Dragão
Dragons are magical creatures, existed on the continents of Westeros and Essos, up until recently were considered to have been extinct for over one hundred and fifty years ago. With only remaining trace of the dragons were the stones which were reported to have once been dragon eggs, until Daenerys Targaryen managed to hatch three of these dragon eggs.
Índice
Appearance
Dragons are scaled, reptilian creatures, with two legs and two wings only (like, using their wings for forelegs, though some A Song of Ice and Fire artwork shows them with four legs and a detached pair of wings). They have sharp teeth and claws, leathery wings and long necks and tails, with spiny crests running down their backs. As hatchlings, they are around the size of a cat, and can reach sizes large enough to swallow a mammoth whole. The polished skulls of the Targaryen dragons look like glittering onyx, and their teeth like curved daggers of black diamond. Their bones are black due to their high iron content. Osso de dragão is a highly sought after crafting material.[1]
Características
Great heat emanates from dragons' bodies, to the point that they steam during cold nights. They breathe extremely hot fire and cook their meat before eating it.[2] They are capable of forming strong attachments to humans who raise them. They have a reasonably high level of animal intelligence, and can be trained to serve as battlemounts and receive vocal commands.
Dragons grow throughout their lives, but it is unknown how long they can live or how large they can grow. The largest and oldest Targaryen dragon, Balerion, lived about 200 years and could swallow a mammoth whole, but dragons raised in captivity are thought to be smaller than their wild brethren.[3] They have no gender differentiation, but lay large, scaled eggs to reproduce.[4]
Dragons are believed to be intrinsically tied to magic and the seasons of the world. Since dragons became extinct from Westeros, the power of magic dwindled and winters grew colder.
Tales of ice dragons with cold breath were told in Winterfell by Velha Ama. It is undetermined if such dragons are entirely fictional.[5]
História
Dragons are native to the continent of Essos, and were discovered some five thousand years ago by the Valírians in the Quatorze Fogos, a ring of volcanoes on the Valyrian Peninsula. The Valyrians mastered the art of raising dragons and used them as weapons of war to carve out a grandioso Império. After the Perdição de Valíria, the only dragons known to have survived were the three dragons belonging to the Targaryens, on Pedra do Dragão.
The Targaryens used them to conquistar and forge the Sete Reinos. Over the course of one hundred and fifty years the Targaryens rode their dragons as symbol of power, Rei Jaehaerys I, used Jaehaerys took six dragons with him to the North to visit the Protetor do Norte.[6] They built the Fosso do Dragão in Porto Real to raise and house their dragons and at one time had at least nineteen dragons(the number of dragon skulls stored by the Targaryens in the Red Keep cellars).[1] Over the centuries, the Targaryen dragons died out, most of them were killed in the Targaryen civil war known as the Dança dos Dragões and in later generations did not grow as large as their parents.
The last dragon was a stunted, sick and misshapen thing, and died young during the reign of Rei Aegon III, the Dragonbane.[7] She had been a green female, small, stunted with withered wings. She laid a clutch of five eggs,[8] which never hatched.[9] It has been suggested by meistres that dragons were meant to be beneath the sky rather than cooped up in cages or cells in the Dragonpit, however massive.
After their extinction, the only remnants of dragons that remained were their skulls and a few petrified eggs. The eggs were highly valuable, both for their beauty and exotic nature as well as their potential to hatch dragons. Many futile attempts were made to hatch dragons from petrified eggs. The Tragédia de Solarestival resulted from Aegon V's attempt. Aegon III, known as the Veneno do Dragão, had nine mages cross the narrow sea to use their magics in attempt to hatch eggs. Baelor I, o Abençoado, took a different approach, praying over eggs in attempt to hatch them. The art of taming and commanding dragons enough to ride is considered lost, aside from a few exceedingly rare books.
Ultimately, Daenerys Targaryen managed to hatch three dragons by sacrificing Mirri Maz Duur in her esposo's funeral pyre and stepping into the flames. With Daenerys's exchange of life for life, the first three dragons in over a hundred years were born.
According to legend, a dragon may be tamed by sounding the Dragon Horn.[10]
Dragões de Daenerys
Dragões históricos
Ovos de dragão conhecidos
- Ovo de Aegon V - com redemoinhos brancos e verdes.[8]
- Ovo de Aerion Targaryen - dourado e prateado, com veias de cores de fogo.[8]
- Ovo de Ambrose Butterwell - vermelho.[8]
- Ovo de Euron Greyjoy, que diz tê-lo atirado ao mar.[11]
Referências
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 A Guerra dos Tronos, Capítulo 13, Tyrion.
- ↑ A Fúria dos Reis, Capítulo 12, Daenerys.
- ↑ A Tormenta de Espadas, Capítulo 8, Daenerys.
- ↑ O Festim dos Corvos, Capítulo 35, Samwell.
- ↑ A Dança dos Dragões, Capítulo 35, Jon.
- ↑ A Tormenta de Espadas, Capítulo 41, Jon.
- ↑ A Guerra dos Tronos, Capítulo 22, Arya.
- ↑ 8,0 8,1 8,2 8,3 O Cavaleiro dos Sete Reinos, O Cavaleiro Misterioso.
- ↑ O Cavaleiro dos Sete Reinos, O Cavaleiro Andante.
- ↑ O Festim dos Corvos, Capítulo 19, O Afogado.
- ↑ O Festim dos Corvos, Capítulo 29, O Pirata.
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