![]() Vermithor killed Seasmoke when he locked his teeth into the latter's neck and ripped his head off. Lord Blackwood believed that Vermithor would have torn Seasmoke into pieces if Tessarion had not entered the fight. According to Lord Benjicot Blackwood, Seasmoke was no match for Vermithor on account of the older dragon's size and weight. The two dragons rolled over the field, so entangled that neither was able to break free. While Vermithor was only twenty feet above the field, Seasmoke slammed into him from above. He snatched up a knight who tried to flee before him in his jaws, and burned Lords Piper and Deddings, with their squires, servants, and sworn shields. Wounded and enraged, Vermithor took flight, attacking all those around him. Vermithor, now riderless, was still half-asleep and on the ground when two score knights attempted to slay him. Hugh rushed to mount Vermithor but was stopped by Jon Roxton, one of the Caltrops, who killed Hugh with his Valyrian steel sword Orphan-Maker. During the Second Battle of Tumbleton, an army of four thousand men strong, led by Addam Velaryon upon the dragon Seasmoke, surprised the Hightower host at Tumbleton with their night-time attack. With Aegon II missing and Prince Aemond Targaryen dead, Hugh Hammer decided to fulfill his wish for the crown and declared himself king, as he was the rider of the oldest and largest living dragon. Vermithor after killing Seasmoke during the Second Battle of Tumbleton as depicted by Douglas Wheatley in Fire & Blood.Īs the Hightower host remained at Tumbleton, so did Hugh with Vermithor. Vermithor, Silverwing and Tessarion, the dragon of Aegon II's brother Prince Daeron, let loose their flames upon Tumbleton, which was savagely sacked. Hugh and fellow dragonseed Ulf the White, who had claimed Silverwing, changed their allegiance, betraying Rhaenyra in favor of Aegon II Targaryen. Hugh rode Vermithor into battle during the first battle at Tumbleton. In the Dragonpit, Vermithor made a lair before flying off to battle. When King's Landing fell to Rhaenyra Targaryen's supporters, Hugh landed Vermithor upon the Hill of Rhaenys, outside of the Dragonpit. Along with Silverwing, Sheepstealer, Vermax and Seasmoke, Vermithor descended upon the ninety warships sailing under the banners of the Three Daughters. Hugh rode Vermithor to battle in the Battle in the Gullet. Eventually, Vermithor bent his neck to a blacksmith’s bastard called Hugh Hammer. Many men attempted to claim a dragon of their own Lord Gormon Massey attempted to approach Vermithor, who burned him to death. In 129 AC, after the start of the Dance of the Dragons, Prince Jacaerys Velaryon decided that his mother's faction needed more dragonriders. ![]() During this time, Vermithor remained on the island of Dragonstone and made his lair in one of the smoking caverns of the Dragonmont. Throughout the reign of Jaehaerys's successor, King Viserys I Targaryen, Vermithor had no new rider. Vermithor became riderless when Jaehaerys died in 103 AC. ![]() After Alysanne grew bored and flew her own dragon Silverwing north to the Wall, Jaehaerys came after her on Vermithor. During his reign, Jaehaerys I and his sister-wife, Queen Alysanne Targaryen, once visited Winterfell with six dragons. ![]() Nine days after the mysterious death of King Maegor I Targaryen, Jaehaerys flew to King's Landing upon Vermithor to claim the throne. Vermithor had accepted Prince Jaehaerys as his rider by 48 AC, when Jaehaerys made his claim for the Iron Throne. In the chaos following Visenya's death of natural causes that year, Jaehaerys, Alysanne, and Alyssa fled the island, along with Jaehaerys's dragon Vermithor and Alysanne's dragon Silverwing. In 44 AC, Jaehaerys, his sister Alysanne, and their mother Alyssa Velaryon resided on Dragonstone as the hostages of Dowager Queen Visenya Targaryen. ![]() In 42 AC, at Dragonstone, Vermithor contributed his flames to the funeral pyre of King Aenys I Targaryen, together with the dragons Quicksilver and Silverwing. King Jaehaerys I Targaryen on Vermithor and Queen Alysanne Targaryen on Silverwing, by Sanrixian ©Īccording to legend, Vermithor hatched from a dragon's egg that had been placed in the cradle of Prince Jaehaerys Targaryen by his sister Rhaena, in 34 AC. ![]()
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