We ca n’t make out who will end up sitting on the Iron Throne at the final stage of George R.R. Martin ’s book and TV saga — but now , Martin is show us more of how the first King got to sit on that pointy seat of baron . Martin has released asamplefromThe World of Ice and Fire , his guidebook to Westeros .
Top image : Aegon on Black Dread by J. Gonzalez
The excerpt portion out with Aegon the Conqueror and his conquest of Westeros , and in particular with all the fall guy who did n’t just drift over when Aegon decided to unite the Seven Kingdoms under his convention . Here ’s a taste :
The Westeros of Aegon ’s youth was divided into seven quarrelsome kingdoms , and there was hardly a sentence when two or three of these kingdoms were not at war with one another . The vast , cold , stony North was rule by the Starks of Winterfell . In the comeuppance of Dorne , the Martell princes arrest rock . The gold - rich westerlands were ruled by the Lannisters of Casterly Rock , the fertile range by the Gardeners of Highgarden . The Vale , the Fingers , and the Mountains of the Moon belong to House Arryn . . . but the most warring kings of Aegon ’s time were the two whose kingdom repose snug to Dragonstone , Harren the Black and Argilac the Arrogant .
Who do you think turned out to be more trouble ? Harren the Black or Argilac the Arrogant?Find out more over at Martin ’s website , and even more when the book come out in October .
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