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Featured article Dragons are reptilian-like creatures that once lived all over the Known World. The dragonlords of the Valyrian Freehold managed to train them, allowing them to use dragons in battle and thereby greatly expand their domains. Forty dragon-riding families could be found in Valyria until the Doom came, which destroyed the Valyrian Freehold. All dragons present died, and the few that survived elsewhere in Essos did not long outlive them. Only House Targaryen, which had relocated from Valyria to Dragonstone twelve years earlier with five dragons, remained of all the dragonlords. On Dragonstone, the Targaryen dragons thrived. During his conquest of the Seven Kingdoms, King Aegon I Targaryen used three dragons in battle: Balerion, Vhagar, and Meraxes. His eldest son was given a dragon of his own, and at a certain point it became tradition to present new-born Targaryen princes and princesses with a dragon's egg in their cradle. However, as dragons continue to grow as long as they are given plenty of freedom, the construction of the Dragonpit in King's Landing on the orders of King Maegor I Targaryen slowed the growth of the dragons the Targaryens held. The war known as the Dance of the Dragons greatly reduced the number of dragons alive, as both sides of the war used their dragons in battle against one another. While by the end of the reign of King Viserys I Targaryen twenty dragons were alive, only three of those survived the war (Sheepstealer, the Cannibal, and Silverwing), while the dragon Morning was born the war itself. The last Targaryen dragon died in 153 AC, during the reign of King Aegon III Targaryen, who received the nickname “the Dragonbane” as a result, despite later attempts to hatch remaining eggs. The dragon eggs and the nineteen dragons skulls of various sizes and ages were displayed by House Targaryen in the throne room of the Red Keep were all that remained of the dragons. Several Targaryen monarchs attempted to hatch the eggs over the years, some with disastrous results. Dragons are believed to be intrinsically tied to magic in the world, and indeed, it is said that the summers have become shorter, and the winters colder and crueler since the last dragon died. Archmaester Marwyn of the Citadel of Oldtown believes the secret goal of the order of maesters to be to suppress magic, and so blames them for the extinction of dragons. Read more...   More featured articles... Featured quotes “Oberyn was ever the viper. Deadly, dangerous, unpredictable. No man dared tread on him.” —Doran Martell to the Sand Snakes “Who knows more of gods than I? Horse gods and fire gods, gods made of gold with gemstone eyes, gods carved of cedar wood, gods chiseled into mountains, gods of empty air... I know them all. I have seen their peoples garland them with flowers, and shed the blood of goats and bulls and children in their names. And I have heard the prayers, in half a hundred tongues. Cure my withered leg, make the maiden love me, grant me a healthy son. Save me, succor me, make me wealthy... protect me! Protect me from mine enemies, protect me from the darkness, protect me from the crabs inside my belly, from the horselords, from the slavers, from the sellswords at my door. Protect me from the Silence.” He laughed. “Godless? Why, Aeron, I am the godliest man ever to raise sail! You serve one god, Damphair, but I have served ten thousand. From Ib to Asshai, when men see my sails, they pray.” —Euron “Crow’s Eye” Greyjoy “Not that I would trust it. Gorghan of Old Ghis once wrote that a prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is . . . and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams. That is the nature of prophecy, said Gorghan. Prophecy will bite your prick off every time.” —Archmaester Marwyn   More quotes... Did you know... ... that Ser Quentyn Ball, also known as Fireball, was loosely inspired by Hotspur Percy and his fiery temper? ... that the Brave Companions are a band of sellswords composed of criminals and outcasts from many nations? ... that George R.R. Martin’s inspiration for the Wall of Westeros was Hadrian's Wall in Northern England?   More interesting things.. References

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