Reviews: 0. Regardless, Balerion, Meraxes, and Vhagar took flight together and descended on the enemy. Is there any other info out there about how old Balerion was when the Targaryens fled? I. 7K. The dragons (and eggs) seem to like the heat on Dragonstone. A Forum of Ice and Fire A Song of Ice and Fire & Game of ThronesBalerion, or the Black Dread, was one of Aegon the Conqueror 's three Dragons he rode into battle during the War of Conquest and at the historic Aegon's Landing. „By 129 AC, Vhagar had grown nearly as big as Balerion had been during Aegon's Conquest, and had become the largest living dragon of her time. Whereas Smaug is officially listed as 462ft/ 140meters. Even though Vermithor isn’t bigger. Regarding the size of 180 years old Vhagar: Previously, in the ASOIAF books, it was stated that this Vhagar had almost reached the size of the "Conquest version" of Balerion. His scales and wing were black. I do think that he is still big even by Valyrian standards. This is Mi. Finally, if dragons truly get bigger with age, we can take the fact that Vhagar only lived 180 years, compared to Balerion’s 200 years, that she just didn’t have the opportunity to grow as big as the Black Dread. No they not, Vhagar in the dance is said to be as big as balerion during the conquest, I personally believe she was as big as balerion was during Maegor Reign Reply jtbox76 •We don't know how big Balerion was when the Targaryens set out from Valyria, but probably he wasn't the huge beast we come to know in Fire and Blood. He could swallow horse and rider whole and his flame, black. Balerion, Meraxes, and Vhagar. He helped his master in his conquest of Westeros as well as in the creation of the iron throne. Where Game of Thrones. Mathash cha yeng we yedhrol. When he was in the fullness of his power, his flames could melt steel and stone, [12] and fuse sand into glass. In a behind-the-scenes video on the official Game of Thrones YouTube channel, visual effects Producer Nikeah Forde explained that Vhagar is. Drogon is HUGE in Game Of Thrones Season 7, but is he as big as Balerion the black dre. Balerion. Last edited: Sep 18, 2018. Maegor was cruel because he believed he has the right to do those horrible things. Along with other Targaryen dragon skulls Balerion's huge skull used to hang on a wall in the Red Keep's throne room. Sean2257. He also created a new order of seventy-seven warriors, the Dragonkeepers, to guard the royal dragons. 393. King Aenys I. Vhagar outgrew him later, as she lived much longer. Since King Aegon I Targaryen’s Balerion the Black Dread died before Viserys sat the Iron Throne, the oldest and largest. Balerion was in pretty terrible shape by the end, in large part thanks to just being massive but also the Aerea incident in Valyria. He was so large that the shadow alone could. . Balerion is a clear winner when it comes to size. ago Balerion was much bigger, the link someone else provided above me thinks he might of been about twice the size of Drogon. Balerion the Black Dread was the mount of Aegon the Conqueror, the first Targaryen monarch who ruled Westeros. Drogon is HUGE in Game Of Thrones Season 7, but is he as big as Balerion the black dread?Balerion, known as Balerion the Black Dread or Balerion the Dread, was the dragon ridden by Aegon the Conqueror during the War of Conquest. I think at least in ten years, drogon would be even closer to vermithor. It could be that Balerion was larger than Meraxes and Vhagar both at the Conquest, in 10 AC, at his death in 94 AC, and in 130 AC when Vhagar died. and I love it (I think that's Balerion) Edit: Vhagar not Balerion Reply Sensitive_Ad_9664. Smaller than her book counterpart, but still massive. [1] The skulls used to hang in long rows on the walls of the throne room of the Red Keep. Even balerion eventually stopped growing once he got old enough. Maybe start towards the beginning of Aerys’ succession / end of Aegons reign, show the Maegor / Visenya dynamics, discuss the faith making a deal with Aegon regarding incest and polyamory, their discontent with Aerys’ decision making, Maegor postponing his dragon claim until Aegons death so he may claim Balerion, etc… season 1 ends with. No one argues that Smaug must be at least as big as Laketown, yet Smaug in his ruin is