Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this will be my new house of the dragon video for aegon's Conquest
you probably heard the news they announced they do have plans to do a show based on aegon's conquest
and other moments in the targaryen's history so I'll explain how that's going to work and how
they're going to do it through the house of the dragon show if you're new to the channel
be sure to subscribe to get all the videos of course I'll be doing videos for all this we'll
probably be doing house the dragon and other Game of Thrones spin-offs and prequels till we're like
100 years old it'll be fantastic I can't wait to talk about house the Dragon A Song of Ice
and Fire Game of Thrones when I'm 100 years old during the current episodes on House of
the Dragon they've actually recontextualized a lot of the lore around aegon's Conquest why it
happened what he did during the conquest and how that connects with what was happening during the
events of Game of Thrones later in the timeline one of the reasons why it seems like they're
retconning things is because George RR Martin who helped them develop House of the Dragon like he's
helping them write episodes so that most of the Fire and Blood book that we're actually
adapting for the events of House of the Dragon was written by maesters of the third parties
who just weren't privy to all the information in the way that viserys explained it to rhaenyra it
was a secret that was passed down from King to successor and eventually it was lost so that's
why during the events of the main series The Only Way the characters start learning about
it is through these ancient texts that were thought lost inside the Citadel from my blood
come the prince that was promised and his will be the song Ice and Fire
it also sounds like that's how rhaegar learned about the prophecy later too before he died is
that he found it by combing through the Citadel so quick history the aegon who conquered the Seven
Kingdoms was first of his name aegon Targaryen he had a couple main nicknames that the realm later
gave him the Conqueror for obvious reasons in the dragon so anytime on the show or during the
events of Game of Thrones when you hear people refer to themselves or to other targaryens as
the dragon like oh you seem like the dragon today they're likening them to aegon the Conqueror the
way that later members of their family in the realm viewed him is sort of like a superstar so
as you'd expect over like the 300 plus years after his Conquest in their history ruling over Westeros
up to the events of the main show ending with Jon Snow many many members of their family were named
aegon for instance on the show right now we have aegon II they call him second of his name if Jon
Snow had actually sat on the Iron Throne he would have been called aegon vi aegon v is actually the
younger brother of maester Aemon and here's where we start with the conquest they're like some
important backstory aegon the Conqueror was born on Dragonstone many years after the targaryens
had fled ancient valyria and the Doom it happened they had taken five dragons with them when they
sailed for Dragonstone but only three survived to the time of aegon. Balerion the black dread
who's already died before the events of House of the dragon and the two dragons that his sisters
eventually rode vhagar who we just saw on the show written by Laena Velaryon in meraxes who
was written by his other sister rhaenys on House of the Dragon princess rhaenys the queen Who Never
Was is named after aegon's sister rhaenys during House of the Dragon we've recently learned from
viserys that aegon was born with the ability to dragon dream just like he was and now we've
learned that Helaena Targaryen has his daughter with Alicent the last ring has no legs at all
you will have a dragon one day he'll have to close an eye those are Dragon dreams that she's reciting
they're about two different members of their family the one where she says the last ring will
have no legs is about aegon the second I don't want to explain exactly what it means because
it's kind of a spoiler and I think that they're going to pay it off in a future season the other
one is about Aemond Targaryen and when she says he'll have to close an eye that's all about him
claiming a dragon like he'll claim a dragon but he has to close an eye to do it and they're going
to pay that off in episode 7 I believe so I don't want to talk too much about that because it's kind
of a spoiler right now dragon dreams are basically the gift of Prophecy visions of the future that
are specific to the Targaryen family or people of Valyrian descent Daenerys Targaryen also has
a version of dragon dreams on the main show in the house of the undying seeing visions of her
future but not totally understanding what they mean at the time and even though people mostly
think about the conquest when they think about aegon that wasn't the first war that he actually
fought in on the house of the Dragon Show recently in this past episode they actually referenced the
century of blood and that was about the hundred years after the Doom of valyria where everyone
in essos was fighting over the territory that was left in the wake of the Doom aegon the Conqueror
used Baler in the black dread to Aid pentos list some of these other cities in the East over here
