This is a listing of dragons in A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Dragons
For the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.
—Last words of A Game of Thrones
Dragons are magical creatures, which existed on the continents of Westeros and Essos, but are considered to have been extinct for almost one hundred and fifty years. The only remaining traces of the dragons are skeletal remains and dragon eggs which are thought to have turned to stone.
Dragons are depicted in the sigils of Houses Blackfyre, Targaryen, Toland, Vance of Atranta, Vance of Wayfarer's Rest, and Willum.
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Dragons
- Alien Blood: Dragon blood is often unnaturally colored; in the two instances described in text, it matches its owner's scale colors. It is also described as being boiling hot and smoking if shed, likely a result of high internal body temperatures.
- Aerith and Bob: The older dragons of legend had Valyrian names while the younger had names in the Common Tongue (English).
- Beast of Battle: The Valyrians and their Targaryen descendants chiefly used their dragons as living war engines. A full-grown dragon can produce enough fire to immolate an army, can attack and destroy a castle on its own, and is effectively invulnerable to anything save another dragon or a ballista bolt right to the eye — which is a kind of trick shot that stationary siege engines are not meant for, especially against nimble flying targets. Both the Valyrian Empire and the Targaryen rule over Westeros remained secure because, while their subjects had armies, weapons, and fortresses, the rulers had dragons.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: It's hard to put dragons into Good or Evil categories by their behavior. While never docile, certain dragons can be considered tame when bonded to specific people, only for those same dragons to commit acts of horrific brutality if they bond another person, with different intentions, after their original rider's death. This is further complicated by their ambiguous relationship with their riders; sometimes they seem to be Bond Creatures, completely under the command of their current riders, while at others they seem to be intelligent creatures capable of independent decision-making. Frequently lampshaded by Maester Gyldayn in Fire & Blood: "Who can know the heart of a dragon?"
- Bond Creatures: Dragons will not simply allow anyone to mount them. They seem to be very selective of who they allow to become their rider. The rider having Valyrian heritage might be a factor. Once a dragon bonds with a rider, that dragon will not allow anyone else to mount it while its rider lives, though dragons will allow new riders once their previous rider is deceased. No rider though has ever ridden a different dragon while his/her current dragon was alive.
- The Dreaded: In general. Fully-grown dragons suddenly turning up on your doorstep is widely considered a Very Bad Thing.
- Evil Tainted the Place: Places burned by dragons are seen as these. From antiquity there are the Rhoyne and Old Valyria itself. In Westeros are the likes of Harrenhal, Rook's Rest, Tumbleton and Summerhall.
- Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies: Dragon hatchlings are small enough to cling on a teenage girl's shoulders. The largest known dragon could have swallowed a mammoth whole without chewing and had a wingspan so large it could cover entire towns as it flew ahead.
- Glass Cannon: Young dragons can dish out a lot of firepower but are more vulnerable to weapons than older ones as their scales haven't fully developed and hardened, though in fairness it usually takes a combination of Zerg Rush and More Dakka to successfully kill a young dragon.
- Glory Days: Daenerys's dragons are not completely bound to her, so she hasn't actually got the Glory of Old Valyria fully back, yet. Heck, ever since the Dance of the Dragons and the death of the last dragon during Aegon III's reignnote , the methods for binding dragons have been effectively lost to time or are simply unavailable to Daenerys at the moment. Even during the Dance itself, although the ability to bind dragons was widely accepted as just an Old Blood thing, it really played out more like trial-and-error, since a few Dragonseeds (Targaryen or Velaryon bastards) were able to ride dragons after dozens of other candidates, some of them legitimate Targaryens and Valaryons, were either lightly barbecued or entirely eaten by both wild and "domesticated" beasts when trying to "tame" them to them. And then, there's Nettles: no known links to Valyria in her background, but she still rode Sheepsteeler quite successfully. So far, other than Daenerys herself and Ben Plumm (probable links to Aegon IV), only Quentyn Martell has tried to get near the current trio of dragons, on the grounds that being her distant cousin meant it should be OK, yeah? Well, that logic got him brutally charred to death. So, it seems you do need more than just a drop or two of Targaryen blood to ride the fire and thunder properly... and it's going to take Daenerys, her dragons and her advisors a while to work out what works.
- Go for the Eye: The eyes, and the brain behind them, are the only vulnerable point on a dragon's body, and most dragons to be slain by humans were killed through arrows or scorpion bolts to the eye. Folklore claims so other weak areas, such as the belly or the mouth, but in reality these are just as well-armored as the rest of the creature.
- Hermaphrodite: Implied Trope. In-universe, people are pretty unclear about the details of dragon biology. Dragons — like most real-life reptiles — have no external genitalia. All that's known for sure is that some dragons sometimes lay eggs. Those that do are colloquially thought to be female, and those that don't are thought to be male. Septon Barth theorized that dragons are sequential hermaphrodites, and this is implied to be true because Maester Aemon — a Targaryen and a generally smart man besides — agrees.Aemon: Dragons are neither male nor female, Barth saw the truth of that, but now one and now the other, as changeable as flame.
- Horrifying the Horror: Even fully grown, fire-breathing dragons won't go beyond the Wall, as Queen Alysanne Targaryen found out with Silverwing.
- Hybrid Monster: Implied Trope. The general
fanon interpretation is that magic was used to hybridize flying, non-fire-breathing wyverns with non-flying, fire-breathing firewyrms. This comes from a couple sources. There are multiple myths about where dragons came from, but all suggest that humans predate dragons. Septon Barth — who's implied to be a real smarty-pants about dragons — theorized that dragons were created by Valyrian bloodmages using wyvern stock. Building off this theory, the traits that dragons have but wyvens lack (fire-breathing; enormous size) can be found in firewyrms — plus firewyrms are native to Valyria. Then there's the case of Laena Velaryon's first dragon. At birth she was given a dragon egg, which hatched into "a wingless wyrm, maggot-white and blind." (Firewyrms are subterranean tunneling creatures. Without sunlight they wouldn't have any use for eyesight or melanin sun protection.) This appears to be a case of atavism — lost ancestral traits reemerging, like the occasional human with a vestigial tail or extra nipples. - Living Weapon: The whole problem with Daenerys's dragons is the fact that she cannot control them even when she was able to ride one. Historically, the Targaryen dragons were bound to their riders from birth or by trial-and-error; as it's documented, dragons have very little qualms about even attacking each other (like when Aemond Targaryen rode Vhagar to kill Lucerys Velaryon and Arrax) and their level of control is a subject of speculation especially considering Dany's dragons and what they will or will not do. As such, there seems to be a degree of taming regarding the dragonrider, but a dragon is not a pet.
