The Black Dread

The True Beginning of Aegon's Conquest | The Painted Table | Chapter 3

1 hr 3 min · Published 7 September 2026 · Watch on YouTube ↗

- Early access to our Saga Movies that are released weekly. A hundred and twelve years before this story begins, a girl of six-and-ten stood at a window in the greatest city the world has ever known and whispered to it that it was already dead. Her name was Daenys, and she had dreamed the end of the world, and the world had laughed at her — laughed in its highest hall, on its floor of frozen fire, laughed her father down three hills and across five hundred leagues of sea to a black rock in a cold strait that nobody wanted. And twelve years later the Fourteen Flames opened, and the sea drank Valyria, and every dragonlord on earth died between one hour and the next, save the ones on the rock…

• Game of Thrones
• House of the Dragon
• ASOIAF
• lore
• Stories from the Citadel
• Targaryen Saga
• Daenys
• Fourteen Flames
• Valyria
• House Targaryen