Aegon I

Lord of Dragonstone, one of the remaining parts of Valryrian Empire, that had been destroyed a few centuries before, tried to invade Westeros nearly conquering all territories. After this he was called with the legendary name of “The Conqueror”.

Powerful and good-looking warrior, married wiht his two sisters Visenya and Rhaenys, with them he led a small army riding their three famous dragons Balerion, Vhagar e Meraxes, names of ancient valyrian divinities, and using the valryrian steel sword Blackfire. His soldiers landed in the place where he later founded King’s Landing, capital city of the kingdom.

Briefly he conquered all the lands from the Wall to Dorne’s mountains, this was the only kingdom that resisted because people didn’t use to form big armies, in this way he wasn’t able to use dragons differently from what he had done in Firefields battle.

When the war ended, Aegon, with swords of enemies defeated and the dragon’s fire forged the famous Ironthrone, nowadays simbol of Seven Kingdoms’ ruler.

Aegon V

Fourth son of King Maekar I Targaryen, he is one of the most famous charachters in the past.

His nickname, when he was young, was Egg, because he had cut his long hairs in order to hide the unmistakable silvery colour of them, typical Targaryian feature, and so living as a common person.

In his youth he became equerry of the hedge knight ser Duncan the Tall, and with him travelled in Seven Kingdoms, learning common people’s life. In order to defend ser Duncan in Ashford died Baelor Targaryen “breakspear” heir to the Iron Throne and King’s Hand, incidentally killed by his younger brother Maekar, Egg’s father, who became king later.

In 233 Aegon V became king too, woth the nickname of “Improbable” because he was fourth son of a fourth son. Ser Duncan was the white guard commander.

His kingdom was one of the last happy moments in Westeros. He died in the tragic accident in Summerhall in 259, where he tried to bring life to dragon’s eggs.

Aegor Rivers

Known as "Bittersteel", he was a bastard son of Aegon IV "the Unworthy”, and of his fifth official lover lady Barba Bracken. He had black hairs, but violet eyes.

His life was full of sadness from when Aegon sent away his mother in order to have a new lover: a Blackwood, historical enemy of Bracken House. He became a good warrior and strategist, hard and angry with the world.

When Daemon Blackfire started his rebellion, Bittersteel was one of his most important supporters and when Daemon died in the Redgrass battle, Bittersteel became the commander in chief of his army. Very famous was his duel with "Bloodraven", where nobody had lost.

When all was lost, Acreacciaio took Blackfire, the valyrian sword of his half-brother and of all targaryen kings , and escaped in the Free cities where he founded a sellsword company “The golden company” and from them he continued to improve rebellions with Daemon’s sons.

From that moment the historical words of this company were “Beneath the gold, the bitter steel".

Aemon Targaryen

Son of king Viserys II, he’s the most famous knight of the Targaryen House, considered the most noble knight ever born.

His name in the seven kingdoms annals’ is Aemon the Dragonknight.

Younger brother of king Aegon IV "the Unworthy” and queen Naerys, whose he was paladin and , up to some voices , the lover. Up to other voices he was the real father of the only Aegon legitimate child, Daeron, who later became king.

In order to defend and to remain near his sister he joined the Kingsguard at the age of only seventeen, and later he became the commander. He bore the Valyrian steel sword “Dark sister”. He also won a tournament as a mysterious knight, with the name of “Knight of Tears”.

He died young, while he was defending is brother from an attempt of murder organized by Toyne brothers.

Aerys II Targaryen

Son of Jaehaerys II, born in 243, he was king between 262 and 283, he was the last targaryen ruler of the Iron throne.

Married with his sister Rhaella, he had three children: Rhaegar, Viserys and Daenerys, who was born after her father’s death. He had showed great promise at the start of his reign, helped by his King’s hand Tywin Lannister, and he had given prosperity to the reign and to the Crown, but his mind started to go crazy after the “the Defiance of Duskendale” till he became, and this was his nickname , “Mad”. This beahviour led Jon Arryn, Eddard Stark e Robert Baratheon to revolt against him and to end of Targaryen dinasty and the beginning of Baratheon dynasty.

