The Five Forts mentioned in the above quote are located in the northeastern boundaries of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti. The best part? They even predate the rise of the Valyria.Ĭertain scholars from the west have suggested Valyrian involvement in the construction of the Five Forts, for the great walls are single slabs of fused black stone that resemble certain Valyrian citadels in the west…but this seems unlikely, for the Forts predate the Freehold’s rise, and there is no record of any dragonlords ever coming so far east. If we are to go by the lore, then it is highly possible that dragons existed long before the Valyrians discovered them.Īccording to the World of Ice and Fire, much older civilizations in the world of ASOIAF seemed to have used dragons and their fire for the purpose of construction, and none of these bore the trademark signature of the Valyrian style. The Valyrians were a clan of sheephearders before they came upon the dragons in the Fourteen Flames.
Similar observations were made by historians, suggesting that dragons existed even before the Valyrian freehold rose to power. In fact, tales from Asshai claim that it was the unnamed people from their land who first tamed the dragons and then brought them to Valyria. However, there are contradictory tales from history which suggest that dragons were actually from the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai. The lore from ancient Valyria claimed that dragons sprang out of the Fourteen Flames, a chain of volcanoes in Old Valyria, who lit up the freehold during the night. Well, there is not a single definitive answer available to this question, instead we have multiple lore which give us different versions of where dragons came from. It is true that their numbers dwindled overtime, especially after the doom of Valyria, but the question here is, where did the dragons originally come from? What is their origin story? What are the origins of dragons in ASOIAF universe? Well, there were at least 17 larger and more ferocious dragons living during this time as opposed to Daenerys’ three.Īegon the Conqueror and his sisters were the first people to bring dragons to Westeros as they rode on their fire breathing beasts to make the seven kingdoms bend their knees. However, unlike how it was with Daenerys and her dragons in Game of thrones, the incidents of House of the Dragon makes it seem like dragons were not that rare of a species.
As House of the Dragon adapted a section of the Targaryen history from Fire and Blood, the audiences were once again introduced to the fire breathing beasts and their riders from ASOIAF universe.
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