1. A Dance With Dragons - A Song of Ice and Fire Book 5
(News/Latest News)

Well it looks like Amazon has a release date for A Dance With Dragons. July 12, 2011. And Martin seems pretty confident about it, so I think it has finally arrived! On Amazon: A Dance with Dragons: A ...

2. Timeline: The Targaryen Succession
(World of Westeros/History)

... son 103 — 129 Viserys I Grandson to Jaehaerys 129 — 131 Aegon II Eldest son of Viserys (disputed by his elder sister, Rhaenyra, leading to the Dance of the Dragons) 131 — 157 ...

3. Timeline: History of Westeros
(World of Westeros/History)

...  500 - Targaryens leave Valyria, land on Dragonstone 400 - Doom of Valyria - Dothraki ride out of the east 400 — 300 - The Bleeding Years 300 AGE OF THE DRAGONS - Harren ...

4. The Maester
(About Game of Thrones/Game Rules)

... and wet nurses’ stories. 20 Uncommon, known by only a few people; knowledge of dragons and Valyrian steel. 25 Obscure, known by few, hard to come by; history of the children of the forest ...

5. Stannis Baratheon
(World of Westeros/People)

11th Level (Man-at-arms 2 / Noble 3 / Commander 4 / Knight 2) Stannis Baratheon is the Lord of Dragonstone and Master of Ships for his brother, King Robert Baratheon. Middle of the Baratheon brothers, ...

6. History of the Targaryens
(World of Westeros/History)

... well as the Targaryens who fled to Dragonstone, most of Valyria's culture, language, and craft was lost in the Doom. Valyria is best remembered for its unique ability to raise dragons and use them as ...

7. Drogo
(World of Westeros/People)

... is more to the Khal than the weapons of sex and war. If Starks are wolves, Lannisters are lions, and Targaryens are dragons, Drogo would surely be a stallion — the heart of his people. It would be easy ...

8. Dragonstone - A Song of Ice and Fire
(Resources/Images)

A view of Dragonstone, former seat of House Targaryen, as envisioned by the artist Ted Nasmith and published for the critically acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire:  ...

9. Currency in Westeros & Beyond
(World of Westeros/Miscellaneous)

... in relation to other coins. Coppers and silver stags are the standard coinage used by most of the Seven Kingdoms. For the nobility, however, gold dragons flow more freely. A knight captured in war may ...

10. Old Valyria
(World of Westeros/History)

... dragons.  ...

11. The Age of Dragons
(World of Westeros/History)

... of the Doom fled on ships. One family of high lords, the Targaryens, had settled upon Dragonstone 100 years previously, and so it is that the Targaryens and their dragons arrived on Westeros, lead by Aegon ...

12. The Age of Valyria
(World of Westeros/History)

During the Age of Heroes, the empire of Old Ghis was the chief power of the east (the continent of Essos). Their fall would be legendary, the result of the Valyrians ... and their dragons. The Freehold ...

13. A Song of Ice and Fire
(About Game of Thrones/The Project)

... (2000) A Feast for Crows (2005) A Dance with Dragons (2011) The Winds of Winter (forthcoming) A Dream of Spring (forthcoming) Martin has also published two short stories (novellas) ...

14. Daenerys Targaryen
(World of Westeros/People)

... of the royal house of the Dragon happened while she was growing in Queen Rhaella’s womb. The treachery of the usurper, the return to Dragonstone, her birth and her mother’s death, the flight and exile ...

15. Names in the Seven Kingdoms & Beyond
(World of Westeros/Miscellaneous)

... (the Westerlands), Pyke (the Iron Islands), Rivers (the Riverlands), Sand (Dorne), Snow (the North), Stone (the Vale), Storm (the Stormlands), and Waters (Dragonstone and King’s Landing). Bastards can ...

16. History of the Tyrells
(World of Westeros/History)

... dragons on the combined armies of King Mern and King Loren of the Rock. Harlen Tyrell, King Mern’s steward, surrendered Highgarden to Aegon and was rewarded well in return with the castle and dominion ...

17. History of the Lannisters
(World of Westeros/History)

... King Loren of the Rock tried to stand against the invading Targaryens, along with King Mern of the Reach. They might have been successful, were it not for Aegon and his sisters on their dragons. King Mern ...

18. History of the Arryns
(World of Westeros/History)

... the end of the Age of Heroes until they fell to the dragons. The Bloody Gate has long demarcated entrance to the Vale and kept the region secure — a dozen armies broke themselves against the Gate in the ...

19. Euron Greyjoy
(World of Westeros/People)

... black magic. At the Kingsmoot called by Aeron Greyjoy, he promised to conquer all Westeros for the Ironborn using dragons, which he claimed he could bind to his will with a magic horn. He was chosen ...

20. Beastiary
(World of Westeros/Miscellaneous)

... the east) Fabled Animals Basilisk (of Yi Ti) Bear, Snow Direwolf** (much larger and stronger than regular wolves reaching the size of a pony when fully grown, almost never seen south of the Wall) Dragons ...