Okay.
So House of the Dragon deals with a feuding family and the question
of whether a woman can take over an esteemed family legacy.
So like succession with dragons.
But with this video, we're going back to where it all began.
Throughout it, we're going to be breaking down the ultimate chad,
the top G of Westeros, Aegon the Conqueror.
Don't turn off the video.
It's going to get better, I promise.
His dream is mentioned a lot throughout the series, and for those
not in the know, he traveled to Westeros because he saw a world for the taking.
There were unlimited riches and because he had dragons,
he saw it as being something that he could easily conquer.
Now, according to this secret pass from King to King, Aegon foresaw
the end of the world of men seemingly protecting the coming of the night.
King.
To combat this, he believed a Targaryen had to be sitting on the Iron Throne,
which is why Aegon let his dragons and sisters in order to conquer Westeros.
But he was Aegon.
And how did he come to unify the different kingdoms of Westeros under
no one throne?
Well, that's what we're going to be breaking down.
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Now let's get into egg on the concrete.
Aegon was born in Dragonstone 20 BCE.
This was during the Century of Blood, which followed the doom of malaria.
You might have heard the terms BC and AC bandied about a house of the Dragons
breakdowns, and the latter stands for After Conquest, whereas B.C.
means before.
The book Fire and Blood opens by detailing the dates of this.
And truthfully, we don't know the exact specific time
the AC began as the conquest wasn't done in the day.
However, it gives us a rough time as to when Egg En arrived and changed Westeros.
The Targaryen Lords had fled to Dragonstone prior to the doom of Ellaria
and a Danish.
Targaryen predicted that the greatest kingdom
man had ever known or will ever know would be blown up.
So the idea of predicting the future is not solely isolated to Aegon is foresight.
And predicting of the future is something that often happens with the targaryens
and the clairvoyance is known as dragon dreaming.
Now, one of the main reasons Aegon's dream wasn't known in Game of Thrones
is that it didn't tell anyone except those next in line to the throne.
And thus when they had this civil war, it just didn't get passed along.
Now, Aegon was born to Arya and Targaryen and Lady Billon of Clarion,
and he had an elder sister, a senior and a younger sister, a niece.
The Targaryens loved incest more than Rick and Morty.
And as was tradition, he was betrothed to his sister.
However, he did end up marrying both and he was said to have married
Vesna out of duty whilst Renee's was out of love.
Now, whilst Aegon had this dream to take over Westeros in order to ensure
that the realms of man would survive,
there were other matters that he had to attend to first.
As we mentioned previously, Aegon was born in the Century of blood
after the doom of Ellaria.
That ended up being a power vacuum, with many vying for control in the land of us.
Aegon was approached by the cities of Penthouse and Interior
to form an alliance and defeat.
Brillantes ended up agreeing to this and this start up his conquest.
He saw each of these cities in the original Game of Thrones show
when Daenerys's
and her exile ended up freeing them before heading out into Westeros.
Her story somewhat mirrors that of Aegon's,
and like they say, it's like poetry.
They rhyme.
Now, with this alliance with Penthouse and Tyrell,
he flew the lease on his dragon to burn the fleet.
Polenz Aegon did this by writing Bulgarian,
who is also known as the Black Dread.
We've seen this dragon's skull which sits into the right key,
and it's also the dragon that King mistress wrote.
Now, Aegon, sister of a century niece, would also ride their own dragons.
Vega and Maraxus.
Bulgarian was a ridiculously large dragon and he could cover
entire towns in shadows, showing that size matters.
His sister's for senior and my niece would ride.
Vega and Maraxus.
We've already seen that. Vega.
It's the guy you girl tells you not to worry about.
Vega has, of course, shown up in House of the Dragon.
And it's not the only thing from Egan's time that carries over the Senate.
So a dark sister is also used by Damon.
And again, the second, of course, carries his name Crown and also is thought to.
Time is really a flat circle, isn't it, though?
After the clash
with Brillantes, Aegon was now free to focuses attentions on Westeros
and he set about taking over and uniting all the kingdoms.
Agam was helped by some to have visited Westeros before his invasion,
with there being reports that he passed through
as the Citadel and also Solana's port before the invasion began.
