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I think the biggest issue is still that even if you don't use 'em on dragons, wouldn't you use them on ships? Blast that sucker into the side of a ship's hull and that's ballgame. Or as an anti-siege weapon? I mean any offensive against a walled city is going to have siege towers, no? Stick a scorpion bolt through the legs of one of those things and watch it come tumbling down. Dragons or no dragons, I feel like the scorpion wouldn't go completely extinct. I mean think about the massive deck guns on the USS Missouri and other Iowa class battleships. No, we have no real use for them anymore, but during Desert Storm we kinda did - we started using them due to their range and punching power to soften shore targets before amphibious landings (IIRC). We don't ever completely lose the utility of any specialized weapon. At worst, we simply re-purpose it. Or adapt it. EDIT: Appears to be about 150 years. The Dance of Dragons is about 150AC, (little before that, but the last dragon dies around 150 AC) the War of the Five Kings is about 300 AC.
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And, I guess Bran sees visions of dragons in Asshai in A Game of Thrones. Now that we know the nature of his visions, it’s possible that he was seeing into the past, though. Idk, in GoT, the maesters making the wildfire talk about how much more successful they had been recently at creating it, claiming that the dragons being back in the world increased the magic. So I sort of like to assume there were none living until Daenerys’ three hatched. |
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Cannot wait to see the look of fear on eyepatch's face when about 5 smaller dragons come for him all at once.
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I thought they said the hibernating were the same size as Vhager
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Wasn't Vhagar said to be 200' in the book or am I recalling wrong? He's big in the show but was he 200'?
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Why wouldn't Aemond just fly vhagar and destroy dragonstone with Rhanerya in it? They have nothing to challenge that dragon.
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That would expose Aemond. Vhagar is powerful but Aemond is still just a dude. A fight with Vhagar vs Syrax and Caraxes very likely ends up with Aemond dead, even if Vhagar survives.
Plus there are other riderless dragons living on Dragonstone. If Vermithor decided to join the fight, Vhagar would quickly be overwhelmed. And if that happens, the Greens would have no large dragons left since it doesn’t appear they’re going to be showing Halaena’s dragon. |
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Paddy Considine is so good as Viserys.
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Soooo ****ing tired of this Daemon storyline. Jesus Christ. Just episode after episode of the same exact thing with him. I'd rather they not show him if all we get is him hallucinating basically the entire time.
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