What Happened To The 3rd Dragon Of Aegon's Conquest (Not Bal

Three dragons were used to conquer Westeros, including King Aegon’s Balerion and Queen Visenya’s Vhagar. Here’s what happened to Queen Rhaenys’ mount.

WARNING! This article contains SPOILERS for House of the Dragon season 1!

House of the Dragon capabilities Vhagar and the skull of Balerion the Black Dread, however leaves out the 0.33 dragon from Aegon’s Conquest. Since King Aegon I Targaryen’s Balerion the Black Dread died before Viserys sat the Iron Throne, the oldest and largest creature for the duration of House of the Dragon is Vhagar, who is now ridden by way of Aemond Targaryen. Vhagar is the only final dragon ridden by the Targaryens during Aegon’s Conquest, having at the start bonded with King Aegon’s sister-wife Visenya. The 0.33 dragon represented in House Targaryen’s 3-headed dragon sigil is Meraxes, who became ridden by using Aegon the Conqueror’s different sister-spouse Rhaenys.

Aegon and his  sisters conquered Westeros together on dragonback; Aegon on Balerion, Visenya on Vhagar, and Rhaenys on Meraxes. While Aegon and Visenya could rule Westeros for decades after the Conquest, their sister Rhaenys become issue to an early tragedy. Ten years into House Targaryen’s long reign, Rhaenys led an assault on Hellholt at some stage in the First Dornish War. However, the Dornish have been prepared and released an iron bolt from a scorpion upon her arrival, which impaled Meraxes’ eye and despatched Rhaenys and her dragon falling from the sky. As Meraxes fell to her demise, House of the Dragon’s legends say that Rhaenys either fatally fell from her seat or become crushed to demise underneath her dragon.

How Powerful Was Meraxes Compared To Balerion & Vhagar?

Balerion the Black Dread is still seemed as the largest and most powerful dragon in Westerosi records, with Vhagar now being the most powerful at some stage in House of the Dragon’s tale. Meraxes turned into concept to be older and large than Vhagar, suggesting the previous changed into the greater powerful dragon at some point of Aegon’s Conquest. However, on the grounds that Meraxes died somewhere between the ages of 62 and 124 years vintage, Aemond’s nearly 200-yr-vintage dragon Vhagar is in all likelihood greater powerful at some point of House of the Dragon than the mount of Princess Rhaenys’ namesake on the time of her death. Dragons are implied to in no way prevent developing, so Vhagar’s strength possibly exceeded Meraxes some decades after the latter’s demise.

How Aegon The Conqueror Reacted To Meraxes & Rhaenys’ Deaths

The deaths of Rhaenys and Meraxes had been negative to each King Aegon I Targaryen and Queen Visenya, main to a -year length of destruction in Dorne called the “Dragon’s Wroth.” The grieving Aegon and Visenya reacted to their sister’s dying with the aid of burning each fort and holdfast in Dorne besides for Sunspear, in addition to ordering bounties on Dornish lords. Game of Thrones’ histories speculate that Aegon the Conqueror married Rhaenys out of desire and Visenya out of obligation, which is part of why his response to the previous’s loss of life became so devastating.

While Rhaenys’ remains were never back to Aegon the Conqueror, the Dornish sooner or later brought the cranium of Meraxes to King’s Landing as a peace supplying. According to Fire & Blood, Meraxes’ skull was then hooked up at the wall of the Red Keep’s throne room, and was apparently stored there till Robert Baratheon usurped the Iron Throne. However, House of the Dragon hasn’t saved this detail, because it seems dragon skulls have been kept elsewhere. As such, it’s feasible that House of the Dragon will depict Meraxes’ skull in a cellar afterward.