Character from House of the Dragon by George R.R. Martin
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 Storming of the Dragonpit, a death as undignified as it was tragic.
Syrax is named for a Valyrian goddess, and there is something divine and complacent about her — she is beautiful, powerful in theory, and entirely untested in the kind of combat that defines the Dance. Rhaenyra bonded with her young and rode her often, but never to war. Syrax was chained and fed, not hunted and hardened, and the difference showed when it mattered. During the Storming of the Dragonpit, when the mobs of King's Landing rose against the dragons, Syrax was unchained — either deliberately or by accident — and flew into the chaos. She killed scores of the rioters but was overwhelmed by sheer numbers, dragged down and hacked apart by hundreds of hands armed with axes, hammers, and makeshift weapons. A dragon killed by smallfolk. It is perhaps the most symbolically resonant death in the Dance: the Targaryens' power, grown fat and complacent, brought down not by an equal but by the masses they had always ignored.
Large and bright yellow, gleaming like gold in sunlight. She is well-proportioned and healthy, her scales lustrous from years of good feeding. Her wings are broad and her body thick — she has the look of a pampered dragon, powerful but soft around the edges from a life of ease. She lacks the battle scars that mark veterans like Caraxes or Vhagar.
Also known as: Syrax