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Lucerys
Velaryon
For the master of ships during the reign of King
Aerys II, see Lucerys Velaryon (master of ships).

Lucerys Velaryon

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Lucerys in childhood, by Douglas Wheatley, as

depicted in The World of Ice & Fire

Alias(es) Luke
Little Luke Strong
Title(s) Prince
Allegiance House Velaryon
House Targaryen
Blacks
Race Valyrian
Culture(s) Crownlands
Born In 115 AC[1]
Died In 129 AC, Shipbreaker Bay[2]
Father Laenor Velaryon (officially)
Harwin Strong (rumored)
Mother Rhaenyra Targaryen
Book(s) The World of Ice & Fire (mentioned)
Fire & Blood (mentioned)
The Rogue Prince (mentioned)
The Princess and the Queen
(mentioned)

Played by Elliot Grihault

Harvey Sadler (young)
TV series House of the Dragon: Season 1

Prince Lucerys Velaryon, also known as Luke, was

the secondborn son of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen
and her first husband, Ser Laenor Velaryon. He was a
dragonrider whose dragon was Arrax.[3]

In the television adaptation House of the Dragon,

Lucerys is portrayed by Elliot Grihault and Harvey
Sadler (young).[4]

Contents
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1 Appearance and Character
2 History
2.1 Youth
2.2 Dance of the Dragons
3 Quotes
4 Family
5 References

Appearance and
Character
Luke was a strong strapping lad, skilled in arms. Like
his brothers Jacaerys and Joffrey, he had brown eyes
and hair, and a pug nose. This made many at court
suspect that Ser Harwin Strong was their true
father.[5][1]

History
Youth
King Viserys I Targaryen was delighted with Luke when
he was presented at court. In 118 AC Rhaenyra
Targaryen announced the betrothal of her eldest sons,
Jacaerys and Lucerys, to Rhaena and Baela Targaryen,
the daughters of Prince Daemon Targaryen and Laena
Velaryon.[1]

When Prince Aemond Targaryen attempted to ride

Vhagar, one of House Targaryen's dragons, he was
confronted by the Velaryon brothers. Aemond broke
the nose of five-year-old Luke, who eventually took out
Aemond's eye with his dagger.[1]

When Lord Corlys Velaryon fell ill, Rhaenyra wanted

him to name Luke as his heir to Driftmark, as his elder
brother Jacaerys was in the line of succession to the
Iron Throne.[1]

Dance of the Dragons

Prince Lucerys and Arrax are killed by Prince

Aemond Targaryen and Vhagar, as depicted by
Chase Stone in The World of Ice & Fire.

Prior to the Dance of the Dragons Lucerys had long

served as a squire. He was thirteen years old at the
start of the civil war.[3]

Luke was sent on a mission that was considered

shorter and safer than his brother Jacaerys's, flying on
Arrax as a messenger to Storm's End where it was
expected that Lord Borros Baratheon would give him a
warm welcome. Prior to his mission he swore on the
Seven-Pointed Star to his mother on Dragonstone that
he would take no part in fighting.[3]

Prince Aemond Targaryen had already arrived at the

castle on Vhagar, however. Upon his arrival in the
Round Hall Luke ignored Aemond and delivered his
letter to Borros. The Lord of Storm's End asked which
of his four daughters in the Round Hall Luke would
wed, but the Velaryon prince admitted he was
betrothed to his cousin, Rhaena Targaryen. Borros
replied that he thought as much and told him to go
home. Aemond drew his sword but Lucerys told him
he came as an envoy, not a knight.[2]

Lucerys was escorted back to the castle yard where

Arrax waited amidst a terrible storm. In the Round Hall,
Borros granted Aemond's request to leave. Arrax was
struggling to stay aloft as Aemond mounted Vhagar
and went after Luke. Arrax was younger and swifter,
and on a calm day might have been able to outfly his
pursuer, but the weather impeded him and Vhagar was
five times the size of her foe and the hardened survivor
of a hundred battles.[2]

The two dragons met above Shipbreaker Bay.

According to Archmaester Gyldayn, if there was a fight
it could not have lasted long. Arrax fell, broken, to be
swallowed by the storm-lashed waters of the bay. His
head and neck washed up beneath the cliffs below
Storm's End three days later. Prince Lucerys's corpse
washed up as well.[2]

On Dragonstone, Rhaenyra collapsed when told of his

death and Luke's younger brother Joffrey swore an
oath of vengeance against Aemond and Borros. Prince
Daemon Targaryen avenged Luke's death by sending
"Blood and Cheese" to assassinate one of Aegon II's
sons.[6]

Quotes

“ Our uncle calls us Strongs,

and claims we are bastards,
but when the lords see us on
”
dragonback they will know that
for a lie. Only Targaryens ride
dragons.[3]
—Lucerys, to the black council

“ Little Luke Strong, the bastard.

You are wet, bastard. Is it
raining, or did you piss
”
yourself in fear?[2]
—Aemond Targaryen to
Lucerys

“ 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.[2]
—writings of Gyldayn

“ An eye for an eye, a son for a

son. Lucerys
avenged.[6]
shall be ”
—Daemon Targaryen writing to
Rhaenyra Targaryen

Family
Jocelyn
Aemon Daella
Baratheon

Corlys Aemm
Rhaenys
Velaryon Arryn

Laena Daemon Laenor

[Note 1] Rhaeny
Velaryon Velaryon

Stillborn Jacaery
Rhaena Baela
son Velaryo

Notes: 1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Prince Daemon Targaryen was

married to Lady Rhea Royce from 97 AC to
115 AC, to Lady Laena Velaryon from
115 AC to 120 AC, and to Princess
Rhaenyra Targaryen from 120 AC to 130 AC.

References
1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Fire & Blood, Heirs of the Dragon - A
Question of Succession.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Fire & Blood, The Dying of the
Dragons - A Son for a Son.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons
- The Blacks and the Greens.
4. ↑ WarnerMedia Pressroom: House of the Dragon |
Character Descriptions
5. ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings:
Viserys I.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings:
Aegon II.

Categories: House Velaryon House Targaryen

Blacks Casualties of the Dance of the Dragons
Characters from the Crownlands
Characters killed by Aemond Targaryen
Characters killed by Vhagar Dragonriders
Members of Viserys I Targaryen's court
Members of Rhaenyra Targaryen's court Nobles
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