11/22/2023 0 Comments Balerion riders![]() Ĭonstruction on the pit was finally completed in 55 AC and a great tourney was held in celebration. Eventually, due to all of the taxes imposed by the master of coin to pay for the Dragonpit's completion and the other improvements on King's Landing, Rego's popularity plummeted significantly. By 52 AC, King Jaehaerys would often visit the Dragonpit to keep an eye on the progress of its construction. After Jaehaerys assumed rule on his own, his newly-appointed master of coin, Rego Draz, secured funds by loaning gold from the banks of Braavos, Tyrosh and Myr. Rogar wished to complete the Dragonpit before Jaehaerys came of age and would start to rule on his own, but found himself lacking the proper funds to continue construction by 50 AC. In 49 AC, Rogar married the Queen Regent, Alyssa Velaryon, in the Dragonpit, witnessed by forty thousand people. Ĭonstruction of the Dragonpit continued during the reign of Maegor's successor, King Jaehaerys I Targaryen, initially led by Jaehaerys's Hand of the King, Lord Rogar Baratheon of Storm's End. Maegor eventually had to use city prisoners, with supervisors from Myr and Volantis. Because Maegor had killed all those who had built the Red Keep to hide its secrets, many of those hired to construct the building fled. Three years later, shortly after the completion of the Red Keep's construction, Maegor ordered the construction of the Dragonpit, which he called "a great stone stable for dragons". In 42 AC, during the early phase of the Faith Militant uprising, King Maegor I Targaryen used the dragonflame of Balerion in the burning of the Sept of Remembrance on the top of Rhaenys's Hill. The pit has been abandoned for a century and a half, and its huge doors have been sealed for a century. ![]() The huge dome is now broken, the building ruined, the pit's walls blackened by fire. ![]() ĭuring the Storming of the Dragonpit during the Dance of the Dragons, the Dragonpit was destroyed. When living dragons still nested beneath the dome, light would shine through the windows at night. The inner doors opened on the sands of the pit itself, and the outer doors opened to the hillside. These man-made caves were closed off at both sides by thick iron doors. Beneath the dome, there were forty huge undervaults which had been carved in a great ring. Within the structure, long brick-lined tunnels have been dug deep into the hillside, fashioned like caves, five times as large as the dragon's lairs on Dragonstone. Benches were located in the pit itself, which can seat eighty thousand. Ī huge dome was constructed above the pit. The building's walls were thick and the roof strong. A score of lesser entrances were also present, some of them were oak-and-iron doors. The main gate consisted of massive doors, mainly bronze with some iron, and were so wide that thirty knights could ride through it at once. The Dragonpit is a huge domed castle at the crown of Rhaenys's Hill.
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