- Long-Lived: Dragons aren't immortal but can potentially live for centuries provided that they can avoid death by violence or calamity. When Balerion died of natural causes, he was around two hundred years old. Vhagar was also getting close to the two hundreds during the Dance of the Dragons.
- The Magic Comes Back: Daenerys's three dragons are the first ones to hatch in more than a hundred years. It is said that their birth is causing magic to come back into the world, and sorcerers ranging from the warlocks of Qarth to the pyromancers of King's Landing have noticed their spells becoming more effective since it happened. According to Archmaester Marwyn, the last generations of Targaryen dragons were poisoned by the Citadel in a conspiracy to get rid of the last traces of magic in the Seven Kingdoms.
- Mighty Glacier: Older dragons are big and ponderous with tough, thick scales, but move more slowly than younger and more slender dragons.
- Mighty Roar: Rhaegal and Vhagar are the best examples.
- Monstrous Cannibalism: To dragons, meat is meat, even if it comes from another dragon; when two dragons fight to the death, the winner will sometimes eat the loser. In particular, the Cannibal was a wild dragon that was notorious for munching on eggs, hatchlings, and dead dragons.
- Mundane Utility: Their fearsome Breath Weapon is initially used to barbecue their lunch. There's a saying in-universe that only men and dragons prefer cooked meat.
- My Blood Runs Hot: Dragon blood is incredibly hot and their bodies steam in the cold.
- Our Dragons Are Different: They need to eat seared or cooked food and won't accept outright raw. They can survive on human breast milk upon hatching (although, those teeth probably mean there's a very limited shelf-life on that). They only have four limbs, including the wings. They actually like the people they form emotional bonds with as something closer to family rather than snacks... but you'd never call them "pets", as they're more independent than even cats, for all they can be trained to, probably, a much greater degree than people usually realise. Nettles showed that when she snagged her Sheepstealer using positive reinforcement, patience and common sense, as it's not clear if she even had Targaryen blood to win that one over with. It's just a pity Daenerys hasn't had any decent grounding in developmental psychology, thanks to her screwed-up childhood.
- Pattern-Coded Eggs: As shown by the hatching of Dany's dragons, the color of a dragon egg shows what color the hatchling will be.
- Rule of Three: Three wildish dragon "siblings" are hatched after centuries of believed extinction under mysterious circumstances. Before those, however, three wild dragons of roughly similar ages made a dent in the history of Dragonstone together, after turning up under mysterious circumstances. And, then there are the original three Targaryen dragons of Aegon I and his sisters. Dragons and Targaryens both live and breathe the Rule of Three.
- Stronger with Age: The older they get, the bigger they get, and as long as they are not caged up, they don't stop growing. Well, according to what is known of old knowledge. Even that is questionable. In A Dance with Dragons, Rhaegal and Viserion continue to grow despite being chained. Maybe the type, timing, and degree of restraint are important, and we've just not seen the correct combination.
- Technicolor Fire: A few dragons are described as breathing unnatural-colored fire. Daenerys's dragons Drogon and Rhaegal, for instance, breathe reddish black and greenish fire, respectively. Tessarion, the dragon ridden by Daeron the Daring, breathed blue fire.
- To Serve Man: They don't have a particular taste for humans, but let's just say dragons aren't picky about what kind of meat goes down their gullets, as long as it's well-done. Historically, Aegon II Targaryen ended the Dance of the Dragons by feeding his half-sister Rhaenyra to his dragon, Sunfyre, on Dragonstone.
- A Wizard Did It: Mother dragons don't incubate their eggs after laying them. Alone, that wouldn't be so weird—there are some reptiles where the mothers lay the eggs, leave, and then the eggs hatch on their own and the hatchlings fend for themselves. Except dragons eggs don't hatch in a set time as normal animals do. Sometimes they hatch quickly after being laid, sometimes they don't... even after more than a century. And weirdest of all, in most known cases dragon eggs seem to need human intervention to hatch — which lends credence to the idea that they were made after some fashion, rather than evolved. Daenerys hatches hers using Blood Magic. Targaryens of old often hatched them by putting them in a cradle with a baby Targaryen.
Extant Dragons
Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion, Daenerys's three dragons, hatched at the end of A Game of Thrones and growing up over the course of the series. They are the first Targaryen dragons to hatch in close to 150 years. In general
- The Dragons Come Back: They are the first dragons born in over a century. As a result, magic is coming back into the world. Conversely, the magic might have started coming back until it hit a level they could be hatched with. It's a little unclear.
- Equivalent Exchange: It's implied that they were born via Blood Magic and the sacrifice of three lives (or three bodies) in the flames of Drogo's funeral pyre — Drogo himself, the stillborn Rhaego, and Mirri Maz Duur.
- Kill It with Fire: Their go-to solution to annoying, meaty problems. Or "lunch". Whichever.
- Licked by the Dog: One of the few people they display affection for is Brown Ben Plumm.
- Mysterious Past:
- Their origin is a complete mystery. It's unknown where Illyrio Mopatis got the dragon eggs from, and which dragon laid them. The fact that the eggs had fossilized suggests that they were laid a long time ago.
- Fire and Blood reveals that Rhaena Targaryen's dragon Dreamfyre laid a clutch of three eggs on Dragonstone, which were eventually stolen and sold by Rhaena's lover Elissa Farman in Essos to finance the building of a ship that she would sail around the known world. Gyldayn never says what happened to them after that, but one has to wonder...
- Predators Are Mean: Invoked in-universe, once the dragons begin to steal sheep and... other things.
- Roar Before Beating: Subverted, as they take after Real Life animals and not fictional ones who've overdosed on courtly songs. All three certainly can make a lot of noise when calling challenges and showing defiance when rough-housing or staking claims to territory, especially Rhaegal and Drogon. But, when they actually mean business and/or work out that there are stakes involved in an upcoming fight (Viserion is not particularly good at this bit), they go quiet. Nothing Is Scarier... until you get hit full force with a surprise flame attack, probably from above. Ser Barristan is one of the few people who has actually noticed this and realises what it could mean.