able to actually destroy the whole town, not merely break it as Ancalagon does to Thangorodrim. In the episode we see Balerions skull, if we go off that he could swallow an Aurochs or even a small mammoth, it didnt really look possible as it didnt seem big enough. Vhagar is slightly bigger than Vermithor, as she is older and is said to be the only dragon that came close to Balerion the Black Dread’s size. Regardless of how large Balerion is, he probably isn't much larger than Smaug, and the latter's feats are quite insane for a creature of that size. [2] The cellar room they are currently stored in is dank, and dark and cavernous. Is Drogon as Big as Balerion in Game of Thrones Season 7?Please click the link to. love this drawing but feel like there's a huge discrepancy between how large Balerion is described in the books and how large he appears in the renderings. Fit-Jellyfish-6234 • 10 mo. Vhagar at the start of the Dance, is nearly as big as Balerion was during Aegon Conquest*. sexmountain. You could argue that people have just forgotten how big Balerion, and the rest of the dragons, actually were so they compare Dany’s dragons to the biggest of them because they are just in awe of dragons in. Unlike the others, Meraxes was as white as snow and was big enough to swallow a horse in one piece. Balerion was not hurt in Valyria, he flew to Sothoryos where there is known diversity of fauna and enough food to have fed both Balerion and a creature large enough to have attacked it. But rereading the books I came across something interesting. Balerion. Check out our review of "Stormborn. Followers. Reyne-TheAbyss. In fact, it has even been said that in her older age and at the height of. Balerion died in 94 AC, so if we use Vhagar’s size in the show as a marker for Balerion size when we arrived in Westeros, then add 94 years (After Conquest) we can get an idea, ands it’s absolutely terrifying. 0. Martin’s universe. Balerion was big sure, but he surely wasn’t the only big dragon they had over the course of their time on Dragonstone. I can’t imagine Valyria’s dragons would’ve be much larger if this is the case. In season seven of the game of thrones, Cersei Lannister stands in. It is safe to say that there are dragons in the freehold bigger than him. And the moment that Balerion arrived at a battle, no army was able to stand against the might of the dragon regarded as the strongest in the history of Westeros. He was so large that his shadow could cover entire towns. Big, scary monsters lurk in the lairs of Dragonstone. Remember though that Balerion was 200 years old when Aegon conquered Westeros, and Drogon is only like 2-ish at this point. In 43 AC, Maegor and Balerion killed Aegon the Uncrowned and his dragon, Quicksilver, in the Battle Beneath The God’s Eye; dispatching the Faith’s preferred monarch. Balerion, also known as the Black Dread, is the largest known Dragon to ever live. Balerion was the oldest, then Meraxes, then Vhagar. Aegon is tiny on his dragon's back! Compare that to any image we have of Dany riding Drogon and that should give you some perspective. now drogons head is at least the size of multiple danys. This is because Rhaenys loved flying alot and that freedom is what made Meraxes bigger than Vhagar, though Vhagar was probably born earlierBalerion had four-foot long teeth at his death. 1. How big is Balerion? All I know is that it could hold adult mammoths in its jaws. Everyone is familiar with Balerion the largest dragon in Valyria ever,. 25 25 comments Best Imperium_Kane • 4 yr. Vhagar is a female dragon taking its name from one of the gods of old Valyria. In 120 AC, though, Laena died, and Vhagar, who was almost as big as Balerion by the time of the Conquest, was claimed by Prince Aemond Targaryen, the youngest son of King Viserys and Lady Alicent. Prince Aemond flew on Vhagar to Storm's End, so they could win the support of Lord Borros Baratheon for King Aegon II Targaryen. 