I think viserys being such a loving guy made balerion feel comfortable enough to die.

@nick-ty

Ай бұрын

that’s good fr

@uglyclownface9216

Ай бұрын

I like this , it’s canon now for me

@Ozzywozzy

Ай бұрын

That is probably the best analysis I've heard so far.

@Blacklla

Ай бұрын

Damn thats cold

@Ozzywozzy

Ай бұрын

@@Blacklla I wouldn't say cold. Just somber... Poor dragon.

Balerion: 'Viserys...you're a nice kid but I am over 200 years old. My joints are aching, my back is killing me and its cold up in the air! I just want to sit and relax. Where are my reading glasses?"

@jefersonjosueruizgaray3770

Ай бұрын

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@Chloe-mav

17 күн бұрын

I like to think that the keepers read to Balerion

@williepearl278

12 күн бұрын

I feel like Balerion would have the same speaking voice as Draco from Dragonheart.

@Polo22546

10 күн бұрын

HILARIOUS!!!

@jayantasarkar2532

10 күн бұрын

​@@williepearl278That will be Sir Sean Connery.

Balerion: I'm too old for this shit.

@sapphicgeek24

23 күн бұрын

After Aerea, I can't blame him for being done.

@thedarkblackspeedy3140

22 күн бұрын

​@@sapphicgeek24the big question is still what did he face there ? With those many great fresh wounds, I still think that a few dragons escape the doom and still wander there, it has to be a big one, nothing else could wound Balerion

@clayandros2038

20 күн бұрын

​@@thedarkblackspeedy3140 honestly thats my theory as well there might be wild dragons still on valeria

@yuricanhadas2627

18 күн бұрын

@@clayandros2038 I find it very difficult, because there is nothing there that sustains life, apart from the theory that he found Aurion and his dragon, I imagine that he may have fought a Firewyrm which is the only type of being that is capable of surviving there. But about having dragons there, I would have this as ruled out because dragons need to eat a lot to grow and there is practically no food there.

@user-jb1ip1wd2u

14 күн бұрын

Viserys i : Ok

”Had become sluggish, heavy and was No longer fearsome beast of the past” my guy it’s a dragon the size of a building that can melt and destroy castles. Claiming it’s not fearsome anymore is just wild.

@stealthretarius9972

Ай бұрын

Of Dragons grow their whole life, then there is a point where they start suffocating because the muscles in their chest aren’t strong enough to support breathing. If Balerion had reached that point, then it is entirely possible that he wasn’t really fearsome in comparison to the younger dragons who could and would kill you if you did a wrong move, simply because he was going out of breath by moving himself. In theory he is still incredibly strong, but his weight limits him both in movement and breathing.

@Deverik1981

Ай бұрын

If it can't get to said castle.. who cares?

@Bricknuce

Ай бұрын

Duuude....​@@stealthretarius9972

@danielhughes5932

Ай бұрын

That's what the books said too though so...

@SirBallsDeepOfHouseManthrust

Ай бұрын

If you’re outside King’s Landing, then a Dragon that was of such an advanced age that it refuses to fly literally anywhere else - you’d think it was less fearsome too… Considering it’s essentially out of the picture in terms of warfare… It can still be respected, but nobody is going to fear it anymore.

No betrayal here, Balerion was just far too old.

@12gark

Ай бұрын

Balerion imho wasn't just old: he was broken. He saw Valyria, his "home" burnt and destroyed, and he almost died there and suffered terrible injuries and lost his rider. He probably just gave up at that point. He was there physically, but gave up on life

@tj7094

24 күн бұрын

Or poisoned.. it’s kinda suggested that the dragons were messed with by the maesters. Probably to weaken the great house.. but I’d have to go back and find what book I read that in.

@baronbrummbar8691

2 күн бұрын

well they where locked in the Dragon pits so they got to little movment and to little food - they wheren´t on the volcanoes so they where in to cold surroundings - and they where probalby poisoned - and they did to much incest with way to few acessable mates - and the dragons that did get to mate where more often the not the weak and sicly once becouse thouse didn´t die in stupid wars

They basically caged Balerion after the Aerea incident he was also badly injured during that as well. I think keeping him in the dragon pit caused his demise. They should’ve kept him on dragonstone.

@andybee3057

Ай бұрын

pit😂

@hawk66100

Ай бұрын

Dragons are sentient creatures in ASOIAF, one doesn’t command a dragon so I don’t think they could MAKE him do anything.

@Katsu_ragi

Ай бұрын

​@@hawk66100 we are sentient creatures and we get told what to do everyday.

