- "Beware the beast beneath the boards."
- ―Helaena Targaryen
Meleys,[a] called the Red Queen, is a dragon of House Targaryen. She is the mount of Rhaenys Targaryen.
Biography[]
Background[]
Meleys is ridden by Rhaenys Targaryen.[3] She has scarlet scales and a crown of bright copper horns. During her youth, she is said to have been faster than both Caraxes and Vhagar.[1]
House of the Dragon: Season 1[]
Rhaenys rides Meleys towards King's Landing. Her son Laenor Velaryon, who is to marry Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, rides the dragon Seasmoke at her side.[2]
Meleys stays at High Tide along with several other dragons during the funeral of Laena Velaryon.[4]
Meleys is chained in the Dragonpit during the coronation of Aegon II Targaryen. She is eventually freed by Rhaenys and rides her out of the Dragonpit, inadvertently killing a number of smallfolk during their escape to Dragonstone.[5]
After the coronation of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, Rhaenys and Meleys start to patrol the Gullet and reinforce Lord Corlys Velaryon's blockade of the shipping lanes to King's Landing.[6]
In the books[]
In the prequel novellas, Meleys was known as "the Red Queen", which seems to indicate that she was the mother of several of the other dragons (much as Rhaenys was grandmother to the youngest generation of dragon-riders). Her exact age and lineage has not yet been established.
Meleys does appear to have been one of the oldest and largest dragons after Vhagar herself, and was probably one of the second generation dragons hatched to the original three from the Conquest-generation (Balerion, Meraxes, and Vhagar). Vhagar was 181 years old during the Dance, and by that point as said to have grown as large as Balerion had been during Aegon's Conquest. Vhagar is also described as being five times the size of the young dragon Arrax, who was only a decade or so old and only just big enough to ride to war.
Appearances[]
- The Dance of Dragons (illustrated)
- – "King of the Narrow Sea" (mentioned indirectly)
- – "We Light the Way"
- – "Driftmark"
- – "The Lord of the Tides" (mentioned)
- – "The Green Council"
- – "The Black Queen"
- – Season 2, Episode 5[7]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Meleys. HBO. Retrieved March 15, 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 5: "We Light the Way" (2022).
- ↑ House of the Dragon | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com
- ↑ House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 7: "Driftmark" (2022).
- ↑ House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 9: "The Green Council" (2022).
- ↑ House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 10: "The Black Queen" (2022).
- ↑ Wake the Dragon (May 19, 2023). 🐉 EPISODE 5 🐉. X. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
Notes[]
- ↑ High Valyrian: Meles
External links[]
- Meleys on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (potential spoilers for House of the Dragon)
- Meleys on The Official Guide
Before Aegon's Conquest |
Archonei · Balerion · Essovius · Ghiscar · Meraxes · Valryon · Vermithrax · Vhagar |
First century AC |
Caraxes · Dreamfyre · Meleys · Quicksilver · Sheepstealer · Silverwing · Syrax · Vermithor |
Second century AC |
Arrax · Moondancer · Seasmoke · Stormcloud · Sunfyre · Tessarion · Tyraxes · Vermax |
Unknown |