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What if the Dance of the Dragons never happened?

What if the Dance of the Dragons never happened?

50 min · Published 12 August 2026 · Watch on YouTube ↗

What if the Dance of the Dragons never happened? Let's explore this alternate timeline together, in the video. In the history that was written, the dragons devoured one another. It began at Storm's End in 129 AC, when Lucerys Velaryon came as an envoy and left as prey, and Aemond Targaryen took Vhagar up into the storm and came down alone. From that one death the realm unspooled, through Blood and Cheese and the Gullet and Tumbleton, until the smallfolk stormed the Dragonpit and the dome came down upon four dying dragons. By 131 AC the beasts were carrion. In 153 AC the last of them died, a stunted green she-dragon no larger than a cat, and magic went out of the world with her. A century…

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