Editing Tessarion (section)

==History==
===Reign of Viserys I===
By {{Date|120}}, Tessarion had bonded with Prince [[Daeron Targaryen (son of Viserys I)|Daeron Targaryen]], although Daeron had not yet ridden her at the time.{{Ref|FAB|Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession}} Although unknown when Daeron first flew Tessarion, Daeron had become a [[dragonrider]] by {{Date|129}}.{{Ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - The Red Dragon and the Gold}}

===Dance of the Dragons===
[[File:Daeron Targaryen and Tessarion by Jota Saraiva.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Daeron and Tessarion, by Jota Saraiva]]
During the [[Dance of the Dragons]], Daeron rode Tessarion into the [[Battle on the Honeywine]] in the [[Reach]] to save Lord [[Ormund Hightower]] and his army. Due to their arrival and participation in the battle, the Hightower army was victorious.{{Ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - The Red Dragon and the Gold}}

Daeron and Tessarion remained with the Hightower army as it marched up the [[Roseroad]] towards [[King's Landing]], which had [[Fall of King's Landing|fallen]] to [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]]'s forces. During this time Daeron flew upon Tessarion ahead of the main [[column]] of the army to scout ahead, which proved invaluable to the southron host. Rhaenyra's loyalists often fled at the first glimps of Tessarion, being unwilling to face the dragon's [[Dragonflame|fire]] in battle.{{Ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant}}

At [[Tumbleton]], a market town on the [[Mander]], the Hightower army met in battle in the [[First Battle of Tumbleton]] with a smaller force of supporters of Rhaenyra. Tessarion participated in the battle. Tessarion and her rider remained at Tumbleton with the Hightower army afterwards. There, Tessarion was unchained, free to fly and hunt as she wished. The she-dragon slept in her rider's camp to the west of the town, not a hundred yards from his pavilion.{{Ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant}}

Hugh Hammer, a [[dragonseed]] who had claimed [[Vermithor]] and who had changed his alliance from the [[blacks]] to the [[greens]] during the First Tumbleton, decided to make a claim for the Iron Throne after the disappearance of King [[Aegon II Targaryen]] and the death of Prince [[Aemond Targaryen]], the [[Lord Protector|Protector of the Realm]]. He felt secure in his decision as Tessarion, the only dragon of fighting weight with a rider still remaining to the greens, was one-third the size of his own dragon, and far less fearsome. Among the [[Caltrops]], the lords and knights who conspired to kill Hammer and his fellow dragonseed, [[Ulf the White]], Ser [[Tyler Norcross]] believed that Tessarion on her own should be enough to retake the Iron Throne, while Lord [[Unwin Peake]] argued that their victory would be more certain if they had the dragons of Hugh and Ulf in their possession as well.{{Ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Overthrown}}

Matters came to a head two days later, when a surprise night attack by [[Addam Velaryon]] upon [[Seasmoke]] started the [[Second Battle of Tumbleton]]. Tessarion's rider was killed at the start of the battle. Riderless, Tessarion flew up, shrieking and spitting flame, and met Addam Velaryon and Seasmoke in battle. The dragons rushed one another time and time again and at one point, Tessarion vanished into the clouds, reappearing behind Seasmoke breathing flames. It was said afterward that the fight between Tessarion and Seasmoke seemed to be more a mating dance than a battle. When [[Vermithor]] took to the sky, Addam Velaryon turned Seasmoke towards the older dragon. In their struggle, Tessarion suddenly attacked. The battle between the three dragons had a mortal outcome for all. Seasmoke and Vermithor died early, but Tessarion was the last to die. On three occasions did she try to fly again, but failed every time again. By late afternoon the day after the battle, she seemed to be in pain. At the command of Lord [[Benjicot Blackwood]], [[Billy Burley]], Blackwood's best archer, shot three arrows into the dying dragon's eye, killing her.{{Ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Overthrown}}