Aegon would commission the painted table
and we've seen this popping up throughout all of the TV shows.
This is used by both Stannis and Denarius and it was a focal point
in House of the Dragons episode ten.
Rhaenyra also held her Black Council around this ante, planned out
how best to defeat the villainous Greenes.
The table in the book is described as being 50 feet long and 20 feet wide,
where they're giving a full view of Westeros
so that strategies can be formulated underneath.
That, one can use candles and fires to light up the map and give an idea
of how the realm will look on fire because it's all going to burn.
Now, prior to his conquest,
the rulers of Westeros were the king in the north.
Current stock, Ronald Aron,
King of the Mountain and Vale Haran Whole King of the Isles and the Rivers.
Loren, the first Lannister King of the rock men God, now
king of the Rich, which is why I'm call myself a character undone
the storm king, also known as our Gaelic The Arrogant
and Myra Martell, Princess of Dorne,
butchered all those names.
But moving on now, Helen had just completed work
on the mighty Haran Hole, which would appear in House of the Dragon
being burned with some very strong people inside.
This was known
as the tallest castle in Westeros, and its ruler refused to bend the knee to Aegon.
He said that he was safe within its walls as stone didn't burn.
But my mind played a game of round and find out and he lost very badly.
It said that Bulgarian bend the wooden hay that lay within it
and then focused on the stone.
This is said to have gotten so hot that it actually turned to molten
and that it wasn't exactly a good day at Haran Hole.
We'll get into this more in a bit.
But Herron Hall was also the location of the declaration of Osiris as Johannes,
the first heir
apparent, had been looking to expand when our galaxy aligns with Aegon.
But he was mugged off an eagerness to marry his daughter, only
for Aegon to offer his friend Boris Baratheon instead furiously.
All Garlock refused, as he considered it an insult.
As Horace was possibly a bastard ended up cutting off the hands of the envoy
who sent the message
and he sent one two egg on saying These are the only hands you will receive.
As we know, killing a messenger isn't something you should
do, and it's only Raymond's going to find out first hand.
Now, either way, this led to Aegon
declaring war on Westeros, and he sent a raven to each of the kings.
This proclaimed him to be the only king in Westeros,
and it stipulated that those up and the NI would keep their lands and titles.
As we know from Game of Thrones, there's constantly a disputed line of succession,
and I feel like everyone is constantly declaring they're the rightful ruler.
Like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy.
Now, Aegon began his campaign
by aligning in Westeros with his sisters and a small army of 1600 men.
Aegon ended up constructing the egg and fought
and what's known as Akin's hell.
This area of a time became known as King's Landing,
as people flock there once again became the king.
Now the Aegon forward would be replaced by the mighty Red Keep, which still stands
this day while in Westeros with construction beginning in 35 B.C..
Also joining Aegon side were the houses Celt, Gaul, Masi and lastly, Valerian.
There appears to be some inspiration taken from the real life Duke of Normandy,
who was more famously known as William the Conqueror.
Missandei gave him his first crown, and Rainey named him Aegon first of his name.
King of all, Westeros and shield of his people.
We touched on this before.
And arguably, one of the biggest and most famous events of battles of the conquest
was the burning of Harran Hall.
Be told about this curse in other videos, but it's one of the most savage things
that God did, and its effect has been seen regularly across the TV shows.
Clarence House House Hall fought against seconds forces,
but they couldn't match the Dragons and thus they hid in the castle.
As we talked about earlier.
He mocked Meghan, saying
that Stone doesn't burn, and Naga replied with one of the most metal lines ever.
He watched him run off about how he was safe in his house.
And Aegon said, When the sun sets, your line shall end again.
Row, bellerin and burn the castle to ash, killing Haran and his sons
with their swords being sent to the egg and fought every time soldier as a house
ladies would have feared,
as swords were collected and sent off and I'm sure you can guess what they got
made into.
Now with the whole being destroyed again, look to the storm lens and decided
they needed conquering too.
This led him directly into a battle with the forces of Auchinleck,
who again previously insulted prior to the invasion.
This battle was known as the last storm and our marathon and Queen
released the feared archeology.