He often acted in fits of anger, so he was very bad with his presumed enemies and in that moments he was injured many times while he was sitting on the Iron Throne. In his late kingdom, he had goy the habit of burning alive his enemies in the wildifire and he didn’t allow to bring blades while he was in a place, even in order to cut his hairs and his nails: so he became ugly.

He was murdered during Robert Baratheon’s rebellion, by the Kingsguard dalla Jaime Lannister who, for this crime,later would be known as "Kingslayer ".

Arthur Dayne

Brother of the actual lord Dayne, he was perhaps the last of Seven Kingdoms legendary riders.

Held the good rider ever existed and the most lethal of the swordsmen, perhaps only his best friend Rhaegar was him to the equal one.

Member of the King's Guard of Aerys, brandished the sword Dawn, forged with the white metal of a falling star. From here it derives his nickname "The Dawn's Sword".

When the King's Guard faced the King's Wood Brotherhood, awful outlaw's gang, Arthur Dayne was among the principal protagonists dueling and finally killing the Smiling Knight, the most dangerous bandits.

Ser Arthur died to Joy's tower, when with his brethren Gerold Hightower and Oswell Whent he was killed in fight by Eddard Stark and by his companions. The Winterfell's Lord has always preserved a sad memory of the knight, toward which he felt a strong admiration. He personally redelivered his bare and his sword to his sister Ashara, up to Sunset's Star.

Eddard has always affirmed that that day in Joy's Tower ser Arthur Dayne would surely have killed him if he had not been for his believer friend Howland Reed.

Bael "The Bard"

Legendary Over the Barrier's King, known for his great ability both with the weapons and with the harp, lived when still the Boltons and the Stark were hostile, or rather around thousand years ago.

The Stark had put a ransom on him, and the Winterfell's lord insulted him calling coward and weaks oppressor.

Bael introduced then him under lie bare to Winterfell, saying to call Sygerrik of Skagos, and he played the harp for the lord so much good that these has offered him a reward to his choice.

He asked then the most beautiful of the Winterfell's flowers, and the lord made to suffer for him a blue rose by his greenhouses.

But the following morning "Sygerrik" has disappeared, and with him the lord's daughter. In his bed alone blue petals.

Approximately after one year lord Stark was by now dying and desperate, without heirs, when a night felt the whimper of a newborn originate from the Winterfell's undergrounds. Following the sound of the howls he found his daughter's child irremediably believed lost, with at the breast her little and Bael child.

She had remained hidden for the whole time there.

The Stark were not extinguished! With the time the baby became the new Winterfell's lord without knowing his father's origin. When the Bard, returned to his kingdom, went beyond the Barrier with his brutes, his child faced him in battle and he easily killed him, because Bael didn't dare to raise his sword against the son.

But the gods don't bear the patricides, and they did justice: when he brought the head of the bard to the castle, his mother threw from the boundaries cause the pain and lord Stark time after was killed and skinned by the Boltons.

Baelor Targaryen

He’s one of the most Targaryen’s House important characters.

He’s been Born in 169, child of king Daeron II and Myriah Martell, his first enterprise was the battle of Redgrass Field, in 196 against the rebels Blackfire: the armed with the loyalist commanded by the prince Maekar and from the first rider lord Hayford he was meeting against those rebels lifted by Daemon Blackfyre, but commanded by Aegor Rivers after the death of Daemon, when Baelor "Breakspear" came from the south with a Dornian’s army.

His forces had the upper hand on the fallen's Daemon's followers , the Black Dragon.

This tactic was sung by the minstrels with the name of "Anvil and hammer."

Subsequently Baelor was named Prince of the Rock of the Dragon and First Knight of his father, of which he was already the legitimate heir to the Throne.

The people's hopes in a great king, the most greatest after Aegon the Conqueror, was brutally destroyed however by the Ashford's tournament, when taking the defenses of a stranger rider, straight against his brother Maekar and his nephews, he was incidentally killed by his brother, that became King at his place.

Brandon Stark "The Builder"

Mythological character, sustains that he lived in the Heroes age, more precisely eighttousands years ago.

He was founder of the Stark's dynasty, he made to build Winterfell and the Barrier.Legend says besides that,until child, he has contributed to the definitive construction of Storm's End after that the furious sea's god had shaved to the ground every preceding building.