- Shoulder-Sized Dragon: When newly hatched, they're small enough to perch on the teenaged Daenerys's shoulders. They quickly outgrow this stage.
- Single Specimen Species: Well, Triple-Specimen Species as it were, but they're currently the only known living dragons in the entire world, and the only ones to hatch in more than a century.
- Trigger Phrase: When they hear the word "Dracarys," it's feeding time.
- Uniqueness Value: Dragon eggs are exceedingly valuable; as Jorah points out, Daenerys can become a rich woman for the rest of her life just by selling the three she has. Of course, their value multiplies by about a zillion once they actually hatch. When Xaro Xhoan Daxos tries to buy one of them, Daenerys tell him she would only acquiesce to selling a third of the world's dragons if he can give her a third of the world's ships.Jorah: Your dragon eggs were more precious than rubies. A living dragon is beyond price. In all the world, there are only three. Every man who sees them will want them, my queen.
- We Named the Monkey "Jack": Dany names her three "children" after her dead husband Drogo and her dead brothers Rhaegar and Viserys.
Drogon
- Bond Creatures: As of the end of A Dance with Dragons, he is officially Daenerys's mount.
- Dead Guy Junior: Named after the late Khal Drogo, whose funeral pyre led to the hatching of Drogon in the first place.
- Generation Xerox: Drogon is said to be the second coming of Balerion, and is appropriately black with red accents and eyes (Balerion is said to be pure black with red eyes).
- Knight, Knave, and Squire: The up-for-a-fight "Knight" of the trio. Drogon seems to meet most challenges head-on (unless actually hunting — prey is food, not a fun fight).
- A Lizard Named "Liz": Drogon the dragon; worth noting though that he was named for Daenerys's husband Drogo.
- Meaningful Name: Drogo, the Great Khal of the Dothraki, is an aggressive Blood Knight who nevertheless shows a softer side when it comes to his wife, Daenerys. Drogon is the biggest and strongest of the three, a very assertive leader, quick to action, and has arguably the closest bond with Dany.
- Odd Name Out: Daenerys's only dragon with a non-Valyrian name, as he is named after a Dothraki warlord.
- Put on a Bus: Near the beginning of A Dance with Dragons, Drogon escapes Meereen before Daenerys is able to chain him into the pit below the Great Pyramid. As such, he is absent for much of the book, only resurfacing near the end of Daenerys's story, where the chaos he creates in Meereen's fighting pits leads Daenerys to become the first dragon rider in more than a century.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Drogon has the perfect coloring for a Targaryen dragon: black scales, red spinal plates, and red eyes. He bleeds black blood, and his dragonflame is black shot with red. Subverted since he is not really evil. Just untamed and aggressive.
Rhaegal
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: After Quentyn releases the dragons into Meereen, Rhaegal makes his lair in the Pyramid of Yherizan, forcibly evicting its residents, some of whom try to reclaim it with predictable results.
- Dead Guy Junior: Named after Daenerys's brother Rhaegar Targaryen.
- Generation Xerox: Rhaegal is green with bronze swirls, evoking Balerion's mate Vhagar, who was bronze with green eyes and swirls.
- Knight, Knave, and Squire: The sneak-attack "Knave" of the trio. Rhaegal hasn't met a challenge without trying to manoeuvre around, distract, or hamstring it as a first choice.
- Meaningful Name: Rhaegar Targaryen, the "Last Dragon" of the family, is a talented strategist who is described as a classic chivalrous knight. Rhaegal is lithe, usually vocal (you need to be careful when it goes quiet, though) and a cunning strategist who is more deadly than you'd expect. He also looks very like the epitome of a classic Medieval dragon, matching his namesake's reputation, as well. A particularly wince-inducing layer of this is added in the fifth book: Prince Rhaegar had outraged the Martells when he snubbed his wife Princess Elia Martell in favor of Lyanna Stark, and unwittingly caused Elia's death when he ran off with Lyanna and sparked a civil war. In A Dance with Dragons, Dany's dragon Rhaegal ends up killing Prince Quentyn Martell when he was sent to make a marriage alliance Daenerys couldn't accept, causing the Martell faction to be screwed over yet again by the Targaryens and making it likely the Hot-Blooded, vengeful Martells will turn on Daenerys if they receive word of what happened to Quentyn in The Winds of Winter. Oops!
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Rhaegal's deadly specialty is popping up from (or down from or from behind) unlikely places even after having grown to a size you'd think impossible to hide. Isn't that right, Quentyn?
- Those Two Guys: Rhaegal and Viserion kind of form this dynamic when their bigger sibling does its solo thing. They do seem to stay near each other rather more than you'd expect for independently-minded, highly mobile, personified stubbornness, even when they have the chance to completely disappear to separate corners of Essos or commute to wherever they last saw Dany. But no: they flatshare Meereen together and terrorise it in stereo.
Viserion
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: After Quentyn releases the dragons into Meereen, Viserion makes his lair in the Pyramid of Uhlez, forcibly evicting its residents, some of whom try to reclaim it with predictable results.
- Dead Guy Junior: Named after Daenerys's brother Viserys Targaryen.
- Generation Xerox: Viserion is pale cream with gold accents, evoking Balerion's mate Meraxes, who was silver with golden eyes.
- Gold-Colored Superiority: Inverted. He has divine gold and an off-white complexion but is the smallest and weakest of of the three.
- Knight, Knave, and Squire: Viserion is the somewhat bullied "Squire" of the trio. He really does need to put some work in deciding which to be, and when.
- Mama's Boy: Viserion, the smallest, is noted by Dany to be the clingiest of her dragons.Behind the carved wooden door of the captain’s cabin, her dragons were restless. Drogon raised his head and screamed, pale smoke venting from his nostrils, and Viserion flapped at her and tried to perch on her shoulder, as he had when he was smaller. “No,” Dany said, trying to shrug him off gently. “You’re too big for that now, sweetling.” But the dragon coiled his white and gold tail around one arm and dug black claws into the fabric of her sleeve, clinging tightly. Helpless, she sank into Groleo’s great leather chair, giggling.
