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A few have suggested it, might as well test the waters. The idea is to give people who haven't read the books a safe place to talk about the show.
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06-09-2015, 03:07 PM | #3076 | |
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This prompted me to refresh my memory on the dragons, and yeah, you are absolutely right. A few facts (none of which apply to Drogon, who is obviously just a kid, in Dragon terms). 1. as someone else mentioned, Balarion's fire was so hot it melted towers of Harrenhal. 2. the one time the three dragons took to the skies together, they burned 4,000 enemy soldiers. Drogon couldn't even do like 50. 3. Balarion's teeth were the size of swords, and his jaws wide enough that he could eat a mammoth whole. By contrast, Drogon's teeth definitely aren't swords. See pic below. One artist's image of Balarion, based on the description in teh books, makes him a bit bigger than Drogon. If you look carefully at the picture below, you'll notice tiny little Aegon the Conqueror on his back... Quite different from.
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THIS! Kill em when they are young or else don't make an enemy of their riders.
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Spears are a good weapon against scaled things. Long sharp point to find a space between scales and penetrate into the deep tissues.
I imagine if you managed to hit even a fully grown dragon with a siege weapon it will be in pretty rough shape. The flight and somewhat ranged attack with the fire is what makes them dangerous, on the ground there is more ways to kill them. The Romans for example could fire a ballista pretty fast and accurately. |
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Again, they may not go that deep into detail in the show, but they could.
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Otherwise, why would some hot metal have killed Viserys? Also:
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06-10-2015, 07:25 AM | #3082 |
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They said it was because her brother wasn't a real dragon (targaryian)
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06-10-2015, 07:44 AM | #3083 |
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Viserys is definitely full Targaryen. Both his mother and his father were Targaryens. In fact, they were siblings. If he isn't a Targaryen, then neither are Rheagar or Dany.
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Either way, I think they meant that he didn't have the heart of a dragon or whatever. I'm just saying what was dead after his head went KONG. |
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Viserys was a full on Targaryan, but Dany's immunity to the fire is not shared by all Targaryans, and may have been a one time thing for even Dany, though she is clearly less affected by heat than most people. Still not sure if she is completely immune to fire outside of the magical dragon birthing pyre. |
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I think it's pretty clear Dany is immune to fire. The first book she seems to crave the feel of extreme heat on her skin, and in the dragon birth loses all her hair but skin is fine. Nothing is ever said to imply any special protection because it was while dragons were being born. The fire was set by humans. Also didn't the baby dragons burn up a room full of bad guys that Dany was in at one point when they were trying to capture the dragons? It was in some tomb-like structure. I can't remember for sure if that required her to be immune.
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now see....if they'da had Drogo blast the harpy punks that were holding her....and Dany of course....then we'd know for sure. woulda been cool as hell.
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hahaha. yep. can't really shorten Drogons name can you.....
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