Addam Velaryon

Ser Addam Velaryon (born simply as Addam), formerly known as Addam of Hull, is a major character in the franchise.
He was a dragonrider during the Dance of the Dragons. The Blacks decided they needed more dragonriders. Due to the Targaryens affairs, many in the Narrow Sea claimed to have Valyrian blood in them, and were known as dragonseed. It was thought they could be used to tame dragons. Many of those that came forward died, however Addam succeeded in riding Seasmoke. His brother Alyn tried to tame Sheepstealer but was attacked, Addam saved his brother though Alyn was left with burn scars for the rest of his life. Later Lord Corlys Velaryon of Driftmark persuaded Rhaenyra to legitimize Addam and Alyn, making them Velaryons and Addam heir to Driftmark.
Their parentage is disputed. Addam and Alyn's mother Marilda of Hull claimed they were fathered by Corlys' son Ser Laenor Velaryon. However Laenor is thought to have been gay, making this story dubious. It is widely believed Corlys fathered the boys, but did not wish to offend his wife, Rhaenys.
The Dragonriders, including Addam, attacked King's Landing, which soon fell to them, though Rhaenyra's half-brother Aegon II disappeared. Addam remained in the city to defend it, at the Dragonpit. However at the Battle of Tumbleton two other dragonseeds, Hugh Hammer and Ulf the White (also known as Ulf the Sot), known as the Two Betrayers, joined the Greens, meaning the Blacks lost the battle. The loyalty of the dragonseeds was questioned, Corlys was the only member of the Black Council who supported Addam. Rhaenyra ordered the arrest of Addam, however he was forewarned and fled the Dragonpit on Seasmoke. For warning Addam, his "grandfather" was beaten and imprisoned.
However Addam remained loyal to Rhaenyra and wanted to prove not all bastards were treacherous. He gathered an army of almost 4000 for the Second Battle of Tumbleton, and attacked the Greens at night. In the battle Hugh was slain by the Greens for planning to usurp the Iron Throne himself, and Prince Daeron the Daring, Aegon II's youngest brother, was also killed. The riderless Tessarion, Daeron's dragon, rose into the sky and Addam fought them. However Hugh's dragon Vermithor then began attacking the men on the ground. Addam fought them, According to Archmaester Gyldayn, Addam must have felt duty bound to protect his men on the ground, though surely knew Seasmoke could not defeat the older dragon. Tessarion joined the battle and all three dragons fell to the ground and fought to the death, in which Addam was killed.
The losses in the battle meant that the Green Commander Lord Unwin Peake ordered a retreat from Tumbleton, after Ulf was poisoned for trying to claim rule himself. Despite being accused of being a turncloak, Addam had saved King's Landing at the cost of his life.
In 138 AC, from Raventree Hall the bones of Addam were returned to Driftmark. His brother 
Alyn, now Lord of Driftmark, put only the word LOYAL as the Tomb's epitaph.
==Synopsis==
===Early Life===
Addam was born in 114 BC in Hull, a small fishing village on Driftmark, an island off the coast of the Crownlands, the ruling kingdom of the Seven Kingdoms on the continent of Westeros. His mother, Marilda of Hull, was a commoner born in 97 AD. at a Hull shipbuilder. In 115 AC, Marilda gave birth to a second son named Alyn. Addam and Alyn grew up in his grandfather's shipyard until his death, at which time his mother sold it and bought a trading boat, the Mouse. Over the next decade, Miralda acquired a small fleet of seven merchant ships. Addam and Alyn served aboard the Mouse.
Although Marilda always kept the identity of Addam and Alyn's father a secret, it began to be rumored that they were probably the bastard children of a member of House Velaryon, a powerful noble family of Westeros that ruled the island of Driftmark and owned an extensive fleet of ships, but to stay away from castle Velaryon, High Tide so as not to offend anyone. In fact, the lord of Driftmark, Corlys Velaryon and his son, Laenor were frequent visitors to the Hull shipyard, but it was never known exactly which of them could be the mysterious lover of Marilda; Each of them had reason to visit the Hull shipyards, Corlys for being the leader of the Velaryon Fleet and Laenor for being his heir. Each of them frequented the shipyards around the time Addam and Alyn were conceived. And each of them was married to a princess of the Targaryen Dynasty, the royal House of Westeros who would frown upon a secret romance with a commoner, it was more probably taht children were the bastards of lord Corlys than Ser Laenor, but they were more physically resemble this latter than to his father.
