#canondany

“She opened her arms to the fire, embraced it, let it swallow her whole […] She felt strong and new and fierce”

The largest of her three was shiny black, his scales slashed with streaks of vivid scarlet to match his wings and horns. “Khaleesi,” Aggo murmured, “there sits Balerion, come again.” “It may be as you say, blood of my blood,” Dany replied gravely, “but he shall have a new name for this new life. I would name them all for those the gods have taken. The green one shall be Rhaegal, for my valiant brother who died on the green banks of the Trident. The cream-and-gold I call Viserion. Viserys was cruel and weak and frightened, yet he was my brother still. His dragon will do what he could not.” “And the black beast?” asked Ser Jorah Mormont. “The black,” she said, “is Drogon.” -- Daenerys I, A Clash of Kings

Smiling, he seized his dragon, flew it across the board. "I hope Your Grace will pardon me. Your king is trapped. Death in four."

The prince stared at the playing board. "My dragon—"

"—is too far away to save you. You should have moved her to the center of the battle."

"But you said—"

"I lied. Trust no one. And keep your dragon close."

"once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. a thousand dragons poured forth, and drank the fire of the sun. that is why the dragons breathe flame. one day the other moon will kiss the sun too, and then it will crack and the dragons will return."

"I seem unable to stop you," Robert grumbled. They rode through tall brown grasses. (AGOT, Eddard II, Ned and Robert Baratheon)

"Your Grace, may I speak frankly?"

"Always." (ADWD, Daenerys IV, Dany and Ser Barristan)

Daenerys targaryen with blackfyre sword inspired by John Everett Millais’s painting of Joan of Arc.