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Pronunciation:
ARR-ax
Valyrian Name:
N/A
Nickname(s):
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Status:
Deceased
Gender:
He-Dragon
Age:
≈ 14 years old
Coloration:
Pale Whitish Scales
with Red Frill Membranes &
Pale Indigo Wing Membranes
Disposition:
Skittish, Anxious, Playful
Current Rider:
N/A
Former Rider(s):
⬦ Prince Lucerys Velaryon
ARRAX - Design Development (Images):
ARRAX - Design Development (Images):
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ARRAX - Design Development (Quotes):
ARRAX - Design Development (Quotes):
- House of the Dragon -
- House of the Dragon -
ALICENT: It's a wonder to me their eggs ever hatched.
- House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 6 "The Princess and the Queen"
BARTIMOS: Pray forgive my bluntness, Your Grace, but talk of men is moot. Your cause owns a power that has not been seen in this world since the days of old Valyria. Dragons!
RHAENYRA: The Greens have dragons as well.
DAEMON: They have three adults, by my count. We have Syrax, Caraxes, and Meleys. Your sons have Vermax, Arrax, and Tyraxes. Baela has Moondancer.
RHAENYRA: Daemon, none of our dragons have been to war.
DAEMON: There are also unclaimed dragons. Seasmoke still resides on Driftmark. Vermithor and Silverwing dwell on the Dragonmont, still riderless. Then there are the three wild dragons, all of whom nest here.
RHAENYRA: And who is to ride them?
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"
- Behind the Scenes -
- Behind the Scenes -
White/blueish; Male Young; Nervous, Twitchy; Larger scales due to age; Pearlescent Translucent and skin/scales subdermal color - https://youtu.be/Iq49IdKZJOo?si=3pwKTxlvHiCB246P
Arrax' childish and curious nature was by far my favorite to capture. Really grew attached to this little guy. Later we aged him up a bunch and gave him a sturdier look.
The creature team really enjoyed giving each dragon their own personality. Arrax, the youngest and smallest, has not much skin detail but a very translucent skin. It was important to the showrunners, that Arrax does not get too many visible wrinkles or hard scales.
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Arrax on the other hand is young, more energetic, and playful. You can see his fear and nervousness when confronted with Vhagar in the storm in the final episode. In this one shot, he looks like a moth against a condor-like Vhagar with many more irregular flap cycles against the gliding truck right above him.
- https://www.artofvfx.com/house-of-the-dragon-sven-martin-vfx-supervisor-pixomondo/
The #Arrax #dragonsaddle was the first of the juvy / child saddles, its #design form the beginning was meant to look different to the other larger saddles.
The show runners often referred to it as a 'training' saddle for the young riders, like a bike with stabilizers.
The early development of the buck shape I was looking at #insects, just like the other saddles we wanted something organic, and feeling like it was clinging on to the #dragon, My main influences were still looking at baby animals on there mothers, but also parasitical creatures and insects.
For this buck in particular I was looking a lot at sea creatures that attach them selves to sharks. For its organic form I was heavily inspired by the different Rhinoceros beetles and long horn beetles.
The saddle was built by @rozziebutler and Dominic meyrick-brook along with Craig Narramore’s propmakers. Arrax dragon by @constantinesekeris and @kiba.art
- https://www.instagram.com/p/CxECYmhIcYX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
A narrative principal is that dragons keep on growing.
“They ultimately can’t bear their own weight,” Bickerton notes.
“Vhagar, which is chasing Arrax, is meant to be 103 years old whereas Arrax is 14 years old. Whenever a new member of the Targaryen family is born a dragon is put in the crib with the child so that they develop a symbiosis. But there is only so much control that you have over these dragons. In the shot where you see the big silhouette of Vhagar above Arrax was a signature image that we wanted going into the sequence to show the size of him. In terms of how the motion base moved, Arrax is flappier and smaller, so it has more aggressive motions whereas Vhagar is a huge beast and the motions are a lot more general.”
- https://www.vfxvoice.com/the-virtual-reality-of-house-of-the-dragon/
The dragons ridden, respectively, by Rhaenyra's sons, Jacaerys, Lucerys, and Joffrey—Vermax, Arrax, and Tyrax-all strongly resemble Drogon and are also smaller than the reference dragon. In the case of Vermax and Arrax, Serkeris and Barybin designed the dragons as both hatchlings and adults.
- Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon: Inside the Creation of a Targaryen Dynasty
- The World of Ice and Fire -
- The World of Ice and Fire -
Written by George R.R. Martin in collaboration with Elio Garcia and Linda Antonsson
ARRAX (Prince Lucerys): Young but Strong, killed with his rider by Vhagar above Shipbreaker Bay.
- The World of Ice and Fire "The Targaryen Kings: Aegon II"
- Fire and Blood by George R.R. Martin -
- Fire and Blood by George R.R. Martin -
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"
Rhaenyra’s three sons by Laenor Velaryon were all dragonriders; Vermax, Arrax, and Tyraxes were thriving, and growing larger every year.
- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: The Blacks and the Greens"
Soon after, Jacaerys Velaryon was flying north upon his dragon, Vermax, his brother Lucerys south on Arrax, whilst Prince Daemon flew Caraxes to the Trident.
- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: A Son for a Son"
The Stranger had other plans. For surely it was his dread hand behind the ill chance that brought the two princelings together at Storm’s End, when the dragon Arrax raced before a gathering storm to deliver Lucerys Velaryon to the safety of the castle yard, only to find Aemond Targaryen there before him.
- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: A Son for a Son"
Vhagar sensed his coming first. Guardsmen walking the battlements of the castle’s mighty curtain walls clutched their spears in sudden terror when she woke with a roar that shook the very foundations of Durran’s Defiance. Even Arrax quailed before that sound, we are told, and Luke plied his whip freely as he forced him down.
- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: A Son for a Son"
At that Lord Borros grew uneasy. “Not here,” he grumbled. “He came as an envoy. I want no blood shed beneath my roof.” So his guards put themselves between the princelings and escorted Lucerys Velaryon from the Round Hall, back to the castle yard where his dragon, Arrax, was hunched down in the rain, awaiting his return.
- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: A Son for a Son"
Outside the storm was raging. Thunder rolled across the castle, the rain fell in blinding sheets, and from time to time great bolts of blue-white lightning lit the world as bright as day. It was bad weather for flying, even for a dragon, and Arrax was struggling to stay aloft when Prince Aemond mounted Vhagar and went after him. Had the sky been calm, Prince Lucerys might have been able to outfly his pursuer, for Arrax was younger and swifter…but the day was “as black as Prince Aemond’s heart,” says Mushroom, and so it came to pass that the dragons met above Shipbreaker Bay. Watchers on the castle walls saw distant blasts of flame, and heard a shriek cut the thunder. Then the two beasts were locked together, lightning crackling around them. Vhagar was five times the size of her foe, the hardened survivor of a hundred battles. If there was a fight, it could not have lasted long.
- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: A Son for a Son"
Arrax fell, broken, to be swallowed by the storm-lashed waters of the bay. His head and neck washed up beneath the cliffs below Storm’s End three days later, to make a feast for crabs and seagulls. Mushroom claims that Prince Lucerys’s corpse washed up as well, and tells us that Prince Aemond cut out his eyes and presented them to Lady Maris on a bed of seaweed, but this seems excessive. Some say Vhagar snatched Lucerys off his dragon’s back and swallowed him whole. It has even been claimed that the prince survived his fall, swam to safety, but lost all memory of who he was, spending the rest of his days as a simpleminded fisherman.
The True Telling gives all these tales the respect they deserve…which is to say, none. Lucerys Velaryon died with his dragon, Munkun insists. This is undoubtedly correct. The prince was thirteen years of age. His body was never found. And with his death, the war of ravens and envoys and marriage pacts came to an end, and the war of fire and blood began in earnest.
- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: A Son for a Son"
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Arrax's color is not stated in the published texts. However, the artist commissioned for the 2021 A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar, Sam Hogg, asked for clarification from George R. R. Martin's team, and was told that Arrax's coloration was "pearlescent white with yellow flame, golden eyes and a golden chest".[2]
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Arrax was described as pearlescent white with yellow flame, golden eyes and a golden chest :)
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Sam Hogg
ARRAX - Screengrabs
ARRAX - Screengrabs
Screenshot Timeline of Arrax in House of the Dragon Season 1
Screenshot Timeline of Arrax's Remains in House of the Dragon Season 2
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