While Alicent was still said to be 18 years old at the time of the marriage in Fire & Blood, Viserys was written as a much younger 20-something, and Rhaenyra, just a child aged 8 or 9. HBO 2.
According to George R. R. Martin, the Dance of the Dragons, the main conflict portrayed in The Princess and the Queen, was inspired by the 15-year-long civil war in High Medieval England known as The Anarchy, where Empress Matilda, the daughter and heir of Henry I of England, fought a protracted war of succession against her cousin Stephen from Archmaester Gyldayn is the fictional author and primary narrator of Fire and Blood. Martin characterizes Gyldayn through his role as historian and his words. Archmaesters are at the top of the hierarchy of scholars of Westeros. The interior title page, on which Gyldayn is listed as “Archmaester Gyldayn of the Citadel at Oldtown” (1), is the . 145 58 240 262 357 51 83 183 361