Finally, a channel that reads the ACTUAL books. Every other dragon video gets the Vhagar/Balerion size comparison wrong. You got it right.
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BalerionThe Black Dread
Before the Iron Throne was forged, before the Seven Kingdoms knelt, one dragon carried a conqueror across the narrow sea. His fire melted swords into a throne. His wings darkened half a continent. For two hundred years he was the terror and the glory of House Targaryen. And when at last he died of old age, a shadow passed from the world that Westeros would never see again.
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Slain by Balerion · Battle Beneath the Gods Eye · 43 AC
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