before 37 AC — no closer year is fixed in the record, save that she hatched sometime during Aegon the Conqueror's reign
Died
130 AC, in the storming of the Dragonpit
Size
An old, well-grown she-dragon by the time the Dance reached her, long past her first century of life and dangerous still despite years spent shackled — chains restrain a dragon's movement, the maesters observe, rather more reliably than they restrain her strength.
Temperament
Gentle enough, by most accounts, to suit a queen as retiring as Helaena Targaryen — yet the same dragon proved, in her last hour, entirely capable of the violence her long captivity had never quite bred out of her.
Dreamfyre served two Targaryen women a full generation apart, which alone makes her one of the longer-serving dragons of the Dance's era. Given first to Rhaena, twin sister to the short-lived boy-king Aegon the Uncrowned and a granddaughter of the Conqueror in her own right, the pale blue she-dragon passed in time to Helaena Targaryen, Aegon II's queen and sister — a rider whose own life the histories treat with more sorrow than triumph, caught as she was between a husband's war and a mind the ordeal never let recover.
For most of the Dance, that meant Dreamfyre simply waited, chained in the Dragonpit alongside dragons too young, too old, or too unridden to be flown to war. She would not wait forever. When the mob stormed the Dragonpit in the war's last convulsion, Dreamfyre broke free of chains that had held for years and brought the pit's great dome crashing down upon her attackers — killing, by the Citadel's own grim reckoning, more men in that single collapse than most dragons manage across an entire war. It was not a rescue; her queen was already lost to grief and violence of her own by then. It was, the maesters allow, simply an old dragon's answer to a chain, offered rather later than anyone watching expected.
The fate of Dreamfyre
This carries how the dragon's story ends in the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.
Broke the chains that had held her through most of the Dance and brought the great dome of the Dragonpit down on the mob that came to kill her — the single deadliest act any caged dragon of that night managed, and one none of her killers walked away from unscathed.
These partings name deaths, endings, and roads not yet ridden in the books. Unveil them only if both roads are known to you — or if you do not fear to know.
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Who was Dreamfyre?
Dreamfyre served two Targaryen women a full generation apart, which alone makes her one of the longer-serving dragons of the Dance's era. Given first to Rhaena, twin sister to the short-lived boy-king Aegon the Uncrowned and a granddaughter of the Conqueror in her own right, the pale blue she-dragon passed in time to Helaena Targaryen, Aegon II's queen and sister — a rider whose own life the histories treat with more sorrow than triumph, caught as she was between a husband's war and a mind the ordeal never let recover.
Is Dreamfyre from the books or the show?
Book canon. This entry follows George R. R. Martin's novels and histories, and notes where the television series diverges rather than following it.