8 times larger than s7 Drogon (that's just my opinion, it's not fact)Not Balerion. A hundred years later, during the reign of. "Balerion the Black Dread was two hundred years old when he died during the reign of Jaehaerys the. By Josh Rosenberg Published: Oct 24, 2022. They've been so vague with both series but I was so sure they're cover Aegons conquest based on the limited info. Instead of wondering where. Balerion was the largest of all Targaryen dragons since Aegon’s conquest, with a wingspan so large that his shadow could engulf entire towns as he flew overhead. Vhagar -- also called the Grandmother of. As to the ice dragons that is just a legend there is no proof they actually existed. During the Dance of the Dragons, it was clear that Meleys was already quite large as her head was bigger and longer than the entire body of an average-sized human being. He only became a big dragon as he grew over the hundreds of years (I can't remember how many) between the Doom and the Conquest. Along with eighteen [1] other Targaryen dragon skulls, Balerion's skull hung on a wall in the Red Keep's throne room. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. The Dragon and Balerion did exist in two different eras but the Targaryen family. All three of Daenerys Targaryen's dragons—Viserion, Rhaegal, and Drogon—were the only ones to receive significant screen time in the majority of Game of Thrones. Citibank shows the space industry is on its way to reach $1T in revenue by 2040. Loving this whole Dragon bond. 13 m) 3 = 2,376,380 kg. During last night's episode of Game of Thrones, we see Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) standing in front of the skull of Balerion the Black Dread, providing a glimpse at just how large the. He continued to live long after Aegon’s Conquest, as he died in 94 AC (After Conquest). ago. TV Balerion is smaller than books Balerion, but not too much smaller. She has scarlet scales and a crown of bright copper horns. Similarly, Stormcloud was a very young. By 75 AC, Meleys resided in the Dragonpit in King's Landing, never ridden before. He couldn't support his monstrous weight any longer. According to PitchBook, VC funding for. These towers are very thin, and Balerion could be hanging from them. Dreamfyre, born in 23 and (s)he is older than Vermithor, born in 34. We know that Drogon is the biggest living dragon and Viserion is the smallest, meaning Rhaegal is. He’s just barely gotten big enough to be ridden in the last book, so he’s much, much smaller than most of the dragons in the Dance. [13] Balerion was the largest of all the Targaryen dragons since Aegon's Conquest. The largest of which, ancalagon the black, was so large that he destroyed 3 mountains when he fell. You can look it up. Balerion was, after all, the dragon ridden by the Conqueror himself, and so if the movie and show. Maegor had it built after he burned the Sept that. The series has promised to go big on dragons, with a whopping 17 expected to appear throughout the series. Wiki Points. 5K. Balerion and Drogon are extremely similar in terms of appearance – both were big and black with red details, big red-to-orange eyes, and many spikes covering their chest. "In the film trilogy Smaug measures nearly 140 meters (about 460 feet) long with a wingspan of perhaps 150 meters or more. They MIGHT be glass cannons, but considering how big Balerion got. So, I imagine Balerion and Vhagar to be about the size of Meraxes during Aegon's Conquest. This is a place for news and discussions relating to HBO's "Game of Thrones" prequel TV series…Balerion is a old black male cat, with one chewed [4] and torn ear [5] that leads him to appear one-eared. It was essentially THE symbol of the might of house targaryen, ridden by 3 targaryen kings in its lifetime. Two Dragons being in Valyria of Balerion's size would come into conflict soon than a year. At age 30 plus, Quicksilver was a quarter of Balerion's size: Quicksilver, a quarter the size of Balerion, was no match for the older, fiercer dragon, and her pale white fireballs were engulfed and washed away in great gouts of black flame. R. He can be distinguished by his black and red. The same thing happened to Vhagar. Balerion fought and protected Aerea from something big and strong enough to hurt a dragon. Like thats a stub. I imagine you need a ton of energy in order to produce that dragon fire. (Fire and Blood) However, Vhagar was comparable in age to Balerion when he died at the age of around two hundred years. e big and strong and dark. Giving it about 10 or more times the mass of this. Compared to the final size of