@brendanmuller7301

Ай бұрын

​@Katsu_ragi difference is he had less of a reason to listen

@Allegiancy

Ай бұрын

@@Katsu_ragiYeah because they have the means to force us to do something if we refuse to. Balerion was the biggest and most brutal dragon in Westeros’s history, no one had the means to force it to do anything 😂

Balarion just wanted to enjoy a relaxing retirement.

Balerion: Look, my last rider wanted to go to Valyria and we both got fucked up. I'm done.

Imagine coming back half dead after seeing your desolated home and while your in retirement they’re still to work you

Nothing fucks you harder than time. -Sir Davos of House Seaworth

@abdibgm5748

15 күн бұрын

The Onion Knight

@yevgeniyaleshchenko849

7 күн бұрын

Lots things do.

He was over 200 yrs old, even Vaghar was slower in Dance of the Dragons and he was younger than the beautiful BLACK DREAD!

@lmfao1314

Ай бұрын

I thought vhagar was a she dragon🤷🏻‍♂️

@madjedfailana8690

Ай бұрын

Vhagar is female but people often think she's a male ​@@lmfao1314

@ayecae47

Ай бұрын

⁠@@lmfao1314 dragons in got literally choose which reproductive parts they have. “as changeable as flame” it’s described as so they are kinda both. My theory is it depends on the dragon rider but it’s most likely they just choose depending on their mate.

@lmfao1314

Ай бұрын

@@ayecae47 Oooh okay! i just always thought Balerion was primarily male and that Meraxes and Vhagar were primarily female but I find that really interesting so thank you for that little tidbit of information and I appreciate you for not coming at my jugular for not knowing that information because you know how some GOT/HOTD fans can be when you don't know every single fact and piece of information so thank you I appreciate you for being kind in your response teaching me something rather than making me feel like I'm stupid lol💯🤝🏻😊

@ayecae47

Ай бұрын

@lmfao1314 Yeah, that's cringe. Don't comment under our hilts hurt channel then. The creators are as bad as the viewers, and they are just kinda dumb.

He didn’t refuse Viserys said that he didn’t think he’d make it and He does the next day

Theres a theory that it was the maesters who were responsible for the decline of the dragons, so i wouldnt be surprised if they had poised the black dread which was the greatest symbol and weapon of the targaryens

@licia_bobishka

11 күн бұрын

Why did the maesters have it out for the Targs so badly?

@TheBerylfly

11 күн бұрын

​@@licia_bobishka Dragons are flying nukes that can deliver horrible deaths upon entire cities, are often commanded by insane royalty, and can reproduce. Dragons are cool in a TV show but if I lived in a world like this I'd be all in for poisoning the dragon kind.

@Dobbinator817

11 күн бұрын

@@licia_bobishka the hated magic because only the gifted few could accomplish magic

@stew-03

9 күн бұрын

@@licia_bobishka The maesters were probably still terrified after the damage that Aegon I and his sisters did during the Conquest.

@Keram-io8hv

5 күн бұрын

Shhh, it was Otto Hightower who killed Black Dread

There’s actually nothing in the lore that indicates a dragons life expectancy or if they have a growth cap. We all know they grow larger when free and most of the dragons in this story grew up in the dragon pit or in the caves of dragon stone. It’s very possible he could have grew even bigger and older had he been a wild free dragon like the cannibal. As far as his health decline, he was fine before he was claimed by princess Rhena’s daughter and flew off to no one knows where. Only upon return from the disappearance did he come back changed. For the first time the fierce beast was truly injured and never fully recovered from the injuries indicated to be the worst he’d ever suffered and both external and internally. It is widely speculated that he would have lived longer had he never encountered whatever it was that hurt him. So the theory that he reached his max size and end of his life isn’t actually known. And being that every other Dragon was killed or died young, there is no way of knowing.

@jesuschrist9597

22 күн бұрын

i saw a theory about that was when he flew back to old valyria that he layed eggs

@a.j.1819

10 күн бұрын

@@jesuschrist9597How would a male lay eggs……

@lazerlord9324

8 күн бұрын

​@@a.j.1819carefully! 😂

@brandonpollard8928

5 күн бұрын

Yeah now he just wants to sit in the dragon pits and think of the audacity of them for hurting him, he's literally in the dark in disbelief 😂 he's a Leo 😅

He was fkn wounded, what on earth are you on about... He returned from Valyria with a collection of new scars and one particular huge wound of which nobody ever knew what caused it, but it must've been horrible. That and the age withered Balerion a good chunk before his time. He was as old as Vhagar was during the dance when the dragonkeepers called him sluggish and slow, but Vhagar at that age was still quite mobile. So his visit to Old Valyria must've been the reason he grew old so fast.

