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It is also written that there are annals in Asshai of such a darkness, and of a hero who fought against it with a red sword.
and the followers of R’hllor claim that this hero was named Azor Ahai, and prophesy his return.
The Valyrians had no kings but instead called themselves the Freehold because all the citizenry who held land had a voice.
Braavos is unique among all the Free Cities, as it was founded not by the will of the Freehold, nor by its citizens, but instead by its slaves.
It was the North and the North alone that was able to keep the Andals at bay, thanks to the impenetrable swamps of the Neck and the ancient keep of Moat Cailin.
Twelve years before the Doom of Valyria (114 BC), Aenar Targaryen sold his holdings in the Freehold and the Lands of the Long Summer and moved with all his wives,
Aegon had two trueborn siblings; an elder sister, Visenya, and a younger sister, Rhaenys.
was called Aegor Rivers, but in time became known as Bittersteel.
Bittersteel gathered exiled lords and knights, and their descendants, to him. He formed the Golden Company in 212 AC,
Maekar’s third son, Aemon, was a bookish boy who had been sent to the Citadel in his youth and emerged as a sworn and chained maester.
She and her prince, forever after known as the Prince of Dragonflies, were a favorite subject of singers for many years.
AERYS TARGARYEN, the Second of His Name, was but eighteen years of age when he ascended the Iron Throne in 262 AC,
At twenty years of age, Ser Tywin thus became the youngest Hand in the history of the Seven Kingdoms.
Joramun, who claimed to have a horn that would bring down the Wall when it woke “the giants from the earth.”
The Grey King’s greatest feat, however, was the slaying of Nagga, largest of the sea dragons, a beast so colossal that she was said to feed on leviathans and giant krakens and drown whole islands in her wroth.
