House Targaryen is a fictional family in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. House Targaryen ruled as the Kings of Westeros for nearly 300 years. Their seats were the capital city of King's Landing and the island castle of Dragonstone. Their sigil is a three-headed dragon breathing flames, red on black, and their words are "Fire and Blood."
The Targaryens were not native to Westeros, instead originally hailing from the freehold of Valyr...
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House Targaryen is a fictional family in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. House Targaryen ruled as the Kings of Westeros for nearly 300 years. Their seats were the capital city of King's Landing and the island castle of Dragonstone. Their sigil is a three-headed dragon breathing flames, red on black, and their words are "Fire and Blood."
The Targaryens were not native to Westeros, instead originally hailing from the freehold 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, which was at that time the westernmost Valyrian outpost. The title of Maester Thomax's work 'Dragonkin, Being a History of House Targaryen from Exile to Apotheosis, with a Consideration of the Life and Death of Dragons', mentioned in A Feast for Crows, seems to indicate that the Targaryens were exiled from Valyria. The Targaryens...
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