- Meaningful Name: Viserys Targaryen is a megalomaniac who prides himself as the rightful heir to the Iron Throne, but in reality, is a foolish Prince in Rags and Big Bad Wannabe. Viserion is useful if you want a distraction: not the brightest of the bunch and with no outstanding qualities beyond being gold-speckled, let's put it that way.
- Those Two Guys: Rhaegal and Viserion kind of form this dynamic when their bigger sibling does its solo thing. They do seem to stay near each other rather more than you'd expect for independently-minded, highly mobile, personified stubbornness, even when they have the chance to completely disappear to separate corners of Essos or commute to wherever they last saw Dany. But no: they flatshare Meereen together and terrorise it in stereo.
Historical Targaryen Dragons
An exact lineage of all Targaryen dragons is not currently known. There were three original Targaryen dragons: Balerion, Meraxes, and Vhagar. Balerion was even larger than the other two and sort of part of "generation zero", as the Targaryens originally brought five dragons with them when they fled from Valyria, but four died through as-yet-unknown circumstances, leaving only Balerion. The others left behind eggs, though, and from these hatched Meraxes and Vhagar.The twenty living dragons at the time of the Dance can generally be sorted into broad size categories, which usually correlate with age:
- 1 super-large: Vhagar
- 8 large: Vermithor, Silverwing, Meleys, Dreamfyre, Sheepstealer, the Cannibal, Caraxes, Syrax
- 8 medium to light: Sunfyre, Tessarion, Seasmoke, Grey Ghost, Vermax, Arrax, Tyraxes, Moondancer — with Sunfyre more medium/large at the one extreme, and at the other, young Moondancer barely big enough to ride.
- 3 hatchlings: Stormcloud, Morghul, Shrykos
There was another second-generation dragon, Quicksilver, ridden by King Aenys (and probably the same generation as Vermithor or Meleys), but he was killed fighting Maegor on Balerion during the Faith Militant uprising.
One more dragon, Morning, was hatched near the end of the Dance, belonging to Rhaena of Pentos.
The last dragon, as the name suggests, was the last dragon House Targeryen had for more than a century, and it was sickly and misshapen.
Conquest-generation dragons:
Balerion, Meraxes and Vhagar, the three dragons ridden by Aegon Targaryen and his sister-wives Rhaenys and Visenya in their conquest of Westeros. In general
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Their immense size and destructive powers made each of them capable of destroying an army by themselves. Harrenhal, the Field of Fire, the Battle beneath the God's Eye and the Dance over Storm's End are some of the most well-known.
- Meaningful Name: They were named after ancient Valyrian gods. They were nigh-unstoppable in their prime and made the Targaryens the unchallenged rulers of Westeros (save for Dorne).
Balerion
The Black Dread
An immense black dragon, the largest known to Westerosi historians, Balerion was the personal steed of Aegon the Conqueror. His subsequent riders include Maegor, Aerea and Viserys Targaryen. Balerion was one of the five dragons the Targaryens brought when they relocated from Valyria to Dragonstone, and the only living one by the time of Aegon's conquest, making him the last living being who knew the glory of Old Valyria.
- The Ace: Befitting of the beast that once belonged to Aegon the Conqueror, Balerion was considered one of if not the biggest and strongest known dragon around, with his size big enough to envelop a city and powerful black flames that can decimate entire armies and even a formidable castle. None of the dragons after him was able to eclipse his might.
- The Dreaded: Dragons are generally this as a rule, but Balerion in particular was known as the "Black Dread" due to both his formidable size and the color of his flames.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Balerion died of old age late in the reign of Jaehaerys I.
- Giant Flyer: Balerion was said to be so unfathomably massive that entire towns fell under his shadow as he flew overhead. However, in his old age, he grew so large that he could barely keep itself aloft.
- Last of His Kind: Balerion was the last dragon from pre-Doom Valyria. At the time of his death, he was also the only living being who saw the glory of Old Valyria.
- Long-Lived: At the time of his death, Balerion was at least 208 years old; he was there when the Targaryens moved from Valyria to Dragonstone 114 years before Aegon's Conquest and passed away in his sleep 94 years after the Conquest. Of note is that he was the only known dragon to live out his natural life; all other dragons (including his companions Meraxes and Vhagar) either died of injuries or sickness.
- The Magnificent: Balerion is almost always referred to by his full moniker, Balerion the Black Dread, in memory of his immense power and the terror it inspired.
- Nothing Is Scarier: When Balerion and Aerea returned from Old Valyria, it was noted that he had a massive and still-bleeding scar on his side. He was the oldest and strongest dragon around at the time and something managed to hurt him, but it was never discovered what could have done this.
- Passed in Their Sleep: According to historical records, Balerion died this way — notably making him the only known dragon to die of old age. He went to sleep one day and never opened his eyes again.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: He was named after an ancient Valyrian god.
- There's No Place Like Home: Barth theorizes that when Aerea tried to escape Dragonstone with Balerion, it ignored her inexperienced commands and chose to head straight for its original home, Valyria, over staying at Dragonstone or heading for King's Landing.
- The Worf Effect: Balerion was known as the strongest dragon around before and after the Conquest, notable as being one of the few dragons who has seen Old Valyria. The fact that something was able to injure a dragon of immense magnitude shows just how utterly dangerous the ruins of Valyria are.
Meraxes
A silver she-dragon ridden by Queen Rhaenys. After the Conquest, Rhaenys flew her south in an attempt to conquer Dorne, but both dragon and rider were perished outside of the Hellholt when a scorpion bolt pierced Meraxes' eye.
- Eye Scream: Meraxes was fatally shot through the eye with a scorpion bolt during one of the Targaryens' attempts to conquer Dorne.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: She was named after an ancient Valyrian god.
- Sacrificial Lion: Meraxes was the first dragon to die to show the futility of invading Dorne.
Vhagar
A she-dragon who served as the steed of Queen Visenya. Her later riders included Baelon Targaryen, Laena Velaryon, and Aemond Targaryen.
- The Dreaded: During the Dance of the Dragons, Vhagar was the oldest, largest, and most feared living creature in Westeros.
- Finally Found the Body: It was years before the carcass of Vhagar and the corpse of her rider Aemond were able to be fished out of the lake they'd fallen into.
- Giant Flyer: By the time of the Dance of the Dragons, Vhagar had grown to almost the same massive size Balerion was during the Conquest. However, she was still smaller than he was at the time of his death.
