Character from House of the Dragon by George R.R. Martin
A wild, lowborn girl who tamed the dragon Sheepstealer by feeding him sheep — possibly Daemon's lover, certainly his protégé, she flew away when Rhaenyra ordered her death and was never seen again, vanishing into legend.
Nettles is the Dance's great mystery. She was a baseborn girl — no known family, no Valyrian blood that anyone could identify — who tamed the wild dragon Sheepstealer not through blood magic or dragonlord heritage but through patience and livestock. She brought sheep to Sheepstealer's lair on Dragonstone, one a day, until the dragon associated her with food and tolerated her presence, and eventually her mount. It is the only known case of a dragon being claimed through bribery rather than blood. She fought for the Blacks and became close to Daemon — how close is debated. Some sources say she was his lover, others his adopted daughter of sorts. When Rhaenyra, consumed by paranoia after the dragonseed betrayals at Tumbleton, ordered all dragonseeds killed, Daemon warned Nettles and let her flee. She flew Sheepstealer into the Mountains of the Moon and was never seen again. Legends in the Vale speak of a dragon and a wild woman living in the high peaks for years afterward. She is the one dragonseed who neither betrayed nor was betrayed — she simply left, and the Dance was poorer for her absence.
Small, brown-skinned, with a wild tangle of dark hair and sharp, clever eyes. She has no Valyrian features whatsoever — no silver hair, no purple eyes — which makes her claiming of a dragon deeply unusual and possibly unique. She dresses in rough, practical clothing, often stained and patched. She looks like what she is: a common girl from nowhere who somehow became a dragonrider.
Also known as: Nettles, Netty