The Tragedy at Summerhall

Aegon the Unlikely, fifth of his name, had wandered the realm as a hedge knight's squire and never ceased dreaming of dragons to shield the smallfolk he loved. In the two hundred and fifty-ninth year after the Conquest he gathered his family at Summerhall, the Targaryens' summer palace in the Dornish Marches, to attempt, with wildfire, seven eggs, and hope, the hatching of dragons. What passed that night no man can wholly say, for the records are burned and blackened; only that fire took the palace, and with it the old king, his eldest son Prince Duncan the Small, and Ser Duncan the Tall, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, with many another. Amid the smoke and sorrow Princess Rhaella was brought to bed of a son, Rhaegar — a boy born in grief who would grow up haunted by the ruin, harping his sad songs among its broken stones.