which is what the prince from the East here was talking to Damon about your ancestor aegon the
Conqueror aided us in the century of blood won't you do it again now in present day so that took
place way before the actual war of Conquest but at some point when this was happening aegon Targaryen
eventually had the dragon dream about the long night and someone from his bloodline eventually
stopping it he called it A Song of Ice and Fire which is the title of George RR Martin's main
novel series and he had the prophecy etched on the Valyrian dagger which he had come into possession
of using Valyrian pyromancers they're kind of like the ancient version of The pyromancer's
Guild in present day they're the ones who eventually will create Wildfire I think the
idea is that the Valyrian pyromancers eventually morphed into the pyromancer's guild and at some
point they just lost a lot of the knowledge of ancient Valeria or it wasn't passed on or
it was destroyed during some big conflict we've learned over time that a lot of prophecies a lot
of things wind up getting lost in rebellions and insurrections viserys also says that they don't
have records of where the Valyrian dagger came from before aegon came into possession of it
he probably got it from his father before him but he does confirm that it came from ancient
valyria before that it sounds like what eventually happened is that after he etched the prophecy on
it when he would tell the prophecy to each new successor in the successor after that they would
pass the dagger along to each new king and I think that's why viserys walks around everywhere with
the dagger on his belt so we're still many years before the actual Conquest when aegon actually
had the dragon dream Westeros at that point was full of many Petty Kings each ruling over their
seven different kingdoms each warring with each other on the regular and aegon knew that unless
they all United under a single banner the realm would never be able to stop the long night so he
decided the only way to achieve that would be if he conquered the Seven Kingdoms and essentially
forced them to work together but remember he had no idea when the long night would actually come
in none of his successors did either each one thought that it could happen at any moment it
so in addition to all the infighting in the realm that would happen across the many years across the
many Targaryen Kings you have to imagine each one that knew about the prophecy was low grade
paranoid about that in the background on the house of the dragon show in the trailers we've seen the
upgraded depiction of the famous map table it's the same map table that Daenerys uses later in
Game of Thrones they just kind of reskinned it and made it look a little bit cooler during House of
the Dragon but it's meant to be the exact same one aegon is the one who created that table and he had
it done before he had the dragon dream so when he was younger dealing with all the problems in the
century of blood he had taken his Dragon balloon the black dread also flying all over Westeros so
we spent a lot of time visiting the main Realms it was during this period that he had the map
table commissioned the actual war of Conquest took about two years and then a little bit of
time after that before he was actually crowned King of the six kingdoms in door and I'll talk
about that in a second too technically he did not conquer Doran but after his Conquest they changed
the way the calendar works and they would refer to dates before the conquest as BC in and after
Conquest as AC when he completed the conquest he was crowned King by the high septon of that
day his crown was made of Valyrian steel it still exists during the events of house the dragon like
the episodes we're watching they'll bring it back eventually because it does play a role in
the episodes that are coming up everyone's always talking about the Iron Throne that was made from
the melted swords of all the people during the war of Conquest who refused to bend the knee he would
take his and his sister's dragons around to each of the Seven Kingdoms in the different Realms and
demand that they bend the knee it's not clear if he revealed the prophecy of the long night to each
of the seven different Realms when he was trying to conquer them it sounds like he did not though
like the way that viserys talks about it it was meant to be a secret that only each new successor
learned about and when aegon literally started the war of conquest by flying his Dragon sailing
his troops from Dragonstone to the mainland the place where he made landfall is at King's
Landing but at the time the area didn't have a name they just called it aegon for it because
aegon turned the area into a small town for his forces and built a small wooden fort there later
when he finished the war and was Crown King they moved the capital to this area in aegon Fort and
renamed it King's Landing before that previously for many many thousands of years back to the time
of the first men Old Town had always been the biggest Port town so that was always viewed as
sort of like the unofficial capital of Westeros the red keep that's become so famous the actual
city of King's Landing as you see it today like the larger City didn't get built till many many
