The book covers the history of House Targaryen from 114 BC to 136 AC, starting from the day Aenar Targaryen and his family migrated to Westeros and settled on Dragonstone. On July 12, 2022, Fire & Blood was reissued with new cover art promoting House of the Dragon. García and Linda Antonsson, who previously co-authored The World of Ice & Fire.
The book is a condensed and illustrated edition of Fire & Blood, edited in an encyclopedic style by Elio M. On March 17, 2022, Martin announced The Rise of the Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty, Volume One, which was published on October 25, 2022. On March 9, 2022, Martin revealed that he was considering the title Blood & Fire for the second volume, and that he had already written a couple hundred manuscript pages. The book was published on November 20, 2018. An excerpt was released in October the same year. In April 2018, the manuscript for the first volume was revealed to be 989 pages long. On July 22, 2017, Martin revealed on Not A Blog that Fire & Blood had grown so large that it would have to be published in two volumes. In the summer of 2016, Martin had already pitched the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon, based on material from the book. In 2014, more than 200,000 words from the manuscript of the companion book The World of Ice & Fire were incorporated into Fire & Blood.
Fire & Blood was first announced on Augon Martin's blog "Not A Blog," with the working title GRRMarillion (a reference to J.R.R.
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