The Dance of the Dragons
In Fire and Blood, the fictional history of the Targaryen Dynasty (and the inspiration for the Game of Thrones prequel, House of Dragons) there is a passage in which Archmaester Gyldayn meditates on the ‘inappropriate’ name given to the Targaryen civil war; ‘The Dance of the Dragons’:
The Dance of the Dragons is the flowery name bestowed upon the savage internecine struggle for the Iron Throne of Westeros fought between…