Set three-hundred years prior to the events of }A Song Of Ice & Fire{, the history of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn is given here, comparable in scope and grandeur to Gibbon's }The History Of The Decline & Fall Of The Roman Empire{, presenting the history of Westeros in a dynamic new light Set 300 years before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire, FIRE AND BLOOD is the definitive history of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn, and chronicles the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule through to the Dance of the Dragons: the Targaryen civil war that nearly ended their dynasty forever.