#balerion

[moonwyvern]

HOTD/ASOIAF tarot series

Part I

DEATH - Balerion

THE TOWER - Caraxes

THE HERMIT - Silverwing

THE EMPRESS - Syrax

THE HANGED ONE - Stormcloud

THE LOVERS - Seasmoke and Tessarion

JUSTICE - Meleys

THE CHARIOT - Targaryen three- headed dragon

THE HIGH PRIESTESS - Dreamfyre

THE HIEROPHANT - Quicksilver

[toastyydoodles]

Someone loved me once, I think

[soncee]

Daenys and her baby Balerion

You can't convince me he wasn't spoiled.

[nutellabstard]

something lurking in Valyria must have been behemouth enough to give Balerion such a big scar

[nouketou]

Lykirī Balerion, muña is sleeping

Little Daenys and her young dragon Balerion, in their ancestral home in Valyria, long before prophecies and doom.

[hylora]

Would you be interested in drawing Daenys the Dreamer? She's one of my favorite Targaryens

+ baby Balerion <3

[witchthewriter]

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞

⤷ female, ambiguous race, and any size reader. Requests are open, thank you for reading!

a/n: An AU where the dragons didn't die. As in, no dragons die. They just keep growing, unless there are killed.

ᴹᵃˢᵗᵉʳˡᶤˢᵗ | ᴹᵃˢᵗᵉʳˡᶤˢᵗ ᴵᴵ

・The Prince of Dragonstone and heir to the Iron Throne, your husband, had been bonded to Balerion long before you were married

・Baelor had always had a fascination of the Black Dread. But was always told no by his father: "It is too dangerous, why not pick one of the eggs. They will hatch soon!"

・One night, when he was 15, sleep had evaded him. Baelor felt a strange buzzing inside his body, a pull. An invisible pull that Baelor couldn't deny.

・Sneaking his way to the Dragonpit was no easy task. He evaded the guards, and eventually he got to the dragonpit (p.s., he lives on Dragonstone)

・Walking out onto the platform, his heart was beating so fast, he swore it would explode.

・However, that pull he felt was becoming stronger, as the largest dragon came forth from the shadows.

・Balerion huffed, sending a warm puff of air against Baelor's face.

・It was a story he told people how he bonded with the largest dragon in Westeros.

・When Baelor first introduced you to Balerion, you were incredibly apprehensive. Your hands were sweaty, your stomach was filled with butterflies, you had to remind yourself to breathe.

・When you touched the dragon's skin, it was quite warm, scaly with scars yet almost smooth in other places. And whenever you rub his head, he practically purs.

"Ziry lik ao," Baelor had whispered.

You side-eyed him, and he chuckled.

"It means 'he likes you.'"

"Oh, well, tell him I like him too-"

・Baelor loves taking you flying. He likes when the hair on your head swishes in the wind, the way you clutch him tighter.

・Wherever Balerion lands, is where you'll be for a couple of hours.

・You two lay in the grass, looking up at the bright sky and passing clouds.

・Balerion lays behind you both, falling asleep with a wing protectively around you two.

・It's like you're laying in front of a building, Balerion is that big.

・Since the bond between riders and their dragons is so strong, Balerion knows how important you are. You're never in danger with Balerion around (sometimes he treats you like a hatchling and brings you food to eat, nudges you when you're in front of him, and sometimes he whines when he can't see you.)

𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔

Growth through Adversity

Legacy and Legend

The Moon and His Star

𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔

Unbreakable Bond

Mutual Intimidation → Mutual Admiration.

Soulmates Sometimes Come In Threes (You, Balerion and Baelor)

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈

Intro by M83

Horn of Plenty by James Newton Howard

Waking up by M83

[dedalvs]

The Dragon Names of House of the Dragon

Today is the third episode of House of the Dragon, so for fun I thought I’d do a post of the dragon names for all the dragons we’ve seen thus far in High Valyrian (both in the orthography and in the romanization). In the writing itself there are many ways to spell names, so the spellings you see here are just those that I decided on for this post; they’re not the only possible spellings for each dragon.

