Valyria's First Sky War: The Day the Dragons Fought Each Other

Check out these Stories from the Citadel:    • What if Rickard Stark raised Ned to be lik...   Check out our Brand new website: www.theblackdread.com Long before the Dance of the Dragons, long before Aegon's Conquest, the dragonlords of Old Valyria fought a civil war that almost ended them before they ever rose. This episode is told in the voice of Acolyte Wren — a Citadel scribe whose chronicle of the First Sky War is the spine of our entire Valyrian Bible. By Wren's reckoning, there were never forty families of the Freehold. There were forty-three. Three of them do not survive what he describes. This is his account of the day-by-day collapse: the spark at Silverwind Pass, the humiliation of the Moraenar Colossi at Ash Gorge, the burning of the Glass-Road Foundry, the head-on collision between Vhaelyth "Sky-Crucible" and Glaeryx that ended the central phase of the war — and the three lost houses that explain why canon now says forty. Canon-adjacent, tagged [Fanfill] where it leaves the page. Part of our ongoing series on the forgotten events of Old Valyria. The bones remember. Before the Dance of the Dragons. Before the Conquest. Before Valyria had a name the world feared — there was a war that the dragonlords were never supposed to fight. A war that ended six dragons, three families, and almost ended Valyria itself before it ever rose. And the dragonlords erased it from the records on purpose. #Valyria #gameofthrones #oldvalyria #skywars