(Spoilers All) Why didn't the Pre-Doom Valyrians originally conquer Westeros?

Thanks :D I've got a lot of ASOIAF stories, that's just one my newest, but if you liked it you should check out some of my other works :)

I've just put A Northern Dragoness up on a public website for the first time, and I think it's some of my best writing yet, but I'm always getting better. In a nutshell, it's about a marriage between Daena Targaryen and Jonnel Stark, fulfilling the Pact of Ice and Fire. For more detail, here's the summary;

It is 161 years after Aegon's Conquest and the last of the dragons that had forged the Iron Throne in fire and blood are dead. King Baelor the Blessed sits upon the throne, ruling the Seven Kingdoms with a pious heart and a gentle hand, but the realm still feels the effects of the Dance of the Dragons that happened in his father's youth, and there is no man in the South who does not know of Cregan Stark and the Hour of the Wolf that had paved the way for Aegon the Younger's regency...and the price that came before it, the Pact of Ice and Fire that had been sworn in the eyes of gods and men in exchange for Northern support. Gold and riches were given to the Starks, gifts of steel and prestigious titles, but the greatest prize of all is the most pressing - the hand of a Targaryen princess, to be wed to the heir of Winterfell once they came of age.

Though King Baelor is reluctant to give a Targaryen woman to the Starks, the Old Man of the North will not be denied his prize...and for Daena Targaryen, locked within a tower of Maegor's Holdfast, the Starks could not have come soon enough.

My other big story has been on AO3 for awhile and is really popular, it's called the Many Sons of Winter, and it's so popular it even has it's own TVtropes page and the summery says it better than I can, I think!

The slumbering direwolf of the North has rested peacefully for nearly three hundred years, content to rest and build as they always had since the days of King Torrhen Stark, who had surrendered his crown to Aegon the Conqueror in the name of peace and fealty. His heart broken by the loss of the kingdom passed down through the ages, his bastard brother takes him on a trek around the North to survey the realm he rules now as Lord Paramount...and in a blizzard, they find something that forever changes the history of not just the North, but the entire world.

But nothing can sleep forever.

When Prince Rhaegar Targaryen snatched Lyanna Stark from the city of Winterfell, the direwolf stirred from its slumber and was enraged by the death of its liege lord and his son and heir...the Andal realms of the South learnt that the North was not the sparsely populated backwater they told their children about, but one of the foremost powers in Westeros.

What if the North had a population on par with the Reach, brought about by having a reliable and consistent supply of food?

I've got a ton more, some comedy and some serious what if scenarios, but they're not on the sight just yet, but they'll be there soon :)

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