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Get to Know House of the Dragon’s Royal Air Forces


Ahead of season two’s full-scale Targaryen civil war, let’s review the airborne arsenals Teams Green and Black are working with.

If you wanna get really nerdy, none other than Gandalf the Grey reveals in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings that he helped Thorin, Bilbo, and company kill Smaug the Golden so that a revived Sauron could never use him as city-killer against the Elven kingdoms he himself couldn’t touch. Aemond’s rashness in playing aerial chicken with his nephew Lucerys Velaryon — the same kid who put his eye out years earlier — led to a brief battle between Luke’s dragon, Arrax, and the much larger Vhagar. But her bulk, cunning, ferocity, experience in battle, and sheer ability to burn — like Aegon’s legendary dragon Balerion the Black Dread, her fire is hot enough to melt stone — make her the most dangerous weapon of war in the world.

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