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New Dragons/Dragonriders in Season 2 of House of the Dragon
All in all not my favorite episode, but I'm glad we got to see Vermithor again, and that Silverwing finally made an appearance. Doesn't matter how much they screw up the characters, the dragons are always done perfectly. Also, we finally got a Tessarion mention!
I just saw a Syrax hate post. Guy, please. You can hate the characters you hate and love the characters you love, but why do you need to bring the dragons into it? This isn’t about them, it’s about their riders. If you hate Rhaenyra, you hate Rhaenyra. You don’t need to start bitching about her dragon because of it. The dragons are innocent. In fact the whole show is about how the dragons suffered and died out because of people. Please don’t hate on the dragons.
Close enough. Welcome back Daenerys Targaryen.
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-?) 2.07 | The Red Sowing
ULF THE WHITE and SILVERWING House of the Dragon (2024) 2.07 «The Red Sowing»
Silverwing - HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S2E07 "The Red Sowing"
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Hi💙 Just saw your latest post and I'm so excited now for the Balerion x Vhagar with their little ones😍 And I loved reading your thoughts about her bond with Caraxes as younger. Do you have more theories to share?👉🏻👈🏻
Yes!!! Dragons and trying to figure out how they work in GRRM’s universe has been my hyperfixation lately. Here are some, but I’m not going to ramble for tooooo long.
- Cannibal is described as older than Sheepstealer, and Sheepstealer was born as early as 35 AC, so I’m relatively confident that Cannibal was hatched from Balerion and a mate, most likely Vhagar but possibly Meraxes (the other explanation for his origin is that he’s an egg from a yet unmentioned dragon, but I doubt this as his description is very similar to Balerion’s). This makes him an old dragon during the Dance! My headcanon is that as a hatchling, he was actually extremely shy and flew away away due to fear of the other dragons. Later on, his fear manifested in violence instead and he became the dragon we know in the story. I don’t think this is meant to be canon, buuuut I like it.
- I think I touched on this a little with my Caraxes Vhagar post, but my theory on Caraxes’s neck is that it’s not that he’s from other long-necked dragons that aren’t mentioned in the story, but rather that it is a result of a mutation. Environmental factors can play a role in birth defects/mutations, so I feel as if perhaps being in Valyria impacted Balerion and he passed on defect.
- Admittedly, GRRM probably doesn’t take into account lore of dragons in other media, I do think he makes his own rules. That being said, he tends not to *share* these rules, so my only choice to make sense of things is to go off other lore. In most dragon lore, dragons mate for life. We know, or at least it’s heavily implied, that Balerion, Meraxes, and Vhagar were mates. However, the general consensus of this and that this was a special case to mirror the conquerors (and a theory that has been going around that dragons mate in accordance with their rider’s opinions of other riders), and people have been pairing dragons mainly in duos. There’s a lot of unanswered questions if the duos mating for life theory is true, so my longstanding theory has been that they mate for life in trios. The trios being the one mentioned above, Vermithor-Silverwing-Dreamfyre, Syrax-Caraxes-Seasmoke, then potentially a duo with Vermax and Moondancer (if you believe that Laena daughter of Baela’s is offspring of Moondancer). However, I did have to adjust this to any one dragon having two mates, so Syrax can mate with Caraxes and Seasmoke, but Seasmoke is allowed a separate mate of Tessarion as well. That being said, this also doesn’t give Meleys a mate so I am coming around more to the possibility that dragons mate freely.
-Same disclaimer that I feel like GRRM prefers his own lore instead of something like lizards, but I’ll drive myself crazy without having something like this to tether my theories to, and lizards are some of the closest animals to compare to dragons. More often than not, a clutch of lizard eggs will be fathered by two different male lizards (meaning some of the eggs are fathered by one lizard, and the other eggs another). This was a large inspiration for my dragon trio theory, but would also work for dragons mating indiscriminately. Keeping this in mind is how I supported my idea of Syrax continuously producing fertilized by both Caraxes and Seasmoke. That means that Jacaerys, Lucerys, and Joffrey could receive eggs fathered by Seasmoke, but that Aegon, Viserys, and Rhaena’s eggs, as well as Mysaria’s egg, were fathered by Caraxes.
