TARGARYEN NOVEMBER 2021 || Day 9: Dragons and Their Riders || Dreamfyre
As a hatchling, the she-dreagon Dreamfyre, bonded with nine-year old Princess Rhaena Targaryen, Aegon I’s first grandchild, in 32 AC. Three years later, she became Dreamfyre’s rider and they remained together through the twists and turns of Rhaena’s life until she died in 73 AC. No other riders are noted for Dreamfyre until Rhaena’s great-grandniece, Helaena, bonded with her around 121 AC. She is said to have loved the dragon. When Helaena died in 130 AC, Dreamfyre sensed her death all the way across King’s Landing and roared, breaking two of her chains. Not long after this, an angry mob stormed the Dragonpit. Out of the four dragons present, Dreamfyre was the only dragon able to break free of the rest of her chains. She took wing, circled the cavernous interior of the dome and swooped down to attack the men below. She slew more men than the other three dragons combined. Archers and crossbowmen loosed arrows and quarrels at the her, and whenever she landed men swarmed her to attack, driving her back into the air. Eventually one of her eyes was nicked by a crossbow bolt. Half-blind and maddened, Dreamfyre flew into the Dragonpit’s great dome above, which cracked on impact. Half of it came tumbling down, crushing her and the dragonslayers under tons of broken stone and rubble.
