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.

Prince of Death by Sam Burns