Aegon and his sister-wife, Visenya, visited the Maester headquarters in Old Town years before the conquest, likely to get geographical info to make the Painted Table at Dragonstone (a detailed map of Westeros) among other things.

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Aegon, who would later be called Aegon the Conqueror, was 25 when he began the conquest. But he didn’t do it on a whim or after some prophet dream by one of his sisters. This was a calculated political campaign long before it was The Conquest of the songs.

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