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The Fire Witch

Here is another official illustration I’ve provided for "The Rise Of The Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty, Volume One" by George R. R. Martin, Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson.

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High in the mountains, the unthinkable happened one night as Lord Robert and his men haddled about their campfires. In the slopes above, a cave mouth was visible from the road, and a dozen men climbed up to see if it might offer them shelter from the wind. The bones scattered about the mouth of the cave might have given them pause, yet they pressed on... and roused a dragon.
Sixteen men perished in the fight that followed, and threescore more suffered burns before the angry brown wyrm took wing and fled deep into the mountains with "a ragged woman clinging to its back". That was the last known sighting of Sheepstealer and his rider, Nettles, recorded in the annals of Westeros, though the wildlings of the mountain still tell tales of a "fire witch" who once dwelled in a hidden vale far from any road or village.

©George R. R. Martin
Publisher: Penguin Random House / TenSpeed Press