The Targaryens are small in number in the game of thrones, but the stories of their kings are so wonderful that we might as well start with the conquerors and tell their stories.
The Dragon King's family came from the continent of Essos on the other side of the Narrow Sea, the Valyrian civilization before the Apocalypse, the most glorious and great civilization in the world of ice and fire, once ruled by forty Dragon King families. The Targaryens were not prominent in Valyria, at the relative bottom of power, and Dragonstone was the westernmost island fortress they occupied in the Empire's sphere of influence.
In 114 BC, Igen's ancestor, the Exile Inal Targaryen, foresaw that Valyria would be destroyed by fire because of his daughter "Dreamwalker" Denis, sold his family property in the Valyrian Fortress of Freedom, and moved to Dragonstone Island with 5 dragons. 12 years later, the apocalypse really befell the imperial fortress, the loss of the shock of the free city-state began a century of "bloody century", the lucky surviving Dragon King family fell and disappeared, and the Targaryen family became the only remaining dragon family.
Born in BC27, Egan the Conqueror has silver-blond hair and purple eyes of Valyrian ancestry, wears a sword made of Valyrian steel, Black Fire, and rides the "Black Death" Bellerion (one of the 5 dragons brought from Valyria). Before the War of Conquest, Valantis had invited him to join in rebuilding valyria's splendor together, but Egon refused them, and when the Free City-State War broke out, he chose to stand against Valantis and shattered their imperial dreams. But he was not a man without ambition, his eyes were on the western continent, and the picture table of the seven mountains and rivers and towns on Dragonstone Island was proof of this.
According to the custom of intermarriage within the Dragon Clan, Egon married his sister Visanya, as well as his sister Renice (it is said that one is for duty, one for love). Visanya is the eldest sister, extremely beautiful in appearance, but fierce in temperament, since childhood to learn swords, wear the Valyrian steel sword "Dark Sisters", riding the dragon Vaghar is a great warrior (the idol of the second lady). Yi Geng is the second oldest, he can fight but not fight, competitive but also generous, very kingly style. The third sister, Renice, is more girly, and the mount is "Mirasis", willful and curious, often flying with dragons. After that, the three of them fight together on the battlefield, so that the seven powers are unified under targaryens.
At that time, the continent of Westeros was still ruled by seven kings, and the battles were continuous: The Stark of Winterfell in the North, Martell in dorn, Lannister in kaiyan in the West, the Gardener in RiverBend, the Bright Moon Mountains in the Valley, Hellenburg Hall in the River, and Durunden in the Stormy Ground. At this time, the King of Heyu was the famous "Black Heart" Heron, and his grandfather, the Iron Breed "Strong Hand", seized the Land of the River from the Storm King, and continued to encroach on the eastward expansion to Twilight Valley City.
Argilla Durunden was the last descendant of the Storm King, and when he was young, he was also proud and brave, fighting in all directions, sandwiched between the "black heart" Heron and Dorn, intending to curb the decline, but helpless. So he threw an olive branch to Targaryen, married his only daughter to Egon, and promised to dowrize a large area of land north of the Blackwater River (which had long been taken away by Heron). Yargira played a good game, and he hoped to place Egon between him and Heron as a barrier and buffer for himself.
However, Egon did not accept it, but instead proposed that it was okay to marry his daughter, but only to his good friend Oris Baratheon (rumored to be Egon's illegitimate brother). Yaljira was furious, feeling that Egon was clearly a face-punch insult, how could his daughter marry an illegitimate child, and then cut off the messenger's hand and sent it back to Dragonstone Island. This gave Egon an ideal excuse for the conquest war, and Egon immediately summoned his vassals to plan a landing in Westeros and embark on his own conquest.
Yi Geng first sent a letter to the princes of the whole country: from now on, there is only one king in Westeros, who bends his knees to me, whose glory can be guaranteed, who is obsessed with it, and who will never recover. With one pick seven, the conqueror is so domineering. Then Yi Geng and his sisters, leading a small number of soldiers and vassals (some say more than a thousand, some say hundreds) landed at the mouth of the Blackwater River, which was still only three small tubao fishing villages, and he camped on the highest hill, which was the later Igen Hill and the original Igen Castle.
Egon sent his two wives, the Dragon, to conquer Fort Stokeworth and Roseby without bloodshed. The first decent resistance was a combination of troops from The Towns of Twilight valley and Nüquan, who confronted Oris Baratheon, and Egon rode the "Black Death" from the sky, and the battlefield immediately turned into a one-sided massacre, and counts of Daklin and Muton died on the spot, as did Twilight and Nühon Springs. Twilight was financially powerful, and Visannia forbade soldiers to loot the town, providing enough money for the ensuing conquests.