It's commonly holds that also the Gift of Brandon, the territory managed by the Keepers of the Night for their maintenance, them has been given by the Builder, but some historians deduce that it was one successor of him. In fact, Brandon is certainly whose the name that has been more often datum to a newborn Stark.

Brandon Stark

First son of Lord Rickard Stark and heir to the throne of Great Winter, dead to twenty.

Promised bridegroom of Lady Catelyn Tully, while it was going to Riverrun for the marriage he was reached by the news of the abduction of his sister Lyanna from Rhaegar Targaryen.

He directed then to King's Landing and he challenged Rhaegar to duel, but he was imprisoned by King Aerys II the insane; the King called Lord Rickard to ransom his son through a duel, but at the arrival of the Great Winter's Lord, Aerys deceived him and did him burn alive in his armor using the altofuoco, while Brandon observed, with a strap of wet cuio to the neck, connected to an apparatus. In the attempt to save his father, he was strangled. Eddard Stark told of him to Catelyn, discussing about nomination to First Knight: "...he would know what to do, now. He always knew it. Everything had to go to Brandon: you, Great Winter, every thing. To Brandon, not to me. He had been born for being First Knight of the king and father of queens, not me....".

Brynden Rivers

Bastard son of king Aegon IV and his sixth official lover, lady Mylessa Blackwood,he is remembered with the nickname of "Bloodraven."

He's albin, without a strong phisychal,he was surrounded by mysteriously and restlessness aura that brought him to be feared as wizard.

He was Shiera Seastar's lover, another Aegon IV bastard son, the most fascinating woman of the time, in turn retention a witch. He brought the "Dark Sister" sword, that was of Visenya and Aemon "The Rider of the Dragon", but he preferred his long arc of wood of tree-dike.

He made his appearance in the history during the rebellion of his Daemon Blackfire's stepbrother, backed up by Aegor Rivers "Bittersteel". Also for hate toward this last Bloodraven he chose to be loyal to Daeron II, the legitimate considered king.

At the Redfield's battle he played a fondamental role: at the head of a archers troop called "Teeth of the Crow", that cast white arrows, discovered Daemon worn out at the end of a weary duel with Gwayne Corbray and he killed him piercing through him with at least seven arrows; for this he had called then "Assassin of his own blood." Private by their leader, the rebels at last surrendered to the loyalist strengths; but Bittersteel didn't accept the defeat and tried to keep on fighting, facing Bloodraven in duel. Nobody was killed, but Bittersteel extracted an eye to Bloodraven before being separate from him and before retiring from the field of the battle now lost.

Died king Daeron II, Bloodraven became Aerys First Knight, and his dark fame became even more dark: it was said that he dominated the events in the whole kingdom thanks to his spies and his witchcrafts. Today he still sings a song about him and his darkness witchcrafts : "A thousand eyes, and only one".

It's not known which was his power during the Maekar's kingdom. When however it climbed to the throne Aegon V, in 233, Bloodraven was imprisoned, condemned for witchcraft and order to the Barrier, where he becames of there to a few years Night's Watch Lord.

Criston Cole

He was the principal responsible of the terrible dynastic war remembered as "Dragon's Dance". This took place after the death of king Viserys I. His successor would be due to be his daughter Rhaenyra but the commander of the Real Watch, ser Cole, convinced a child of the Visery's second wife to make before and to complain the throne. For this reason Cole is passed to the history with the name of "King's Creator."

Aegon II was proclaimed king, but he spent the two years of his kingdom to fight against the legitimate pretension of Rhaenyra.

Many dragons, many principles and many riders perished in the war.

It whispers that Cole had been lover of Rhaenyra, but she gotten tired of him she has forced him to enlist in the Real Watch, and it was for revenge that he sustained the illegitimate pretension of Aegon.

Daemon Blackfire

Bastard son of Aegon IV the Mediocrity and of his cousin Daena the Disobedient.

Daena with her sisters was confined in a tower by his brother King Baelor to avoid that their beauty made him fall in temptation. But Daena, despite her watches, succeeded in meeting with the well attractive cousin and to conceive a child. The small Daemon became squire, and only when in a fray he defeated a great number of adversaries his father reconized him like his son.

