asongoficeandfiresource: But in recent years, it has occurred to me from time to time that it might

asongoficeandfiresource:

But in recent years, it has occurred to me from time to time that it might have made for an interesting twist if instead I had made the dragonlords of Valyria… and therefore the Targaryens… black. … if I’d had dark-skinned dragonlords invade and conquer and dominate a largely white Westeros…

Well, it’s all moot. The idea came to me about twenty years too late. – George R. R. Martin