Actually, Viserys did technically ride on another dragon. As an infant his mother took him and Daemon on her dragon at least once. That dragon was Meleys, who later became the dragon of Princess Rhaenys, the Queen Whi Never Was.

@nicksmithnutmilk

2 ай бұрын

Joffrey Velaryon rode on an another dragon besides Tyraxes too ☠️☠️😂😂

@jedimasters1462

2 ай бұрын

@@nicksmithnutmilk He did. I was just pointing out that Viserys himself did actually ride on another dragon besides Balerion.

@bhaveshsinghyadav9183

Ай бұрын

​@@nicksmithnutmilk and that was his last ride

@DaaThrone

Ай бұрын

True, Viserys did accompany his mother and brother on her dragon as an infant. However, in the context of Targaryen tradition, claiming a dragon typically refers to establishing a lifelong bond with one specific dragon, which Viserys didn't do until later in his life.

@fortheloveofcats2462

Ай бұрын

​@@nicksmithnutmilkyes. I wonder why Rhaenyra didn't take her children for a ride on Syrax with her after they were born. That might've prevented the incident.

I still want to see Balerion in a show. I hope they adapt Aegon's conquest in the future

Balerion was closer to 250 years old at the time when Viserys “claimed” him. You even said it yourself that he was old. Balerion served the Targaryen’s very well during his lifetime, put some respect on his name

@jonx_Doe

Ай бұрын

208 years old give or take

@JaySmit-yn7rx

Ай бұрын

Put some respec on it! 😂💀

Time catches catches up to us all even great dragons !

Everyone knew how unwell Balerion was after his ride back to the Valyrian ruins with Princess Aerea. I think Visarys intentionally claimed Balerion because he personally wasnt interested in being a dragon rider beyond he felt it was his birth right to claim a dragon. His mother flew him on her dragon with her when he was a baby and he still picked the dragon everyone knew was declining, injured, and hadnt flown in years. It always struck me as a weird choice when there were so many other options for him.

@Monster12367

4 күн бұрын

It would have kept the aging dragons from having to go put, since he wasn't much of a ride, maybe he did it so those weaker or dying dragons could relax and not have to worry about someone claiming them and forcing them to.dragon when they're already dragging.

Shortcut: Balerion died of aging when Viserys mounted him for the first time. The rest is BS

Uhhhh the dragon was tired as shit, you even said it yourself "died old". Why make this complicated??

@roddo1955

Ай бұрын

It's a youtube short. Don't expect quality.

I subscribe to the theory that the Maesters were poisoning the Dragons. Balerion was over 200 at that point but there are so many hints in ASOIAF that the Maesters are unified in trying to rid Westeros of magic.

Viserys claiming things he shouldn’t have, Balerion, the Iron Throne

@bullymaguire7843

Ай бұрын

Alicent Hightower 😂

@waltertheterrible6062

Ай бұрын

@@bullymaguire7843 💀

@saymyname2682

10 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂​@@bullymaguire7843

@MartijnvanderHage

9 күн бұрын

Best king we have seen so far

@lucianwalters3524

4 күн бұрын

Best comment on this video 😅

Balerion was a beaten Dragon ever since what happened to it in its disappearance

@roddo1955

Ай бұрын

What DID happen? Such a fascinating story. What could have harmed him in that way?

@vigneshkr7072

29 күн бұрын

​@@roddo1955 i dont know much details but one Targaryen princess rode balerion all the way back to the old valyria. And they returned totally messed up. Till to this day there is no good theory on what did such damage to the black dread, the largest dragon known to westeros.

@TheV8Pumpkin

20 күн бұрын

@@roddo1955Balerion encountered a Fire Wyrm supposedly, they were pretty much wingless and legless Dragon/worms, but ofc incredibly strong and can breath fire too

Visery’s was an idiot. So many death could’ve been avoided if he didn’t do dumb things. He trusted anyone but his brother and put his daughter life on the line so often… Low-key a terrible King.🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

@movieloverfan18

Ай бұрын

Viserys should have married Daemon to Rhaenyra and named Daemon heir. He should have married Laena and waited for her to grow up. They when they had children, Viserys and everyone else would see any male hier would have a better claim than a sibling. But keep the dragon riders blood close, Hightower should not have been brought into it.

@rexibhazoboa7097

Ай бұрын

@@movieloverfan18 He obviously didnt want to name Daemon his heir and for good reason. What he should've done was push down Daemon in the line of succession until he was beneath Rheanyra. This way, when he had a male heir, that kid would take first place, Rheanyra second and Daemon third. The dance is avoided.

