Dragon eggs are the shimmering and richly colorful vessels of unborn dragons, laid by matured members of their species and only hatched in the intense heat of a flame. Throughout the Targaryen Dynasty it became a tradition to place eggs into the cradles of newborn members of the family in hopes of bonding dragon and potential rider throughout life.
A warehouse housing the show's props at Leavesden Studios, where the stage work was filmed, contains various multicolored dragon eggs created for House of the Dragon. Some are black, some are purple, some are pristine, and some have moss growing alongside the bottom
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Dragon Eggs displayed at the
House of the Dragon: The Targaryen Dynasty Exhibit at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, CA.
Dragon Egg Promotional Posters
Dragon Egg Promotional Posters
High Quality BTS Image of Joffrey's Egg from House of the Dragon Season 1
High Quality Promotional Image of Joffrey's Egg from House of the Dragon Season 1
BTS of Syrax's Clutch in Bag for House of the Dragon Season 1
BTS of Syrax's Clutch within Egg Sack for House of the Dragon Season 1
Storyboard of the Discovery of Syrax's Clutch for House of the Dragon Season 1
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Promotional image of Egg from Syrax's Clutch in House of the Dragon Season 1
Replicas of Rhaena's Charges from House of the Dragon Season 2
BTS of Egg Clutch in House of the Dragon Season 2
BTS of Rhaena's Charges & Daenerys' Eggs in House of the Dragon Season 2
Daenerys' Eggs Props in House of the Dragon Season 2
BTS of Daenerys' Eggs in House of the Dragon Season 2
BTS of Silverwing's Clutch in House of the Dragon Season 2
LAENA: It's been 8 years sweetling. Half of them never do, you know?
RHAENA: What?
LAENA: Hatch.
- House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 6 "The Princess and the Queen"
DAEMON: Syrax brought a fresh clutch. Three eggs. Three eggs! See that they are placed in the warming chamber.
- House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 8 "The Lord of the Tides"
DAEMON: Dragonstone has 13 to their 4. I also have a score of eggs incubating in the Dragonmont.
- House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 10 "The Black Queen"
RHAENYRA: I need you to be the mother to them that I cannot. Guard them as a dragon guards her eggs.
- House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 3 "The Burning Mill"
RHAENYRA: Tyraxes and Stormcloud are young and vulnerable, these eggs are even more fragile. But should all come to ruin here, you will bear our hope for the future.
- House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 3 "The Burning Mill"
(Note: Heavily edited from original transcript for clarity)
There was a lot of conversation about what do they look like? Their influences came from various stones and pearlescents and whether or not they look like living items and how the light shines upon them.
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There was also a lot of conversations about whether or not the scales should be on them at this point.
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One was 3D printed and that 3D print is the hero egg that has influenced all the rest of them. We had to mold that one repeatedly.
The action prop painter spent months just painting eggs and making sure they had a gradiant, in terms of color, from top to bottom. Also working with moss to add some lichen to them.
There's this whole deal where Baby Baelon's egg is one of the ones that may or may not hatch.
We really leaned into this idea that they live in very hot and humid environments and depending on how old the egg is and how long it's been out of the egg sac, some of them have this kind of lichen growing on the bottom in the place that doesn't get any light. So the place that kind of sits in the warming chamber or wherever it lives inside the Dragonpit or the Dragonmont.
The egg collects this stuff, in relation to the real biological world and the whole circle of life where other organisms rely on certain organisms to exist. The eggs are protected and cooled or maybe shielded by this lichen, fungus growth thing, that grows on some, SOME, of the eggs. So it's sort of fascinating.
I remember playing a lot with the scales... really figuring out how the scales sit on top of each other and are oriented. We were trying to make them not look too uniform so that it didn't look like a built thing but instead something out of the natural world. So getting them to overlay in a sort of random pattern.
