Meraxes

Meraxes is a female dragon, the second largest dragon at the current time larger than even Vhaegar but smaller than Balerion the Black Dread. Physically, Meraxes is so large that when she is still, she covers massive amounts of territory with her body, especially when she is in the sky and she can turn entire towns and cities black when she flaps her wings for how big she covers the sky.

Meraxes' dragon body is silver with goldish-tan highlighted scales and golden horns like a crown around her head. Meraxes has teeth as long as sword with jaws that are large enough to swallow an auroch's whole or even one of the hairy mammoths that are said to roam the cold wastes beyond the Port of Ibben, and Meraxes has goldish-yellow colored eyes. Meraxes breathes the normal color of orangish-red dragon fire.

Meraxes was a she-dragon of House Targaryen. She was ridden by Queen Rhaenys Targaryen during Aegon's Conquest, alongside King Aegon the Conqueror's Balerion and their sister Queen Visenya's Vhagar.

Meraxes was named for one of the gods of Old Valyria. Meraxes was named for a god of the Valyrian Freehold. Her egg hatched on Dragonstone during the Century of Blood. At some point, Meraxes was claimed by Rhaenys Targaryen.

Rhaenys first rode Meraxes, demonstrating she was a dragon rider, sometime before she married her brother, Aegon. Rhaenys loved to fly, spending more time on dragonback than her brother and sister combined, and was once heard to say that she meant to fly Meraxes across the Sunset Sea to see what lay upon its western shores.

After Aegon landed in Westeros and began his conquest, he dispatched his sisters to secure the submission of the nearest castles. Rosby yielded to Rhaenys and Meraxes without a fight. Afterwards, Rhaenys and Meraxes accompanied Orys Baratheon on his mission to subdue Argilac Durrandon, the last Storm King.

At the Battle of the Last Storm, the wind and rain forced them to stay grounded, but even on the ground Meraxes slew many, engulfing Argilac's vanguard and the knights of his personal guard in dragonflame.

Afterwards, Rhaenys flew Meraxes into the castle of Storm's End to parley with Argilac's daughter Argella. After the stormlanders submitted, Rhaenys flew Meraxes to Stoney Sept, to link up with her siblings, their dragons, and Aegon's army.

They advanced south, where all three dragons took part in the decisive Field of Fire – the only battle in which all three of the Targaryen dragons took to the sky at the same time during Aegon's Conquest.

Together, Meraxes, Vhagar, and Balerion killed four thousand men, burning them alive. King Mern IX Gardener died, and with him House Gardener. The army was broken, and House Targaryen was victorious.

Rhaenys next flew Meraxes to the Trident in the riverlands, where she met with her brother and sister and their dragons, to face King in the North Torrhen Stark. Brandon Snow, the bastard brother of Torrhen, offered to sneak into the Targaryen camp at night to slay the dragons, but the northern king refused the attempt, and instead sent his brother as an envoy, eventually bending the knee to the Targaryens.

Afterwards, Rhaenys flew Meraxes to Dorne, to demand their submission. She did not find an easy conquest, as every castle she encountered was empty and abandoned, with only women and children and old men left in the towns and villages.

Finally, she and Meraxes arrived in Sunspear, where only the eighty-year-old Meria Martell, Princess