Fantasy

The Dance of the Dragons, or simply the Dance of Dragons, is a royal war of succession and civil war in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros fought between two rival factions of House Targaryen, the Blacks and the Greens. The war emerged as the culmination of a long-brewing succession crisis involving the two eldest children of the late Viserys I Targaryen: Rhaenyra, his eldest daughter and named heir, and Aegon II, his eldest son and heir based on traditional Andal succession law. Both claimants and their allies asserted they were the rightful successor to Viserys on the Iron Throne. Upon his death in 132 AC, the Blacks and Greens would crown their respective claimant and mobilize their forces for war. It is the first full-scale civil war in the history of the Seven Kingdoms.