House of the Dragon

by George R.R. Martin

83 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Rhaenyra Targaryen — Named heir to the Iron Throne and firstborn of King Viserys — her rightful claim ignites a civil war that transforms 'the Realm's Delight' into a quee
• Daemon Targaryen — The Rogue Prince — Viserys's younger brother, Rhaenyra's uncle-husband, and the most dangerous man in Westeros. Charming, violent, and incapable of be
• Corlys Velaryon — The Sea Snake — lord of the tides and the richest man in Westeros. A legendary sailor whose ambitions for House Velaryon are matched only by his willi
• Rhaenys Targaryen — The Queen Who Never Was — passed over for the Iron Throne because of her sex, she became something more dangerous than a queen: a dragonrider with not
• Jacaerys Velaryon — Rhaenyra's eldest son and heir — a young prince who carries the weight of his mother's claim and the shadow of his questionable parentage with a diplo
• Lucerys Velaryon — Rhaenyra's second son — a gentle boy sent on a doomed embassy to Storm's End, where his death at Aemond's hands becomes the first blood of the Dance o
• Baela Targaryen — Daemon's fierce daughter by Laena Velaryon — a dragonrider who inherited her father's boldness and her mother's beauty, unwilling to sit idle while ot
• Rhaena Targaryen — Daemon's gentler daughter and Baela's twin — a princess without a dragon who guards precious dragon eggs, carrying the future of her house in quieter
• Cregan Stark — The Wolf of the North — Lord of Winterfell, whose march south at the Dance's end delivered a reckoning so severe they called it the Hour of the Wolf.
• Addam Velaryon — A dragonseed of humble birth who claimed Seasmoke and proved that loyalty is a choice, not a birthright — the only dragonrider who stayed true when al
• Dalton Greyjoy — The Red Kraken — a young, bloodthirsty Lord of the Iron Islands who backed the Blacks not out of loyalty but for the sheer joy of reaving the western
• Jeyne Arryn — Lady of the Eyrie — a shrewd and capable ruler who backed Rhaenyra's claim with the Knights of the Vale and the quiet conviction that a woman's right
• Oscar Tully — The young Lord of Riverrun — barely more than a boy when the Dance began, yet brave enough to declare the Riverlands for the Blacks despite the chaos
• Aegon II Targaryen — The Green King — crowned in defiance of his father's will, a man who never wanted the throne but was consumed by it, riding Sunfyre into a war that le
• Alicent Hightower — Queen dowager and the beating heart of the Green faction — a woman who sacrificed her youth to duty, her friendship to ambition, and her children to a
• Otto Hightower — Hand of the King and architect of the Green faction — a patient, calculating lord who spent decades positioning his bloodline on the Iron Throne, only
• Aemond Targaryen — Aemond One-Eye — a cold, obsessive prince who traded an eye for the greatest dragon alive and spent the rest of his life making the world pay for what
• Helaena Targaryen — Aegon II's gentle sister-wife and a dreamer who saw too much — her prophetic whispers go unheeded, and the horrors of Blood and Cheese shatter what re
• Daeron Targaryen — Daeron the Daring — the youngest Green prince and the most likeable, a genuinely brave and honorable young man riding the Blue Queen into a war that d
• Criston Cole — The Kingmaker — Lord Commander of the Kingsguard who crowned Aegon II and commands the Green armies, a man whose bitter rejection by Rhaenyra curdled
• Larys Strong — The Clubfoot — Master of Whisperers and the Dance's most inscrutable player, a man who murdered his own father and brother to advance schemes whose tr
• Borros Baratheon — Lord of Storm's End, a proud and belligerent man who sided with the Greens not out of conviction but because Aemond offered him a marriage pact that L
• Jason Lannister — Lord of Casterly Rock and twin brother of Tyland, a proud Green supporter who courted Rhaenyra unsuccessfully and died fighting in the Riverlands — br
• Tyland Lannister — Master of Coin for the Greens and twin brother of Jason, the sharp political mind who divided and hid the royal treasury to deny it to Rhaenyra — tort
• Vhagar — The largest living dragon in the world, nearly the size of Balerion the Black Dread — over 180 years old, she is ancient, terrible, and the single gre
• Caraxes — The Blood Wyrm — Daemon Targaryen's dragon, a lean, red, vicious creature built for killing rather than beauty, the only dragon fierce enough to chall
