![]() ![]() It was upsetting enough to see the largest creature in the world sporting old healed-over wounds, but Princess Aerea's condition was fatal. Two years later, Princess Aerea and Balerion returned with disturbing injuries. ![]() There was no sign of the princess or the dragon, despite a massive manhunt that covered the Seven Kingdoms and parts of Essos. Instead, she could not control the beast and went missing. At the age of twelve, Princess Aerea mounted Balerion the Black Dread and attempted to run away from home on the oldest living dragon in the world. Her life was one of tragedy, but for our purposes, we need to focus on her death. Martin's most recent book Fire & Blood, there is a section dedicated to Princess Aerea Targaryen, who lived approximately 250 years before the events of Game of Thrones begin. If blood magic is truly responsible for the creation of Valyrian dragons, it would take a massive sacrifice to keep the spell together. In A Storm of Swords, Melisandre attempts to sacrifice King Robert's bastard son Edric Storm to in attempt to use the "blood of kings" to "wake the stone dragons." Cersei Lannister's fortune was told by Maggy the Frog using a drop of the future queen's blood. In retaliation, Dany sacrifices Mirri Maz Duur in a pyre from which the dragon eggs hatch. In the first novel, the witch Mirri Maz Duur takes the life of Daenerys' in utero son Rhaego in return for saving Khal Drogo's life. ![]() Martin has made it very clear that blood magic in his world requires human sacrifice to work. How does that tie to the idea that dragons are infused with Targaryen souls? George R.R. Readers know from the same novel that firewyrms were still being encountered by those enslaved by the Valyrians to work the mines beneath the volcanoes all the way up to the Doom of Valyria.įor the sake of argument, let's say Valyrian bloodmages mixed together wyverns and firewyrms to create dragons. Though wingless for obvious reasons, from the neck up there is no discernible structural difference between dragons and firewyrms. ![]() Fire-breathing and deadly, they can carve through solid rock. As for firewyrms? They are massive underground tunnelers that live in the same volcanoes Valyria grew up around, the Fourteen Flames. The largest species only grow to thirty feet and they have beaks instead of mouths, but other than that the biology lines up. The winged creatures resemble dragons in many ways, but they do not breathe fire. Several wyvern sub-species are native to Sothoryos, the Game of Thrones analog to Africa. In A Feast for Crows, it is revealed that two creatures similar to dragons pre-date the species: wyverns and firewyrms. Peeling back millennia of Valyrian propaganda raises an interesting core: Valyrians made dragons. Somehow, these lowly peasants were able to commune with dragons, leading to the rise of an empire that would extend throughout most of Essos. Allegedly, the Valyrians were but "humble shepherds" who discovered dragons living inside the volcanoes around which the great Valyrian civilization would be founded. Putting aside the many alternate origin myths, Valyrians and dragons appear near-simultaneously in the historical record. So is it possible that dragons house the souls of the dead, transferred through magical means? Yes, completely. ![]()
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