Regardless of who their father was, the brothers undoubtedly had the blood of the House Targaryen, the ruling family of the Seven Kingdoms, running through their veins. Only those with Targaryen blood could join and ride dragons. The Velaryons and Targaryens had interbred for generations and the heir of House Velaryon, Laenor, had a Targaryen mother.
===Dance of the Dragons===
====Sowing of the Seeds====
In 129 AC, a war of succession broke out between Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, the eldest child and chosen heir of King Viserys I Targaryen, and her younger brother Prince Aegon Targaryen, the eldest male heir. Rhaenyra and her supporters, referred to as the "Blacks," operated from the island of Dragonstone, the ancestral seat of House Targaryen located near to Driftmark. Aegon and his supporters, referred to as the "Greens," operated from King's Landing, the capital city of the Seven Kingdoms. The principle supporters of the Blacks and the Greens were Houses Velaryon of Driftmark and Hightower of the Hightower respectively.
At the beginning of the war the Greens surpassed the Blacks in terms of resources, territory and soldiers, although thanks to princes Jacaerys and Daemon the Blacks began to gain the upper hand, at least until a Green offensive crushed their forces, and killed the princess Rhaenys Targaryen, one of the greatest commanders of the Blacks.
Despite the loss of Rhaenys and her dragon Meleys, the Blacks had several more dragons and possessed a small number of unclaimed dragons on Dragonstone. There were "dragonseeds", bastards of Targaryen descent on Dragonstone and nearby islands, who could potentially ride the unclaimed dragons for the Blacks. Prince Jacaerys Velaryon, the eldest son and heir of Queen Rhaenyra, devised a plan after listening to the advice of the jester Mushroom: to have the bastards, and descendants of bastards, of the Targaryens and Velaryons tame the beasts in the wild to reinforce the ranks of his mother, Queen Rhaenyra.
With this idea in mind he announced to the common people that anyone who could claim a dragon and ride it for the Blacks would be ennobled. Many men and women attempted to tame a dragon, most of whom perished in the process.
When this claim reached Marilda's ears, she revealed to Addam and Alyn that they were bastards of Laenor Velaryon, who had died almost a decade earlier. When Lord Corlys, the head of House Velaryon and allegedly Addam and Alyn's paternal grandfather, learned of this, he took the children to Dragonstone and presented them to Prince Jacaerys. Addam was able to claim the dragon Seasmoke, the mount of his late father Laenor. Alyn attempted to claim a wild dragon known as the "Sheep Thief", but was burned in the process. Addam put out his brother's flames while Seasmoke held off Sheepstealer. Prince Jacaerys and Lord Corlys petitioned Queen Rhaenyra to legitimize Addam and Alyn.
Rhaenyra accepted their request, and legitimised Addam and Alyn of Hull as rightful members of House Velaryon. The brothers were also named knights of the Seven Kingdoms. Considering that his son Laenor and grandson Prince Lucerys Velaryon were both deceased, Lord Corlys named Ser Addam Velaryon as the new heir to House Velaryon. Addam Velaryon was not the only dragonrider gained from the gathering that would later be called the "Sowing of the Seeds." A common girl known as Nettles bonded with Sheepstealer, and the dragons Vermithor and Silverwing were claimed by men named Hugh Hammer and Ulf the White respectively.
===Batlle of the Gullet===
Prince Jacaerys sent his maternal half-brother, Aegon and Viserys, to Pentosh, intending to keep them away from the dangers of war until they had achieved victory, but the Merry Forsaken, the ship carrying them, was intercepted by the ships of the Triarchy, a fleet from Essos that was recruited to the Greens by Ser Otto Hightower. Viserys was captured, but Aegon was able to escape on the back of his dragon Stormcloud, and reach Dragonstone to raise the alarm, Jacaerys then called the Dragon Seeds, among which were Addam and Alyn, and prepared to the battle.
The dragons flew to meet the Triarchy along with the Velaryon Fleet commanded by Lord Corlys and Alyn.
Addam fought with great bravery during the Battle of the Gullet, along with his half-brother, Jacaerys, and the rest of the seeds, setting fire to a lot of ships. However, although they gained victory, the price was terrible: Jacaerys and his dragon Vermax perished, the Hightide Castle in Driftmark was burned, Spicetown, the town at the foot of Hightide, was burned, the Velaryons lost a third of their fleet, and the Prince Lucerys could not be rescued.
Dejected after the battle, Addam went to see Corlys to talk to him, but not even Mushroom knows what they said.
==External Links==
*Addam Velaryon on the A Wiki of Ice and Fire.
*Addam of Hull on the Wiki of Westeros.
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