Targaryen

House Targaryen was the royal house of Westeros for some 280 years before being deposed in the previous war. Their ancestral fortress was Dragonstone before they established the city of King's Landing and their stronghold of the Red Keep within it. Their sigil is a red three-headed dragon, breathing flame on black. Their words are Fire and Blood.

House Targaryen
The Targaryen family hails from the fabled city of Valyria on the eastern continent of Essos. Before the Doom of Valyria, the cataclysmic event that destroyed the ancient civilization, the Targaryens departed for the island citadel of Dragonstone off the Westerosi shore, the westernmost outpost in Valyria's vast empire. A century after the Doom of Valyria, Aegon I, also known as the Conqueror, began his conquest of mainland Westeros, landing with dragons and an army (at what would later be called Kings Landing). Six of the seven Westerosi kingdoms fell before him (the seventh, Dorne, later joined through a political marriage). The Targaryen dragons, which were the last known to exist, went extinct over a century after Aegon's conquest.

Unique among noble Westerosi families, the Targaryens follow the Valyrian practice of line marriage, wedding brother to sister. The phrase blood of the dragon refers to a number of typical Targaryen features: silvery-gold (or platinum) hair and purple eyes.

House Targaryen was eradicated during The Last War, killing most of the family in the process. Surviving heir Viseris fled into exile, finding refuge in Essos before returning to Westeros once of age, where he took back Dragonstone.

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