The White Book
Deeds and Accomplishments of the Sworn Brothers of the Kingsguard
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Name: Ser Stafford Lannister
Ser Stafford Lannister was named to the Kingsguard of Aegon Targaryen, 1st of his name in his 28th year as the first representative of the Westerlands. He served the Kingsguard honorably for 14 years. He remained in the capitol to defend Queen Visenya and Princess Nyel during the Dornish War protecting them from harm, and later fought at the naval battle outside of Sunstone against a fleet of Steppenstone Pirates. Ser Stafford was lost to the waves outside of Fair Isle in the Sunset Sea and presumed drowned along with his King.
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Chronicle of Dragons
Name: Balerion, called the ''Black Dread''
Scales: Black as Midnight
Size: Over 100 feet long
Description: Balerion the Black Dread was brought by the Targaryen family from the Freehold of Valyria to the island of Dragonstone. Over a century later, Balerion, now over 100 feet long was the last living creature to see the Freehold of Old Valyria in its Prime, and was claimed by Aegon who used him to burn a Volantene fleet in his youth and later to conquer the Seven Kingdoms, burning the combined forces of the Reach and Westerlands at the Field of Fire, before burning House Hoare within the fortress of Harrenhall, reducing it to ruins. Balerion burned the host of Lodos the Drowned Priest in the Iron Islands and years later burned the castle of Yronwood in Dorne, where most of the proud house met their end. In later years Balerion burned several pirate ships in the Steppestones as well as fighting in the battles of Watersmeet and Sandgate. In 8016, at 131 years of age, Balerion disappeared under the waters of the Sunset Sea following his rider after a shipwreck in which Aegon Targaryen was drowned.
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Histories of the Targaryen Kings
Name: King Aegon Targaryen, called the Noble
Ruled: 7999-8016
Children: Princess Nyel, Prince Vaemond, Prince Matarys
King Aegon Targaryen, 1st of his name, was the first man to gain the title of King of the Andals, Rhoynar, and the First men, uniting all seven Kingdoms of Westeros under the rule of his dragon banner in his lifetime. King Aegon's military accomplishments were extensive. In his wars of conquest he, along with his sisters, forced the combined host of Reachman and Westerlanders to retreat from the Field of Fire. King Aegon once again employed his dragon to burn the great fortress of Harrenhall along with the Iron King of the Ironborn, later putting down a revolt from a drowned priest in the Isles. Following the conquests he conquered Dorne in under two years, burning the castle of Yronwood and much of the ancient family, in his last campaign he conquered an island in the Stepstones, establishing an outpost on the island of Sunstone. Apart from these wars Aegons 17 years were largely filled with peace, with the construction of the Red Keep beginning in Aegon's reign as well as the construction of city walls around the developing capital of King's Landing. Legal reforms also took place under Aegons reign, with the practice of raiding by the Ironborn within the seven kingdoms being made illegal, along with the dissolution of the ancient practice of the first night. King Aegon , who had landed in Westeros 17 years prior in Blackwater Bay from the Narrow Sea, died at the opposite end of his Kingdom while on a royal progress, drowning off the coast of Fair Isle along with Balerion the Black Dread, his body was never recovered, though he would be known as Aegon the Noble in recognition for his just and fair temperament.