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the dance of the dragons is the flowery name bestowed upon the savage internecine struggle for the iron throne of westeros fought between two rival branches of house targaryen during the years 129 to 131 ac. to characterize the dark, turbulent, bloody doings of this period as a “dance” strikes us as grotesquely inappropriate.

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there were two principal claimants to the iron throne upon the death of king viserys i targaryen: his daughter rhaenyra, the only surviving child of his first marriage, and aegon, his eldest son by his second wife. amidst the chaos and carnage brought on by their rivalry, other would-be kings would stake claims as well, strutting about like mummers on a stage for a fortnight or a moon’s turn, only to fall as swiftly as they had arisen.

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Long simmering, the conflict burst into the open on the third day of third moon of 129 AC, when the ailing, bedridden King Viserys I Targaryen closed his eyes for a nap in the Red Keep of King’s Landing, and died without waking. His body was discovered by a serving man at the hour of the bat, when it was the king’s custom to take a cup of hippocras. The servant ran to inform Queen Alicent, whose apartments were on the floor below the king’s.