@chef___

Ай бұрын

@@movieloverfan18 He should have named Aegon II heir.

@lisamonteleone13

20 күн бұрын

Viserys was control by a vagina. The oldest ploy in the world. Bad handful the king with ambitions to steal the crown. Funny how quickly he went downhill after the first son was born. He wasn't much older than his brother yet looked a century older. He should have never touched his hands, daughter and especially his daughter's BFF. It was bad enough her mother died trying to birth a son but to have her BFF's life to also be to produce an heir that would rob her crown? Gross. And her BFF willingly seducing the king on the eve of his wife's death? I guess she is lucky he didn't try to keep the blood line lure by marrying her. Perhaps Baleron sensed the moral depravity and weakness of his rider. The dragons are deeply bonded with their riders so he also knew he was ill. It was just another damaged relationship he caused and left to rot and fend for itself.

are There no giant ships, that cruise the Caribbean...and serve Ice Cream to retired Dragons?

Ageons Conquest deserve another banging show

Bro really saw viserys might be shit and called it time out 😭😭😂😂😂

I don't think it was either one. I think it was the fyre wyrms parasites of Valyra that killed him and robbed him of his strength

Balerion was just too old at that point and Viserys mourned for him so much he never claimed another dragon.

I think that balerion would have lived much longer if they didn't put them in a goddamn cage. I can't even imagine how painful that would be for a dragon to be trapped in a box. I know there were a lot of reasons the targaryens were assholes. But I think it's very appropriate that their empire fell after they started imprisoning dragons in the dragon pit

Imagine going up to your great grandpa that used to be strong and work his ass off, now old, sluggish and dying, and saying “I feel betrayed by your failing health!”. Not far off the same principle.

What kind of stupid question is this? I suppose Balerion ‘faked’ his death soon after??? 10 thumbs down, Find new material!

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Balerion just thought Vicerys lost his opportunity by never mounting him before. He knew he was fearful

Balerion probably: “I’m too old for this sh**!”

With Gratitude! ! !❤⚜️❤ Blessed Be! ! !❤🙏❤

He just too old

Thats crazy that they both ended up losing all they worked for at old age. Balerion was that og dragon that saw the conquest and pretty much saw the last true king, then that king went on to die and the whole kingdom with him.

Have you read the books? Balerion was also hurt prior to that and never recovered from it. So it's natural he didn't have the strength given that he was old, injured and too big to fly. He didn't even come out of the dragonpit in his last years

"The idea that we control dragons is an illusion " - King viserys Now i know where this came from 😅

Bro wanted to chill from his old Valyria trip

When Veros was young after Damon was born, his mother took him up to fly on Miley’s the fastest dragon in Westeros

I think its a sign that despite everything Visery's was a good enough man to have Balerion's respect.

Viserys: one last time Balerion: 🙄.....hawk Tua!

Viserys allowed Balerion to rest in peace. Balerion probably felt all the love of viserys that he knew his job was done

Balerion is not the only dragon Viserys rode, Alyssa took him and Daemon for a ride on Meleys when they were newborns

To all show-only people, the dragon had previously been claimed by a targ girl who was then taken across the sea by Bel against her will to the Old Valyria ruins where both the dragon and rider suffered injuries. The girl was infected with some horrifying magical insects/monsters that essentially boiled her from the inside, and the dragon was scraped deep by something that must have been formidable and VERY large. The dragon never recovered, and was most likely infected with some sort of magical disease. This also may be an explanation for the health issues of King V, as he was the next and last person to claim/ride Bel after that incident. ”Balerion had wounds as well. That enormous beast, the Black Dread, the most fearsome dragon ever to soar through the skies of Westeros, returned to King’s Landing with half-healed scars that no man recalled ever having seen before, and a jagged rent down his left side almost nine feet long, a gaping red wound from which his blood still dripped, hot and smoking.”

The dragon just got old stop over thinking it

There should be a series on the Aegon's quest .

The inevitable end of an era of courseeee girl

I wonder if Viserys took Baleron to the keep windows to show him his model set of old Valeria? Maybe he thought he could ask his opinion on it?

Maybe just store your gold in the dragon pit and Balerion could guard it like Smaug lol

He also had a scar from going back to Valeria

I could’ve sworn a princess rode Balerion back to Valyria and when they returned she was dying and Balerion was badly damaged.