- Last of His Kind: Vhagar would die as the last creature who had been alive during the Conquest, outliving Meraxes by 120 years and Balerion by 36 years. In a way, she mirrored Visenya Targaryen, who was also the last of her siblings to die, outliving Rhaenys by 34 years and Aegon by 7 years.
- Long-Lived: Vhagar was 181 years old when she died during the Dance of the Dragons.
- Mutual Kill: Vhagar managed to disembowel Caraxes and tear off one of his wings in their final battle, but Caraxes kept his jaws locked around Vhagar's throat until they hit the surface of the God's Eye, whereupon Vhagar was instantly killed by the impact.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: She was named after an ancient Valyrian god.
Older & Larger post-Conquest dragons:
Quicksilver
A dragon who bonded with King Aenys I and, after his passing, his son Aegon the Uncrowned.
- David Versus Goliath: Subverted. He was the only dragon who had the misfortune to duel Balerion the Black Dread, the largest known dragon in Westerosi history, and lost miserably.
- Good Colors, Evil Colors: Judging by his name, he had silver scales, and his fire was confirmed to be pale white in color. He ended up being used to fight Balerion, a black dragon who breathed black fire.
Vermithor
The Bronze Fury
Vermithor, called the Bronze Fury, was the dragon ridden by King Jaehaerys I, and became semi-wild after the Old King's death. It was re-tamed by Hugh the Hammer, one of the Two Betrayers.- Irony: As Jaeherys I's mount, he together with Silverwing served as the Bond Creatures of the greatest and most honorable Ruling Couple the dynasty ever saw. By turning wild and serving the traitorous dragonseeds during the Dance of the Dragons, he would end his life in Mutual Kill against a more heroic rider and his dragon.
- Mêlée à Trois: He fought riderless against Seasmoke and Tessarion during the Second Battle of Tumbleton. He died shortly after killing Seasmoke.
- Mighty Glacier: Slower than younger dragons, but much tougher.
- Mutual Kill: While he won the battle against Seasmoke, he died of his wounds shortly after.
- Post-Victory Collapse: After ripping off Seasmoke's head, he tried to fly off with his prize, only to collapse from his injuries and die.
- Red Baron: He was called the Bronze Fury.
- The Social Expert: Vermithor was surprisingly good at finding convivial draconic company and working with said others in a coordinated way without human prodding, all things considered. Practically a draconic charmer.
Silverwing
Silverwing was a she-dragon ridden by Queen Alysanne Targaryen, and during the Dance of the Dragons was re-tamed by Ulf the White, one of the Two Betrayers.
- Fed to the Beast: Ulf the White fed people who displeased him to Silverwing.
- Irony: As Alysanne's mount, she together with Vermithor served as the Bond Creatures of the greatest and most honorable Ruling Couple the dynasty ever saw. By turning wild and serving the traitorous dragonseeds during the Dance of the Dragons, she would end her role in the story by committing war crimes on behalf of her rider.
- Meaningful Name: A dragon with silvery scales.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: During Alysanne's visit to The Wall, she refused to fly beyond The Wall even though it was summer and had never disobeyed Alysanne's orders before or since, a fact that notably disturbed the queen. She clearly felt something.
- Please Wake Up: Some say she tried to make Vermithor stand after he collapsed in the aftermath of the Second Battle of Tumbleton, with no success. Others believe that's just a myth.
- Sole Survivor: The only dragon that saw combat during the Dance of the Dragons that survived the war.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: While she survived the war and Unwin Peake offered the hand of his daughter to anyone who managed to re-tame her, nobody succeeded and her eventual fate, like The Cannibal, is unknown.
Meleys
The Red Queen
Meleys, called the Red Queen, was an old she-dragon ridden by Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, and before that her aunt Princess Alyssa Targaryen.- Dead Guy on Display: Her head was drawn through King's Landing on a cart, awing the crowds of smallfolk into silence.
- Jack of All Stats: At the beginning of the Dance, she was one of the larger dragons (but not the largest) and also one of the swiftest, which allowed her to outmaneuver the few dragons larger than she. Archmaester Gyldayn even notes that, in a one-on-one fight, Meleys would have stood some chance against Vhagar.
- Red Baron: She was known as the Red Queen.
- Sacrificial Lion: She was the first truly formidable Black dragon to die.
- Taking You with Me: She severely injured Aegon II and Sunfyre at Rook's Rest before dying. Both would eventually die from their wounds.
Dreamfyre
Dreamfyre was a mature she-dragon. She was once the mount of the Old King's sister Rhaena Targaryen. Dreamfyre later became the beloved mount of Helaena Targaryen.
- Eye Scream: She took a crossbow bolt to the eye during the Storming of the Dragonpit. Whilst it didn't kill her, she was left half-blind and maddened with pain which led her to crash into the Dragonpit's dome, bringing it down.
- Missing Mom: If she really is the mother of Dany's dragon eggs, she has been gone for hundreds of years by the time they hatch.
- My Nayme Is: Dreamfyre is spelled with a "y" instead of "i".
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Helaena lost her sons, and eventually committed suicide. To avenge her, Dreamfyre went berserk.
- Small Role, Big Impact: To finance her voyage around the world, Elissa Farman stole something (well, three somethings) from Dragonstone before taking off to the narrow sea. Those somethings were three eggs laid by Dreamfyre that, after being sold, are implied to have drifted around Essos for centuries before finding their way into the hands of a certain dragon queen.
- Taking You with Me: During the Storming of the Dragonpit, she crashed into the dome of the Dragonpit; the falling rubble killed her and many of the rioters.
- True Blue Femininity: Dreamfyre was a beautiful she-dragon with silvery blue scales.
Sheepstealer
Sheepstealer was a wild dragon during the Dance of the Dragons with a taste for mutton. He lived at the back of Dragonmont and would hunt between Driftmark and Wendwater. The smallfolk of Dragonstone named it for a self-evident reason.
- Face of a Thug: Sheepstealer would never win pageants, let's put it that way. Although it's unclear how much of the derogatory descriptions were simply down to his wild and brutish reputation.
- Older Sidekick: He was well over 50 years old at the time of his taming, while his rider Nettles was a teenager.
