Summary
Aerion "Brightflame" drank wildfire believing that he would become a dragon. He died instead, screaming. His son, Maegor, still a babe at the time, was voted out of the line of succession due to Aerion's madness. twenty-six years later, after the tragedy at Summerhall, Maegor makes a claim for his birthright. The story of Maegor and his descendants' attempts to win the throne.