Aegon I Targaryen: A Song of Ice and Fire Character Analysis

Race: Human (Valyrian)

Transcendent: Dragonrider

Sex: Male

Faction: House Targaryen

Rating: 8.1

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Arena Status: Active (S3)

Aegon I Targaryen, also known to history as Aegon the Conqueror, the Dragonlord of Dragonstone, and later as the First King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, stands as one of the most consequential figures in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire. Revered, feared, and studied for generations, Aegon was not simply a conqueror; he was the founder of a new political reality, one forged in fire, bound in blood, and etched into the geography of Westeros. By unifying six of the seven kingdoms under his rule—through war, diplomacy, and the unmatched terror of dragons—Aegon reshaped the fate of a continent and established a dynasty that would rule for nearly three centuries. Yet Aegon himself remains in many ways an enigma. Though he burned kings alive, he rarely sought battle for its own sake. Though he ruled as an autocrat, he often delegated the intricacies of governance. Though a warlord, he chose a crown of simple Valyrian steel, not gold.

Aegon of House Targaryen, the First of His Name

Y'Shaarj: Warcraft Character Analysis

Race: Old God

Sex: Unknown

Faction: Black Empire / Klaxxi

Rating: 8.7

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Arena Status: Active (S3)

Y'Shaarj was the most powerful, malevolent, and ultimately destructive of the Old Gods—eldritch entities from the Void that sought dominion over Azeroth before the world was fully shaped. Y’Shaarj's reign during the era of the Black Empire left behind a legacy of psychic corruption, worshipful cults, and insidious echoes of his essence that would shape events for millennia. Although Y’Shaarj was the only Old God to be fully killed by the titans, his influence persisted long after his physical destruction—manifesting in new horrors such as the sha, and corrupting mortal figures like Garrosh Hellscream.

Y'Shaarj

Emhyr var Emreis: The Witcher Character Analysis

Race: Human

Sex: Male

Faction: Nilfgaardian Empire

Rating: 7.1

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Arena Status: Active (S3)

Emhyr var Emreis, Deithwen Addan yn Carn aep Morvudd—“the White Flame Dancing on the Barrows of His Enemies”—is the central architect of the Continent’s late‑13th‑century upheavals. He is at once a coup survivor, a cursed exile, a returning conqueror, and the sovereign whose designs bend borders, thrones, and bloodlines toward one obsessive axis: dynastic control through Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon.

The White Flame Dancing on the Barrows of His Enemies

Ungoliant: Lord of the Rings Character Analysis

Race: Primordial Spirit

Sex: Female

Faction: None

Rating: 6.3

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Arena Status: Active (S3)

Ungoliant, whose name in Sindarin translates as "Gloomweaver," occupies a unique and terrifying corner of Tolkien's legendarium. Neither wholly of Arda nor comfortably placed within the moral framework of its pantheon, she is an anomaly: a primeval spirit who assumed the form of a monstrous spider and devoured light itself. Her presence looms large over the earliest ages of the world, most famously for her role in the destruction of the Two Trees of Valinor and her uneasy alliance with Melkor, the first Dark Lord who would become Morgoth. While she never appears directly in The Lord of the Rings, her shadow stretches across the ages through her progeny—chief among them the dread Shelob—and through the wound she left upon the cosmos, a wound that even the Silmarils could not fully heal.

Ungoliant, Great Spider Who Enmeshes

Ciri: The Witcher Character Analysis

Race: Human / Elder Blood

Sex: Female

Faction: Cintra / Kaer Morhen / Nilfgaard / The Rats

Rating: 8.0

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Arena Status: Active (S3)

Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon—Ciri—sits at the gravitational center of Witcher lore. Born in 1252/1253, likely on Belleteyn, she is the daughter of Pavetta and Emhyr var Emreis (then in disguise as “Duny”) and the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe of Cintra. By blood she inherits the Elder gene of Lara Dorren; by fate she is Geralt of Rivia’s Child of Surprise; by ordeal she becomes the “Lady of Time and Space,” a Source whose power to slip between worlds turns continental wars into mere weather. Across Sapkowski’s books and CD Projekt RED’s games, Ciri’s arc threads royal ceremony, genocide, found family, outlaw years, and apocalyptic inevitability. Her story is the hinge upon which nations, species, and even timelines creak. She is simultaneously a princess, an orphan, a witcher-adjacent trainee, and a traveler whose footprints skip from deserts to dreamlike elven metropolises. She matters because her choices—never merely her lineage—decide who lives with the consequences of power.

Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Lion Cub of Cintra