What's interesting about the scales is that they're not flat scales, like overlapping each other, they actually have a natural wave on them that adds to the texture of it. So on camera you can't really tell that they're kind of wibbly scales, but they do add a shine when the light moves around or when the camera moves they shine in a kind of unnatural way.
We were trying to figure out what the scales of the egg should look like so we looked at dragons to figure out how you scale down the scales to make them feel like part of a living organism.
So you have the scales, the texture on the scale, and then the sort of iridescent color that's made to make it look like it's metallic. Like it's a precious or a semi-precious Stone. It's painted in this gradation.
Magister Illyrio murmured a command, and four burly slaves hurried forward, bearing between them a great cedar chest bound in bronze. When she opened it, she found piles of the finest velvets and damasks the Free Cities could produce . . . and resting on top, nestled in the soft cloth, three huge eggs. Dany gasped. They were the most beautiful things she had ever seen, each different than the others, patterned in such rich colors that at first she thought they were crusted with jewels, and so large it took both of her hands to hold one. She lifted it delicately, expecting that it would be made of some fine porcelain or delicate enamel, or even blown glass, but it was much heavier than that, as if it were all of solid stone. The surface of the shell was covered with tiny scales, and as she turned the egg between her fingers, they shimmered like polished metal in the light of the setting sun. One egg was a deep green, with burnished bronze flecks that came and went depending on how Dany turned it. Another was pale cream streaked with gold. The last was black, as black as a midnight sea, yet alive with scarlet ripples and swirls. “What are they?” she asked, her voice hushed and full of wonder.
“Dragon’s eggs, from the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai,” said Magister Illyrio. “The eons have turned them to stone, yet still they burn bright with beauty.
- Book 1: A Game of Thrones
“I was,” she answered, standing over the dragon’s eggs that Illyrio had given her when she wed. She touched one, the largest of the three, running her hand lightly over the shelf. Black-and-scarlet, she thought, like the dragon in my dream. The stone felt strangely warm beneath her fingers . . . or was she still dreaming? She pulled her hand back nervously.
- Book 1: A Game of Thrones
As she let the door flap close behind her, Dany saw a finger of dusty red light reach out to touch her dragon’s eggs across the tent. For an instant a thousand droplets of scarlet flame swam before her eyes. She blinked, and they were gone.
Stone, she told herself. They are only stone, even Illyrio said so, the dragons are all dead. She put her palm against the black egg, fingers spread gently across the curve of the shell. The stone was warm. Almost hot. “The sun,” Dany whispered. “The sun warmed them as they rode.”
- Book 1: A Game of Thrones
Irri fetched the egg with the deep green shell, bronze flecks shining amid its scales as she turned it in her small hands. Dany curled up on her side, pulling the sandsilk cloak across her and cradling the egg in the hollow between her swollen belly and small, tender breasts. She liked to hold them. They were so beautiful, and sometimes just being close to them made her feel stronger, braver, as if somehow she were drawing strength from the stone dragons locked inside.
- Book 1: A Game of Thrones
“The same could be said of rubies and diamonds and fire opals, Princess . . . and dragon’s eggs are rarer by far. Those traders he’s been drinking with would sell their own manhoods for even one of those stones, and with all three Viserys could buy as many sellswords as he might need.”
- Book 1: A Game of Thrones
“No. He cannot have my son.” She would not weep, she decided. She would not shiver with fear. The Usurper has woken the dragon now, she told herself . . . and her eyes went to the dragon’s eggs resting in their nest of dark velvet. The shifting lamplight limned their stony scales, and shimmering motes of jade and scarlet and gold swam in the air around them, like courtiers around a king.
- Book 1: A Game of Thrones
When the coals were afire, Dany sent Ser Jorah from her. She had to be alone to do what she must do. This is madness, she told herself as she lifted the black-and-scarlet egg from the velvet. It will only crack and burn, and it’s so beautiful, Ser Jorah will call me a fool if I ruin it, and yet, and yet . . .
