The first of the Dragons, and the main antagonist in the tale of The Children of Húrin. The last gold dragon hatched from the first dragon hatching on Pern, and the most influential dragon in Pernese history.Ī green, young, and kind dragon who has Arya as his rider.Īn old, golden, and wise dragon who had Oromis as his rider.
Small, underdeveloped dragon given to the Watch of Ankh-Morpork as a mascot by Sybil Ramkin. The largest and most vicious of her three dragons. Orphaned.Ī black-red dragon, hatched by Daenerys Targaryen. Destroyed by Eärendil during the War of Wrath.Ī wily dragon who loses a battle of wills to Farmer Giles.Īn ancient dragon, whose looted horde provides a tribe of orcs with the means to rise above their cannon-fodder station in the Evil Horde of Darkness.Ī friend of Jane.
Western literature tends either to affirm or pointedly subvert the traditional portrait of dragons from Western myth and folklore, as evil and greedy. Main article: List of dragons in literature
