130 AC, in the storming of the Dragonpit, killed in his chains
Size
A young dragon still small and unblooded, never once flown into open battle before the pit's own walls came down around him.
Temperament
Untested rather than gentle — a dragon kept from the war entirely by his rider's youth, which left him no less dangerous when finally cornered, only less experienced at showing it.
Tyraxes belonged to Joffrey Velaryon, youngest son of Rhaenyra and Laenor by name if not, the smallfolk whispered, by blood — a boy still too young to have flown his dragon into any of the war's set-piece battles, kept instead in the Dragonpit with the realm's other young and unridden beasts while the war was fought by older riders on older dragons.
That safekeeping became a death trap the day King's Landing turned on its dragons. When the one-handed prophet called the Shepherd raised the mob against the Dragonpit, Joffrey tried to reach his dragon through streets already given over to riot and lost his life in the attempt, cut down before he ever laid eyes on Tyraxes again. The dragon himself died chained in his own cell soon after, one of five butchered in the pit's storming that day — but not cheaply. Tyraxes fought the men who came for him with everything a caged young dragon had, and more than one of his killers did not walk out of that cell the way they walked in. It was a small, ugly, largely unsung death in a day full of them, and the Citadel records it mostly so that Tyraxes is not lost entirely beneath the larger horror of the Dragonpit's fall.
The fate of Tyraxes
This carries how the dragon's story ends in the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.
Died chained in the Dragonpit when the mob stormed it during the fall of King's Landing, fighting to the last against attackers who did not all walk away — his rider, the boy Joffrey Velaryon, died in the same riot trying and failing to reach him.
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.
In the timeline
SourcesFire & Blood
Who was Tyraxes?
Tyraxes belonged to Joffrey Velaryon, youngest son of Rhaenyra and Laenor by name if not, the smallfolk whispered, by blood — a boy still too young to have flown his dragon into any of the war's set-piece battles, kept instead in the Dragonpit with the realm's other young and unridden beasts while the war was fought by older riders on older dragons.
Is Tyraxes 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.