And the the Oh, The sudden and shocking death of Belor's kingly brother, Daren I, the young dragon, put him on the throne, a place

he probably never expected to be yet. When he got there, he probably saw it as ordained.

Or if he didn't, he certainly treated it that way after the fact.

He had grown up in the shadow of a hyper-aggressive brother,

who in turn came from a long line of dragon riders conquerors rulers people who got their way

Now Baylor had all the confidence and self-assuredness of those ancestors

He may have had some of their madness too, we'll see, but in some of the most vital

ways he was their exact opposite. Like many who came before him though, like many who have

real world absolute power, he wanted to impose his will on all his subjects, but his will was just so unlike so many of those others, both fictional and non-fictional. Like Egon the first and Dairon the first,

Dallor wanted Dorn, but through overwhelming peace instead of the usual tried and true and repeatedly failing overwhelming violence.

Like those men, he thought he knew what was best.

And these extremes had predictably extreme results, or not so predictably in some cases because again this is

methods that hadn't been tried before it's part of why he's so well remembered

yet ironically he's also why so many other things have been forgotten, because he destroyed them.

And of course I'm talking about all those books he burned.

We've told the story of his youth, now is the time for his reign. King Baylor was a man of the seven and he would rule

like one. And returning to discuss him is our resident Baylor expert Nina. We've got all that and more on this episode of

History of Westros podcast.

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