The Black Dread
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Deep-dive lore from A Song of Ice and Fire and House of the Dragon — with one particular obsession: dragons. Every video is built from the source material — Fire & Blood, The World of Ice & Fire, and Martin's novels. Balerion and the Conquest, Vhagar and the Dance of the Dragons, Vermithor, the wild dragons of Dragonstone, and the Targaryens who rode them. 📖 THE DRAGON CODEX — a free, open archive of every dragon in ASOIAF: riders, size, fates and full lore, one page per dragon. https://lore.theblackdread.com 🐉 JOIN THE DRAGON PIT — members hub, profiles, galleries and polls. https://theblackdread.com Fan-made lore channel. Not affiliated with HBO or George R. R. Martin.
Why Did Balerion Fly Back to Valyria? The Answer Terrified King's Landing
The Black Dread · 43K views · 4 months ago
Vhagar Wasn't the Oldest Dragon in Westeros - Something more Terrifying was
The Black Dread · 24K views · 4 months ago
The Last Days of Valyria: How Daenys Saw the End | Chapter 1
The Black Dread and Stories from the Citadel · 12K views · 1 month ago
The Westerosi Magic That Stopped Valyria Cold
The Black Dread · 4K views · 2 months ago
House of the Dragon Forgot Its Deadliest Dragonrider
The Black Dread · 3.4K views · 2 months ago
Before the Targaryens: The Most Powerful of the 40 Families of Old Valyria
The Black Dread · 136K views · 8 months ago
Meraxes Was Bigger Than Vhagar — One Arrow Still Killed Her
The Black Dread · 65K views · 2 months ago
Balerion Wasn't even Close to Valyria's Greatest Dragon — Ten Stood Above Him
The Black Dread · 80K views · 1 month ago
The Dragons That Shimmered Like Mirages | Valyria's Lost Sunscale Breed
The Black Dread · 7.1K views · 8 months ago
Targaryens Weren't Even Close to the Strongest Family in Valyria
The Black Dread · 11K views · 5 months ago
POV: You wake up in Valyria in house Moraenar
The Black Dread · 5.6K views · 3 months ago
Before Balerion: The Dragon that Destroyed Old Ghis
The Black Dread · 27K views · 8 months ago
The Colossi | Old Valyria's Ultimate Weapons of Destruction
The Black Dread · 51K views · 9 months ago
The First Dragon of Valyria | Tharaxia, Mother of Flame
The Black Dread · 33K views · 10 months ago
10 Dragons that would have ENDED Balerion with ease
The Black Dread · 18K views · 1 year ago
Before Caraxes: The Dragon the Rhoynar couldn't outrun
The Black Dread · 9.7K views · 9 months ago