Fire & Blood Vol. 1 | The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency (Chapter 23)

The final chapter of Fire & Blood Vol. 1, details the final years of Aegon III's regency, following the return of his younger brother, Viserys, and Viserys's wife and her family. The court celebrated the return of Viserys, but had no love for his wife and her foreign ways and gods, or her family, which they accused of being overly ambitious. Her father, a bank owner named Lysandro, became First Magister For Life in Lys, and her uncle Drazenki, married the Dornish princess and became Lord of the Stepstones.

Rhaena’s small dragon Morning grew big enough to ride, and she flew it to Dragonstone where they stayed. Visserys and Larra welcomed their first child, Aegon IV. Baela and Alyn welcomed their daughter, Laena. They placed an egg in his cradle, but the dragon hatched malformed and bit the girl. Aegon III’s only friend, cupbearer, and food-taster died of a poison assassination, leaving Aegon bereft.