Two years after the devastating Dance of Dragons, Aemond Targaryen, the fearsome Kinslayer, now sat upon the throne of Westeros. Driven by a desire to strengthen his House, he was confronted by a well known fact- all the dragons had been slain from the world, leaving only their precious eggs as a painful reminder. 'How could the House of the Dragon thrive without Dragons?' Lady Laviniya Targaryen, safely residing with her mother's family in The Runestone, was his long-forgotten cousin. She was as the small folk would refer to in the centuries to follow, 'The Bronze Dragon.'