Drogon in Season 8 of Game of Thrones, Vhagar is more than double his size. Balerion continues to be the largest dragon to have ever inhabited Westeros in terms of size. I am pretty sure F&B hints that he could have become older if it weren't for the Aerea fiasco and their vacation in Valyria. The list begins with a comparison between Vhagar, the largest dragon in Westeros at the time of House of The Dragon, and Drogon from Season 8 of Game of Thrones. The Dragon and Balerion did exist in two different eras but the Targaryen family. So, while that leaves a vague estimate for fans, it's likely Balerion is even larger than Smaug, who only covered around a quarter of Lake-town. Meraxes was the silver dragon of Rhaenys Targaryen, the second sister wife of Aegon the Conqueror. Adult dragons HAVE been killed, but only by lucky scorpion shots to the eye, or by being swarmed by thousands of people while restricted to the ground. So by that logic shouldn't vhagar be. "Might" is a subjective term, and we have no context with which to measure it. Warning: Contains mild SPOILERS for House of the Dragon season 1, episode 2. Dude could easily chomp an elephant whole. His name is Maegor "the Cruel" not Maegor "the Evil" or Maegor "the monster". 0. She had multiple riders over the. ago. (And different kinds of horses can weigh between 800 and 2200 lbs usually, 380-1000kg) That and with comparisons in the books to the Black Dread, I think, if Drogon lives long enough, he will end up being as large as Balerion. Vhagar, dubbed the Queen of All Dragons, is the dragon who was ridden by Visenya Targaryen during Aegon's Conquest. It's also likely to just be a story, we've seen how big Balerion is canonically and he's not TOO much longer than Drogon is right now, but a. He was Balerion's rider at the time of his death in 94 AC. Balerion the Black Dread, greatest of all the Targaryen dragons, whom could swallow a mammoth whole and whose fire burned Harrenhal and forged the Iron Throne. So all we can do is look at what we know of Thangorodrim. She was said to have been as big as Balerion himself was, and only Vermithor, the Bronze Fury, was close toSince Verminthor was nearly 100 years old during the Dance of the Dragons it makes sense that he was such a large dragon. WARNING! This article contains SPOILERS for House of the Dragon season 1! House of the Dragon features Vhagar and the skull of Balerion the Black Dread, but leaves out the third dragon from Aegon’s Conquest. They can only breathe fire in one direction, and are quite slow on the ground. so you can imagine how large balerion and vhagar were, and Meraxes was larger than vhagar so just imagine the three dragons together. Drogon especially is very often compared to Balerion and is said to be Balerion 2. Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next Page 2 of 6 Stannis Eats No Peaches Compulsive Editor Gender:Male Location:England Members 6. Maegor had it built after he burned the Sept that. Balerion would be like a fly in comparison. 20. 226. When Balerion left Valyria with Aenar the exile, he was only sixteen years old. Barth's comments to the contrary are irrelevant. He was the largest dragon to ever exist and was said to be so huge he could swallow a mammoth whole. And Balerion, judging by books and show. While Jaehaerys is very old, his former dragon mount Vermithor will still be a big part of the show. 9k Posted February 22, 2013 On 2/21/2013 at 1:24 PM, The Titan said: Bigger than a loaf of bread, smaller than the Moon. Even with slower growth he would still be noticably bigger. There's a lot more going on in a dragon's death than just the fall. 000002% of 300ft (football field) is 0. hanabihyuga1234 • 4 yr. Vhagar’s short scene in Episode 6 speaks for itself. He lived for 220+ years (126BC to 94AC) and according to my knowledge, the only dragon to die of natural causes. However, Vermithor isn’t a lot smaller than Vhagar. This is a wide open and minimally moderated subreddit to talk about the Game of…1. The dragons have been a big part of the game of thrones. ReplyBalerion or “the Black Dread” was a dragon of House Targaryen ridden by King Aegon I during the Conquest. . He was smaller than Balerion but bigger than Vhagar at the time of his demise. Aegon was tall, broad-shouldered