So if one of Dreamfyre’s eggs exists, that must mean Dreamfyre herself exists, likely in the Dragonpit with Syrax, Caraxes, and the others. But her existence in House of the Dragon was confirmed during episode 2, when Daemon admits to stealing one of her eggs for his unborn (and, we later learn, completely fabricated) child. This next dragon is one we’ve yet to see up close. After Balerion’s death of old age in 94 AC, Viserys never again rode another dragon. Many years later, he became the mount of Viserys I, but by this point he was old and weakened. Black and mighty, with a wingspan that could engulf entire cities in shadow beneath him, Balerion was one of the last dragons born in Valyria and a survivor of the Doom, an unspecified catastrophe-possibly a natural disaster-that destroyed the Valyrian Freehold. Once the mount of Aegon the Conqueror, Balerion was integral to Aegon’s Conquest of the Seven Kingdoms. The dragon skull looms over them, dark and enormous, fitting given that Balerion the Black Dread was described as “huge and ancient and sleepy” in Fire and Blood. But we do see his skull, nestled in the crypt where Viserys informs his daughter and heir, Rhaenyra, of the secret known as A Song of Ice & Fire. Technically, we never actually meet the biggest and oldest of the Targaryen dragons during the time of House of the Dragon. Robinson says she exchanged messages with House of the Dragon sound designer Paula Fairfield, who told her that Caraxes roars with such a strange, strangled whine because “he’s the dragon that no one loves, and he has a deviated septum.He’s a bullying white boy who thinks he can rap and overcompensates, so like real Kendall Roy energy.” Respect. He also is a bit of a “bullying white boy,” or so The Ringer writer and podcaster Joanna Robinson explained in a recent episode of the podcast Talk the Thrones. (In one scene from Fire & Blood, he devours half a dozen goats in one sitting.) Nicknamed the Blood Wyrm for both his color and his brutal tendencies-he is “savage and cunning and battle-tested”-Caraxes has a noticeable appetite. “Fiercest of all the young dragons in the Dragonpit,” Caraxes was once the mount of Prince Aemon Targaryen, son of Jaeherys and uncle to both Daemon and Viserys I (Paddy Considine), but he became Daemon’s mount by the year 105 AC. We also know Syrax lays a clutch of eggs during the course of season 1, as Daemon is depicted scooping them up in episode 8.Īlso in episode 1, we meet Caraxes, mount of Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) and a “lean red beast,” as described in Fire & Blood. We see this dynamic play out in episode 2, when Rhaenyra uses Syrax to confront her uncle and his dragon on the bridge at Dragonstone, shortly after Daemon swipes an egg from King’s Landing.
We learn in Martin’s Fire & Blood, from which House of the Dragon is adapted, that Princess Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock, later Emma D’Arcy) became a dragonrider at the age of seven, bonding closely with the golden Syrax, so named “after a goddess of old Valyria.” Described as a “huge and formidable beast”-though not the biggest of the Targaryen dragons-Syrax was supposedly fast enough to race Daemon Targaryen’s dragon, Caraxes, to Dragonstone and back. The first fearsome creature to appear in House of the Dragon arrives in the memorable opening shot of episode 1: a yellow beast swooping through the sky with a Targaryen royal on its back. (Mine’s currently Meleys, but check in next week for updates.) Below, all the HotD dragons so far. We’ll avoid any non-show spoilers, but no guarantees you won’t come away from this article without a favorite winged serpent.
So, to keep this influx of dangerous flying pets straight, we’re tracking each of the new dragons as they appear in House of the Dragon-and sprinkling in some important text-and-TV-based context.
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