[The following is an excerpt from Chapter VI of Maester Dariss Brune's The Fall and Return of the Dragons]
I have inscribed upon here the events concerning the War of the Five Kings and the subsequent era thereafter, and how Daenerys Targaryen returned to Westeros with her army and fought Cersei Lannister's forces, along with the wights from the North. It remains to be said concerning the events thereafter…
…While the stresses of losing several of her friends and being betrayed by many, Daenerys Targaryen was upon the brink of madness. However, the support of several close friends (notably Tyrion "the Imp" Lannister and Jon Snow) helped to return the Queen to her senses. On the day she attacked King's Landing, the mad Cersei Lannister had created a shield of unsuspecting folk by placing them in the Red Keep and had several scorpion catapults that could shoot down any dragon, along with a great fleet outside her walls, giving her a good sense of protection against the Dragon Queen. However, these would prove worthless against the awesome wrath of dragons and the fierce might of Daenerys's army of Unsullied, Dothraki, and Northmen. The previous Battle for Winterfell had left the armies of the Dragon Queen weakened, but no less dangerous. The two remaining dragons, Rhaegal and Drogon, burned the Iron Fleet of Cersei Lannister, and then proceed to break through the walls of King's Landing. The armies poured through the streets, and quickly assaulted the Lannister forces. Drogon and Rhaegal burnt down the remaining scorpions, and the mysterious warrior known as the Hound, along with Arya Stark, infiltrated the Red Keep, intent of killing the head of the lion, Cersei Lannister. However, Jaime Lannister, in an attempt to save his sister, had arrived there earlier, and had tried in vain to have her surrender the city, and sources say to flee to Essos. However, this ended only in blood and death, with the Hound fighting and killing his brother, and Jamie Lannister finally killing Cersei after seeing her madness and her willingness to sacrifice the people. The bells rang, and Daenerys's forces halted the attack, and the remaining Lannister forces surrendered. Thus, in 305 AC, the after the tumultuous Robert's Rebellion, the bloody civil War of the Five Kings, and the great War for Westeros, the "second conquest" of the Targaryens complete, with the rule of the Seven Kingdoms now firmly in the rule of Daenerys Targaryen.
The beginning effects and next years of the Dragon Queen were vast and unprecedented, unlike any seen thereafter. Her ascension began in a startling, first by the burning of the Iron Throne itself, with the Dragon Queen having been said to say of it, "Let this old shackle of iron be burnt and destroyed, and let a new age of equality begin.", and she eventually was crowned queen, upon the Table of the West Circle, a council of the leaders of Westeros, along with the Masters of the Crown. Daenerys introduced new reforms that weakened the power of the great houses of Westeros, and she achieved a good relationship with the Faith. The immediate effect of rebuilding began, and the good nature of Daenerys won over both commoners and nobles. While the initial years of peace were tense, they eventually gave way to a new era of prosperity. New cities and extensive public buildings were built, great sewers systems and neglected harbors were repaired, a new elaborate road system was constructed, and several other great achievements bolstered the greatness of the realm. Guided by her friend and loyal Hand, Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys allowed for the Iron Islands their own freedom, in exchange for the banning of raiding by the Ironborn, and that they would serve a defensive pact and as a vassal-state of the new kingdom of Westeros. In the North, the wildlings now had open access to the south, and began invading. To reconcile with them, Daenerys sent her love, Jon Snow, to the North, and to bring a proposition: serve under the new kingdom, and gain land to live in. The wildling clans accepted and were given the land of now disbanded Night's Watch (which continued to serve as the policing force of the North). Some wildlings fully integrated into the North, marrying into the Northmen lines. Jon Snow travelled further into the Lands-of-Always-Winter, and established the new realm of the Wildlands, a new "kingdom" added under the belt of the dragons.
Beyond Westeros, the cities of Slaver's Bay, still under control by the Targaryens, became included into the realm of Daenerys, along with the Dothraki Sea. The ideas and plans of hers spread to there as well, and by 308 AC, Daenerys Targaryen ruled all of Westeros and much of eastern Essos, one of the greatest kingdoms ever known in the history of the world. Thus, a new age began, the Era of the Dragon.
It has been over twenty-seven years since the long wars and terrible eras of bloodshed, but it has finally led to a new age of knowledge and learning and prosperity. Tyrion Lannister rules Casterly Rock, and continues to serve as the Hand, and in the North the stern Sansa Stark rules, while Arya "Night killer" Stark (famous for travelling beyond the Sunset Kingdoms, and recording her adventures in West of Westeros) lives with her husband Gendry Baratheon. And at the seat of King's Landing, from her modest chair in the Table of the West Circle, the great Daenerys I Stormborn Targaryen rules the great kingdoms of Westeros, the Far North, the Dothraki Sea, and the Great Bay, the Great Queen, with her lover Jon Snow. She has implemented her ideas of equality and has greatly diminished the power of the great houses. Instead, upon her death the people shall elect their leaders, to choose a worthy leader as the Lord of Westeros, while the Targaryen lineage will continue to guard and serve the people, and the leaders of the great houses will form the rest of the Circle, as a council to rule along with these powers, to lead us into a greater age of fortune and further into the light of a glorious new era.
By looking into the past can we better understand ourselves and the race of man as a whole. My hope with this large collections is that the leaders and peoples of Westeros may look further back upon the great deeds and terrible crimes and wars committed, so that we may move forward, in this world of fire and ice, blazing onward into the future with courage and unity, until one day when we reach the light of day.