as the most accurate version of the truth is the trap Martin wants us to avoid making,
04:43because we know the Citadel is rife with conspiracy and ulterior motives, as Lady Barbara,
04:49Dustin, and Martin would claim. Jordan's mock academic voice acts as though he is above personal
04:56bias or deceit, which means we should be all the more suspicious of what he chooses to tell us,
05:02or, more importantly, what he chooses not to tell us, since choosing to tell his story from one
05:07perspective neglects others and is within itself a form of bias. Sometimes a historian who doesn't
05:14hide his bias can be more trustworthy than one who knows how to conceal his lies with nuggets of
05:20truth. Lastly, Aegon's life is well documented, as he is seen as the most important historical figure
05:27of his age, but the lives of his sisters who helped him conquer Westeros are largely obscured,
05:34as is the life of his bastard brother, or his barathon, who was also instrumental in the
05:40conquering of Westeros. The small folk are left mostly silent, their stories untold by the
05:48historians of Oldtown, even though their part in the battles between Aegon and the seven former
05:53kings of Westeros ultimately decided the outcome. Chapter Two. Reign of the Dragons. The first 13
06:03years of Aegon the Conqueror's rule was marked with war and strife throughout Westeros in the
06:10Bight. The Sutherlands declared their lady a queen until Visenya arrived on her dragon.
06:16On the Iron Islands. Several contenders vie to become king, including Lotos, who said he was
06:23son of the drowned god. When Aegon arrived on his dragon and conquered the islands,
06:28Lotos prayed for the Krakens to rise up and kill the dragons. When they did not, he walked into the
06:35sea with rocks in his pockets, and thousands of his followers did the same. Aegon allowed the
06:41ironborn to choose their own wardens, and they selected Vicosun Greyjoy, who swore fealty to
06:47Aegon. Dorne was the only kingdom that had not submitted to Aegon, so he and his sisters attacked
06:54the kingdom. Rhaenys burned Planktown, but the town was on a river, and almost everyone hid from
07:01the fire and the water. Lord Tyrell took an army to meet the Dornish in battle, but the Dornish
07:07refused to meet in battle. Instead, they retreated and led the Conqueror's army on a wild goose chase
07:14through the desert, poisoning the wells and crops along their way, or his Baratheon and his men
07:21were trapped in between rockslides, and everyone except Orys and a few others who were kept for
07:27ransom by the widow-lover of Wyll. Aegon conquered a few empty castles full of women and children,
07:34and then met Rhaenys at Sunspear, which she had also taken since no one was there to fight,
07:40including the Princess of Dorne, Maria Martell, or the Yellow Tude. Aegon announced victory and
07:48installed his own men. However, as soon as he was back in King's Landing, the Dornish came out of
07:54hiding and overthrew all the villains, killing and torturing them. The war continued for years
08:01without much progress. In Sevenac, the widow-lover ransomed Orys back to King's Landing.
08:08When Aegon realized that he had cut off Orys' sword hand, he burnt Wylls, but the widow-lover
08:15hid in caves and tunnels beneath the mountains in Tennessee. Rhaenys was leading an attack on
08:20Helmholtz when a defender launched a scorpion that hid her dragon Maracas in the right eye,
08:27where axes crushed the tower and died. No one knew whether Rhaenys died in the fall,
08:33or beneath her dragon, or in prison. Years later, Aegon and Visenya spent the next two years
08:40scorching all of Dorne, paying ransoms to anyone who would kill a Dornish lord,
08:45and escaping from several assassination attempts themselves. In Thirteen, Ac Maria Martell died in
08:54her sleep. She was succeeded by her son Nemo, who sent his own daughter Daria to King's Landing
09:00to broker peace. Aegon was about to refuse, but then Daria gave him a personal letter that changed
09:07his mind. He flew to Dorne and agreed to peace without surrender, and so the Dornish were
09:13victorious, and Aegon would rule Westeros for twenty-four more years, without another war.
09:20Now, this chapter demonstrates Westeros is full of rampant sexism, even though some of the
09:27strongest leaders in the realm are women. Princess Maria Martell, an elderly woman,
09:33is the only one in the Seven Kingdoms who was able to defend her kingdom against the Targaryen
09:39against the Targaryen invaders. But rather than appreciating the victory, the people of Westeraid
09:45her strategies. Dornish courage became a mocking name for cowardice amongst the lords and knights
09:52of Aegon's kingdom. More would say Maria fought like a woman with lies and treachery and witchery.
10:00The Dornish victory was seen to be dishonorable. Here we see that no matter
10:06what sort of intelligent or impressive feats a woman can court in Westeros,
10:12she would never garner the sort of widespread acclaim and idolization as Aegon, who massacres
10:18and burns people alive in their own homes. The First Dornish War lasted nine years and killed
10:25thousands, and it seems heavily implied and makes the most sense that the letter Aegon received from
10:31the Dornish to end the war was written in Rhaeny's handwriting. Ultimately, we will never know what
10:38was written in the letter, and thus the theme of ambiguity in history is well exemplified in
10:44Fire and Blood.