Cradling the egg with both hands, she carried it to the fire and pushed it down amongst the burning coals. The black scales seemed to glow as they drank the heat. Flames licked against the stone with small red tongues. Dany placed the other two eggs beside the black one in the fire. As she stepped back from the brazier, the breath trembled in her throat.
She watched until the coals had turned to ashes. Drifting sparks floated up and out of the smokehole. Heat shimmered in waves around the dragon’s eggs. And that was all.
Your brother Rhaegar was the last dragon, Ser Jorah had said. Dany gazed at her eggs sadly. What had she expected? A thousand thousand years ago they had been alive, but now they were only pretty rocks. They could not make a dragon. A dragon was air and fire. Living flesh, not dead stone.
- Book 1: A Game of Thrones
When she woke the third time, a shaft of golden sunlight was pouring through the smoke hole of the tent, and her arms were wrapped around a dragon’s egg. It was the pale one, its scales the color of butter cream, veined with whorls of gold and bronze, and Dany could feel the heat of it. Beneath her bedsilks, a fine sheen of perspiration covered her bare skin. Dragondew, she thought. Her fingers trailed lightly across the surface of the shell, tracing the wisps of gold, and deep in the stone she felt something twist and stretch in response. It did not frighten her. All her fear was gone, burned away.
- Book 1: A Game of Thrones
Ser Jorah and Mirri Maz Duur entered a few moments later, and found Dany standing over the other dragon’s eggs, the two still in their chest. It seemed to her that they felt as hot as the one she had slept with, which was passing strange. “Ser Jorah, come here,” she said. She took his hand and placed it on the black egg with the scarlet swirls. “What do you feel?”
“Shell, hard as rock.” The knight was wary. “Scales.”
“Heat?”
“No. Cold stone.” He took his hand away. “Princess, are you well? Should you be up, weak as you are?”
- Book 1: A Game of Thrones
She climbed the pyre herself to place the eggs around her sun-and-stars. The black beside his heart, under his arm. The green beside his head, his braid coiled around it. The cream-and-gold down between his legs. When she kissed him for the last time, Dany could taste the sweetness of the oil on his lips.
- Book 1: A Game of Thrones
The look Stannis gave her was dark. “Nine mages crossed the sea to hatch Aegon the Third’s cache of eggs. Baelor the Blessed prayed over his for half a year. Aegon the Fourth built dragons of wood and iron. Aerion Brightflame drank wildfire to transform himself. The mages failed, King Baelor’s prayers went unanswered, the wooden dragons burned, and Prince Aerion died screaming.”
- Book 3: A Storm of Swords
It was Princess Rhaena, legend says, who put a dragon’s egg in Princess Alysanne’s cradle, just as she had for Prince Jaehaerys two years earlier. If those tales be true, from those eggs came the dragons Silverwing and Vermithor, whose names would be writ so large in the annals of the years to come
- Fire and Blood "The Sons of the Dragon"
Dreamfyre was a slender, pale blue she-dragon with silvery markings who had already produced two clutches of eggs, and Rhaena had been riding her since the age of twelve.
- Fire and Blood "The Sons of the Dragon"
Feeding a growing dragon is no small thing. And when it became known that Dreamfyre had produced a clutch of dragon eggs, a begging brother from the inland hills began to preach that Fair Isle would soon be overrun by dragons “devouring sheep and cows and men alike,” unless a dragonslayer came forth to put an end to the scourge.
- Fire and Blood "A Surfeit of Rulers"
Lord Lyman himself began to express an unseemly interest in the three dragon eggs that the queen had brought from Fair Isle, wondering how and when they might be expected to hatch. His wife, Lady Jocasta, suggested privately that one or more of the eggs would make a fine gift, if Her Grace should wish to show her gratitude to House Lannister for taking her in. When that ploy proved unsuccessful, Lord Lyman offered to buy the eggs outright for a staggering sum of gold.
