Battle at Rook's Rest | Dance of Dragons (Fan-Made Animation)

THIS VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR SEASON 2 OF HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, although there will be a completely different scenario in the show, this is only how I imagined the fight from the book.

Hi! I'm back with another one! Here's 3 months of hard work, I'm so happy it's finally done and right on time with the second season of House of the Dragon around the corner. I hope you like it.

Ser Criston Cole and the royal army first marched north and laid siege at Rook's Rest, a black stronghold near Dragonstone. When the lord saw their approach he sent a raven to Rhaenyra, begging for help.
For days he watched his fields and villages burning with no response from his queen, until one day a shadow passed over the green army.
Rhaenyra had sent not an army, but her former mother by law Rhaenys and her dragon Meleys. As her ancestor had done at the Field of Fire, Rhaenys gleefully began to incinerate Ser Criston's army, but Aegon had set a trap and Rhaenys had flown right into it.
As Rhaenys and Meleys blanketed Ser Criston's troops with dragon flame, two other dragons rose into the sky - Aemond on Vhagar, and king Aegon himself on the gleaming Sunfyre.
To her credit, Rhaenys didn't flee. Dragons fought dragons and the second sun blossomed in the sky.
When the smoke cleared only Aemond and Vhagar stood uninjured, Sunfyre the most magnificent dragon in the world had one of it's wings almost completely torn from it's body. Trapped beneath Sunfyre was the king himself, broken and burned so badly in places that his armor had fused onto his flesh. His body survived, but his mind was given over to the milk of the poppy. Meleys had been torn to shreds, and her rider Rhaenys was a pile of ash.

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[Nemenon]

I quite like the touch of Sunfyre and Maelys actually dancing in the sky.

[emmaVTEC]

It’s crazy how close the creator of this video got to the actual battle on the show

[MiamiGameHunter]

Sunfyre put up more of a fight here than in the actual show.

[cephasoj]

You excel at giving these beasts actual weight, you can feel how heavy vhagar is and how much more nimble maelys and sunfyre are.

[quailjailss]

How you made vhagar touch ground and fly back into the air was simply amazing. And the tree damage… I’m just blown away

[malusdarkblade]

This is so much closer to what happens in the books...Sunfyre is noted in the books as being very strong and ferocious for his age, and put up a fight and did some damage to Meleys even if by the end he was gonna lose...in the show he does nothing but break a horn...

[rachaelschannel]

"Broken and burned so badly that his armor had fused onto his flesh, "

"The burns caused so much pain that some say he prayed to die"

[twelve]

This was so much better than what we got. Having Aemond enter the battle together with Aegon and Sunfyre being a formidable opponent. Amazing

[kyoshi]

Who's back here after the Rook's rest episode?🙋🏽‍♀️

[_justinblizzle]

No one’s talking about how well all of the trailer shots were incorporated into this!! Are we sure this is fan made and not a straight up leak?? 🤭😅

[Tvtube-sv]

rhaynes also the fact that she saw them coming and went to face them and not runway is why she is the queen who never was

[nimblepixeluk]

Some of these scenes are IDENTICAL to what we saw today 😅 you gotta be an insider

[ปลาช่อนนา-มฅ]

Next, I want to watch Battle Above The God's Eye.

[xXToraKobayashiXx]

"Rhaenys kind of forgot about Vhagar"

[AftajNotHere]

This is so much better and more accurate than the biggest creature in westeros being able to sneak attack

[juniorlks]

Something tells me that when we compare this to the show, we're gonna wish the battle was more like this instead of whatever they give us. This was just phenomenal!

[luiscruz]

“Nine days after Lord Staunton dispatched his plea for help, the sound of leathern wings was heard across the sea, and the dragon Meleys appeared above Rook's Rest. The Red Queen, she was called, for the scarlet scales that covered her. The membranes of her wings were pink, her crest, horns, and claws bright as copper. And on her back, in steel and copper armor that flashed in the sun, rode Rhaenys Targaryen, the Queen Who Never Was”

[lolcats]

The talon lock death spin was a very nice touch. Bringing in some actual avian combat for realism i

[nobody-wtbv]

The scene in which Meleys tries to kill aegon, but Sunfyre protects him 😭😭

[emmagrrrace]

I like that detail of Sunfyre kind of holding Meleys back from Aegon at 3:33