Description

Silverwing was a silvery she-dragon of House Targaryen. She was ridden by Queen Alysanne Targaryen, and later by Ulf White during the Dance of the Dragons.

Silverwing has been described as a silvery dragon. She was considered relatively docile and friendly to strangers. Silverwing often coiled with Vermithor.

Alysanne was able to ride Silverwing by 48 AC. After Maegor I Targaryen's death, Alysanne rode Silverwing alongside her brother Jaehaerys on Vermithor, and her sister Rhaena on Dreamfyre to King's Landing, where Jaehaerys claimed the Iron Throne. In 49 AC, Jaehaerys and Alysanne secretly married on Dragonstone, where they stayed for the rest of Jaehaerys's minority. Throughout his reign, Jaehaerys often traveled on Vermithor, with Alysanne riding Silverwing beside him, to visit lords and hold audiences.

Silverwing returned to Dragonstone after Alysanne's death, where she made her lair in one of the smoking caverns of the Dragonmont. She remained there, riderless, until 129 AC, during the Dance of the Dragons. When Prince Jacaerys Velaryon decided that his mother Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen's faction, the blacks, needed more dragonriders, he sent out a call for men to claim one of the riderless dragons upon Dragonstone, in an event known as the Sowing of the Seeds.

Ulf rode Silverwing in the Battle in the Gullet, along with Vermithor, Sheepstealer, Vermax, and Seasmoke. When King's Landing was captured by Rhaenyra Targaryen's supporters, Ulf landed Silverwing on the Hill of Rhaenys, outside the Dragonpit, where Silverwing made her lair before heading off to battle. During the first battle at Tumbleton, Ulf rode Silverwing, along with Hugh Hammer, who had claimed Vermithor, and they changed their allegiance to Aegon II Targaryen, betraying Rhaenyra. Silverwing, Vermithor, and Tessarion, the dragon of Aegon II's brother Prince Daeron, attacked Tumbleton and wreaked havoc.

At Tumbleton, Lord Unwin Peake offered a thousand golden dragons to any knight of noble birth able to claim Silverwing. Out of the three men who came forth, the first had his arm torn off and the second burned to death. The third man then changed his mind. Silverwing was one of only four dragons still alive at the end of the Dance of the Dragons. Although accustomed to men, Silverwing became wild during the reign of Aegon III Targaryen, and made her lair on a small island in Red Lake in the northwest of the Reach. When seeking a new dragon to replace the late Sunfyre, Aegon rejected Lord Borros Baratheon's suggestion of Silverwing, as he was too weak to travel across the war-torn country to Red Lake or mount a grown dragon. Silverwing continued living at Red Lake during the regency of King Aegon III Targaryen.