- Fire and Blood "A Surfeit of Rulers"
Dragonstone did have one thing King’s Landing largely lacked: dragons. In the great citadel under the shadow of the Dragonmont, more dragons were being born every time the moon turned, or so it seemed. The eggs that Dreamfyre had laid on Fair Isle had all hatched once on Dragonstone, and Rhaena Targaryen had made certain that her daughter made their acquaintance. “Choose one and make him yours,” the queen urged the princess, “and one day you will fly.” There were older dragons in the yards as well, and beyond the walls wild dragons that had escaped the castle made their lairs in hidden caves on the far side of the mountain.
- Fire and Blood "Birth, Death, and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I"
A fortnight after her departure, Ser Merrell Bullock, still commander of the castle garrison, brought three terrified grooms and the keeper of the dragon yard into Rhaena’s presence. Three dragon eggs were missing, and days of searching had not turned them up. After questioning every man who had access to the dragons closely, Ser Merrell was convinced that Lady Elissa had made off with them.
- Fire and Blood "Birth, Death, and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I"
Only then did Rhaena Targaryen mount Dreamfyre to fly to the Red Keep and inform her brother of what had transpired. “Elissa had no love for dragons,” she told the king. “It was gold she wanted, gold to build a ship. She will sell the eggs. They are worth—”
“—a fleet of ships.” Jaehaerys had received his sister in his solar, with only Grand Maester Benifer present to bear witness to what was said. “If those eggs should hatch, there will be another dragonlord in the world, one not of our own house.”
“They may not hatch,” Benifer said. “Not away from Dragonstone. The heat…it is known, some dragon eggs simply turn to stone.
- Fire and Blood "Birth, Death, and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I"
We know now that Lady Elissa made her way to Braavos after Pentos, though not before taking on a new name. Having been driven from Fair Isle and disowned by her brother Lord Franklyn, she took on a bastard name of her own devising, calling herself Alys Westhill. Under that name, she secured an audience with the Sealord of Braavos. The Sealord’s menagerie was far famed, and he was glad to buy the dragon eggs. The gold she received in return she entrusted to the Iron Bank, and used it to finance the building of the Sun Chaser, the ship she had dreamed of for many a year.
- Fire and Blood "Birth, Death, and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I"
Androw Farman’s discontent on Dragonstone only grew worse after his sister’s departure. Lady Elissa had been his closest friend, mayhaps his only friend, Culiper observed, and despite his tearful denials, Rhaena found it hard to accept that he had played no role in the matter of her dragon eggs.
- Fire and Blood "Birth, Death, and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I"
When Alysanne tried to share stories of her own girlhood, and told of how Rhaena had put a dragon’s egg into her cradle and cuddled and cared for her “as if she were my mother,” Aerea said, “She never gave me an egg, she just gave me away and flew off to Fair Isle.”
- Fire and Blood "Birth, Death, and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I"
Jaehaerys named him Aemon. “Daenerys will be cross with me,” Alysanne said, as she put the princeling to her breast. “She was most insistent on wanting a sister.” Jaehaerys laughed at that and said, “Next time.” That night, at Alysanne’s suggestion, he placed a dragon’s egg in the prince’s cradle.
- Fire and Blood "Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Their Triumphs and Tragedies"
There were more dragons than ever before as well, and several of the she-dragons were regularly producing clutches of eggs. Not all of these eggs hatched, but many did, and it became customary for the fathers and mothers of newborn princelings to place a dragon’s egg in their cradles, following a tradition that Princess Rhaena had begun many years before; the children so blessed invariably bonded with the hatchlings to become dragonriders.
- Fire and Blood "Heirs of the Dragon: A Question of Succession"
When he learned that his concubine was pregnant, Prince Daemon presented her with a dragon’s egg, but in this he again went too far and woke his brother’s wroth. King Viserys commanded him to return the egg, send his whore away, and return to his lawful wife, or else be attainted as a traitor. The prince obeyed, though with ill grace, dispatching Mysaria (eggless) back to Lys, whilst he himself flew to Runestone in the Vale and the unwelcome company of his “bronze bitch.”
