Valar Rereadis: TWOIAF - King Daeron I The Young Dragon
History of Westeros (Game of Thrones)
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🗓️ 15 August 2022
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A king who conquered and then lost Dorne. Then lost his life trying to re-take it... but managed to write a book that is still studied today all before turning 19. A short but intense and compelling reign of only 4 years, he has many parallels to Aegon the Conqueror, the Young Wolf, and Young Griff. Featuring Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, Oakenfist, and a certain bed of scorpions...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my fellow West Dorians! Welcome back to the last, for a little while, episode |
| 0:15.7 | of Valerie Reedus for the World of Ice and Fire. We're gonna be getting house of the dragon |
| 0:20.3 | coverage shortly, and we've finished off these last few weeks of Valerie Reedus with some |
| 0:25.2 | dragon-y topics. We had dragon stone, we had the free city of lease, lice, lice, all the three, |
| 0:32.0 | all three of those cities we covered. And now today we have King Darron, the first, the young dragon, |
| 0:40.8 | very young indeed, didn't reign for very long, but it was a very interesting and tumultuous |
| 0:50.3 | reign that comes after a period we're about to get very familiar with. This is post-dance of |
| 0:57.1 | the dragon's era, about 26 years after the dance ended. King Darron took the throne or ascended |
| 1:05.5 | to throne. He didn't take it. He was next in line. There was no shenanigans. And he was born in |
| 1:12.2 | 243, or 143, so 12 years after the dance. So yeah, a very, very interesting figure. We're gonna |
| 1:18.0 | talk about it. We're gonna have fun. Sean, what did you bring to drink today while you talk |
| 1:22.0 | about the young dragon? Well, actually, I'll talk about my drink, but I had a quick question about |
| 1:26.7 | the young dragon. Was he called the young dragon in his own time? And that's where the young wolf |
| 1:31.6 | came from for Rob, or do we call him the young dragon now because Rob was called the young wolf? |
| 1:35.6 | Ah, good question. Well, I don't know if he was called the young dragon in his time. That's a |
| 1:39.5 | great question. We don't know a lot about him as a person. We know a lot about what he did, |
| 1:45.2 | but he, one of the topics we have today is that it's sort of like Aegon the conqueror who was |
| 1:49.3 | called Aegon the dragon. And Darron was also called Darron the dragon or the young dragon because |
| 1:53.9 | they were similar in a lot of ways, not in lifespan. And of course, Aegon, Darron had no dragons, |
| 2:02.0 | but young dragon dragon. He's sort of like the one that was most like him, right? Yeah, we |
| 2:07.9 | really don't know if people called him that during his life. I think so. I would guess yes. If I |
| 2:12.2 | had you since you're asking, I'm going to guess yes, but it's not confirmed. Don't get me wrong. |
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