- Put on a Bus: Sheepstealer and Nettles both fled after Rhaenyra has all dragonseeds arrested. It's hinted that they fled to the hidden upper valleys of the Mountains of the Moon, if the stories of the Burned Men are anything to go by.
- Rule of Symbolism: Nettles befriended Sheepstealer. She would do the same with Prince Daemon Targaryen.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Sheep, of course.
- Wild Child: Hatched when old King Jaehaerys was young, making him around 80-years-old and huge at the time of the Dance — a truly "wild" dragon who had grown to adulthood never knowing a human rider. This resulted in him being even less controllable than most draconic Stubborn Mules. Eventually, many potential riders gave up and declared he couldn't be ridden — until Nettles won him over through cunning use of positive reinforcement, leaving him sheep every day to gradually get him used to her presence.
- Your Favorite: Nettles tamed him by leaving him a freshly killed sheep every day.
The Cannibal
The Cannibal was a wild dragon during the Dance of the Dragons, so named because he fed on dead or newborn dragons and dragon eggs.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He was named after his cannibalistic behavior.
- Monstrous Cannibalism: The Cannibal preyed on other dragons, mostly eggs and hatchlings.
- Mysterious Past: No one is sure which dragon sired him, nor when he hatched. Some smallfolk even believed the dragon lived in Dragonstone since before the Targaryens arrived on the island, although Maesters doubt that.
- Not Me This Time: After the partially devoured carcass of Grey Ghost was found, Ser Robert Quince quickly pointed his finger at the Cannibal. However, the culprit in this particular case of cannibalistic hunting of a mature dragon was actually Sunfyre. It really didn't fit the Cannibal's MO, as he preyed almost exclusively on hatchlings.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The Cannibal survived the Dance of the Dragons, but mysteriously vanished after the war. Keep in mind, though, that this comes from a writing of a Maester and, according to Marwyn, Maesters were responsible for the death of the dragons.
- Wild Child: Yup. And, not given to acting well in company. Not good with children.
Caraxes
The Blood Wyrm
Caraxes, the Blood Wyrm, was Daemon Targaryen's dragon, large and powerful with red scales. A veteran of Daemon's years of campaigning in the Stepstones, Caraxes was one of the most battle-hardened dragons when the Dance started. Before Daemon claimed Caraxes, the dragon belonged to his uncle Prince Aemon Targaryen before his death on Tarth.
- Determinator: Managed to take out Vhagar in a Mutual Kill, despite the fact that Vhagar was the largest living dragon (twice as large as Caraxes, and Caraxes himself was one of the largest dragons). Their epic mid-air duel at Harrenhal ended with Caraxes slamming into Vhagar and sending them both into free fall. On the way down, Vhagar ripped off one of his wing-arms in her mouth and tore open his belly — but Caraxes maintained a death grip on Vhagar's throat. As they crashed Caraxes ripped out Vhagar's throat and she bore the brunt of the fall, killing her. Somehow, even this wasn't enough to kill Caraxes instantly. With one arm left and trailing his guts behind him out of his open belly, Caraxes managed to pull himself back up onto the shore. He avoided drowning but died soon afterwards under the walls of Harrenhal.
- The Dreaded: Probably the most feared dragon during the Dance after Vhagar herself — even more than some of the older and larger dragons like Vermithor or Meleys (though Caraxes was still described as "huge"). Caraxes was easily the most battle-hardened dragon during the Dance, from years spent fighting proxy wars in the Stepstones, and also as vicious as his equally dreaded rider. Vermithor, Silverwing, Meleys, and the other larger dragons were hatched during a long era of peace and never saw significant combat before. Vhagar was really the only other dragon who had seen much military action (in the Conquest, First Dornish War, and Faith Militant uprising — 80 years before the Dance). Gyldayn states that enemy armies literally just ran away when they got news that Caraxes was approaching, a level of Dreaded that only Vhagar could also induce. The castellan of Harrenhal simply surrendered without a fight when Caraxes arrived at the castle.
- Foil: The two dragon-and-rider pairs in the Dance over Harrenhal formed a sort of inverted image of one another, as each featured an older and more cunning fighter (Daemon, Vhagar) paired with a younger and more aggressive one (Caraxes, Aemond).
- Mutual Kill: Caraxes managed to kill Vhagar but died of the injuries he sustained shortly afterwards.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Apparently, they don't call him "the Blood Wyrm" due to his red color, but due to the countless battles he is a veteran of and the untold amount of blood he has spilled.
Syrax
Rhaenyra Targaryen's first and only dragon during the Dance of the Dragons, a large, mature she-dragon with yellow scales.
- Death from Above: A nasty subversion. As the last of the four dragons in the Dragonpit were killed, she descended on the bloody rioters from above...and then they killed her, somehow. See "Rashomon"-Style below.
- Decapitation Presentation: Following Rhaenyra's flight from King's Landing, her head along with those of the other slain dragons were set up on posts, with the Shepherd preaching from beneath them.
- Despair Event Horizon: Her death was one for her rider. When she died, all hope was lost to Rhaenyra, forcing her to flee King's Landing.
- Fed to the Beast: For questioning the paternity of her three eldest children, Rhaenyra executed Vaemond Velaryon and fed his body to Syrax.
- Non-Action Guy: For some reason, she was never used in combat during the Dance, despite the Blacks having need of every dragonrider.
- "Rashomon"-Style: Many different accounts of her death are given in Fire and Blood. Some claim that Hobb the Hewer and his axe killed her, others claim it was a gigantic blood-soaked spearman, a knight named Ser Warrick Wheaton wielding a Valyrian steel sword, or a crossbowman named Bean, but the most popular version of the story goes that the Shepherd himself took the form of the Warrior, thirty feet tall, and cleaved Syrax's head from her body with a sword made of smoke.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Apparently, Rhaenyra was a fan of the Valyrian religion, as she named Syrax after a Valyrian god. Aside from the three dragons ridden during Aegon's Conquest, Syrax was the only other dragon with such theme naming, as far as it has been written.
Medium to light dragons:
Sunfyre
The Golden
There (as Mushroom put it so memorably many years later) they found themselves face-to-face with "a dead man and a dying dragon".
Fire & Blood
Aegon II's dragon. Sunfyre was a young but powerful male dragon with golden scales. He is described as being the most beautiful dragon ever seen upon the earth.