- Fire and Blood "Heirs of the Dragon: A Question of Succession"
By royal decree, each of the Velaryon boys was presented with a dragon’s egg whilst in the cradle. Those who doubted the paternity of Rhaenyra’s sons whispered that the eggs would never hatch, but the birth in turn of three young dragons gave the lie to their words. The hatchlings were named Vermax, Arrax, and Tyraxes.
- Fire and Blood "Heirs of the Dragon: A Question of Succession"
Many a time they flew together on their dragons, and the princess’s she-dragon Syrax produced several clutches of eggs.
- Fire and Blood "Heirs of the Dragon: A Question of Succession"
And so she did, and quickly. Barely a year later, in 123 AC, the fourteen-year-old princess gave birth to twins, a boy she named Jaehaerys and a girl called Jaehaera. Prince Aegon had heirs of his own now, the greens at court proclaimed happily. A dragon’s egg was placed in the cradle of each child, and two hatchlings soon came forth.
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And in 127 AC, Princess Helaena gave birth to his second son, who was given a dragon’s egg and the name Maelor.
- Fire and Blood "Heirs of the Dragon: A Question of Succession"
Rhaenyra’s three sons by Laenor Velaryon were all dragonriders; Vermax, Arrax, and Tyraxes were thriving, and growing larger every year. Aegon the Younger, eldest of Rhaenyra’s two sons by Prince Daemon, commanded the young dragon Stormcloud, though he had yet to mount him; his little brother, Viserys, went everywhere with his egg. Rhaenys’s own she-dragon, Meleys the Red Queen, had grown lazy, but remained fearsome when roused. Prince Daemon’s twins by Laena Velaryon might yet be dragonriders too. Baela’s dragon, the slender pale green Moondancer, would soon be large enough to bear the girl upon her back…and though her sister Rhaena’s egg had hatched a broken thing that died within hours of emerging from the egg, Syrax had recently produced another clutch. One of her eggs had been given to Rhaena, and it was said that the girl slept with it every night, and prayed for a dragon to match her sister’s.
- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: The Blacks and the Greens"
(Mushroom also claims that Vermax left a clutch of dragon’s eggs at Winterfell, which is equally absurd. Whilst it is true that determining the sex of a living dragon is a nigh on impossible task, no other source mentions Vermax producing so much as a single egg, so it must be assumed that he was male. Septon Barth’s speculation that the dragons change sex at need, being “as mutable as flame,” is too ludicrous to consider.)
- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: A Son for a Son"
Rhaena, the thirteen-year-old daughter of Prince Daemon by Laena Velaryon, was chosen to accompany him. Known as Rhaena of Pentos, for the city of her birth, she was no dragonrider, her hatchling having died some years before, but she brought three dragon’s eggs with her to the Vale, where she prayed nightly for their hatching.
- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: The Red Dragon and the Gold"
The largest and oldest of the wild dragons was the Cannibal, so named because he had been known to feed on the carcasses of dead dragons, and descend upon the hatcheries of Dragonstone to gorge himself on newborn hatchlings and eggs.
- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: The Red Dragon and the Gold"
Screenshot Timeline of Daenerys' Eggs in Game of Thrones Season 1
Screenshot Timeline of Daenerys' Eggs in House of the Dragon Season 2
Screenshot Timeline of Baelon's Egg in House of the Dragon Season 1
Screenshot Timeline of Joffrey's Egg in House of the Dragon Season 1
Screenshot Timeline of Rhaena's Egg in House of the Dragon Season 1
Screenshot Timeline of Syrax's Clutch in House of the Dragon Season 1
Screenshot Timeline of Rhaena's Charges in House of the Dragon Season 2
Screenshot Timeline of Silverwing's Clutch in House of the Dragon Season 2
Screenshot Timeline of a Dragon Egg in House of the Dragon Season 3 Trailers (Temporary)