During the time of aegon's conquest, meraxes was bigger than vhagar. however, it never had a chance to grow to a size close to balerion because it died quite. Meraxes – a draconic biography. meraxes was, as donkey puts it when describing his future wife in shrek, a “girl dragon.”. unlike that dragon, meraxes had bigger ambitions than settling down.
According to tyrion lannister, meraxes was larger than vhagar but smaller than balerion, and it is said meraxes could swallow horses whole. 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. That's a first bookism. like the same passage says meraxes is bigger than vhagar, which really doesn't make sense considering that meraxes could at most have been some 125 years old while vhagar cracked the 180. sometimes authors just change their mind about stuff they wrote earlier. and it wouldn't be the first time grrm was retconing something. Meraxes was the silver dragon of rhaenys targaryen, the second sister wife of aegon the conqueror. 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. meraxes’s most notable achievement was helping orys baratheon take storms end. Meraxes was bigger when they were both alive, by the time vhagar died she was almost as big as balerion was. idk which of the 2 was born first, but we do know balerion was the last valyrian dragon, so for vhagar to be almost his size at death means meraxes had to be pretty big before she died since vhagar didn't become bigger than her for a while.
Meraxes was the silver dragon of rhaenys targaryen, the second sister wife of aegon the conqueror. 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. meraxes’s most notable achievement was helping orys baratheon take storms end. Meraxes was bigger when they were both alive, by the time vhagar died she was almost as big as balerion was. idk which of the 2 was born first, but we do know balerion was the last valyrian dragon, so for vhagar to be almost his size at death means meraxes had to be pretty big before she died since vhagar didn't become bigger than her for a while. Like vhagar, she was born during the century of blood, and according to what tyrion lannister says, she was bigger than the other dragon at the time of the conquest, though not as big as balerion. Balerion the black dread is still regarded as the biggest and most powerful dragon in westerosi history, with vhagar now being the strongest during house of the dragon’s story. meraxes was thought to be older and larger than vhagar, suggesting the former was the more powerful dragon during aegon’s conquest.
Like vhagar, she was born during the century of blood, and according to what tyrion lannister says, she was bigger than the other dragon at the time of the conquest, though not as big as balerion. Balerion the black dread is still regarded as the biggest and most powerful dragon in westerosi history, with vhagar now being the strongest during house of the dragon’s story. meraxes was thought to be older and larger than vhagar, suggesting the former was the more powerful dragon during aegon’s conquest.
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