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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON ↳ Rhaenyra mourns the death of her son, Prince Lucerys
Lucerys Velaryon died with his dragon, Munkun insists. This is undoubtedly correct. The prince was thirteen years of age. His body was never found. And with his death, the war of ravens and envoys and marriage pacts came to an end, and the war of fire and blood began in earnest. On Dragonstone, Queen Rhaenyra collapsed when told of Luke’s death.
—Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons (A Son for a Son) by George R.R. Martin.