![]() “As fun as that Rashomon style of storytelling is, we kind of left that to the book, and decided to, instead, try to define what we thought the objective truth of this actual history was, as we saw it,” Condal said in an interview with Polygon. Which means that Mushroom’s account still has an important role to play. Martin, have assembled a singular timeline for the show that presents the events of the Dance of the Dragons as they actually happened, to help keep things simple. Instead, showrunners Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik, along with series author George R.R. This shouldn’t come as much of a shock after all, the series is already pretty complicated, and introducing three different (unreliable) narrators would only make that problem worse. But it isn’t present in House of the Dragon. This interplay between the three accounts and the frequently ridiculous stories of Mushroom provides much of the humor in Fire & Blood’s history and is one of the best parts of the book. However, according to Archmaester Gyldayn (the in-universe author of Fire & Blood), Mushroom’s debaucherous tales are occasionally a more accurate look at the events of the time, even if they have to be dealt with skeptically. ![]() Mushroom, on the other hand, prefers the most salacious version of all events, even if he has to invent the more sordid details himself. While Eustace and Munkun’s histories are frequently more accurate, they often err on the side of decency and present a clean and chaste version of history, two things that history often isn’t. These facts lent him an interesting perspective on the events of the war, recalling conversations from some of the most important moments firsthand, which he recorded in The Testimony of Mushroom. Mushroom is described in Fire & Blood as “a three-foot-tall dwarf possessed of an enormous head.” He was the court fool of the Targaryens during the Dance of the Dragons and, according to himself and others, was well liked by both sides and thought too “simple” to repeat the sensitive information he heard - a clear mistake by all involved. The first part of the book is told very straightforwardly, but the second half divides the narrative between three accounts: Septon Eustace, Grand Maester Munkun, and Mushroom the fool. The book can essentially be divided into two halves: The first is about the history of the Targaryen family around the time they came to Westeros, while the second half is about their civil war, called the Dance of the Dragons. It’s a smart decision for an already complicated show, but it also eliminates Fire & Blood’s funniest character in the process. But House of the Dragon melds these accounts into one single timeline, showing the real history of events. Fire & Blood features several different accounts of the events of the Dance of the Dragons. Much like our own histories, multiple sources are important. Fire & Blood, the Game of Thrones prequel that HBO’s new series House of the Dragon is based on, is positioned as an in-universe history book.
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