And so he did. On the Field of Fire , he proved that armies were no match for dragons. At Harrenhal , he proved that mighty castles weren't either. His first act? To order his dragon, Balerion the Black Dread, to melt the swords of his beaten foes into his new Iron Throne.
For over a hundred years, the Targaryen dragons cemented their breeders' hold on the Seven Kingdoms , if not each other. When Targaryen fought Targaryen in the civil war called the Dance of the Dragons , an angry mob stormed the Dragonpit , that huge, now-ruined vault where Targaryens stabled their beasts. Thousands died, but through sheer numbers and madness, five of the Targaryen dragons lay dead by the morning, which was perhaps too many.
Thereafter, each generation of dragons grew smaller than its parents'. Their skulls used to line the throne room of the Red Keep in order of birth. The oldest, Balerion, could swallow an ox whole.
The last skull was barely the size of a dog's. Yet the Targaryens never stopped trying to revive their dragons. Aerion Brightflame drank a draught of wildfire and burned to death. Aegon the Fifth tried to hatch stone dragon eggs with sorcery and burned to death. He has no claim to land or titles; all he has to his name is his honor and his preternatural skill with a sword. Many would say that Rhaenyra was born with everything Alicent was raised in the Red Keep, close to the king and his innermost circle; she possesses both a courtly grace and a keen political acumen.
Harwin is said to be the strongest man in the Seven Kingdoms. Jason is the Lord of Casterly Rock. Tyland Lannister is a crafty and calculating politician. David Horovitch as Grand Maester Mellos. He's a voice of reason and trusted advisor to King Viserys.
Ser Harrold has served in the Kingsguard since the days of King Jaehaerys; he is a paragon of chivalry and honor. Matthew Needham as Larys Strong. The younger son of Master of Laws Lyonel Strong, he's brought to court by his father. But this is also a TV show about spectacle, and one of the biggest set pieces imaginable in season 8 is the toppling of an undead dragon.
Naturally, countless fan theories surrounding their future also exist. A variety of essential dragon merch is available, although frustratingly HBO recently closed its UK and EU online stores — so dragon hunters in those territories must use third parties like Forbidden Planet or Amazon instead.
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Dragons were apparently relatively solitary creatures, though it is unknown if any hierarchical relationships formed within groups of dragons.
Dragons, like birds, tend to imprint on whoever is present when they hatch, regarding that person as their parent. Newly hatched dragons are about the size of a small cat, but they grow very rapidly, reaching the size of a small dog in about one year, and the size of a small pony in only three or four years. It is unknown at what age dragons reach reproductive maturity.
Dragons never stop growing as long as they live, and they can live for centuries, though many died in combat before reaching such an age. The largest Targaryen dragon, Balerion the Black Dread, lived for nearly two centuries and had a skull the size of a carriage. However, if dragons are chained or confined into an enclosed space for long periods of time it can hinder their growth and their overall size. Rhaegal and Viserion who hatched at the same time than Drogon were considerably smaller than their sibling, around half his size after being locked under Meereen's great pyramid for almost two years at an early stage of their development.
When dragons hatch, they do have horns around their faces and along their spines, but they are still quite small and relatively rounded. Their horns grow increasingly longer and sharper as they mature, quickly making the dragon appear more dangerous and menacing to prey or other dragons.
The four lines of webbed frills along a dragon's spine only grow to a prominent size after they are about a year old. The bigger the dragon is, the bigger its appetite. When a dragon reaches adolescence, roughly when they are the size of a pony, they tend to be rebellious to a degree, much like how human teenagers are, even snarling at their imprinted parent. However, as they mature, this trait disappears. Dragons cannot be truly "tamed", but they can be bonded with and trained.
According to a semi-canon source, humble Valyrian shepherds were the first to control them using magic, and rode dragons for millennia.
Aegon I Targaryen and his sister-wives, who descended from Old Valyria, used the last three dragons in the world to conquer and unify the Seven Kingdoms. Dragons are fairly intelligent animals, and like a horse or a dog, they can be trained by their rider to respond to basic voice commands. Tyrion Lannister claims that dragons are intelligent, much more so than most people and will quickly recognize friend from foe. If they are not trained they will quickly lay waste to anything around them.
The key to training dragons is making sure they are well-fed, a dragon with a full stomach is more obedient. Since they cannot be truly tamed, dragons can be very dangerous even to their riders. However, they can form very strong bonds with their riders and will show affection and trust towards them. They will even nuzzle their riders, hoping to be petted. Daenerys Targaryen has trained her three dragons to respond to vocal commands in her mother tongue of High Valyrian.
She often uses the command "Dracarys", to which her dragons respond by instantly breathing fire and burning anything in their path. The first known dragons were mentioned to have their lairs in the Fourteen Fires , a chain of volcanoes across the neck of the Valyrian Peninsula. The Valyrians , then peaceful shepherds, tamed the dragons with magic, even learned how to master and ride them as beasts of war. Thus they began expanding their influence from the Peninsula to the rest of their continent forming the Valyrian Freehold.
