Dragon lair
A dragon lair is a lair inhabited by a dragon, it is their home. It appears that dragons tend to reside in their own lair alone.[1][2][3] however other dragons may be lairing in the general vicinity,[2] as they have done in the smokey caverns of Dragonmont volcano.[2] and in the Fourteen Flames.
Dragons can carve lairs[4] using flame and claw.[4] Young dragons will carry their kills back to their lairs if the carcasses aren't too heavy for them.[5] The ground in a dragons lair can be strewn with burned and broken bones[5], sometimes human.[2]
Ridden dragons can be made to lair in a place of their riders choosing, such as the Dragonpit.
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History
Wild Dragons laired in the Fourteen Flames and it was there where the Valyrians first discovered them.
Throughout the reign of Jaehaerys's successor, King Viserys I Targaryen, Vermithor had no new rider.[3] During this time, Vermithor remained on the island of Dragonstone and made his lair in one of the smoking caverns of the Dragonmont.[2]
At the start of the Dance of the Dragons, six wild and semi-wild dragons made their lairs in the smokey caverns of the volcano.[2]
After King's Landing fell to Rhaenyra Targaryen's supporters,, Vermithor made a lair in the Dragonpit before flying off to battle. [2]
Silverwing was one of only four dragons still alive at the end of the Dance. She became wild during the reign of Aegon III Targaryen, and eventually made her lair on an island in Red Lake in the northwest of the Reach.[3]
Known Dragon Lairs
- Vermithor – laired in one of the smoking caverns of the Dragonmont.[2]
- The Cannibal laired at the back of Dragonmont, his lair was littered with the bones of would-be dragon tamers[2]
- Sheepstealer - laired at the back of Dragonmont[2]
- Grey Ghost - a smoking cavern of the Dragonmont[2]
- Seasmoke- in a smoking vent high on the eastern side of the Dragonmont[2]
- Silverwing - a smoking cavern of the Dragonmont[2], and later [2]on an island in Red Lake
- Drogon - a shallow cave on Dragonstone[5]
- Viserion - the pyramid of Uhlez
- Rhaegal - the pyramid of Yherizan[1]
- The Dragonpit
Recent Events
A Dance with Dragons
Drogon makes his lair in Dragonstone in the Dothraki sea.[5]
Rhaegal and Viserion are confined and chained inside the pit of the Great Pyramid. [6] [4] Eventually they both manage to loose themselves within the pit. Viserion digs a lair in the pyramid’s thick wall where he sleeps.[4]
Once loosed from the pit, Rhaegal makes his new lair in the great black pyramid of Yherizan, where he hulks in the gloom like a fat woman bedecked with glowing orange jewels. [1]
Viserion makes his lair in the pyramid of Uhlez.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 70, The Queen's Hand.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 The Princess and the Queen.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon II.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 68, The Dragontamer.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 71, Daenerys X.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 11, Daenerys II.