One of the last dragons to be born in Valyria, Balerion was black and powerful ... that obliterated the Valyrian Freehold. He was old and frail by the time Viserys I adopted him as his mount ...

The entire continent could have fallen to the might of a few hundred dragon riders. Old Valyria led constant conflicts across ...

It has since gone through two updates: one in 2019, and one in 2022, prior to the release of House of the Dragon ... around the time of the Doom [of Valyria]." He also pointed out that while ...