-As for the idea that dragon mating is influenced by their riders’ feelings, I am of two minds about it. We have Silverwing and Vermithor, whose riders were obviously in love and they continue to mate even after Jaehaerys and Alysanne’s deaths. However, this can also be explained by the fact that the two dragons were often in close proximity and the two riders oft flew together. It very well could have been that by the time Jaehaerys and Alysanne died, Silverwing and Vermithor had formed their own bond so strong that they continued to mate (this would always be true if you believe that all dragons mate for life, but would be true for these two regardless). As for the conquerors’ dragons, I do believe they were a special case. The three dragons were symbolic and thus no matter how Aegon and Visenya felt about one another, Balerion and Vhagar remained mated until Balerion’s death, and it’s my headcanon that she continued to remain without a mate for the rest of her life. Because their bond was more than them, it was a symbol of House Targaryen and the Conquest as a whole. As for Rhaenyra and Daemon’s bond, or even something possible between Daeron and Addam, I don’t know. I don’t have any strong opinions on it.
-Drawing my opinions/headcanons from lizards yet again, I do believe dragons can reproduce asexually. Lots of species of lizards can do this. That being said, I am not sure the trigger for this, because then what is the motivation from them to reproduce with male dragons when they can do it by themselves? Either dragons feel some sort of sexual pleasure (which I’m not getting into bc I’m not into that!) or they can only reproduce asexually in certain circumstances. I do believe that female dragons can only produce other female dragons asexually, and that there’s no magic involved in this.
-I do not believe dragons can change their biological sex. In real life, as far as my research has taken me, you cannot determine outwardly if a lizard is male or female. I would think the same would go for dragons. What I believe happened is that people were assuming if a dragon was male or female based on external features being more masculine or feminine, and that when they were proven wrong they took this to mean the dragon had changed sex. However, it has been confirmed that most of what Septon Barth wrote in his book about dragons was, in fact, true. Septon Barth wrote that dragons could change sex. This means that my headcanon very well is not meant to be the case. I simply believe this because it makes it far easier for me to nail down a family tree, which I’ve been attempting to do.
That’s all for now, I do have more dragon thoughts but this is just what I thought of off the top of my head. If you’re interested in more dragon content, I’m posting Balerion, Vhagar, and their hatchlings next Friday and I am currently working with the artist moonwyvern (the lovely artist that did the art of Vhagar and Caraxes for me) on a long form project to create a dragon family tree art.
Pre-A Song of Ice and Fire: Alysanne Targaryen (also known as Good Queen Alysanne) & her final years
“The last years of Alysanne Targaryen were sad and lonely ones. In her youth, Good Queen Alysanne had loved her subjects, lords and commons alike. She had loved her women’s courts, listening, learning, and doing what she could to make the realm a kinder place. […] She had loved music, had loved to dance, had loved to read. And oh, how she had loved to fly. […]
All these loves were lost to her in the last decade of her life. “My uncle Maegor was cruel,” Alysanne was heard to say, “but age is crueler.” Worn out from childbirth, travel and grief, she grew frail after Aemon’s death. […]
She was far too unsteady to fly. Silverwing last carried her into the sky in 93 AC. When she came to earth again and climbed painfully from her dragon’s back, the queen wept.” - Fire and Blood
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON 2 APPRECIATION WEEK day 1 — dragons
Silverwing - HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S2E07 "The Red Sowing"
ulf got a dragon and immediately went to kings landing to flex to his peasant besties 😭😭😭
Silverwing - HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S2E07 "The Red Sowing"
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 2 Episode 7 - The Red Sowing
Every Dragon in House of the Dragon Season 2
She bopped you. She bopped you TWICE and you were trying to get away???
Dragon Headcanons for my fic Part 3.
Syrax
Her eating habits and lack of hunting instincts have earned her a reputation of being spoiled
She is friendly with humans and is very perceptive of their feelings/ emotions
Alicent once referred to her as "the prettiest dragon" when she was younger
She , aside from Dreamfyre, lays the most eggs
Unlike other dragons, she seems to not have a preferred flight partner and tolerates them but does not have a bond with any dragon
Vermithor
Very vocal and roars during flights (for no apparent reason)
He only likes to fly next to Silverwing, who is the only creature he shows affection to
Has mismatched eyes one brown, one white steeming either from his time fighting in war or his time in the dark Dragonpit
He has a short temper which is displayed when he attacks ruthlessly
Given his many years in the Dragonpit, he hates dark and small spaces
Silverwing
Usually friendly with humans
Doesn't like the cold despite having experience flying in cold climates
She likes to sleep curled up next to Vermithor
The favorite of the dragonkeepers due to her gentle demeanor
She refuses to fly toward the North and even less so to the Wall (the reason why is unknown)
Memes that describe the HOTD dragons without spoiling the chapter in my fic
