Tessarion

Pronunciation:

Tess-ARR-ee-on

Valyrian Name:

N/A

Nickname(s):

"The Blue Queen"

Status:

Alive

Gender:

She-Dragon

Age:

≈ 14 years old

Coloration:

Cobalt Blue Scales

with Yellow-Red Eyes

and Coppery-Tan Membranes

Disposition:

Stately, Dignified, Reserved

Current Rider:

Prince Daeron Targaryen

Former Rider(s):

N/A

Table of Contents:

TESSARION - Design Development (Images):

- Promotional Material -

TESSARION - Design Development (Quotes):

- Behind the Scenes -

- Fire and Blood by George R.R. Martin -

- House of the Dragon [Transcript] -

TESSARION - Screengrabs

Screenshot Timeline of Tessarion in House of the Dragon Season 2

Screenshot Timeline of Tessarion in House of the Dragon Season 3

TESSARION - Design Development (Images):

https://youtu.be/n34Av1aOAoE?list=PL8mo-m0aqLPxKYOwymPxgFDgpZ0NpKLHm&t=575

https://youtu.be/AaMwYITCyCM?t=292

https://youtu.be/AaMwYITCyCM?t=329

https://youtu.be/AaMwYITCyCM?t=312

https://youtu.be/AaMwYITCyCM?t=319

https://youtu.be/AaMwYITCyCM?t=299

- Promotional Material -

Tessarion Promo Poster for Game of Thrones: Dragonfire (Mobile Game)

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ5pvX1H-uE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Tessarion Promo Poster for Game of Thrones: Dragonfire (Mobile Game)

https://news.gotdragonfire.com/introducing-tessarion/

Tessarion Info Card for Game of Thrones: Dragonfire (Mobile Game)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DavgpMxiQnP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Tessarion Model from Game of Thrones: Dragonfire (Mobile Game)

https://news.gotdragonfire.com/introducing-tessarion/

TESSARION - Design Development (Quotes):

- Behind the Scenes -

"RYAN: Tessarion is Daeron's dragon, the Blue Queen. She's a juvenile dragon, but very kind of stately and reserved.

DADI EINARSSON: Ultimately, we wanna act in the way an actor would. This is a character in the show, so we want to kind of imbue that life into that character and make it multilayered and give it some depth, and something that people start to recognize the individuality of this one compared to the other one. And how would this dragon react in this situation? I think that's when you kind of make it a living, breathing part of the show.

RYAN: She is undoubtedly smaller than Silverwing, Vermithor, and Caraxes are, but she's a nuclear weapon in her own right on Ormund's side, and I think will, you know, have a great role to play in this story yet to come."

- https://youtu.be/n34Av1aOAoE?list=PL8mo-m0aqLPxKYOwymPxgFDgpZ0NpKLHm&t=547

- Fire and Blood by George R.R. Martin -

Even Prince Daeron had a dragon, a lovely blue she-dragon named Tessarion, though he had yet to ride.

- Fire and Blood "Heirs of the Dragons: A Question of Succession"

Prince Daeron’s dragon was Tessarion, with her wings dark as cobalt and her claws and crest and belly scales as bright as beaten copper.

- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: The Blacks and the Greens"

With Sunfyre wounded near Rook’s Rest and unable to fly, and Tessarion with Prince Daeron in Oldtown, only two mature dragons remained to defend King’s Landing…and Dreamfyre’s rider, Queen Helaena, spent her days in darkness, weeping, and surely could not be counted as a threat.

- Fire and Blood "Heirs of the Dragons: The Red Dragon and the Gold"

The dragon was Tessarion, the Blue Queen, cobalt and copper. On her back rode the youngest of Queen Alicent’s three sons, Daeron Targaryen, fifteen, Lord Ormund’s squire, that same gentle and soft-spoken lad who had once been milk brother to Prince Jacaerys.

- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: The Red Dragon and the Gold"

As wolves and ravens fed upon the bodies of the slain, Ormund Hightower feasted Prince Daeron on aurochs and strongwine, and dubbed him a knight with the storied Valyrian longsword Vigilance, naming him “Ser Daeron the Daring.” The prince modestly replied, “My lord is kind to say so, but the victory belongs to Tessarion.”

- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: The Red Dragon and the Gold"

In the Reach, Lord Hightower and his ward, Prince Daeron the Daring, continued to win victories, enforcing the submission of the Rowans of Goldengrove, the Oakhearts of Old Oak, and the Lords of the Shield Islands, for none dared face Tessarion, the Blue Queen.

- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: Rhaenyra Triumphant"

Hightower’s host had crossed the Mander and was advancing slowly on King’s Landing, smashing the queen’s loyalists wherever and whenever they encountered them, and forcing every lord who bent the knee to add their strength to his own. Flying Tessarion ahead of the main column, Prince Daeron had proved invaluable as a scout, warning Lord Ormund of enemy movements. Oft as not, the queen’s men would melt away at the first glimpse of the Blue Queen’s wings. Grand Maester Munkun tells us that the southron host numbered more than twenty thousand as it crept upriver, almost a tenth of them mounted knights.

- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: Rhaenyra Triumphant"

Yet neither man had hesitated to face storms of spears and arrows off Driftmark. It may be that it was the thought of attacking Tessarion that gave them pause. In the Gullet, all the dragons had been on their own side. This too may be possible…though both Vermithor and Silverwing were older and larger than Prince Daeron’s dragon, and would therefore have been more likely to prevail in any battle.

- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: Rhaenyra Triumphant"

Even the appearance of Tessarion across the field did not dismay them, for they knew they had two dragons of their own…but when Vermithor and Silverwing climbed into the sky and loosed their fires upon Tumbleton, those cheers changed to screams.

It was the Field of Fire writ small, Grand Maester Munkun wrote.

Tumbleton went up in flame: shops, homes, septs, people, all. Men fell burning from gatehouse and battlements, or stumbled shrieking through the streets like so many living torches. Outside the walls, Prince Daeron swooped down upon Tessarion. Pate of Longleaf was unhorsed and trampled, Ser Garibald Grey pierced by a crossbow bolt, then engulfed by dragonflame. The Two Betrayers scourged the town with whips of flame from one end to the other.

- Fire and Blood "The Dying of the Dragons: Rhaenyra Triumphant"

- House of the Dragon [Transcript] -

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"

JASPER: You lord uncle, Ormund, marches from Oldtown at the head of a great host, your grace. And your brother Daeron's dragon nears fighting age. Call on them ot supress the Riverlands.

- House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 3 "The Burning Mill"

JASPER: However, in happier tidings, Prince Daeron's dragon, Tessarion, has at last taken to wing. Your brother expects to join the fight soon.

When he does, the Hightower host will be unstoppable.

- House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 7 "The Red Sowing"

RHAENYRA: The third brother is untested. He's never left Oldtown, and his dragon is younger than Vermax.

CORLYS: But a dragon nontheless.

- House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 8 "The Queen Who Ever Was"

RHAENYRA: (Speaking High Valyrian) And the young dragon?

DRAGONKEEPER: (Speaking High Valyrian) They took it inside the gates. I alone escaped.

- House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 3 "Rhaenyra Triumphant"

DAERON: Patience, my girl.

It won’t be long before we can fly again.