After controlling more than a dozen castles around the mouth of the Blackwater River, Egon was crowned on the high hill of Egon, and the defeated lord placed his sword at the feet of Egon to swear allegiance, and Egon also kept his promise to ignore the previous suspicions. Visannia wears a ruby-encrusted Valyrian steel crown on her brother's head and, in accordance with Westeros tradition, uses a red dragon on a black background and three heads as her coat of arms as her coat of arms to show her sincerity in Westeros. In this regard, the king of Westeros, the guardian of the whole territory, the name of Egon Targaryen I went down in history.
The kings of the seven kingdoms were urgently negotiating a response strategy, but Egon did not give them much time, and now that they were crowned, the next step was to take the entire kingdom. Egon sent his main force, led by Oris Baratheon (the first king's hand), to cross the Blackwater River downwind castle, with Renées traveling with Mirasis; Damon Valerian (Minister of The Sea) led a fleet of attacks on seagull towns and valleys, escorted by Visania and Waghar; He himself took the God Eye Lake and confronted the "black heart" Heron.
All three armies met fierce resistance as they set out. The vassals of the Windsor Castle took advantage of Orris's troops to cross the river, raided the forward troops, killed thousands of enemies and fled into the forest; The Erins also summoned their fleets to encounter the Targaryen fleet at sea, with Damon Valerian killed and a large number of warships lost; Yi Geng himself was also attacked twice on the south shore of Shenyan Lake, and suffered heavy losses in the "Battle of Wailiu".
However, the dragon appeared, and the balance of war still tilted in the direction of Yi Geng. The Vesanian dragon burned the warships in the valley, Reynis turned the forest where the enemy was hiding into flames, and Egon ignited the retreating warships of Heron's troops, and Heron's two sons were burned to death. Think about it, the dragon is the fleet + armored unit, and while others were still in the era of cold weapons, Targaryen was several generations ahead.
But for these kings on the continent of West, they faced not only the external troubles of Egon, but also their own internal troubles. The "black heart" Heron was notorious, and the princes of the river had long been deeply disgusted with these cruel iron people, and the Tuli family of Rushing City first of all, raised the red dragon flag on a black background, and the princes of the three rivers followed suit, and attacked Heron Castle with the Dragon King.
Herren firmly believed that Herrenberg was indestructible, coupled with abundant grain and grass, closed doors, no peace talks and no surrender. So Targaryen gave the world a lesson that will never be forgotten, the Black Death took advantage of the night, the flames and anger poured on the solid walls of Herrenberg, the dragon flame was so hot, the tower melted like a candle, and lit the first candle for his master, Heronbourg became the tomb of the "black heart" Heron family, and the ruined city wall became the best warning for the dragon clan for the next hundred years.
The Hall family was destroyed, and the lords of the Three Rivers Valley changed lords, and Edmin Tully was made a duke and a guardian of the river because of his choice of current affairs, leading the princes of the three rivers to pledge allegiance to the Dragon King. When the flames of Herrenberg cooled, Egon collected the swords of the defeated army and sent them back to the mouth of the Blackwater River, after which they became part of the Iron Throne.
Storm King's "proud" Yaljira is more difficult to deal with, and he refuses to repeat the fate of Heron's "roast suckling pig", and he wants to hold a sword in his hand and control his own destiny. He led his men north and took the initiative to find the enemy to fight a decisive battle, but the movement of the army was completely detected by Queen Renice's dragon. Oris Baratheon took a position outside the Copper Gate, waiting for the Storm King to arrive, and on the day of the battle, with torrential rains and winds, Argilla launched three unsuccessful attempts, and finally seized the opportunity to break through the enemy line for the fourth time, but then crashed into Renis and her dragon. Under the dragon flames, the war horses panicked, the soldiers fled in all directions, Yaljira was also thrown off his mount, and the two white-bearded old kings did not concede defeat, he alone faced several people and dueled with Oris. In the end, the proud Storm King completed his "last storm", and died with a sword in his hand, getting what he wanted.
The Storm King is dead, and the StormLands' lords and knights flee leaderlessly, but the Storm King's daughter, Argenna Baratheon, holds on to the Windstorm Castle, preferring to die. But her soldiers betrayed her and tied her naked to Oris Baratheon's barracks tent. Admiring the bravery of King Argilla, Orris married Arjena, inherited her family crest and motto, and became the new Duke of Windsor Castle.
The defeat of the Riverlands and the Windswept Fort put a lot of pressure on the other kings. King Mon IX of Riverbend formed an alliance with Loren, King of Kaiyan, and led the largest army ever built, and five thousand knights, to the northeast. Upon hearing the news, Yi Geng led his army to join the two queens in Shitang Town, and then rushed south to fight.
