The Black Dread · Dragon Codex
Every dragon in A Song of Ice and Fire
A free, illustrated archive of the dragons of Westeros, Valyria, and beyond — their riders, lineage, fates, and lore. 60 entries and growing, drawn from the deep canon behind the videos.
- The largest dragons, ranked Every titan by size class
- Every dragon and rider Who rode what, in one table
- Dragons of the AGOT EraEra archive
- Dragons of the Aegon's ConquestEra archive
- Dragons of the Dance of the DragonsEra archive
- Dragons of the Pre-ConquestEra archive
60 dragons in the codex
- Aelyra the Skyshriek Sovereign
Aelyra the Skyshriek Sovereign — Valyrian goddess of eclipses, air-lanes and the upper sky. A 632-foot divine dragon of the…
Pre-Conquest - Arrax
Arrax, the small white dragon of Lucerys Velaryon. His death in Vhagar's jaws over Shipbreaker Bay is the moment the Dance of the…
Dance of the Dragons - Aurion's Dragon
Aurion's dragon carried the last dragonlord who tried to reclaim Valyria after the Doom. Neither was ever seen again — the…
Pre-Conquest - Balerion
Balerion the Black Dread — the largest dragon in ASOIAF history. Aegon's mount, born in Valyria before the Doom, whose fire…
Aegon's Conquest - Balerion the Father
Balerion the Father, supreme god of the Valyrian pantheon in dragon form — a 1,155-ft colossus. Not the Black Dread, but the god…
Pre-Conquest - Brightwing
Brightwing carried Daenys the Dreamer out of Valyria twelve years before the Doom — the single flight that saved House Targaryen…
Pre-Conquest - Caraxes
Caraxes the Blood Wyrm, Daemon Targaryen's lean and vicious mount. He killed Vhagar above the Gods Eye in the deadliest duel of…
Dance of the Dragons - Dhaenarion the White Colossus
Dhaenarion the White Colossus — at a 1,650-foot wingspan, the largest mortal dragon ever recorded. A wild titan of the age before…
Pre-Conquest - Draevomar, Forge-Heart
Draevomar, Forge-Heart could shift his flame temperature at will — the bonded dragon whose precision fire revolutionized Valyrian…
Pre-Conquest - Draevos the Embermaw Forgefury
Draevos the Embermaw Forgefury — Valyrian god of forgecraft and industry, a 512-ft divine dragon of the pantheon behind every…
Pre-Conquest - Dreamfyre
Dreamfyre, the pale blue dragon of Helaena Targaryen and the greatest egg-layer in Targaryen history — perhaps ancestor to…
Dance of the Dragons - Drogon
Drogon, the black-and-scarlet dragon of Daenerys Targaryen. The Dothraki call him Balerion the Black Dread come again — and he…
AGOT Era - Elyssar the Sagewing
Elyssar the Sagewing — Valyrian goddess of healing, surgery and mercy in war. A 384-ft divine dragon from the original pantheon…
Pre-Conquest - Frostvein, the Glass Maw
Frostvein, the Glass Maw — an 800-ft ice dragon whose super-cold breath carved the glassy polar canyons north of Lorath that…
Pre-Conquest - Grey Ghost
Grey Ghost, the most elusive of the three wild dragons of Dragonstone. Killed and eaten by the dying Sunfyre in 130 AC — a crime…
Dance of the Dragons - Hoarfang, Northmoon
Hoarfang, Northmoon — the archetypal ice dragon, a 900-foot polar giant said to freeze sea-spray in mid-air and to still circle…
Pre-Conquest - Mantara the Beaconwing
Mantara the Beaconwing — Valyrian goddess of lighthouses, thresholds and rescue at sea. A 492-ft divine dragon of the original…
Pre-Conquest - Meleys
Meleys the Red Queen, the fastest dragon in Westeros and mount of Rhaenys, the Queen Who Never Was. Vhagar broke her neck above…
