This personal loss underlined the necessary step Rhaenyra had to take in order to keep her rebellion alive and with a chance of success. Part of the problem was personal the loss of Prince Jacaerys in the Battle of the Gullet cost not only the would-be queen a precious son but the blacks their heir to the throne and a dragonrider besides. It was a force to be reckoned with the blacks (without Rhaenyra) had inched that much closer to victory.ĭespite having four new dragonriders, however, Rhaenyra and her faction could not be satisfied. The second and third largest dragons in existence, Vermithor and Silverwing, could now be sent into battle for the blacks, alongside the large wild dragon Sheepstealer and Laenor Velaryon’s own beloved Seasmoke. The blacks had more beasts at their disposal, however, and Jace recruited the four individuals who could tame some of the riderless dragons of Dragonstone. The greens had Vhagar, nearly as large as the Black Dread, as well as Prince Daeron’s Tessarion (and Dreamfyre, though Jace may not have known how broken and deeply depressed Helaena had become, unable to fly her dragon). To fight dragons, Jace knew, one needed dragons. Jacaerys, Prince of Dragonstone, had taken charge to amend the situation (a poor reflection on his mother’s leadership skills). True, the Velaryon boys had dragons of their own, but Arrax had been easily torn apart by Vhagar above Shipbreaker Bay it is unlikely any of these dragons were large at all, even if the Princess Rhaenys had judged them ready to bring fire and blood upon their enemies, and none had seen battle. With Rhaenyra continuing to convalesce on Dragonstone, the only truly large dragon with a rider the blacks had in the field was Prince Daemon’s Caraxes. The blacks had suffered a crucial loss at Rook’s Rest early in the Dance – not only Rhaenys Targaryen, a powerful symbol of Targaryen heritage in her own right, but also an experienced dragon of prime fighting size (and very nearly Corlys Velaryon himself, furious at his wife’s dying while Rhaenyra kept herself and her own sons out of danger). Queen of King’s Landing: Rhaenyra’s “Conquest” of the Capital So blindly dedicated to the cause of victory, neither appeared to understand that the death of the dragons was the death of everything they represented – for themselves and their dynasty. Though more dragons and she-dragons would fight and fall, neither Alicent not Rhaenyra would be satisfied until the crown belong to her faction and hers alone. My pieces, the Ladies of Fire, will examine the queens and princesses of House Targaryen, as well as those ladies who had a substantial impact on the dynasty itself.īy the time the Dance of the Dragons had truly gotten underway, both the blacks and the greens had suffered personal losses – the death of Prince Lucerys Velaryon by Vhagar over Shipbreaker Bay and the beheading of Prince Jaehaerys Targaryen in vengeance for the former. In this series, we are taking a comprehensive look at the Targaryen dynasty in Westeros, from its rise to power in the Conquest to its fall in Robert’s Rebellion. #TWO KINGS TO WAKE THE DRAGON SERIES#Hello and welcome once again to The Three Heads of the Dragon: Kings, Pretenders, and the Ladies of Fire, the first multi-author series for Wars and Politics of Ice and Fire.
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