Dragonpit

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The Dragonpit sits atop Rhaenys's hill. © Fantasy Flight Games
The Dragonpit has fallen into disuse. © Fantasy Flight Games

The Dragonpit is a huge, cavernous building that sits atop Rhaenys's hill in King's Landing.

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The Targaryens would keep their dragons within the building. Thirty knights could ride abreast into its entrance. No pit dragon ever reached the size of the dragons who were raised before the construction of the building.[1] When living dragons still nested beneath the dome light would shine through the windows at night. [2]

The Dragonpit's huge dome has collapsed within and its bronze doors have been sealed for more than a century.[3] It is a ruin, blackened by fire.[4]

References in the books

The Princess and the Queen

During the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. The dragonpit was destroyed during the Storming of the Dragonpit. When ten's of thousands of crazed and starving smallfolk led by the deranged Shepherd stormed the dragonpit to kill the dragon's within. Five Targaryen dragons (Shrykos, Morghul, Tyraxes, Dreamfyre and Syrax) and thousands of smallfolk were killed.

The dragonpit was reduced to flaming ruins. [5]

The Sworn Sword

During the Great Spring Sickness so many people died so quickly that there was no time to bury the bodies. Instead they were piled up in the Dragonpit and when the corpses were 10 feet deep the Hand of the King, Lord Brynden Rivers, ordered the pyromancers to burn them. The light of the fires shone through the windows and by night citizens could see the dark green glow of wildfire all through King's Landing. [2]

A Clash of Kings

Some whores use the Dragonpit as a place to entertain their customers and one of them, along with their patron, falls through the floor. There they find a hidden stash of wildfire, placed by Lord Rossart during Robert's Rebellion.[6]

A Dance with Dragons

In Meereen, just before attempting to steal Rhaegal and Viserion, Quentyn Martell recalls readings that suggested that the confines of the Dragonpit had slowed the growth of dragons kept there - none of the dragons bred and raised in the Dragonpit had ever approached the size of Vhagar or Meraxes, much less the Black Dread, King Aegon I's monster.

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