House Targaryen

House Targaryen of King's Landing and Dragonstone was a Great House of Westeros and the original royal House of the Seven Kingdoms, ruling from the seat of King's Landing.

Originally from Old Valyria, House Targaryen was the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria, owing to it's relocation to Dragonstone several decades prior. Around a century after the Doom, Lord Aegon Targaryen, alongside his sisters Rhaenys and Visenya Targaryen, and his bastard half-brother Orys Baratheon, conquered and unified the Seven Kingdoms atop their dragons.

In 129 AC, the Dance of the Dragons broke out, resulting in the extinction of the Targaryen dragons within a generation of the conflict's conclusion. The creation of House Blackfyre in 184 AC would result in them attempting to take the Iron Throne from House Targaryen no less than five times over the following century. Those 2 events, combined with an ever-prevalent "Targaryen madness", would contribute to a terminal decline in House Targaryen's strength and power.

House Targaryen was deposed and replaced with House Baratheon as a result of Robert's Rebellion. However as the Seven Kingdoms became engulfed in the War of the Five Kings, an exiled Daenerys Targaryen hatched three new dragons, invaded and consolidated her power over Slaver's Bay (renaming it the Bay of Dragons) and invaded Westeros. The Great War to the north ultimately drew Daenerys's attention away from the Iron Throne, but as the White Walkers pushed southwards, Daenerys would briefly depose Cersei Lannister before being killed herself during the Battle of King's Landing. Her death, combined with that of her nephew Jon Snow (born Aegon Targaryen), resulted in the final extinction of House Targaryen, and they were once again succeeded by House Baratheon.

House Targaryen's sigil was a three-headed dragon on a black field, and their House words were "Fire and Blood".