![]() ![]() įearful, Rhaenyra ordered men to return her son to the castle. Whether it was his intent to fly the dragon into battle or to fly to the Dragonpit to fetch his own dragon, Tyraxes, and perhaps the other dragons as well, is unknown. Mounted on Syrax's back, the prince flew out over the city. Joffrey, fearing his own dragon, Tyraxes, would be killed, slipped away to the yard and loosed his mother's dragon Syrax. Prince Joffrey wished to ride forth to protect the dragons, but Rhaenyra refused to allow it, insisting that they would need every man to defend Aegon's High Hill after the Hill of Rhaenys fell. Although Rhaenyra had sent riders to Ser Balon Byrch at the Old Gate and Ser Garth the Harelip at the Dragon Gate to seize the Shepherd, disperse his followers, and protect the dragons, they did not know whether the riders had been able to reach their destinations. Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen and her sons, Joffrey Velaryon and Aegon Targaryen, looked on with their loyalists from atop the roof of Maegor's Holdfast. Instead, the Shepherd claimed that the only way the city would be able to achieve salvation was by killing the dragons in the Dragonpit. The people feared the arrival of King Aegon II Targaryen's dragons and army, but the Shepherd told his "lambs" that everyone would burn when the dragons arrived, and that prayers would not be able to stay the wroth of the Stranger. The Shepherd appeared once again at Cobbler's Square to preach against the large crowd which had formed on the square. Īlthough most of the mobs fled at dawn, they returned in greater numbers the following night, dubbed the Last Day by Munkun. ![]() The Shepherd himself fled the gold cloaks. During the first night of these riots, the mobs plundered and killed all over the city, hacked the River Gate to pieces, and killed Ser Luthor Largent and his five hundred gold cloaks on Cobbler's Square when they arrived to arrest the Shepherd. ![]() The fearful citizens of King's Landing broke out in a riot the night following Queen Helaena Targaryen's suicide. See also: Riot of King's Landing (Dance of the Dragons) ![]()
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