Dance of the Dragons - Meraxes
Meraxes, Queen Rhaenys's dragon and youngest of the three Conquest dragons — the first dragon ever killed by a human weapon, at…
Aegon's Conquest - Meraxes the Sea-Lanes Sovereign
Meraxes the Sea-Lanes Sovereign — Valyrian goddess of navigation and harbor law. The divine namesake of Queen Rhaenys's dragon…
Pre-Conquest - Moondancer
Moondancer, Baela Targaryen's slim green she-dragon and the youngest to fight in the Dance. She savaged Sunfyre so badly the…
Dance of the Dragons - Morghul
Morghul — 'death' in High Valyrian — was Jaehaera Targaryen's chained cradle dragon. He burned scores at the Storming of the…
Dance of the Dragons - Morning
Morning, the last dragon hatched in the Targaryen era — pale pink, born of Syrax's final clutch, and one of only four dragons to…
Dance of the Dragons - Naeryssa the Goldveil Seraph
Naeryssa the Goldveil Seraph — Valyrian goddess of treaties and lasting accords. A 571-ft divine dragon of the original pantheon…
Pre-Conquest - Qhoros the Gavelwyrm
Qhoros the Gavelwyrm — Valyrian god of law, oaths and binding contracts. A 595-foot divine dragon of the original pantheon of Old…
Pre-Conquest - Quicksilver
Quicksilver, the silver she-dragon of King Aenys I. Balerion tore off her wing above the Gods Eye — the first dragon killed by…
Aegon's Conquest - Rhaegal
Rhaegal, the green-and-bronze middle dragon of Daenerys Targaryen. Named for Rhaegar, chained beneath Meereen, and deadlier than…
AGOT Era - Rhaemarion, Gate-Breaker
Rhaemarion, Gate-Breaker — an 820-ft colossus credited with breaking seventeen city gates in a single Ghiscari war. The greatest…
Pre-Conquest - Seasmoke
Seasmoke, Laenor Velaryon's silver-grey dragon, later claimed by the dragonseed Addam of Hull. Vermithor tore his head off at the…
Dance of the Dragons - Shardwight
Shardwight — the only ice dragon ever plausibly linked to a rider and a Valyrian exile cult. A 650-ft colossus that exhales…
Pre-Conquest - Sheepstealer
Sheepstealer, the mud-brown wild dragon tamed by the bastard girl Nettles with patience and dead sheep. He vanished with her into…
Dance of the Dragons - Shrykos
Shrykos, the chained cradle dragon of Prince Jaehaerys. It took Hobb the Hewer fourteen axe blows to kill him at the Storming of…
Dance of the Dragons - Silverwing
Silverwing, Good Queen Alysanne's mount and Vermithor's mate. She refused three times to fly north beyond the Wall — and no one…
Dance of the Dragons - Soryn the Miragewing
Soryn the Miragewing — Valyrian god of theater, misdirection and espionage. A 425-ft divine dragon of the original pantheon of…
Pre-Conquest - Stormbane — Gaemon the Glorious's Mount
Stormbane, mount of Gaemon the Glorious, third Lord of Dragonstone — a Skyshrieker-Stormclaw cross bred for speed and…
Pre-Conquest - Stormcloud
Stormcloud flew once — carrying young Aegon III to safety riddled with arrows, then dying within the hour. The Dragonbane never…
Dance of the Dragons - Sunfyre
Sunfyre the Golden, Aegon II's magnificent gold-scaled dragon. Crippled and dying, he still devoured Queen Rhaenyra alive on the…
Dance of the Dragons - Syrax
Syrax, Queen Rhaenyra's yellow she-dragon and mother of Vermax, Arrax, Tyraxes and Morning. Torn apart by the mob at the Storming…
Dance of the Dragons - Syrax the Hearthwing Matron
Syrax the Hearthwing Matron — Valyrian goddess of fertility, kin-law and hearth. The divine namesake of Rhaenyra's dragon, and a…
