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==Appearance==
 
==Appearance==
 
In {{Date|43}}, Quicksilver was a quarter the size of [[Balerion]]. Her fireballs were pale white in color.{{Ref|tsotd}}
 
In {{Date|43}}, Quicksilver was a quarter the size of [[Balerion]]. Her fireballs were pale white in color.{{Ref|tsotd}}
 
The color of Quicksilver's scales hasn't been stated:  they may have been silver, like [[Meraxes]].  Artwork in ''The World of Ice and Fire'' depicts Quicksilver as silver-white.
 
 
Quicksilver is referred to using female pronouns in ''[[The Sons of the Dragon]]'', but not specified to be a "she-dragon", known to have laid eggs (like [[Dreamfyre]]).  [[Caraxes]] was also inconsistently referred to with male and female pronouns, so it is unclear if Martin intended to imply that Quicksilver was known to have laid eggs.
 
  
 
==History==
 
==History==

Revision as of 15:45, 10 November 2017

Quicksilver
Aegon and Quicksilver.jpg
Quicksilver and his rider, Prince Aegon Targaryen, dying during the Battle Beneath the Gods Eye, as depicted by Michael Komarck in The World of Ice and Fire.

Allegiances
Race Dragon
Born In 7 ACDragonstone
Died In 43 ACGods Eye
Books
For the ship see Quicksilver (ship).

Quicksilver was the dragon of King Aenys I Targaryen[1] and his son, Prince Aegon Targaryen.[2]

Appearance

In 43 AC, Quicksilver was a quarter the size of Balerion. Her fireballs were pale white in color.[3]

History

Quicksilver hatched in 7 AC and given to Prince Aenys Targaryen.[3] Aenys had been a sickly child from birth, but after bonding with Quicksilver his condition quickly improved, and "as the dragon grew, so too did Aenys."[3][1] The rumors that Aenys had been fathered by someone else than King Aegon I Targaryen ended at this time.[1]

In 23 AC, Aenys flew upon Quicksilver to Sunspear in Dorne to attend the feast held to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the peace between Dorne and the Iron Throne.[3] Aenys suceeded his father Aegon I Targaryen as king in 37 AC. At his father's death, he was at Highgarden with Quicksilver, and flew upon the dragon to Dragonstone to attend his father's funeral.[3] He was with Quicksilver at Riverrun when rebellion's broke out later that same year. When word reached them that the outlaw called Harren the Red had killed Lord Gargon Qoherys of Harrenhal and claimed the castle for himself, Lord Tully urged Aenys to mount Quicksilver and descend on Harrenhal as Aegon I had done during the Conquest. Aenys refused.[3]

Aenys died in 42 AC, and was claimed as a mount by Aenys's eldest son, Prince Aegon, within the few months that followed. Despite Aegon's status as Aenys's heir, Aenys's half-brother Maegor claimed the Iron Throne. Aegon attempted to win back the throne that by rights was his, but in 43 AC both Quicksilver and Aegon died fighting Maegor upon his dragon Balerion during the Battle Beneath the Gods Eye. Balerion grabbed Quicksilver's throat in his jaws, then ripped one of Quicksilver's wings from its body in mid-air, after which Quicksilver fell to its death, along with young Aegon.[2]

Known riders

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aenys I.
  2. 2.0 2.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Maegor I.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 The Sons of the Dragon.