The Black Dread
A Beggar's Sermon Turned an Entire City Against Dragons
15 min · Published 1 July 2026 · Watch on YouTube ↗
Every other dragon in the Dance of the Dragons died the way dragons are supposed to die — to fire, to a hero's sword, or to another dragon falling out of the sky on top of it. These five died to people who had none of those things. No dragon. No army. Not a single drop of Valyrian blood. In the year 130 AC, with King's Landing starving and the great Targaryen civil war burning, a gaunt, one-handed beggar the histories remember only as the Shepherd climbed the steps of the city and preached the one thing no maester dared say aloud: the dragons were demons, and the dragons could be killed. That night a desperate mob stormed the Dragonpit on the Hill of Rhaenys — and four of the proudest…
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- House of the Dragon
- Dance of the Dragons
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- Tyraxes
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- The Shepherd House of the Dragon