The Queen used a dragon to take out his men and Iris defeated him in
single combat, all, as he guessed it would form housebreaking.
And he took our Galaxy Theater bombing.
The mist is still your house here, bastard.
And from here again
would go on to attempt to take the rest of Westeros, which I'm calling Westeros.
Anyway, the kings of High God and the Rock Men, Gardner and or Neistat,
formed an alliance.
It was an unprecedented one.
And their army was gigantic and formidable by that egg inside had dragons.
So no matter what, it's still even the playing field.
The battle is known as the field of fire,
and almost 4000 men were killed, burned during this attack.
The Gardner Line ended up pretty much extinct after this with a fire
killing the king and all his sons.
It ended up with Lauryn bending the knee and another name you might recognize
being given lordship over Hightower all in Tyrrell was rewarded
after yielding the castle with the titles of Lord of Hie Garden,
Lord Paramount of the Man That and Warden of the South being given
an author's name as Turn, Stark was marching to face the Targaryens.
But something happened
which was very, very unlike the Northman that we've come to know in the show.
In Books, stock would go on to yield the egg on,
and he became the Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North.
However, with this also came a little less of a same name,
and throughout the legends, he's been known as the King, who knelt
after watching the end of Game of Thrones and the revelation of Egg
in the Stream in House of the Dragon.
This meaning has some fresh light shone on it, as Sarah said, how there must be
a tall gathering on the Iron Throne and mentioned the song of ice and fire.
The ice could be the frozen wastelands the white walkers
come from, but it could also be the Starks.
The Starks were unbound and beautiful men.
So what would cause a stubborn house like this to yield to a foreign invader?
Perhaps Torin yielded because the details of the dream
and the knowledge that there's something evil beyond on the wall.
The piece was made as tone and realized that by the burning of iron
hall and the field of fire, it showed that dragons ate not enough
with the was next, which was won by the Xenia simply flying.
They got to meet the young king.
Ronald Aaron asked for a ride on the back and he was so impressed
that he ended up kneeling. So nice one.
And this was despite his mother region trying to secure an alliance,
by the way, of marriage making wrong on the air, which was obviously refused.
The only place not to be conquered was the dawn.
And it wouldn't be until three
ac that Aegon would try and go back in order to complete the set.
He was lying it up like a shiny charizard that was just our reach.
Like a gummy to Milo.
Dawn proved to be the hardest place
to conquer and the hand of King Osiris ended up being captured.
Things went from bad to worse as rain east fell into AC
after the dragon Maraxus was shut down from the sky.
It was a long and brutal war and it also appeared to have no end.
Agon was almost killed twice, and this is why the King's Card was form
so that he had his royal protectors as the best fighters in the land.
In 13 AC the bloodshed ended and my mama
tell the prince of Dawn sent the skull of Maraxus to egg on this.
Also brought with it a letter that accepted the contents
leading to finally the conquest of the Seven Kingdoms being carried out
by the world at this point was pretty much laid out how it is in the show,
and it's extremely similar to what we've seen in the series as the king.
Ironically, Aegon attempted to be a peaceful ruler, and he established
the king's peace, where conflict can only be decided by the Iron Throne.
That throne is forged using the source of his defeated enemies,
and he rewarded RS Baratheon service by making him one of the king.
He also became a father in seven AC to a niece and would later father
Meg in a cruel well maker at the time with his son in about 11 AC.
There were rumors that she was actually barren,
and a lot of people wondered whether a niece was illegitimate.
The Iron Islands were secured into AC, and once the kingdoms United
the Realm enjoyed what was known as the Dragons Peace,
Aegon attempted to assimilate into Westerosi culture
and he built a sept send you hell and also won on my niece's
other major constructions included the giant wall of King's Landing,
as well as the red key because again, fool wasn't fit for a king egg
and died in 37 ac and dragonstone at the age of 64.
And he was cremated,
similar to the Saracens wife, Emma, which we saw in House of the Dragon.
He was succeeded by a niece,
the first a meg or the cruel, which is a whole video in itself.
But there you have it, the life and times of Egan the Conqueror,
a legendary figure who did the impossible and unite the Seven Kingdoms.
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