The dragons gave the decisive victory in the Ghiscari Wars during which the Old Ghis is burned to ashes by dragonfire, and the ever-expanding Freehold replaced the Ghiscari Empire as the dominant culture of Essos. The Rhoynar under Nymeria fled to Dorne having no chance against the Valyrian dragons. Four hundred years before the War of the Five Kings , the entire Valyrian empire was destroyed in a single day, during a cataclysmic volcanic eruption known as the Doom of Valyria.
Most dragons, still lairing in the volcanoes, were killed outright. One Valyrian noble family, the Targaryens , survived the Doom on the distant island outpost of Dragonstone in the Narrow Sea - along with the last surviving Valyrian dragons. The last surviving dragons in the world were possessed by House Targaryen , the last Valyrians after the Cataclysm, who used them to conquer and unify the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros three hundred years before the War of the Five Kings. Most of the Targaryen dragons died in a civil war known as Dance of the Dragons about a century and a half later, and after that, the only dragons the Targaryens had were the size of cats.
Soon after the civil war ended, the last Targaryen dragons died, and the species was considered to be extinct throughout the world.
In the series, the dragon species is established as having been extinct for many years. The only thing left of the race are petrified dragon eggs, which are used as decoration, and the bones which are used for weapon crafting.
According to one legend, dragons originated from a second moon that hatched when it drifted too close to the sun. This is mostly dismissed as a simple myth.
They remain the sigil of House Targaryen , who were known to have a special affinity with the creatures. Even Daenerys Targaryen who knows nothing of her true heritage feels a connection with the relics of the ancient animals. She appears to feel a connection with the eggs; causing her to develop a curiosity about the race and the possibility that there may still be living dragons.
Daenerys is given three petrified dragon eggs as a gift for her wedding to Khal Drogo. The three eggs are black, green, and gold. Daenerys begins caring for the eggs as they become richer in color. She keeps them in a chest surrounded by candles, day and night as she is drawn to them.
Arya stumbles upon the massive skull of one of the Targaryen dragons while chasing a cat in the vaults. She hides in the mouth of the skull and overhears the plotting of Illyrio and Varys. Daenerys continues to experiment with her eggs.
She briefly places one of the eggs into a fire pit in an attempt to hatch it, but the egg remains unhatched. She removes the egg from the fire with her bare hands, but remains unhurt. Daenerys Targaryen places the eggs on the funeral pyre of her husband after smothering him with a pillow. She also straps the witch Mirri Maz Duur to the pyre. She then lights the pyre, and walks into it, with all her followers believing her to have burned alive.
In the morning, however, she is found with three dragons, a green dragon in her arms, a black dragon clinging on her shoulder and a white-peach colored dragon clinging on her leg. A moment later, the black dragon screeches and flaps his wings. Daenerys tries to feed Drogon raw meat.
Daenerys tries unsuccessfully to feed her dragons raw meat, unsure of what she is doing wrong. She coaxes them into recognizing the Valyrian command, " Dracarys ," to breathe fire, so they can cook their own food. During her stay in Qarth, word of the dragons' return begins to travel to other parts of Essos; the rumors are eventually picked up by Varys , who mentions them to Tyrion Lannister.
Tyrion is more concerned with the impending Battle of the Blackwater than with newly hatched dragons on the other side of the world. The dragons are later stolen by the warlocks of Qarth and hidden in the House of the Undying. Pyat Pree invites Daenerys to come to the House of the Undying and be reunited with her 'babies'.
Dany's dragons breathe fire in " Valar Morghulis. Once Daenerys is inside the citadel she is enthralled by two specific illusions: the Iron Throne room with a destroyed roof and snow falling in and the illusion of her dead husband and child. The sound of the crying dragons pulls Daenerys out of the temptation to stay in either illusion.
Continuing her search for her dragons she finds them all chained beside each other, and they scream with excitement when she nears them. Daenerys goes to them, only to find herself chained as well. With her arms stretched to either side of her she becomes a captive. However with a bit of a twisted smile, Daenerys speaks the High Valyrian word for fire, and Drogon first answers her call, but isn't very effective by himself.
However, both Rhaegal and Viserion then join in, setting Pyat Pree ablaze. Daenerys arrives with her dragons in Slaver's Bay , hoping to acquire an army of Unsullied.
With nothing else to pay the slave-masters, she offers them her largest dragon, Drogon, in exchange for all eight thousand of their Unsullied soldiers. Revealing to everyone that she speaks Valyrian fluently, she orders her new army to slay all of the slave-masters within the city. Daenerys then commands Drogon to attack Kraznys; the slave master is consumed in a powerful jet of Drogon's fire-breath.
Drogon and the other dragons then provide air support for the Unsullied as they sack Astapor , burning more of the slave-masters and their personal guards. Afterwards, Daenerys's new army triumphantly leaves Astapor marching in formation, with her three dragons flying above.
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