Yet if men in the Shadow had tamed dragons first, why did they not conquer as the Valyrians did? It seems likelier that the Valyrian tale is the truest. These Asshai’i histories say that a people so ancient they had no name first tamed dragons in the Shadow and brought them to Valyria, teaching the Valyrians their arts before departing from the annals. In Asshai, the tales are many and confused, but certain texts-all impossibly ancient-claim that dragons first came from the Shadow, a place where all of our learning fails us. One day this moon was scalded by the sun and cracked like an egg, and a million dragons poured forth. The Valyrians themselves claimed that dragons sprang forth as the children of the Fourteen Flames, while in Qarth the tales state that there was once a second moon in the sky. In such fragments of Barth’s Unnatural History as remain, the septon appears to have considered various legends examining the origins of dragons and how they came to be controlled by the Valyrians. They might lead us somewhere very interesting… Origin StoriesĪre dragons native to Planetos like other animals? This is what TWOIAF and Maester Yandel have to say on the matter: Where do dragons come from? Why are they tied to Asshai? How has GRRM rewritten his vision for Daenery’s arc? Let’s take a closer look at these questions, and what their answers could be.
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