This is entirely based on an idea I had (whilst playing it in Crusader Kings 2), and I wanted to see how it could work in fanfiction form. If it's well received, I'll probably (hopefully) continue it.

Daemon Blackfyre, the King that Bore the Sword. He who plunged Westeros into the bloody series of rebellions that bore his name. All to claim a throne he believed was rightfully his. He died. His sons died. And their sons.

Then his entire house died. Supposedly.

But, in the myriad of lives that could have been lived, Daemon Blackfyre did not rebel. He conquered.

It was 192 AC, and Daemon, growing restless in the small lands granted to him by his brother, Daeron the Good, called all those that desired a new life to join him on a 'Grand Expedition' to the ruins of the Rhoyne, in the hopes that they might form a new Free City or the like. He was joined by far more than he expected, numbering in the thousands, and, despite the genuine pleas of his Kingly sibling, set off in one hundred ships to find a new life. The fleet sailed up the Rhoyne, past Sarhoy and Chroyanne, Sar Mell and Ar Noy. Eventually, bedraggled and seasick, they reached the ruined city of Ny Sar.

It would one day become known as Daemonholt, the Blackfyre's new capital.

Using the very boats they travelled in, Daemon's loyalists built makeshift huts, and eventually, a small settlement. In those early days, they used the stone from the ruins to built their other buildings. Still, his people were starving, and in need of a stable supply of food and water.

It was Aegor Rivers, known as Bittersteel, that came up with a solution. His 'Golden Company', with Gerold Redtusk and Quentyn Fireball acting as his captains soon became a famed sellsword company. The funds and supplies were enough for the fledgling settlement to survive unharmed.

Until, that was, Qohor attacked in 196 AC. The First Blackfyre Conquest, as it would become known saw the sons of Westeros attack, sack and conquer the Free City, although the City's Unsullied guards made Daemon's forces bleed for every inch. The Temple of the Black Goat was pulled down, and the city's slaves were freed. The Qohorik builders were moved to Ny Sar, where they assisted with the reconstruction of the city.

In 211 AC, now known as Daemon the Liberator, he, using his friend Garth the Grey (Founder of House Greystone) sparked a slave rebellion in Norvos. Robb Reyne and Bryen Flowers led the assault, over the course of eight months, a second Free City fell under the banner of the Black dragon. As with Qohor before it, it's builders were sent to Ny Sar, now openly known as the Daemonholt, to assist with the rebuilding, and expansion of the city. Thus ended The Second Blackfyre Conquest.

It would only eight years later in 219 AC where Myr and Pentos joined forces to attack the Blackfyre's kingdom. With the backing of Prince Maekar and Brynden Bloodraven, the armies of Westeros came to the Blackfyre's aid, and two more city-states were liberated, and added to the Kingdom. Bittersteel, who had coverted his half-sister Shiera Seastar as a young man, finally made his peace with Bloodraven. The conflict would be come to known as the Third Blackfyre Conquest. Aemon Blackfyre, one of the twin princes, is killed in the fighting.

It would be in 225 AC, at the behest of his Wife's family, that Daemon the Liberator embarked on what you be his last conflict. He led an attack to liberate Tyrosh, and installed the Zokan family as it's ruling family. At the age of five and fifty, Daemon Blackfyre, the Black Dragon, the Liberator, was declared Emperor of the Essosi Imperium.

In 235 AC, at the age of five-and-sixty, the first Emperor died of old age. His son, Aegon Blackfyre, then one-and-fifty, took the crown. His brother, now known as Haegon the Holy, had spent most of his life studying the old faith of Valyria, and had worked to revive the ancient religion. Whilst the faith of Rh'llor was popular, Haegon was more snake than dragon, and incorporated Rh'llor into his Reborn Valyrian faith as first servant and voice of the gods, although a large number of Rh'llor Loyalists call it heresy.

The years between 235 AC to 259 AC were on the whole, peaceful. Aegon divided the Empire up into the city states that made it up, and gave them to his family's allies. He died in 244 AC, and his daughter, Viserra (wed to her Uncle Daemon) took the throne. She was still reigning in 260 AC, when, a Blackfyre bastard, Maelys the Monstrous, led an army of mercenaries and pirates against the Iron Throne. The War of Ninepenny Kings as it was called once again allied the Imperium with the Iron Throne. The Band of Nine managed to take and hold Lys, and Viserra, known as The Bold Dragon took the opportunity provided to conquer the city and add it to her Empire, though it would cost her her three sons. The (re)construction of Ny Sar, at this point now known as Daemonholt, was completed in 272 AC.

Her last child and sole daughter, Visenya would succeed her in 274 AC. The relationship between the Imperium and the Iron Throne soured during the reign of Aerys II, with the mad monarch decrying the offer of a marriage between a Blackfyre bride and Prince Rhaegar due to the princess 'smelling foreign' and 'being a false dragon'.

Then Robert Baratheon rebelled. Prince Rhaegar died, and his father and children soon followed.

Now, in 283 AC, an elder brother hurries across an Empire, carrying with him the last precious gift his mother gave him, seeking the protection of his Blackfyre cousins. For even at his young age, Viserys Targaryen knew the truth.

For regardless of the world in which you play…

When you play the Game of Thrones, you either win, or you die.

So, tell me what you think. Would a story in this world be something you folks would enjoy? If so let me know.