In that occasion he gave him Blackfyre, the Valyria's steel sword that was of Aegon the Conqueror that had been possessed by all the kings.

Then in 184, in point of death, king Aegon legitimated all of his bastard children. His successor was his child that had had from his legitimate wife, Daeron II. In the meantime Daemon was become a man extremely attractive, chivalrous and popular. Great fighter and womens follow him. But his true love was for his cousin, the Daeron's sister that he had granted in wife to the Dorne's prince. In turn Daeron had married the prince's sister, and his court was frequented by Dornians, bards and teachers. Many people were happy about this state of things. Then in the 195 Daemon legitimate heir of Aegon IV was proclaimed, legitimated by the sword, and he instigated a revolt against Daeron. Taken the name of Blackfyre and the coat of arms targeryen's tipically, but with inverted colors: a black dragon with tree heads, on a red camp.

The kingdom was torn in two, men of great fame lined up with the red dragon and with the black dragon, because both the parts seemed to have the same rights. The war finished with the dreadful battle of Pratorosso, in 196,in which ten tousands men died. The battle was definite when, at the end of a lasted duel a hour, Daemon defeated Gwayne Corbray, but at the same time Brynden Rivers, said "Bloodraven", and his soldiers, killed the throne pretender, and the war was lost.

Daeron I Targaryen

First Aegon III "Poison of Dragon"'s son, he had reigned since 157 to the 161.

He climbed to the throne at fourteen. He was a fascinating knight and he was able to conquer Dorne, that pure Aegon the Conqueror had given up folding up. He wrote his enterprises in a book, exaggerating the number and the value of the enemies to give prominence to his own enterprises. But after only two weeks of subjugation the Dornianis rebelled him and shortly time all the fortytousands king's soldiers were killed, and the king has found the death at only eighteen years.

For his young age and for his conquests he is remembered with the appellative of "The Young Dragon."

Duncan "the Tall"

Wandering knight of humble origins, ascended to Lord of the Real Watch of king Aegon V and his confident.

Orphan, been born in the Fund of the Fleas of Landing of the King in 192 or 193, he was taken as squire by the wandering rider ser Arlan of Pennytree. In the 209 Arlan died, leaving Dunk alone in the world.

The lending and tall boy decided to go to the Ashford's tournament and to participate, declaring to have been served knight as Arlan in point of death. Here he meets a boy named Egg, that later he discovers to be the prince Aegon. Nevertheless he could not participate at the tournament.

Seeing the prince Aerion, Egg's brothe, to abuse a girl, took the parts of her with heat, but he was arrested for having beaten up a member of the royal family. it decided to judge him by a Seven Judgment, duel of seven warriors against seven. At the end he went out from there winning, forcing Aerion to surrender and to withdraw the accusations, but in the fight three valid men lined up him by his part died, among which the prince Baelor " spezzalancia", great kingdom's hope. Maekar, Aegon's father and Baelor's brother, granted then to the smaller child to follow Duncan in the adventures of wandering knight like his squire.

With the time Aegon became King and Duncan Lord Commander of his Real Watch. It believes that both are dead in the mysterious and controversial disaster of Room in the summer.

Gerold Hightower

Lord Commander of the King's Guard under Aerys II is remembered by everyone as a person of great value and honor, among the most notable of that group of great warriors, that Jaime Lannister believes that they were superior to any contemporary warrior.

He died at the Tower of Joy, where together with his brothers Arthur Dayne and Oswell Whent fell, fighting against Eddard Stark and six his companions. In three against seven brought with them five men in to the grave.

The only survivors were Lord Eddard and Howland Reed.

Harren "The Black"

Harren was the nephew of King Harwyn Hoare "Manodura", Iron Islands king that extended his dominion up to the Trident.

He was an arrogant and superb tyrant, well a little loved by his subjects, and when Aegon the Conqueror came in the Seven Kingdoms he remained soon without supporting.

Harren was so much arrogant to want built the castle with the greatest rooms and the most colossal towers of the Continent, that monstrous fortitude to which gave the name of Harrenhal. To build he employed forty years and he reduced the Islands and the Trident to the poverty. The same day in which was finished, the news of the unloading of Aegon came.

