Before Balerion: The White Colossus That Terrified Valyria

Check out our Ancient Valyria, before the Doom of Valyria Playlist:    • Series: Pre Doom of Valyria Fanfiction Lore   Before Balerion: The White Colossus That Terrified Valyria We know Balerion the Black Dread. When the greatest dragon in Game of Thrones history died, maesters measured his skull and declared him the largest dragon ever recorded. Seven hundred and twenty-two feet from wingtip to wingtip. A living shadow that could blot out the sun over King's Landing. But in the oldest Valyrian texts—half-burned scrolls rescued from the Smoking Sea after the Doom of Valyria—there's a whisper of something older. Something that makes even Balerion look small. A dragon with a wingspan of one thousand, six hundred and seventy feet. More than twice Balerion's size. A creature so massive that the Black Dread's entire shadow could fit inside its own with room for three more dragons beside him. The ancient Valyrians didn't tame it. They couldn't. They were just shepherds then, herding sheep across volcanic hills, watching mountains burn, staying as far from the Fourteen Flames as they could. Tonight, we're going back seven thousand years before House Targaryen, before the Valyrian Freehold, before dragonriders existed. To when a single god-born dragon lived inside a volcano for four hundred years, and its death became the spark that ignited the greatest dragon empire the world has ever seen. #gameofthrones #houseofthedragon #valyria