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{{Quote|It wasn't just Aegon riding his dragon, it was Rhaenys and Visenya too...Rhaenys rode Meraxes, Visenya rode Vhagar.|[[Arya Stark]]|A Man Without Honor}} |
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| + | Meraxes is described as having "silver scales", though it isn't clear if it was one solid color throughout, or if its primary color was silver and it had a different secondary color. Both Balerion and Drogon have had black as their primary color, with red as a secondary color along their horns, spinal plates, and wing membranes. Meraxes is also noted as having golden eyes. Drogon is described as having red eyes as well - which ''might'' imply that a dragon's secondary color on its horns also matches its eye color, which if true would indicate that Meraxes had gold as its secondary color. This is not ''necessarily'' true, however, as some dragons were noted as being one solid color throughout, with no secondary colors. |
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| − | Rhaenys and Meraxes were both killed in [[Dorne]] at some later point in Aegon I's reign. |
+ | Rhaenys and Meraxes were both killed in [[Dorne]] at some later point in Aegon I's reign. Meraxes died when a crossbow bolt pierced her eye and drove into her brain. Aegon attempted to conquer Dorne during the War of Conquest but later withdrew after the Dornish resorted to guerrilla warfare, fleeing before the dragons but harassing his supply lines, which ate up too much time and resources as he had six other kingdoms to worry about reining in. Apparently, the Targaryens continued to conduct several punitive expeditions into Dorne for years afterwards, and Meraxes and her rider were ultimately killed in one such incident. |
| − | George R.R. Martin only figured out the details of Meraxes death some time after he wrote the first novel, which introduces a conundrum: |
+ | George R.R. Martin only figured out the details of Meraxes's death some time after he wrote the first novel, which introduces a conundrum: when Tyrion saw the three largest dragon skulls kept under the Red Keep, he thought the smallest one belonged to [[Vhagar]], who was indeed the smallest at the time of the War of Conquest. The revelation that Vhagar outlived Meraxes complicates this, however, and indeed the ''The Princess and the Queen'' novella states that when Vhagar died 130 years after the War of Conquest, she had grown almost as large as Balerion. The simple answer is probably that as with all POV narrations, Tyrion's POV is not objectively true, and he simply ''assumed'' that the smallest skull belonged to Vhagar - even though logically, it should have belonged to Meraxes. |
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- "It wasn't just Aegon riding his dragon, it was Rhaenys and Visenya too...Rhaenys rode Meraxes, Visenya rode Vhagar."
- ―Arya Stark
Meraxes was the dragon ridden by Rhaenys Targaryen during the War of Conquest.[1][2] Meraxes was said to be capable of swallowing an entire horse.[3]
In the books
Meraxes is described as having "silver scales", though it isn't clear if it was one solid color throughout, or if its primary color was silver and it had a different secondary color. Both Balerion and Drogon have had black as their primary color, with red as a secondary color along their horns, spinal plates, and wing membranes. Meraxes is also noted as having golden eyes. Drogon is described as having red eyes as well - which might imply that a dragon's secondary color on its horns also matches its eye color, which if true would indicate that Meraxes had gold as its secondary color. This is not necessarily true, however, as some dragons were noted as being one solid color throughout, with no secondary colors.
Rhaenys and Meraxes were both killed in Dorne at some later point in Aegon I's reign. Meraxes died when a crossbow bolt pierced her eye and drove into her brain. Aegon attempted to conquer Dorne during the War of Conquest but later withdrew after the Dornish resorted to guerrilla warfare, fleeing before the dragons but harassing his supply lines, which ate up too much time and resources as he had six other kingdoms to worry about reining in. Apparently, the Targaryens continued to conduct several punitive expeditions into Dorne for years afterwards, and Meraxes and her rider were ultimately killed in one such incident.
George R.R. Martin only figured out the details of Meraxes's death some time after he wrote the first novel, which introduces a conundrum: when Tyrion saw the three largest dragon skulls kept under the Red Keep, he thought the smallest one belonged to Vhagar, who was indeed the smallest at the time of the War of Conquest. The revelation that Vhagar outlived Meraxes complicates this, however, and indeed the The Princess and the Queen novella states that when Vhagar died 130 years after the War of Conquest, she had grown almost as large as Balerion. The simple answer is probably that as with all POV narrations, Tyrion's POV is not objectively true, and he simply assumed that the smallest skull belonged to Vhagar - even though logically, it should have belonged to Meraxes.
References
- ↑ "Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things"
- ↑ "A Man Without Honor"
- ↑ "The Complete Guide to Westeros: Field of Fire - House Targaryen" featurette
See Also
Meraxes on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (spoilers from the books)