Little time after his dragons assaulted his practically empty castle, they burned the towers and within of they burned alive Harren the Black, last king of the Iron Islands and all his children and nephews, putting an end completely to his stock.

The Night' King

Thirteenth Night's Watch Lord, and of sure that of which a darker memory stays.

A night he saw a woman with the pale skin as the moon and from the blue eyes as the ice and fell in love. But that woman was cold as the ice, and with his seed he gave her his soul.

He brought her to the night's Strong, he called her queen and himself king and with witchcrafts Brotherhood subdued to his wish.

To stop his thirst of power, the King over the Barrier Joramun and the North's King owed unite their strengths, until King Stark succeeded in killing him. After his death he discovered that he made sacrifices to the Extraneous ones, and his name was forgotten. According to some it was in reality the brother of the Stark that killed him.

Jon Arryn

Lord of the Eyrie, Jon Arryn was a second father for Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon.

When King Aerys II Targaryen killed Ned’s father and brother and after Rhaegar kidnapped Lyanna Stark, Ned’s sister and Robert’s fiancée, Jon Arryn sided with his proteges. After war’s end, he became King Robert’s Hand and kept the position for fifteen years.

Although he was very old, his sudden death gave rise to some doubt. Jon Arryn’s death is the beginning of the saga.

He has an eight years old son, Robert, and Jon called him like this in honour of King Robert Baratheon. Lady Lysa Tully is his third wife.

Joramun

Mythical King over the Barrier, the Long Night and the construction of the same Barrier lived shortly after, were the first king to assemble the tribes of the Brutes to invade the most pleasant earths of the south.

In another time he joined him the well Stark in Winterfell to depose the King of the Night, that had chained the Night's Watch to his will.

From him he takes name the legendary Horn that the giants of the North should wake up and to make to collapse the Barrier.

Remembered with the nickname of "Longthorn" was, according to everybody, the greatest knight of the House Tyrell, an example that all young people of the Reach try to emulate.

Lyanna Stark

Third daughter of Lord Rickard Stark and promised bride of Robert Baratheon, dead to 16.

Known in all the seven kingdoms for her beauty, during the Harrenhal's tournament the prince Rhaegar Targaryen encircled her with the crown of roses, naming her so queen of Love and Beauty of the tournament, to the place of his wife Elia Martell. The same prince made her abduct shortly after and confined her in a tower in the mountains of Dorne.

This event caused the death of her father and her brother Brandon, and the burst of the war driven by Robert Baratheon, that avenged the affront killing Rhaegar in the battle of the Trident. Lyanna was received by her brother Eddard that, accompanied by his troops after the looting of King's Landing, defeated the three Knights riders as watch, ser Gerold Hightower, commander of the real watch, ser Arthur Dayne and ser Oshell Whent, others two members of the Real Guard. The rescue was late however and Lyanna died among the arms of her brother making him promise to be buried in the crypt in Great Winter with father and brother.

Besides the great beauty, its lovefor Robert is underlined, despite she knew his passion for the loving adventures: "The love is a sweet thing, dear brother, but it cannot change the nature of a man" it told Eddard. She was however reciprocated and also after the death her promised bridegroom put aside a memory that bothered the Queen Cersei Lannister of it.

Lyonel Baratheon

Storm End's Lord at the beginning of the third century from the Conquest.

Knight of great class, his nickname deserved him "the Storms her that laughs" for the thundering laughter with which he unsaddled his adversaries and he broke the crests on their helmets in the tournaments.

During the Ashford's tournament of the 209 takings the parts of the wandering knight Duncan the tall one in the seven Judgment, a duel among seven warriors to resolve a controversy: he did him both for cavalry, defending the reason for Duncan, both for the glory to participate in such a rare event. He distinguished among the fighters of that clash.

Maegor I Targaryen

Aegon "The Conqueror" and Visenya's son, the most warlike of the two wives and sisters of Aegon.

Third Targaryen's king to dominate after his father Aegon and his stepbrother Aenys I, of which he was First Knight, taken the damage throne of the legitimate heir, the child of Aenys, Jaehaerys I.