Balerion: kid, i want to fly but i cant. I hope you understand

Raynera's dragon was the mum to her son's Lucas (RIP) dragon that is why they were both crying/screaming on that beach

He was also very very sick after his time with Aerea

I think it was more symbolic he realised that Balerion was the lynch pin of the Targaryen dynasties centralised authority and realised the power vacuum that would occur after its death.

“According to books…” Well la di da

The dragon was old and moving that mass it's probably very difficult

The fact that Viserys flew him thrice around the city means a lot..there's no betrayal here.

Balerion: ahh hell nah not you Targaryens again I told the last one I’m in retirement fine one last ride alright get off

If I was 200 years old I wouldn’t want to fly either. Leave me alone 😢

It wasn't just old age balerion also was heavily injured from his flight to valairya and what ever he fought there

Fall of valyria wad about 200-250 years befor egons conquest. Balerion was the last living thing from old valyria. So he was around 400 years not 200

Dude was old and tired. He put in his time and earned his retirement.

thats like saying a nuke isnt scary cause the shell is rusted

I just need to see Balerion on screen in an adaptation of Aegon's Conquest

200 years old is pretty young for a dragon

Father time took him up

Implied metaphor? I mean... our body, our mind, there's something we all hate inside ourselves that we lose to at some point. What was strong, ages etc.

Nobody ever says this on these videos, but Balerion could’ve gotten a lot more injured on year long sabbatical with the Princess in Valyria than is known. That could have hastened his death.

The dragon was warning him. It’s not safe to go there.

He rode on Meleys as a baby with his mother

If dance of the dragon happened 30 years later Vhagar would be also that age even older and I doubt she would be of any help to greens.

Its a metaphor for his reign

The black dread died because of the wound he contracted in Valyria and it sure the slow poisoning from the maesters

Why would not flying him to Dragonstone be a betrayal? All dragon riders have a story or two about their dragons not following commands. Visery’s was the actual betrayer, he never tried to bond with another dragon, became a dragon less King, betraying his Targaryen traditions.

The Black Dread I don’t think never DID betray Viserys! I Believe The dread simply was somewhat in the combination of both of Heartbreak and just plain old age. Knowing your the last and oldest can have a great affect on you! In the books like “Fire and Blood”they gave hints somewhat that they are primitive YET Intelligent but also Emotionally powerful and yet preceptive in a lot of things but still are animals. For the dread he was wanting to do all he can for the young lord but he was old and ached all the time. My other theory was that he was so Emotionally Scared by what he had seen in old Valiera that he knew there was nothing left so maybe when he came back it hit him on the fact that there is nothing left of home. Either way he is and always will be the BLACK DREAD!!

I’ve always assumed his decline was because the Targaryens were no longer conquerors or real dragon lords. They had settled for the comfort of the iron throne and accepted too much of the culture and faith

Balerion was old sluggish and no longer a fearsome beast just like viserys

Its no wonder why Viserys said that how fools we are to believe that we are the masters of dragons.

I think that Balerion suffered a wound he never recovered from in Valerya

after Aerea (a woman) claimed him, he got heavy damaged and that might have cost alot of his life. putting him in the dragonpitt didn't help

*Balerion dies of old age* KZreadr: Was it betrayal!?!?!?!?!?!

Balerion: Look, I am retired, so get your narrow tail off my back and have a good life! Viserys: ok 😂❤

It's too bad, Vhagar isn't old enough to just sleep all day.

amazing how Martin state the age of dragons. Mos of other storyes and books satate that dragon can live easy over 500-1000 years. I wonder, in old valirya the dragons live longer and grow more. They said balerion was not the biggest dragon in valirya, in fact, he was normal. Justo imagine how big the dragons could reach. I wonder if other dragons could scape and we never know

It's called old age and happens to all living organic creatures.

End of an era

There is a theory that the masters conspired to poison and kill all the dragons. There isnt any records of dragons dying of old age excpet for Ballerion. After he came back from Valyria injured a little posion is all that was needed to end him

Balerion el verdadero estoy cansando jefe

Balerion: Yo Viserys. I just want to netflix and chill in the dragon pit. Watch some Godzilla Minus One. Order some dominos and puff the magic dragon. I'm not an uber my Targaryen.

Balerion might have been to hurt thanks to his last trip with area. To valyria.

Who wants to see balerion on screen? Me 🙋‍♂️

Balerion has Morgan Freemans voice

Dragons aren't mindless beasts which have been enslaved by targrians, they're smart and act as they choose, I think Balerion didn't accept Viserys as his rider because it didn't consider him to be worthy

Uhm, his mother took him on Meleys at 9 days old so no, the Black Dread was not the only dragon Viserys rode in his lifetime.