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Lessor events had occurred. Some skirmishes and several burnings. Smaller castles had fallen and though some major locations like Duskendale were among those, and at least two of her and sons, nothing historical had occurred just yet, though it was clearly building towards that.

Today we reached the first major battle of the conquest. The first time a dragon was truly unleashed upon Westeros, that we know of, and even if there were others it would have been Ion's prior.

In many ways it was less of a battle and more of an opportunity, when opportunity for Aegon to set an example, one so powerful that others would not dare to test him.

In that sense, much was riding on this. Because if done right, other kings might see the wisdom in bending the knee rather than fighting it out.

Though he was more than willing to bring blood and fire to the battlefield, Aegon preferred willing surrender. He saw them as his future subjects after also.

Why kill them? They're gonna be his future soldiers and tax providers and all that.

And there's no need to so bad blood towards him and his family amongst those he had conquered, so the smoother the process the better.

So if it went wrong, if it was done incorrectly, well there's a lot more work that could be created a lot more.

Blood and fire would be needed to fully subjugate the seven kingdoms, or eight kingdoms, or however many kingdoms there were, it was gonna be seven pretty soon by his count.

But there's exceptions to what I described in terms of how to do a conquest properly. Sometimes you do have to sow some bad blood.

Of course you're overthrowing people and killing people, you can't avoid that entirely.

So if you do have to make someone angry, you still have to be thorough. If you're gonna cause bad blood between families, best make sure that the enemy bloodline is removed from the game of thrones forever.

It may it's one thing to make sure they don't affect you, but what about your children? What about your children's children? So better just get rid of them all together.

The lessons of Heron the Black and Heron Hall, as laid out by Aegon the Conqueror then, and a bit of a song of ice and fire to look at it now.

Well, we've got all that and more on today's history of Westeros podcast.

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