He had well nine wives, of which one called Jeyne of the Westerling's house.

His kingdom was severe and hard, straight merciless: three Grans Teachers and a lot of his wives were executeds not to have him satisfied.

Among the greatest works of this anxious king there is the construction of the Red Fortitude, and when the imposing castle was finished all those people that had put hand to its construction they were slaughtered, to guarantee that the more dark secret than the castle stayed known only to him.

For this and other terrible episodes of cruelty he passed to the history with the nickname of "The Cruel one."

He was killed on the Throne of Swords, according to the legend straight from the same Throne. He never had heirs, and he happened to him really that Jaehaeryses whose rights had usurped in precedence.

Nymeria

Rhoyne's princess, a wide river of the Oriental Continent near the Free Cities, is said that she conducted a tentousands ships army conducted loaded of warlike's women to Dorne. Here she allied and married lord Mors Martell, with which all Dorne unified.

Thanks to the particular traditions that Nymeria conducted with herself from the east, the gentlemen of Dorne, only in the Seven Kingdoms, since then don't call himself "Lord" but "Principles", hereditary title that passes by law to the first-born both, male or female, unlike what happens in the whole rest of the Continent, where titles, earths and possessions pass to the first male child.

Rhaegar Targaryen

Son of King Aerys II, “the Mad”, hair of the Iron Throne, he is starting described like a “bookworm”, with a quiet disposition, more different than his father.

One day he found a parchment in Dragonstone’s library and, after readed it, he asked to Ser Willem Darry, the master of weapons, to teach him to fight (it seems he saw “…seem I will became a warrior”). He has a silver hair and rised lonely; his only friend was ser Arthur Dayne, “The sword of the morning”, a royal guard member. He became a great warrior but he don’t loved fight.

He married Elia Martell, princess of Dorne. In the 280 year, Rhaegar won the Harrenhal tournament, defeated also his friend Arthur Dayne and he don’t gift the roses crown to his wife Elia, but to Lyanna Stark and elected her “Queen of love and beauty”.

After Rhaegar abducted Lyanna and carried her to the South, shouted up her in the Tower of joy, escorted by 3 royal guards Knights, ser Gerold Hightower, called “White Bull”, ser Arthur Dayne and ser Oswell Whent.

Next the fall to King’s Landing of Brandon Stark, first, and then of Rickard Stark and the assassination of them caused the rebellion leaded by Robert Baratheon, Eddard Stark and Jon Arryn. Robert Baratheon killed Rhaegar in the trident battle; the armour of prince was black, with a full rubies chest what surrounded the coat of arms of his family, the tree heads dragon.

Symon Toyne

Head of the Wood of the King's Brotherhood, dangerous outlaw's gang, he has been the last representative of an unlucky lineage.

After Terrence Toyne was found in bed with the king Aegon IV lover and for this reason beheaded, his brothers tried to avenge him but they died in the attempt together with Aemon Targaryen, the Dragon's Rider.

Since then the family lived always in conflict with the Crown.

During the Aerys II kingdom, Simon Toyne found again him to be the gang's head of outlaw more dangerous sight during the dominion of the Targaryens, disreputable for the abduction of noble, almost impossible to capture. Among his members there were Wenda "The White Fallow deer", Oswyn "Lungocollo", Ulmer the archer, Well "The Panzone" and above all the insane one "Smiling Knight." In 281 a big knights consignment was sent to face it, among which ser Arthur Dayne, ser Barristan Selmy, lord Sumner Crakehall and them squires Jaime Lannister and Merrett Frey.

In a final clash the king's forces had the best: Killed Dayne killed the Smiling Knight, while Barristan Selmy killed Simon,the Toyne's last.

Thorren Stark

He was the last North's King. He assembled an army to rejecting Aegon Targaryen and came up to the Trident in his march against the invader, but to the sight of the armed Targaryen and the terrible dragon Balerion decided to surrender.

In exchange for his Iron Crown and for his fidelity Aegon "The Conqueror" delivered him the title of north's protector.

In the exact point in which Thorren knelt an inn he has been built note to the populace as "Inn of the knelt man".