Saduleon

Viserion perches atop the figurehead of Balerion, by Tomasz Jedruszek © Fantasy Flight Games

Saduleon is a great cog owned by Illyrio Mopatis, and captained by Groleo. It is renamed Balerion, after the Targaryen dragon of old.

Appearance

Saduleon is a large, broad-beamed cog with immense holds and huge sails.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Magister Illyrio Mopatis sends Saduleon, Joso's Prank, and Summer Sun to Qarth so they can bring Queen Daenerys Targaryen back to Pentos in preparation for her return to Westeros. Daenerys accepts, but insists on renaming the ships in homage of the three dragons from Aegon's Conquest, Balerion the Black Dread, Meraxes, and Vhagar. She tasks Arstan Whitebeard with having the new names painted on the hulls in golden letters three feet high.

A Storm of Swords

Daenerys Targaryen aboard Balerion with her three dragons, by Mark Evans © Fantasy Flight Games

Daenerys travels aboard Balerion with her khalasar, her handmaids Irri and Jhiqui, and her three young dragons, Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal. The number of rats on Balerion drastically decline, and her initially-wary crew become proud of the dragons. Dolphins sometimes swim alongside the ship.

While enroute in the Summer Sea from Qarth to Pentos, Ser Jorah Mormont convinces Daenerys to change course for Astapor, buy an army of Unsullied, and continue to Pentos overland. Daenerys has Jorah remain aboard Balerion with her dragons when she first visits Astapor.

On the shores of Slaver's Bay, Daenerys has Balerion broken up so as to provide her army with the wood it needs to make instruments of war for the siege of Meereen.

Quotes

Would that this Balerion could soar as her namesake did, Your Grace. Then we should not need to row, nor tow, nor pray for wind.

—Groleo to Daenerys Targaryen

They were Magister Illyrio's ships, in truth, not hers at all, and yet she had given them new names with hardly a thought. Dragon names, and more; in old Valyria before the Doom, Balerion, Meraxes, and Vhagar had been gods.

—thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen

I am a sailor, not a shipwright. I was sent to fetch Your Grace back to Pentos. Instead you brought us here and tore my Saduleon to pieces for some nails and scraps of wood. I will never see her like again.

—Groleo to Daenerys Targaryen