First is Arrax (Arraks) whose name is built off the glyph used in arrigon, which means “to show” or “to display”. Arrax’s (Arraks’) name doesn’t necessarily derive from this word, but it’s close enough that it can be spelled with that glyph. The last glyph is a special glyph for names that end in -x (-ks).

Next Balerion, the Black Dread. The bal- portion of the name comes from the glyph for soil balon. Next is the glyph for repetition commonly used in participles. This word isn’t necessarily a participle, but that glyph is used when there’s a -Vr extender in a name (cf. Daenerys, Jaehaerys, etc.). The last glyph is the glyph for iron āegion, which is used for the -ion ending. Both the glyphs for soil and iron imply darkness, chosen in part due to Balerion’s black scales.

Sheepstealer’s name you will have heard several times this season. The name is a direct translation, with the first glyph for bianor “sheep”, and the second two glyphs being laodio, an older word for “thief” (the more common word is laodikio). To form a compound, bianor reduces to its second stem, biādr-, which then assimilates to the following l, giving us biāllaodio.

Seasmoke’s (Embrōrbar’s) name is a standard compound. The first glyph is embar “sea” and the second ōrbar “smoke”. To combine the two, embar changes to its genitive embro, and then it merges with ōrbar. The name is literally “smoke of the sea”.

Silverwing’s (Gēliotīkun’s) name is also a direct translation of the common. Gēlio is the genitive of gēlion “silver”, and tīkun is the word for “wing”. The first two glyphs give us gēlio and the second two tīkun. It’s literally “wing of silver”.

Another Common Tongue name is Moondancer (Hūrlilio). This is less obvious in High Valyrian, as the root for moon hūra is used smashed onto the word for dancer lilio. The first glyph is the glyph of the moon; the second the glyph for dancing; and the last a glyph that gives us -io, Valyrian equivalent of -er.

The name of the great Caraxes (Karakses) derives from the Valyrian word for great kara. Following that initial glyph is the special x (ks) glyph seen in Arrax (Arraks). The last glyph is the dragon glyph which gives us the -es ending.

Meleys (Meles) is a much simpler name. The name derives from mele “red”, which uses the same glyph as the glyph for a rose. The last glyph is the dragon glyph which gives us -es.

Syrax (Sȳraks) is Rhaenyra’s yellow dragon, and its name derives from sȳz “good”. In its modified forms, the root of sȳz is sȳr-, and so when it combines with the -x (-ks) glyph it’s Sȳraks, not Sȳzaks.

The old god Vhagar (Vagar) lends its name to this dragon. As an old god, the name has many spellings, and its old pronunciation has been lost. This time I spelled it with the consonantal glyphs V, H, and G with the blood glyph giving us the -ar ending. Whatever the V and H were supposed to represent has been lost to time, but the H will stick around in the spelling as a vestige of the old god’s name.

The name Vermax (Vermaks) is a combination of the glyph used in vermagon “to warn” and the -x (-ks) terminal glyph.

Vermithor (Vermitor) is another old name which has many spellings. In this instance, I used the same glyph as with Vermax (Vermaks), added a consonantal T, and used the shadow glyph to give us the -or ending.

Finally we have the Common Tongue name Sunfyre (Vēsperzys). This is a simple compound, with the sun glyph vēzos being sandwiched onto the front of perzys “fire”, similar to the moon glyph in Moondancer (Hūrlilio). The z of vēzos assimilates to the following p of perzys, devoicing to s.

Obviously, there are more dragon names than this in A Song of Ice and Fire (and more that have been mentioned in House of the Dragon), but these are the ones we have pictures of (or skulls, at least). I have to say, GRRM doesn't disappoint when it comes to the quantity of dragons. If dragons are supposed to be a big thing in the series, there better be a lot of them, and there are, so hats off to him for that!