- The Ace: Was a younger dragon yet never lost a fight and was described as incredibly beautiful. Also note that in every fight Sunfyre suffered severe injuries he could never heal from and yet still managed to defeat every dragon he fought, even Meleys who was described as a monster of a dragon and still killed another one despite the scars from a previous battle. Though they died from the injuries.
- The Beautiful Elite: While not necessarily the largest or most dangerous dragon during the Dance, Sunfyre is widely held to have been the most beautiful dragon to ever fly the skies of Westeros after the Targaryen Conquest. His scales were stunning gold and glittered as he flew. He did turn out to be a capable fighter, though.
- Beauty to Beast: Was once one of the most stunning creatures ever seen but got hit with Body Horror after several bloody duels with other dragons during the Dance.
- Body Horror: Sunfyre barely survived three dragon fights (after which he was mortally injured and later died from his wounds) but was left a horrific "broken thing" bordering on Two-Faced. One of his wing-arms was nearly ripped off of his body: it didn't fully heal but set at a bad angle so he could never fly well again. He was covered in scars and deep, open wounds. Half of his face was nearly ripped off and he lost one of his eyes.
- Broken Angel: His battle with Moondancer left him so badly injured that he was forever unable to fly afterwards.
- Duel to the Death: Won three dragon duels during the Dance of the Dragons. This ties with Vhagar as engaging in the most dragon-on-dragon fights (though like Vhagar, one was an assist, and the last resulted in mortal injury).
- Determinator: Despite his grievous wounds and damaged wing, Sunfyre managed to fly back to Dragonstone — either because it was his birthplace or because he sensed Aegon, a matter still debated by the Maesters.
- Gold-Colored Superiority: He was a beautiful golden dragon, and quite fearsome in battle.
- Eye Scream: Lost one of his eyes during the battle with Grey Ghost.
- Fed to the Beast: He is the beast. Grand Maester Gerardys and Queen Rhaenyra were both served for dinner, at different times.
- I Am a Dragonitarian: He killed and partially devoured the Grey Ghost after returning to Dragonstone. He also ate Moondancer.
- Meaningful Name: He had glittering golden scales.
- My Nayme Is: Sunfyre, with a "y" instead of an "i" for unclear reasons.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Won every battle it fought but sustained injuries it couldn't recover from.
- Team Pet: For the Greens, who represented him by using a golden dragon on black as their sigil.
- Time-Delayed Death: The injuries Sunfyre sustained in his battle with Moondancer ended up killing him six weeks later.
Tessarion
The Blue Queen
Tessarion, called the Blue Queen, was a she-dragon ridden by Prince Daeron Targaryen the Daring.- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond / Weak, but Skilled: In the sense that Tessarion was one of the younger generation of dragons in the war...but she was the only dragon in the Reach campaign during the first half of the conflict, as the main Hightower army slowly fought its way from Oldtown to King's Landing. Even a young dragon is dangerous against enemy armies that simply don't have any. Her rider Daeron was also smart enough to recognize her relative weakness and use her effectively relative to her size, instead of just wading into enemy armies who might kill him or hurt Tessarion with ranged weapons. Instead, at the Battle of the Honeywine, while the enemy army was pinned by the Hightower forces, he attacked them by surprise from behind. Essentially, he used her like a more exaggerated version of light cavalry: good for flanking attacks and scouting. Daeron made very effective use of Tessarion by flying ahead of the Hightower army to scout out traps that enemy forces tried to set.
- Mêlée à Trois: She fought riderless alongside Vermithor against Seasmoke. She was severely injured, and Billy Burley, under the command of Benjicot Blackwood, put her out of her misery.
- Mercy Kill: Despite having her belly torn open, the wounds missed her immediately vital organs, so she spent hours writing in agony. Ultimately Benjicot Blackwood ordered his archer Billy Burley to put her out of her misery with an arrow through the eye.
- Red Baron: The Blue Queen.
Seasmoke
Seasmoke was the dragon of Laenor Velaryon and was re-tamed by Addam Velaryon during the Dance of the Dragons.
- Kill It with Fire: In one account, Seasmoke set the tent of Prince Daeron, Aegon II's younger brother ablaze, and Daeron died when the burning tent collapsed on top of him.
- Meaningful Name: Had pale silvery-gray scales.
- Mêlée à Trois: He and Addam fought against the riderless Vermithor and Tessarion.
- Off with His Head!: Shortly after Addam was killed, Vermithor ripped his head off.
- Taking You with Me: While he got his head ripped off by Vermithor, the injuries he gave to the Bronze Fury and the Blue Queen would kill them shortly after.
Vermax
Vermax was a dragon ridden by Prince Jacaerys Velaryon during the Dance of the Dragons.
- Together in Death: Perished alongside Jace during the Battle in the Gullet.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He hated cold weather but was used by Jace when he traveled to the frigid North to seek alliances for the blacks.
Arrax
Arrax was a dragon ridden by Prince Lucerys Velaryon during the Dance of the Dragons.
- David Versus Goliath: Subverted, as he lost the battle against Vhagar, an extremely old dragon who absolutely dwarfed the teenage Arrax.
- Sacrificial Lamb: He and Prince Luke are the first casualties of the Dance.
Tyraxes
Tyraxes was a dragon ridden by Prince Joffrey Velaryon during the Dance of the Dragons.
- Accidental Suicide: When the mob stormed the Dragonpit from the back entrance, he became confused and tried to flee, only to strangle himself to death with his own chains.
- Defiant to the End: He put up one hell of a fight against those sent to slay him, to the point that the main entrance to his lair was so choked up with burned corpses that they had to resort to circling around and taking the back entrance, and even then he tried to fight.
- Nemean Skinning: After his death, he was flayed, and his skin was used to create cloaks for the Shepherd's followers.
Moondancer
Moondancer was a young she-dragon. She had only one rider, Lady Baela Targaryen.
- Curb Stomp Cushion: She brutally injured Sunfyre before he was able to kill and eat her.
- The Determinator: Fought like seven hells against Sunfire even after being blinded by his fire breath. Even though he eventually killed and devoured her, she dealt him injuries so brutal that he was never able to fly again.
- Eye Scream: Took a blast of Sunfyre's fire-breath straight to her eyes that likely blinded her instantly, but still fought on.
- Fragile Speedster: She was known for being small but fast.
