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This is one of the few takes that actually separates mythology from military reality. People love to focus on the number 300, but the terrain was the real force multiplier. Without the narrow pass, the outcome changes dramatically.
The question seems close until you run the actual numbers and the actual terrain.
The Spartans at Thermopylae did not win through superior combat ability alone. They won through geography. The Hot Gates, the narrow coastal pass where the battle was fought, compressed Xerxes’ numerical advantage into irrelevance. A force of millions could only send as many men as the pass width allowed, which meant the Persians were effectively fighting 300 men with 300 men at any given moment, and losing, because the Spartans’ phalanx formation, interlocking shields and coordinated spear work, was the single most effective infantry tactic available in ancient warfare for exactly that kind of confined engagement.
Remove the pass and the calculation changes completely.
On open ground, 300 men against a full Unsullied army has one outcome. The Unsullied as depicted in Game of Thrones number in the thousands, are trained from childhood in the same phalanx principles the Spartans used, maintain formation discipline under conditions that would break conventional soldiers, and feel no pain, fear, or hesitation. They do not break. They do not rout. They execute until they are physically incapable of continuing.
The Spartan tactical advantage at Thermopylae was the terrain forcing a one-to-one engagement ratio. The Unsullied have the same formation discipline and vastly superior numbers. On a battlefield of Greyworm’s choosing, the 300 are surrounded, flanked, and eliminated in a single engagement.
On Leonidas’s terrain, in a narrow pass with one entrance, the result is genuinely different. The Spartans held Thermopylae for three days against numbers that dwarfed the Unsullied. Formation discipline in a confined pass is the great equalizer, and the Spartans invented that discipline.
The Unsullied win the war. The Spartans might win the pass.
Leonidas understood something Greyworm would also understand: the ground you fight on matters more than the army you bring to it.
The question asks for a favorite. The more interesting question is what each dragon’s death reveals about the person who rode it or the war that consumed it.
Balerion the Black Dread was the largest dragon in recorded Westerosi history, with a wingspan wide enough to cast entire towns in shadow. He carried Aegon the Conqueror across the continent during the Wars of Conquest, burned Harrenhal into the molten ruin it remains, and lived for nearly two centuries before dying of old age during the reign of Jaehaerys I. He is the only dragon in this image that the world did not manage to kill. He simply ran out of time, which in the context of what happened to every other dragon makes him the only one who escaped intact.
Caraxes, the Blood Wyrm, is the dragon whose death most accurately represents the Dance of Dragons as a whole. He and Vaemond Velaryon’s dragon Vhagar tore each other apart over the Gods Eye lake in what the lore describes as one of the most savage dragon battles ever witnessed. Both animals died. Both riders died. The war they were fighting continued without them. Nothing was resolved by their deaths except that two of the most powerful weapons in the world were removed from the board simultaneously, which is precisely the kind of outcome that defines how the Targaryens lost everything they had built.
Drogon is the last living dragon in the known world as of the end of Game of Thrones. He carried Daenerys across two continents, survived the Battle of Winterfell, burned King’s Landing at her command, and then, after she died, picked up the Iron Throne in his claws, appeared to understand what it represented, melted it, and flew east with her body. His current location is unknown. He is somewhere east of Essos, alone, which makes him simultaneously the most powerful living creature in the world and the most irrelevant, since there is no longer anyone alive who can ride him.
Sunfyre is the most underrated dragon in the image. Aegon II’s mount was described as the most beautiful dragon alive, golden-scaled and magnificent, and spent the Dance of the Dragons accumulating wounds that would have killed most creatures before eventually dying of those wounds after the war ended. He won every engagement he was in. He simply could not survive the cumulative cost of winning.
Meleys, the Red Queen, ridden by Princess Rhaenys, died at Rook’s Rest attempting to turn the tide of a battle that was already lost before she arrived. Rhaenys flew into a trap. The dragon paid for that decision with her life.
The favorite dragon in this image is a matter of preference. But Balerion is the only one the world could not kill, and Drogon is the only one the world has not killed yet.
Everything between those two facts is the story of what humans do to the most powerful animals they have ever had access to.
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