Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) Audiobook (Free)

Place 300 years prior to the events within a Song of Snow and Fire, FIRE AND BLOOD may be the definitive background of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn, and chronicles the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule to the Dance from the Dragons: the Targaryen civil battle that nearly finished their dynasty forever.

The thrilling history of the Targaryens involves life within this masterly work by the writer of the Tune of Ice and Fire, the inspiration about Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A GAME of Thrones (A Targaryen History) for HBO’s Game of Thrones.

With all the open fire and fury fans attended to anticipate from internationally bestselling author George R.R. Martin, this is actually the first level of the definitive two-part background of the Targaryens in Westeros.

Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, Home Targaryen – the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria – used home on Dragonstone. Fireplace and Blood starts their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, inventor from the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the decades of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic chair, all the way up to the civil battle that nearly tore their dynasty apart.

What really happened through the Dance of the Dragons? Why was it so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What had been Maegor the Cruel’s most severe crimes? That which was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? These are but some of the queries answered with this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel, and featuring a lot more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley.

With all the current scope and grandeur of Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall from the Roman Empire, Fire and Blood is the ultimate game of thrones, giving visitors a complete new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.