and powerful in appearance, with purple eyes and short-cut silver-gold hair. For Vhagar, she was the youngest dragon during the Conquest, so also the smallest. Though Vhagar has been depicted significantly larger, some fans in the comments section argued Vhagar should be even larger, almost as big as Balerion, the Black Dread. Then the Black Dread fell upon her from above, his jaws closing. Dragons, deceit, and drama -- fans certainly have a lot to look forward to with the upcoming 'House of the Dragon' series. Balerion is almost longer than Godzilla from snout to tail for reference 2014 Godzilla is 108 meters tall and Balerion is like 115 or 120 meters long, so he's bigger than the male muto. They start ten miles apart, with the Warbats flying in over the ocean and Balerion rising from the Dragonmont to face them. 9. And to your point, Harrenhal is so large that we can’t see the castle in scale with Balerion here. With just a meow from the Name-Giver, the kitten became Balerion. EmuVerges. Vhagar is likely to win a fight against Drogon because he is bigger, stronger, and more experienced. Is that not the case?Where as smaug is 427ft in the movie. Balerion is noted later on in F&B to have finally stopped growing. However, the reliability of both claims is uncertain, since Vhagar is the only dragon described by historical sources as grown almost as big as Balerion, and Meraxes died at least several decades younger than Vhagar. Drogon is around 8 or 9 years old?76 m long: 166 kg * (76 m/3. His wound could have been caused by a dragon, a kraken or a stone man with a Valyrian steel sword. [2]A size analysis and comparison between Drogon and Balerion the Black Dread. Smaug doesn't have an official size. Maybe underwater volcanoes or something. Vhagar Vs. So 10-15 times his size at least. Only the dragon in scale with very thin towers. We also know that Dragons live a few hundred years because Balerion was the last creature left alive since the doom of Valariya and lived well after the conquest of king Aegon the 1st. However, the last time we saw Drogon, he probably wasn’t half the size of Vhagar, who was close to Balerion’s size. By the time the first Viserys rode Balerion, he was basically the oldest living creature and could barely get up in. #12. For perspective: 0. This is because Rhaenys loved flying alot and that freedom is what made Meraxes bigger than Vhagar, though Vhagar was probably born earlier Balerion had four-foot long teeth at his death. meaning that dragon might be even greater and older than Balerion ever could have been. For Vhagar, she was the youngest dragon during the Conquest, so also the smallest. Maegor’s reign lasted six years and six days. Smaug is still a huge and devastating beast, especially compared to little Bilbo Baggins, but Balerion's height comes out victorious. i can't wait for season 2!! Related Topics House of the Dragon Fantasy TV Television comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment. Named after a Valyrian god, Balerion was massive and powerful; said to be big enough that his shadow while flying swallowed whole towns. Along with Balerion and Vhagar, Meraxes was used by Rhaenys to help Aegon the Conqueror take control of Westeros, forging it into the Seven Kingdoms we know so well. Follow 2434. Hey, thanks so much! About the eye - giving small eyes to a large creature is a design choice proven time and time again by a plethora of artists that the smaller the eyes on a creature, the BIGGER the creature looks. kc522020. In the episode we see Balerions skull, if we go off that he could swallow an Aurochs or even a small mammoth, it didnt really look possible as it didnt seem big enough. The book gives some lovely prose about his shadow blotting out of the sun and his mouth being big enough to swallow mammoths whole, but that’s not a useful guide. Balerion was said to be over 200 years old so we can definitely rule out seeing Drogon as big as Balerion due to the time scale we have left in the show. And due to the fact that Vhagar is a veteran of many wars and battles, she is also stronger than Vermithor. September 20, 2021 by Johnny Holland. . However, Smaug was far from the largest Dragon in Middle-earth, as some are said to be as big as a mountain. She’d be bigger