years later like maegor built the red keep so for most of aegon's life he ruled from that smaller
Fort that they tore down to build the red keep the most famous battles during the war of Conquest
were the burning of harrenhal the conquest of the stormlands the conquest of the westerlands and the
reach and the invasion of Dorne there were only a couple of Realms that actually bent the knee one
of his first engagements was the actual burning of harrenhal so Harrenhal ruled over the riverlands
this area here at the time and it took about 40 years to build the castle paranol it's literally
the largest Castle in all of Westeros way bigger than the red keep what wound up happening is that
the day that the castle was completed was also the day a that aegon made landfall and when Harrenhal
refused to bend the knee aegon took blaring the black dread melted the castle so that's why they
call it the burning of harrenhal in Forever After People said that there was a curse on
harrenhal because each new Lord that would take possession of the castle in these lands would
meet some untimely fate like they would die some mysterious but gruesome death the latest being
Harwin strong and his father lyonel strong in that same curse continues to the events of the Game of
Thrones series later in the timeline during the conquest of the stormlands that actually led to
the creation of house Baratheon Orys Baratheon the first member of their house was actually
aegon's bastard brother by his father so they were actually good friends growing up and after
they conquered the stormlands he gave them to oras Baratheon and basically named him Lord Baratheon
many years later into the events of the main series The baratheons eventually intermarried with
the targaryens back and forth across the years so for instance Robert Baratheon had Targaryen blood
in his veins through his grandmother who herself was a legitimate full Targaryen so he actually
had a small claim came to the Iron Throne after Robert's Rebellion which is why the realm were
so quick to support his claim to the Iron Throne like oh well you're part Targaryen so you kind of
belong on the Iron Throne he would have been like rhaegar's cousin one of the major battles against
the Lannisters of that day was called the Field of Fire they did a version of that during Game of
Thrones season 7 where you see Daenerys basically roast Jaime Lannister's loot train there wasn't an
actual battle aegon basically just took Balerion in the black dread and burned a giant portion of
their army and then they bent the knee after that the invasion of Dorne is important because during
aegon's Conquest it was unsuccessful he did not conquer Doran it was until like way later in the
timeline even during the events of House of the Dragon right now that we're watching Dorn has
not been conquered yet so it's still the six kingdoms endoron during House of the Dragon
a few of the Realms that actually did bend the knee it didn't require any real fighting at the
time were torrhen stark king of the north at the time and sharra arryn ruler the veil at the time
and it's important to note that after the actual war of conquest and after aegon was crowned that
wasn't the last war or battle that he fought in the Seven Kingdoms the maesters recorded that
he and his sister vicenya and Rainey spent most of the rest of their lives on their dragons or
going around the slow way putting down small rebellions and dealing with each of the seven
different kingdoms so it wasn't like he conquered Westeros and then it was all quiet in the realm
for hundreds of years later after aegon died he would have passed the prophecy of A Song of Ice
and Fire to his son anes who then ruled and was viewed by most as a weak King the realm weren't
huge fans of his because knowledge of the prophecy was passed down from Jairus to viserys I'm also
assuming that maegor probably knew the prophecy too because there was a lot of infighting in the
Battle of succession that took place when aenes and maegor were alive so there were probably a
couple members in their family that knew the prophecy at that time and then obviously we
covered the events of House of the Dragon the way the showrunner explained their plan for covering
aegon's Conquest the blackfyre rebellions Tales of Dunk and egg other major events in their family's
history from Fire and Blood is that they treat the show like an anthology so like they have
three to four seasons planned for the dance of the dragons and after that it'd be like season
five for instance they would do season 5 in it'd be aegon's conquest and it'd be a completely new
cast in a new time period they cover aegon's Conquest for a couple seasons and then they
do the same thing by jumping to a different time period covering a different event so for
instance there might be like 10 to 12 seasons of House of the Dragon but it'll cover several
different eras with different casts along the way so for instance when they get to Robert's
Rebellion they would just call it house the dragon Rebellion or something like that let
me know in the comments which time period do you want them to cover after they're done with
the events of the dance of the dragons in a couple Seasons my Full House of the Dragon
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