Character from House of the Dragon by George R.R. Martin
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 transcended crippling injuries, fighting on broken wings because his rider still needed him.
Sunfyre's story is the most tragic of any dragon in the Dance, because beauty offered him no protection and loyalty brought him only suffering. He fought at Rook's Rest alongside Vhagar against Meleys and was savagely wounded — Meleys tore into him, shattering a wing and leaving him grounded and broken. Aegon II was badly burned and fell from the sky. But Sunfyre did not die. He dragged himself across Dragonstone, unable to fly, eating whatever he could catch, healing slowly and incompletely. When Aegon II finally returned to claim Dragonstone, Sunfyre was there — broken, scarred, barely able to get airborne, but still his. He fought Moondancer over Dragonstone in his final battle, killing Baela's young dragon despite his injuries, but taking mortal wounds in the process. He died on Dragonstone, and Aegon II wept over him — reportedly the only time the king cried during the entire war. Sunfyre's loyalty to his rider outlasted his body's ability to sustain it.
Magnificent. His scales are cloth-of-gold, shimmering and resplendent, catching light in ways that make him appear to glow. His wings are pale gold membranes stretched across golden bones. His eyes are a molten amber. He is not the largest dragon but he is universally acknowledged as the most beautiful — seeing him in flight was said to be a religious experience. After Rook's Rest, he is a ruin: one wing shattered, scales scorched and torn, dragging himself across the ground, still golden, still terrible, still loyal.
Also known as: Sunfyre, Sunfyre the Golden, The Most Beautiful Dragon