The Black Dread
Meraxes Was Bigger Than Vhagar — One Arrow Still Killed Her
26 min · Published 16 July 2026 · Watch on YouTube ↗
Three dragons conquered Westeros — and only one of them was killed in the open sky by a single bolt of iron, fired by a man whose name history never bothered to write down. Everyone remembers Balerion the Black Dread. Most remember Vhagar. The third dragon of Aegon's Conquest — Meraxes, the silver she-dragon of Queen Rhaenys Targaryen — was bigger than Vhagar in those years, second in size only to Balerion himself, a beast the histories say could swallow a warhorse whole. She helped burn the lesson of Harrenhal into every king in Westeros, wheeled over the Field of Fire, and brought six kingdoms to their knees in two years. Then Rhaenys flew her south into Dorne — the one kingdom that never…
- Meraxes
- Rhaenys Targaryen
- Meraxes death
- how Meraxes died
- House of the Dragon
- ASOIAF
- Aegon's Conquest
- First Dornish War
- Hellholt
- Balerion