Fire and Blood, the novel behind the original TV series "House of the Dragon". "At its zenith, Valyria was the greatest city in the known world, the center of civilization. Within its shining walls, twice twenty rival houses vied for power and glory, at court and council, rising and falling in an endless, subtle and often fierce struggle for dominance. The Targaryens were far from the mightiest dragonlords, and their rivals saw their flight to Dragonstone as an act of capitulation, cowardice. But Daenys, the virgin daughter of Lord Aenar, who would henceforth be known forever as Daenys the Dreamer, had predicted the destruction of Valyria by fire, twelve years later, the Targaryens were the only dragon lords who survived. Three hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones, Fire and Blood tells the story of the unification of the seven kingdoms.