Since they cannot be truly tamed, dragons can be very dangerous even to their riders. the ground, to The bottom line is that while dragons were extremely powerful, they

These are formed from webbing that grows between longer spines.

Dragons never stop growing as long as they live, and they can live for centuries, though many died in combat before reaching such an age. After the pair take flight, Rhaegal and Viserion break out of the Great Pyramid to join their mother and brother in burning a few of the Masters' ships with dragon fire.Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion fly ahead of their mother as she lands on For the first time, Daenerys rides the full-grown Drogon into battle at the The dragons accompany Daenerys as they attempt to rescue Jon Snow and his group from the Later, the White Walkers have their wights haul Viserion's body out of the frozen lake, after which the Night King reanimates the corpse of the fallen dragon.Drogon and Rhaegal accompany their mother on their journey to When the army of the dead arrives at Winterfell, Jon and Daenerys fly the dragons and order them to burn as many wights as possible in the With the Night King and his army destroyed, the dragons fly back to Dragonstone as Daenerys resume her campaign to take the Iron Throne.

four legs and two wings).

The four lines of webbed frills along a dragon's spine only grow to a prominent size after they are about a year old. Their bodies have four limbs: two short back legs and two large wings as forelimbs, a body-plan similar to a bat. Continuing her search for her dragons she finds them all chained beside each other, and they scream with excitement when she nears them. The bigger the dragon is, the bigger its appetite. The three eggs are black, green, and gold.Daenerys begins caring for the eggs as they become richer in color. Dragon flame can turn flesh to ash, melt steel, and crack stone. Supervising sound editor Tim Kimmel explained in a Season 4 interview what went into creating the dragon scream sound effects and other vocalizations: "Each dragon has multiple animals stacked and put together to create it...[in Season 3] we used the sound of two tortoises mating.

were not outright invincible. The dragons' physical motions were derived from eagles and bats while, for their takeoff into flight, pelicans were used as a reference.In Season 5, to give the actors a better prop to react to, instead of just dangling a tennis ball and pretending it was breathing fire, the special effects team took the extra step of custom-building a fire-breathing crane. Particularly large ridges of horns frame the edges of their faces, running along the back of the skull and along the jawline, which grow bigger as they mature. We sneak some other things in there—last season we had some weird dolphin sounds. She removes the egg from the fire with her bare hands, but remains unhurt.Daenerys Targaryen places the eggs on the funeral pyre of her husband after smothering him with a pillow.

George R. R. Martin's dragons thereby differ from the traditional depiction of dragons as six limbed creatures.

Dragons cannot be truly "tamed", but they can be bonded with and trained.

Dragons need to roast their prey with their fire-breath before consuming it - the only animals apart from humans who prefer cooked meat. Daenerys's dragon eggs, gifted to her by Illyrio Mopatis.Daenerys is given three petrified dragon eggs as a gift for her wedding to Khal Drogo. She keeps them in a chest surrounded by candles, day and night as she is drawn to them.Arya stumbles upon the massive skull of one of the Targaryen dragons while chasing a cat in the vaults. Dragons can eat almost any kind of meat, anything from sheep to fish.

According to a semi-canon source, humble Valyrian shepherds were the first to control them using magic, and rode dragons for millennia. years, roughly half of their dynasty. House Targaryen was the ruling house of the Seven Kingdoms for nearly 300 years, holding royal court in King's Landing. However with a bit of a twisted smile, Daenerys speaks the High Valyrian word for fire, and Daenerys ultimately decides not to risk endangering her young dragons again by deploying them against Yunkai, but sends in an infiltration mission consisting of Viserion and Rhaegal imprisoned underneath the pyramid by Daenerys.After Daenerys claimed Meereen as its queen, Drogon continues to hunt for their food independently, burning and killing livestock of farmers that live around the Meereenese region.Rhaegal and Viserion defying their mother's presence.Daenerys visits Rhaegal and Viserion after not seeing them for weeks. Also, given their rarity and the large effort/expense

in training them, they were not simply deployed in battle on a whim: Even Aegon display it: Dragons can't physically talk, and although they can understand Rather, dragons appear to have some sort of higher, unnatural level of intelligence; Thus, Aegon took a

She soon sees they have grown larger and more aggressive than they were before. When dragons hatch, they do have horns around their faces and along their spines, but they are still quite small and relatively rounded. Dragons are massive, flying reptiles that can breathe fire. the ones confirmed to have laid eggs were referred to as female.

They have razor-sharp teeth and claws, leathery, bat-like wings and long necks and tails, with spiny crests running down their backs. The sound of the crying dragons pulls Daenerys out of the temptation to stay in either illusion.

Their skeletons and skulls are black and glitter like polished onyx, and their scales are nearly impervious to flame, growing stronger and thicker as the dragons age.

approach human levels of intelligence and emotion - but they never specifically