title: Lore of the Dragons: Essence of a Queen
author: A. K. Conklin
description: After years of reading fantasy novels time had come for me to start working on my own story. I had always had a way with words and once the text started looking like a book my friends and family pushed me to contacting a publishing company so i could share my story with others. I had an idea for a book and now it seams that it's not only going to be one book but several . . . as the caracters in my book take on their own life and do as they please, I simply have to follow their lead. Who do I think I am? Well, i am a woman in the middle of my life. I live close to Son in Norway with my 2 wonderful children (12 and 5) and my husband. I have done all kinds of work from asembly line in a factory to working in a pub and even driving a forklift in a wearhose. I have never been afraid of getting dirt on my hands, probaly prefer it. I paint and draw in addition to my writing. And that is about it . . . i guess.
zlib_text: **THE ROGUE PRINCE,**
  
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  **or, A KING’S BROTHER**
  
  a consideration of the early life, adventures, misdeeds, and marriages of
  Prince Daemon
  
  Targaryen, as set down by Archmaester Gyldayn of the Citadel of Oldtown
  
  [here transcribed by George R. R. Martin]
  
  He was the grandson of a king, the brother of a king, husband to a queen. Two
  of his sons
  
  and three of his grandsons would sit the Iron Throne, but the only crown that
  Daemon
  
  Targaryen ever wore was the crown of the Stepstones, a meager realm he made
  himself
  
  with blood and steel and dragonfire, and soon abandoned.
  
  Over the centuries, House Targaryen has produced both great men and monsters.
  Prince
  
  Daemon was both. In his day there was not a man so admired, so beloved, and so
  reviled in
  
  all Westeros. He was made of light and darkness in equal parts. To some he was
  a hero, to
  
  others the blackest of villains. No true understanding of that most tragic
  bloodletting known
  
  as the Dance of the Dragons is possible without a consid