for sure, maybe around the size of Meleys? The of course, we have Balerion. Dragons are said to always be growing and Balerion was about 220 years old. We don't know whether dragons grow their entire lives or not. Aerea probably didn't even know how to rule Balerion, who I think was pretty big at the time (he died a bit before the Dance of the Dragons, at around 200yo, and at the time of death probably around twice Drogon if the calculations of some fans are correct). One thing is. Balerion - The World of Ice and Fire. Smaug is that big, his head is the size of a bus, and he's twice the size of a 747, both in wingspan and in length. Jon next to Drogon. Though big enough to be ridden, Tyraxes was not large enough to be used in combat by the time the civil war thickened. 13 m) 3 = 2,376,380 kg. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire universe. Ancalagon collapses from exhaustion after a week and two tops, and Balerion wins by default. Drogon is one of the dragons born in the Dothraki sea. Balerion would have been 126 feet long and 453 feet wide with his wings spread. Balerion. That is not true . The exact size of Balerion is not known, but. e. Balerion somewhere around 113-120. Maybe earlier dragons were more powerful and better-fed, but died. The minor details of Balerion aren't important, everyone that mentions him says he's freakin huge! It's the same thing with Kraken's, massive monsters that don't exist in reality. Balerion was roughly 125 years old when the two first. This is one of the few images I've seen that actually shows how big Balerion is. Final Thoughts I doubt his boy was as big as Balerion. He could eat a large elephant hole, so pretty friggin big. Plus, his nickname was The Black Dread. “ that are the exact words she is described as . The Targaryens have used the dragonpit for different things. Another harbor lay to his left, a distant sight beyond half-submerged buildings. My top guess is Aurion's dragon is alive and living in Valyria. The Black Dread was so large that his shadow could engulf entire towns as he flew overhead, and his teeth were as long as swords. Smaug was killed by an arrow and his bejeweled underbelly is a big weak point. It'd be some absurd firewyrm of it was one. 5*7. When Vhagar died it was almost as big as Balerion,(it lived like 150 more years than Meraxes) but during the conquest it was smaller than Meraxes. But it has been made clear that the show House of the Dragon will include up to 17 different dragons. Meanwhile, Balerion died of old age 94 years after Aegon’s Conquest. He was the largest of the three. Helaena Targaryen Meleys, called the Red Queen, is a dragon of House Targaryen. However, Vermithor isn’t a lot smaller than Vhagar. Balerion was born around 114BC and died around 94AC. The dragon in house of are basically house cats compared to them and essentially don’t grow as big. Meleys is ridden by Rhaenys Targaryen. Balerion, also known as the Black Dread, is the largest known Dragon to ever live. The kitten started to look more like a sleek black tomcat. . versus. Character and Appearance. She’s one of the OG3 dragons of Aegon’s Conquest. Dany even thinks so, but decided to give him a new name; Drogon. 25. The next biggest was Vermithor, who died in his 90s, barely half. You have to see in person what titanically large beasts they are! So in that retrospect My interpretation of Balerion like other users have said "Meaning that the real Balerion would probably have been about twice as high, twice as wide and maybe four times as long as the one in this picture. Vhagar is insanely big, but then imagine how big Balerion is. But at this point, it does seem like 200 is the maximum lifespan of the dragons in Game of Thrones unless otherwise proven. 