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Drogon, Rhaegal & Viserion are young dragons looking to fly to different caches.
Please keep them moving along for other cachers to discover. No trade is required to move this geocoin along!
Mission 1: Travel to events and have many discoveries by other cachers.
Mission2: Pictures. Please take pictures while caching and upload them.
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Mission 3: Log 25,000 miles traveled.
I like the Game of Thrones books, and these three dragon eggs remind me of the dragons in those books. Here is some shameless copying from the Game of Thrones wiki. :)
In the Song of Ice and Fire novels, dragons are described as four-limbed creatures (two legs and two wings with foreclaws). This form is more often described as a wyvern in medieval mythology, where dragons are typically four legged.
They are native to the continent of Essos, and were found in significant numbers some five thousand years ago on the Valyrian Peninsula. The people of Valyria tamed the dragons and used them as steeds and weapons of war. Using dragons they forged a vast empire spanning most of the continent until the event known as the Doom destroyed the empire and eliminated most of the dragons. The only dragons known to have survived were the three dragons belonging to House Targaryen, which used them to conquer the Seven Kingdoms.
The Targaryens kept their dragons in Westeros for approximately 130 years. The most Targaryen dragons that ever lived seems to have been nineteen, given that this is the number of dragon skulls stored by the Targaryens in the Red Keep (barring the possibility that one's skeleton was never recovered). They probably weren't all alive at the same time. Most of them were killed in the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of Dragons, which occurred 130 years after the Targaryen Conquest and 150 years before Robert's Rebellion. Of Aegon's original three dragons, Balerion died in the peaceful reign of King Jaehaerys I almost a hundred years later, while Vhagar was killed in the Dance of Dragons (Meraxes' fate has not been mentioned). The few surviving dragons were weak and sickly, with the last dragon (a stunted creature not much bigger than a large dog) dying during the reign of King Aegon III Targaryen, the Dragonbane. The last dragons left behind several eggs, which never hatched. These eggs were later destroyed or lost to the vagaries of history. As a result, dragons are now considered to be extinct.
According to Valyrian records, dragons hatch small, about the size of an average dog, but grow larger and larger as their appetites expand. A dragon never stops growing as long as it remains fed. Dragons could live to be over 200 years old, and it is said that Balerion the Black Dread, one of Aegon I's dragons, was so huge by the time he died he could swallow an aurochs whole. Dragons could breathe fire and were ferociously strong. However, they were also vulnerable to sustained arrow fire from the ground, to poison and to attacks from other dragons. While extremely powerful, they were not outright invincible, and given their rarity and the large expense in rearing them Aegon was reluctant to commit all of his dragons to a single battle, for fear that they might be overwhelmed through greater numbers and killed. Thus, Aegon took a calculated risk when he fielded all three of his dragons for the first and only time at the climactic Field of Fire, the battle which secured his conquest. The art of taming and commanding dragons enough to ride is almost unknown aside from a few exceedingly rare books.
Dragons, like certain species of lizards, can shift gender and have no fixed sex: they can shift back and forth as the needs of the species require for reproduction. However, they are usually referred to as male.
In the books Daenerys eggs are one of the few remaining testaments to the dragon race and are gifted to her has a wedding present from Illyrio. Despite being told the eggs are petrified Daenerys claims to be able to feel heat coming from the eggs. She also has dreams of a large black dragon (Its coloring matching one of her eggs) attempting to communicate with her, and when her dragons are born, she is closest to Black Dragon hatchling. Daenerys has three Dragon babies, a green dragon, a white one, and a black one. She names the green one Rhaegal, after her brother Rhaegar. she names the white one Viserion, after her other brother Viserys, and she names the most aggresive and largest of her dragons, the black one, Drogon, in memory of her dead Husband.
In the books, the bones of dragons are said to be black, due to a high iron content. In the series, however, the skulls in King's Landing are shown to be white.