Within George R.R. Martin's universe of A Song of Ice and Fire, the past is never forgotten. Ancient legends, stories, and prophecies aren't buried ancient history—they are events that are still directing the present and future. Take Bran for example: a character whose ability to look into the past dictates the fate of the human's war with the threat north of the wall.

So, even if you're not A Song of Ice and Fire completist, Martin's new book Fire & Blood will hold some key information about what's to come in the upcoming conclusion to his beloved fantasy series.

As he's made clear already, Fire & Blood is not a traditional novel. This is not Winds of Winter. Rather, this is a history of the Targaryen family that covers about 150 years, written as a text book by the Archermaester Gyldayn. He's also noted that there are a few details in Fire & Blood that could hint at what's to come from A Song of Ice and Fire.

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In a new video debuting exclusively on Esquire.com, Martin explains that even Daenerys herself could learn a thing or two from Fire & Blood.

"This is a book that Daenerys might actually benefit from reading, but she has no access to Archermaester Gyldayn's crumbling manuscripts. So she's operating on her own there," Martin says in the clip. "Maybe if she understood a few things more about dragons and her own history in Essos, things would have gone a little differently."



So, what could be some of these details?

As he noted in another one of these videos, Daenerys ancestor Aegon the Conqueror decided to take over Westeros and unify the Seven Kingdoms, not out of a pure desire for power, but a vision.

"There is a lot of speculation that in some sense he saw what was coming 300 years later, and wanted to unify the Seven Kingdoms to be better prepared for the threat that he eventually saw coming from the north—the threat that we are dealing with in A Song of Ice and Fire," Martin said.

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If Aegon saw the threat of the White Walkers coming through some sort of vision, that could possibly mean he saw himself or one of his heirs as The Prince That Was Promised. These heirs being either Daenerys or Jon Snow.

But, even beyond prophecies and visions, this history in Fire & Blood details the last living dragons hundreds of years before Daenerys' own dragons were born. Certainly there's much she could learn of tactics, and even just responsible dragon parenting.

Fire & Blood is out on November 20, and .

Matt Miller Culture Editor Matt is the Culture Editor at Esquire where he covers music, movies, books, and TV—with an emphasis on all things Star Wars, Marvel, and Game of Thrones.

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