- Little Miss Badass: A non-human version. She was still a juvenile, just barely large enough to be ridden, when she faced Sunfyre in a duel. And although she ultimately lost, she put up one hell of a fight.
- Meaningful Name: She was described as being pale green in color, with pearly white horns, wingbones and crest. She was also very fast and agile.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Remember that "Dance" in this series is used as an Unusual Euphemism for violence.
- Taking You with Me: She and Sunfyre crashed together in their battle, killing Moondancer. Sunfyre never recovered from his injuries and eventually died six weeks later.
Grey Ghost
Grey Ghost was a wild dragon during the Dance of the Dragons dwelling on a smoking vent on the eastern side of the Dragonmont volcano.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Grey Ghost may have been asocial and a loner by preference, but he was no slouch when pushed to do battle. Sunfyre was heavily injured during their very brutal scuffle. Ghost may not have managed a Taking You with Me, but the extent of Sunfyre's injuries suggest a very good attempt was made.
- Meaningful Name: He was named by the smallfolk of Dragonstone because of his grey-white color and his shyness, which made him rarely seen.
- Shrinking Violet: Seemed to put other dragons and most humans in the "too dangerous to mess with" box, so made disappearing acts and camouflage its speciality.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Unusually for a dragon, he preferred fish rather than mammalian prey. He could often be seen flying low over the narrow sea, snatching prey from the waters.
- White Sheep: Grey Ghost is one of the few dragons never known to have killed a human, preferring to hide from them instead.
- Wild Child: Of the "disappearing at the merest hint of strange company" kind.
Stormcloud
A young dragon bonded to King Aegon III, who only rode him once as a boy.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He successfully spirited Aegon back to his mother but was mortally injured by numerous arrows as well as a scorpion bolt shot by the Triarchy's fleet, and died an hour after arriving at Dragonstone.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Despite only being ridden once before dying, were it not for him, the Targaryens probably wouldn't have continued ruling the Seven Kingdoms after the Dance, as Aegon ended up being the sole living male Targaryen in Westeros after the civil war.
Shrykos
A young she-dragon claimed by Prince Jaehaerys Targaryen during the Dance of the Dragons, although she was never ridden.
- Rule of Symbolism: During the storming of the Dragonpit, Septon Eustace claims Hobb the Hewer clubbed her seven times in the head, each time roaring out one of the names of the Seven, but it's only when he reached the seventh — the Stranger, who represented the netherworld — that the dragon finally died.
Morghul
A young dragon claimed by Princess Jaehaera Targaryen during the Dance of the Dragons, although he was never ridden.
- Eye Scream: During the storming of the Dragonpit, a man called the Burning Knight killed Morghul by spearing him through the eye.
- Mutual Kill: The Burning Knight is known as such for a reason—he only gets seconds to call himself a dragonslayer before Morghul's fire cooks him inside his own armor.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Morghul means "death" in High Valyrian.
Morning
A pink she-dragon who hatches from a cluster of eggs that Syrax laid at the outbreak of the Dance of the Dragons. Morning bonds with Rhaena Targaryen (daughter of Daemon)
- The Baby of the Bunch: Of the dragons who survive the Dance of the Dragons, Morning is the only one born during the civil war.
- Doomed by Canon: Morning was still alive when Aegon III reached his age of majority. Unfortunately, canon dictates the last dragon will be a sickly hatchling that dies during Aegon's reign, meaning that within a few decades, Morning will either die or go missing long before achieving the natural lifespan of a dragon.
- Hope Bringer: Morning hatches after all of the other tame dragons die or go feral, becoming the sole Targaryen-bonded dragon. This restores a lot of faith in the Blacks’ cause while demoralizing the Greens.
- Killer Rabbit: As a dragon, Morning has lots of dangerous potential, but she is a small cute-looking young dragon who is fairly peaceful around people and is adored by everyone besides Aegon.
- Pink Means Feminine: A pink dragon ridden by the classically feminine Rhaena Targaryen, who was often contrasted with her tomboyish twin sister Baela Targaryen.
- Shoulder-Sized Dragon: Before maturing, Morning is often found draped over Rhaena like a mink stole.
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Short-Lived, Big Impact: as far as we can calculate she died before she hit 23 years of age but her hatching and riding by Rhaena Targaryen was a huge moral boost to the dynasty that has suffered many great losses during the destructive civil war. - What Happened to the Mouse?: we have absolutely no idea what happened to her other than she died in or before 153 AC and as she was extremely young for a species that can make it to 200 years of age it leaves a lot of questions about what her fate was.
The Last Dragon
An unnamed she-dragon hatched during the reign of Aegon III, following the Dance of the Dragons. She was the last surviving dragon in the Known World until the birth of Daenerys's children over a century later.
- Ambiguous Situation: If King Aegon III really poisoned her or was just born sickly. Some even say the maesters did it.
- Absurdly Youthful Mother: She was no more than 22 years old (or even younger than that), extremely young for a dragon, and still managed to produce five eggs with the added fact that she is the second youngest dragon we know to have produced eggs.
- Delicate and Sickly: More emphasis on sickly but she was also no larger than a dog and misshapen with her withered wings.
- End of an Age: Her death marked the extinction of all known dragons, and the end of House Targaryen's might.
- Hope Spot: Her birth briefly rejuvenated a hope that the dragon magic of the Targaryens was not lost after the Dance. But she grew up weak and small, then she died after producing eggs that never hatched.
- Last of His Kind: Was this when she died and remained that way for 150 years.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Her name, if she even had one, is lost to history. She is only known by the fact she was the final dragon the Targaryens had for almost 150 years.
Ancient Valyrian Dragons:
At the height of its power, there were hundreds of dragons flying above Valyria and the Known World (three hundred dragons alone were sent as backups during the last of the Rhoynish Wars). The World of Ice & Fire namedrops only two dragons unrelated to the Targaryens: Terrax, the dragon mount of a member of House Belaerys (a dragonlord family which presumably died out during the Doom), and the unnamed dragon of self-proclaimed Emperor Aurion, who launched a futile expedition to reclaim Valyria during the Century of Blood. Terrax
Terrax was the dragon mount of Jaenara Belaerys, a Valyrian who explored the continent of Sothoryos.
- All for Nothing: The exploration of Sothoryos led to no discoveries whatsoever.
