House Zaeryn

House Zaeryn is one of the 40 original families of Dragonlords of Valyria and currently, of the New Valyrian Empire. They originally scaped the doom, even with two Dragons and some petrified eggs but sadly none of them lived enough time afterwards. It is a known house carrying the ancient Valyrian blood in them. It was counted as one of the most powerful families among the 40 houses to rule over Valyria as dragon riders, but soon felt our of grace with the doom before raising themselves again from the ashes.

House Zaeryn took hold on the city of Lys for an extended period of time where they became an influencial local family of old heritage. They resided in the ancient Summer Valyrian mansion of Rockbone, a tiny island connected with the main island where the city of Lys stands. It used to be, in the ancient Valyrian empire, a summer place for the Zaeryn dragonlords. Those who have pledge loyalty to the family are the House Celryon, House Dusbigar, House Visryen and House Adeyon, all of them from Valyria as well, but not dragonlords and thus not among the 40 original dragonlord elite families.

They quickly summon their old banners to the conquest and stablishment of the New Valyrian Empire, even more so when Dragons hatched in their family once again.

Most of the House was killed alongside their dragons after the Doom, but some of it's members survived in their colony outpost of Lys, as they were there supervising the city when it took place. From there, they were able to rebuild the house once again.

Gaen Zaeryn and his spouse, Tarsya Adeyon as well as their sons and daughter where the only ones to survive. With them, two dragons also survived. Gaen dragon, *Hebrilax* and Tarsya's dragon, *Vidgar*, were alongside the five dragons of the Targaryens to survive the doom. However, both dragons failed to produce offspring and their eggs never hatched (till centuries later). They were however preserved as relics of the old days by the House. Both Dragons also died due to the chaos that followed in Lys after the fall.

## History

House Zaeryn was among the powerful families (maybe not the most powerful) and most respected of the great 40 houses that ruled Valyria. They were somewhere in the middle-up of the 40 dragonlord families in power, as opposite to the Targaryens who were on the middle-down of the families. Just as the other Houses, they were direct descendants of the early shephers that encounted dragons and made blood pacts of mysterious sort to bound themselves and their descendant to them for eternity, and become dragon riders. House Zaeryn can apparently trace their lineage to *Visael Zaeryn* and his spouse *Naela*, both the first dragon lords of the house and "de facto" founders and ancestors to all living Zaeryns in Westeros.

In the far past, the Targaryen and the Zaeryn were known to have marriages and even alliances but sometimes fighting also took place between them during political struggles. During the fall of Valyria, House Zaeryn and House Targaryen were seeking dominance over a future expansion over Westeros, which could lead to them becoming a great powerful house among the 40 originals after bringing such glories upon Valyria. This made both houses, previously close to grow distant from each other. However, this conquest was all frozen after the doom and one of the reasons why the Targaryens did not approach the Zaeryns after the doom and chose instead to marry the Velaryons, another of the old Valyrian houses (although not Dragon Riders).

The Zaeryns decided to abandonned their previous expansionism over Westeros and focus on the politics of Lys instead once the Doom had taken place and their dragons finally died out.

They became famous when they discovered the secrets to awaken dragons by studying the old rituals of the old blood sorcerers for generations. They managed to finally awake the Dragons.