Why do you think the Targaryens failed to preserve anything of the Freehold’s magicalsupernatural practices? From what we know, even early Targaryens had no clue about the “sorcerous horns” & treated dragon bonding as a more trial & error approach like taming any other normal wild animal. And they seem to have had no knowledge of the other magical arts like making of dragon roads, valyrian steel, glass candles or blood magic even in the days of Aegon I.

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I think it’s a bit more complicated than that. There definitely were elements of magic that were preserved – dragon dreams, prophecies, hatching eggs – but I think the reason we see less magic over time is that “Magic had died in the west when the Doom fell on Valyria and the Lands of the Long Summer, and neither spell-forged steel nor stormsingers nor dragons could hold it back.”

Maybe the spells stopped working…

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