The decisive battle was fought on the plains of the Heishui River South, and the combined forces of the King of Hewan and the King of Kaiyan mostly adopted the strategy of charging in the middle and encircling the two wings. Facts have proved that in the face of absolute strength, it is useless to manage the clever layout of your multitude of people. It was autumn, the plains were thick with grassland, the wheat straw was dry and yellow, and Yi Geng and his sisters patiently waited for the enemy to penetrate deeper, and then drove the dragon to attack. Before Yi Geng's main attack, the two sisters responded back and forth, setting fire to all the grasslands around the enemy, the two coalition forces were surrounded by flames, the battlefield became a cremation ceremony, countless people were burned alive, luckily escaped from the flames surrounded, and were shot by the Dragon King soldiers who were guarding outside, and later generations called this tragic battle "angry fire".
King Munn and his sons and grandchildren were all burned to death, and the gardener family was annihilated. King Luo Lun of Kaiyan sought an opportunity to escape, and was captured the next day, king Kaiyan threw his sword and conceded defeat, and was given the title of Duke of Kaiyan City and the guardian of the Western Realm. Yi Geng then hurried to the high court of King Meng En, in case he was taken first. After the start of the war, the High Court was run by the governor Harlan Tyrell, who did not resist, took the initiative to surrender Kaesong, swore allegiance to the conquerors, and the Duke of The High Court and the Guardian of the Southern Frontier also fell into the hands of the Tyrell family.
Egon had wanted to go south to conquer the old town, Qingting Island, and Dorn, but at this time, news came from the north that the king of the north, Toruren Stark, had gathered his vassals and led an army of 30,000 people through the neck and killed all the way. Yi Geng had to lead his army north and send a letter to the two queens and the princes who had surrendered. The two armies met at the Trident River, and Toruń Stark watched as the flags of the princes on the opposite bank of half a continent flew under the banner of the Dragon King, and the camp was boundless, and the three dragons hovered overhead, and did not rush to attack.
The ruins of Herrenberg and the horrors of the raging wilderness were frightening, and after the King of the North had consulted with the princes, he sent envoys to the enemy camp in the dark of the night to discuss, regardless of the details of the discussion, and the next day Toruśn Stark placed the crown of the King of the North at the feet of the conqueror, bowed down to the vassals, and was made the Duke of Winterfell and the Guardian of the North. He was also known as the "King of Submission", and a few years later, an inn was built here, called the "Stack of Bent Knees". But as a king, he is his own and the kingdom's, at the cost of the crown, to avoid scorching corpses, right or wrong, the future generations have their own comments.
After conquering the North, Egon and the Queen separated again, Egon marched south into the Old Town, Wisonia again to the Valley, and Reynis to the Dorne Desert. The little king of the valley was still young, and was regent by his mother, Shara Erin (it was rumored that Empress Shara was extremely beautiful, and after the conquest war began, she tried to seduce Egon with a portrait in order to reach a marriage, but without success). Empress Shara was also attacked on her back, and after the war began, the Three Sisters Island took the opportunity to rebel, and Targaryen's fleet attacked at Seagull Town.
Empress Charla mobilized a large number of knights at the Blood Gate to guard the main road to Eagle's Nest City. But no amount of guards could help the dragon, and Visannia drove Vaghhar to land in the courtyard of eagle's nest, and Empress Shala rushed to summon the knights to respond, but found the little king sitting on Visannia's lap and asked him if he could ride the dragon. The two ladies smiled at each other and agreed, and the valley swore allegiance to the conquerors.
Renées Targaryen was not so smooth, she flew over the Crimson Mountains, over the red sand and white sand, but found that the cities of Dorne were empty, leaving only the old and weak women and children. Reynis arrives at The City of Suns and finds Princess Dorne Merilla Martell waiting for her at the castle. Merella has ruled Dorne for 60 years, and now at the age of 80, she is still strong. She told Renées that the Dornes, like their own tribal language, were "indomitable" and never yielded. Unable to ask where the army was, Reynness had no choice but to leave, but she vowed that the next time the Targaryens would come with "blood and fire."
The old town is the cultural center of Westeros, the oldest and richest city, where the church and the school city are stationed, garrisoned by the Hightower family of the Tower of Heaven, as well as the armed forces that swear allegiance to the church: the Knights of the Paladin Sword and the Knights of the Stars. Egon thought there would be a hard battle to fight, but unexpectedly, the old town opened its doors to meet Egon. It is said that at the beginning of the conquest, the archbishop fasted and prayed for 7 days, and was guided by the golden lamp of the old woman: if there was a rebellion, the old town would be destroyed. The pious Earl of Hightower accepted the bishop's advice and took the initiative to bow down. I don't know whether God is very holy or whether man is very wise, in short, everything is God's will.
Egon was not a believer in the Seven Gods, but given the authority of the Church in Westeros, he chose to accept the Church's blessing and convert. Three days later, at the Church of the Stars, the Archbishop smeared seven holy oils on Egon's forehead, crowned him, and proclaimed him Egon Targaryen I, king of the Andals, Loynas and ancestors, ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and guardian of the whole territory (the "Seven Kingdoms" were only fictitious titles, and Indoğn did not yield, and for more than a hundred years thereafter).
This day is seen as the beginning of Igen's reign.