Meleys

Meleys
Biographical information
Species	Dragon
Personal information
Also known as	The Red Queen
Affiliation	Rhaenys Targaryen
World of Westeros
Series	House of the Dragon
Season(s)	1 · 2
Appeared in	7 episodes (see below)
First seen in	"We Light the Way"

"Beware the beast beneath the boards."

―Helaena Targaryen

Meleys, called the Red Queen, is a dragon of House Targaryen. She is the mount of Rhaenys Targaryen.

Biography

Background

Meleys is ridden by Rhaenys Targaryen. She has scarlet scales and a crown of bright copper horns. During her youth, she is said to have been faster than both Caraxes and Vhagar.

House of the Dragon: Season 1

Rhaenys rides Meleys towards King's Landing. Her son Laenor Velaryon, who is to marry Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, rides the dragon Seasmoke at her side.

Meleys stays at High Tide along with several other dragons during the funeral of Laena Velaryon.

Meleys is chained in the Dragonpit during the coronation of Aegon II Targaryen. She is eventually freed by Rhaenys and rides her out of the Dragonpit, inadvertently killing a number of smallfolk during their escape to Dragonstone.

After the coronation of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, Rhaenys and Meleys start to patrol the Gullet and reinforce Lord Corlys Velaryon's blockade of the shipping lanes to King's Landing.

House of the Dragon: Season 2

Meleys and Rhaenys return to Dragonstone shortly before learning about Lucerys Velaryon's death.

In the books

In the prequel novellas, Meleys was known as "the Red Queen", which seems to indicate that she was the mother of several of the other dragons (much as Rhaenys was grandmother to the youngest generation of dragon-riders). Her exact age and lineage has not yet been established.

Meleys does appear to have been one of the oldest and largest dragons after Vhagar herself, and was probably one of the second generation dragons hatched to the original three from the Conquest-generation (Balerion, Meraxes, and Vhagar). Vhagar was 181 years old during the Dance, and by that point as said to have grown as large as Balerion had been during Aegon's Conquest. Vhagar is also described as being five times the size of the young dragon Arrax, who was only a decade or so old and only just big enough to ride to war.

Appearances

• The Dance of Dragons (illustrated)
• – "King of the Narrow Sea" (mentioned indirectly)
• – "We Light the Way"
• – "Driftmark"
• – "The Lord of the Tides" (mentioned)
• – "The Green Council"
• – "The Black Queen"
• – "A Son for a Son"
• – "Rhaenyra the Cruel" (mentioned)

Forthcoming

• – "A Dance of Dragons" (unreleased)
• – Season 2, Episode 5 (unreleased)

External links

• Meleys on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (potential spoilers for House of the Dragon)
• Meleys on The Official Guide