History Literature / ArchmaesterGyldaynsHistories

* The [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseTargaryenAncestors House Targaryen Ancestors]] page, especially the entry on the court of King Viserys I;
* The [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireCourtOfAegonII Court of Aegon II]] for the ''Queen's'' men ("The Greens");
* [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseHightower House Hightower]], the main instigators of the war and the backers of The Greens;
* The [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireCourtOfRhaenyraI Court of Rhaenyra I]] for the ''Princess''' men ("The Blacks");
* [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseVelaryon House Velaryon]], the main backers of The Blacks.

* The war lasted two years, but TPATQ ends half a year before the end of the war.
* TPATQ focuses on the eastern theater of the war, while only mentioning in broad strokes what happened in the central theater as the Starks/Tullys fought against the Lannisters in the Riverlands - with about a half dozen characters who could be described as the HeroOfAnotherStory.
* The Greyjoys were barely mentioned at all, when the ''World'' book reveals there was an entire western front to the war as the ironborn attacked the Westerlands and the Reach - which continued to drag on as a side conflict well into the six year long winter that followed the main war.
* The major shakeups in the Free Cities due to spillover from the war: the Lys-Myr-Tyrosh alliance attacked Rhaenyra's faction in the Battle of the Gullet, but took such heavy losses that within a few months the alliance was tearing itself apart. A counter-alliance formed between Braavos-Pentos-Lorath to the north, leading to a major war to crush the "Kingdom of the Three Daughters" before it got too powerful to stop. Something called the "Lyseni Spring" happened, in which Lys got taken over by a Westerosi concubine from House Swann, then apparently stabbed Tyrosh and Myr in the back in the war to become even more powerful by the end - at which time the Rogare bank of Lys briefly grew more powerful than the ''Iron Bank of Braavos''.

* RatedMForManly: The army of northmen called the Winter Wolves, led by Roderick Dustin.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Viserys I was loved by nobles and smallfolk alike. His daughter Rhaenyra was called "the Realm's Delight" in her youth. His youngest son, Prince Daeron, was the most well-liked of Alicent's sons, being clever and courteous and comely.

In 2016, the Season 5 Blu-Ray[=/=] DVD of Series/GameOfThrones featured an Extra of a 20-minuted animated/slide adaptation of ''The Princess of the Queen'', "The Dance of Dragons".

In 2016, the Season 5 Blu-Ray[=/=] DVD of Series/GameOfThrones featured an Extra of a 20-minuted animated/slide adaptation of ''The Princess of the Queen''.

In 2016, the Season 6 Blu-Ray[=/=] DVD of Series/GameOfThrones featured an Extra of a 20-minuted animated/slide adaptation of ''The Princess of the Queen''.

* IllGirl: As he aged, Viserys became more prone to fatigue, chest pains, and gout, until he could barely get out of bed.

* IncestIsRelative: Targaryens often married within the family. Viserys' first wife with his cousin Aemma Arryn. Aegon II married his sister Helaena. Rhaenyra's first husband, Laenor Valeryon, was her second cousin, and she later married her uncle Daemon.

* AdultFear: There are too many instances of OutlivingOnesOffspring to count.
** Queen Helaena actually went mad when [[spoiler:her eldest son was assassinated in front of her and her other children]].
** Alicent has to live with the fact that her ambition got most of her family, including all but one of her descendants, killed.
** Corlys is horrified when Rhaenyra, in her paranoia, [[spoiler: turns on Addam Velaryon, who was his heir and possibly his son. Keep in mind that Corlys had already lost of his wife because of her. Nettles goes into exile to avoid her death sentence, leaving Daemon depressed to the point of SuicideByCop]].
** Rhaenyra's sons died one after another. Luke was murdered by his uncle Aemond and Jace got hit with an arrow in battle. Joff's death is horrific in it's own special way: he got himself killed doing something reckless because his mother took her eye off him for just a minute.

* TheOphelia: Helaena Targaryen fell into a deep depression that she never recovered from after [[spoiler:[[AdultFear her son]] was [[ForcedToWatch killed in front of her]].]]

* AdultFear: Corlys and Rhaenys Velaryon lost both their children, Laena to childbed fever and Laenor to murder, within a short amount of time.

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:The Greens win the war, but they suffer great losses and, as a final irony, none of the children from their side of the family continues the Targaryen line, Jaehaera dying shortly after her husband/cousin succeeds. Rather, it is Rhaenyra's children who succeed. About the only thing the Greens actually succeed in is ensuring that women are even more restricted in the line of succession.]]