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Dragon city eggs time5/2/2023 When King Aegon I died in 37 AC, Vhagar supplied the flames to light the fire of his funeral pyre. The Dornish tell a tale that the Targaryens refused to attack Sunspear because they were afraid that Princess Meria Martell had purchased a device from Lys to slay Vhagar and Balerion, but Archmaester Timotty suggests the Targaryens intended to turn the other Dornish houses against the Martells. First Dornish Warįollowing the deaths of Rhaenys and Meraxes in 10 AC at Hellholt in Dorne, Visenya and Aegon burned every Dornish stronghold at least once (except Sunspear and its shadow city) during a two-year period known as the Dragon's Wroth. Sharra bent her knee and surrendered, and Ronnel rode on Vhagar thrice about the summit of the Giant's Lance. The young king begged his mother for a ride on Vhagar's back. When Dowager Queen Sharra Arryn reached the courtyard she found her young son, King Ronnel Arryn, sitting on Visenya's knee, staring with wonder at Vhagar. Īfterwards, Visenya flew Vhagar back to the Vale, where she landed with her dragon in the inner courtyard of the Eyrie. Brandon Snow, the bastard brother of Torrhen, offered to sneak into the Targaryen camp at night to slay the dragons, but the northern king refused the attempt, and instead sent his brother as an envoy, eventually bending the knee to the Targaryens. Visenya next flew Vhagar to the Trident in the riverlands, where she met with her brother and sister and their dragons, to face King in the North Torrhen Stark. The army was broken, and House Targaryen was victorious. King Mern IX Gardener died, and with him House Gardener. Together, Vhagar, Meraxes, and Balerion killed four thousand men, burning them alive. They advanced south, where all three dragons took part in the decisive Field of Fire – the only battle in which all three of the Targaryen dragons took to the sky at the same time during Aegon's Conquest. She then flew Vhagar to Stoney Sept to link up with her siblings, their dragons, and Aegon's army. Visenya then flew to Crackclaw Point with Vhagar, to accept many pledges of fealty from the local lords. Then, Visenya descended, and burned the ships of the Arryn fleet. In the battle in the waters off Gulltown, the Arryn fleet defeated the Targaryen fleet, sinking one-third of the ships and capturing near as many. Following Aegon's first coronation, Visenya, upon Vhagar, accompanied the Targaryen fleet, commanded by Daemon Velaryon, to take Gulltown. Vhagar and her rider, Queen Visenya Targaryen.Īfter Aegon landed on Westeros and began his conquest, Visenya flew Vhagar to Stokeworth, where crossbowmen loosed bolts until the dragon set the roofs of the castle keep ablaze. Visenya first rode Vhagar, demonstrating she was a dragonrider, some time before she married her brother, Aegon. Īt some point, Vhagar was claimed by Visenya Targaryen. She was named after a god of the Valyrian Freehold. Vhagar hatched from a dragon egg on Dragonstone during the Century of Blood. No living dragon could match her for size or ferocity. Her roar was so powerful that it could shake the very foundations of Storm's End. īy the time of the Dance of the Dragons, Vhagar was the hardened survivor of a hundred battles, had grown almost as large as Balerion, and was the oldest and largest of the dragons in Westeros. It is said that Vhagar's breath was so hot that it could melt a knight's armor and cook him inside. Īccording to Tyrion Lannister, Vhagar was large enough that one could ride a horse down her gullet. Martin's team and was told Vhagar was " bronze with greenish blue highlights and bright green eyes". However, the artist commissioned for the 2021 A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar, Sam Hogg, asked for clarification from George R. The color of Vhagar's scales, horns, wings, wing bones, and spinal crest, as well as the color of her flame are not mentioned in the books.
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