And the the Oh, The end of the first Dornish war kicked off 24 years of peace under Aegon the Conqueror.

To him, this was the first law.

The dragon's peace would reign or else.

The conquest wasn't so far in the past that anyone could forget what that meant and no one tried hence that long run of peace.

Still reading between the lines tells us that peace ended as soon as he died, like the minute he died.

And that is a correct reading between the lines.

Did Egan actually rule well then, is the question?

Or was the peace just because everyone was afraid of him and his sister and their dragons.

Did his policies lead to the many civil conflicts that came less than a generation after his death?

Perhaps even if he did botch future peace,

he otherwise ruled well, though.

So it's not a simple answer.

We're not looking for simple answers.

In fact, we're trying to get a little complicated, but speaking of, I mean, how much can we read into his actions regarding his views on the prophecy?

So that'll be a question for us today as well.

And that's not exactly the sort of thing we can take into account based on, you know, real world experience or examples.

Beyond that, he had one of the longest rains of any Targarian monarch. He wasn't just the first, he was one of the longest raining.

So we've got no shortage of topics and rabbit holes to dive into

on this episode of History of Westrose Podcast.

You know, before you get too into it, I want to point out something about the idea of not being or to read too much into it based on real world scenarios that would do as far as like trying to fulfill some prophecy, but more so than you might think like whether or not there are real world prophecies, there are a lot of people who believe in real world

prophecies especially leaders in you know more ancient times and even Christianity

prophesies an Armageddon and everything so like there are lots of people who do make some decisions

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