Pre-Conquest - Terrax
Terrax carried Princess Jaenara Belaerys over Sothoryos for three unbroken years — the longest exploratory flight in the recorded…
Pre-Conquest - Tessarion
Tessarion the Blue Queen, Daeron the Daring's cobalt dragon with copper claws and blue flame. Mercy-killed at the Second Battle…
Dance of the Dragons - Tharaxia the Mother
Tharaxia the Mother — goddess of the volcanic earth and mother of the Fourteen Pyraethran gods. At 982 feet, second in size only…
Pre-Conquest - Tharion the Dream-Singer
Tharion the Dream-Singer — Valyrian god of prophecy, true dreams and omens, whose draconic shape was never codified by the…
Pre-Conquest - The Cannibal
The Cannibal, the coal-black wild dragon of Dragonstone who devoured every man who tried to claim him. He may be older than…
Dance of the Dragons - The Last Dragon
The Last Dragon — a stunted, dog-sized green hatchling that could never fly. Its death in 153 AC ended the age of dragons in…
Dance of the Dragons - The Lost Dragons of the Freehold
The Lost Dragons of the Freehold — the vast dragon population Valyria commanded before the Doom, and what became of them when the…
Pre-Conquest - The Valyrian Apex (The Wound-Maker of Balerion)
Something in the ruins of Valyria tore a nine-foot wound in Balerion the Black Dread in 56 AC. The case for what the Valyrian…
- The Wild Dragons of Dragonstone
The wild dragons of Dragonstone — the Cannibal, Sheepstealer and Grey Ghost — lived free of Targaryen control, and only one was…
Dance of the Dragons - Tolosyr the Dunewyrm, Lord of the Red Mirage
Tolosyr the Dunewyrm, Lord of the Red Mirage — Valyrian god of desert endurance and mirage-craft. A 492-ft divine dragon of the…
Pre-Conquest - Tyraxes
Tyraxes, the pale violet dragon of Prince Joffrey Velaryon, whose flames burned purple. He and his rider died the same night…
Dance of the Dragons - Urrax
Urrax, the colossal dragon slain by Ser Serwyn of the Mirror Shield in the Age of Heroes — the oldest dragonslaying in all of…
Pre-Conquest - Valryth, Pale Thunder
Valryth, Pale Thunder — the largest saddled White Colossus ever recorded at 1,450 feet. Ghiscari cities surrendered at the sight…
Pre-Conquest - Vermax
Vermax, the olive-green dragon of Jacaerys Velaryon. He flew north to win the Pact of Ice and Fire, then drowned with his rider…
Dance of the Dragons - Vermithor
Vermithor the Bronze Fury, mount of Jaehaerys the Conciliator and the third-largest dragon in Westeros. Later claimed by the…
Dance of the Dragons - Vhaelyth, the Sky-Crucible
Vhaelyth, the Sky-Crucible — the 740-ft colossus so feared in the air that every anti-dragon tactic in Valyria was designed to…
Pre-Conquest - Vhagar
Vhagar, the oldest and largest dragon of the Dance. Visenya's mount, then Aemond One-Eye's — she killed Arrax, Meleys and a…
Dance of the Dragons - Vhagar the War-Drill
Vhagar the War-Drill — Valyrian goddess of storm discipline, and the divine namesake of Visenya's dragon. A 647-ft being of the…
Pre-Conquest - Vhaldrin the Ashmourner
Vhaldrin the Ashmourner — Valyrian god of death, funerary order and remembrance. A 524-ft divine dragon of the original pantheon…
Pre-Conquest - Vhazrak, Wall-Render
Vhazrak, Wall-Render — a 950-ft Obsidian Colossus that brought down fortifications thought indestructible across two separate…
Pre-Conquest - Viserion
Viserion, the cream-and-gold dragon of Daenerys Targaryen — smallest, gentlest, and the most resourceful of the three when…
AGOT Era