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Blood of the Dragon is a Novella published in the July 1996 issue of the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, based on the Daenerys chapters from A Game of Thrones.
This is a short story set in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, featuring Daenerys Targaryen and her brother Viserys. It was published in 1996 as part of the novel A Game of Thrones, and later as a standalone ebook.
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Background
Originally a community of shepherds, the Valyrians rose to prominence after discovering dragons in a volcanic area of their home peninsula known as the Fourteen Flames. After taming the mighty beasts, they established the city of Valyria and became skilled in both magic and metallurgy. With these skills, they created a unique metallic compound later known as Valyrian steel, which could be fashioned into weapons far superior to those produced by other cultures. With their dragons and weapons,...
Aftermath
Some traces of the Valyrian people and their culture survived the Doom. Their language, known as High Valyrian, gave birth to a number of dialects spoken in many of the Freehold's former colonies, such as the modern-day Free Cities. Valyrian bloodlines and practices also survived in the Free Cities, but to varying degrees: after four hundred years, the surviving Valyrian colonists in the Free Cities have intermingled with the local populations to such an extent that they no longer exist as a...
The Valyrians are known for their great beauty and possessed physical features not seen among other peoples of the world (at least not commonly). Typically they possessed silver hair and violet or deep blue eyes, though the Targaryens had lost the latter feature by the time of Aerys II's reign, the king having brown eyes, and all of his children ha...
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the Valyrians are famous for having silver-gold (platinum blonde) hair, very pale skin, and violet-purple eyes. Hair color can vary from white to silver to gold, and eye color from lilac to deep purple, and sometimes blue. The TV series originally attempted to portray Daenerys and Viserys with purple irises usi...
Jan 1, 2001 · Blood of the Dragon. George R.R. Martin. 4.23. 13 ratings2 reviews. Genres Fantasy. Published January 1, 1996. Book details & editions. About the author. George R.R. Martin. 1,454 books112k followers. Follow. George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey.
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Blood of the Dragon, also known as The Desperate Chase, is a 1971 Hong Kong/Taiwanese wuxia film starring Jimmy Wang.
Blood of the Dragon may refer to: Blood of the Dragon, a 2006 musical album by Nox Arcana; Blood of the Dragon, a 1973 martial arts film starring Jimmy Wang Yu "Blood of the Dragon" (Mighty Max episode), a 1994 episode of the television series Mighty Max; Blood of the Dragon, a 1996 novella by George R. R. Martin, later becoming part of his ...
A TV series based on George R.R. Martin's book Fire & Blood, depicting the internal conflict within House Targaryen 172 years before Game of Thrones. Watch the trailer, see the cast, read the reviews and ratings, and stream the episodes on IMDb.