• Syrax — Rhaenyra Targaryen's dragon, a large yellow she-dragon who was well-fed and comfortable but rarely tested in battle — killed by a mob during the Storm
• Meleys — The Red Queen — Princess Rhaenys's dragon, scarlet with copper highlights, the fastest dragon alive and a veteran of decades of flight, killed at Rook
• Sunfyre — The most beautiful dragon ever seen in Westeros — golden scales that gleam like hammered gold in sunlight, bonded to Aegon II with a loyalty that tran
• Arrax — Lucerys Velaryon's young dragon — small, panicked, and overwhelmed when Vhagar came for them in the storm above Shipbreaker Bay, his death alongside h
• Vermax — Jacaerys Velaryon's dragon, a young and capable beast who fought in the Battle of the Gullet and died there — crashing into the sea amid burning ships
• Seasmoke — A silver-grey dragon first bonded to Laenor Velaryon, then claimed by the dragonseed Addam Velaryon — a loyal, swift beast who served two riders and d
• Dreamfyre — Queen Helaena's dragon, a pale blue she-dragon with silver markings who was chained in the Dragonpit and killed during the Storming — she never flew t
• Tessarion — The Blue Queen — Prince Daeron's dragon, small but exquisitely beautiful with cobalt-blue scales, a young dragon who fought bravely at Tumbleton and d
• Moondancer — Lady Baela Targaryen's young dragon — slender, quick, and fearless, she fought the crippled Sunfyre over Dragonstone in a battle that proved size is n
• Viserys I Targaryen — The peaceful king whose reign was golden and whose legacy was ash — he loved his family, refused to see the cracks forming between his children, and d
• Laenor Velaryon — Rhaenyra's first husband and dragonrider of Seasmoke — a brave warrior who preferred the company of men, trapped in a political marriage that satisfie
• Laena Velaryon — Daemon's first wife in the era of the Dance and rider of Vhagar — beautiful, bold, and the only woman to claim the world's largest dragon, she died in
• Harwin Strong — Breakbones — the strongest knight in the Seven Kingdoms and the rumored true father of Rhaenyra's first three sons, a secret that was the worst-kept i
• Mysaria — The White Worm — Daemon's former paramour turned spymaster, a woman who rose from foreign dancer and prostitute to become one of the most powerful and
• Ser Erryk Cargyll — One half of the Cargyll twins of the Kingsguard — Erryk chose the Blacks, stole the crown, and crowned Rhaenyra on Dragonstone, only to die fighting h
• Ser Arryk Cargyll — The other Cargyll twin — Arryk chose the Greens, served Aegon II, and died fighting his brother Erryk in a duel that neither wanted and neither surviv
• Hugh Hammer — A dragonseed — a baseborn man with enough Targaryen blood to claim the great dragon Vermithor, who fought for the Blacks until ambition and opportunit
• Ulf White — A dragonseed who claimed the gentle dragon Silverwing — a drunkard and a braggart who betrayed the Blacks at Tumbleton alongside Hugh Hammer, proving
• Blood — A former City Watch sergeant and butcher by trade — one half of the Blood and Cheese assassination pair, the blunt instrument in an act of targeted cr
• Cheese — A ratcatcher in the Red Keep — the other half of Blood and Cheese, who knew every tunnel and passage beneath the castle and guided his partner to Quee
• Nettles — A wild, lowborn girl who tamed the dragon Sheepstealer by feeding him sheep — possibly Daemon's lover, certainly his protégé, she flew away when Rhaen
• Aegon III Targaryen — Rhaenyra and Daemon's son who watched his mother fed to a dragon and grew up to become the most traumatized king in Westerosi history — he won the thr
• Jaehaera Targaryen — Aegon II and Helaena's daughter, married to Aegon III as a child to unite the warring factions — a quiet, withdrawn girl who had lost her brothers and
• Grand Maester Munkun — Grand Maester and author of 'The Dance of the Dragons, A True Telling' — one of the primary historical sources for the civil war, a scholar who served
• Jaehaerys I Targaryen — The Old King, the Conciliator — the longest-reigning and arguably greatest Targaryen king, whose 55-year reign of peace and prosperity ended with a su
• Aemma Arryn — Viserys I's first wife and Rhaenyra's mother — a gentle woman who endured multiple difficult pregnancies and died in the most horrifying childbirth sc
• Baelon Targaryen — The Brave — Viserys's father and Jaehaerys's most capable son, a dragonrider whose sudden death triggered the succession crisis that the Great Council