2M subscribers in the gameofthrones community. From Drogon to Balerion the Black Dread, the dragons in A Song of Ice and Fire have done some major damage. Overview: Balerion Space Ventures Fund. [3][4] This is purely based on canonical material and not the TV show. • 6 yr. Balerion was at such a great size it could devour a mammoth whole. Balerion was so massive, that it was said he could black out the sky and his shadow could cover entire towns as he flew over. Yet it's stated in the dance that Vhagar was as big as Balerion "During conquest" . Smaug the Golden, mightiest dragon of the Third Age of Middle Earth, whom laid waste to Erebor and Dale, the greatest and chiefest of calamities. In Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire, Balerion the Black Dread was the dragon of King Aegon I Targaryen, known also as Aegon the Conqueror, who helped the king to win the War of Conquest. Spoiler Vhagar was as big as Balerion at the end of his/her life but Drogon is just a few years old in the Books and is said to have towered over his siblings. This is the biggest dragon on the show. Balerion was only mentioned as the largest dragon to ever grace the known world. Cersei looks back on KL as it explodes, killing thousands of Tyrells. In season seven of the game of thrones, Cersei Lannister stands in. He was the largest of the wild dragons, and the oldest, his age being unknown to history. Balerion's fire was used to forge the swords of Aegon's enemies into the Iron Throne. Another sad part: it‘s implied that Balerion did fly to Valyria when he accidentally abducted Princess Aerea, because he wanted to return to his birthplace but didn‘t know the Doom had happened. [2] Other known riders of Vhagar are Prince Baelon Targaryen, Lady Laena Velaryon and Prince Aemond Targaryen. but Vhagar was born when Balerion was 62 years old, she would’ve been even bigger if there was no dance. Reality- the story needed this dragon to be a smol boi, and drogon needed to be a big boi. Just shows how big dragons are in GoT. Only mentioned he is twice the size of 747. Drogon had the wingspan of a Boeing 747, about 220 ft (68 meters). This is a place for news and discussions relating to HBO’s "Game of…What big teeth you have, Balerion HBO "It is the most challenging piece that the sculpture department hafs created," Fitzsimons adds. but what we do know is that Vhagar’s jaw was large enough to swallow a whole horse and she was easily almost as big as Balerion by the time she died. Balerion, nicknamed the Black Dread, was the mount of Aegon himself and is widely known as the largest dragon to have ever lived. But Vhagar was never kept in the Dragonpit so grew large, that is true. As it stands currently though I believe Balerion alone eats all 3 of Daenery’s dragons, but she’s supposed to be the 2nd coming of Aegon and. Dragons keep growing for their entire lives, meaning that Balerion was even larger during the Faith Militant uprising. Vhagar is slightly bigger than Vermithor, as she is older and is said to be the only dragon that came close to Balerion the Black Dread’s size. Giving it about 10 or more times the mass of this. And during the later parts of his life, Balerion had grown really weak and sluggish. Stop. LChris24 • 7 mo. This dragon distinctly does not have teeth that big, so evidently Balerion grew a significant amount between the Conquest and his death. Sizes are based on "dragon volume" - not "dragon length". That could be the case since Aenar Targaryen brought FIVE dragons with him to Dragonstone. )A goatherd Drogon is one of the three dragons born in the wastelands beyond Lhazar, along with his brothers Rhaegal and Viserion. It was told, that his fire could melt steel and stone, and it can even make glass from sand. Only. 4. And during the later parts of his life, Balerion had grown really weak and sluggish. That was how big Balerion was during the Conquest, he grew a substantial amount later in life. Large. Edit: to be more clear I really meant the people on Dany's side that could actually see the dragons and how big they were getting. Balerion's Age [Spoilers EXTENDED] So in several books and The World of Ice and Fire, it's mentioned that Balerion was one of 5 surviving dragons from Valyria that the Targaryens brought to Dragonstone when they fled. However, Archmaester Gyldayn notes this may be a later embellishment of the story, since the Cannibal would be more likely. For comparison, a 25 m blue whale weighs about 180,000 kg. Definitely big enough to cover a small town in shadow, but I don't think he could have carried the iron throne that far. tikaychullo • 2 mo. 5. [SEE FULL LIST] Balerion, known as Balerion the Black Dread, was the dragon ridden by Aegon the Conqueror during the War of Conquest. Balerion later participated, along.