Locations

• King's Landing — Capital of the Seven Kingdoms, seat of the Iron Throne. A sprawling, stinking, magnificent city where the Green coup unseats Rhaenyra's claim and the
• Dragonstone — Volcanic island fortress in Blackwater Bay, ancestral Targaryen stronghold before the Conquest. Rhaenyra's seat during the Dance of the Dragons.
• Driftmark — Island seat of House Velaryon, the richest house in Westeros. Home to High Tide castle, built with the wealth of Corlys Velaryon's legendary nine voya
• Oldtown — The oldest city in Westeros, seat of House Hightower and home to the Citadel where maesters are trained. The political base of the Green faction.
• Harrenhal — The largest and most cursed castle in Westeros, its towers melted by Balerion's dragonfire. Changes hands repeatedly during the Dance and serves as a
• Storm's End — Ancient seat of House Baratheon, a drum-towered fortress raised against the storms of Shipbreaker Bay. Where Aemond on Vhagar killed Lucerys on Arrax,
• Casterly Rock — Seat of House Lannister, carved into a colossal rock on the western coast. Green-aligned during the Dance, providing gold and political support to Aeg
• Winterfell — Ancient seat of House Stark and capital of the North. Cregan Stark marches south from here to impose the Pact of Ice and Fire and deliver the Hour of
• Red Keep — The royal castle within King's Landing, built by Maegor the Cruel atop Aegon's High Hill. Contains the Iron Throne, Maegor's Holdfast, and the secret
• Dragonpit — Massive domed structure on Rhaenys's Hill in King's Landing, built to house the royal dragons. Stormed and destroyed by a mob during the Dance, markin
• Iron Throne Room — The Great Hall of the Red Keep where the Iron Throne sits — a towering mass of swords melted together by dragonfire. Where kings are crowned and unmad
• The Hightower — The great lighthouse of Oldtown, tallest structure in Westeros. Seat of House Hightower on Battle Isle at the mouth of the Honeywine river.
• High Tide — Corlys Velaryon's castle on Driftmark, filled with treasures and trophies from his legendary nine voyages across the known world.
• Rook's Rest — A minor castle in the Crownlands. Site of the first great dragon battle of the Dance, where Rhaenys and Meleys were killed fighting Vhagar and Sunfyre
• Tumbleton — A prosperous Reach town sacked twice during the Dance. Where the dragonseeds Hugh Hammer and Ulf White betrayed the Blacks, turning their dragons agai
• The Narrow Sea — The body of water separating Westeros from Essos. Key naval theater during the Dance, where the Velaryon fleet clashes with the Triarchy and controls
• The Reach — The most fertile and populous kingdom in Westeros, breadbasket of the realm. Largely Green-aligned during the Dance through House Hightower's influenc
• The Riverlands — The central kingdom of Westeros, defined by its rivers and its suffering. Black-aligned during the Dance, it is devastated by the fighting more than a
• The Stepstones — A chain of islands in the Narrow Sea between Westeros and Essos. Where Daemon Targaryen won glory fighting the Triarchy years before the Dance.
• The Gullet — The strait near Dragonstone where the Triarchy fleet clashed with the Velaryons. Jacaerys Velaryon died here when Vermax was brought down over the wat
• Gods Eye — A vast lake in the Riverlands containing the Isle of Faces. Where Daemon Targaryen on Caraxes fought Aemond Targaryen on Vhagar in the most legendary
• Kingsroad — The main road running the length of Westeros from Storm's End through King's Landing to the Wall. The realm's principal artery for trade, travel, and

Items

• Blackfyre — The Valyrian steel longsword of Targaryen kings, carried by Aegon the Conqueror himself. The sword that gives its name to future pretenders and rebell
• Dark Sister — A Valyrian steel longsword, thinner and lighter than Blackfyre, wielded by Daemon Targaryen. The blade he drove through Aemond's eye above the Gods Ey
• Iron Throne — The seat of the King of the Seven Kingdoms, forged by Aegon I from the swords of his conquered enemies, melted together by Balerion's dragonfire. THE
• Dragon Eggs — Petrified or dormant eggs of dragons, each worth a kingdom's ransom. Some hatch under the right conditions; most remain beautiful, enigmatic stones.
• Wildfire — A volatile alchemical substance that burns green, clings to surfaces, and ignites on contact with water. Created by the Alchemists' Guild in King's La
• Valyrian Steel — Magical steel forged in the Freehold of Valyria using dragonfire and blood magic. Lighter, sharper, and near-indestructible. The secret of its making
• Maester's Chain — A chain of interlocking links of different metals worn by maesters of the Citadel. Each link represents mastery of a different field of study.
• Ravens — Trained messenger birds maintained by maesters at every castle in Westeros. The primary means of long-distance communication across the realm.

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